The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

GOLDMAN, RANDY

• * *Werewolf Wars (Commonwealth Publications 1-55197-265-4, 1996 [Aug ’97], $4.99, 205pp, pb) Horror novel. One teen is the only one who believes the local slasher is a werewolf. Copyrighted and (according to copyright page) published 1996; not seen until now.

GOLDMAN, WILLIAM (W.) (1931- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Brothers (Warner 0-446-51279-6, Feb ’87 [Jan ’87], $17.95, 310pp, hc) [Marathon Man] Near-future thriller with elements of sf (inventions and mad scientists), sequel to The Marathon Man.
• * _Brothers (Warner 0-446-34680-2, Mar ’88 [Feb ’88], $4.95, 339pp, pb) [Marathon Man] Reprint (Warner 1987) sf thriller with mad scientists and strange inventions. A sequel to Marathon Man.
• * _Brothers (Grafton 0-586-06292-0, Jul ’88 [Aug ’88], £2.95, 335pp, pb) [Marathon Man] Reprint (Warner 1987) SF thriller. Sequel to Marathon Man.
• * _The Princess Bride (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-31532-4, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $3.50, 283pp, pb) Reissue (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973) fantasy novel; 13th printing, with over 900,000 copies available. A classic of humorous fantasy by a master writer. Highly recommended. (CNB)
• * _The Princess Bride (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34803-6, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $3.95, 283pp, pb) Reissue (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973) humorous fantasy novel; 17th printing. Movie tie-in edition, with a still on the cover and a new fold-out color map.
• * _The Princess Bride (Futura 0-7088-3978-9, Mar ’88, £2.95, 283pp, pb) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973) fantasy novel. This is the ‘film tie-in’ edition. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Princess Bride (Severn House 0-7278-1674-8, Jul ’88 [Oct ’88], £9.95, 283pp, hc) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973) fantasy novel.
• * _The Princess Bride (SFBC #07684, Aug ’95 [Jul ’95], $7.98, 255pp, hc, cover by Ruth Sanderson) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973) fantasy novel. The copyright page lists the ISBN of the original HBJ edition, but the text has been reset and the jacket appears new.
• * _The Princess Bride (Buccaneer Books 0-89966-809-7, 1997 [Feb ’98], $36.00, 308pp, hc) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973) humorous fantasy novel. This has the original two-color printing, and is copyrighted 1973; no date is given for this edition.
• * _The Princess Bride (Ballantine 0-345-43014-X, Dec ’98 [Nov ’98], $24.00, 399pp, hc, cover by K. Green) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973) humorous fantasy novel. This is a 25th-anniversary edition, with new material including an introduction by Goldman, some bridging material, and the “long-lost” first chapter to the sequel, Buttercup’s Baby. All the new material is written in the style of the original.
• * _The Silent Gondoliers: A Fable By S. Morgenstern (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32583-4, Dec ’85 [Nov ’85], $3.50, 110pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1983) fantasy fable with illustrations by Paul Giovanopoulos. This is the first time Goldman’s name has appeared on the jacket.

GOLDS, CASSANDRA (Mia) (1962- )

• * +Michael and the Secret War (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31507-4, Oct ’89 [Nov ’89], $13.95, 183pp, hc, cover by Stephen Marchesi) Young-adult fantasy novel. A boy is drawn into a secret magical war that is waged on the fringes of everyday life. A first novel. First American edition (Angus & Robertson, Australia 1985).

GOLDSBERRY, STEVEN (Taylor) (1949- )

• * *Maui: The Demigod (Simon & Schuster 0-671-47788-9, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $18.95, 410pp, hc) Polynesia fantasy novel, illustrated with woodcuts by Dietrich Varez. It’s leisurely, episodic, and well-written. A first novel. (FCM)

GOLDSTEIN, LISA (Joy) (1953- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Author’s Choice Monthly Issue 3: Daily Voices (Pulphouse no ISBN, Dec ’89, $4.95, 99pp, tp, cover by George Barr) Collection of five stories with an introduction by the author. Also available in a signed hardcover edition ($25.00). A signed deluxe leatherbound edition ($50.00) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
• * *The Dream Years (Bantam Spectra 0-553-05090-7, Aug ’85 [Jul ’85], $13.95, 181pp, hc) Fantasy novel of time travel, the Surrealist movement, and revolution. Beautifully crafted, superbly structured. One of the best novels of 1985. (DLN)
• * _The Dream Years (Unwin/Orion 0-04-823321-8, Apr ’86 [May ’86], £8.95, 181pp, hc) Reprint (Bantam 1985) fantasy novel.
• * _The Dream Years (Unwin/Orion 0-04-823345-5, Apr ’86 [May ’86], £3.50, 181pp, pb) Paperback edition of the above.
• * _The Dream Years (Bantam Spectra 0-553-25693-9, Jul ’86 [Jun ’86], $2.95, 195pp, pb) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1985) fantasy novel of Paris, time travel, and Surrealism.
• * _The Dream Years (Bantam Spectra 0-553-27657-3, Dec ’88 [Nov ’88], $3.95, 195pp, pb) Reissue (Bantam 1985) fantasy novel set in pre-WWI France (and other eras) and dealing with the surrealist movement. Second printing.
• * *A Mask for the General (Bantam Spectra 0-553-05239-X, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $14.95, 199pp, hc) Near-future sf novel. Recommended. (FCM)
• * _A Mask for the General (Bantam Spectra 0-553-27312-4, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $3.95, 224pp, pb) Reprint (Bantam 1987) near-future sf novel set in Berkeley CA after the world economy has collapsed and a general has taken over the U.S. Recommended. (TM)
• * _A Mask for the General (Legend 0-09-964880-6, Nov ’89, £3.99, 224pp, pb) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1987) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * *The Red Magician (Unicorn 0-04-823323-4, Feb ’87, £2.95, 156pp, tp) Fantasy novel.
• * _The Red Magician (Tor 0-312-85462-5, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], $18.95, 192pp, hc) Reprint (Timescape 1982) fantasy novel about the Holocaust. Winner of the American Book Award. First hardcover edition.
• * _The Red Magician (Tor/Orb 0-312-89007-9, Aug ’95 [Jul ’95], $10.95, 192pp, tp) Reprint (Timescape 1982) fantasy novel of Eastern European Jews and magic in the 1940s. Winner of the American Book Award.
• * *Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon (Tor 0-312-85460-9, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], $19.95, 301pp, hc, cover by Tim Jacobus) Historical fantasy novel set in Elizabethan England, about a bookseller’s search for her changeling son that is entwined with the life of Christopher Marlowe. Recommended (SW).
• * _Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon (SFBC #00783, Jun ’93 [May ’93], $9.98, 301pp, hc, cover by Tim Jacobus) Reprint (Tor 1993) historical fantasy novel set in Elizabethan England, about a bookseller’s search for her changeling son. Similar to the Tor edition except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon (Tor 0-812-51951-5, Apr ’94 [Mar ’94], $4.99, 301pp, pb, cover by Tim Jacobus) Reprint (Tor 1993) historical fantasy novel set in Elizabethan England, about a bookseller’s search for her changeling son that is entwined with the life of Christopher Marlowe.
• * *Summer King, Winter Fool (Tor 0-312-85632-6, May ’94 [Apr ’94], $20.95, 287pp, hc, cover by Kevin Johnson) Fantasy novel about a young aristocrat who is the only possible savior of his conquered homeland. Recommended (SW).
• * _Summer King, Winter Fool (Tor 0-812-53503-0, Jun ’95 [May ’95], $4.99, 274pp, pb, cover by Kevin Johnson) Reprint (Tor 1994) fantasy novel.
• * *Tourists (Simon & Schuster 0-671-67531-1, Jul ’89 [Jun ’89], $17.95, 239pp, hc) Contemporary fantasy set in an imaginary country.
• * _Tourists (Tor/Orb 0-312-89011-7, Sep ’94, $11.95, 239pp, tp) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1989) contemporary fantasy set in an imaginary country. There are minor changes to this edition.
• * *Travellers in Magic (Tor 0-312-85790-X, Dec ’94 [Nov ’94], $21.95, 285pp, hc, cover by Tom Canty) Collection of 15 stories, one original. (Contents)
• * _Travellers in Magic (Tor 0-312-86301-2, Mar ’97 [Feb ’97], $15.95, 285pp, tp, cover by Tom Canty) Reprint (Tor 1994) collection.
• * *Walking the Labyrinth (Tor 0-312-86175-3, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $21.95, 254pp, hc) Magical realism/fantasy novel. A woman in modern San Francisco discovers she is descended from vaudeville magicians who performed real magic.
• * _Walking the Labyrinth (Tor 0-312-85968-6, Feb ’98 [Jan ’98], $12.95, 254pp, tp) Reprint (Tor 1996) Magical realism/fantasy novel. A woman in modern San Francisco discovers she is descended from vaudeville magicians who performed real magic.

GOLDSTONE, LAWRENCE (S.) (1947- )

• * *Off-Line (St. Martin’s/Dunne 0-312-18641-X, May ’98 [Apr ’98], $22.95, 279pp, hc) Near-future police procedural mystery. A cop in a computer-dependent world begins to question the artificial intelligences’ reliability.

GOMEZ, JEWELLE (1948- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Don’t Explain (Firebrand Books 1-56341-094-X, May ’98, $10.95, 168pp, tp) Collection of nine stories, one a previously unpublished “Gilda” story about the Black lesbian vampire, another a novella of empaths in a repressive future. (Contents)
• * *The Gilda Stories (Firebrand Books 0-932379-94-X, Apr ’91, $9.95, 252pp, tp, cover by Betsy Bayley) Vampire novel — the story of a black woman vampire’s adventures from pre-Civil War America to 21st century South America. A hardcover edition (-95-8, $20.95) was announced but not seen. Recommended (SW).

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• * _Swords of the Rainbow (with Eric Garber) See entry under Eric Garber.

GONCE, JOHN WISDOM, III

• * _The Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind the Legend (with Daniel Harms) See entry under Daniel Harms.

GONDOSCH, LINDA (Ann) (1944- )

• * *The Witches of Hopper Street (Dutton/Lodestar 0-525-67178-1, Apr ’86 [May ’86], $11.95, 118pp, hc) Juvenile fantasy novel of 11-year-old girls and Halloween magic.

GONZALES, DEBORAH MARTIN; see under Martin, Deborah

GOOCH, DAN

• * *Solomon Grundy (Abacus 0-349-10910-9, Oct ’97 [Nov ’97], £9.99, 323pp, tp) Literary fantasy novel based on the classic poem.

GOODFELLOW, DAVID

• * *Not Long Under an Alien Sun (University Editions 1-56002-606-5, Oct ’96, $10.00, 207pp, tp, cover by Janine Johnston) Psychological SF thriller. Policial schemes between a corporation and its subsidiary threaten young executives on a spaceship. A first novel. Available from University Editions, 59 Oak Lane, Spring Valley, Huntington WV 25704.

GOODKIND, TERRY (1948- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Blood of the Fold (Tor 0-312-89052-4, Oct ’96, $25.95, 464pp, hc, cover by Kevin Murphy) [Sword of Truth] Fantasy novel, book three of “The Sword of Truth”. Anti-magic zealots unwittingly work for evil forces from the Old World.
• * _The Blood of the Fold (Millennium 1-85798-490-0, Dec ’96, £16.99, 464pp, hc, cover by Kevin Murphy) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1996) fantasy novel. Volume 3 of “The Sword of Truth” sequence. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Blood of the Fold (SFBC #15362, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $12.98, 464pp, hc, cover by Kevin Murphy) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1996) fantasy novel, book three of “The Sword of Truth”. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Blood of the Fold (Tor 0-812-55147-8, Aug ’97 [Jul ’97], $6.99, 623pp, pb, cover by Kevin Murphy) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1996) fantasy novel, book three of “The Sword of Truth”. An “open market edition” apparently appeared in April 1997.
• * _Blood of the Fold (Orion 0-75280-666-1, Dec ’97, £6.99, 698pp, pb, cover by Kevin Murphy) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1996) fantasy novel, Book Three of “The Sword of Truth”.
• * _Blood of the Fold (Orion/Millennium 0-75280-666-1, Oct ’98, £6.99, 698pp, pb, cover by Kevin Murphy) [Sword of Truth] Reissue (Tor 1996) fantasy novel. Book Three of “The Sword of Truth”. Second printing.
• * *Stone of Tears (Tor 0-312-85706-3, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], $25.95, 703pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Sword of Truth] Fantasy novel, book two of “The Sword of Truth”. Past battles against evil leave a path open to the underworld.
• * _Stone of Tears (Millennium 1-85798-287-8, Nov ’95, £12.99, 703pp, tp, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1995) fantasy novel. Book Two of “The Sword of Truth”. A hardcover edition (-283-5, £17.99) is also available. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Stone of Tears (SFBC #11425, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], $12.98, 703pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1995) fantasy novel, book two of “The Sword of Truth”. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Stone of Tears (Tor 0-812-54809-4, Aug ’96 [Jul ’96], $6.99, 982pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1995) fantasy novel, book two of “The Sword of Truth”. An international edition with the same information appeared in March 1996.
• * _Stone of Tears (Orion 1-85798-305-X, Nov ’96, £6.99, 1056pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1995) fantasy novel. Book Two of “The Sword of Truth” sequence, after Wizard’s First Rule.
• * _Stone of Tears (Orion/Millennium 1-85798-305-X, Oct ’98, £6.99, 1056pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Sword of Truth] Reissue (Tor 1995) fantasy novel. Book Two of “The Sword of Truth”. Third printing.
• * *Temple of the Winds (Tor 0-312-89053-2, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], $25.95, 528pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Sword of Truth] Fantasy novel, book four of “The Sword of Truth”.
• * _Temple of the Winds (Orion/Millennium 1-85798-506-0, Dec ’97, £17.99, 528pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1997) fantasy novel, Book Four of “The Sword of Truth”. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Temple of the Winds (SFBC #18670, Jan ’98, $13.98, 673pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1997) fantasy novel, book four of “The Sword of Truth”. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Temple of the Winds (Orion/Millennium 1-85798-550-8, Jun ’98, £11.99, 528pp, tp, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1997) fantasy novel. Book four of “The Sword of Truth”.
• * _Temple of the Winds (Tor 0-812-55148-6, Sep ’98 [Aug ’98], $7.99, 822pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1997) fantasy novel, book four of “The Sword of Truth”.
• * _Temple of the Winds (Orion/Millennium 0-75281-678-0, Oct ’98, £6.99, 786pp, pb, cover by Kevin Murphy) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Tor 1997) fantasy novel. Book Four of “The Sword of Truth”.
• * *Wizard’s First Rule (Millennium 1-85798-231-2, Aug ’94, £9.99, 611pp, tp, cover by Doug Beekman) [Sword of Truth] Fantasy novel. A hardcover edition (-230-4, £15.99) was announced but not seen.
• * +Wizard’s First Rule (Tor 0-312-85705-5, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], $23.95, 573pp, hc, cover by Doug Beekman) [Sword of Truth] High fantasy novel of a woodsman destined to battle an evil mage for the safety of his world. A first novel. First American edition (Millennium 1994).
• * _Wizard’s First Rule (Tor 0-812-54805-1, Jan ’95, $5.99, 820pp, pb, cover by Doug Beekman) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Millenium 1994) fantasy novel.
• * _Wizard’s First Rule (SFBC #06471, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $11.98, 573pp, hc, cover by Doug Beekman) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Millenium 1994) high fantasy novel. Similar to the Tor edition, except this lacks a price and has the SFBC code on the back jacket.
• * _Wizard’s First Rule (Millennium 1-85798-235-5, Oct ’95, £5.99, 774pp, pb, cover by Doug Beekman) [Sword of Truth] Reprint (Millennium 1994) fantasy novel. First in “The Sword of Truth” series.
• * _Wizard’s First Rule (Orion/Millennium 1-85798-235-5, Oct ’98, £6.99, 774pp, pb, cover by Doug Beekman) [Sword of Truth] Reissue (Millennium 1994) fantasy novel. Book One of “The Sword of Truth”. Fourth printing.

GOODMAN, JO(sephine Charlotte) (1940- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Dream Time (with Margot Tyrrell & Toss Gascoigne) See entry under Toss Gascoigne.

GOODMAN, LAURIE (E.) (1962- )

• * *A Spell of Deceit (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35596-2, Feb ’89 [Jan ’89], $3.50, 344pp, pb) Fantasy novel about two enemies who unite to save both their peoples. A first novel.

GOODMAN, RUTH (1961- ); see pseudonym Meagan McKinney

GOODRICH, NORMA LORRE (1917-2006)

• * *Guinevere (HarperCollins 0-06-016442-5, Mar ’91 [May ’91], $22.95, 273pp, hc, cover by Colin Backhouse) Reference. A “biography” of Guinevere citing both literary and non-literary sources.

GOODRICH, PETER, ed.

• * *The Romance of Merlin (Garland 0-8240-7042-9, 1990 [Mar ’92], $18.95, 417pp, tp) Reference/anthology of legends, stories, poetry, and criticism about Merlin with an introduction by the editor and a bibliography. A hardcover edition (-4442-8, $50) was announced but not seen. This is a 1990 book not seen until now.

GOODWIN, HAL; [i.e., Harold Leland Goodwin] (1914-1990); see pseudonym John Blaine (stories) (assoc.)

GOODWIN, MARIE (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Where the Towers Pierce the Sky (Macmillan Four Winds 0-02-736871-8, Oct ’89 [Nov ’89], $13.95, 173pp, hc, cover by Lauren Mills) Young-adult time-travel fantasy. A young 20th-century girl finds herself in the middle of the intrigue surrounding Joan of Arc.

GOODWIN, MICHAEL (C.) (1951- ) (stories)

• * _A Guide to the Commonwealth: The Official Guide to Alan Dean Foster’s Humanx Commonwealth Universe (with Robert Teague) See entry under Robert Teague.

GOODWYN, ANDREW (Cecil), ed. (1954- ) (stories)

• * *Fantasy Stories (Oxford University Press 0-19-831262-8, Mar ’91 [Oct ’91], £3.95, 151pp, pb, cover by Duncan Storr) Anthology of ten fantasy stories aimed at GCSE students, with accompanying background notes and suggested assignments. (Contents)
• * *Science Fiction Stories (Oxford University Press 0-19-831261-X, Mar ’91 [Oct ’91], £3.95, 154pp, pb, cover by Duncan Storr) Anthology of ten sf stories aimed at GCSE students, with accompanying background notes and suggested assignments. (Contents)

GOONAN, KATHLEEN ANN (1952- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Bones of Time (Tor 0-312-85916-3, Feb ’96 [Jan ’96], $23.95, 382pp, hc, cover by R. S. Winter) Near-future SF novel. Hawaiian king Kamehameha is illegally cloned from his bones.