The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
Books, Listed by Author
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- KILLOUGH, (Karen) LEE (stories) (chron.) (continued)
- * *Bloodlinks (Tor 0-812-52064-5, May 88 [Apr 88], $3.95, 345pp, pb) [Garreth Mikaelian] Vampire police procedural novel, sequel to Blood Hunt.
- * *BloodWalk (Meisha Merlin 0-9658345-0-6, May 97 [Jan 98], $14.00, 453pp, tp, cover by Kevin Murphy) [Garreth Mikaelian] Omnibus of vampire detective novels Blood Hunt (1987) and Bloodlinks (1988), with a new foreword by Killough. Order from Meisha Merlin Publishing, PO Box 7, Decatur GA 30031; add $3.00 postage. (Contents)
- * *Bridling Chaos (Meisha Merlin 0-9658345-3-0, May 98 [Jul 98], $19.00, 607pp, tp, cover by Michael Herring) [Janna Brill; Mama Maxwell] Omnibus of three SF mysteries featuring Janna Brill and Mama Maxwell: The Doppelganger Gambit (1979), Spider Play (1986), and Dragons Teeth (1990). There is a new introduction by Killough. Order from Meisha Merlin Publishing, PO Box 7, Decatur GA 30031. (Contents)
- * *Dragons Teeth (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20906-2, May 90 [Apr 90], $4.95, 250pp, pb, cover by Michael Herring) [Janna Brill; Mama Maxwell] Sf/mystery novel, a futuristic police procedural, second book of the Brill & Maxwell series.
- * *The Leopards Daughter (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20522-9, Oct 87 [Sep 87], $2.95, 218pp, pb) Fantasy novel set in Africa.
- * *Libertys World (DAW 0-88677-023-8, Mar 85 [Feb 85], $2.95, 238pp, pb) Sf novel.
- * *Spider Play (Popular Library/Questar 0-445-20273-4, Jul 86 [Jun 86], $3.50, 232pp, pb) [Janna Brill; Mama Maxwell] Sf police procedural novel, sequel to The Doppleganger Gambit.
- KILLUS, JAMES P(eter) (1950-2008) (stories)
- * *Sunsmoke (Ace 0-441-79083-6, Mar 85 [Feb 85], $2.75, 182pp, pb) Sf/horror novel beginning when a crazed meteorologist injects a computer programmed ancient Japanese devil into Los Angeles smog.
- KILPATRICK, NANCY (1946- ); see pseudonym Amarantha Knight (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *Child of the Night (Raven 1-85487-446-2, May 96, £5.99, 314pp, pb) [Power of the Blood] Dark fantasy novel. First of a trilogy. When a woman exchanges more than blood with a vampire, the result is a little horror.. that grows.
- * _Child of the Night (Pumpkin Books 1-901914-14-3, Nov 98, £6.99, 276pp, tp, cover by Jay Hurst) [Power of the Blood] Reprint (Raven 1996) dark fantasy vampire novel. First volume (but second published) of the trilogy Power of the Blood. Available in the US for $12.00.
- * *Dracul: An Eternal Love Story (Lucard Ltd. 0-966-54920-1, Oct 98, $24.95, 217pp, hc) [Dracula] Vampire novel based on the script of the stage musical Dracul based on Bram Stokers Dracula. The musical was originally performed at the San Diego Repertorys Lyceum Theatre; an optional CD cast album, The Music of Dracul (DAT Records $19.95, combined book and CD $34.90) is also available. Order from Lucard Publishing, 650 Columbia #311, San Diego CA 92101; credit card orders 888-869-9092 x151.
- * *Endorphins (Macabre, Inc., 1997, tp) (Contents)
- * *Near Death (Pocket 0-671-88090-X, Oct 94 [Sep 94], $5.50, 295pp, pb, cover by Vince Natale) [Power of the Blood] Vampire horror novel about a vampire who has resisted giving in to his most monstraous cravings for over a century.
- * _Near Death (Pumpkin Books 1-901914-17-8, Nov 98, £6.99, 281pp, tp, cover by Jay Hurst) [Power of the Blood] Reprint (Pocket 1994) dark fantasy novel. Volume two of the vampire trilogy Power of the Blood. Available in the US for $12.00. [First U.K. edition]
- * *Reborn (Pumpkin Books 1-901914-20-8, Nov 98, £6.99, vi+280pp, tp, cover by Les Edwards) [Power of the Blood] Dark fantasy novel. Volume three of the vampire trilogy, Power of the Blood. Available in the US for $12.00.
- * *Sex & the Single Vampire (TAL Publications no ISBN, Jul 94 [Sep 94], $5.95, 49pp, ph) Chapbook collection of three erotic horror stories, two original, with an introduction by Nancy Holder and interior illustrations by Rodger Gerberding. Available from TAL Publications, PO Box 1837, Leesburg VA 22075. (Contents)
- * _World of Darkness: As One Dead (with Don Bassingthwaite) See entry under Don Bassingthwaite.
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- * *In the Shadow of the Gargoyle (with Thomas S. Roche) (Ace 0-441-00557-8, Oct 98 [Sep 98], $12.00, 256pp, tp, cover by Victor Stabin) Dark fantasy original anthology of 17 stories, three previously published, concerning gargoyles. Authors include Neil Gaiman, Nancy Holder, and Lucy Taylor. (Contents)
- KILWORTH, GARRY (Douglas) (1941- ); see pseudonym Garry Douglas (stories) (chron.)
- * *Abandonati (Unwin Hyman 0-04-440255-4, Nov 88, £12.95, 162pp, hc) Marvellous fantasy/sf novel about a world in which anyone with any money has gone away, and only the derelicts (or abandonati) are left to explore their world. Strongly recommended. (PSP)
- * _Abandonati (Unwin 0-04-440391-7, Aug 89, £3.99, 162pp, pb, cover by David McKean) Reprint (Unwin Hyman 1988) marvellous fantasy/sf novel about a world in which anyone with any money has gone away, and only the derelicts (or abandonati) are left to explore their world. Recommended. (PSP)
- * *Angel (Gollancz 0-575-05523-5, Jun 93 [May 93], £14.99, 286pp, hc, cover by Peter Mennim) [Angel] Horror novel about an angel pursuing demons on Earth.
- * _Angel (Gollancz 0-575-05721-1, Jul 94, £4.99, 286pp, pb, cover by Peter Mennim) [Angel] Reprint (Gollancz 1993) horror novel. Volume one in the Angel series.
- * +Angel (Tor/Forge 0-312-86107-9, May 96, $22.95, 320pp, hc) [Angel] Horror novel about an angel pursuing demons on Earth. First US edition (Gollancz 1993).
- * _Angel (Tor 0-812-54284-3, Jan 97 [Dec 96], $5.99, 320pp, pb, cover by Dave Kramer) [Angel] Reprint (Gollancz 1993) horror novel about an angel pursuing demons on Earth.
- * *Archangel (Gollancz 0-575-05762-9, Nov 94 [Oct 94], £14.99, 254pp, hc, cover by Peter Mennim) [Angel] Horror novel. Five years after the events of Angel, its heroes ally with a heavenly Archangel in the frantic search for a demon in London.
- * _Archangel (Gollancz 0-575-05768-8, Oct 95 [Sep 95], £5.99, 254pp, pb, cover by Peter Mennim) [Angel] Reprint (Gollancz 1994) dark fantasy novel. Five years after the events of Angel, its heroes are confronted by an even more powerful demonic menace in London.
- * *Billy Pinks Private Detective Agency (Methuen 0-416-18754-4, May 93, £8.99, 159pp, hc, cover by Max Schindler) Childrens book about a young boy and girl who set up a detective agency in 19th century Essex with the aid of a marsh spirit.
- * *The Brontë Girls (Mammoth 0-7497-2692-X, Nov 95 [Dec 95], £3.99, 248pp, pb, cover by Irene Von Treskow) Associational young-adult contemporary novel of a family whose life parallels that of the Brontës.
- * *Castle Storm (Corgi 0-552-54547-3, Aug 98 [Jul 98], £4.99, 381pp, pb, cover by John Howe) [Welkin Weasels] Animal fantasy novel, book two of The Welkin Weasels.
- * *Cloudrock (Unwin Hyman 0-04-440166-3, Mar 88, £11.95, 160pp, hc) Sf novel.
- * _Cloudrock (Unwin 0-04-440308-9, Jun 89, £3.50, 160pp, pb, cover by Tony Roberts) Reprint (Unwin Hyman 1988) sf novel.
- * *Cybercats (Bantam UK 0-553-50327-8, Apr 96 [Mar 96], £3.50, 139pp, pb, cover by Paul Young) [Electric Kid] Young-adult SF novel. Sequel to The Electric Kid.
- * *Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks: Stories from the Otherworld (Methuen 0-416-15632-0, Aug 90 [Jul 90], £8.95, 112pp, hc, cover by Frazer Shaw) Original young-adult collection of fantasy stories. Recommended. (PSP) (Contents)
- * _Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks: Stories from the Otherworld (Mammoth 0-7497-1048-9, Nov 93, £2.99, 112pp, pb, cover by Frazer Shaw) Reprint (Methuen 1990) young-adult fantasy collection.
- * *The Drowners (Methuen 0-416-17682-8, Jul 91, £8.99, 153pp, hc, cover by Andrew Lloyd Jones) Atmospheric young-adult ghost story set in 19th century Hampshire. Recommended. (PSP)
- * _The Drowners (Mammoth 0-7497-1049-7, Nov 92, £2.99, 153pp, pb, cover by Andrew Lloyd Jones) Reprint (Methuen 1991) young-adult ghost novel.
- * *The Electric Kid (Bantam UK 0-553-40656-6, Jul 94, £2.99, 164pp, pb, cover by John Avon) [Electric Kid] Young-adult SF novel.
- * +The Electric Kid (Orchard US 0-531-09486-3, Oct 95 [Mar 96], $14.95, 137pp, hc, cover by Greg Couch) [Electric Kid] Young-adult SF novel. Two street kids with extraordinary talents in 2061 fight to keep away from criminals who want to use them. First US edition (Bantam UK 1994).
- * _The Electric Kid (Avon Flare 0-380-72847-8, Dec 97 [Nov 97], $3.99, 137pp, pb) [Electric Kid] Reprint (Bantam UK 1994) young-adult SF novel about street kids in 2061.
- * +The Foxes of First Dark (Doubleday 0-385-26427-5, May 90 [Apr 90], $18.95, 371pp, hc, cover by Robert Goldstrom) Animal fantasy novel about foxes. First American edition (Unwin Hyman 1989 as Hunters Moon).
- * *Frost Dancers (HarperCollins UK 0-246-13915-3, Aug 92 [Jul 92], £14.99, 381pp, hc, cover by Terry White) Animal fantasy novel about hares.
- * _Frost Dancers (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21463-1, Nov 93, £4.99, 381pp, pb, cover by Terry White) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1992) animal fantasy novel about hares.
- * +Highlander (HarperEntertainment 0-06-105840-8, Dec 98 [Nov 98], $5.99, 311pp, pb) Movie novelization. First US edition (Grafton 1986 as by Garry Douglas).
- * *Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands (Edgewood Press 0-9629066-3-8, May 93, $9.00, 156pp, tp, cover by Ian Miller) Collection of 13 sf and fantasy stories, with an introduction by Robert Holdstock. Order from Edgewood Press, PO Box 380264, Cambridge MA 02238. Please add $1.00 for shipping. (Contents)
- * *House of Tribes (Bantam UK 0-593-03376-0, Nov 95, £12.99, 430pp, hc, cover by Paul Robinson) Animal fantasy novel about mice. Illustrated.
- * _House of Tribes (Corgi 0-552-14111-9, Sep 96 [Aug 96], £5.99, 430pp, pb, cover by Paul Robinson) Reprint (Bantam UK 1995) animal fantasy novel about mice.
- * *Hunters Moon (Unwin Hyman 0-04-440301-1, Mar 89, £12.95, 330pp, hc, cover by Pinpoint Design) Animal fantasy novel about foxes.
- * _Hunters Moon (Unwin 0-04-440615-0, Apr 90 [Mar 90], £3.99, 330pp, pb, cover by Bob Brampton) Reprint (Unwin Hyman 1989) animal fantasy novel about foxes.
- * *In the Country of Tattooed Men (Grafton 0-586-21498-4, Feb 93 [Jan 93], £5.99, 224pp, tp, cover by Kevin Tweddell) Collection of 20 sf/fantasy/horror stories, two of which appear to be original. Recommended (PSP). (Contents)
- * *In the Hollow of the Deep-Sea Wave (The Bodley Head 0-370-31265-1, Jan 89, £11.95, 232pp, hc, cover by Mark Holmes) Associational. Fascinating mainstream collection of a short novel and seven short stories, mainly original. Recommended. (PSP) (Contents)
- * _In the Hollow of the Deep-Sea Wave (Unwin 0-04-440530-8, Nov 89, £3.99, 232pp, tp, cover by Tom Secker) Reprint (Bodley Head 1989) collection of one novel and seven short stories, most original, and all mainly mainstream, but well worth reading.
- * *Land-of-Mists (Orbit 1-85723-559-2, May 98, £16.99, xvi+380pp, hc, cover by Mark Harrison) [Navigator Kings] Fantasy novel. Book III of The Navigator Kings trilogy based on Polynesian myths and legends.
- * *Midnights Sun (Unwin Hyman 0-04-440683-5, Sep 90, £12.95, 317pp, hc, cover by The Pinpoint Design Company) Animal fantasy novel about wolves.
- * _Midnights Sun (Grafton 0-586-21495-X, Mar 92, £4.99, 317pp, pb, cover by Barry Jones) Reprint (Unwin Hyman 1990) animal fantasy novel about wolves.
- * *A Midsummers Nightmare (Bantam UK 0-593-04029-5, Sep 96 [Aug 96], £14.99, 325pp, hc, cover by Stephen Player) Fantasy novel. The faerie court of Oberon and Titania decamps from a diminishing Sherwood Forest to the New Forest, accompanied by a convoy of New Age travellers.
- * _A Midsummers Nightmare (Corgi 0-552-14464-9, Jul 97 [Jun 97], £5.99, 325pp, pb, cover by John Howe) Reprint (Bantam UK 1996) fantasy novel.
- * *The Phantom Piper (Methuen 0-416-18913-X, Aug 94, £9.99, 159pp, hc, cover by Kenny McKendry) Young-adult fantasy novel.
- * _The Phantom Piper (Mammoth 0-7497-2387-4, Nov 95, £3.99, 159pp, pb, cover by Kenny McKendry) Reprint (Methuen 1994) young-adult fantasy novel. A village of abandoned children must retrieve their parents before the year ends.
- * *The Princely Flower (Orbit 1-85723-469-3, May 97 [Apr 97], £16.99, 365pp, hc, cover by Mark Harrison) [Navigator Kings] Fantasy novel. Book II of The Navigator Kings, a series based on the myths and legends of the Polynesian peoples.
- * _The Princely Flower (Orbit 1-85723-560-6, May 98, £5.99, xvi+365pp, pb, cover by Mark Harrison) [Navigator Kings] Reprint (Orbit 1997) fantasy novel. Book II of The Navigator Kings.
- * *The Raiders (Mammoth 0-7497-2818-3, Aug 96, £3.99, 133pp, pb) Young-adult fantasy novel. The ghost of a Viking is disturbed by land developers.
- * *The Rain Ghost (Hippo 0-590-76089-0, May 89, £1.95, 121pp, pb) Teenage romance with a supernatural touch. Volume Nine in the Hauntings series.
- * +The Rain Ghost (Scholastic 0-590-43415-2, Mar 90 [Sep 90], $2.75, 121pp, pb) Young-adult ghost/romance novel. First American edition (Hippo 1989).
- * *The Roof of Voyaging (Orbit 1-85723-422-7, Aug 96 [Jul 96], £16.99, 426pp, hc, cover by Mark Harrison) [Navigator Kings] Fantasy novel. Book I of The Navigator Kings series based on Polynesian myths and legends.
- * _The Roof of Voyaging (Orbit 1-85723-461-8, May 97 [Apr 97], £6.99, 426pp, pb, cover by Mark Harrison) [Navigator Kings] Reprint (Orbit 1996) fantasy novel. Book I of The Navigator Kings.
- * *The Songbirds of Pain (Gollancz 0-575-03511-0, Oct 84 [Sep 84], £8.95, 187pp, hc) Collection of 13 stories; the title story seems to be an original. (Contents)
- * _The Songbirds of Pain (Unwin 0-04-440217-1, Apr 88, £2.95, 187pp, pb) Reprint (Gollancz 1984) sf collection. Although Kilworth is best known as a novel-writer he is also remarkably good at writing short stories, as this collection demonstrates. Strongly recommended. (PSP)
- * *Spiral Winds (The Bodley Head 0-370-31112-4, Aug 87, £10.95, 203pp, hc) Mainstream novel by author better known for his sf. Based on the short story of the same title.
- * _Spiral Winds (Grafton 0-586-20288-9, Dec 88, £2.99, 238pp, pb) Reprint (Bodley Head 1987); associational: mainstream novel by author better known for his sf.
- * _Split Second (Popular Library/Questar 0-445-20114-2, Dec 85 [Nov 85], $2.95, 230pp, pb) Reprint (Faber 1979) sf novel of a journey back to Cro-Magnon times.
- * *Standing on Shamsan (HarperCollins UK 0-246-13895-5, Mar 92 [Apr 92], £14.99, 280pp, hc, cover by Bruce Hogarth) Associational novel set in Aden in 1966.
- * +Theater of Timesmiths (Popular Library/Questar 0-445-20116-9, Apr 86 [Mar 86], $2.95, 218pp, pb) Reprint (Gollancz 1984) sf novel. First U.S. edition.
- * *A Theatre of Timesmiths (Gollancz 0-575-03411-4, May 84 [Apr 84], £7.95, 185pp, hc) Sf novel.
- * _Theatre of Timesmiths (Unwin 0-04-440082-9, Oct 87, £2.95, 185pp, pb) Reprint (Gollancz 1984) sf novel.
- * *The Third Dragon (Hippo 0-590-76416-0, Feb 91 [Jul 91], £1.95, 147pp, pb, cover by Mel Bramich) Young-adult thriller set in China just after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
- * *Trivial Tales (Birmingham Science Fiction Group no ISBN, Nov 88 [Apr 89], £4.95, 16pp, ph) Collection of three original short stories issued in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies, to coincide with Kilworths Guest of Honour appearance at Novacon 18. (Contents)
- * *Trivial Tales (Birmingham Science Fiction Group no ISBN, Nov 88 [Apr 89], £4.95, 16pp, tp) Collection of three original short stories issued to coincide with Kilworths Guest of Honour appearance at Novacon 18. Published last year, but only just seen. Order from Andromeda Bookshop, 84 Suffolk Street, BIRMINGHAM,B1 1TA. (Contents)
- * *The Voyage of the Vigilance (Armada 0-00-693320-3, Dec 88, £1.95, 142pp, pb) [Woodworld] Young-adult sf novel. Sequel to The Wizard of Woodworld.
- * *The Welkin Weasels: Thunder Oak (Corgi 0-552-54546-5, Jul 97 [Jun 97], £4.99, 382pp, pb, cover by John Howe) [Welkin Weasels] Young-adult animal fantasy novel. Book One in a trilogy.
- * *Witchwater Country (The Bodley Head 0-370-30790-9, Aug 86, £9.95, 202pp, hc) Kilworths first mainstream novel; it has a strong twist of alienness and the macabre running through it. (SJ/JF)
- * _Witchwater Country (Grafton 0-586-07271-3, Oct 87, £2.95, 236pp, pb) Reprint (Bodley Head 1986) mainstream novel by author better known for his sf.
- * *The Wizard of Woodworld (Dragon 0-583-31137-7, Nov 87, £1.95, 142pp, pb) [Woodworld] Juvenile sf novel.
- KIM, A. L.
- * *Qwan: The Showdown (Lowell House Juvenile/Roxbury Park 1-56565-552-4, 1996 [Apr 98], $4.95, 127pp, tp, cover by Richard Kirk) Young-adult near-future post-holocaust SF novel. A boy uses his martial arts skills to survive in the war-devastated US of 2017. This is copyrighted 1996 but not seen until now. Order from Lowell House Juvenile, 2020 Ave of the Stars, Suite 300, Los Angeles CA 90067.
- KIMBALL, JANUS
- * *Scanners II: The New Order (Warner 0-446-36111-9, Jul 91 [Jun 91], $4.99, 188pp, pb) Sf/horror movie tie-in novelization based on the screenplay by B.J. Nelson.
- KIMBRIEL, KATHARINE ELISKA (1956- ) (stories)
- * *Fire Sanctuary (Popular Library/Questar 0-445-20275-0, Oct 86 [Sep 86], $3.50, 370pp, pb) Sf novel of a long-lost colony threatened by intergalactic war. A first novel.
- * *Fires of Nuala (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20759-0, Dec 88 [Nov 88], $3.95, 324pp, pb) [Nuala] Sf novel set on the same world as Fire Sanctuary. It takes place 3,000 years earlier, and is the rare event of a second novel being better than the first. Recommended. (TM)
- * *Hidden Fires (Warner Questar 0-446-36129-1, Feb 91 [Jan 91], $4.50, 277pp, pb, cover by Don Dixon) [Nuala] Sf novel, third book of the Nuala series.
- * *Kindred Rites (HarperPrism 0-06-105796-7, Nov 97 [Oct 97], $5.99, 359pp, pb) [Night Calls] Dark fantasy novel, sequel to Night Calls.
- * *Night Calls (HarperPrism 0-06-105411-9, May 96 [Apr 96], $5.50, 310pp, pb) [Night Calls] Dark fantasy novel about witches and werewolves.
- KIMIFUSA, ABE (1924-1993); see pseudonym Kobo Abe (stories)
- KIMMEL, ELIZABETH CODY
- * *In the Stone Circle (Scholastic 0-590-21308-3, Apr 98 [May 98], $15.95, 225pp, hc, cover by Joanie Schwarz) Young-adult ghost story set in Wales. Two fragmented families stay at a house haunted by a girl looking for a long-lost possession. A first novel.
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