The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
Books, Listed by Author
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- SHEFFIELD, CHARLES (A.) (stories) (continued)
- * _Summertide (Gollancz 0-575-05021-7, Apr 91, £3.99, 257pp, pb, cover by Peter Elson) [Heritage Universe] Reprint (Del Rey 1990) sf novel. Book One of The Heritage Universe.
- * *Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37808-2, Jan 97 [Dec 96], $13.95, 375pp, tp, cover by Bruce Jensen) SF novel. A man freezes himself and his dying wife in hope of finding a future cure, and wakes millions of years in the future.
- * _Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Easton Press no ISBN, Jan 97, no price, 375pp, hc) SF novel. This is the first hardcover edition, published simultaneously with the Bantam Spectra trade paperback edition listed in December. This special leatherbound, gilt-edged edition is part of the Signed First Editions of SF series available by subscription only.
- * _Tomorrow and Tomorrow (SFBC #15302, Apr 97 [Mar 97], $9.98, 375pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1997) SF novel of cryogenic time travel. This hardcover edition is otherwise similar to the Bantam Spectra trade paperback edition. It lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
- * _Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Bantam Spectra 0-553-57889-8, Jan 98 [Dec 97], $5.99, 422pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1997) SF novel of cryogenic time travel to the end of the universe.
- * *Traders World (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34432-4, Nov 88 [Oct 88], $3.95, 279pp, pb) [Mike Asparian] Sf novel set on an Earth recovering from a worldwide war. Some sections previously published. (Contents)
- * _Traders World (NEL 0-450-49729-1, May 89, £2.99, 279pp, pb) [Mike Asparian] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
- * *Transcendence (Gollancz 0-575-05264-3, Apr 92 [Mar 92], £14.99, 270pp, hc) [Heritage Universe] Sf novel. Book three of The Heritage Universe.
- * *Transcendence (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36981-5, May 92 [Apr 92], $18.00, 275pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Heritage Universe] Sf novel, third book of the Heritage Universe series.
- * _Transcendence (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36982-3, Apr 93 [Mar 93], $4.99, 293pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Heritage Universe] Reprint (Del Rey 1992) sf novel, third book of the Heritage Universe series.
- * _The Web Between the Worlds (Ace 0-441-87864-4, May 84 [Apr 84], $2.50, 274pp, pb) Reissue (Ace 1979) sf novel.
- * _The Web Between the Worlds (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34435-9, Dec 88 [Nov 88], $3.50, 249pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1979) sf novel about the building of an elevator to orbit. This edition has an added 1988 note on Dynamic Beanstalks.
- * _The Web Between the Worlds (Sphere 0-7474-0386-4, Jul 89, £3.50, 257pp, pb, cover by Gerry Grace) Reprint (Ace 1979) sf novel. This edition contains the article on How to Build a Beanstalk from the 1988 Del Rey edition.
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- * *How to Save the World (Tor 0-312-85577-X, Sep 95 [Aug 95], $23.95, 349pp, hc, cover by David Mattingly) Original anthology of 13 SF stories featuring outrageous, high-tech solutions to the worlds problems. (Contents)
- * *The World of 2044: Technological Development and the Future of Society (with Marcelo Alonso & Morton A. Kaplan) (Professors World Peace Academy/Paragon House 0-943852-57-9, Sep 94 [Aug 94], $19.95, 381pp, tp) Associational non-fiction, a collection of essays by scientists and SF writers, including Pohl, Bova, etc., predicting future technological developments and their impact. A hardcover edition (-49-8, $29.95) was announced but not seen. Order from Paragon House, 370 Lexington Ave, New York NY 10017.
- SHEFNER, EVELYN (1919- ) (stories)
- * *Common Body, Royal Bones (Coffee House Press 0-918273-33-1, Dec 87 [Nov 87], $9.95, 119pp, tp) Collection of 3 literary stories, one about a woman who transmits her thoughts and another about a 7-foot-tall princess from a mythical European country. (Contents)
- SHELDEN, MICHAEL
- * *Orwell: A Biography (HarperCollins 0-06-016709-2, Nov 91 [Dec 91], $25.00, 497pp, hc) Non-fiction, a massive authorized biography of the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. [Orwell]
- * _Orwell: A Biography (HarperPerennial 0-06-092161-7, Oct 92 [Jan 93], $15.00, 590pp, tp) Reprint (HarperCollins 1991) non-fiction, a massive authorized biography of the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. [Orwell]
- SHELDON, ALICE (Hastings Bradley Davey) (1915-1987); see pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. (stories) (chron.)
- SHELDON, CHARLIE
- * *Fat Chance (Pocket 0-671-73591-8, Dec 91 [Nov 91], $3.99, 259pp, pb) Caper thriller with sf elements. A company develops a new drug that instantly flushes fat from arteries and everybody wants a piece of the formula and the inventor.
- SHELDON, DYAN (stories)
- * *Haunted: Save the Last Dance For Me (Bantam UK 0-553-40609-4, Jul 93 [Jun 93], £2.99, 221pp, pb) [Haunted] Young-adult ghost novel. Volume two in the series.
- * *Haunted: You Can Never Go Home Anymore (Bantam UK 0-553-40608-6, Jun 93, £2.99, 222pp, pb) [Haunted] Young-adult ghost novel. Volume one in the series.
- SHELDON, SIDNEY (1917-2007)
- * *The Doomsday Conspiracy (Morrow 0-688-08489-3, Sep 91 [Aug 91], $22.00, 412pp, hc) Mainstream thriller with sf elements. The crash of a weather balloon in the Swiss Alps leads a U.S. Navy investigator to a deadly conspiracy involving alien visitors.
- * _The Doomsday Conspiracy (Warner 0-446-36366-9, Dec 92 [Nov 92], $5.99, 401pp, pb) Reprint (Morrow 1991) mainstream thriller with sf elements. The crash of a weather balloon in the Swiss Alps leads a US Navy investigator to a deadly conspiracy involving alien visitors.
- SHELLEY, MARY W(ollstonecraft Godwin) (1797-1851) (stories)
- * _Bernie Wrightsons Frankenstein (with Bernie Wrightson) (Charles F. Miller 0-88733-193-9, Dec 94, $15.95, 188pp, tp, cover by Bernie Wrightson) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Marvel Comics; Dodd, Mead & Co. 1983 as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein). This reprint edition has darker reproductions of the artwork; some detail has been lost. Introduction by Stephen King. Also available in hardcover (-194-7, $24.95).
- * _Dracula/Frankenstein (with Bram Stoker) See entry under Bram Stoker.
- * _Frankenstein (with David Campton) See entry under David Campton.
- * _Frankenstein (Running Press 0-89471-520-8, Dec 87, £3.95, 170pp, tp) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) horror novel. [Not seen]
- * _Frankenstein (Blackie 0-216-92326-3, Oct 88 [Nov 88], £9.95, 222pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) horror novel. This edition is illustrated throughout by the late Charles Keeping.
- * _Frankenstein (Peter Bedrick/Blackie 0-87226-190-5, Nov 88 [Jan 89], $18.95, 222pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint of the 19th-century classic sf/horror novel, with new illustrations by the late Charles Keeping. This is identical inside to the 1988 British edition from Blackie. The text is unabridged and has both the 1818 and 1831 prefaces.
- * _Frankenstein (Running Press/Courage 0-89471-882-7, Sep 90 [Aug 90], $4.98, 170pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel, with an essay by Robert Kiely. This is an instant remainder edition.
- * _Frankenstein (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-035107-8, Oct 90 [Nov 90], $2.25, 215pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel, with the 1831 introduction by the author and the 1818 preface by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This is a worldwide edition.
- * _Frankenstein (Bantam 0-553-21247-8, Nov 91, $1.95, 209pp, pb) [Frankenstein] Reissue (Lackington 1818) classic horror/sf novel with an introduction by Diane Johnson; 15th printing.
- * _Frankenstein (Everymans Library 0-460-87149-8, Oct 92 [Nov 92], £3.99, 243pp, tp) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) classic horror novel. This edition contains the original 1818 text, the play Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein, Mary Shelleys 1831 account of the composition of Frankenstein, and an introduction by Paddy Lyons. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $2.95. (Contents)
- * _Frankenstein (Penguin 0-14-043362-7, Nov 92 [Oct 92], $3.50, 320pp, pb) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. This is the text of the 1831 revised edition, with an introduction by Maurice Hindle. This volume also contains John Polidoris The Vampyre and the fragment by Lord Byron also written that summer.
- * _Frankenstein (Random House/Modern Library 0-679-60059-0, Aug 93 [Dec 93], $14.50, 303pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. This is the revised text of the 1831 edition.
- * _Frankenstein (Penguin Popular Classics 0-14-062030-3, Feb 94 [Mar 94], £1.00, 215pp, pb, cover by Thomas Eakins) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) horror novel. Thrift paperback edition of the classic.
- * _Frankenstein (University of California Press 0-520-08942-1, Sep 94 [Aug 94], $14.95, 254pp, tp, cover by Barry Moser) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. This is a facsimile of the 1983 Pennyroyal Press edition, with woodcuts by Barry Moser and an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. The text is that of the original 1818 edition rather than the more common 1831 revision. Available from the University of California Press, Berkeley CA 94720.
- * _Frankenstein (Dover 0-486-28211-2, Oct 94 [Nov 94], $1.00, 166pp, tp) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. Unabridged reprinting of the third edition (Colburn & Bentley 1831), with publishers note and authors introduction.
- * _Frankenstein (Penguin/Signet Classic 0-451-18377-0, Nov 94 [Oct 94], $3.99, 224pp, pb) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. Movie tie-in with 8 pages of movie stills. The text follows the 1831 third edition.
- * _Frankenstein (Tor 0-812-55150-8, Nov 94 [Oct 94], $4.99, 236pp, pb, cover by Boris Vallejo) [Frankenstein] Reissue (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. Third printing.
- * _Frankenstein (Wordsworth 1-85326-846-1, Nov 94, £3.99, 163pp, hc, cover by Paolo Mascagni) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) horror novel. Thrift hardback edition.
- * _Frankenstein (Pan 0-330-33705-X, Nov 94 [Dec 94], £4.99, 223pp, pb) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) horror novel. A film tie-in edition, with an Afterword by Harold Bloom.
- * _Frankenstein (Simon & Schuster/Washington Square Press 0-671-53150-6, Sep 95 [Aug 95], $4.99, 279pp, pb, cover by Janet Woolley) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. This is a WSP Enriched Classic and includes Shelleys 1831 introduction, critical excerpts, and extensive notes, with 16 pp. of period illustrations and photos. The introduction to this edition is by Anne K. Mellor.
- * *Frankenstein (Norton 0-393-96458-2, May 96 [Nov 96], $7.95, 336pp, tp, cover by Caspar David Friedrich) [Frankenstein] A critical edition of the classic horror novel, edited by J. Paul Hunter, with a section of Nineteenth-Century Responses and a collection of 12 modern essays. The novel itself is based on the 1818 Lackington first edition, with notes. A chronology and selected bibliography are included, along with related writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John William Polidori.
- * _Frankenstein (Penguin/Viking Childrens Books 0-670-87801-4, Aug 98 [Oct 98], $17.99, 255pp, tp, cover by Philippe Munch) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. This is part of The Whole Story series for young adults, extensively illustrated with period art and new drawings by Philippe Munch, with explanatory captions providing historical background; it was originally published in France (Gallimard 1997). A hardcover edition (-87800-6, $25.99) was announced but not seen.
- * _Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text (Oxford University Press 0-19-282283-7, Sep 94, £3.99, 261pp, pb, cover by Odilon Redon) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) horror novel. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Marilyn Butler. (Contents)
- * _Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (Pickering & Chatto 1-85196-051-1, Apr 93 [May 93], £24.95, 266pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) classic horror novel. This edition contains the 1818 text, edited and introduced by Marilyn Butler, with an appendix discussing the changes made for the 1831 edition.
- * _Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus (University of California Press 0-520-05281-1, Dec 84 [Nov 84], $29.50, 254pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint, a one-volume facsimile of Pennyroyal Press 1983 limited edition with superb illustrations by Barry Moser. Set from the original 1818 edition instead of the standard 1831 revised one.
- * _Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (Purnell 0-361-08208-8, Aug 88, £2.99, 125pp, tp) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) horror novel. Abridged by Wendy Hobson. Illustrated throughout by Caroline Church.
- * _The Last Man (Oxford University Press 0-19-283152-6, Mar 94 [Apr 94], £6.99, 479pp, pb) Reprint (Colburn 1826) SF novel, edited, annotated, and introduced by Morton D. Paley.
- * _The Last Man (Bantam 0-553-21436-5, Oct 94 [Nov 94], $5.50, 488pp, pb, cover by Thomas Coke) Reprint (Colburn 1826) very early SF novel, with a new introduction by Marge Piercy.
- * *The Mary Shelley Reader (Oxford University Press 0-19-506259-0, Jul 90 [Mar 91], $14.95, 420pp, tp) Collection of Shelleys work, including Frankenstein and Mathilda in their entirety, seven stories, essays, reviews, and letters. The Frankenstein text is the rare 1818 first edition, not the heavily revised 1831 one which is the source for most reprints. The 1831 introduction is also included. A hardcover edition (-506250-2) was announced but not seen. (Contents) [ed: Betty T. Bennett] [ed: Charles E. Robinson]
- * +Maurice, or The Fishers Cot (Random House/Knopf/Borzoi 0-375-40473-2, 1998 [Oct 98], $20.00, 179pp, hc, cover by Reginald Easton) Associational non-genre short story about a boy stolen and raised by a fishermans wife. The story was only recently discovered in Italy, and is copyrighted by finders Andrea & Christina Dazzi; the latter also provides a brief preface. A lengthy biographical and critical introduction by Claire Tomalin notes contrasts in the storys themes to those of Frankenstein. A transcription of the authors original text, with emendations, is included. First US edition; apparently published in slightly different form by Viking UK (not seen).
- * *The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Stories of Mary Shelley (Tachyon Publications no ISBN, Nov 96 [Oct 96], $10.00, 58pp, tp) Collection of five stories, with a narrative introduction by Michael Bishop. These versions of the stories were previously collected as part of Mary Shelley: Collected Tales and Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press 1976, edited by Charles E. Robinson). A limited edition of 900; also available in a signed (by Bishop), limited hardcover edition (not seen) of 100. Order from Tachyon Publications, 1459 18th Street, San Francisco CA 94107. (Contents)
- SHELLEY, RICHARD M.; see under Shelley, Rick (stories)
- SHELLEY, RICK; [i.e., Richard Michael Shelley] (1947-2001) (stories)
- * *The Buchanan Campaign (Ace 0-441-00292-7, Dec 95 [Nov 95], $5.99, 375pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Buchanan Campaign] Military SF novel. A peaceful colony planet is dragged into an interplanetary war.
- * *The Fires of Coventry (Ace 0-441-00385-0, Nov 96 [Oct 96], $5.99, 312pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Buchanan Campaign] Military SF novel, set in the same universe as The Buchanan Campaign.
- * *Jump Pay (Ace 0-441-00230-7, Aug 95 [Jul 95], $5.50, 284pp, pb, cover by Stephen Gardner) [Lucky 13th] Military SF. Third in the series featuring the Lucky 13th spaceborne.
- * _Jump Pay (Ace 0-441-00230-7, Apr 97 [Mar 97], $5.99, 284pp, pb, cover by Stephen Gardner) [Lucky 13th] Reissue (Ace 1995) military SF novel. Third in the series featuring the Lucky 13th spaceborne. Second printing.
- * *Lieutenant (Ace 0-441-00568-3, Oct 98 [Sep 98], $5.99, 268pp, pb, cover by Duane O. Meyers) [Dirigent Mercenary Corps] Military SF novel, second in the Dirigent Mercenary Corps trilogy.
- * *Officer-Cadet (Ace 0-441-00526-8, May 98 [Apr 98], $5.99, 281pp, pb, cover by Duane O. Myers) [Dirigent Mercenary Corps] Military SF novel of the Dirigent Mercenary Corps. An unjustly expelled military-academy cadet is determined to prove himself in the DMC.
- * *Return to Camerein (Ace 0-441-00496-2, Jan 98 [Dec 97], $5.99, 330pp, pb, cover by Dave Dorman) Military SF novel. Stranded humans hope to escape the planet Camerein as a truce is called.
- * *The Seven Towers: The Wizard at Home (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45422-7, Jan 95 [Dec 94], $4.99, 254pp, pb, cover by Jean-Francois Podevin) [Seven Towers] Fantasy novel, second in the series. In medieval England, the wizard Silvas acquires the powers of a goddess and some angry gods want him dead.
- * *The Seven Towers: The Wizard at Mecq (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45361-1, Jun 94 [May 94], $4.99, 285pp, pb) [Seven Towers] Historical fantasy novel set in 12th-century England, first book of a new series.
- * *Side Show (Ace 0-441-00123-8, Dec 94 [Nov 94], $4.99, 232pp, pb, cover by Steve Gardiner) [Lucky 13th] Military SF novel, second in the series featuring the Lucky 13th Spaceborne fighting force. This series is packaged and copyrighted by Bill Fawcett & Associates.
- * *Until Relieved (Ace 0-441-00019-3, Mar 94 [Feb 94], $4.99, 236pp, pb, cover by Roger Loveless) [Lucky 13th] Military sf novel about the exploits of the 13th Spaceborne. First book of a new series packaged and copyrighted by Bill Fawcett & Associates.
- * _Until Relieved (Ace 0-441-00019-3, Mar 97 [Feb 97], $5.50, 236pp, pb, cover by Roger Loveless) [Lucky 13th] Reissue (Ace 1994) military SF novel, first in the series featuring the Lucky 13th spaceborne. Copyrighted by Bill Fawcett and Associates. Second printing.
- * *The Varayan Memoir #1: Son of the Hero (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45026-4, Aug 90 [Jul 90], $3.95, 256pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Varayan Memoir] Fantasy novel about a boy who enters a fantasy world to search for his parents, first book of a series.
- * *The Varayan Memoir #2: The Hero of Varay (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45091-4, Jul 91 [Jun 91], $3.99, 256pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Varayan Memoir] Fantasy novel, second book of a series. A college student becomes a hero in a fantasy world.
- * *The Varayan Memoir #3: The Hero King (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45155-4, May 92 [Apr 92], $4.99, 288pp, pb, cover by Daniel R. Horne) [Varayan Memoir] Fantasy novel with sf elements, third in a series.
- SHELTON, GREG
- * *Chasing the Cosmic Wind (Sterling House 1-56315-X, 1998 [Oct 98], $19.95, 182pp, tp) SF novel. A spacecraft crashes off Maui and aliens invade human bodies to communicate.
- SHENK, ROBERT, ed. (stories)
- SHENNAN, MARGARET (1933- )
- * *The Devils Diagonal (Swallow 0-86267-258-9, Oct 89, £2.25, 124pp, pb, cover by Scoular Anderson) Young-adult fantasy novel.
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