The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

RUBENS, BERNICE; [i.e., Bernice Ruth Rubens Nassauer] (1928-2004)

• * _Our Father (Hamish Hamilton 0-241-11979-0, Mar ’87 [Aug ’87], £9.95, 212pp, hc) Reprint (Delacorte) novel about a woman who keeps meeting God.

RUBER, PETER, ed. (stories)

• * _The Final Adventures of Solar Pons See entry under August Derleth.

RUBIE, PETER (Malcolm) (1950- )

• * _Mindbender (with James Cohen) See entry under James Cohen.
• * *Werewolf (Longmeadow 0-681-41394-8, Jan ’92 [Nov ’91], $15.95, 272pp, hc, cover by Paul Stinson) Werewolf horror novel.

RUBIN, MARTY

• * *The Boiled Frog Syndrome (Alyson 1-55583-108-7, Sep ’87 [Nov ’87], $7.95, 231pp, tp) Sf novel, set in the near future, about the U.S. government repressing gays, and the resistance against it.

RUBINSTEIN, GILLIAN (Margaret, née Hanson) (1942- ) (stories)

• * _Beyond the Labyrinth (Teens Mandarin 0-7497-0280-X, Jul ’90 [Aug ’90], £2.50, 170pp, pb) Reprint (Hyland House 1988) young-adult sf novel.
• * +Beyond the Labyrinth (Franklin Watts/Orchard 0-531-05899-9, Sep ’90 [Oct ’90], $14.95, 245pp, hc, cover by Clifford Jackson) Young-adult sf novel. First American edition (Hyland House 1988).
• * +Foxspell (Simon & Schuster 0-689-80602-7, Sep ’96 [Nov ’96], $16.00, 219pp, hc, cover by Nicholas Wilton) Young-adult fantasy novel. A boy with the ability to turn into a fox is torn between his family, his gang, and life in the wild. First US edition (Hyland House, Australia 1994). Winner of the Australian Children’s Book Council’s award for Book of the Year for Older Readers.
• * _Foxspell (Orion/Dolphin 1-85881-487-1, Mar ’98, £4.50, 218pp, pb, cover by Ian Butterworth) Reprint (Hyland House 1994) young-adult fantasy novel of a shapechanger. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Galax-Arena (Heinemann 0-434-96503-0, Aug ’93, £9.99, 138pp, hc) Reprint (Hyland House 1992) young-adult sf novel about two children kidnapped by aliens. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Galax-Arena (Mammoth 0-7497-1984-2, May ’95, £3.50, 138pp, pb) Reprint (Hyland House 1992) young-adult SF novel about two children kidnapped by aliens.
• * +Galax-Arena (Simon & Schuster 0-689-80136-X, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], $15.00, 172pp, hc, cover by Joanne Pendola) Young-adult SF novel about kids kidnapped by aliens to perform gladitorial stunts. First US edition (Hyland House, Australia 1992).
• * _Galax-Arena (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81235-3, Feb ’97, $3.99, 299pp, pb, cover by Joanne Pendola) Reprint (Hyland House, Australia 1992) young-adult SF novel.
• * _Shinkei (Dolphin 1-85881-441-3, May ’97, £3.99, 215pp, pb, cover by George Smith) [Space Demons] Reprint (Omnibus Books Australia 1996) young-adult SF/fantasy novel. Last in “The Space Demons Trilogy”. There is a simultaneous hardback (Orion Children’s Books: 1-85881-440-5, £9.99). [First U.K. edition]
• * _Skymaze (Mammoth 0-7497-0397-0, Jul ’90, £2.50, 193pp, pb, cover by Bob Harvey) [Space Demons] Reprint (Penguin Books Australia 1989) young-adult sf novel. Sequel to Space Demons.
• * +Skymaze (Franklin Watts/Orchard 0-531-05929-4, May ’91 [Apr ’91], $14.95, 183pp, hc, cover by Jon Weiman) [Space Demons] Young-adult science fantasy of kids drawn into a world beyond the computer screen. First American edition (Penguin Australia 1989).
• * _Skymaze (Pocket Archway 0-671-76988-X, Mar ’93 [Feb ’93], $2.99, 189pp, pb) [Space Demons] Reprint (Penguin Australia 1989) young-adult science fantasy of kids drawn into a world beyond the computer screen. Sequel to Space Demons.
• * _Skymaze (Dolphin 1-85881-439-1, May ’97, £3.99, 194pp, pb, cover by George Smith) [Space Demons] Reprint (Penguin Australia 1989) young-adult SF/fantasy novel. Book 2 in “The Space Demons Trilogy”. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Space Demons (Magnet 0-416-13792-X, Apr ’89, £1.99, 213pp, pb, cover by Julie Dodd) [Space Demons] Reprint (Penguin Australia 1986) young-adult sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Space Demons (Pocket Archway 0-671-67912-0, May ’89 [Jul ’89], $2.95, 213pp, pb) [Space Demons] Reprint (Omnibus 1986) young-adult fantasy novel. A computer game sends teenagers into alternate universes.
• * _Space Demons (Mammoth 0-7497-0410-1, Jul ’90 [Aug ’90], £2.50, 213pp, pb) [Space Demons] Reissue (Penguin Books Australia 1986) young-adult sf novel.
• * _Space Demons (Dolphin 1-85881-438-3, May ’97, £3.99, 213pp, pb, cover by George Smith) [Space Demons] Reprint (Omnibus Books Australia 1986) young-adult SF/fantasy novel. Book 1 in “The Space Demons Trilogy”. [First U.K. edition]
• * +Under the Cat’s Eye (Simon & Schuster 0-689-81800-9, Sep ’98 [Oct ’98], $16.00, 204pp, hc, cover by Victor Lee) Young-adult fantasy/mystery novel. A boy’s new boarding school is a gateway between worlds, with a soul-stealing headmaster. First US edition (Hodder Headline Australia 1997).
• * _Under the Cat’s Eye (Orion/Dolphin 1-85881-614-9, Sep ’98, £4.50, 172pp, pb, cover by Ian Butterworth) Reprint (Hodder Children’s Books Australia 1997) young adult fantasy novel of parallel worlds. [First U.K. edition]

RUCKER, RUDY; [i.e., Rudolf von Bitter Rucker] (1946- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The 4th Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-34420-4, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $17.95, 228pp, hc) Non-fiction, of associational interest.
• * *All the Visions: A Novel of the Sixties/Space Baltic (with Anselm Hollo) (Ocean View 0-938075-09-8, Feb ’91 [Dec ’90], $9.95, 125/86pp, hc, cover by Robert Williams) Original anthology containing an associational autobiographical novel by Rudy Rucker and a poetry collection by Hollo bound together. A hardcover edition (-12-8) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
• * _The Fourth Dimension (Penguin 0-14-008408-8, Nov ’86, £5.95, 228pp, pb) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1984) non-fiction, of associational interest.
• * _The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of Higher Universes (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-39388-4, Sep ’85 [Aug ’85], $8.95, 228pp, pb) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1984), non-fiction; associational. Fittingly described as a “combination of math, philosophy, and fantasy,” this book uses some of the techniques of Rucker the sf writer in the cause of Rucker the scientist.
• * *Freeware (Avon 0-380-79278-8, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $13.00, 288pp, tp, cover by Raquel Jaramillo) [Software] SF novel, sequel to Software and Wetware. Also published in hardcover (-97509-2, $23.00).
• * _Freeware (Avon Eos 0-380-78159-X, Mar ’98 [Feb ’98], $5.99, 262pp, pb, cover by Raquel Jaramillo) [Software] Reprint (Avon 1997) SF novel, sequel to Software and Wetware.
• * *The Hacker and the Ants (Morrow AvoNova 0-688-13416-5, May ’94, $20.00, 307pp, hc, cover by Paul Stinson) Virtual reality SF thriller about a hacker working on an AI project who takes the rap when a plague of viral ants invade the nation’s data highways.
• * _The Hacker and the Ants (AvoNova 0-380-71844-8, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $4.99, 307pp, pb, cover by Paul Stinson) Reprint (Morrow AvoNova) virtual reality SF novel about a plague of viral ants in a computer network.
• * *The Hollow Earth (Morrow 0-688-09413-9, Aug ’90 [Jul ’90], $18.95, 278pp, hc, cover by Romas B. Kukalis) Historical alternate-world sf novel about a 19th-century Southern boy who finds himself on a journey into the hollow earth with Edgar Allan Poe. Recommended. (FCM)
• * _The Hollow Earth (BOMC no ISBN, Oct ’91 [Sep ’91], $15.95, 308pp, hc, cover by Romas) Reprint (Morrow 1990) historical alternate-world sf novel. This edition is identical to the Morrow except it lacks an ISBN and price and has a BOMC mark on the back cover.
• * _The Hollow Earth (AvoNova 0-380-75535-1, Jan ’92 [Dec ’91], $3.99, 298pp, pb, cover by Romas) Reprint (Morrow 1990) historical alternate-world sf novel about a 19th-century Southern boy who finds himself on a journey into the hollow earth with Edgar Allan Poe.
• * *Live Robots (AvoNova 0-380-77543-3, Apr ’94, $5.99, 357pp, pb) [Software] Omnibus of two sf novels, Software (Ace 1982) and its sequel Wetware (Avon 1988). (Contents)
• * *Master of Space and Time (Bluejay 0-312-94297-4, Feb ’85 [Jan ’85], $14.95, 229pp, hc) Sf novel. The two zaniest inventors since Kuttner’s “Gallagher” stories. Very amusing. (DLN)
• * _Master of Space and Time (Baen 0-671-55997-4, Dec ’85 [Nov ’85], $2.95, 229pp, pb) Reprint (Bluejay 1985) sf novel.
• * *Mind Tools (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-38315-3, Apr ’87, $17.95, 327pp, hc) Non-fiction, associational. A study subtitled “The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality”. Rucker writes non-fiction in much the same way he writes sf.
• * *Moldies & Meatbops (SFBC #17425, Aug ’97, $12.98, 552pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Software] Omnibus of three SF novels: Software (Ace 1982), Wetware (Avon 1988) and Freeware (Avon 1997). This lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket. (Contents)
• * *The Secret of Life (Bluejay 0-312-94398-9, Jun ’85 [May ’85], $14.95, 246pp, hc) Sf novel, ’60s setting, flying saucers, dope and campus revolution.
• * _Software (Avon 0-380-70177-4, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $2.95, 167pp, pb) [Software] Reprint (Ace 1982) sf novel. Winner of the first Philip K. Dick Award.
• * _Software (Roc UK 0-14-017802-3, Sep ’94 [Oct ’94], £4.99, 174pp, pb) [Software] Reprint (Ace 1982) SF novel. Volume one in the “Software” series. Second Printing.
• * _Software (AvoNova 0-380-70177-4, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $5.99, 167pp, pb, cover by Raquel Jaramillo) [Software] Reissue (Ace 1982) SF novel, first in the series. Fourth printing.
• * *Transreal! (WCS Books 1-878914-00-6, Jul ’91, $15.00, 534pp, tp) Collection of stories, poems, and essays, including the collection The 57th Franz Kafka, with an introduction by Robert Sheckley. All of Rucker’s short fiction, including collaborations, is included. A hardcover limited edition (-01-4, $50.00) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
• * *Wetware (Avon 0-380-70178-2, Apr ’88 [Mar ’88], $2.95, 183pp, pb) [Software] Sf novel, sequel to Software.
• * _Wetware (NEL 0-450-49476-4, Mar ’89, £2.50, 183pp, pb) [Software] Reprint (Avon 1988) sf novel. Sequel to Software. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Wetware (AvoNova 0-380-70178-2, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $5.99, 183pp, pb, cover by Raquel Jaramillo) [Software] Reissue (Avon 1988) SF novel, second in the “*ware” series. Fourth printing.
• * _White Light (Wired Books 1-888869-17-8, Sep ’97 [Dec ’97], $12.95, 269pp, tp) Reprint (Virgin 1980) SF novel with new foreword by John Shirley.

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• * _Mathenauts (NEL 0-450-50253-8, Oct ’89, £3.50, 300pp, pb) Reprint (Arbor House 1987) anthology of sf stories dealing with (or taking off from) mathematical concepts. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (Arbor House 0-87795-891-2, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $18.95, 300pp, hc) Anthology of sf stories dealing with (or taking off from) mathematical concepts. (Contents)
• * *Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (Arbor House 0-87795-890-4, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $9.95, 300pp, tp) Published simultaneously with the hardback edition.
• * *Semiotext(e) SF (with Peter Lamborn Wilson & Robert Anton Wilson) (Autonomedia 0-936756-43-8, Dec ’89 [Feb ’90], $10.00, 384pp, tp, cover by Mike Saenz) Anthology of 46 avant-garde sf stories, this is the 14th issue of Semiotext(e). There is introductory material by the editors. Available from Autonomedia, 55 South 11th St., Brooklyn NY 11211-0568. (Contents)

RUDD, JILL, ed.

• * _A Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (with Val Gough) See entry under Val Gough.

RUDDICK, BOB

• * _Max and Me and the Time Machine (with Gery Greer) See entry under Gery Greer.

RUDDICK, NICHOLAS (1952- )

• * *British Science Fiction: A Chronology, 1478-1990 (Greenwood Press 0-313-28002-9, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $55.00, 250pp, hc) Chronology of selected British sf publications from 1479 to 1990, highlighting important biographical material as well. Available from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881.
• * *Christopher Priest (Starmont House 1-55742-109-9, 1989 [Aug ’90], $9.95, 104pp, tp) Non-fiction book on Christopher Priest, with an annotated bibliography. Starmont Reader’s Guide #50. A hardcover edition (-110-2, $19.95) was announced but not seen. This is a 1989 book not seen until now.
• * *State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film (Greenwood Press 0-313-27853-9, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $48.00, 210pp, hc) Non-fiction, criticism. A collection of 20 essays presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Available from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport CT 06881.
• * *Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction (Greenwood Press 0-313-27373-1, Jan ’93 [May ’93], $47.95, 202pp, hc) Non-fiction, criticism. A critical analysis of British sf as a genre. Order from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Rd. West, Box 5007, Westport CT 06881. Credit card orders: (800) 225-5800.

RUE, T. S.

• * *Nightmare Inn (Harper Paperbacks 0-06-106740-7, Mar ’93 [Feb ’93], $3.50, 202pp, pb) [Nightmare Inn] Young-adult horror novel of four teenagers in danger from evil forces when forced to spend the night at an abandoned inn. First book of a new series. Packaged and copyrighted by Daniel Weiss & Associates.
• * *Nightmare Inn: Room 13 (HarperPaperbacks 0-06-106746-6, May ’93 [Apr ’93], $3.50, 169pp, pb) [Nightmare Inn] Young-adult horror novel, second book of a series. Erin has a vacation romance with a boy who has the mysterious power to make her wishes come true — but only the ones that hurt others. Packaged and copyrighted by Daniel Weiss & Associates.
• * *Nightmare Inn: The Attic (HarperPaperbacks 0-06-106157-3, Sep ’93 [Aug ’93], $3.50, 169pp, pb) [Nightmare Inn] Young-adult horror novel, fourth book of a series. Four teenage girls are trapped in the attic of an old inn with a werewolf. Packaged by Daniel Weiss & Associates and copyrighted by the packager and Todd Strasser.
• * *Nightmare Inn: The Pool (HarperPaperbacks 0-06-106749-0, Jul ’93 [Jun ’93], $3.50, 169pp, pb) [Nightmare Inn] Young-adult horror novel, third book of a series. Kelly gets a summer job as a lifeguard at a pool haunted by the ghost of a vengeful girl. Packaged and copyrighted by Daniel Weiss & Associates.

RUFF, MATT(hew Theron) (1965- ) (stories)

• * *Fool on the Hill (Atlantic Monthly Press 0-87113-243-5, Oct ’88, $19.95, 396pp, hc) Humorous fantasy novel of a university where magic has run amok. A promising first novel. (FCM)
• * _Fool on the Hill (Bloomsbury Books 0-7475-0361-3, Mar ’89, £13.95, 396pp, hc, cover by Andrew Paquette) Reprint (Atlantic Monthly Press 1988) literary fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Fool on the Hill (Warner 0-446-35772-3, Dec ’89 [Nov ’89], $4.95, 436pp, pb, cover by Bob Zuba) Reprint (Atlantic Monthly 1988) literary fantasy.
• * _Fool on the Hill (Grove 0-8021-3535-8, Feb ’98, $12.00, 396pp, tp, cover by Clifford Alejandro) Reprint (Atlantic Monthly 1988) humorous fantasy novel.
• * _Sewer, Gas, & Electric (Warner Aspect 0-446-60642-1, Sep ’98 [Aug ’98], $6.99, 560pp, pb, cover by Elaine A. Cardella) Reprint (Atlantic Monthly 1997) near-future post-literary SF novel.
• * *Sewer, Gas, and Electric (Atlantic Monthly Press 0-87113-641-4, Jan ’97 [Dec ’96], $23.00, 450pp, hc, cover by Elaine Cardella) Near-future post-literary SF novel. “A madcap ride through NYC in the year 2023.” People live in the walls of the New York Public Library.

RULE, JANE (Vance) (1931-2007) (stories)

• * *Memory Board (Pandora 0-86358-190-0, Oct ’87, £10.95, 256pp, hc) Literary fantasy novel. [Not seen]
• * *Memory Board (Pandora 0-86358-191-9, Oct ’87 [Dec ’87], £4.95, 256pp, tp) Literary fantasy novel.

RULE, LESLIE (1958- )

• * *Whispers from the Grave (Berkley 0-425-14777-0, Jun ’95 [May ’95], $4.99, 268pp, pb) Young-adult time-travel horror novel. A girl travels in time to prevent her sister’s murder a century before. A first novel.

RUNDLE, ANNE (née Lamb) (?-1989)

• * *Moonbranches (Macmillan 0-02-777190-3, Oct ’86 [Jan ’87], $11.95, 163pp, hc) Young-adult Victorian gothic novel of ghosts and terror. Published in 1986 but not seen until now.

RUNTÉ, ROBERT (Alan), ed. (1951- ) (stories)

• * *Tesseracts 5 (with Yves Meynard) (Tesseract 1-895836-25-5, Dec ’96, C$8.95, 352pp, pb, cover by David Vereschagin) Original anthology of 33 stories, eight previously published, by Canadian writers. Authors include Elisabeth Vonarburg (in translation), Candas Jane Dorsey, and James Alan Gardner. A limited hardcover edition (-26-3, C$21.95) was announced but not seen. Order from The Books Collective, 214-21 10405 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton Alberta Canada T5J 0X2; 403-448-0590; add $3.00 postage; US orders pay in US dollars. (Contents)

RUNYAN, C(lair) F. (1919- )

• * *The Flight (Bantam 0-553-35305-5, Jul ’91, $9.99, 453pp, tp, cover by Robert Hunt) Technothriller with sf elements about a U.S. plan to go back to 1943 from 1994 to retrieve a miracle cancer cure for a dying president.
• * _The Flight (Bantam Falcon 0-553-29610-8, Mar ’92 [Feb ’92], $5.99, 453pp, pb, cover by Robert Hunt) Reprint (Bantam 1991) technothriller with sf elements about a US plan to go back to 1943 from 1994 to retrieve a miracle cancer cure for a dying president.

RUPENSTEIN, GILLIAN

• * +Space Demons (Dial 0-8037-0534-4, 1988 [Dec ’88], $13.95, 198pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy novel. A young boy discovers a computer game that can zap him and his friends into frightening universes. First U.S. edition (Omnibus [Australia] 1986).

RUPPERT, PETER (1941- )

• * *Reader in a Strange Land: The Activity of Reading Literary Utopias (University of Georgia Press 0-8203-0821-8, Aug ’86 [Dec ’86], $19.00, 193pp, hc) Non-fiction, critical study of works from Plato to Huxley, Orwell, and Le Guin.

RUSCH, KRISTINE KATHRYN (1960- ); see pseudonym Sandy Schofield (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Afterimage (with Kevin J. Anderson) (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45175-9, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $4.99, 288pp, pb, cover by Richard Hescox) [Afterimage] Dark fantasy novel of a woman rescued from a serial killer by shapeshifters who give her the form of her would-be murderer. Recommended (SW).
• * *Afterimage/Aftershock (with Kevin J. Anderson) (Meisha Merlin 0-9658345-7-3, Jul ’98 [Sep ’98], $18.00, 446pp, tp, cover by Kevin Murphy) [Afterimage] Omnibus of dark fantasy novels Afterimage (Roc 1992) and its previously unpublished sequel, Aftershock. These are the “Authors’ Preferred Editions”, with the revised Afterimage copyrighted 1998. Order from Meisha Merlin Publishing, PO Box 7, Decatur GA 30031. (Contents)