The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

LEON, MARK (stories) (continued)

• * *The Unified Field (AvoNova 0-380-78651-6, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $5.99, 281pp, pb, cover by Daniel Horne) Science fantasy novel, the third featuring metaphysical hacker Lew Slack. Lew’s buddy Alan Fain has a spaceship.

LEONARD, ELMORE (John, Jr.) (1925- )

• * *Touch (Arbor House 0-87795-905-6, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $17.95, 245pp, hc) Quasi-fantasy/religious allegory novel about a priest with the power to heal. The Christ-figure in modern times. It reads almost the same as Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon, with some striking parallels. Like Godbody, it was written many years ago and was considered unpublishable until recently.
• * _Touch (Viking 0-670-81654-X, Feb ’88, £10.95, 245pp, hc) Reprint (Arbor House 1987) novel about an ex-priest with miraculous healing powers [First U.K. edition]
• * _Touch (Avon 0-380-70386-6, Sep ’88, $4.50, 231pp, pb) Reprint (Arbor House 1987) psychic thriller.
• * _Touch (G.K. Hall 0-8161-4513-X, Nov ’88, $18.95, 309pp, hc) Reprint (Arbor House 1987) fantasy novel of a man with the power to heal. This is the large print edition.
• * _Touch (Penguin 0-14-026248-2, May ’98 [Jun ’98], £5.99, 245pp, pb) Reissue (Arbor House 1987) fantasy novel. This is a film tie-in edition.

LEONARD, LAWRENCE

• * _The Horn of Mortal Danger (Walker 0-7445-0847-9, Apr ’89, £1.99, 224pp, pb) Reprint (Julia MacRae 1980) young-adult fantasy novel.

LEONARD, PAUL (1961- ) (stories)

• * *Doctor Who: Dancing the Code (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20441-7, Apr ’95, £4.99, 279pp, pb, cover by Paul Campbell) [Doctor Who] Novelisation based on the TV series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $5.95.
• * *Doctor Who: Dreamstone Moon (BBC Books 0-563-40585-6, May ’98 [Apr ’98], £4.99, 250pp, pb) [Doctor Who: New Adventures] Novelisation based on the TV series. Book 11 of the BBC “New Adventures” series starring the 8th Doctor.
• * *Doctor Who: Toy Soldiers (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20452-2, Sep ’95, £4.99, 244pp, pb, cover by Peter Elson) [Doctor Who] Novelisation based on the TV series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $5.95.
• * *The New Adventures: Dry Pilgrimage (with Nick Walters) (New Adventures 0-426-20525-1, May ’98, £5.99, 292pp, pb, cover by Jon Sullivan) [Bernice Summerfield] Novelization based on characters from Doctor Who novelisations, without the Doctor. Book 13 in the Bernice Summerfield series.
• * *Speed of Flight (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20487-5, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], £4.99, 244pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who: Missing Adventures] Original novel based on the Doctor Who TV series. This is a world-wide edition, available in the US for $5.95. Volume 27 in “The Missing Adventures”.
• * *Venusian Lullaby (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20424-7, Oct ’94 [Nov ’94], £4.99, 312pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson & Jim Mortimore) [Doctor Who: Missing Adventures] Novelization based on the Doctor Who TV series. Third of a new “Missing Adventures” series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $5.95.

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• * *Decalog 5: Wonders (with Jim Mortimore) (Virgin 0-426-20515-4, Sep ’97 [Jul ’97], £5.99, 313pp, pb, cover by Colin Howard) Original SF anthology of 10 stories. Authors include Stephen Baxter and Jeanne Cavelos. (Contents)

LEONARD, RAYMOND (1941- )

• * *Legacy of the Shroud (W.H. Allen Star 0-352-32198-9, Feb ’88, £2.50, 233pp, pb) Religious thriller with sf touches.
• * _The Nostradamus Inheritance (Star 0-352-31820-1, Dec ’86, £2.50, pb) Horror novel.
• * *Omega (Poplar 0-907657-12-5, Sep ’86, £9.95, 197pp, hc) Sf novel.

LEPPEK, CHRISTOPHER (1954- )

• * *The Surrogate Assassin (Write Way 1-885173-54-7, 1998 [Oct ’98], $24.95, 336pp, hc) Associational Sherlock Holmes mystery/secret history about the true killer of Abraham Lincoln. Order from Write Way Publishing, 10555 E Dartmouth, Suite 210, Aurora CO 80014.

LEPPIN, PAUL (1878-1945) (stories)

• * *The Road to Darkness (Dedalus 1-873982-33-X, Nov ’97 [Oct ’97], £7.99, 151pp, tp, cover by David Smith) Literary fantasy omnibus of two novels and a story in the vein of de Sade. Translated by Mike Mitchell from the German. Originally published as Daniel Jesus (1905), Severin’s Road to Darkness (1914) and “The Ghost of the Jewish Ghetto” (c. 1915). This is a worldwide edition available in the US at $11.95. (Contents)

LERANGIS, PETER

• * *Star Trek IV: The Journey Home (Simon & Schuster/Wanderer 0-671-63243-4, Dec ’86 [Feb ’87], $5.95, 91pp, pb) [Star Trek] Movie tie-in (juvenile version) with color stills from the film. A 1986 book, not seen until 1987.
• * _The Yearbook (Scholastic UK 0-590-55903-6, Apr ’95, £2.99, 229pp, pb) Reprint (Scholastic 1994) young-adult horror novel. [First U.K. edition]

LERMAN, RHODA (1936- )

• * *The Book of the Night (Holt Rinehart & Winston 0-03-071081-2, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $16.95, 292pp, hc) Sf/fantasy novel where the tenth century and the twentieth coexist as Light battles Darkness.
• * _The Book of the Night (The Women’s Press 0-7043-3991-9, Mar ’86, £2.50, 292pp, pb) Reprint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1984) sf novel with strong fantasy elements.
• * _Call Me Ishtar (Syracuse University Press 0-8156-0533-1, Sep ’98, $17.95, 247pp, tp) Reprint (Doubleday 1973) satirical feminist fantasy novel. The goddess Ishtar returns as a suburban housewife to right the wrongs of patriarchal society. Order from Syracuse University Press, 1600 Jamesville Ave, Syracuse NY 13244-5160; credit card orders 800-365-8929; add $4.00 shipping.

LERNER, EDWARD M. (1949- ) (stories)

• * *Probe (Warner 0-446-36081-3, Jul ’91 [Jun ’91], $4.99, 314pp, pb, cover by Ben Perini) Sf technothriller of intrigue surrounding the discovery of an alien spacecraft in the outer reaches of the solar system.

LERNER, FREDERICK ANDREW (1945- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *A Bookman’s Fantasy: How Science Fiction Became Respectable and Other Essays (NESFA Press 0-915368-65-X, Feb ’95, $11.95, 97pp, tp, cover by Merle Insinga) Non-fiction collection of 24 essays (two not previously published, the remainder published in largely obscure sources) about SF, book collecting, librarians, and Vermont, with original introductions to each section. This book was issued to commemmorate Lerner’s appearance as a Guest of Honor at the 1995 Boskone. Order from NESFA Press, PO Box 809, Framingham MA 01701-0203; $2.00 postage.
• * *Modern Science Fiction and the American Literary Community (Scarecrow 0-8108-1794-2, Aug ’85 [Jul ’85], $26.00, 325pp, hc) Non-fiction, study of the response to sf in the U.S., with a history of sf conventions, etc. It’s a doctoral thesis and is aimed at dumb professors. (CNB)
• * *The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age (Continuum 0-8264-1114-2, Nov ’98, $24.95, 246pp, hc) Associational non-fiction, a look at the development of libraries from ancient times to now. Includes 10 unpaginated pages of illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Order from Continuum, 370 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10017.

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• * *A Silverlock Companion: The Life and Works of John Myers Myers (Niekas Publications 0-910619-02-6, Jun ’88 [Jul ’88], $7.95, 52pp, tp) 8½" x 11". Non-fiction, a glossary of the allusions in Silverlock plus some appreciations and a Myers bibliography. [Myers]

LERNER, JONATHAN (1948- )

• * *Caught in a Still Place (Serpent’s Tail 1-85242-146-0, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], £5.95, 122pp, tp, cover by Lauren Deutsch) Novel set in a Florida that has been devastated by a plague.

LEROE, ELLEN W.

• * *Meet Your Match, Cupid Delaney (Penguin/Lodestar 0-525-67309-1, Aug ’90 [Apr ’91], $13.95, 150pp, hc, cover by Richard Lauter) [Cupid Delaney] Young-adult fantasy novel about a cupid-in-training who becomes a high-school girl, sequel to Have a Heart, Cupid Delaney. This is a 1990 book not seen until now.
• * *Robot Raiders (Harper & Row 0-06-023835-6, Jul ’87, $11.95, 181pp, hc) Juvenile science fiction novel.
• * *Robot Romance (Harper & Row 0-06-023746-5, Jul ’85 [Jun ’85], $7.95, 179pp, pb; $11.89 hc — library binding) Young-adult sf novel of a robot-run high school.

LeROSS, D. E. (stories)

• * _The Final Diary Entry of Kees Huijgens (with Jozef P. Janszoon) See entry under Jozef P. Janszoon

LEROUX, GASTON (1868-1927) (stories)

• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-249-4, Apr ’86 [Mar ’86], $3.95, 357pp, pb) Reprint (Bobbs Merrill 1911 - translated from the French) classic horror novel. This is sort of an advance tie-in edition, with blurbs announcing that it is “soon to be a musical” by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Star 0-352-31716-7, Oct ’86, £2.95, 265pp, pb) Reprint (Bobbs Merrill 1911) horror novel with a new introduction by Peter Haining; published to tie in with a new musical.
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Warner 0-446-30120-5, Oct ’86 [Dec ’86], $2.95, 264pp, pb) Reprint (Bobbs-Merrill 1911) horror novel.
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (O’Mara 0-948397-17-9, Oct ’87 [Dec ’87], £12.00, 245pp, hc) Reprint (Bobbs-Merril 1911) horror novel, with new introduction by Richard Dalby. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne.
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Mysterious Press 0-89296-279-8, Mar ’88 [May ’88], $25.00, 245pp, hc) Reprint (Lafitte 1910) horror novel. 75th anniversary of the first U.S. publication. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne. Introduction by Richard Dalby. First U.S. printing of a 1987 British edition (O’Mara).
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Armada 0-00-692993-1, Jul ’88, £1.95, 112pp, tp) Reprint (Bobbs-Merrill 1911) horror novel. Edited and abridged by Doris Dickens.
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Dedalus 0-946626-70-7, Sep ’90, £6.99, 385pp, tp, cover by David Bird) Reprint (Bobbs-Merrill 1911) horror novel. Includes a new introduction, chronology and bibliography by Dr. Penelope Woolf. Also available in the US (0-87052-937-4, $9.95).
• * *The Real Opera Ghost and Other Tales (Alan Sutton 0-7509-0782-7, Oct ’94, £5.99, 200pp, pb, cover by Jean Beraud) Collection of ten macabre tales by the author of The Phantom of the Opera. Edited and with an introduction by Peter Haining. (Contents)

LEROUX, LISE

• * *One Hand Clapping (Viking UK 0-670-87671-2, Feb ’98 [Apr ’98], £9.99, 341pp, tp) SF novel. A woman decides to become a surrogate mother for body parts.

LESLIE, PETER (Meyrick Johnston) (1922- ); see pseudonym Patrick Macnee

LESSER, ROBERT, ed.

• * *Pulp Art (Random House/Gramercy 0-517-20058-9, Sep ’97, $19.99, 183pp, hc, cover by Richard Lillis) Art book showing original cover paintings for American pulp magazines of the 1930s and ’40s. Text by Lesser, with 18 additional essays by editors, collectors, and others, including Sam Moskowitz and Forrest J Ackerman.

LESSING, DORIS (May, née Taylor) (1919- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Canopus in Argus: Archives (Random House/Vintage 0-679-74184-4, Dec ’92, $20.00, 1229pp, tp) [Canopus in Argus: Archives] Sf omnibus of the “Canopus in Argus: Archives” series, Re: Colonised Planet 5: Shikasta (Knopf 1979), The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (Knopf 1980), The Sirian Experiment (Knopf 1981), The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Knopf 1982), and Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Knopf 1983). (Contents)
• * _Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Vintage 0-394-72386-4, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $4.95, 179pp, pb) [Canopus in Argus: Archives] Reprint (Knopf 1983) sf novel, Book 5 of “Canopus in Argus: Archives”.
• * _Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Flamingo 0-00-654722-2, May ’94, £5.99, 220pp, tp, cover by George Snow & Catherine Denvir) [Canopus in Argus: Archives] Reprint (Cape 1983) SF novel. Volume five in the “Canopus in Argus: Archives” series.
• * _The Four-Gated City (Paladin 0-586-09003-7, Aug ’90 [Jan ’91], £6.99, 668pp, tp, cover by Ruth Rivers) [Children of Violence] Reissue (MacGibbon & Kee 1969) literary sf novel.
• * _The Four-Gated City (Flamingo 0-586-09003-7, Nov ’93, £7.99, 668pp, tp, cover by Ruth Rivers) [Children of Violence] Reprint (MacGibbon & Kee 1969) literary sf novel set in post-holocaust London. Volume five in the “Children of Violence” series.
• * _The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Flamingo 0-00-654718-4, May ’94, £5.99, 190pp, tp, cover by George Snow & Catherine Denvir) [Canopus in Argus: Archives] Reprint (Cape 1982) SF novel. Volume four in the “Canopus in Argus: Archives” series.
• * *Mara and Dann: An Adventure (HarperFlamingo 0-06-018294-6, Jan ’99 [Dec ’98], $25.00, 407pp, hc) [Mara and Dann] Far-future, SF novel of orphans reaching adulthood on a primitive Earth where an Ice Age born of present ecological abuse is finally receding.
• * _The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (Flamingo 0-00-654720-6, May ’94, £6.99, 299pp, tp, cover by George Snow & Catherine Denvir) [Canopus in Argus: Archives] Reprint (Cape 1980) SF novel. Volume two in the “Canopus in Argus: Archives” series.
• * *Playing the Game (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21689-8, Dec ’95 [Jan ’96], £6.99, unpaginated, hc, cover by Charlie Adlard) Graphic novel of a strange game played in an apocalyptic world. Illustrated by Charlie Adlard.
• * _Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (Flamingo 0-00-654719-2, May ’94, £6.99, 448pp, tp, cover by George Snow & Catherine Denvir) [Canopus in Argus: Archives] Reprint (Cape 1979) SF novel. Volume one in the “Canopus in Argus: Archives” series.
• * _The Sirian Experiments (Flamingo 0-00-654721-4, May ’94, £6.99, 331pp, tp, cover by George Snow & Catherine Denvir) [Canopus in Argus: Archives] Reprint (Cape 1981) SF novel. Volume three in the “Canopus in Argus: Archives” series.

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• * _The Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing: A Study in Narrative Technique See entry under Katherine Fishburn.

LETENDRE, SERGE

• * *Roxanna #2: The Temple of Oblivion (with Regis Loisel) (NBM 0-918348-34-X, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $7.95, 48pp, tp) [Roxanna] Graphic novel.

LETHEM, JONATHAN (Allen) (1964- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Amnesia Moon (Harcourt Brace 0-15-100091-3, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $20.00, 247pp, hc, cover by Alexander Munn) Post-holocaust, literary SF/fantasy road novel.
• * _Amnesia Moon (NEL 0-340-63224-0, Oct ’95, £5.99, 249pp, pb, cover by Chris Brown) Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1995) SF novel (maybe). An after-the-bomb Earth where the bombs never fell. A quest for questions rather than answers. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Amnesia Moon (Tor 0-312-86220-2, Sep ’96 [Aug ’96], $12.95, 247pp, tp, cover by Michael Koelsch) Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1995) post-holocaust, literary SF/fantasy road novel.
• * *As She Climbed Across the Table (Doubleday 0-385-48517-4, Mar ’97 [Feb ’97], $22.95, 212pp, hc) Literary fantasy novel, academic satire, love story, and Alice in Wonderland take-off. A physics professor named Alice falls in love with the void in the universe she created, while her human lover tries to win her back.
• * _As She Climbed Across the Table (Random/Vintage 0-375-70012-9, Mar ’98 [Feb ’98], $12.00, 212pp, tp) Reprint (Doubleday 1997) literary fantasy novel and academic satire.
• * *Girl in Landscape (Doubleday 0-385-48518-2, Apr ’98 [Mar ’98], $22.95, 280pp, hc, cover by Marc Tauss) Magic Realism/SF novel. A family fleeing post-holocaust Brooklyn moves to a rough frontier planet with alien ruins.
• * *Gun, with Occasional Music (Harcourt Brace 0-15-136458-3, Mar ’94 [Feb ’94], $19.95, 262pp, hc, cover by Michael Koelsch) Black comedy sf/PI novel about a gumshoe in a future/alternate world Oakland. A first novel. Recommended (SW).
• * _Gun, with Occasional Music (NEL 0-340-63225-9, Feb ’95, £4.99, 262pp, pb) Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1994) black comedy SF/PI novel set in a future/alternate Oakland. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Gun, with Occasional Music (Tor 0-312-85878-7, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $10.95, 262pp, tp, cover by Michael Koelsch) Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1994) SF mystery novel.
• * *The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye (Harcourt Brace 0-15-100180-4, Oct ’96 [Aug ’96], $23.00, 294pp, hc, cover by Alexander Munn) Collection of seven stories, two not previously published. (Contents)
• * _The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye (Tor 0-312-86353-5, Aug ’97 [Jul ’97], $13.95, 294pp, tp) Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1996) collection of seven stories, two not previously published.

LETTOW, DONNA

• * *Highlander: Zealot (Warner Aspect 0-446-60457-7, Nov ’97 [Oct ’97], $5.99, 243pp, pb) [Highlander] Novelization based on the syndicated TV show based on the movie. Copyrighted by Warner Books.

LETTS, BARRY (stories)

• * *Doctor Who Classics: The Daemons and The Time Monster (with Terrance Dicks) (Lyle Stuart/Star 0-352-32382-5, 1989 [Aug ’89], $5.95, 172/151pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Omnibus of two young-adult sf novelizations, The Daemons by Barry Letts (1974) and The Time Monster by Terrance Dicks (1985). This is a worldwide edition carrying the names of the publisher and its US, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand distributors.
• * *Doctor Who Classics: The Daemons and The Time Monster (with Terrance Dicks) (Target 0-352-32382-5, Mar ’89, £2.95, 325pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Young-adult sf novelization. Volume 5 in the “Doctor Who Classics” series. (Contents)
• * _Doctor Who: The Daemons (Target 0-426-11332-2, Oct ’93, £3.50, 172pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Reissue (Target 1975) young-adult sf novelization. Volume 15 in the series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $5.95.
• * *Doctor Who: The Ghosts of N-Space (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20434-4, Feb ’95 [Apr ’95], £4.99, 264pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who] Novelisation based on the Doctor Who TV series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $5.95.
• * *Doctor Who: The Paradise of Death (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20413-1, Apr ’94 [Mar ’94], £4.99, 252pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who] Novelization of a Doctor Who series broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1993.
• * _Doctor Who: The Scripts: The Daemons (with Robert Sloman) See entry under Robert Sloman.