The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

SILVERBERG, ROBERT (stories) (continued)

• * _Worlds Imagined (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Avenel 0-517-68029-7, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], $8.98, 704pp, hc) Reprint (Arbor House 1980 as The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels) anthology; this instant remainder book omits “The Miracle Workers” by Jack Vance which appeared in the original edition. (Contents)

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• * _Nightwings See entry under Cary Bates.

SILVERMAN, KENNETH (Eugene) (1936- )

• * *Edgar Allan Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance (HarperCollins 0-06-016715-7, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $27.50, 564pp, hc) Non-fiction, a massive and detailed biography of Poe. This takes advantage of new discoveries and information.
• * _Edgar Allan Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance (HarperPerennial 0-06-092331-8, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], $13.00, 564pp, tp) Reprint (HarperCollins 1991) non-fiction, a massive and detailed biography of Poe that takes advantage of new discoveries and information. Recommended (SW). [Poe]

SILVERMAN, MAIDA

• * *Dune Pop-up Panorama Book (with Daniel Kirk) (Grosset & Dunlap 0-448-23353-3, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], $6.95, unpaginated, hc) [Dune] Four scenes from the movie version of the book, plus characters and vehicles to punch out and place in the panoramas. [Herbert]

SILVERSTEIN, HERMA (1937- )

• * *Mad, Mad Monday (Dutton Lodestar 0-525-67239-7, Feb ’88 [Jan ’88], $12.95, 120pp, hc) Humorous juvenile fantasy novel; a teenager conjures up a teenage ghost from the fifties.

SILVERSTEIN, JANNA, ed. (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Full Spectrum 5 (with Jennifer Hershey & Tom Dupree) See entry under Jennifer Hershey.

SILVERTHORN, RICHARD J.

• * *Satan’s Spawn (Avon 0-380-75316-2, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $3.95, 247pp, pb) Possessed child horror novel.

SILVEY, ANITA, ed.

• * *Children’s Books and their Creators (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-65380-0, Nov ’95 [Feb ’96], $40.00, 800pp, hc, cover by Maurice Sendak,et al.) Non-fiction, reference. An encyclopedic guide to contemporary American children’s literature, with overviews of different types of books, articles about authors, and autobiographical sketches by 75 authors and illustrators, including Lloyd Alexander, Susan Cooper, Margaret Mahy, and Laurence Yep. There are also 16 unpaginated pages of classic illustrations in full color.

SIMA, CAROL ANN

• * *Jane’s Bad Hare Day (Dalkey Archive Press 1-56478-072-4, Apr ’95 [Mar ’95], $21.95, 248pp, hc, cover by R. Elkins) Literary fantasy novel, a mix of Harvey and Alice in Wonderland. A woman is mugged by a six-foot hare in Manhattan, and follows it into a surreal, Wonderland-like fable. A first novel.

SIMAK, CLIFFORD D(onald) (1904-1988) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _All Flesh Is Grass (Methuen 0-413-59990-6, Dec ’85 [Jan ’86], £2.50, 255pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1965) sf novel.
• * _All Flesh Is Grass (Avon 0-380-39933-4, Mar ’88 [Feb ’88], $3.50, 254pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1965) sf novel; third printing.
• * _All Flesh Is Grass (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0045-9, Dec ’93 [Nov ’93], $4.95, 255pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1965) sf novel.
• * _All the Traps of Earth (Avon 0-380-45500-5, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $3.50, 278pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1962) collection of 9 stories; second Avon printing.
• * *The Autumn Land and Other Stories (Mandarin 0-7493-0185-6, Feb ’90 [Dec ’89], £3.50, 172pp, pb) Collection of 6 sf stories (3 previously uncollected), edited and introduced by Francis Lyall. Recommended. (PSP) (Contents)
• * *Brother and Other Stories (Severn House 0-7278-1417-6, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], £8.95, 165pp, hc) A new collection of Simak’s short stories, edited by Francis Lyall. This has a 1986 copyright date, but has only just appeared. (Contents)
• * _Brother and Other Stories (Methuen 0-413-17760-2, Dec ’88, £2.95, 165pp, pb) Reprint (Severn House 1986) sf collection, edited and introduced by Francis Lyall.
• * _Catface (Mandarin 0-7493-0599-1, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], £3.99, 251pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1978 as Mastodonia) sf novel.
• * _Cemetery World (Methuen 0-413-41990-8, Mar ’87, £2.50, 191pp, pb) Reissue (Putnam 1973) sf novel.
• * _Cemetery World (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-985-5, Jun ’93 [May ’93], $3.50, 159pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1973) sf novel.
• * _City (Methuen 0-413-14630-8, Aug ’88, £3.50, 255pp, pb) [City (Websters)] Reprint (Gnome 1952) sf collection. This edition follows the contents of the Ace 1981 edition by including the story “Epilog”.
• * _City (Mandarin 0-7493-0589-4, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], £3.99, 255pp, pb) [City (Websters)] Reprint (Gnome 1952) sf collection. This edition follows the contents of the Ace 1981 edition by including the story ’Epilog’.
• * _City (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-025391-5, Jan ’92 [Feb ’92], $5.95, 183pp, pb, cover by Paul Lehr) [City (Websters)] Reprint (Gnome 1952) sf quasi-novel. The text is that of the 1981 Ace edition, which adds a final story to the series. One of the classics of sf. Highly recommended (CNB).
• * _City (SFBC #01155, Sep ’92, $6.98, 211pp, hc, cover by Michael Budden) [City (Websters)] Reprint (Gnome 1952) sf quasi-novel. One of the classics of sf. This has the Macmillan name on the spine, but it follows the text of the original edition and does not include “Epilog”, which was present in the earlier SFBC edition.
• * *The Civilisation Game and Other Stories (Severn House 0-7278-5169-1, Jul ’97, £16.99, 250pp, hc) SF collection of seven stories, edited and with an introduction by Francis Lyall. Most of these relatively early stories have not been previously reprinted, and the Hugo Award-winning, novella “The Big Front Yard” has not been in any previous UK Simak collection. (Contents)
• * _Cosmic Engineers (Methuen 0-417-05730-X, Oct ’88, £2.95, 159pp, pb) Reissue (Gnome Press 1950) sf novel.
• * *The Creator and Other Stories (Severn House 0-7278-4569-1, Dec ’93, £14.99, 278pp, hc) Collection of nine sf stories, 4 previously uncollected, edited and introduced by Francis Lyall. A trade paperback edition (-9004-2, £8.99) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
• * _Enchanted Pilgrimage (Mandarin 0-7493-0078-7, Dec ’90 [Nov ’90], £3.99, 218pp, pb, cover by Peter Elson) Reprint (Berkley 1975) sf novel.
• * _The Fellowship of the Talisman (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33957-6, Feb ’87 [Jan ’87], $3.50, 314pp, pb) Reissue (Del Rey 1978) fantasy novel; 5th printing.
• * _The Goblin Reservation (Methuen 0-413-14530-1, Mar ’87, £2.50, 190pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1968) sf novel.
• * _The Goblin Reservation (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-897-2, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], $3.95, 192pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1968) humorous sf novel.
• * _A Heritage of Stars (Methuen 0-413-58800-9, May ’86, £2.50, 219pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley/Putnam 1977) sf novel.
• * *Highway of Eternity (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33220-2, Jun ’86 [May ’86], $14.95, 289pp, hc) Sf novel of time travel and immortality.
• * _Highway of Eternity (SFBC #10448, Dec ’86, $4.98, 249pp, hc) Reprint (Del Rey 1986) sf novel.
• * _Highway of Eternity (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32497-8, Jun ’88 [May ’88], $3.50, 294pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1986) sf novel.
• * _Highway of Eternity (Mandarin 0-7493-0038-8, Jun ’89 [May ’89], £2.99, 289pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1986) sf novel.
• * _Highway to Eternity (Severn House 0-7278-1498-2, Aug ’87, £9.95, 289pp, hc) Reprint (Del Rey 1986, as Highway of Eternity) sf novel. Listed as Highway of Eternity on title page only. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Immigrant and Other Stories (Mandarin 0-7493-0644-0, Aug ’91 [Jun ’91], £3.99, 190pp, pb) Collection of seven short stories, two previously uncollected, edited and introduced by Francis Lyall. Recommended. (PSP) (Contents)
• * _The Marathon Photograph (Methuen 0-413-59060-7, Jun ’87, £2.50, 171pp, pb) Reprint (Severn House 1986) sf collection.
• * *The Marathon Photograph and Other Stories (Severn House 0-7278-1221-1, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], £8.95, 171pp, hc) Collection of stories, edited by Francis Lyall, on time paradoxes. (Contents)
• * *Off-Planet (Methuen 0-413-18500-1, Aug ’88, £10.95, 223pp, hc) A collection of seven stories not set on Earth, all but one of them previously uncollected. Edited and selected by Francis Lyall. Recommended. (PSP) (Contents)
• * _Off-Planet (Mandarin 0-7493-0099-X, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], £3.50, 223pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) Reprint (Methuen 1988) sf collection. This edition has a new postscript to the introduction by Francis Lyall.
• * _Our Children’s Children (Mandarin 0-7493-0592-4, Jan ’91 [Dec ’90], £3.99, 186pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam’s 1974) sf novel.
• * _Out of Their Minds (Methuen 0-413-15320-7, Sep ’87, £2.50, 175pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1970) sf novel.
• * *Over the River and Through the Woods: The Best Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (Tachyon Publications 0-9648320-2-X, Oct ’96 [Nov ’96], $25.00, 218pp, hc, cover by Michael Dashow) Collection of eight stories. There is an introduction by Poul Anderson. This is a limited edition of 874. It is also available in a leatherbound edition of 100 ($40.00), or a boxed, leatherbound, lettered edition ($65.00); both special editions signed by Poul Anderson. (Contents) [ed: Jacob Weisman]
• * _Ring Around the Sun (Mandarin 0-7493-0353-0, Jul ’90 [Jun ’90], £3.50, 205pp, pb, cover by Alex Pang) Reprint (Simon and Schuster 1953) sf novel.
• * _Ring Around the Sun (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-852-2, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $3.95, 205pp, pb) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1953) sf novel. Contains a 1977 introduction on Simak by Harry Harrison.
• * _Shakespeare’s Planet (Methuen 0-413-41980-0, Sep ’86, £2.50, 188pp, pb) Reissue (Berkley-Putnam 1976) sf novel.
• * _Shakespeare’s Planet (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-29870-5, Jun ’88 [May ’88], $2.95, 202pp, pb) Reissue (Berkley Putnam 1976) sf novel, third Del Rey printing.
• * _So Bright the Vision (Severn House 0-7278-1323-4, Sep ’86, £8.50, 160pp, hc) Reprint (Ace 1968) sf collection.
• * _They Walked Like Men (Avon 0-380-42861-X, May ’88 [Apr ’88], $3.50, 256pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1962) sf novel; third printing.
• * _Time and Again (Methuen 0-413-59980-9, Dec ’85 [Jan ’86], £2.50, 255pp, pb) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1951) sf novel of time paradoxes.
• * _Time and Again (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-025395-8, May ’92 [Apr ’92], $9.00, 233pp, tp, cover by Eric Olson) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1951) sf novel.
• * _Time and Again (SFBC #01199, Aug ’93 [Jul ’93], $7.98, 235pp, hc, cover by Eric Olson) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1951) sf novel. Similar to the 1992 Collier Nucleus edition except it lacks a price, has the soft cover printed as the jacket, and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Time Is the Simplest Thing (Methuen 0-413-42420-0, Dec ’86, £1.95, 191pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1961) sf novel.
• * _Time Is the Simplest Thing (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-082075-5, Jun ’93 [Apr ’93], $9.00, 263pp, tp, cover by Peter Scanlon) Reprint (Doubleday 1961) sf novel.
• * _The Visitors (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-28387-2, Jun ’88 [May ’88], $2.95, 282pp, pb) Reissue (Del Rey 1980) sf novel; sixth printing.
• * _Way Station (SFBC #5710, Nov ’85, $4.98, 182pp, hc) Reprint (Doubleday 1963) sf novel. This one was a Hugo winner.
• * _Way Station (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33246-6, Jun ’86 [May ’86], $2.95, 236pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1963) sf novel of the keeper of Earth’s only galactic transfer station. A Hugo winner. Third Del Rey printing.
• * _Way Station (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33246-6, Apr ’88 [Mar ’88], $2.95, 236pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1963) sf novel, winner of the Hugo award. This printing drops the author’s afterword added in 1980.
• * _Way Station (Easton Press no ISBN, Aug ’88 [Jul ’88], no price, 210pp, hc) Reprint (Doubleday 1963) sf novel. This is a leatherbound, gilt edge edition available only to members of the Easton Press limited edition club. It contains an introduction by Jack Williamson and artwork by Vincent DiFate. This novel, considered Simak’s best, won the Hugo in 1964.
• * _Way Station (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-024871-7, Jan ’93 [Dec ’92], $9.00, 210pp, tp, cover by Barclay Shaw) Reprint (Doubleday 1963) sf novel. A Hugo Award winner.
• * _Way Station (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33246-6, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], $5.99, 236pp, pb, cover by H. R. Van Dongen) Reissue (Doubleday 1963) Hugo Award-winning SF novel. The copyright page identifies this as the fourth printing, but it is at least the fifth. Despite it being noted on the copyright page, this printing omits the 1980 author’s afterword.
• * _The Werewolf Principle (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0100-5, Jun ’94 [May ’94], $3.95, 190pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1967) SF novel.
• * _Where the Evil Dwells (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33438-8, Jun ’88 [May ’88], $3.50, 249pp, pb) Reissue (Del Rey 1982) fantasy novel; fourth printing.
• * _Where the Evil Dwells (Mandarin 0-7493-0079-5, Aug ’89, £3.50, 249pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1982) fantasy novel.
• * _Why Call Them Back from Heaven (Avon 0-380-50575-4, Sep ’88 [Aug ’88], $3.50, 191pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1967) sf novel.

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• * _Clifford D. Simak: A Working Bibliography See entry under Phil Stephensen-Payne.

SIMMONS, DAN (1948- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Banished Dreams (Roadkill Press, 1990 [Dec ’90], $3.00, 27pp, ph) Horror short story. This is a limited edition, signed and numbered, of 300 copies.
• * _Banished Dreams (Roadkill Press no ISBN, 1991 [May ’91], $4.00, 27pp, ph) Reissue (Roadkill Press 1990) horror short story, cut from Summer of Night; second printing. This is an unsigned and unlimited reprint of the earlier limited edition.
• * *Carrion Comfort (Dark Harvest 0-913165-37-9, Feb ’89, $21.95, 636pp, hc) Epic contemporary horror novel. Highly recommended. (FCM) A limited hardcover edition (-38-7) was announced but not seen.
• * _Carrion Comfort (Headline 0-7472-7986-1, Apr ’90, £8.95, 690pp, tp, cover by Karen Simmons) Reprint (Dark Harvest 1989) epic horror novel about two warring groups of ’mind vampires’. Strongly recommended. (PSP) Also available in hardcover (-0237-0, £14.95).
• * _Carrion Comfort (Warner 0-446-35920-3, Oct ’90 [Sep ’90], $5.95, 884pp, pb, cover by Don Brautigam) Reprint (Dark Harvest 1989) Stoker Award-winning epic vampire horror novel.
• * _Carrion Comfort (Headline 0-7472-3405-1, Nov ’90, £4.99, 992pp, pb) Reprint (Dark Harvest 1989) horror novel.
• * *Children of the Night (Putnam 0-399-13717-3, Jul ’92 [Jun ’92], $21.95, 382pp, hc) Vampire horror novel. In post-Ceausescu Romania, an American hematologist working with AIDS-infected orphans discovers a vampire child whose blood may hold a cure for AIDS, only to have him kidnapped by Romania’s hidden vampire population. Recommended (SW). A signed limited edition announced by Lord John Press has not been seen.
• * _Children of the Night (Lord John Press 0-935716-63-7, Jul ’92, $125.00, 320pp, hc) Vampire horror novel. This is a 500-copy signed slipcased limited edition simultaneous with the Putnam edition. A 250-copy split-leatherbound edition ($250.00) and a 26-copy lettered leatherbound edition ($800.00) were announced but not seen.
• * _Children of the Night (Headline 0-7472-7925-X, Aug ’92, £8.99, 408pp, tp, cover by Steve Crisp) Reprint (Putnam 1992) horror thriller blending AIDS and vampires in modern-day Romania. Recommended (PSP). A hardcover edition (-0562-0, £15.99) was announced but not seen. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Children of the Night (SFBC #00114, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], $10.98, 382pp, hc, cover by Hector Garrido) Reprint (Putnam 1992) vampire horror novel. Similar to the Putnam edition except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back cover.
• * _Children of the Night (Headline 0-7472-3899-5, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], £4.99, 408pp, pb, cover by Simon Dewey) Reprint (Putnam 1992) horror thriller blending AIDS and vampires in modern-day Romania.
• * _Children of the Night (Warner 0-446-36475-4, Jun ’93 [May ’93], $5.99, 451pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1992) vampire horror novel. In post-Ceausescu Romania, an American hematologist working with AIDS-infected orphans discovers a vampire child whose blood may hold a cure for AIDS, only to have him kidnapped by Romania’s hidden vampire population.
• * *Endymion (Bantam Spectra 0-553-10020-3, Jan ’96 [Dec ’95], $22.95, 468pp, hc, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Hyperion] SF novel, third book in the “Hyperion” series.
• * _Endymion (SFBC #11060, Feb ’96, $10.98, 503pp, hc, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Hyperion] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1996) SF novel, third in the “Hyperion” world. This is similar to the Bantam edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Endymion (Headline 0-7472-0525-6, Feb ’96, £15.99, 441pp, hc) [Hyperion] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1996) SF novel. Book 3 in the “Hyperion” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Endymion (Headline 0-7472-3826-X, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], £6.99, 600pp, pb) [Hyperion] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1996) SF novel, third book in the “Hyperion” series. An export edition (same details) was due August 1996.
• * _Endymion (Bantam Spectra 0-553-57294-6, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], $5.99, 563pp, pb, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Hyperion] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1996) SF novel, third book in the “Hyperion” series.
• * *Entropy’s Bed at Midnight (Lord John Press 0-935716-51-3, Mar ’90 [Apr ’90], $50.00, 35pp, hc) Signed and numbered edition of an original novelette, limited to 300 copies. A deluxe signed & slipcased limited edition was announced but not seen. Both editions are already out of print.
• * *The Fall of Hyperion (Doubleday Foundation 0-385-26747-9, Mar ’90 [Feb ’90], $8.95, 517pp, tp, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Hyperion] Epic science fiction novel, the second part of Hyperion. Also available in a hardcover edition (-24950-0, $19.95). In both states page 305 is missing and page 306 is printed twice. An errata sheet is available. Highly recommended (CNB).
• * _The Fall of Hyperion (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28820-2, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], $5.95, 517pp, pb, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Hyperion] Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1990) sf novel, “sequel” to Hyperion. A Nebula Award nominee. The combined novel is one of the high points in recent sf. Highly recommended (CNB).
• * _The Fall of Hyperion (Headline Overseas 0-7472-3604-6, Mar ’91, £4.99, 632pp, pb) [Hyperion] Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1990) sf novel. Sequel to Hyperion. This is an “Open Market” edition and is available only in non-English-speaking countries. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Fall of Hyperion (Headline 0-7472-7964-0, Apr ’91, £7.99, 468pp, tp) [Hyperion] Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1990) sf novel. Sequel to Hyperion. Also available in hardcover (-0344-X, £14.95). [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Fall of Hyperion (Headline 0-7472-3604-6, Feb ’92 [Jan ’92], £5.99, 632pp, pb, cover by Lee Gibbons) [Hyperion] Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1990) sf novel. Sequel to Hyperion. Recommended (PSP).
• * _The Fall of Hyperion (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28820-2, Dec ’95 [Nov ’95], $5.99, 517pp, pb, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Hyperion] Reissue (Doubleday Foundation 1990) SF novel. Fourth printing.