The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

PERRY, STEVE(n Carl) (stories) (continued)

• * _Aliens vs. Predator: Prey (with Stephani Perry) (Orion/Millennium 0-75281-655-1, Jun ’98, £4.99, 262pp, pb, cover by Dimitri Patelis) [Aliens vs. Predator] Reissue (Bantam Spectra 1994) SF novelization.
• * *Aliens vs. Predator: Prey/Hunter’s Planet (with Stephani Perry & David F. Bischoff) (Millennium 1-85798-419-6, Aug ’95, £5.99, viii+526pp, pb, cover by Nelson DeCastro & John Bolton) [Aliens vs. Predator] Omnibus of the first two novelisations in this series. The books are separately paginated. (Contents)
• * _Aliens: Book Three: The Female War (with Stephani Perry) (Millennium 1-85798-143-X, Jun ’94, £4.99, 293pp, pb) [Aliens] Reprint (Bantam 1993) sf novelization. Volume three in the series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Aliens: Earth Hive (Millennium 1-85798-139-1, Nov ’93, £4.99, 278pp, pb) [Aliens] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1992) sf novelization. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Aliens: Nightmare Asylum (Millennium 1-85798-142-1, Feb ’94, £4.99, 277pp, pb) [Aliens] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) sf novelization. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Aliens: Omnibus Edition: The Female War/Genocide (Millennium 1-85798-454-4, Jan ’96, £5.99, 585pp, pb, cover by David Dorman) [Aliens] Omnibus of Books 3 and 4 in the series. The cover title is Aliens: Omnibus Volume 2. (Contents)
• * _Aliens: The Female War (with Stephani Perry) (Orion 0-75281-742-6, Nov ’98, £4.99, 245pp, pb, cover by Dimitrios Patelis) [Aliens] Reissue (Bantam 1993) SF novel. Book 3 in the ‘Aliens’ series.
• * *Aliens™ Book 1: Earth Hive (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56120-0, Oct ’92 [Sep ’92], $4.99, 278pp, pb, cover by Denis Beauvais) [Aliens] Sf novelization, first book of a new series based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novels based on the sf films Alien and Aliens.
• * *Aliens™ Book 2: Nightmare Asylum (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56158-8, May ’93 [Apr ’93], $4.99, 277pp, pb, cover by Dave Dorman) [Aliens] Sf novelization, second book of a series based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novels based on the sf films Alien and Aliens. Copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox.
• * *Aliens™ Book 3: The Female War (with Stephani Perry) (Bantam 0-553-56159-6, Aug ’93 [Jul ’93], $4.99, 293pp, pb, cover by David Dorman) [Aliens] Sf novelization, third book of a series based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novels based on the films Alien and Aliens. Copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox.
• * *Black Steel (Ace 0-441-06698-4, Feb ’92 [Jan ’92], $4.50, 245pp, pb, cover by Royo) [Matador] Sf adventure novel, sixth book of the “Matador” series.
• * *Brother Death (Ace 0-441-54476-2, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $4.99, 243pp, pb, cover by Royo) [Matador] Sf adventure novel, seventh book of the “Matador” series.
• * *Conan the Defiant (Tor 0-812-54264-9, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $6.95, 245pp, tp) [Conan] Heroic fantasy novel based on the Robert E. Howard character.
• * _Conan the Defiant (Tor 0-812-54273-8, Aug ’88 [Jul ’88], $3.50, 245pp, pb) [Conan] Reprint (Tor 1987) fantasy novelization.
• * _Conan the Defiant (Orbit 0-7474-0306-6, Jan ’90, £3.50, 245pp, pb) [Conan] Reprint (Tor 1987) fantasy novelization. This volume includes a “Conan chronology” by Robert Jordan. Volume 31 in the “Conan” series.
• * *Conan the Fearless (Tor 0-812-54248-7, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], $6.95, 275pp, tp) [Conan] Fantasy novel based on the Robert E. Howard character. There is an afterword on the might-thewed hero’s life by L. Sprague de Camp that has been used in several of the Conan books published since 1984.
• * _Conan the Fearless (Tor 0-812-54258-4, Jan ’87 [Dec ’86], $2.95, 275pp, pb) [Conan] Reprint (Tor 1986) fantasy novel based on a Robert E. Howard character.
• * _Conan the Fearless (Sphere 0-7221-6802-0, Jan ’88, £2.75, 216pp, pb) [Conan] Reprint (Tor 1986) fantasy novelization. Volume 28 in the “Conan” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Conan the Formidable (Tor 0-812-50998-6, Nov ’90 [Oct ’90], $7.95, 274pp, tp, cover by Kirk Reinert) [Conan] Fantasy novelization based on Robert E. Howard’s “Conan” series.
• * _Conan the Formidable (Tor 0-812-51377-0, Aug ’91 [Jul ’91], $3.99, 274pp, pb, cover by Ken Kelly) [Conan] Reprint (Tor 1990) fantasy novelization based on Robert E. Howard’s character.
• * _Conan the Formidable (Tor 0-812-51377-0, Jun ’98 [May ’98], $5.99, 274pp, pb, cover by Ken Kelly) [Conan] Reissue (Tor 1990) fantasy novelization based on Robert E. Howard’s character. Second printing.
• * *Conan the Free Lance (Tor 0-812-50690-1, Feb ’90 [Jan ’90], $3.95, 279pp, pb, cover by Kirk Reinert) [Conan] Fantasy novelization based on Robert E. Howard’s character.
• * _Conan the Free Lance (Tor 0-812-50690-1, Dec ’97 [Nov ’97], $5.99, 279pp, pb, cover by Kirk Reinert) [Conan] Reissue (Tor 1990) fantasy novelization based on Robert E. Howard’s character. Copyrighted by Conan Properties. Second printing.
• * *Conan the Indomitable (Tor 0-812-50295-7, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $7.95, 273pp, tp) [Conan] Fantasy novelization based on Robert E. Howard’s character.
• * _Conan the Indomitable (Tor 0-812-50860-2, Sep ’90 [Aug ’90], $3.95, 273pp, pb, cover by Kirk Reinert) [Conan] Reprint (Tor 1989) fantasy novelization based on Robert E. Howard’s character.
• * *The Digital Effect (Ace 0-441-00439-3, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $5.99, 255pp, pb, cover by Edwin Herder) SF novel. An artist and amateur private eye investigates murder on a space station.
• * _Dome (with J. Michael Reaves) See entry under J. Michael Reaves.
• * *The Forever Drug (Ace 0-441-0142-4, Feb ’95 [Jan ’95], $5.50, 287pp, pb, cover by Barclay Shaw) [Venture Silk] SF novel of interplanetary espionage featuring “Venture Silk”; sequel to Spindoc.
• * _Hellstar (with J. Michael Reaves) See entry under J. Michael Reaves.
• * *The Hero Curse (DimeNovels 1-56317-008-6, Jul ’91, $1.99, 94pp, pb, cover by Zac Reisner) Fantasy novella of a stableboy who becomes the keeper of an enchanted sword. This is a small format paperback (11.5 x 7.5 cm.).
• * *Isaac Asimov’s I-Bots: Time Was (with Gary A. Braunbeck) (HarperPrism 0-06-105295-7, Jun ’98, $23.00, 441pp, hc, cover by Peter Peebles) SF novelization based (supposedly) on a new take on robots by Asimov. Packaged and copyrighted by BIG Entertainment.
• * *Leonard Nimoy’s Primortals: Target Earth (Warner Aspect 0-446-52011-X, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], $22.00, 276pp, hc) SF novel based on the comic books. Packaged and copyrighted by BIG Entertainment.
• * _Leonard Nimoy’s Primortals: Target Earth (Warner Aspect 0-446-60510-7, Mar ’98 [Feb ’98], $6.50, 288pp, pb) Reprint (Warner Aspect 1997) SF novel based on the comic books. Packaged and copyrighted by BIG Entertainment.
• * _Leonard Nimoy’s Primortals: Target Earth (Bantam UK 0-553-50666-8, Mar ’98, £5.99, 288pp, pb) Reprint (Warner Aspect 1997) SF novel based on the comic books created by Nimoy, with concepts by Isaac Asimov. Packaged and copyrighted by BIG Entertainment. [First U.K. edition]
• * *The Machiavelli Interface (Ace 0-441-51356-5, Jul ’86 [Jun ’86], $2.95, 197pp, pb) [Matador] Sf novel of martial arts in space, conclusion of the “Matador Trilogy”.
• * _The Machiavelli Interface (Orbit 0-7474-0350-3, Dec ’90, £3.50, 197pp, pb) [Matador] Reprint (Ace 1986) sf novel. Volume 3 in the “Matador” trilogy.
• * _The Machiavelli Interface (Ace 0-441-51356-5, Oct ’91 [Sep ’91], $3.99, 197pp, pb, cover by Richard Berry) [Matador] Reissue (Ace 1986) sf adventure novel, third book of the “Matador” series — the copyright page still identifies this as a first printing, but it’s at least the second.
• * *The Man Who Never Missed (Ace 0-441-51916-4, Aug ’85 [Jul ’85], $2.95, 195pp, pb) [Matador] Sf novel, a one-man guerrilla army against an oppressive empire. Above-average martial-arts sf. (PJH)
• * _The Man Who Never Missed (Sphere 0-7474-0348-1, Jun ’89, £2.99, 195pp, pb) [Matador] Reprint (Berkley 1985) sf novel. Volume 1 in the “Matador” trilogy. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Man Who Never Missed (Ace 0-441-51918-0, Aug ’91, $3.95, 195pp, pb, cover by James Gurney) [Matador] Reissue (Ace 1985) sf adventure novel, first book of the “Matador” series; fourth printing.
• * *Matadora (Ace 0-441-52207-6, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], $2.95, 211pp, pb) [Matador] Sf novel of martial arts in space, sequel to The Man Whe Never Missed.
• * _Matadora (Sphere 0-7474-0349-X, Nov ’89, £3.50, 211pp, pb) [Matador] Reprint (Ace 1986) sf novel. Volume 2 in the “Matador” trilogy. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Matadora (Ace 0-441-52207-6, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $4.50, 211pp, pb, cover by Richard Berry) [Matador] Reissue (Ace 1986) sf adventure novel, second book of the “Matador” series; third printing.
• * *Men in Black (Bantam 0-553-57756-5, Jul ’97 [Jun ’97], $5.99, 226pp, pb) [Men in Black] Movie novelization of the sci-fi comedy based on the comic book. Copyrighted by Columbia Pictures Industries.
• * _Men in Black (Penguin 0-14-026890-1, Jul ’97, £5.99, 226pp, pb) [Men in Black] Reprint (Bantam 1997) novelisation of the SF movie. [First U.K. edition]
• * *The Omega Cage (with J. Michael Reaves) (Ace 0-441-62382-4, Apr ’88 [Mar ’88], $3.50, 244pp, pb) [Matador] Sf adventure novel about escaping from a brutal prison planet. Set in the same universe as the “Matador” trilogy.
• * *Spindoc (Ace 0-441-00008-8, Feb ’94 [Jan ’94], $4.99, 262pp, pb, cover by Barclay Shaw) [Venture Silk] Sf novel about a specialist in “manipulating data for public consumption” caught up in a murder plot.
• * *Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (Bantam Spectra 0-553-10089-0, May ’96 [Apr ’96], $22.95, 340pp, hc, cover by Drew Struzan) [Star Wars] Novelization based on the movies. Copyrighted by Lucasfilm.
• * _Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (SFBC #11822, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $8.98, 298pp, hc, cover by Drew Struzan) [Star Wars] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1996) Star Wars novelization. This is similar to the Spectra edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * *Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (Bantam UK 0-593-04040-6, Jun ’96 [Apr ’96], £12.99, 340pp, hc, cover by Drew Struzan) [Star Wars] Star Wars novelisation.
• * _Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (Bantam UK 0-553-50472-X, Mar ’97 [Feb ’97], £4.99, 385pp, pb, cover by Drew Struzan) [Star Wars] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1996) Star Wars novelisation.
• * _Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (Bantam Spectra 0-553-57413-2, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], $5.99, 387pp, pb, cover by Drew Struzan) [Star Wars] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1996) novelization based on the movies. Copyrighted by Lucasfilm.
• * *Stellar Ranger (AvoNova 0-380-77301-5, May ’94 [Apr ’94], $4.99, 212pp, pb, cover by Dorian Vallejo) [Stellar Ranger] Sf adventure novel in the style of a Western about solitary Stellar Ranger Cinch Carson’s battle against a lunatic who wants to conquer the universe.
• * *Stellar Ranger: Lone Star (AvoNova 0-380-77302-3, Jan ’95 [Dec ’94], $4.99, 227pp, pb, cover by Dorian Vallejo) [Stellar Ranger] SF adventure novel, second in the “Stellar Ranger” series. Packaged and copyrighted by Bill Fawcett & Associates.
• * *Thong the Barbarian Meets the Cycle Sluts of Saturn (with J. Michael Reaves) (Donald Ahlquist Publications no ISBN, 1998, $35.00, 96pp, hc, cover by Daniel Conan Young) Deliberately bad fantasy novella mixing elements of Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and pulp SF adventure. Illustrated by Daniel Conan Young. Foreword by Perry; afterword by Reaves. This is a limited edition of 100 numbered and 26 lettered copies.
• * *The Trinity Vector (Ace 0-441-00350-8, Jul ’96 [Jun ’96], $5.99, 290pp, pb, cover by Edwin Herder) SF novel. Three mysterious boxes hold the secrets of the universe.

PERUCHO, JOAN (1920- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * +Natural History (Knopf 0-394-57058-8, 1988 [Nov ’88], $17.95, 186pp, hc) A vampire novel set in 1830s Spain. First U.S. (and first English-language) edition (Ediciones Destino, Spain 1960).
• * _Natural History (Ballantine 0-345-36560-7, Apr ’90 [Mar ’90], $4.95, 160pp, pb) Reprint (Knopf 1988) vampire dark fantasy novel set in 19th-century Spain. Translated from the Catalan by David H. Rosenthal, this was originally published in Spain in 1960.

PETERMAN, MINDY

• * *Quantum Leap: Song and Dance (Berkley Boulevard 0-425-16577-9, Oct ’98 [Sep ’98], $6.99, 241pp, pb, cover by Steve Gardner) [Quantum Leap] Novelization based on the TV show, 17th in the series. Copyrighted by Universal Studios Publishing Rights.

PETERS, ALISTAIR

• * *Geronimus Rex (Janus 1-85756-152-X, Feb ’95, £6.99, 170pp, tp, cover by Alistair Peters) Humorous fantasy novel. When a dragon is shot down, and demands one of the King’s daughters in recompense, an enemy power schemes to take advantage of the situation by thwarting Princess Hornicutt’s attempts to sacrifice herself. A first novel. Available from Edinburgh House, 19 Nassau Street, London W1N 7RE.

PETERS, CATHERINE

• * +The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins (Princeton University Press 0-691-03392-7, Nov ’93 [Oct ’93], $29.95, 502pp, hc) Non-fiction, criticism. A biography of Wilkie Collins. First American edition (Secker & Warburg 1991).

PETERS, DAVID (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Photon #1: For the Glory (Berkley 0-425-09811-7, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $2.50, 155pp, pb) [Photon] Juvenile sf novel; first in an “intergalactic action series.”
• * *Photon #2: High Stakes (Berkley 0-425-09812-5, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $2.50, 150pp, pb) [Photon] Juvenile sf novel.
• * *Photon #3: In Search of Mom (Berkley Pacer 0-425-10106-1, Jul ’87 [Jun ’87], $2.50, 155pp, pb) [Photon] “Photon Adventure Novel #3”, latest in a juvenile sf series.
• * *Photon #4: This is Your Life, Bhodi Li (Berkley Pacer 0-425-10185-1, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $2.50, 149pp, pb) [Photon] Young-adult sf novel, “Photon Adventure #4”.
• * *Photon #5: Exile (Berkley Pacer 0-425-10611-X, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $2.50, 152pp, pb) [Photon] Young-adult sf novel, latest in a series.
• * *Psi-Man (Charter Diamond 1-55773-399-6, Oct ’90 [Sep ’90], $3.50, 202pp, pb) [Psi-Man] Men’s adventure fantasy novel with a psychic Quaker hero who uses his powers to fight a secret government agency. First book of a series.
• * *Psi-Man: Deathscape (Charter Diamond 1-55773-450-X, Jan ’91 [Dec ’90], $4.50, 185pp, pb) [Psi-Man] Men’s adventure fantasy novel with a psychic Quaker hero who uses his powers to fight evil mutants created by biochemical dumping at a weapons plant. Second book of a series.
• * *Psi-Man: Haven (Diamond 1-55773-709-6, May ’92 [Apr ’92], $3.99, 171pp, pb) [Psi-Man] Men’s adventure fantasy novel with a renegade psychic Quaker hero, sixth, and apparently last, book of the series.
• * *Psi-Man: Main Street D.O.A. (Diamond 1-55773-492-5, Apr ’91 [Mar ’91], $3.50, 185pp, pb) [Psi-Man] Men’s adventure fantasy novel with a renegade psychic Quaker hero, third book of a series.
• * *Psi-Man: Stalker (Diamond 1-55773-617-0, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $3.99, 171pp, pb) [Psi-Man] Men’s adventure fantasy novel with a renegade psychic Quaker hero, fifth book of an ongoing series.
• * *Psi-Man: The Chaos Kid (Diamond 1-55773-540-9, Jul ’91, $3.50, 171pp, pb) [Psi-Man] Men’s adventure fantasy novel with a renegade psychic Quaker hero, fourth book of the “Psi-Man” series.
• * *Skin Deep (Berkley 0-425-10612-8, Feb ’88 [Jan ’88], $2.50, 138pp, pb) [Photon] “Photon” #6, juvenile sf novelization based on a game.

PETERS, ELIZABETH; pseudonym of Barbara G. Mertz, (1927- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Devil May Care (Severn House 0-7278-5108-X, Jan ’97 [Dec ’96], £16.99, 250pp, hc) Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1977) associational thriller using the conventions of the horror novel. Its cover title is Devil-May-Care.
• * _Devil-May-Care (Tor 0-812-50789-4, Jun ’89 [May ’89], $4.50, 250pp, pb) Reprint (Dodd Mead 1977) gothic with real supernatural elements.
• * *The Last Camel Died at Noon (Warner 0-446-51483-7, Sep ’91, $18.95, 352pp, hc, cover by Bill Teason) [Amelia Peabody Emerson] Romantic historical fantasy adventure à la Haggard, sixth book of the ongoing “Amelia Peabody” series of comic mysteries. Victorian explorer Amelia Peabody, with her archaeologist husband and inhumanly precocious son, discover a lost city deep in the Sudan and attempt to drag it kicking and screaming into the 19th century. Peters is a pseudonym for Barbara Mertz.
• * _The Last Camel Died at Noon (Warner 0-446-36338-3, Oct ’92 [Sep ’92], $4.99, 430pp, pb, cover by William Teason) [Amelia Peabody Emerson] Reprint (Warner 1991) romantic adventure lost race fantasy novel à la Haggard, sixth book of the ongoing “Amelia Peabody” series of comic Victorian archaeological mysteries.

PETERS, MAUREEN (1935- ); see pseudonym Sharon Whitby

PETERS, RALPH (1952- )

• * *Red Army (W.H. Allen 0-352-32533-X, Aug ’89, £6.99, 382pp, tp) Near-future thriller. Also available in hardcover (-03694-9, £11.95).
• * *The War in 2020 (Pocket 0-671-67670-9, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], $19.95, 434pp, hc) Near-future sf technothriller of war in a world decimated by plague.
• * _The War in 2020 (Lime Tree 0-413-45281-6, May ’91, £14.99, 533pp, hc) Reprint (Pocket 1991) sf novel about a future war in the 21st century between the Americans, the Russians and the Japanese. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The War in 2020 (Pocket Star 0-671-75172-7, Jan ’92 [Dec ’91], $5.99, 607pp, pb) Reprint (Pocket 1991) near-future sf technothriller of war in a world decimated by plague.
• * _The War in 2020 (Mandarin 0-7493-1017-0, Mar ’92, £4.99, 528pp, pb) Reprint (Pocket 1991) sf novel about a future war in the 21st century between the Americans, the Russians, and the Japanese.

PETERSEN, GAIL

• * *The Making of a Monster (Dell Abyss 0-440-21389-4, Jun ’93 [May ’93], $4.99, 371pp, pb) Vampire horror novel of a conventional woman who becomes a vampire and transforms her life by immersing herself in the L.A. rock scene. A first novel.

PETERSEN, RAYMOND

• * *Cowkind (St. Martin’s/Wyatt 0-312-14302-8, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $21.95, 193pp, hc) Fantasy/satire/mystical novel about a Vietnam-era dairy farm as seen by cows, dogs, and humans. A first novel.

PETERSEN, SANDY (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Petersen’s Field Guide to Cthulhu Monsters (with Thomas Sullivan & Lynn Willis) (Chaosium 0-933635-48-6, Jul ’88, $15.95, 64pp, tp) Art book with a bibliography. It claims to be faithful to Lovecraft.
• * *S. Petersen’s Field Guide to Creatures of the Dreamlands (with Mark J. Ferrari, Lynn Willis & Thomas Sullivan) (Chaosium 0-933635-53-2, Apr ’89, $15.95, 64pp, tp) Art book devoted to creatures of Lovecraft’s dreamlands.