The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

ROSENBLUM, MARY (stories) (continued)

• * *The Stone Garden (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38958-1, Jan ’95 [Dec ’94], $4.99, 359pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) SF mystery novel. Someone is killing artists who sculpt emotion-absorbing asteroids.
• * *Synthesis and Other Virtual Realities (Arkham House 0-87054-170-6, Jul ’96 [Apr ’96], $21.95, 280pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton) Collection of nine stories, illustrated by Elizabeth Lawhard Bourne. Available from Arkham House, PO Box 546, Sauk City WI 53583. (Contents)

ROSENBLUM, ROBERT (Jay) (1938- ); see pseudonyms Nicholas Conde & Robert Maxxe

ROSENDORFER, HERBERT (1934- )

• * *The Architect of Ruins (Dedalus 0-946626-91-X, Jun ’92 [May ’92], £8.99, 368pp, tp, cover by Tim Gray) Literary sf novel. Translated from the German (Der Ruinenbaumeister, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich, 1969) by Mike Mitchell. This edition has a new introduction by John Clute.
• * *Letters Back to Ancient China (Dedalus 1-873982-97-6, Sep ’97, £9.99, 274pp, tp, cover by David Bird) Literary fantasy satire of a 10th century Chinese Mandarin time-travelled to now, written in the form of letters he sends back to his own time. Translated by Mike Mitchell from the German original, Briefe in die chinesische Vergangenheit (Nymphenburger in der F.A. Herbig, 1983). A worldwide edition available in the US at $15.99.
• * *Stephanie, or A Previous Existence (Dedalus 1-873982-17-8, Jan ’96 [Nov ’95], £7.99, 153pp, tp, cover by Lise Weisgerber) Lierary fantasy novel. Translated from the German (1987) by Mike Mitchell.

ROSHEIM, DAVID L. (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Galaxy Magazine: The Dark and the Light Years (Advent:Publishers 0-911682-28-7, Jun ’86, $15.00, 343pp, hc) Non-fiction, an issue-by-issue look at Galaxy in a descriptive, fairly non-critical manner. There is some behind-the-scenes info, but not much.

ROSHWALD, MORDECAI (Marceli) (1921- )

• * _Level 7 (Lawrence Hill Books 1-55652-065-4, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], $8.95, 191pp, tp) Reprint (Heinemann 1959) sf cautionary novel of nuclear war.

ROSIN, CAROL

• * _Space Careers (with Charles Sheffield) See entry under Charles Sheffield.

ROSINSKI, GRZEGORZ

• * _Thorgal: The Archers (with Jean Van Hamme) See entry under Jean Van Hamme.

ROSINSKY, NATALIE M(yra) (1951- )

• * *Feminist Futures: Contemporary Women’s Speculative Fiction (UMI 0-8357-1578-7, 1984 [May ’85], $24.95 + postage, 147pp, hc) Non-fiction, literary criticism. This revision of a thesis appeared in 1984, but we didn’t see it until 1985.

ROSS, ALEX

• * _Kingdom Come (with Elliot S. Maggin & Mark Waid) See entry under Elliot S. Maggin

ROSS, BILL

• * _Make it So: Leadership for The Next Generation (with Wess Roberts) See entry under Wess Roberts.

ROSS, CALVIN

• * *The Aliens of Summer (Distant Star 0-9642658-9-3, 1992 [Oct ’94], no price, 319pp, tp) SF/baseball novel. Aliens come to Earth to play major-league baseball. A first novel. This has a 1992 copyright but was not seen until now. Available from Distant Star, 2525 Flosden Rd. #83, American Canyon CA 94589.

ROSS, CLIFFORD

• * *The World of Edward Gorey (with Karen Wilkin) (Harry N. Abrams 0-8109-3988-6, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], $29.95, 192pp, hc, cover by Edward Gorey) Critical biography with extensive illustrations, including preliminary sketches, and 24 plates in full color. There is an interview with Gorey by Ross, and text on Gorey’s art by Wilkin. Includes a bibliography and chronology. [Gorey]

ROSS, DAVID D. (1949?- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Argus Gambit (St. Martin’s 0-312-03287-0, Aug ’89, $18.95, 406pp, hc) [Dreamers of the Day] Sf political thriller set in near-future America, first book of “The Dreamers of the Day”. A first novel.
• * *The Eighth Rank (St. Martin’s 0-312-05426-2, Mar ’91, $22.95, 461pp, hc, cover by Armand Cabrera) [Dreamers of the Day] Near-future sf novel set on a politically divided Earth, second book of the “Dreams of the Day” series.

ROSS, JO ANN

• * *Moonstruck Lovers (Harlequin Temptation 0-373-25536-5, Mar ’93 [Apr ’93], $2.99, 221pp, pb) Sf romance about the awakening passion between a human scientist and a “highly logical” woman from another planet.

ROSSELSON, LEON (stories)

• * *Somewhere Else (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-72264-9, Dec ’98, £3.99, 121pp, pb, cover by Kim Harley) Collection of two original young-adult ghost/time displacement stories. (Contents)

ROSSI, LEO D.

• * *The Politics of Fantasy: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien (UMI 0-8357-1597-3, 1984 [May ’85], $24.95 + postage, 143pp, hc) Non-fiction, literary criticsm. This revision of a thesis first appeared in 1984, but we didn’t see it until 1985. [Lewis, Tolkien]

ROSSOW, WILLIAM B(rigance) (1947- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Lear’s Daughters (with M. Bradley Kellogg) See entry under M. Bradley Kellogg.
• * _Reign of Fire (with M. Bradley Kellogg) See entry under M. Bradley Kellogg.
• * _The Wave and the Flame (with M. Bradley Kellogg) See entry under M. Bradley Kellogg.

ROSZAK, THEODORE (1933- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Dreamwatcher (Anthony Blond 0-85634-204-1, 1985, £9.95, 287pp, hc) Horror novel. [Not seen]
• * *Dreamwatcher (Doubleday 0-385-18894-3, Feb ’85 [Jan ’85], $15.95, 287pp, hc) Fantasy novel of a woman who can see dreams. It’s billed as a “psychosexual thriller.”
• * _Dreamwatcher (Grafton 0-586-06846-5, Dec ’86, £2.95, 384pp, pb) Reprint (Anthony Blond 1985) horror novel.
• * *The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Random House 0-679-43732-0, Apr ’95, $22.00, 425pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Horror novel with Feminist leanings. Dr. Frankenstein’s pagan adopted sister tells her side of the story.
• * _The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (SFBC #07496, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $10.98, 357pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Random House 1995) gothic horror novel. This is similar to the Random House edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Bantam 0-553-57637-2, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $5.99, 425pp, pb, cover by Tom Hallman) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Random House 1995) gothic horror novel. Co-winner of the 1996 Tiptree award.

ROTA, BERTRAM (stories)

• * *Shady Customers (Tartarus Press 1-872621-10-4, Dec ’92, no price, 20pp, ph) Being a report by Bertram Rota of the proceedings at the annual re-union of certain old friends at Bodley House at midnight on Christmas Eve, 1937.

ROTHMAN, CHUCK; [i.e., Charles Warren Rothman] (1952- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Staroamer’s Fate (Popular Library/Questar 0-445-20102-9, Jan ’86 [Dec ’85], $3.50, 213pp, pb) Sf novel, a first novel.

ROTHSTEIN, ALLAN (1941-2004) (stories)

• * _Fandom is a Way of Death (with Bill Warren) See entry under Bill Warren.

ROTSLER, (Charles) WILLIAM (1926-1997) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Shiva Descending (with Gregory Benford) See entry under Gregory Benford.

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• * *Science Fictionisms (Gibbs Smith 0-87905-693-2, Oct ’95 [Nov ’95], $5.95, 144pp, tp, cover by Bob Eggleton) Non-fiction book of quotes by SF writers, divided into “isms”: witticisms, truisms, writingisms, physicsisms, etc. Order from Gibbs Smith, Publisher, Box 667, Layton UT 84041.
• * _Science Fictionisms (SFBC #11701, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $2.98, 144pp, tp, cover by Bob Eggleton) Reprint (Gibbs Smith 1995) non-fiction book of quotes by SF writers. This is similar to the Gibbs Smith trade paperback edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number next to the UPC.

ROTTENSTEINER, FRANZ, ed. (1942- ) (stories)

• * *The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-182975-6, Aug ’84 [Jul ’84], $14.95, 303pp, hc) Anthology of 11 stories by Borges, Ballard, Lem, and other literary fantasists. (Contents)

ROUCH, JAMES

• * *The Zone #3: Hunter Killer (Zebra 0-8217-1662-X, Sep ’85 [Aug ’85], $2.50, 206pp, pb) [Zone] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel.
• * +The Zone #4: Sky Strike (Zebra 0-8217-1770-7, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], $2.50, 221pp, pb) [Zone] Sf novel of a British/American strike force fighting WWIII in Europe. Reprint (New English Library 1981), first U.S. edition.
• * +The Zone #5: Overkill (Zebra 0-8217-1832-0, May ’86 [Apr ’86], $2.50, 192pp, pb) [Zone] Reprint (NEL 1982) sf novel in a post-holocaust adventure series. 1st U.S. edition.
• * *The Zone #6: Plague Bomb (Zebra 0-8217-1911-4, 1986 [Sep ’86], $2.50, 223pp, pb) [Zone] Sf novel in a post-holocaust adventure series.
• * *The Zone #8: Civilian Slaughter (Zebra 0-8217-2633-1, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], $2.95, 219pp, pb) [Zone] Near-future military sf novel.
• * *Zone #9: Body Count (Zebra 0-8217-3101-7, Aug ’90 [Jul ’90], $2.95, 192pp, pb) [Zone] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel.

ROUTLEY, JANE (1962- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Fire Angels (Avon Eos 0-380-79425-X, Jun ’98 [May ’98], $13.00, 436pp, tp, cover by Donato Giancola) [Dion] Fantasy novel, sequel to Mage Heart. Dion’s family asks her to help her homeland.
• * *Mage Heart (Morrow/AvoNova 0-688-14777-1, Jul ’96 [Jun ’96], $23.00, 470pp, hc, cover by Rick Lovell) [Dion] Fantasy novel. A female magician assigned to guard a duke’s mistress falls afoul of politics and a demon. A first novel.
• * _Mage Heart (AvoNova 0-380-78127-1, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $5.99, 470pp, pb, cover by Steven Adler) [Dion] Reprint (AvoNova 1996) fantasy novel. Cover given as by Rick Lovell.

ROVIN, JEFF(rey Daniel) (1951- ) (stories)

• * *Aliens, Robots, and Spaceships (Facts on File 0-8160-3107-X, Sep ’95, $35.00, 372pp, hc, cover by Vincent Di Fate) Non-fiction guide to creatures and devices from SF books, film, and comics. An eclectic listing that includes Ford Prefect, but not Flash Gordon; Twiki (Buck Rogers’ robot sidekick in the 1979 movie/TV series), but not Buck Rogers. Appendices give separate lists of comic book aliens, Outer Limits aliens, Star Trek aliens, and Star Wars aliens.
• * _Encyclopaedia of Superheroes (Facts on File 0-8160-1168-0, Mar ’86, £15.95, 464pp, hc) Reprint (Facts on File (US) 1985) associational reference book.
• * *The Encyclopedia of Monsters (Facts on File 0-8160-1824-3, Oct ’89, $29.95, 390pp, hc) Encyclopedic guide to monsters, including those from film, literature, and comics; from Frankenstein to It! The Terror from Beyond Space. Illustrated with photos. Also announced in trade paperback (-2303-4) but not seen.
• * *The Encyclopedia of Superheroes (Facts on File 0-8160-1168-0, Nov ’85, $29.95, 443pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference book listing mostly comic superheroes but also some pulp characters, etc.
• * _The Encyclopedia of Superheroes (Facts on File 0-8160-1679-8, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $19.95, 443pp, tp) Reissue (Facts on File 1985) reference book on comic superheroes. Second printing. UK price £10.95.
• * *The Encyclopedia of Supervillains (Facts on File 0-8160-1356-X, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $29.95, 416pp, hc) Non-fiction, illustrated reference book, a “Who’s Who” of comic book villains. This is a companion volume to Rovin’s earlier Encyclopedia of Superheroes. The current volume mentions a softcover edition on the copyright page, but we have not seen it. UK price £17.95.
• * _The Encyclopedia of Supervillains (Facts on File 0-8160-1899-5, Oct ’88 [Dec ’88], $19.95, 416pp, tp) Reprint (Facts on File 1987) illustrated reference book on comics villains. This is internally identical to the 1987 hardcover, including the printing, etc., but is the first copy we’ve seen in trade paperback. The copyright page has both ISBNs. Available in the U.K. for £10.95.
• * *Mortal Kombat (Boulevard 1-57297-059-6, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $4.99, 293pp, pb) Novelization based on the fantasy video game. Copyrighted by Midway Manufacturing.
• * *Re-Animator (Pocket 0-671-63723-1, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $3.50, 223pp, pb) Horror novelization.
• * *Return of the Wolf Man (Berkley Boulevard 0-425-16576-0, Oct ’98 [Sep ’98], $6.99, 339pp, pb) Novelization of the movie. Copyrighted by Universal Studios Publishing Rights.
• * *Vespers (St. Martin’s 0-312-19351-3, Sep ’98 [Oct ’98], $23.95, 308pp, hc) Horror novel. Mutant bats hunt humans in NYC.

ROWE, ALICK; see house pseudonym Maria Palmer

• * _Horrorscopes: Aquarius - Trapped [as by Maria Palmer] See entry under Maria Palmer.

ROWE, JENNIFER (June) (1948- ); see pseudonym Emily Rodda (stories)

ROWE, MICHAEL, ed. (stories)

• * *Brothers of the Night: Tales of Men, Blood, and Immortality (with Thomas S. Roche) (Cleis Press 1-57344-025-6, Oct ’97 [Nov ’97], $14.95, 164pp, tp) Original anthology of 11 stories of gay erotica. Authors include Edo van Belkom, Thomas S. Roche, and Caitlin R. McKiernan. (Contents)
• * *Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood, and Immortality (with Thomas S. Roche) (Cleis Press 1-57344-059-0, Oct ’96, $12.95, 174pp, tp) Original anthology of 12 stories, one a reprint, about gay male vampires. Authors include C. Dean Andersson and Poppy Z. Brite. Available from Cleis Press, PO Box 8933, Pittsburgh PA 15221; add 15% shipping; credit-card orders 800-780-2279. (Contents)

ROWE, PATRICIA

• * *Children of the Dawn (Warner 0-446-60205-1, Sep ’96 [Aug ’96], $5.99, 376pp, pb, cover by Mel Grant) [Keepers of the Misty Time] Prehistorical novel with mystic elements, sequel to Keepers of the Misty Time.
• * *Keepers of the Misty Time (Warner 0-446-36435-5, Apr ’94 [Aug ’96], $5.99, 373pp, pb, cover by Mel Grant) [Keepers of the Misty Time] Prehistorical novel with mystic elements. Published in 1994, but not previously listed.

ROWLANDS, D(avid) G. (1941- ) (stories)

• * *The Executor and Other Ghost Stories (Ash-Tree Press 1-899562-11-7, May ’96 [Jul ’96], £22.50, xiv+285pp, hc, cover by Douglas Walters) Collection of 40 stories, 3 original, including the complete contents of The Living and the Dead (1991). There is a new Introduction by Rowlands. Limited to 400 numbered copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $38.00. (Contents)
• * *The Living & the Dead (Crimson Altar Press no ISBN, 1991 [Jan ’92], £2.00, 31pp, ph, cover by Alan Hunter) [Mr. Batchel] Collection of seven ghost stories, five original, about the protagonist of E.G. Swain’s Stoneground Ghost Tales, the Rev Roland Batchel. (Contents)

ROWLEY, CHRISTOPHER B. (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Battledragon (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45343-3, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], $5.99, 416pp, pb, cover by Daniel Horne) [Bazil Broketail] Fantasy novel, fourth in the “Bazil Broketail” series.
• * *Bazil Broketail (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45206-2, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $5.99, 476pp, pb) [Bazil Broketail] Fantasy novel of a boy and his dragon who must rescue a princess from the forces of evil.
• * _Bazil Broketail (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45206-2, Feb ’98, $6.99, 476pp, pb, cover by Daniel Horne) [Bazil Broketail] Reissue (Roc 1992) fantasy novel, first in the “Bazil Broketail” series. Seventh printing.
• * *The Black Ship (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-31489-1, Jul ’85 [Jun ’85], $2.95, 310pp, pb) [Fenrile] Sf novel, sequel to The War for Eternity.
• * _The Black Ship (Arrow 0-09-949260-1, Jan ’87, £2.95, 310pp, pb) [Fenrile] Reprint (Del Rey 1985) sf novel. Sequel to The War for Eternity. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Black Ship (Century 0-7126-1589-X, Mar ’87 [Aug ’87], £10.95, 320pp, hc) [Fenrile] Reprint (Del Rey 1985) sf novel.
• * *A Dragon at Worlds’ End (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45546-0, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $5.99, 406pp, pb, cover by Daniel Horne) [Bazil Broketail] Fantasy novel, volume six in the “Bazil Broketail” series. Bazil and his boy help forest people fight slavers.
• * _A Dragon at Worlds’ End (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45546-0, Feb ’98 [Jan ’98], $6.99, 406pp, pb, cover by Daniel Horne) [Bazil Broketail] Reissue (Roc 1997) fantasy novel, volume five in the “Bazil Broketail” series. This still indicates first printing, but has a new price.
• * *The Dragons of Argonath (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45547-9, Feb ’98 [Jan ’98], $6.99, 429pp, pb, cover by Daniel R. Horne) [Bazil Broketail] Fantasy novel. Sixth book in the “Bazil Broketail” series.
• * *Dragons of War (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45342-5, Nov ’94 [Oct ’94], $5.99, 494pp, pb, cover by Daniel R. Horne) [Bazil Broketail] Fantasy novel about warring dragons, third in the “Bazil Broketail” series.
• * *The Founder (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33175-3, Dec ’89 [Nov ’89], $3.95, 251pp, pb, cover by Stephen Hickman) [Fenrile] Sf adventure novel about the danger surrounding an interstellar colonial ship. Prequel to The War for Eternity.
• * *Golden Sunlands (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33174-5, Jul ’87 [Jun ’87], $3.50, 340pp, pb) Sf novel of “a whole world abducted into a Universe of strange possibilities.”
• * _Golden Sunlands (Legend 0-09-958600-2, Jun ’88, £3.50, 340pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1987) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Star Hammer (Arrow 0-09-949270-9, Jul ’87, £2.50, 297pp, pb) [Vang] Reprint (Del Rey 1986) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Star Hammer (Century 0-7126-1627-6, Sep ’87, £10.95, 304pp, hc) [Vang] Reprint (Del Rey 1986) sf novel. [Not seen]
• * *Starhammer (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-31490-5, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], $2.95, 297pp, pb) [Vang] Sf novel of humans vs. an enslaving interstellar empire.