The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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- FOWLER, CHRISTOPHER (stories) (chron.) (continued)
- * *Roofworld (Legend 0-7126-2451-1, Oct 88, £5.95, 344pp, tp) Sf novel. Simultaneous with US (Ballantine) edition. Also available in hc (-2421-X) for £11.95.
- * _Roofworld (Legend 0-09-962340-4, Sep 89 [Aug 89], £3.99, 396pp, pb) Reprint (Ballantine/Legend 1988) sf novel.
- * _Roofworld (Ballantine 0-345-36731-6, Apr 90 [Mar 90], $4.95, 307pp, pb) Reprint (Ballantine 1988) sf novel of a tribal society living on the rooftops of contemporary London. The American and British editions (Legend 1988) are considerably differenteven down to the acknowledgements.
- * *Rune (Century 0-7126-3811-3, Jun 90 [Jul 90], £35.00, 368pp, hc) [Bryant & May] Horror novel. This edition is limited to 200 copies.
- * *Rune (Century 0-7126-3902-0, Jul 90, £7.50, 368pp, tp, cover by Graham Humphries) [Bryant & May] Horror novel based on the same idea as M.R. James classic Casting the Runes. Recommended. (PSP) Also available in hardcover (-3466-5, £13.99). This trade edition was preceded by a limited edition.
- * +Rune (Ballantine 0-345-36473-2, Jan 91, $18.95, 340pp, hc) [Bryant & May] Occult thriller. Big business is using ancient runes to destroy its enemies. First American edition (Century 1990).
- * _Rune (Arrow 0-09-972000-0, Aug 91 [Jul 91], £4.99, 368pp, pb) [Bryant & May] Reprint (Century 1990) horror novel based on the same idea as M.R. James classic Casting the Runes.
- * _Rune (Ballantine 0-345-37768-0, Jul 92 [Jun 92], $4.99, 339pp, pb) [Bryant & May] Reprint (Century 1990) horror novel, a riff on M.R. James Casting the Runes.
- * _Rune (Warner UK 0-7515-2164-7, Feb 98 [Apr 98], £5.99, 370pp, pb) [Bryant & May] Reprint (Century 1990) literary horror novel.
- * *Sharper Knives (Warner UK 0-7515-0152-2, Dec 92 [Nov 92], £8.99, 263pp, tp, cover by Mark Taylor) Collection of 14 urban horror stories, nine of them original. (Contents)
- * _Sharper Knives (Warner UK 0-7515-0766-0, Jan 94 [Dec 93], £4.99, 263pp, pb, cover by Mark Taylor) Reprint (Warner UK 1992) collection of 14 urban horror stories, nine of them original.
- * *Soho Black (Warner UK 0-7515-2559-6, Aug 98 [Sep 98], £8.99, 378pp, tp) Dark fantasy novel.
- * *Spanky (Warner UK 0-7515-0959-0, Oct 94 [Sep 94], £6.99, 338pp, tp) Horror novel which may be fantasy or just have an unreliable narrator.
- * _Spanky (Warner UK 0-7515-0699-0, Jun 95, £4.99, 338pp, pb) Reprint (Warner UK 1994) literary fantasy novel.
- FOWLER, D(ebra) A.
- * *The Book of the Damned (Pocket 0-671-73804-6, Jul 93, $4.99, 275pp, pb) Horror novel of a horror novel whose readers live the action of the book.
- * *The Devils End (Pocket 0-671-72659-5, Apr 92 [Mar 92], $4.99, 311pp, pb, cover by Keith Birdsong) Horror novel. When a spoiled teen selects a new girl in town as the victim of a prank, the devil comes back to collect on a 70-year-old bargain.
- * *Flesh and Blood (Pocket 0-671-76045-9, Dec 93 [Nov 93], $4.99, 277pp, pb, cover by Vince Natale) Horror novel of a reporter and a killer with a psychic connection.
- * *Whats Wrong with Tamara? (Pocket 0-671-73805-4, Oct 92 [Sep 92], $4.99, 295pp, pb, cover by Vince Natale) [*Whats Wrong with Valerie] Horror novel, sequel to Whats Wrong with Valerie?. After being tortured by her cousin, little Tamara becomes a murderous monster urged to kill by the dead.
- * *Whats Wrong with Valerie (Pocket 0-671-72658-7, Aug 91 [Jul 91], $4.50, 247pp, pb) [*Whats Wrong with Valerie] Horror novel of a young woman who attracts evil.
- FOWLER, DOUGLAS (Russell) (1940- )
- * *Ira Levin (Starmont 0-930261-25-9, 1988 [Apr 88], $9.95, 87pp, tp) Non-fiction, critical study/biography/bibliography. [Levin]
- FOWLER, KAREN JOY (1950- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *Artificial Things (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26219-X, Dec 86 [Nov 86], $2.95, 218pp, pb) Collection of 13 stories. (Contents)
- * _Artificial Things (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26219-X, Dec 92 [Nov 92], $4.99, 218pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) Reissue (Bantam Spectra 1986) collection of 13 stories; third printing. There is a new foreword to this edition.
- * *Authors Choice Monthly Issue 6: Peripheral Vision (Pulphouse no ISBN, Mar 90, $4.95, 97pp, tp, cover by George Barr) Collection of five stories, one an original, with an introduction by the author. A signed hardcover edition ($25.00) is also available and a deluxe leatherbound edition ($50.00) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
- * *Black Glass (Holt 0-8050-5557-6, Feb 98 [Jan 98], $23.00, 242pp, hc) Collection of 15 stories, two apparently original; includes the five stories published in Authors Choice Monthly #6: Peripheral Vision (1990) and Letters from Home (1991). (Contents)
- * _Letters from Home (with Pat Murphy & Pat Cadigan) See entry under Pat Cadigan.
- * *Sarah Canary (Holt 0-8050-1753-4, Oct 91 [Sep 91], $21.95, 290pp, hc, cover by Raquel Jaramillo) Mainstream novel about a mysterious and scarcely human womans appearance in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest. This has magic realism and fantasy elements. Fowlers first novel. Highly recommended (SW).
- * _Sarah Canary (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-57111-X, May 92, £14.99, 290pp, hc, cover by Raquel Jaramillo) Reprint (Holt 1991) associational literary novel. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Sarah Canary (Sceptre 0-340-57462-3, Nov 92, £5.99, 290pp, tp, cover by Raquel Jaramillo) Reprint (Holt 1991) associational literary novel.
- * _Sarah Canary (Zebra 0-8217-4088-1, Mar 93 [Feb 93], $5.99, 381pp, pb) Reprint (Holt 1991) mainstream novel about a mysterious and scarcely human womans appearance in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest. A Nebula Award nominee.
- * _Sarah Canary (Kensington 0-8217-4991-9, Jul 95 [Jun 95], $11.00, 290pp, tp) Reprint (Holt 1991) associational literary novel.
- * _Sarah Canary (Ballantine Readers Circle 0-345-41644-9, Mar 98 [Feb 98], $12.00, 290pp, tp, cover by Kristine V. Milles-Noble) Reprint (Holt 1991) associational literary novel. This Readers Circle edition adds a Readers Guide as an afterword.
- * *The Sweetheart Season (Holt 0-8050-4737-9, Sep 96, $23.00, 352pp, hc) Associational novel about young women baseball players in 1947.
- * _The Sweetheart Season (Ballantine Readers Circle 0-345-41644-9, Mar 98 [Feb 98], $12.00, 352pp, tp, cover by Kristine V. Milles-Noble) Reprint (Holt 1996) associational novel with arguable fantasy elements about young women baseball players in 1947. This Readers Circle edition has a Readers Guide added as an afterword.
- * _The War of the Roses (Pulphouse 1-56146-528-3, Jul 91, $1.95, 43pp, pb, cover by Donna Gordon) Sf short story that originally appeared in IASFM and Artificial Things. Short story paperback #28. A 100-copy leatherbound limited edition (-918-1, $20.00) is also available.
- FOWLER WRIGHT, SYDNEY; see under Wright, S. Fowler (stories)
- FOWLES, JOHN (Robert) (1926-2005) (assoc.)
- * *A Maggot (Jonathan Cape 0-224-02806-5, Sep 85 [1985], £9.95, 448pp, hc) Literary novel with sf touches. [Not seen]
- * *A Maggot (Little, Brown 0-316-28994-9, Sep 85, $19.95, length not known, hc) This novel is billed as part detective story, part science fiction, part gothic horror tale; it takes place in the 18th century. A limited special edition is available for $100.00, 0-316-29115-3; theres also a simultaneous British edition from Cape.
- * _A Maggot (NAL/Signet 0-451-14476-7, Sep 86 [Aug 86], $4.50, 467pp, pb) Reprint (Little, Brown 1985) literary novel with some sf elements.
- * _A Maggot (Pan 0-330-29566-7, Dec 86, £3.50, 460pp, pb) Reprint (Little, Brown 1985) literary novel with sf elements.
- * _A Maggot (Pan 0-330-32412-8, Dec 91, £6.99, 460pp, pb) Reprint (Little, Brown 1985) literary fantasy novel. [Not seen]
- * _A Maggot (Penguin/Plume 0-452-27094-4, Dec 93 [Nov 93], $12.00, 455pp, tp, cover by Joseph Wright of Derby) Reprint (Little, Brown 1985) literary historical novel with sf elements.
- * _A Maggot (Vintage UK 0-09-948041-7, Oct 96 [Nov 96], £6.99, 460pp, tp) Reprint (Little, Brown 1985) literary SF novel.
- * _The Magus (Dell 0-440-20614-6, Jun 90, $5.95, 312pp, pb) Reissue (Little, Brown 1965) literary fantasy. This is the 1978 revised text with the Fowles foreword; 27th printing.
- * _The Magus: A Revised Version (Vintage UK 0-09-974391-4, Feb 97 [May 97], £8.99, 656pp, tp, cover by Fletcher Sibthorp) Reprint (Little, Brown 1965) literary fantasy novel. Revised edition.
- FOX, CHRISTOPHER, ed.
- * *Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift (St. Martins/Bedford 0-312-06665-1, Jun 95, $10.95, 477pp, tp) Non-fiction, part of the Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series. Contains Swifts complete text, plus five new critical essays that examine the work from different contemporary critical perspectives: feminist, deconstruction, reader-response, psychoanalytic, and the new historicism. Also includes an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts, a survey of major critical responses over the books history, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. A hardcover edition (-10284-4) was announced but not seen. [Swift]
- FOX, DEREK M. (stories)
- * *Recluse (Tanjen 0-9527183-0-8, 1996 [Mar 97], £3.50, 86pp, tp, cover by Madeleine V. Finnegan) Horror novella. Published in 1996, but not seen until now.
- FOX, LINDA REAMES; see pseudonym Jocelin Foxe (stories)
- FOX, PAULA (stories)
- * _The Little Swineherd (Penguin/Dutton 0-525-45398-9, Sep 95 [Feb 96], $16.99, 135pp, hc, cover by Robert Byrd) Reprint (Dutton 1978) collection of six twisted fairy tales, with new illustrations by Robert Byrd. (Contents)
- FOX, PETER (F.) (1946- )
- * *Downtime (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-39362-9, Aug 86, £9.95, 254pp, hc) Novel of suspense, crime, war games, and sf.
- * _Downtime (Coronet 0-340-41366-2, Dec 87, £2.95, 254pp, pb) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1986) near-future thriller.
- FOX, RANDY (stories)
- * *Not Broken, Not Belonging (Roadkill Press No ISBN, Mar 94, $6.00, 27pp, ph, cover by Alan M. Clark) Horror story based on a series of six paintings by Alan M. Clark, included here along with related sketches. This is a 300-copy limited edition signed by both author and artist. Available from Little Bookshop of Horrors, 10380 Ralston Rd., Arvada CO 80004.
- FOXE, JOCELIN; pseudonym of Linda Reames Fox & Joyce Cottrell
- * *The Wild Hunt: Vengeance Moon (Avon Eos 0-380-79911-1, Sep 98 [Aug 98], $3.99, 312pp, pb, cover by Thomas Canty) [Wild Hunt] Fantasy novel. This appears to be a first novel. Copyrighted by Linda Reames Fox and Joyce Cottrell.
- FOXXE, ELLEN
- * *Season of Shadows (DAW 0-88677-620-1, Jun 95 [May 95], $4.99, 398pp, pb, cover by John Howe) [Summerlands] Fantasy novel. Avian natives attack royalist refugees trying to settle the New World. Copyrighted by Bill Fawcett and Associates.
- * *Season of Storms (DAW 0-88677-692-9, May 96 [Apr 96], $5.99, 400pp, pb, cover by Mark Hess) [Summerlands] Fantasy alternate-history novel, book two of The Summerlands. Privateers and assassins fight an undeclared war between New World royalists and the home country.
- FOY, GEORGE (1952- ) (stories)
- * *Contraband (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37545-8, May 97 [Apr 97], $12.95, 389pp, tp, cover by Peter Gudynas) [Shift] Near-future SF novel set in the same world as The Shift. A smuggler discovers that his free-trader colleagues are disappearing.
- * _Contraband (Bantam UK 0-553-50629-3, May 98, £5.99, 518pp, pb) [Shift] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1997) near-future SF novel set in the same world as The Shift. A smuggler discovers that his free-trader colleagues are disappearing. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Contraband (Bantam Spectra 0-553-57548-1, Jan 99 [Dec 98], $6.50, 439pp, pb, cover by Peter Gudynas) [Shift] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1997) near-future SF novel about smugglers, set in the same world as The Shift.
- * *The Shift (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37544-X, Jul 96 [Jun 96], $12.95, 515pp, tp, cover by Peter Gudynas) [Shift] SF thriller. A virtual-reality killer from 1850s New York City escapes his virtual world into the present.
- * _The Shift (Bantam Spectra 0-553-57471-X, Apr 97 [Mar 97], $5.99, 519pp, pb, cover by Peter Gudynas) [Shift] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1996) SF thriller. A virtual-reality killer escapes into the real world.
- * _The Shift (Bantam UK 0-553-50611-0, May 97, £5.99, 518pp, pb, cover by Attard) [Shift] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1996) SF thriller. A virtual reality killer escapes into the real world. [First U.K. edition]
- FRAHM, LEANNE (stories)
- * *Borderline (MirrorDanse Books 0-9586583-0-7, 1996 [May 96], A$11.95, 128pp, tp, cover by Gavin OKeefe) Collection of five SF and fantasy stories, an interview conducted by Lucy Sussex, and a bibliography. Limited to 500 copies. Available from MirrorDanse Books, PO Box 3542, Parramatta NSW 2124, Australia. (Contents)
- FRAIL, EDWARD J. (1939?-1990?)
- * *Cult (NAL/Onyx 0-451-40189-1, Apr 90 [Mar 90], $3.95, 241pp, pb) Horror thriller with occult elements. A trail of brutal murders lead detectives to a backwoods town under the spell of an ancient curse and an evil cult. A first novel.
- FRAKES, JONATHAN
- * *The Abductors: Conspiracy (with Dean Wesley Smith) (Tor 0-312-86208-3, Dec 96 [Nov 96], $22.95, 252pp, hc, cover by Gary Ruddell) SF novel by the Star Trek: The Next Generation star. An ex-cop searching for a missing teen uncovers an alien plot. Supposedly a first novel. Copyrighted by Frakes; Smith is not credited on the front cover, but is credited on the cover flaps and title page.
- * _The Abductors: Conspiracy (with Dean Wesley Smith) (Tor 0-812-57099-5, Dec 98, $5.99, 252pp, pb, cover by Gary Ruddell) Reprint (Tor 1996) SF novel by the Star Trek: The Next Generation star. Copyrighted by Frakes; Smith is not credited on the front cover, but is credited on the title page.
- FRAKES, RANDALL
- * *The Terminator (with Bill Wisher) (Bantam 0-553-25317-4, Nov 85 [Sep 85], $2.95, 240pp, pb) [Terminator] Novelization of the sf movie, based on the screenplay by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd. The British novelization, by another author, is completely different.
- * _The Terminator (with Bill Wisher) (Bantam Spectra 0-553-25317-4, Jun 91 [May 91], $4.99, 240pp, pb) [Terminator] Reissue (Bantam 1985) novelization of the sf cult film based on the screenplay by James Cameron & Gale Anne Hurd; second printing.
- * *The Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Bantam 0-553-29169-6, Jul 91 [Jun 91], $4.99, 240pp, pb) [Terminator] Sf movie tie-in novelization.
- * _Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Sphere 0-7474-1032-1, Aug 91, £3.99, 240pp, pb) [Terminator] Reprint (Bantam 1991) novelization of the sf film.
- FRAME, JANET; [i.e., Janet Patterson Frame Clutha] (1924-2004) (stories)
- * *The Carpathians (Bloomsbury Books 0-7475-0246-3, Sep 88 [Oct 88], £12.95, 196pp, hc) Literary fantasy novel.
- * _The Carpathians (Pandora 0-04-440427-1, Apr 89, £3.95, 196pp, pb) Reprint (Bloomsbury 1988) literary fantasy novel.
- FRANCESCHINA, JOHN, ed.
- * *Sisters of Gore: Seven Gothic Melodramas by British Women, 1790-1843 (Garland 0-8153-1781-6, Dec 97 [May 98], $65.00, 466pp, hc) Critical look at seven Gothic plays, most with ghosts and other supernatural elements. The editors introduction and notes to each play examine the development of melodrama and the Gothic Revival movement in England. There is a bibliography and glossary. This is dated 1997, but not seen until now. Available from Garland Publishing, 717 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2500, New York NY 10022-8101; 212-751-7447.
- FRANCIS, CLARE, ed. (1946- )
- * *A Feast of Stories by Britains Favourite Authors (with Ondine Upton) (Pan 0-330-34492-7, 1997 [Nov 97], £5.99, 511pp, pb) Anthology of stories published in aid of ME research. Only genre stories listed. (Contents)
- FRANCIS, RICHARD
- * _Blackpool Vanishes (Flamingo 0-00-654192-5, Aug 88, £3.95, 191pp, pb) Reissue (Faber 1979) sf novel.
- * *Swansong (Collins 0-00-223004-6, Jul 86 [1986], £10.95, 304pp, hc) Satirical quasi-alternate-world novel. [Not seen]
- * +Swansong (Atheneum 0-689-11843-0, Sep 86, $15.95, 304pp, hc) Satiric quasi alternate-world novel of Britain in the 80s, with the Farquhar Islands war, a visionary clergyman, an 18th-century rake, etc. First U.S. edition (UK 1986).
- FRANK, FREDERICK S(tilson) (1935- )
- * *Gothic Fiction: A Master List of Twentieth Century Criticism and Research (Meckler 0-88736-218-4, Jan 88 [Feb 88], $34.95, 193pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference. A list of secondary sources on Gothic fiction, 1820-1985.
- * *Guide to the Gothic II: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1983-1993 (Scarecrow Press 0-8108-2968-1, Sep 95 [Jan 96], $65.00, 524pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference, a bibliography of recent criticism of gothic literature. This is an annotated supplement to the original Guide to the Gothic (Scarecrow Press 1984), with over 1,500 new entries. Includes separate studies on Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates, and sub-sections covering criticism of Special Subjects such as Vampirism & Werewolfery; indexed by critics and editors, and by authors and titles.
- _____, ed.
- FRANK, JANRAE, ed. (stories)
- * *New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow (with Jean Marie Stine & Forrest J Ackerman) (Longmeadow Press 0-681-00525-4, Nov 94, $14.95, 427pp, hc, cover by Laura Freas) Anthology of 32 SF stories by and about women, with an introduction and authors note by the editors. Stories are separated in blocks of twenty years, and are chosen because they are representative of the time and state of SF, not for political correctness. Authors include Leigh Brackett, Andre Norton, Zenna Henderson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Kate Wilhelm, and Octavia E. Butler. (Contents)
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