The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

FOWLER, D(ebra) A. (continued)

• * *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.
• * *What’s Wrong with Tamara? (Pocket 0-671-73805-4, Oct ’92 [Sep ’92], $4.99, 295pp, pb, cover by Vince Natale) [*What’s Wrong with Valerie] Horror novel, sequel to What’s Wrong with Valerie?. After being tortured by her cousin, little Tamara becomes a murderous monster urged to kill by the dead.
• * *What’s Wrong with Valerie (Pocket 0-671-72658-7, Aug ’91 [Jul ’91], $4.50, 247pp, pb) [*What’s 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) (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.
• * *Author’s 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 Author’s 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 woman’s appearance in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest. This has magic realism and fantasy elements. Fowler’s 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 woman’s 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) (stories) (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; there’s 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.

• * *Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (St. Martin’s/Bedford 0-312-06665-1, Jun ’95, $10.95, 477pp, tp) Non-fiction, part of the “Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism” series. Contains Swift’s 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 book’s 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) (assoc.)

• * *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 (stories) (assoc.)

• * *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 (stories) (assoc.)

• * *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) (assoc.)

• * *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 1850’s 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) (assoc.)

• * *Borderline (MirrorDanse Books 0-9586583-0-7, 1996 [May ’96], A$11.95, 128pp, tp, cover by Gavin O’Keefe) 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 editor’s 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 Britain’s 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.

• * _Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After Frankenstein: Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Birth (with Gregory O’Dea & Syndy M. Conger) See entry under Syndy M. Conger

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 “author’s 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)

FRANK, KATHERINE

• * _A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Brontë (Fawcett Columbine 0-449-90661-2, Feb ’92 [Jun ’92], $10.00, 303pp, tp) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1990) associational non-fiction, a biography of the author of Wuthering Heights. [Bront‰]

FRANK, PAT (Harry Hart) (1907-1964)

• * _Alas, Babylon (HarperPerennial 0-06-081254-0, Sep ’93, $6.00, 312pp, tp) Reprint (Lippincott 1959) classic novel of nuclear war. This is a special 35th anniversary edition.

FRANKLIN, CHERYL J(ean) (1955- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Fire Crossing (DAW 0-88677-468-3, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], $4.99, 541pp, pb, cover by Sanjulian) [Network-Consortium; Magical Tales of the Taormin] Sf/fantasy novel, part of both the “Network/Consortium” and the “Seri” series.
• * *Fire Get (DAW 0-88677-231-1, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $3.50, 338pp, pb) [Magical Tales of the Taormin] Fantasy novel. “Could Rhianna survive the magical dangers of a Power quest?” Probably a first novel.
• * _Fire Get (DAW 0-88677-231-1, Jan ’90 [Dec ’89], $3.50, 338pp, pb, cover by Tim Hildebrandt) [Magical Tales of the Taormin] Reissue (DAW 1987) fantasy novel, first book in the “Fire Lord” series; third printing.
• * *Fire Lord (DAW 0-88677-354-7, Jun ’89 [May ’89], $3.95, 348pp, pb) [Magical Tales of the Taormin] Fantasy novel, sequel to Fire Get.
• * *Ghost Shadow (DAW 0-88677-694-5, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], $5.99, 559pp, pb, cover by Romas Kukalis) [Network-Consortium] SF novel in the “Network-Consortium” series.
• * *The Inquisitor (DAW 0-88677-512-4, May ’92 [Apr ’92], $4.99, 544pp, pb, cover by Les Edwards) [Network-Consortium] Sf novel, second book of the “Network/Consortium” series. A fallen clan begins a vendetta against the man who killed the clan leader and stole the artifacts which gave them power.
• * *The Light in Exile (DAW 0-88677-417-9, Jan ’90 [Dec ’89], $3.95, 334pp, pb, cover by Richard Hescox) [Network-Consortium] Sf novel, first book in the “Network/Consortium” series.
• * *Sable, Shadow, and Ice (DAW 0-88677-609-0, Jun ’94 [May ’94], $4.99, 408pp, pb, cover by John Howe) Fantasy novel set in a world where mages are guided by cards, and a young mage trapped in a struggle between magic and technology.

FRANKLIN, H(oward) BRUCE (1934- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century, Revised Edition (Rutgers University Press 0-8135-2152-1, Feb ’95 [Jan ’95], $15.95, 395pp, tp, cover by Joseph Stella) Critical anthology of 21 pieces of 19th century American SF, with extensive discussions of themes, and each author and the elements of their work that qualify as SF. The third revised and expanded edition (Oxford 1966), its most significant addition is a section discussing women SF writers of the period. Order from Rutgers University Press, 109 Church St., New Brunswick NJ 08901; credit card orders: 800-446-9323.