The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
Books, Listed by Author
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- ORMAN, KATE (stories) (continued)
- OROURKE, (Francis) MICHAEL (1941-2001) (stories)
- * *Darkling (HarperPaperbacks 0-06-100719-6, Jan 94 [Dec 93], $4.99, 309pp, pb, cover by Kirk Reinert) Horror novel of a TV journalist whose solitary vacation is interrupted by a ghostly visitation.
- * *The Undine (HarperPaperbacks 0-06-100718-8, Jun 96 [May 96], $5.50, 355pp, pb, cover by Mark Garro) Erotic horror novel.
- ORR, A.; [i.e., Alice Ingram Orr Sprague] (1950- ) (stories)
- * *In the Ice Kings Palace (Tor 0-312-94226-5, Jan 87 [Dec 86], $15.95, 170pp, hc) [World in Amber] Fantasy novel, The World in Amber Book 2. Originally scheduled as a Bluejay book.
- * *A World in Amber (Bluejay 0-312-94459-4, Sep 85 [Aug 85], $14.95, 214pp, hc) [World in Amber] Fantasy novel, a first novel.
- * _The World in Amber (Tor 0-812-54800-0, Aug 86 [Jul 86], $2.95, 214pp, pb) [World in Amber] Reprint (Bluejay 1985) fantasy novel.
- ORR, WENDY
- * *A Light in Space (Annick Press 1-55037-975-5, 1994 [Mar 96], $4.95, 188pp, tp, cover by Ruth Ohi) Young-adult SF novel. Andrews alien pet wants him to help it take over the Earth. This has a 1994 copyright date, but was not seen until now. No address given; distributed by Firefly Books, PO Box 1338, Ellicott Station, Buffalo NY.
- ORTON, JOE
- * _Head to Toe (Methuen 0-413-41460-4, Jul 86, £3.95, 192pp, pb) Reprint (Anthony Blond 1971) literary fantasy novel.
- * _Head to Toe (St. Martins 0-312-00718-3, Jul 87 [Aug 87], $13.95, 187pp, hc) Reprint (Anthony Blond 1971) literary fantasy novel. A man unwittingly wanders onto the head of a giant.
- * _Head to Toe (Minerva 0-7493-9029-8, Feb 90, £3.99, 187pp, tp, cover by Darrel Rees) Reprint (Anthony Blond 1971) literary fantasy novel.
- ORWELL, GEORGE; pseudonym of Eric Blair, (1903-1950) (chron.)
- * *1984 (NAL/Signet 0-451-51984-1, Jan 84 [Dec 83], $2.95, 268pp, pb) [1984] Reissue (Secker & Warburg 1949) novel. This 74th printing has a new preface by Walter Cronkite and a new afterword by Erich Fromm, plus a bibliography updated to 1981.
- * _1984 (Penguin/Signet Classic 0-451-52493-4, Apr 96 [Dec 96], $5.95, 268pp, pb) [1984] Reissue (Secker & Warburg 1949) classic dystopian SF novel. This follows the 1981 edition with the updated bibliography. 94th printing.
- * _1984 (Dutton/Plume/Harcourt Brace 0-452-26293-3, Jun 96 [May 96], $11.95, 270pp, tp) [1984] Reissue (Secker & Warburg 1949) dystopian SF classic. Internally, this is the 1983 Plume edition, with the afterword by Erich Fromm from the 1961 Dutton Signet edition. 12th printing.
- * _Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg 0-436-35030-0, Sep 87 [Dec 87], £12.95, 203pp, hc) [Animal Farm] Reissue (Secker & Warburg 1945) literary fantasy / political satire novel.
- * _Animal Farm (Penguin 0-14-018226-8, Sep 89 [Feb 90], £3.50, 113pp, tp, cover by Ditz) [Animal Farm] Reissue (Secker & Warburg 1945) literary fantasy novel. This edition has a new introduction by Malcolm Bradbury, and a new note on the text by Peter Davison.
- * _Animal Farm (Easton Press no ISBN, May 93, no price, 118pp, hc) [Animal Farm] Reprint (Secker & Warburg 1945) literary fantasy/political satire, with an introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson and artwork by Frank Kelly Freas. This special leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the Masterpieces of Science Fiction series and is available by subscription only.
- * _Animal Farm (Random House/Knopf Everymans Library 0-679-42039-8, May 93 [Dec 93], $15.00, 113pp, hc) [Animal Farm] Reprint (Secker & Warburg 1945) political satire/literary fantasy novel, with a new introduction by Julian Symons.
- * _Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg 0-436-20294-8, Aug 95, £14.99, 180pp, hc, cover by Ralph Steadman) [Animal Farm] Reprint (Secker & Warburg 1945) satiric fantasy novel. A 50th anniversary edition, illustrated by Ralph Steadman. It includes Orwells proposed Preface, and his Preface to the Ukranian edition.
- * _Animal Farm (Harcourt Brace 0-15-100217-7, Apr 96 [Mar 96], $26.00, 180pp, hc, cover by Ralph Steadman) [Animal Farm] Reprint (Secker & Warburg 1945) classic satirical fantasy novel. This is the first US edition of the special 50th anniversary edition (Secker & Warburg 1995) of the classic, with new color illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Two appendices include Orwells Proposed Preface, and his preface to the Ukranian edition.
- * _Animal Farm (Penguin/Signet 0-451-52634-1, Apr 96 [Jun 96], $5.95, 139pp, pb) [Animal Farm] Special 50th anniversary edition of the classic satire, with a new preface by Russell Baker.
- * _Animal Farm (Dutton/Plume/Harcourt Brace 0-452-26490-1, Jun 96 [May 96], $9.95, 128pp, tp) [Animal Farm] Reissue (Secker & Warburg 1945) classic talking-animal satire. Internally this is the 1983 Plume edition with an introduction by C.W. Woodhouse; ninth printing.
- * _Animal Farm (Penguin/Plume/Harcourt Brace 0-452-27750-7, Jun 96 [Dec 97], $9.95, 136pp, tp) [Animal Farm] Reprint (Secker & Warburg 1945) classic fantasy satire. This is a special 50th anniversary edition, with new preface by Russell Baker, in addition to the 1954 introduction by C.M. Woodhouse.
- * _Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg 0-436-35031-9, Sep 87 [Dec 87], £12.95, 341pp, hc) [1984] Reissue (Secker & Warburg 1949) literary sf novel.
- * _Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin 0-14-018234-9, Sep 89, £4.50, 326pp, tp, cover by C. R. W. Nevinson) [1984] Reissue (Secker & Warburg 1949) classic sf novel. This is the authoritative text first published in 1987 (by Secker & Warburg) and contains the note on the text by Peter Davison from that edition and a new introduction by Ben Pimlott.
- * _Nineteen Eighty-Four (Easton Press no ISBN, Oct 92, no price, 314pp, hc) [1984] Reprint (Secker & Warburg 1949) classic political sf novel, with an introduction by James Gunn and artwork by Frank Kelly Freas. This special leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the Masterpieces of Science Fiction series and is available by subscription only.
- * _Nineteen Eighty-Four (Knopf Everymans Library 0-679-41739-7, Oct 92, $17.00, 326pp, hc) [1984] Reprint (Secker & Warburg 1949) classic political sf novel, with an introduction by Julian Symons, plus a bibliography and chronology by David Campbell. The text has been corrected and there are notes on the corrections.
- * _Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg 0-436-20424-X, Sep 96 [Oct 96], £6.99, 314pp, hc) [1984] Reissue (Secker & Warburg 1949) SF novel. One of a number of titles produced for and sold only in Waterstones bookshops.
- OSBORNE, CARY G. (stories)
- * *Darkloom (Ace 0-441-00569-1, Oct 98 [Sep 98], $5.99, 262pp, pb, cover by Luis Royo) [Deathweave] SF novel, sequel to Deathweave.
- * *Deathweave (Ace 0-441-00498-9, Jan 98 [Dec 97], $5.99, 296pp, pb, cover by Luis Royo) [Deathweave] SF novel. A condemned imperial guard can redeem herself by recovering the princess she helped run away.
- * *The Glaive (Ace 0-441-00328-1, May 96 [Apr 96], $5.99, 296pp, pb, cover by Jean-Francois Podevin) [Iroshi] SF martial arts novel, sequel to Iroshi.
- * *Iroshi (Ace 0-441-00130-0, Nov 95 [Oct 95], $4.99, 216pp, pb, cover by Jean-Francois Podevin) [Iroshi] SF samurai novel. A woman ronin roams colony planets looking for Enlightenment.
- * *Persea (Ace 0-441-00397-4, Dec 96 [Nov 96], $5.99, 219pp, pb, cover by Jean François Podevin) [Iroshi] SF novel, third in the Iroshi series about a woman ronin in space.
- OSBORNE, MARY POPE (1949- )
- * *Haunted Waters (Candlewick Press 1-56402-119-X, Sep 94 [Aug 94], $14.95, 153pp, hc, cover by Angela Barrett) Young-adult dark fantasy, a romantic ghost story based loosely on the German fairy tale Undine.
- * _Haunted Waters (Candlewick Press 1-56402-588-8, Feb 96 [Jan 96], $4.99, 153pp, pb, cover by Angela Barrett) Reprint (Candlewick 1994) young-adult dark fantasy based loosely on Undine.
- OSBORNE, RICHARD (1943- )
- * *Demolition Man (Penguin/Signet 0-451-18102-6, Oct 93 [Sep 93], $4.50, 229pp, pb) Sf movie novelization based on the screenplay by Daniel Waters, Robert Reneau, and Peter M. Lankos.
- * _Demolition Man (Signet UK 0-45-118079-8, Nov 93, £4.99, 229pp, pb) Reprint (Signet 1993) sf novelization, based on the screenplay by Daniel Walters, Robert Reneau and Peter M. Lenkov. [First U.K. edition]
- OSBORNE, VICTOR
- * _Moondream (Piper 0-330-30637-5, Mar 89, £2.25, 123pp, pb, cover by Paul Warren) Reprint (Heinemann 1988) childrens fantasy tale about an evil wizard who collects bad dreams.
- * +Moondream (Morrow/Lothrop Lee & Shepard 0-688-08778-7, Apr 89 [Mar 89], $11.95, 134pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy novel. A boy and his talking animal friends must do battle with an evil wizard to save his kidnapped cousin. A first novel. First U.S. edition (Heinemann 1988).
- OSBORNE, WILLIAM (1960- )
- OSBURN, JESSE
- * *Hes Waiting For You (Avon Flare 0-380-78042-9, Jul 96 [Jun 96], $3.99, 232pp, pb) Young-adult horror novel. Teens die when they explore an abandoned house full of old supernatural horrors.
- * *Only Child (Avon Flare 0-380-78043-7, Dec 96, $3.99, 245pp, pb) Young-adult horror novel. Only children disappear mysteriously at a seaside resort.
- OSHAUGHNESSY, MICHAEL, ed. (1965- ) (stories)
- * *The Monster Book of Monsters (Xanadu 0-947761-42-X, May 88 [Jun 88], £9.95, 349pp, hc) Marvellous anthology of 50 sf/fantasy/horror stories that range from the well-known to the obscure. First in a new series of anthologies that, on the strength of this one, will be well worth watching for. (PSP) (Contents)
- * *The Monster Book of Monsters (Crown/Bonanza 0-517-66293-0, Aug 88, $7.98, 352pp, hc) Anthology of 50 stories about monsters, but not necessarily horror stories. The subheadings run from A is for Aliens, Androids, Aaaargh to Z is for Zombie. This edition was printed in England, apparently simultaneously with a British one from Xanadu Press. Its an instant remainder book available only in Waldenbooks, Daltons, etc.
- OSHEA, (Catherine) PAT(ricia, née Shiels) (1931-2007)
- * *Finn MacCool and the Small Men of Deeds (Oxford 0-19-274134-9, Oct 87, £5.95, 96pp, hc) Juvenile fantasy novel. [Not seen]
- * *The Hounds of the Morrigan (Oxford University Press 0-19-271506-2, Oct 85 [1985], £9.95, 480pp, hc) Young adult fantasy novel. [Not seen]
- * +The Hounds of the Morrigan (Holiday House 0-8234-0595-8, Mar 86, $15.95, 469pp, hc) Young-adult comic fantasy novel inspired by Irish myths and legends; a first novel. Reprint (UK 1985). This is the first U.S. edition.
- * _The Hounds of the Morrigan (Puffin 0-14-032207-8, Jul 87, £2.95, 469pp, pb) Reprint (Oxford University Press 1985) juvenile fantasy in the world of Irish mythology.
- * _The Hounds of the Morrigan (Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-20001-6, Jun 88 [May 88], $3.95, 469pp, pb) Reprint (Oxford University Press 1985) humorous young-adult fantasy novel set in Irish mythology. Recommended. (FCM)
- * _The Hounds of the Morrigan (Penguin 0-14-011023-2, Jun 88, £3.95, 469pp, pb) Reprint (Oxford University Press 1985) fantasy novel.
- OSIER, JEFFREY (1954- ) (stories)
- * *Horizon Lines (Dark Regions Press 1-888993-04-9, 1997 [Oct 97], $9.95, 176pp, tp) Collection of seven stories, one original, most horror. Introduction by Elizabeth Massie. Also available in hardcover (-09-X, $24.95) and a 26-copy deluxe limited hardcover ($40.00). (Contents)
- * _The Writers Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe (with George Ochoa) See entry under George Ochoa.
- OSIER, JOHN (1938- )
- * _Covenant At Coldwater (Ballantine 0-345-32987-2, Mar 86 [Feb 86], $2.95, 228pp, pb) Reprint (St. Lukes Press 1983) horror/fantasy novel.
- * *Rankin: Enemy of the State (St. Lukes 0-918518-43-1, May 86, $12.95, 160pp, hc) Post-WWIII novel of one man vs. Big Brother.
- * _Rankin: Enemy of the State (Penguin 0-14-009818-6, Jul 87, $3.50, 160pp, pb) Reprint (St. Lukes 1986) post-holocaust adventure novel.
- OSMAR, NILS (stories)
- * *The Hungry Time (Wonder Publishing 1-889610-00-3, 1996 [Aug 96], $7.95, 111pp, tp, cover by Nils Osmar) Collection of eight SF stories. Order from Wonder Publishing, PO Box 30834, Seattle WA 98103; add $1.00 postage. (Contents)
- OSUILLEABHAIN, SEAN (1868-1940); see pseudonym Vincent OSullivan (stories)
- OSULLIVAN, VINCENT; pseudonym of Sean OSuilleabhain, (1868-1940) (stories)
- * *Master of Fallen Years: Complete Supernatural Stories of Vincent OSullivan (Ghost Story Press no ISBN, 1995, £24.00, xli+273pp, hc, cover by Steven Stapleton) Collection of 15 stories and eight poems, edited and with a long introduction and bibliography by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. [Not seen]
- OUDOT, SUSAN
- * *Virtual Love (Simon & Schuster UK 0-684-81714-4, May 97, £9.99, 454pp, tp) Literary SF novel. Virtual reality suits, tailored for feminists.
- * _Virtual Love (Pocket UK 0-671-85470-4, Feb 98 [Apr 98], £5.99, 454pp, pb) Reprint (Simon & Schuster UK 1997) SF novel about virtual reality suits for feminists.
- OUELLETTE, PIERRE (1945- )
- * *The Deus Machine (Villard 0-679-42407-5, Jan 94, $22.50, 443pp, hc, cover by Stan Watts) Near-future sf thriller of an American supercomputer out of control. A first novel
- * _The Deus Machine (NEL 0-450-60397-0, Apr 94, £16.99, 446pp, hc) Reprint (Villard 1993) thriller with SF elements. [First U.K. edition]
- * _The Deus Machine (NEL 0-450-60398-9, Mar 95 [Apr 95], £5.99, 446pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) Reprint (Villard 1993) thriller with SF elements, set in 2005.
- * _The Deus Machine (Pocket 0-671-53649-4, May 96, $5.99, 495pp, pb, cover by Stan Watts) Reprint (Villard 1994) near-future SF thriller with an AI computer.
- * *The Third Pandemic (Pocket 0-671-52534-4, Sep 96 [Aug 96], $23.00, 374pp, hc) Near-future thriller about an unstoppable epidemic.
- * _The Third Pandemic (Pocket Star 0-671-52336-0, May 97 [Apr 97], $6.99, 403pp, pb) Reprint (Pocket 1996) near-future thriller about an unstoppable epidemic.
- * _The Third Pandemic (NEL 0-340-68879-3, Jun 97 [Jul 97], £5.99, 374pp, pb, cover by Stewart Larking) Reprint (Pocket 1996) SF thriller of worldwide plague.
- OULD, CHRIS (1959?- )
- * *Road Lines (Andre Deutsch 0-233-97753-8, Jul 85 [1985], £8.95, 320pp, hc) Sf novel. [Not seen]
- * _Road Lines (Grafton 0-586-07030-3, Feb 87, £2.95, 303pp, pb) Reprint (Andre Deutsch 1985) futuristic thriller in the great Mad Max tradition.
- OUNSLEY, SIMON, ed. (1953- ) (stories)
- OUSPENSKY, P(eter) D(emianovich) (1878-1947) (stories)
- * _Talks with a Devil (Arkana 1-85063-096-8, Mar 88 [Apr 88], £3.95, 147pp, tp) Reprint (Turnstone 1972) original occult collection. (Contents)
- OVERSTREET, ROBERT M.
- * *The Official Overstreet Comic Book Companion: Second Edition (House of Collectibles 0-876-37764-9, Nov 88, $4.95, 530pp, tp) Non-fiction, a price guide to comics and big little books, plus information on collecting them.
- OVID; [i.e., Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 BC-17 AD) (stories)
- * *The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Harcourt Brace 0-15-170529-1, Oct 93 [Nov 93], $40.00, 559pp, hc, cover by Tomczak & Anna Swanstock) Fantasy novel in verse, the classic Roman narrative poem by Ovid in a new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum, who won the National Book Award for his translation of The Aeneid of Virgil (1972).
- OWEN, J. BRADLEY; pseudonym of Stephnee Kay Grainger, (1953- )
- * *Dead Season (Leisure 0-8439-2593-0, Mar 88 [Oct 88], $3.95, 366pp, pb) Horror novel about an evil house that feeds on a boys madness.
- OWEN, PAUL
- OWENS, CLAIRE MYERS SPOTSWOOD
- * _The Unpredictable Adventure: A Comedy of Womans Independence (Syracuse University Press 0-8156-2583-9, Apr 93, $16.95, 512pp, tp) Reprint (Doubleday 1935) feminist utopian novel, with a new 50-page biographical afterword and glossary by Miriam Kalman Harris. Order from Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NY 13244-5160.
- OWENS, EVERETT; pseudonym of Rob Thomas, (1965- )
- * *The X-Files #7: Control (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648330-5, Oct 97, £3.99, 127pp, pb, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [X-Files] Young-adult novelization of the TV series. Simultaneous with the US (HarperCollins/Trophy) edition.
- * *The X-Files: Control (HarperTrophy 0-06-447177-2, Oct 97, $4.50, 127pp, pb, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [X-Files] Novelization of TV series episode, seventh in the older YA series. Copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox Film.
- OWENS, LOUIS (Dean) (1948-2002)
- * *Nightlands (Dutton 0-525-94073-1, Aug 96 [Jul 96], $22.95, 217pp, hc) Thriller with elements of Native American magic.
- * _Nightlands (Penguin/Signet 0-451-18683-4, Aug 97 [Sep 97], $5.99, 312pp, pb) Reprint (Dutton 1996) thriller with elements of Native American magic.
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