The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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- MURPHY, WARREN B(urton) (stories) (chron.) (continued)
- * *Destinys Carnival (with Todd Elsinore) (Fawcett Gold Medal 0-449-14754-1, Jan 92 [Dec 91], $4.99, 197pp, pb) Horror novel of a boy with psychic powers endangered by a deadly carnival.
- * *The Destroyer #102: Unite and Conquer (with Richard Sapir) (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-63217-7, Mar 96 [Feb 96], $4.99, 346pp, pb) [Destroyer] Fantasy adventure thriller in the endless Remo Williams series, most without fantasy elements. An earthquake in Mexico releases a giant figure that might be a bloodthirsty god of the Aztecs or an android out for revenge.
- * *Destroyer #72: Sole Survivor (with Richard Sapir) (NAL Signet 0-451-15359-6, Apr 88 [Mar 88], $3.50, 223pp, pb) [Destroyer] Sf novel, part of a non-sf series. The publicity quote is wonderful: ...impotent against a deadly outer space invader set on sterilizing America!
- * *Destroyer #75: Rain of Terror (with Richard Sapir) (NAL Signet 0-451-15752-4, Jan 89 [Dec 88], $3.95, 256pp, pb) [Destroyer] Sf novel/adventure thriller. A supercomputer and UFOs continue to threaten the Earth.
- * *The Destroyer #85: Blood Lust (with Richard Sapir) (Penguin/Signet 0-451-16990-5, Jul 91, $4.50, 256pp, pb) [Destroyer] Fantasy adventure thriller in the seemingly endless series (most with no fantastic content). This is the first of a two-part adventure about Remo Williams battle with the goddess Kali.
- * *The Destroyer #87: Mob Psychology (with Richard Sapir) (Penguin/Signet 0-451-17114-4, Jan 92 [Dec 91], $4.50, 250pp, pb) [Destroyer] Fantasy adventure thriller in the seemingly endless series, most without fantasy elements. Remo Williams learns that the Mafia has developed a computer system that can erase a persons existence.
- * *The Destroyer #88: The Ultimate Death (with Richard Sapir) (Penguin/Signet 0-451-17115-2, Apr 92 [Mar 92], $4.50, 255pp, pb) [Destroyer] Fantasy adventure thriller in the seemingly endless series. Remo Williams hunts for a vegetarian vampire loose in the health food racket.
- * *The Destroyer #96: Infernal Revenue (with Richard Sapir) (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-63211-8, Sep 94 [Aug 94], $4.99, 399pp, pb) [Destroyer] Fantasy adventure thriller in the endless Remo Williams series, most without fantasy elements. First book of the series since 1992, now coming from a new publisher. Copyrighted by M.C. Murphy.
- * _The Forever King (with Molly Cochran) See entry under Molly Cochran.
- * *High Priest (with Molly Cochran) (NAL 0-453-00537-3, Nov 87, $17.95, 355pp, hc) [Grandmaster] Near-future thriller with sf/fantasy elements.
- * _High Priest (with Molly Cochran) (Futura 0-7088-3586-4, Jul 88, £3.50, 355pp, pb) [Grandmaster] Reprint (NAL 1987) thriller with fantasy elements. Sequel to Grandmaster. [First U.K. edition]
- * _World Without End (with Molly Cochran) See entry under Molly Cochran.
- MURPHY-GIBB, DWINA
- * *Cormac: The Kingmaking (Pan 0-330-33236-8, Jan 94 [Dec 93], £9.99, 275pp, tp, cover by Paul Young) [Cormac FitzGregory] Celtic fantasy novel. Sequel to Cormac: The Seers.
- * *Cormac: The Seers (Pan 0-330-32390-3, Mar 92 [Feb 92], £7.99, 328pp, tp, cover by David Bergen) Celtic fantasy novel. Volume one in a new trilogy.
- * _Cormac: The Seers (Pan 0-330-32723-2, Jan 94 [Dec 93], £4.99, 328pp, pb, cover by Paul Young) Reprint (Pan 1992) Celtic fantasy novel.
- MURRAY, ANDREW (Nicholas) (1880-1928)
- MURRAY, DOUG(las Louis, Jr.) (1947- ) (stories)
- * *The World of Darkness: Rage: Call to Battle (White Wolf 1-56504-885-7, Jul 96, $5.99, 418pp, pb) [World of Darkness] Dark fantasy novelization based on the Rage card game. Book one in the Saga of Jay No-Name. Copyrighted by White Wolf.
- * *The World of Darkness: Vampire: Blood Relations (HarperPrism 0-06-105674-X, Apr 96 [Mar 96], $5.50, 296pp, pb, cover by J. Chandlee Stowe) [World of Darkness] Dark fantasy novelization based on the role-playing games. Copyrighted by White Wolf.
- MURRAY, E(arl) PATRICK (1950-2003)
- * *Dream House (Diamond 1-55773-538-7, Jul 91 [Jun 91], $4.50, 228pp, pb) Horror novel of a little girl who is brought to live in the evil house that haunts her dreams.
- * *Ten Little Indians (Zebra 0-8217-2452-5, Sep 88, $3.95, 350pp, pb) Horror novel about ancient Indian spirits using a little girl to insure their solitude.
- MURRAY, FRIEDA A. (1948- ) (stories)
- MURRAY, JANET H.
- * _Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (MIT Press 0-262-63187-3, Aug 98 [Dec 98], $15.00, 324pp, tp) Reprint (The Free Press 1997) associational critical look at the changes computers bring to storytelling, with emphasis on interactive stories, games, and drama. MIT Press, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge MA 02142; order 800-356-0343.
- MURRAY, WILL(iam Patrick) (1953- ); see under Kenneth Robeson; see pseudonym Ray W. Murill; see house pseudonym Kenneth Robeson (stories)
- _____, ed.
- MURREY, MARY
- * *The Inquisitor (Lapwing Books 0-965829-84-7, Oct 97 [Apr 98], $10.00, 238pp, tp) Horror novel about a depressed woman who gets into pagan rituals and myth, and becomes sexually obsessed with a male Doberman. Supernatural elements questionable in this tale of insanity. A Stoker Award nominee. A first novel.
- MURRY, JOHN MIDDLETON (Jr.) (1926-2002); see pseudonym Richard Cowper (stories)
- MUSTAZZA, LEONARD, ed.
- * *The Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut (Greenwood Press 0-313-28634-5, Nov 94 [Jan 95], $59.95, 346pp, hc) Critical collection of 40 reviews and essays discussing Vonneguts work. Order from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport CT 06881; credit card orders: 800-225-5800. [Vonnegut]
- MYAGKOV, VITALY
- MYERS, AMY (1938- ); see under Anon. (stories)
- _____, ed.
- * *The Fifth Book of After Midnight Stories (Robert Hale 0-7090-4531-X, May 91, £13.95, 208pp, hc, cover by Helen Hale) Original ghost/horror anthology. (Contents)
- * *The Fourth Book of After Midnight Stories (Kimber 0-7183-0702-X, Nov 88, £9.95, 192pp, hc) Original ghost anthology. (Contents)
- * *The Third Book of After Midnight Stories (Kimber 0-7183-0667-8, Oct 87, £9.50, 208pp, hc) Original ghost/occult anthology. (Contents)
- MYERS, BILL (1953- )
- * *Blood of Heaven (HarperCollins/Zondervan 0-310-20119-5, Sep 96 [Dec 96], $12.99, 326pp, tp, cover by Edwin Herder) [Fire of Heaven] Christian-oriented thriller in which non-human DNA is found in a relic of Christ, and injected into a human guinea pig.
- MYERS, DORIS T.
- * *C.S. Lewis in Context (Kent State University Press 0-87338-497-0, Sep 94 [Jul 94], $28.00, 248pp, hc) Non-fiction, criticism. An analysis of Lewis that attempts to put him in the same context as the mainstream literary fiction of his time. Includes specific sections analyzing the various fantasy novels. Available from Kent State University Press, PO Box 5190, Kent OH 44242-0001. [Lewis]
- * _C.S. Lewis in Context (Kent State University Press 0-87338-617-5, Sep 98 [Nov 98], $16.00, 248pp, tp) Reprint (Kent State 1994) non-fiction, critical examination of Lewis in the contexts of his time, Christian Humanism, myth and history, etc. Order from Kent State University Press, PO Box 5190, Kent OH 44242. [Lewis]
- MYERS, EDWARD (1950- )
- * *Fire and Ice (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45211-9, Dec 92 [Nov 92], $4.99, 432pp, pb) [Mountain Made of Light] Fantasy novel of a lost civilization in the Peruvian Andes, sequel to The Mountain Made of Light.
- * *The Mountain Made of Light (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45136-8, Feb 92 [Jan 92], $4.99, 420pp, pb) [Mountain Made of Light] Fantasy novel, a lost race book. 1920s American explorer Jesse OKeefe discovers a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Andes and becomes caught up in its civilization. Recommended (SW).
- * *The Summit (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45419-7, Nov 94 [Oct 94], $5.99, 426pp, pb, cover by Boris Vallejo) [Mountain Made of Light] Fantasy novel, third in the Mountain Made of Light series. Refugees from a civil war seek a lost city in the Andes.
- MYERS, JOHN L(ee) (1958- )
- * *Holy Family (Alyson 1-55583-200-8, Oct 92 [Jan 93], $8.95, 231pp, tp, cover by Richard Bulman) Gay horror/mystery novel of murder, ghosts, and demonic infestation set in Washington DC. A first novel and winner of the Lambda Rising First-Novel Contest.
- MYERS, JOHN MYERS (1906-1988) (chron.)
- * _The Harp and the Blade (Ace 0-441-31750-2, Feb 85 [Jan 85], $2.75, 230pp, pb) Reprint (Dutton 1941) quasi-fantasy novel. Theres a druid and a curse, but basically this is a fine Celtic historical novel set in the 10th century. Recommended. (CNB)
- * _The Moons Fire-Eating Daughter (Ace 0-441-54172-0, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $2.75, 198pp, pb) [Silverlock] Reprint (Donning/Starblaze 1981) fantasy novel, sequel to Silverlock.
- * _Silverlock (Ace 0-441-76674-9, Dec 85 [Nov 85], $3.95, 516pp, pb) [Silverlock] Reissue (Dutton 1949) fantasy novel. 9th Ace printing. One of the classics of modern fantasy literature. Highly recommended. (CNB)
- * _Silverlock (Ace 0-441-76674-9, Apr 96 [Mar 96], $6.99, 516pp, pb, cover by Walter Velez) [Silverlock] Reissue (Dutton 1949) classic referential fantasy novel. 11th printing.
- MYERS, PEGGY ANN; see pseudonym Ann Williams
- MYERS, ROBERT E(dward), ed. (1932- )
- * *The Intersection of Science Fiction and Philosophy: Critical Studies (Greenwood Press 0-313-22493-5, Dec 83 [Jan 84], $29.95, 262pp, hc) Non-fiction, anthology of 17 scholarly essays. This was published in December 1983, but not seen until 1984.
- MYERS, WALTER DEAN (1937- ) (stories)
- * *Shadow of the Red Moon (Scholastic 0-590-45895-7, Nov 95 [Oct 95], $14.95, 183pp, hc, cover by Christopher Myers) Young-adult fantasy novel, illustrated by Christopher Myers. Young people seek help for the Crystal City, under seige by the savage Fens children.
- * _Shadow of the Red Moon (Scholastic/Point 0-590-45896-5, Aug 97, $4.50, 183pp, pb, cover by Christopher Myers) Reprint (Scholastic 1995) young-adult fantasy novel. Illustrated by Christopher Myers.
- MYLES, DOUGLAS
- * *Prince Dracula: Son of the Devil (McGraw-Hill 0-07-072176-9, 1988 [Nov 88], $18.95, 288pp, hc) Non-fiction, associational. Biography of the real Prince Dracula, Vlad Tepes.
- MYRA, HAROLD (Lawrence) (1939- )
- * *Children of the Night (HarperCollins/Zondervan 0-310-57251-7, Aug 91 [Apr 92], $9.99, 301pp, tp, cover by Marilyn King) [Children of the Night] Christian fantasy novel set in a subterranean world. A 1991 book, not seen until now.
- * *Morning Child (Zondervan 0-310-46221-5, Nov 94, $9.99, 175pp, tp, cover by Tom Bookwalter) [Children of the Night] Christian fantasy novel, third book in the Children of the Night trilogy.
- * *The Shining Face (HarperCollins/Zondervan 0-310-58771-9, Apr 93 [Aug 93], $9.99, 262pp, tp) [Children of the Night] Christian fantasy novel of a blind princess compelled to carry a lamp into the world of night, sequel to Children of the Night.
- NABOKOV, VLADIMIR (Vladimirovich) (1899-1977) (stories)
- * _The Eye (Vintage 0-679-72723-X, Sep 90, $8.95, 104pp, tp, cover by Marc J. Cohen) Reprint (Phaedra 1965) literary fantasy set in the afterlife.
- * _Invitation to a Beheading (Vintage 0-679-72531-8, Sep 89 [Nov 89], $7.95, 223pp, tp) Reprint (Putnam 1959) literary fantasy.
- NADDAFF, SANDRA
- * *Arabesque: Narrative Structure and the Aesthetics of Repetition in the 1001 Nights (Northwestern University Press 0-8101-0990-5, Dec 91 [Mar 92], $14.95, 156pp, tp, cover by R. Smirke) Non-fiction, criticism. Scholarly commentary on the classic fantasy epic. A hardcover edition (-0976-X; $26.95) was announced but not seen. This is a 1991 book not seen until now. Available from Northwestern University Press, 625 Colfax Street, Evanston IL 60201.
- NADER, GEORGE (1921-2002)
- * _Chrome (Alyson 1-55583-114-1, Aug 87 [Jul 87], $7.95, 369pp, tp) Reprint (Putnam 1978) gay sf novel about a man who loves a robot.
- NADOLNY, STEN
- * *The God of Impertinence (Viking 0-670-87301-2, Jul 97 [Sep 97], $23.95, 214pp, hc, cover by Richard Beards) Literary fantasy novel. Hermes returns after 2,187 years imprisonment and goes wild in the modern world. Translated by Breon Mitchell from the German Ein Gott der Frechheit (R. Piper 1994).
- NADRAMIA, PEGGY, ed. (stories)
- NAGATA, LINDA (née Webb) (1960- ) (stories)
- * *The Bohr Maker (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56925-2, Apr 95 [Mar 95], $4.99, 325pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) SF novel of outlaw nanotechnology. A first novel.
- * _The Bohr Maker (SFBC #07488, Jul 95 [Jun 95], $8.98, 325pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1995) SF novel of outlaw nanotechnology. This first hardcover edition is otherwise similar to the Bantam Spectra paperback edition; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
- * *Deception Well (Bantam Spectra 0-553-57629-1, Feb 97 [Jan 97], $5.99, 358pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Deception Well] Far-future SF novel set on a space elevator above a hostile planet.
- * _Deception Well (SFBC #15811, Jul 97 [Jun 97], $8.98, 358pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Deception Well] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1997) far-future SF novel set on a space elevator above a hostile planet. This hardcover edition is otherwise similar to the Bantam Spectra mass-market paperback edition; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
- * *Tech-Heaven (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56926-0, Dec 95 [Nov 95], $4.99, 357pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) SF novel. A woman becomes a fugitive trying to save her husband with outlawed life-extension technology.
- * *Vast (Bantam Spectra 0-553-57630-5, Aug 98 [Jul 98], $5.99, 403pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Deception Well] SF novel. Survivors of an ancient alien war travel on a giant spaceship to find their enemies homeworld. Sequel to Deception Well.
- NAHA, ED(ward Michael) (1950- ); see house pseudonym D. B. Drumm (stories)
- * *Breakdown (Dell 0-440-20210-8, Nov 88 [Oct 88], $3.50, 216pp, pb) Horror novel.
- * *Ghostbusters II (Dell 0-440-20460-7, Jul 89 [Jun 89], $3.95, 184pp, pb) Movie tie-in novelization.
- * _Ghostbusters II (Corgi 0-552-13575-5, Nov 89, £2.99, 184pp, pb) Reprint (Dell 1989) humorous ghost/horror film novelization, based on the screenplay by Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd. [First U.K. edition]
- * *The Making of Dune (Berkley 0-425-07376-9, Dec 84 [Nov 84], $5.95, 299pp, pb) [Dune] Non-fiction, the story behind the movie, including photographs and illustrations.
- * *Orphans (Dell 0-440-20467-4, Nov 89 [Oct 89], $3.50, 184pp, pb) Horror novel of evil children with superhuman powers.
- * *Robocop (Dell 0-440-17479-1, Jul 87, $3.50, 189pp, pb) Novelization of the movie.
- * _Robocop (Corgi 0-552-13243-8, Jan 88, £1.95, 189pp, pb) Reprint (Dell 1987) sf film novelization, based on the screenplay by Edward Neumeier & Michael Miner [First U.K. edition]
- * *Robocop 2 (Jove 0-515-10410-8, Jun 90 [May 90], $4.50, 234pp, pb) Sf movie tie-in novelization.
- * _Robocop 2 (Penguin 0-14-014341-6, Sep 90, £3.99, 234pp, pb) Reprint (Jove 1990) sf film novelization, based on the screenplay by Frank Miller and Walon Green.
- * _Traveler # 7: The Road Ghost [as by D. B. Drumm] See entry under D. B. Drumm
- * _Traveler # 9: The Stalking Time [as by D. B. Drumm] See entry under D. B. Drumm
- * _Traveler #10: Hell on Earth [as by D. B. Drumm] See entry under D. B. Drumm
- * _Traveler #11: The Childrens Crusade [as by D. B. Drumm] See entry under D. B. Drumm
- * _Traveler #12: The Prey [as by D. B. Drumm] See entry under D. B. Drumm
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