The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

GRAVEL, GEARY (stories) (continued)

• * _Batman: The Animated Movie: Mask of the Phantasm (Boxtree 0-7522-0936-1, May ’94, £3.99, 232pp, pb) [Batman] Reprint (Bantam 1994) novelization of the forthcoming animated movie, based on an original story by Alan Burnett. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Batman: The Animated Series: Dual to the Death (Boxtree 0-7522-0951-5, May ’94, £3.99, 199pp, pb) [Batman] Reprint (Bantam 1994) fantasy novelization. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Batman: The Animated Series: Shadows of the Past (Boxtree 0-7522-0946-9, May ’94, £3.99, 180pp, pb) [Batman] Reprint (Bantam 1994) fantasy novelization. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Batman: The Animated Series: The Dragon and the Bat (Boxtree 0-7522-0956-6, May ’94, £3.99, 181pp, pb) [Batman] Reprint (Bantam 1994) fantasy novelization. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Hook (Fawcett Columbine 0-449-90708-2, Jan ’92 [Dec ’91], $2.99, 111pp, tp) [Peter Pan] Young-adult novelization of the fantasy film about Peter Pan.
• * *A Key for the Nonesuch (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35976-3, Jul ’90 [Jun ’90], $3.95, 229pp, pb, cover by Romas) [Fading Worlds] Sf novel of the alien world behind the door of an executive washroom in Boston.
• * *Might and Magic: Book One: The Dreamwright (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38292-7, Feb ’95 [Jan ’95], $4.99, 248pp, pb, cover by Kevin Murphy) [Might and Magic] Fantasy novelization based on the computer game. Packaged and copyrighted by Bill Fawcett & Associates.
• * *Might and Magic: Book Two: The Shadowsmith (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38293-5, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], $5.99, 280pp, pb, cover by Donald Clavette) [Might and Magic] Fantasy novelization based on the game from New World Computing. Packaged and copyrighted by Bill Fawcett & Associates.
• * *Pathfinders (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32339-4, May ’86 [Apr ’86], $2.95, 230pp, pb) [Alchemists] Sf novel, a sequel to The Alchemists.
• * *The Return of the Breakneck Boys (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36947-5, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], $3.95, 217pp, pb, cover by Romas) [Fading Worlds] Sf novel, second book of the “Fading Worlds” series. Ad man Howard Bell faces danger both on Earth and in the mysterious world behind the washroom door in his office building.

GRAVERSEN, PAT(ricia Ann, née Spears) (1935-2000) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Black Ice (Zebra 0-8217-4093-8, Mar ’93 [Feb ’93], $4.50, 256pp, pb) Horror novel of a young boy haunted by the ghosts of three evil little girls.
• * *Dollies (Zebra 0-8217-3071-1, Jul ’90 [Jun ’90], $3.95, 288pp, pb) Horror novel. Killer dolls.
• * _The Fagin (Zebra 0-8217-3572-1, Mar ’92 [Feb ’92], $4.50, 287pp, pb) Reprint (A&W 1982) horror novel. A woman returns to her hometown with her young son only to find it in thrall to warlocks and demons.
• * *Ghost Train (with Paul Erik Graversen) (Zebra/Z-Fave 0-8217-4578-6, May ’94 [Apr ’94], $3.50, 220pp, pb) Young-adult horror/time-travel/ghost novel about a boy caught up in a train wreck that took place in 1943.
• * *Graythings (Zebra 0-8217-4870-X, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $4.50, 223pp, pb) Horror novel. Otherworldly things drive people to suicide.
• * *Precious Blood (Zebra 0-8217-4293-0, Sep ’93 [Aug ’93], $4.50, 251pp, pb) Horror novel of a vampire king battling a renegade for the life of his daughter.
• * *Stones (Zebra 0-8217-3268-4, Jan ’91 [Dec ’90], $3.95, 288pp, pb) Horror novel of evil stones that are moving about in the garden.
• * *Sweet Blood (Zebra 0-8217-3907-7, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $4.50, 254pp, pb) Vampire horror novel. A teenage boy vampire is the battleground in a war between his mother and another female vampire.

GRAVERSEN, PAUL ERIK

• * _Ghost Train (with Pat Graversen) See entry under Pat Graversen.

GRAVES, ELISABETH; pseudonym of Lenore Hart, (1953- )

• * *Black River (Berkley 0-425-14007-5, Nov ’93 [Oct ’93], $4.99, 293pp, pb) Gothic horror novel of witchcraft in a North Florida town.

GRAVES, ROBERT (Von Ranke), [ref.] (1895-1985) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Robert Graves: Life on the Edge See entry under Miranda Seymour.

GRAY, ALASDAIR (James) (1934- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *1982 Janine (Jonathan Cape 0-224-02094-3, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], £8.95, 345pp, hc) “Sadomaso-chistic fetishistic fantasy”, according to the author’s tongue-in-cheek blurb. Late in the book, God makes an appearance.
• * +1982 Janine (Viking 0-670-51387-3, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], $16.95, 346pp, hc) Reprint (Jonathan Cape 1984), first U.S. edition of the second novel by British award-winner Gray. It’s more mainstream than fantasy.
• * *The Fall of Kevin Walker (Canongate 0-86241-072-X, Sep ’85 [Aug ’85], £7.95, 144pp, hc) Gray’s new novel (or novella) is mainstream, not sf or fantasy, and we list it for his fans. It’s an enjoyable fable of an eccentric young Scotsman storming London in the sixties — more straightforward than previous Gray, but with a sharp satiric bite and fine characterization. (FCM).
• * *Five Letters from an Unknown Empire (Penguin 0-146-00044-7, Jul ’95, 60p, 54pp, pb, cover by Alasdair Gray) Fantasy novella, originally in Words magazine, 1979. Subtitled: ‘describing Etiquette, Government, Irrigation, Education, Clogs, Kites, Rumour, Poetry, Justice, Massage, Town-Planning, Sex and Ventriloquism in an Obsolete Nation’. One of the ‘Penguin 60s’ collection: mini-books celebrating their 60th anniversary.
• * *A History Maker (Canongate 0-86241-495-4, Nov ’94 [Jan ’95], £13.99, 224pp, hc) SF novel. Border warfare set in the Ettrick Forest of the 23rd Century.
• * _A History Maker (Penguin 0-14-024803-X, Oct ’95, £5.99, 224pp, tp, cover by Alasdair Gray) Reprint (Canongate 1994) SF novel. Border warfare set in the Ettrick Forest of the 23rd century. Revised by the author, this is his preferred text for future editions.
• * +A History Maker (Harcourt Brace/Harvest 0-15-100207-X, May ’96 [Mar ’96], $25.00, 224pp, hc, cover by Alasdair Gray) SF novel of Scottish border warfare in the 23rd Century. A trade paperback edition (-600362-7, $14.00) was also announced but not seen. First US edition (Canongate 1994); this text has been revised somewhat and is the author’s preferred version.
• * _Lanark (Paladin 0-586-08613-7, Aug ’87, £4.95, 560pp, tp) Reissue (Canongate 1981) literary fantasy novel.
• * _Lanark: A Life in 4 Books (George Braziller 0-8076-1108-5, Apr ’85 [Mar ’85], $20.00, 561pp, hc) Reprint (Canongate 1981), the first hardcover edition to appear in the U.S. An excellent novel blending fantasy with mainstream — this won a British award. Recommended. (FCM)
• * _Lanark: A Life in 4 Books (Canongate 0-903937-74-3, Jun ’85 [May ’85], £15.00, 561pp, hc) Reprint (Canongate 1981) literary/allegorical fantasy novel; this is billed as the “definitive” edition, and is numbered and signed by the author.
• * _Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Picador 0-330-31965-5, Aug ’91 [Sep ’91], £6.99, 561pp, tp, cover by Alasdair Gray) Reprint (Canongate 1981) literary fantasy novel.
• * _Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Harcourt Brace/Harvest 0-15-600361-9, May ’96 [Mar ’96], $16.00, 561pp, tp, cover by Alasdair Gray) Reprint (Canongate 1981) literary fantasy novel.
• * _Mavis Belfrage: A Romantic Novel with Five Shorter Tales (Bloomsbury 0-7475-3089-0, Apr ’97, £5.99, 160pp, tp, cover by Alasdair Gray) Reprint (Bloomsbury 1996) associational collection of six stories, three original.
• * *Mavis Belfrage: A Romantic Story with Five Shorter Tales (Bloomsbury Books 0-7475-2506-4, May ’96, £13.99, 160pp, hc, cover by Alasdair Gray) Associational collection of six stories, three original. (Contents)
• * +Poor Things (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-173076-8, Mar ’93 [Feb ’93], $21.95, 317pp, hc, cover by Alasdair Gray) Literary dark fantasy novel set in Victorian Glasgow, where two doctors compete for the love of a woman one has created from human remains. Recommended (SW). Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. First American edition (Bloomsbury 1992).
• * _Poor Things (Penguin 0-14-017554-7, Aug ’93, £5.99, 318pp, tp) Reprint (Bloomsbury 1992) literary fantasy novel. This edition has been “corrected.”
• * _Poor Things (Harcourt Brace 0-15-600068-7, Mar ’94, $10.95, 317pp, tp, cover by Alasdair Gray) Reprint (Bloomsbury 1992) literary dark fantasy novel set in Victorian Glasgow, where two doctors compete for the love of a woman one has created from human remains. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize.
• * +Ten Tales Tall and True (Harcourt Brace 0-15-100090-5, Apr ’94 [Mar ’94], $19.95, 171pp, hc, cover by Alasdair Gray) Collection of 13 stories with illustrations by the author, ranging from outright sf to social comedy. First American edition (Bloomsbury 1993). (Contents)
• * _Ten Tales Tall and True (Harcourt Brace/Harvest 0-15-600196-9, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $11.00, 0-15-600196-9pp, tp, cover by Alasdair Gray) Reprint (Bloomsbury 1993) collection of 13 stories ranging from outright SF to social comedy, with illustrations by the author.
• * +Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Penguin (US) 0-14-006925-9, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $6.95, 280pp, tp) Eccentric, fascinating collection of stories, drawings (by the author), and typographical curiosities. Recommended. (FCM) First U.S. edition (Canongate 1983).

GRAY, ARTHUR (1852-1940); see pseudonym Ingulphus (stories) (assoc.)

GRAY, CAROLINE; pseudonym of Christopher Nicole, (1930- )

• * *Death of the Devil (Severn House 0-7278-4698-1, Nov ’94, £15.99, 314pp, hc, cover by Nick Mountain) [*Helier L’Eree] Occult novel. Third in the “Helier L’Eree” trilogy. The 17th-century swordsman accompanies King Charles II to Scotland, for the final confrontation with the immortal vampire queen who destroyed his family.
• * *Sword of the Devil (Severn House 0-7278-4622-1, May ’94, £15.99, 312pp, hc, cover by Nick Mountain) [*Helier L’Eree] Occult novel, second in the “Helier L’Eree” trilogy, in which L’Eree continues to seek revenge on the immortal witch who destroyed his family.

GRAY, JENNIE (stories)

• * *Tales My Mother Never Told Me (The Gothic Society 1-874100-04-7, 1992 [May ’93], £7.00, 142pp, tp) Original collection of eight supernatural tales. (Contents)

GRAY, JULIA

• * *Ice Mage (Orbit 1-85723-689-0, Dec ’98 [Nov ’98], £6.99, 535pp, pb, cover by Mick Van Houten) [Ice Mage] Fantasy novel. Young rebels using lost magic arts are the only defence against the combined menaces of volcanoes, pirates, dragons, and the evil beneath them all. Gray is the pseudonym of an author who “has sold over 300,000 copies”.

GRAY, KEITH

• * *From Blood: Two Brothers (Mammoth 0-7497-2768-3, Apr ’97, £4.99, 231pp, tp, cover by Fletcher Sibthorp) Young-adult fantasy novel.

GRAY, LINDA CROCKETT (1943- )

• * *Dark Window (Penguin/Signet 0-451-16982-4, Apr ’91, $4.99, 464pp, pb) Horror thriller of a woman haunted by her dead husband who still wants her.
• * *Mama’s Boy (NAL Onyx 0-451-40151-4, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], $4.50, 352pp, pb) Horror novel. His monstrous mother rises from the grave to destroy every woman he desires...
• * *Scryer (Tor 0-812-51872-1, Mar ’87 [Feb ’87], $3.95, 346pp, pb) Horror novel.
• * *Siren (Tor 0-812-51838-1, Feb ’89 [Jan ’89], $3.95, 252pp, pb) Horror novel about a siren who menaces men on land. Reprint (Avon 1982).
• * *Tangerine (Tor 0-812-51876-4, Feb ’88 [Jan ’88], $3.95, 344pp, pb) Horror novel.

GRAY, LULI (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Falcon’s Egg (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-71128-2, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $13.95, 133pp, hc, cover by Josh Gosfield) Young-adult fantasy novel. A girl named Falcon finds a dragon’s egg in Central Park.
• * _Falcon’s Egg (Dell Yearling 0-440-41247-1, Sep ’97 [Aug ’97], $4.50, 133pp, tp, cover by Josh Gosfield) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1995) young-adult fantasy novel about a dragon egg.

GRAY, MURIEL (1959- )

• * *Furnace (Doubleday 0-385-48002-4, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], $23.95, 360pp, hc) Supernatural mystery/horror novel. A trucker stops in a small town where something unnatural is happening.
• * *Furnace (HarperCollins UK 0-00-225313-5, Oct ’97, £16.99, 338pp, hc, cover by Coneyl Jay) Dark fantasy novel. The small Virginia town of Furnace holds a decades-old evil.
• * _Furnace (HarperCollins UK 0-00-649640-7, Sep ’98, £5.99, 338pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday; HarperCollins UK 1997) supernatural mystery/horror novel.
• * *The Trickster (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224326-1, Oct ’94 [Sep ’94], £12.99, 567pp, hc) Horror novel based on native Canadian legends.
• * +The Trickster (Doubleday 0-385-47786-4, Aug ’95 [Jul ’95], $23.50, 488pp, hc) Supernatural mystery based on native Canadian legends. First US edition (HarperCollins UK 1994).
• * _The Trickster (HarperCollins UK 0-00-647718-6, Dec ’95 [Nov ’95], £5.99, 707pp, pb) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1994) horror novel based on native Canadian legends. An impressive debut novel. Note: The US edition was substantially abridged (by some 100 pages).
• * +The Trickster (St. Martin’s 0-312-96100-6, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $6.99, 471pp, pb) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1994) supernatural mystery based on native Canadian legends.

GRAY, NICHOLAS STUART (1922-1981) (stories)

• * _Grimbold’s Other World (Ace 0-441-30380-3, May ’86 [Apr ’86], $2.95, 181pp, pb) Reprint (Faber and Faber 1963) juvenile fantasy novel.
• * _Grimbold’s Other World (Faber 0-571-15445-X, Mar ’89, £1.99, 182pp, tp, cover by Clare Hemstock) Reprint (Faber & Faber 1963) children’s fantasy book.
• * *The Sorcerer’s Apprentices (St. Martin’s 0-312-57282-4, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $6.95, 32pp, hc) A 1965 fantasy story with new illustrations (including “glow in the dark” bits) by Martin Springett.

GRAY, ROBERT STEELE

• * *Survivor (St. Martin’s 0-312-19340-8, Nov ’98, $24.95, 328pp, hc, cover by Rob Wood) Time-travel adventure. Lightning bolts send a 20th-century couch potato to 500 A.D. America.

GRAY, SERENA

• * *The Alien’s Survival Manual: An Outsider’s Guide to the Planet Earth (Futura 0-7088-5326-9, Feb ’92, £3.99, 210pp, pb) Humorous guide to the planet Earth as seen by a visiting alien, with occasional fictional asides.

GRAYSON, PERRY M., ed. (stories)

• * _Escape from Tomorrow See entry under Frank Belknap Long.

GRAZIUNAS, DAINA (1953- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Among Madmen (with Jim Starlin) See entry under Jim Starlin.
• * _Lady El (with Jim Starlin) See entry under Jim Starlin.

GREELEY, ANDREW M(oran) (1928- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Angel Fire (Warner 0-446-51437-3, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $17.95, 394pp, hc) [Angel Fire] Fantasy novel about an angel helping a man on Earth.
• * _Angel Fire (Tor 0-812-58341-8, May ’89 [Apr ’89], $4.95, 352pp, pb) [Angel Fire] Reprint (Warner 1988) contemporary religious fantasy novel about a famous scientist visited by a beautiful female angel.
• * _Angel Fire (Legend 0-7126-2408-2, Jun ’89, £12.95, 304pp, hc) [Angel Fire] Reprint (Warner 1988) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Angel Fire (Legend 0-09-967840-3, Aug ’90 [Jul ’90], £3.99, 304pp, pb) [Angel Fire] Reprint (Warner 1988) sf novel.
• * *Angel Light (Tor/Forge 0-312-86080-3, Dec ’95 [Nov ’95], $22.95, 352pp, hc, cover by Jeffrey Terreson) [Angel Fire] Religious fantasy novel, sequel to Angel Fire, based on the “Book of Tobias”. A very odd travel agent is surfing the Net to see what humans are up to.
• * _Angel Light (Tor 0-812-54441-2, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], $6.99, 438pp, pb, cover by Jeffrey Terreson) [Angel Fire] Reprint (Forge 1995) religious fantasy novel, sequel to Angel Fire.
• * *The Final Planet (Warner 0-446-51265-6, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $16.95, 302pp, hc) Sf novel “on the themes of love and faith”, featuring a pilgrim colony ship on its last planetfall.
• * _The Final Planet (Tor 0-812-58338-8, May ’88 [Apr ’88], $4.95, 398pp, pb) Reprint (Warner 1987) somewhat steamy sf novel about aliens, love, etc.
• * _The Final Planet (Legend 0-7126-2225-X, Nov ’88, £11.95, 302pp, hc) Reprint (Warner 1987) sf novel.
• * _The Final Planet (Legend 0-09-956460-2, Jul ’89 [Jun ’89], £3.50, 302pp, pb) Reprint (Warner 1987) sf novel.
• * *God Game (Warner 0-446-51264-8, Jun ’86 [May ’86], $16.95, 308pp, hc) Novel with “elements of...the science fiction and fantasy genre.” A priest encounters a strange computer game that allows him to watch and interact with a fantasy world.
• * _God Game (Century 0-7126-9540-0, Nov ’86, £9.95, 320pp, hc) Reprint (Warner 1986) sf novel.
• * _God Game (Tor 0-812-58336-1, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $4.50, 310pp, pb) Reprint (Warner 1986) metaphysical fantasy novel.
• * _God Game (Arrow 0-09-948580-X, May ’87, £2.95, 308pp, pb) Reprint (Warner 1986) fantasy novel.
• * _The Magic Cup (Warner 0-446-32438-8, Jan ’85 [Dec ’84], $3.50, 296pp, pb) Reprint (McGraw Hill 1979) fantasy novel of medieval Ireland.

_____, ed.

• * *Sacred Visions (with Michael Cassutt) (Tor 0-312-85173-1, Jul ’91 [Jun ’91], $12.95, 363pp, tp, cover by Bob Eggleton) Anthology of 12 short stories concerning religion, including the short versions of James Blish’s “A Case of Conscience” and Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s “A Canticle for Leibowitz”, plus an introduction by Greeley. A hardcover edition (-85025-5, $22.95) is also available. (Contents)

GREEN, DOUGLAS G.

• * *John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles (Otto Penzler 1-883402-47-6, 1995 [Apr ’95], $35.00, 537pp, hc) Associational non-fiction. A critical biography of the noted mystery, and sometimes fantasy, writer, with a detailed bibliography (that even includes his prep-school writings). [Carr]

GREEN, JAMIE

• * _Jamie the Red (with Gordon R. Dickson) See entry under Gordon R. Dickson

GREEN, JARED F.

• * _Santa: My Life & Times (with Bill Sienkiewicz & Martin I. Green) See entry under Martin I. Green

GREEN, JEN, ed. (1954- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind (with Sarah Lefanu) (The Women’s Press 0-7043-3973-0, Sep ’85 [Oct ’85], £2.50, 248pp, pb) Original anthology with sf stories by Tanith Lee, Raccoona Sheldon, Mary Gentle, Josephine Saxton, and others. (Contents)