The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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- MUNDY, TALBOT; pseudonym of William Lancaster Gribbon, (1879-1940)
- * _King, of the Khyber Rifles (Critics Choice 0-931773-14-8, 1985 [Oct 85], $2.95, 395pp, pb) Reprint (Bobbs-Merrill 1916) fantasy novel. This is the mass market edition of the Carroll & Graff edition issued earlier. Its identical except for the publisher, ISBN and price.
- * _King, of the Khyber Rifles (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-169-2, Jul 85 [Jun 85], $3.95, 395pp, pb) Reprint (Bobbs-Merrill 1916) fantasy adventure novel. The most famous of Mundys novels. Highly recommended. (CNB) The awful cover, left over from The Charge of the Light Brigade, has nothing to do with the book.
- * _Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-045-9, May 84 [Apr 84], $3.95, 392pp, pb) Reprint (Bobbs-Merril 1924) fantasy novel. The text is offset from the 1924 edition. One of the finest oriental adventures ever written. Mundys style is somewhat dated, but his storytelling ability is still unsurpassed. (CNB)
- MUNO, JEAN; pseudonym of Robert Burniaux, (1924-1988) (stories)
- * *Glove of Passion, Voice of Blood (Owl Creek no ISBN, 1986 [May 89], $8.00, 126pp, tp) Collection of nine fantasy stories by a Belgian writer, translated by Kim Connell. This has a 1986 copyright date but was not seen until now. (Contents)
- MUNRO, H(ector) H(ugh) (1870-1916); see pseudonym Saki (stories)
- MUNRO, RONA (1959- )
- * *Doctor Who: Survival (Target 0-426-20352-6, Sep 90, £2.50, 134pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Young-adult sf novelization. Contains a postscript by the Doctor Who editor at W.H. Allen, Peter Darvill-Evans, about the future of the series. Volume 150 in the series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $3.95.
- MUNSEY, TERENCE (J. P.) (1953- )
- * *The Flight of the Stonemans Son (Munsey Music 0-9697066-0-X, Aug 93, $4.99, 208pp, tp) Fantasy adventure novel of a quest to find the Passwords of Promise, which will restore magical balance to the world. First book of a new series. Available from Munsey Music, Box 511, Richmond Hill ONT Canada L4C 4Y8.
- MUNSON, RONALD (1939- )
- * *Night Vision (Penguin/Signet 0-451-18013-5, Jan 96 [Dec 95], $5.99, 412pp, pb) Thriller with SF elements, set partially in cyberspace. A hacker kidnaps an actress.
- MUNSTER, BILL, ed. (1947- ) (stories)
- * _The Dean Koontz Companion (with Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg) See entry under Martin H. Greenberg
- * _The Dean Koontz Companion (with Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman) See entry under Martin H. Greenberg
- * *Discovering Dean Koontz (Borgo Press 1-55742-145-5, 1998 [Nov 98], $21.00, 184pp, tp) Non-fiction gathering of 10 critical essays, plus an interview with Koontz. Authors include Michael R. Collings, Richard Laymon, and Elizabeth Massie. Introduction by Tim Powers and afterword by Joe R. Lansdale. There is a chronology, index, and bibliography. This is revised from Sudden Fear (Starmount 1988). Order from Borgo Press, PO Box 2845, San Bernardino CA 92406-2845; add $5.00 postage; credit card orders: fax 909-888-4942. [Koontz]
- * *Sudden Fear: The Horror and Dark Suspense Fiction of Dean R. Koontz (Starmont 1-557-42024-6, 1988 [Apr 88], $10.95, 182pp, tp) Non-fiction, critical studies. [Koontz]
- MURAKAMI, HARUKI (1949- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *Dance Dance Dance (Kodansha International 4-7700-1683-2, Jan 94, $22.00, 393pp, hc, cover by Maki Sasaki) [Wild Sheep Chase] Literary fantasy/magic realism novel, a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase.
- * _Dance Dance Dance (Kodansha International 0-679-75379-6, Feb 95 [Jan 95], $13.00, 393pp, tp) [Wild Sheep Chase] Reprint (Kodansha Ltd. 1988) literary fantasy/magic realism novel. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum.
- * _Dance Dance Dance (Penguin 0-14-015436-1, Jun 95 [Aug 95], £6.99, 393pp, tp, cover by Mick Brownfield) [Wild Sheep Chase] Reprint (Kodansha International 1994) literary novel with fantasy elements. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum from the Japanese (Kodansha 1988), this is a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase.
- * *The Elephant Vanishes (Knopf 0-679-42057-6, Mar 93, $21.00, 327pp, hc, cover by Chip Kidd) Collection of 17 stories, many sf or fantasy, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin and Alfred Birnbaum. (Contents)
- * _The Elephant Vanishes (BOMC/QPBC no ISBN, Dec 93, $11.95, 327pp, tp, cover by Chip Kidd) Reprint (Knopf 1993) collection of 17 stories, many sf or fantasy, translated from the Japanese by various translators. Similar to the Knopf edition except it lacks an ISBN and has the jacket printed as the soft cover.
- * _The Elephant Vanishes (Random House/Vintage 0-679-75053-3, Jul 94 [Jun 94], $12.00, 327pp, tp, cover by P. J. Szymkowiak) Reprint (Knopf 1993) collection of 17 stories, many SF or fantasy, translated from Japanese by various translators.
- * *Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Kodansha International 4-770-01544-5, Sep 91 [Aug 91], $21.95, 400pp, hc, cover by Shigeo Okamoto) Near-future thriller about a computer war set in a Japan completely dominated by information storage and retrieval. Simultaneous with the British edition from Hamish Hamilton.
- * *The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Hamish Hamilton 0-241-13144-8, Sep 91, £14.99, 400pp, hc, cover by David Cutter) Literary sf novel. A mix of sf, satire and a warning of the dangerous powers of multinational corporations. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum (Sekai No Owari to Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Shinchosha Ltd.). Simultaneous with the American edition from Kodansha International.
- * _The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Penguin 0-14-015435-3, Nov 92, £6.99, 400pp, tp, cover by Peter Gudynas) Reprint (Kodansha International 1991) satirical literary sf novel.
- * _Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Random House/Vintage 0-679-74346-4, Apr 93 [Mar 93], $12.00, 400pp, tp, cover by Marc J. Cohen) Reprint (Kodansha International 1991) near-future thriller about a computer war set in a Japan completely dominated by information storage and retrieval. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum.
- MURCHISON, MYLES (1942- )
- * *The Deathless (Ballantine 0-345-35378-1, Jul 89 [Jun 89], $3.95, 295pp, pb) Horror/occult novel about a 19th-century woman doctor and her search for eternal life.
- MURDOCH, JIM
- * *Rise of the Robots: The Book (Roc UK 0-45-118566-8, Jan 95 [Feb 95], £4.99, 310pp, pb) SF novelization based on the Mirage computer and video game.
- MURDOCK, M(elinda) S(eabrooke) (1947- ) (stories)
- * *Buck Rogers: Armageddon Off Vesta (TSR 0-88038-761-0, Nov 89, $3.95, 279pp, tp, cover by Don Landwehrle & The Image Bank) [Martian Wars; Buck Rogers] Buck Rogers novelization, book three in the Martian Wars trilogy.
- * _Buck Rogers: Armageddon Off Vesta (Penguin 0-14-013317-8, Sep 90, £3.99, 279pp, pb, cover by Don Landwehrle) [Martian Wars; Buck Rogers] Reprint (TSR 1989) sf novelization. Book Three of the Martian Wars trilogy.
- * *Buck Rogers: Hammer of Mars (TSR 0-88038-751-3, Aug 89 [Sep 89], $3.95, 279pp, tp) [Martian Wars; Buck Rogers] Buck Rogers novelization, book two in the Martian Wars trilogy.
- * _Buck Rogers: Hammer of Mars (Penguin 0-14-013316-X, Jul 90, £3.99, 279pp, pb, cover by Don Carroll) [Martian Wars; Buck Rogers] Reprint (TSR 1989) sf novelization. Book Two in the Martian Wars trilogy.
- * *Buck Rogers: Prime Squared (TSR 0-88038-863-3, Nov 90, $3.95, 276pp, tp, cover by Jerry Bingham) [Inner Planets; Buck Rogers] Buck Rogers novelization, second book of the Inner Planets trilogy.
- * *Buck Rogers: Rebellion 2456 (TSR 0-88038-728-9, Jun 89, $3.95, 281pp, tp) [Martian Wars; Buck Rogers] Buck Rogers novelization, book one of the Martian Wars series.
- * _Buck Rogers: Rebellion 2456 (Penguin 0-14-013314-3, May 90, £3.99, 281pp, pb, cover by Don Carroll) [Martian Wars; Buck Rogers] Reprint (TSR 1989) sf novelization. Book One of the Martian Wars trilogy.
- * *Dynteryx (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20646-2, Jul 88 [Jun 88], $3.50, 246pp, pb) [Vendetta] Space opera novel of planetary rebellion, sequel to Vendetta.
- * _Star Trek #10: Web of the Romulans (Pocket 0-671-60549-6, Jan 87, $3.50, 220pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reissue (Pocket 1983) Star Trek novel. 4th printing.
- * _Star Trek: Web of the Romulans (Gregg 0-8398-2833-0, Aug 84 [Jul 84], $10.95, 220pp, hc) [Star Trek] Reprint (Timecape 1983) Star Trek novelization. Number 10 in the series.
- * _Star Trek: Web of the Romulans (Titan 1-85286-209-2, Sep 89, £2.95, 220pp, pb, cover by Boris Vallejo) [Star Trek] Reprint (Pocket 1983) sf novelization. [First U.K. edition]
- * *Vendetta (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20520-2, Aug 87 [Jul 87], $2.95, 292pp, pb) [Vendetta] Sf novel. A young slave must stop a madman from murdering a child and whole worlds.
- MURILL, RAY W.; pseudonym of Will Murray, (1953- )
- * *Mars Attack #2: War Dogs of the Golden Horde (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-40496-3, May 96 [Apr 96], $18.00, 281pp, hc, cover by Peter Scanlan) [Mars Attacks] SF novelization based on 60s trading cards, current comics, and upcoming movie. An exclusive trading card is bound in. Copyrighted by Topps Comics.
- * _Mars Attacks: War Dogs of the Golden Horde (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-40954-X, Mar 97 [Feb 97], $5.99, 323pp, pb, cover by Peter Scanlan) [Mars Attacks] Reprint (Del Rey 1996) SF novelization, second in the series. Copyrighted by Topps Comics.
- MURNANE, GERALD (1939- ) (stories)
- * *Landscape with Landscape (Norstrilia 0-909106-15-0, 1985 [Sep 85], A$17.00, 267pp, hc) Collection of six loosely connected stories, some with elements of surreal fantasy. (Contents)
- * +The Plains (George Braziller 0-8076-1123-9, Aug 85 [Sep 85], $12.95, 126pp, hc) Reprint (Norstrilia 1982) short novel of an alternate Australia; first U.S. edition.
- MURPHY, DAVID (stories) (chron.)
- * *Broken Heroes (Albedo One Publications no ISBN, Aug 95 [Mar 96], £2.95, 76pp, ph, cover by Paul Sheridan) Collection of eight stories, with an introduction by Morgan Llywelyn, and illustrations by Paul Sheridan. This is a second printing; we did not list the first. Available from albedo one publications, 8, Commons Road, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland. (Contents)
- MURPHY, GLORIA (Walter) (1940- )
- * _Bloodties (Lynx 1-55802-308-9, Oct 88, $3.50, 246pp, pb) Reprint (D.I. Fine 1987) horror novel. An evil boy enters a familys life 14 years after their own son died.
- * *Nightmare (Popular Library 0-445-20404-4, Jun 87 [May 87], $3.50, 232pp, pb) Horror novel of a high-tech underground village and children in peril.
- * _Playroom (Lynx 1-55802-279-1, Feb 89 [Mar 89], $3.50, 249pp, pb) Reprint (Donald I. Fine 1987) psychological horror novel with no fantasy elements. A woman takes revenge for her unhappy childhood.
- MURPHY, JIM (stories)
- * *The Last Dinosaur (Scholastic 0-590-41097-0, Apr 88 [Jul 88], $13.95, unpaginated, hc) Childrens story about the last living dinosaur. Great illustrations by Mark Alan Weatherby.
- * *Night Terrors (Scholastic 0-590-45341-6, Oct 93, $13.95, 177pp, hc, cover by Tim Jacobus) Young-adult collection of 12 horror stories related by an elderly gravedigger. (Contents)
- MURPHY, KEVIN ANDREW (stories)
- MURPHY, MICHAEL (1930-1985)
- * _Jacob Atabet (Jeremy P. Tarcher 0-87477-422-5, Nov 88 [Oct 88], $8.95, 216pp, tp) Reprint (Celestial Arts 1977) New Age science fiction novel of spiritual transformation and human potential. Distributed by St. Martins.
- MURPHY, PAT(rice Ann) (1955- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *The City, Not Long After (Doubleday Foundation 0-385-24925-X, Mar 89 [Feb 89], $17.95, 244pp, hc) Near-future science fiction novel set in San Francisco after a plague. Based on the story Art in the War Zone.
- * _The City, Not Long After (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28370-7, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $4.50, 258pp, pb, cover by Mark Harrison) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1989) near-future sf novel set in a San Francisco decimated by plague and inhabited by artists. There is a new afterword by the author.
- * _The City, Not Long After (Pan 0-330-31570-6, Aug 90, £12.95, 320pp, hc, cover by David Bergen) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1989) fantasy novel about a deserted San Francisco, some years after a world-wide devastating plague, populated only by artists, ghosts and angels. Recommended. (PSP)
- * _The City, Not Long After (Pan 0-330-31277-4, Aug 91, £4.99, 320pp, pb, cover by David Bergen) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1989) sf/fantasy novel.
- * *The Falling Woman (Tor 0-312-93230-8, Nov 86 [Oct 86], $14.95, 287pp, hc) Fantasy/horror novel of an archaeologist, her daughter, and ancient Mayan magic.
- * _The Falling Woman (Tor 0-812-54620-2, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.95, 283pp, pb) Reprint (Tor 1986) fantasy novel.
- * _The Falling Woman (Headline 0-7472-3076-5, Jan 88, £2.95, 287pp, pb) Reprint (Tor 1986) fantasy/horror novel. [First U.K. edition]
- * _The Falling Woman (Tor 0-812-54622-9, Nov 88 [Oct 88], $3.95, 287pp, pb) Reissue (Tor 1986) fantasy novel, winner of the Nebula Award. Second printing.
- * _The Falling Woman (Tor/Orb 0-312-85406-4, Aug 93 [Jul 93], $9.95, 287pp, tp, cover by Peter Scanlon) Reprint (Tor 1986) Nebula Award-winning fantasy novel of the relationship between an ancient Mayan woman who can see the future and a modern archaeologist who can see the ghosts of the past.
- * _Letters from Home (with Pat Cadigan & Karen Joy Fowler) See entry under Pat Cadigan.
- * *Nadya (Tor 0-312-86226-1, Nov 96 [Oct 96], $23.95, 382pp, hc, cover by Michael Koelsch) Dark fantasy novel. A young woman in the 1830s Missouri frontier discovers shes a werewolf.
- * _Nadya (Tor 0-812-55188-5, Sep 97 [Aug 97], $6.99, 382pp, pb, cover by Michael Koelsch) Reprint (Tor 1996) dark fantasy frontier werewolf novel.
- * *Points of Departure (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28615-3, Jul 90 [Jun 90], $3.95, 316pp, pb, cover by Mark Harrison) Collection of 19 stories, with an introduction by Kate Wilhelm and an afterword by the author. (Contents)
- * _Rachel in Love (Pulphouse 1-56146-548-8, Feb 92, $1.95, 46pp, pb, cover by Donna Gordon) Nebula Award-winning short story that originally appeared in IASFM in 1987 and in the collection Points of Departure.
- * _The Shadow Hunter (Headline 0-7472-3141-9, Aug 88, £2.99, 223pp, pb) Reprint (Popular Library 1982) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
- MURPHY, PATRICK D(ennis), ed. (1951- )
- * *The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving Genre (with Vernon Hayes) (Greenwood 0-313-26160-1, Nov 89 [Dec 89], $39.95, 197pp, hc) Anthology of 13 pieces of critical material on fantastic poetry, with an introduction and afterword by the editors.
- * _Science Fiction from China (with Wu Dingbo) See entry under Wu Dingbo.
- MURPHY, ROBERTA (1934?-2002?) (stories)
- * _The Enchanted (Mandarin 0-7493-0482-0, Oct 90 [Sep 90], £3.50, 230pp, pb, cover by Kurte Hoyte) Reprint (Heinemann 1989) ghost novel.
- MURPHY, SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU (1928- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * *Cat in the Dark (HarperPrism 0-06-105096-2, Jan 99 [Dec 98], $22.00, 265pp, hc, cover by Mark Hess) [Joe Grey] Fantasy mystery novel, the fourth featuring talking cat Joe Grey. A new cat is masterminding an escalating crime spree.
- * *Cat on the Edge (HarperPrism 0-06-105600-6, Jun 96 [May 96], $5.50, 274pp, pb, cover by Joe Burleson) [Joe Grey] Fantasy/mystery novel. A cat named Joe Grey witnesses a murder and acquires the ability to speak.
- * *Cat Raise the Dead (HarperPrism 0-06-105602-2, Jul 97 [Jun 97], $5.50, 288pp, pb, cover by Joe Burleson) [Joe Grey] Fantasy mystery novel. Talking cat Joe Grey investigates an old folks home.
- * *Cat under Fire (HarperPrism 0-06-105601-4, Jan 97 [Dec 96], $5.50, 244pp, pb, cover by Joe Burleson) [Joe Grey] Fantasy mystery, second in the series featuring talking-cat detectives Joe Grey and Dulcie.
- * _Cat under Fire (HarperPrism 0-06-105601-4, Jan 99 [Dec 98], $5.99, 244pp, pb, cover by Joe Burleson) [Joe Grey] Reissue (HarperPrism 1997) fantasy mystery, second in the series featuring talking-cat detectives Joe Grey and Dulcie. Second printing.
- * *The Catswold Portal (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45146-5, Apr 92 [Mar 92], $22.00, 405pp, hc, cover by Richard Hescox) Fantasy novel of a California artist and a young woman searching for her past who realize they are the only hope of two worlds to defeat a cat/human shapeshifting sorceress and her plans for conquest.
- * _The Catswold Portal (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45275-5, Sep 93 [Aug 93], $5.50, 418pp, pb) Reprint (Roc 1992) fantasy novel of a California artist and a young woman searching for her past who realize they are the only hope of two worlds to defeat a cat/human shapeshifting sorceress and her plans for conquest.
- * *The Dragonbards (Harper & Row 0-06-024366-X, Mar 88, $12.95, 249pp, hc) [Dragonbards] Young-adult fantasy novel. Bards and dragons battle the army of evil. third in a trilogy.
- * _The Dragonbards (Harper Starwanderer 0-06-447008-3, Oct 89 [Sep 89], $3.50, 249pp, pb) [Dragonbards] Reprint (Harper & Row 1988) young-adult fantasy novel, third book in the Dragonbards trilogy.
- * *The Ivory Lyre (Harper & Row 0-06-024362-7, Mar 87 [Feb 87], $12.95, 250pp, hc) [Dragonbards] Young-adult fantasy novel, second in the Dragonbards Trilogy.
- * _The Ivory Lyre (Harper Starwanderer 0-694-05612-X, Oct 88, $3.25, 250pp, pb) [Dragonbards] Reprint (Harper & Row 1987) young-adult fantasy novel, sequel to Nightpool.
- * *Medallion of the Black Hound (with Welch Suggs) (Harper & Row 0-06-024368-6, Oct 89 [Sep 89], $11.95, 182pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy about a boy pulled into a strange world by a magical medallion.
- * *Nightpool (Harper & Row 0-06-024360-0, Sep 85, $11.95, 250pp, hc) [Dragonbards] Young-adult fantasy novel, first in a trilogy.
- * _Nightpool (Harper & Row/Starwanderer 0-694-05605-7, Apr 87, $2.95, 250pp, pb) [Dragonbards] Reprint (Harper & Row 1985) young-adult fantasy novel.
- MURPHY, WARREN B(urton) (1933- ) (stories) (chron.)
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