The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

STERLING, (Michael) BRUCE (stories) (continued)

• * _Schismatrix (Penguin 0-14-008135-6, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], £2.50, 288pp, pb) [Mechanist-Shapers] Reprint (Arbor House 1985) sf novel. First paperback edition.
• * _Schismatrix (Ace 0-441-75400-7, Jun ’86 [May ’86], $2.95, 288pp, pb) [Mechanist-Shapers] Reprint (Arbor House 1985) sf novel of an intricate future of Mechanists vs. Shapers. A Nebula nominee. Recommended. (FCM)
• * _Schismatrix (Ace 0-441-75400-7, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], $3.95, 288pp, pb) [Mechanist-Shapers] Reissue (Arbor House 1985) sf novel set in the Mechanist/Shaper universe; second printing.
• * *Schismatrix Plus (Ace 0-441-00370-2, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], $13.00, 319pp, tp, cover by Danilo Ducak) [Mechanist-Shapers] Collection of the novel Schismatrix plus short fiction (originally collected as part of Crystal Express) set in the “Shapers-Mechanists” universe. There is a new introduction by Sterling. (Contents)

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• * _Mirrorshades (Ace 0-441-53382-5, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $3.50, 239pp, pb) Reprint (Arbor 1986) sf anthology, considered the cyberpunk book.
• * _Mirrorshades (Paladin 0-586-08782-6, Nov ’88, £4.95, 239pp, tp) Reprint (Arbor House 1986) anthology of 12 stories by Gibson, Bear, Rucker, Cadigan, and others, plus a preface on the “cyberpunk” movement. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Mirrorshades (HarperCollins UK 0-586-08782-6, Nov ’94, £4.99, 239pp, tp) Reprint (Arbor House 1986) SF anthology.
• * *Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (Arbor House 0-87795-868-8, Dec ’86 [Nov ’86], $16.95, 239pp, hc) Anthology of 12 stories by Gibson, Bear, Rucker, Cadigan, and others, plus a preface on the “cyberpunk” movement. (Contents)

STERMAN, BETSY (1927- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Backyard Dragon (with Samuel Sterman) (HarperCollins 0-06-020783-3, Jun ’93 [Aug ’93], $14.00, 189pp, hc, cover by David Wenzel) Young-adult fantasy novel of a 15th-century Welsh dragon who finds itself in modern New Jersey. Illustrations by David Wenzel.
• * *Too Much Magic (with Samuel Sterman) (Lippincott 0-397-32186-4, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $11.95, 154pp, hc) Juvenile science fiction novel (with magic).

STERMAN, SAMUEL (1918- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Backyard Dragon (with Betsy Sterman) See entry under Betsy Sterman.
• * _Too Much Magic (with Betsy Sterman) See entry under Betsy Sterman.

STERN, DAVID (1958- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Dr. Bones Book 5: Nightmare World (Ace 0-441-15669-X, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $3.50, 169pp, pb) [Dr. Bones] Sf adventure series with different authors, packaged by Byron Preiss Visual Publications, with visual material by Joel Hagan. As usual with this series, the copyright page contains the names of a number of people and organizations—the author’s name is not among them.

STERN, LARRY

• * *Fantasy World (Nexus 0-352-32953-X, Oct ’94 [Nov ’94], £4.99, 252pp, pb) Erotic SF novel.

STERN, ROGER

• * *The Death and Life of Superman (Bantam Spectra 0-553-09582-X, Sep ’93 [Aug ’93], $19.95, 416pp, hc) [Superman] Novelization based on and considerably expanded from the “death of Superman” issues of the comic book.
• * _The Death and Life of Superman (SFBC #02262, Dec ’93 [Nov ’93], $9.98, 416pp, hc) [Superman] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) novelization based on and considerably expanded from the death of Superman issues of the comic book. Similar to the Bantam Spectra edition except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _The Death and Life of Superman (Bantam UK 0-553-40776-7, May ’94 [Apr ’94], £4.99, 478pp, pb) [Superman] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) SF novelization. Adapted from the story serialized in various DC comics.
• * _The Death and Life of Superman (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56930-9, Nov ’94 [Oct ’94], $5.99, 528pp, pb) [Superman] Reprint (Bantam 1993) SF novelization, adapted from the “Death of Superman” comics from DC.

STERN, STEVE (1947- ) (stories)

• * _Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven (Viking Penguin 0-14-010948-X, Feb ’89 [Jan ’89], $6.95, 249pp, tp) Reprint (Viking (1986) contemporary fantasy novel formed of linked stores. (Contents)
• * _Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven (Syracuse University Press 0-8156-0356-8, Oct ’95 [Dec ’95], $14.95, tp) Reprint (Viking 1986) collection of nine linked literary stories, many with fantasy elements, about a strange Jewish community in Memphis. In one, a boys sends his spinster aunt on a blind date with the archangel Azrael. Syracuse University Press, 1600 Jamesville Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244-5160; credit card orders 800-365-8929.

STERNAU, CYNTHIA, ed. (stories)

• * *The Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus (with Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 0-88677-646-5, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $4.99, 309pp, pb, cover by Jean François Podevin) Original anthology of 11 stories based on the works of Nostradamus. (Contents)

STERNBACH, RICK; [i.e., Richard Michael Sternbach] (1951- ) (stories)

• * _Star Trek Technical Manual (with Michael Okuda) See entry under Michael Okuda.
• * *The Star Trek, the Next Generation Technical Manual (with Michael Okuda) (Pocket 0-671-70427-3, Nov ’91 [Oct ’91], $13.00, 183pp, tp) [Star Trek, the Next Generation] Non-fiction, reference. Guide to the world and technology of Star Trek, the Next Generation, with an introduction by Gene Roddenberry.

STETTEN, GEORGE

• * *Weissenbaum’s Eye (Zwitter Press 0-923056-00-9, Aug ’89 [Sep ’89], $4.95, 208pp, tp) Sf novel.

STEUSSY, MARTI; [i.e., Martha Jane Steussy] (1955- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Dreams of Dawn (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35233-5, Nov ’88 [Oct ’88], $3.95, 313pp, pb) [Forest of the Night] Sf novel of conflict between colonists and natives, sequel to Forest of the Night.
• * _Dreams of Dawn (SFBC #14668, Apr ’89 [Jun ’89], $4.98, hc) [Forest of the Night] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) sf novel. Sequel to Forest of the Night. First hardcover edition.
• * *Forest of the Night (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33815-4, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $2.95, 265pp, pb) [Forest of the Night] Sf novel of alien, possibly sentient, tigers. This may be a first novel.

STEVENS, BROOKE (C.) (c1957- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Circus of the Earth and the Air (Harcourt Brace 0-15-117987-5, Jan ’94, $23.95, 411pp, hc, cover by Francisco Mora) Literary fantasy novel of a man searching for his kidnapped wife through a mysterious world ruled by faceless circus masters. Illustrated with period circus photographs. A first novel.
• * _The Circus of the Earth and the Air (Harcourt Brace/Harvest 0-15-600206-X, Mar ’95, $12.00, 411pp, tp, cover by Francisco Mora) Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1994) literary fantasy novel.

STEVENS, CAROL (stories) (assoc.)

• * *J.R.R. Tolkien (with David Stevens) (Starmont House 1-55742-237-0, May ’92 [Jul ’92], $9.95, 178pp, tp) Non-fiction, criticism. A guide to Tolkien’s work, with selected primary and secondary bibliographies. A hardcover edition (-238-9, $19.95) was announced but not seen. Order from Starmont House, PO Box 851, Mercer Island WA 98040. [Tolkien]

STEVENS, DAVID (1933- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _J.R.R. Tolkien (with Carol Stevens) See entry under Carol Stevens.

STEVENS, FRANCIS; pseudonym of Gertrude Bennett, (1884-1948) (stories)

• * _The Citadel of Fear (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-038-6, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $3.50, 270pp, pb) Reprint (Paperback Library 1970) fantasy novel first published as an Argosy serial in 1918. There’s a new introduction by Robert Weinberg. The lyric imagination and moments of dry humor raise this above standard early pulps — it’s still entertaining. (FCM)
• * _Claimed (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-155-2, Jul ’85 [Jun ’85], $3.95, 192pp, pb) Reprint (Avalon 1966) fantasy novel. The author, Gertrude Bennett (1884-1939?), one of the earliest woman fantasy writers, wrote this dark fantasy in 1920.
• * _The Heads of Cerberus (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-090-4, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $3.50, 190pp, pb) Reprint (Polaris 1952) sf novel of a parallel world. This was written in 1919 and, according to Robert Weinberg’s interesting introduction, was the first alternate-worlds novel. Stevens was also an early, important woman writer.
• * *Sunfire (Apex International no ISBN, 1996, $12.00, 74pp, tp, cover by Virgil Finlay) Fantasy adventure novella originally published in two parts in Weird Tales in 1923. A facsimile of the original first page of the magazine edition is included. Stevens is a pen-name of Gertrude Barrows Bennet. A limited edition of 500 numbered copies; an additional 60-copy special edition is also available ($18.00). Order from Editions Antares, La Magali, Chemin Calabro, 83160 La Valette, France; add $2.00 postage; checks in US or Canadian funds should be made out to Jean-Guy Harvey.

STEVENS, GORDON (1945- )

• * *And All the King’s Men (Chapmans 1-85592-002-6, Sep ’90 [1990], £13.95, hc) Novel about the British Resistance after a successful Nazi invasion.
• * _And All the King’s Men (Pan 0-330-31534-X, Sep ’91, £4.99, 543pp, pb, cover by Stuart McKay) Reprint (Chapmans 1990) alternate-world novel about occupied Britain in the ’40s.

STEVENS, JAMES (A.) (1945- ) (stories)

• * *Who Killed Kennedy (with David Bishop) (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20467-0, Apr ’96 [May ’96], £4.99, 279pp, pb) [Doctor Who: New Adventures] Spoof conspiracy thriller based in the Doctor Who universe. Or ours. Subtitled ‘The Shocking Secret Linking a Time Lord and a President’. Stevens is a pseudonym - or doesn’t exist. This is a world-wide edition, available in the US for $5.95. In “The New Adventures”.

STEVENS, ROGER (stories)

• * _The Howen (Puffin 0-14-036417-X, Feb ’96, £4.50, 167pp, pb, cover by George Smith) Reprint (Viking 1993) young-adult SF/fantasy novel. A brother and sister find themselves in another world with other lost children. A first novel.

STEVENS, SHANE, [ref.] (1941- )

• * _Collecting Shane Stevens, a.k.a. J.W. Rider See entry under John Legg.

STEVENSON, DREW (1947- )

• * *The Case of the Visiting Vampire (Dodd Mead 0-396-08856-2, Nov ’86 [Jan ’87], $10.95, 124pp, hc) Associational; juvenile humorous “horror” novel, latest in the “Raymond Almond” series. The “vampire” turns out to be non-supernatural. Published in 1986; missed.

STEVENSON, FLORENCE (1922-1991)

• * *Household (Leisure 0-8439-2734-8, Mar ’89 [Feb ’89], $4.50, 392pp, pb) Horror novel. A cursed family searches for release for 300 years before finding hope in the Hollywood of the 1920s.
• * *The Sisterhood (Leisure 0-8439-2849-2, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $3.95, 342pp, pb) Horror novel of a women’s club that summons an entity from beyond.

STEVENSON, LAURA C(aroline) (1946- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Island and the Ring (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-56401-8, Oct ’91 [Nov ’91], $15.95, 275pp, hc, cover by Vilma Ortiz) Young-adult fantasy novel of a fugitive princess who must confront an evil lord.
• * _The Island and the Ring (AvoNova 0-380-71915-0, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $4.50, 275pp, pb, cover by Philip Howe) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1991) young-adult fantasy novel of a fugitive princess who must confront an evil lord.
• * _The Island and the Ring (Mammoth 0-7497-1777-7, Nov ’94, £3.99, 275pp, pb, cover by Mike Posen) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1991) young-adult fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS (Balfour) (1850-1894) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Body Snatcher and Other Stories (NAL Signet 0-451-52153-6, Feb ’88 [Jan ’88], $3.50, 350pp, pb) Collection of 8 stories, some of which are fantasy. Edited by Jeffrey Meyers. (Contents)
• * _The Body-Snatcher (Books of Wonder 0-929605-74-8, Nov ’97 [Feb ’98], $5.95, 55pp, tp, cover by Jeff White) Horror short story published as part of the “Classic Frights” young-adult line. Illustrated by Jeff White. This is dated 1997, but not seen until now.
• * +The Bottle Imp (Clarion Books 0-395-72101-6, Feb ’96 [Mar ’96], $16.95, 60pp, hc, cover by Jacqueline Mair) Young-adult novella about a cursed bottle with a wish-granting imp inside, with color illustrations by Jacqueline Mair. The Stevenson story was first published in Samoan in 1891, appearing later that year in English. First US edition (Albion Press 1995).
• * +The Complete Shorter Fiction (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-741-0, Sep ’91 [Dec ’91], $28.95, 664pp, hc) Complete collection of all of Stevenson’s shorter work, including many fantasies, edited by Peter Stoneley. First American edition (Robinson 1991). (Contents)
• * _The Complete Shorter Fiction (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0022-X, Dec ’93, $14.95, 664pp, tp, cover by J. A. Grimshaw) Reprint (Robinson 1991) complete collection of all of Stevenson’s shorter work, including much fantasy, edited by Peter Stoneley.
• * _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (with Samantha Lee) See entry under Samantha Lee.
• * _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Target 0-426-20243-0, Jun ’86 [May ’86], £1.95, 192pp, pb) Reprint (George Munro 1886) classic sf novel plus stories “Markheim” and “Olalla”. (Contents)
• * _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Star 0-352-32054-0, Apr ’87, £1.95, 192pp, pb) Reprint (George Munro 1886) horror collection. Identical to Target (1986) edition.
• * _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NAL/Signet Classic 0-451-52138-2, Oct ’87, $2.25, 124pp, pb) Reprint (Longmans 1886) classic horror novel, with the 1980 introduction by Vladimir Nabokov.
• * _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Tor 0-812-50448-8, Dec ’90 [Nov ’90], $2.50, 82pp, pb, cover by P. Jennis) Reprint (Scribner 1886) classic short horror novel, with an introduction by Charles L. Grant.
• * _Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Penguin 0-14-062051-6, Mar ’94 [Apr ’94], £1.00, 88pp, pb, cover by Jean Beraud) Reprint (Scribner 1886) horror novel. Thrift paperback edition of the classic.
• * _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Weir of Herminston (The World’s Classics 0-19-281740-X, Apr ’87, £2.95, 229pp, pb) Reprint omnibus of classic horror novel (Longmans, Green 1886) and historical novel (Cassell 1896).
• * _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide (Leipzig: Berhard Tauchnitz, 1895, 287pp, hc) Reprint (Tauchnitz 1886) collection. Collection of British Authors Vol. 2387. [EZ] (Contents)
• * _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Simon & Schuster/Washington Square Press 0-671-53210-3, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $3.99, 118pp, pb, cover by Darryl Zudeck) Reprint (Munro 1886) classic horror novel. This is a “WSP Enriched Classic” with a critical introduction by Barry V. Quake and Susan J. Wolfson, critical excerpts, comments by Stevenson, and notes on the text. Also includes 16 pp. of period illustrations and photos.
• * _The Haunted Dolls’ House and other stories (with M. R. James) See entry under M. R. James
• * _The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (University of Nebraska Press 0-8032-4212-3, Apr ’90 [May ’90], $15.00, 158pp, hc, cover by Barry Moser) Reprint (Scribner 1886) classic short horror novel, with illustrations by Barry Moser plus a foreword by Joyce Carol Oates and an afterword by the artist.
• * _The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dover 0-486-26688-5, Feb ’91 [Mar ’91], $1.00, 54pp, pb) Reprint (Scribner 1886) classic horror tale. A Dover Thrift Edition.
• * _The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Random House/Vintage 0-679-73476-7, May ’91, $7.00, 97pp, tp, cover by Richard Taddei) Reprint (Scribner 1886) classic horror short novel. Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates.
• * *The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Prentice Hall 0-13-435472-9, 1998, hc) Anthology of the title novella and five other stories. (Contents)
• * _The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books 0-8032-9240-6, Feb ’98 [Mar ’98], $10.00, 164pp, tp, cover by Barry Moser) Reprint (Scribner 1886) classic horror novel. This reprints the 1990 University of Nebraska/Pennyroyal Press edition with illustrations by Barry Moser, and foreword by Joyce Carol Oates. Order from University of Nebraska Press, 312 North 14th St, PO Box 880484, Lincoln NE 68588-0484; 800-755-1105.
• * _The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Everyman 0-460-87792-5, Jul ’96 [Oct ’96], £1.99, xx+252pp, pb, cover by S. G. Hulme Beaman) Reissue (Everyman 1992) thrift edition of a collection of 8 stories. Edited and with an Introduction by Claire Harman. (Contents)
• * _The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Suicide Club (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-036764-0, Aug ’97 [Sep ’97], $3.99, 224pp, tp, cover by David Bergen) Reprint (Puffin 1985) collection of the classic SF novel (1886) plus “The Suicide Club”, three linked stories about a secret society. We appear to have missed the previous 1985 Puffin edition. (Contents)
• * _Three Tales of Horror (with Edgar Allan Poe & Ambrose Bierce) See entry under Edgar Allan Poe.

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• * _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde After One Hundred Years See entry under William Veeder.
• * _The Essential Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Definitive Annotated Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Classic Novel See entry under Leonard Wolf.
• * _Robert Louis Stevenson See entry under Frank McLynn.
• * _Robert Louis Stevenson: Interviews and Recollections See entry under R. C. Terry.
• * _Robert Louis Stevenson: Teller of Tales See entry under Beverly Gherman.

STEVERMER, CAROLINE (J.) (1955- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *A College of Magics (Tor 0-312-85689-X, Mar ’94 [Feb ’94], $22.95, 380pp, hc, cover by Richard Bober) [Jane Brailsford] Fantasy novel set in an alternate-world Europe. The heiress to a small dukedom must study magic to overthrow her despotic usurping uncle.
• * _A College of Magics (Tor 0-812-53005-5, Feb ’95 [Jan ’95], $4.99, 380pp, pb, cover by Richard Bober) [Jane Brailsford] Reprint (Tor 1994) fantasy novel. A turn-of-the-century girls’ school teaches deportment and magic.
• * *River Rats (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-200895-0, Apr ’92 [Mar ’92], $16.95, 214pp, hc, cover by Dennis Nolan) Post-holocaust young-adult sf novel.
• * _River Rats (Harcourt Brace/Magic Carpet 0-15-201411-X, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], $6.00, 305pp, pb, cover by Steve Cieslawski) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992) young-adult post-holocaust SF novel.
• * *The Serpent’s Egg (Ace 0-441-75912-2, Feb ’88 [Jan ’88], $2.95, 200pp, pb) Fantasy novel.