The Locus Index to Science Fiction

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POLLOTTA, NICK (stories) (continued)

* *Doomsday Exam (Ace 0-441-15866-8, Feb ’92 [Jan ’92], $3.99, 202pp, pb, cover by Dorian Vallejo) [Bureau 13] Fantasy novelization based on the “Bureau 13” role-playing game, second book of the “Bureau 13” series.
* *Full Moonster (Ace 0-441-08421-4, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $3.99, 197pp, pb, cover by Dorian Vallejo) [Bureau 13] Fantasy novel, third book of the “Bureau 13” series, based on a role-playing game, about a top-secret branch of the FBI specializing in dealing with lawbreaking monsters.
* *Illegal Aliens (with Phil Foglio) (TSR 0-88038-715-7, Mar ’89, $3.95, 336pp, tp) Humorous sf novel about how a NYC street gang foils aliens who want to use Earthlings as guinea pigs. Cover and illustrations by Foglio.
* *Shadowrun: Shadowboxer (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45599-1, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $5.99, 278pp, pb, cover by Luis Royo) [Shadowrun] Novelization based on the role-playing games, #25 in the series. The author’s name is given as Nick Pollotta on the title page. Copyrighted by FASA.
POOLE, JOSEPHINE; pseudonym of Jane Penelope Josephine Helyar, (1933- ) (stories)

* *The Loving Ghosts (Hutchinson 0-09-172050-8, May ’88 [1988], £6.95, 144pp, hc) Young adult ghost novel. [Not seen]
* _The Loving Ghosts (Beaver 0-09-959690-3, May ’89 [Apr ’89], £1.99, 119pp, pb) Reprint (Hutchinson 1988) young-adult ghost novel.
* *Scared to Death and Other Ghostly Stories (Hutchinson 0-09-176155-7, Jul ’94 [Jun ’94], £9.99, 158pp, hc, cover by Stuart Bodek) Original collection of nine ghost stories for young adults. (Contents)
* _Scared To Death and Other Ghostly Stories (Red Fox 0-09-928971-7, Oct ’96, £3.50, 158pp, pb) Reprint (Hutchinson 1994) original collection of nine ghost stories for young adults.
POORTVLIET, RIEN; [i.e., Marien Poortvliet] (1933?- )

* *The Book of the Sandman and the Alphabet of Sleep (Harry N. Abrams 0-8109-1524-3, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], $17.95, 121pp, hc) Children’s fantasy art/humor book, similar to the authors’ earlier hit, Gnomes. Originally published in Dutch (J.H. Kok 1988 as Het Bock Van Klaas Vaak en het ABC van de Slaap).
* *Secrets of the Gnomes (with Wil Huygen) (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-30861-1, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $12.95, unpaginated, pb) Semi-fiction/humor. “You can go gnome again!” say the publishers.
POPE, ELIZABETH MARIE (1917-1992)

* _The Perilous Gard (Tempo 0-441-65956-X, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $2.25, 211pp, pb) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1974) young-adult fantasy novel.
* _The Sherwood Ring (Ace/Tempo 0-441-76111-9, Apr ’85 [Mar ’85], $2.25, 180pp, pb) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1958) young-adult fantasy novel. Recommended. (DLN)
* _The Sherwood Ring (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-034911-1, May ’92 [Apr ’92], $3.99, 266pp, pb, cover by Tom Stimpson) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1958) young-adult fantasy novel about a girl who encounters the ghosts of her Revolutionary War ancestors. Illustrated by Evaline Ness.
POPESCU, PETRU (Demetru) (1929- )

* *Almost Adam (Morrow 0-688-14863-8, May ’96 [Mar ’96], $24.00, 544pp, hc) Lost-race novel. An anthropologist stumbles across a living missing link, and his tribe. A first novel by a filmmaker and non-fiction writer.
* _Almost Adam (Avon 0-380-72824-9, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $6.99, 607pp, pb) Reprint (Morrow 1996) lost-race novel. An anthropologist finds a living tribe of missing links.
* *In Hot Blood (Ballantine Fawcett 0-449-14554-9, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $3.95, 328pp, pb) Horror, a New Orleans vampire novel.
POPKES, STEVEN (Earl) (1952- ) (stories) (assoc.)

* *Caliban Landing (Congdon & Weed 0-86553-188-9, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $16.95, 281pp, hc) Sf novel (part of the “Isaac Asimov Presents” line), with an introduction by Asimov. A first novel. Anthropological sf set on an alien planet and told from the alien’s viewpoint.
* _Caliban Landing (Worldwide Library 0-373-30304-1, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $3.95, 253pp, pb) Reprint (Congdon & Weed 1987) offworld sf novel. An exploration team accidentally kills a native and must stay and try to make it right.
PORATH, ELLEN

* _DragonLance: Kindred Spirits (with Mark Anthony) See entry under Mark Anthony.
* *DragonLance: Steel and Stone (TSR 1-56076-339-6, Sep ’92, $4.95, 311pp, tp, cover by Clyde Caldwell) [DragonLance: Meetings] Fantasy novelization based on the “DragonLance” game, fifth book of “The Meetings Sextet”.
PORTA, ANTONIO

* *The King of the Storeroom (Wesleyan University Press 0-8195-5247-X, Jun ’92 [Sep ’93], $19.95, 149pp, hc, cover by Jean Charlier Gerson) Post-apocalypse sf novel of a survivor’s efforts to preserve knowledge in the face of barbarism and chaos. Translated from the Italian by Lawrence R. Smith. Originally published as Il Re del Maggazino (Mondadori 1978). Available from University Press of New England, 17½ Lebanon St., Hanover NH 03755.
PORTER, BARRY

* *Dark Souls (Zebra 0-8217-2651-X, May ’89 [Apr ’89], $3.95, 349pp, pb) Horror novel about a creature that consumes men’s souls.
* *Junkyard (Zebra 0-8217-2816-4, Nov ’89 [Oct ’89], $3.95, 284pp, pb) Horror novel of a carnivorous creature that lives in a junkyard menacing children.
PORTER, FRANCIS A. (1920- )

* *Salt Twelve (Fithian Press 0-936784-58-X, Aug ’88 [Jul ’88], $9.95, 254pp, tp) Sf novel, a satirical look at the arms race from the perspective of superintelligent aliens.
POSEY, CARL A(lfred, Jr.) (1933- )

* _Kiev Footprint (Gold Eagle 0-373-62103-5, Aug ’88, £2.95, 251pp, pb) Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1983) near-future Cold War thriller. [First U.K. edition]
POSEY, ERNEST (stories)

* *Hormone Pirates of Xenobia and Dream Studs of Kama Loka (Alyson 1-55583-385-3, Sep ’96 [Dec ’97], $11.95, 170pp, tp, cover by Beau) Original collection of two novellas of erotic gay SF. This has a 1996 copyright, but was not seen until now; this is the second printing. (Contents)
POSNER, RICHARD (1944- )

* *Sparrow’s Flight (Evans 0-87131-544-0, Aug ’88 [Sep ’88], $12.95, 220pp, hc) Associational; young-adult novel about a group of misfits who band together to create their own fantasy worlds, including writing sf and fantasy.
* *Sweet Sixteen and Never Been Killed (Pocket Archway 0-671-86506-4, Sep ’93, $3.50, 211pp, pb, cover by Lisa Falkenstern) Young-adult horror novel of a cursed girl doomed to die on her 16th birthday who decides to fight back.
POSSE, ABEL (1939- ) (stories) (assoc.)

* *The Dogs of Paradise (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-12091-5, Feb ’90 [Jan ’90], $17.95, 301pp, hc) Literary fantasy novel about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the new world. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers, this originally appeared as Los Perros del Paraiso (Argentina 1987).
POTOCKI, JAN, hrabia (1761-1815) (stories) (assoc.)

* *The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Viking UK 0-670-83428-9, Jan ’95, £16.00, 631pp, hc, cover by Francisco Goya) Fantasy novel in the form of tales, many horror or fantasy, told by travelers in 1739 Europe. First English language publication of the complete work (first partially published in 1805). Translated by Ian Maclean from the 1989 French edition. This is a world-wide edition, available in the US for $27.95.
* _The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Penguin 0-14-044580-3, Mar ’96 [May ’96], £8.99, xxiv+631pp, tp, cover by Francisco De Goya) Reprint (Viking UK 1995) fantasy novel. An English language version of the complete work, (first partially published in 1805); this is translated by Ian Maclean from the 1989 French edition. Stories, and stories within stories, of brigands, ghosts, smugglers, cabbalists, sadists, satanists and phantoms, told by a band of wanderers traversing Europe in 1739.
* *Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript (Ten Days in the Life of Alphonse Van Worden) (Dedalus 0-946626-67-7, Aug ’90 [Jul ’90], £5.99, 159pp, tp) Literary fantasy/supernatural novel, translated from the Polish (1847) by Christine Donougher, and with a long and fascinating introduction by Brian Stableford. Also available in hardcover (-69-3, £12.99). Also available in the US from Hippocrene Books (0-87052-936-6, $8.95).
* _Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript (Ten Days in the Life of Alphonse Van Worden) (Dedalus/Hippocrene 0-946626-67-7, Nov ’90 [Oct ’90], $8.95, 159pp, tp, cover by Salvator Rosa) Classic early-19th century French gothic fantasy, a new translation by Christine Donougher, edited and with an introduction by Brian Stableford. This is a worldwide edition with both US and UK prices listed, as well as both ISBNs.
POTTER, DENNIS (Christopher George) (1935-1994) (stories)

* *Karaoke and Cold Lazarus (Faber and Faber 0-571-17478-7, Apr ’96, £9.99, xvi+392pp, tp) Collection of 2 teleplays, a contempoary thriller, and its SF sequel set in the year 2368. There is an introduction by the late author. Respecting his final requests, these films are being broadcast respectively on BBC and Channel 4 from 28 April 1996, then repeated on the other channel. (Contents)
POTTER, J. K. (stories) (assoc.)

* *The Art of Skeleton Crew (Scream/Press no ISBN, Nov ’85, $15.00, unpaginated, pb) Art book. Limited edition of 500 signed copies of a portfolio featuring most of Potter’s illustrations for the book by Stephen King. Potter is the best horror artist working today. Recommended. (CNB)
* *Horripilations: The Art of J.K. Potter (Paper Tiger 1-85028-255-2, Nov ’93 [Dec ’93], £12.95, 128pp, tp, cover by J. K. Potter) Compilation of artwork by J.K. Potter, with an introduction by Stephen King and linking text by Nigel Suckling.
* +Horripilations: The Art of J.K. Potter (Overlook Press 0-87951-613-5, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], $24.95, 128pp, tp, cover by J. K. Potter) Art book, with text by Nigel Suckling and an introduction by Stephen King. First US edition (Paper Tiger 1993).
* _Neurotica: Images of the Bizarre (Paper Tiger 1-85028-359-1, Nov ’96, £13.99, 128pp, tp) Reprint (Overlook Press 1996) Photographic art collection of work from books, magazines, and his private portfolio. Text by Potter, with an Introduction by the performance artist and model, Lydia Lunch. [First U.K. edition]
* +Neurotica: The Darkest Art of J.K. Potter (Overlook Press 0-87951-687-9, Oct ’96 [Aug ’96], $27.95, 128pp, tp, cover by J. K. Potter) Art book, with text by J.K. Potter and an introduction by Lydia Lunch. First US edition (Paper Tiger 1996).
POTTER, KATHLEEN JILL (1932- ); see pseudonym Kathleen Kinder
POTTER, TESSA (stories)

* _Dark Waters (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-68754-1, 1996 [Mar ’97], £3.99, 166pp, pb, cover by Alan Fraser) Reprint (Spindlewood 1995) young-adult collection of four original fantasy stories. (Contents)
POTTS, CHERRY

* *Mosaic of Air (Onlywomen Press 0-906500-44-3, Mar ’93 [Apr ’93], $9.95, 206pp, tp) Collection of 16 lesbian short stories, 11 sf or fantasy.
POTTS, STEPHEN W(ayne) (1949- )

* *The Second Marxian Invasion: The Fiction of the Strugatsky Brothers (Borgo Press 0-89370-279-X, Jun ’91, $12.95, 104pp, tp) Criticism, an analysis of the work of the Strugatsky brothers, plus a bibliography of their work in English. A hardcover edition (-179-3, $22.95) was announced but not seen. [Strugatsky, Strugatsky]
POUNS, BRAUNA E.

* _Amerika (Headline Open Market 0-7472-3093-5, 1987 [Jun ’88], £2.95, 412pp, pb) Reprint (Pocket 1987) novelization of the TV mini-series, based on a screenplay by Donald Wrye. Special ‘Open Market’ edition, not available in the UK.
* *Amerika (Pocket 0-671-63345-7, Feb ’87, $4.50, 412pp, pb) Novelization of the tv miniseries about a near-future Soviet takeover of the U.S.
POURNELLE, JERRY E(ugene) [Ph.D] (1933- ) (stories) (assoc.)

* _Beowulf’s Children (with Steven Barnes & Larry Niven) See entry under Larry Niven.
* _Birth of Fire (Baen 0-671-65649-X, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $2.95, 229pp, pb) Reprint (Laser 1976) sf novel.
* *The Children’s Hour (with S. M. Stirling) (Baen 0-671-72089-9, Nov ’91 [Oct ’91], $4.99, 316pp, pb, cover by Larry Elmore) [Man-Kzin Wars] Sf “fix-up” novel set in Larry Niven’s “Known Space” universe. This was created from stories that previously appeared in Man-Kzin Wars II and Man-Kzin Wars III.
* _The Dragons of Heorot (with Steven Barnes & Larry Niven) See entry under Larry Niven.
* _Exiles to Glory (Ace 0-441-22218-8, Nov ’86 [Oct ’86], $2.95, 216pp, pb) Reissue (Ace 1978) sf novel; 5th printing.
* _Exiles to Glory (Baen 0-671-72199-2, Dec ’93 [Nov ’93], $4.99, 217pp, pb, cover by Larry Elmore) Reprint (Ace 1978) sf novel. The text has been corrected and slightly revised for this edition.
* *Falkenberg’s Legion (Baen 0-671-72018-X, Oct ’90 [Sep ’90], $4.95, 432pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [John Christian Falkenberg] Sf omnibus of The Mercenary (Pocket 1977) and West of Honor (Laser 1976) with a bit of story rearrangement and bridging material. (Contents)
* _Falkenberg’s Legion (Baen 0-671-72018-X, Mar ’96 [Feb ’96], $6.99, 432pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [John Christian Falkenberg] Reissue (Baen 1990) SF omnibus. Third printing.
* _Fallen Angels (with Michael F. Flynn & Larry Niven) See entry under Larry Niven.
* _Footfall (with Larry Niven) See entry under Larry Niven.
* *Go Tell the Spartans (with S. M. Stirling) (Baen 0-671-72061-9, Jun ’91 [May ’91], $4.95, 345pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [John Christian Falkenberg] Sf novel, part of Pournelle’s “Falkenberg’s Legion” series.
* _The Gripping Hand (with Larry Niven) See entry under Larry Niven.
* _High Justice (Baen 0-671-65571-X, May ’86 [Apr ’86], $2.95, 274pp, pb) Reprint (Pocket 1977) collection of 7 stories. (The 1974 copyright date inside the edition is wrong.)
* _Higher Education (with Charles Sheffield) See entry under Charles Sheffield.
* *Higher Education (with Charles Sheffield) (Tor 0-312-86174-5, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $21.95, 286pp, hc, cover by Vincent di Fate) Young-adult SF novel. A young man kicked out of school signs up to be an asteroid miner.
* _Inferno (with Larry Niven) See entry under Larry Niven.
* _Janissaries (Baen 0-671-87709-7, Mar ’96 [Feb ’96], $5.99, 245pp, pb, cover by John Pound) [Janissaries] Reprint (Ace 1979) SF novel.
* *Janissaries III: Storms of Victory (with Roland J. Green) (Ace 0-441-38297-5, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $16.95, 359pp, hc) [Janissaries] Military sf novel, third in the series. The book is a collaboration with Roland Green, but for commercial reasons only Pournelle’s name is on the cover and in the advertising.
* _Janissaries III: Storms of Victory (with Roland J. Green) (Ace 0-441-38299-1, Mar ’88 [Feb ’88], $3.95, 314pp, pb) [Janissaries] Military sf novel, third in the “Janissaries” series. The hardcover was published with only Pournelle’s name on the cover, but the paperback has both names.
* _Janissaries: Clan and Crown (with Roland J. Green) (Orbit 0-7088-8293-5, Jan ’89, £3.50, 383pp, pb, cover by Patrick Jones) [Janissaries] Reprint (Ace 1983) sf novel. Volume 2 in the “Janissaries” series. [First U.K. edition]
* _King David’s Spaceship (Baen 0-671-65616-3, Feb ’87 [Jan ’87], $2.95, 366pp, pb) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1981) of an expansion of A Spaceship for the King (DAW 1973). Sf adventure novel.
* _King David’s Spaceship (Baen 0-671-72068-6, Jun ’91, $4.95, 366pp, pb, cover by David A. Hardy) Reissue (Simon & Schuster 1981) sf adventure novel, a revised version of A Spaceship for the King (DAW 1973). Second printing.
* _The Legacy of Heorot (with Larry Niven & Steven Barnes) See entry under Larry Niven.
* _The Legacy of Heorot (with Steven Barnes & Larry Niven) See entry under Larry Niven.
* _Lucifer’s Hammer (with Larry Niven) See entry under Larry Niven.
* _The Mercenary (Baen 0-671-65594-9, Oct ’86 [Sep ’86], $2.95, 269pp, pb) [John Christian Falkenberg] Reprint (Pocket 1977) military sf novel, sequel to West of Honor.
* _The Mercenary (Franklin Watts 0-531-15084-4, Apr ’88 [Mar ’88], $17.95, 267pp, hc) [John Christian Falkenberg] Sf novel, part of the “Falkenberg” military series. Contains a new introduction by David Drake. This is the first hardcover edition.
* _The Mercenary (Franklin Watts 0-531-15084-4, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], $17.95, 269pp, hc) [John Christian Falkenberg] Reprint (Pocket 1977) military sf novel, part of the “Falkenberg” series.
* _The Moat Around Murcheson’s Eye (with Larry Niven) See entry under Larry Niven.
* _The Mote in God’s Eye (with Larry Niven) See entry under Larry Niven.
* _Oath of Fealty (with Larry Niven) See entry under Larry Niven.
* *Prince of Mercenaries (Baen 0-671-69811-7, Mar ’89 [Feb ’89], $3.95, 338pp, pb) [John Christian Falkenberg] Military sf novel, part of the “Falkenberg” series. Expanded from earlier short stories.
* *Prince of Sparta (with S. M. Stirling) (Baen 0-671-72158-5, Mar ’93 [Feb ’93], $4.99, 383pp, pb, cover by Stephen Hickman) [John Christian Falkenberg] Military sf novel in the “Falkenberg’s Legion” series, direct sequel to Go Tell the Spartans.
* _Red Dragon (Ace Charter 0-441-71092-1, Dec ’85 [Nov ’85], $2.95, 201pp, pb) [Red Heroin] Reprint (Berkley Medallion 1971, as by Wade Curtis) non sf/fantasy; associational. Spy thriller, a sequel to Red Heroin.
* _Red Heroin (Charter 0-441-71089-1, Nov ’85 [Oct ’85], $2.95, 156pp, pb) [Red Heroin] Reprint (Berkley Medallion 1969 as by “Wade Curtis”) novel, non-sf/fantasy; associational. First of a series of three espionage adventure novels. Listed for Pournelle fans. There is a Heinlein quote on the cover.
* *Starswarm (Tor 0-312-86183-4, May ’98 [Apr ’98], $23.95, 349pp, hc, cover by Vincent Di Fate) [Jupiter] Young-adult SF novel, fifth in the “Jupiter” series. A boy discovers his late parents put an artificial intelligence chip in his head.
* _Starswarm (SFBC #18502, Aug ’98, $11.98, 349pp, hc, cover by Vincent Di Fate) [Jupiter] Reprint (Tor 1998) young-adult SF novel, fifth in the “Jupiter” series. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.

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