The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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- VOERMANS, PAUL (stories)
- * *And Disregards the Rest (Gollancz 0-575-05143-4, Feb 92 [Jan 92], £14.99, 256pp, hc) Sf novel.
- * _And Disregards the Rest (Gollancz 0-575-05282-1, Mar 93, £4.99, 256pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) Reprint (Gollancz 1992) sf novel.
- * *The Weird Colonial Boy (Gollancz 0-575-05325-9, Mar 93, £15.99, 302pp, hc, cover by Steve Read) Sf novel set in a parallel-world Australia in 1978.
- * _The Weird Colonial Boy (Gollancz 0-575-05715-7, Mar 94, £4.99, 302pp, pb, cover by Steve Read) Reprint (Gollancz 1993) sf novel set in a parallel world Australia in 1978.
- VOIGT, CYNTHIA (1942- )
- * _Building Blocks (Ballantine Fawcett Juniper 0-449-70130-1, Mar 88, $2.95, 121pp, pb) Reissue (Atheneum 1984) young-adult time travel novel. A boy goes back to his fathers childhood and comes to understand him as an adult.
- * *Jackaroo (Atheneum/Argo 0-689-31123-0, Sep 85 [Oct 85], $14.95, 291pp, hc) [Kingdom] Young-adult adventure novel set in a mythical medieval land; marginally fantasy.
- * *The Wings of a Falcon (Scholastic 0-590-46712-3, Oct 93 [Nov 93], $14.95, 467pp, hc, cover by Joe DiCesare) [Kingdom] Fantasy novel of two young boys who flee slavery to seek a new life on the wild mainland.
- VOINOVICH, VLADIMIR (Nikolaevich) (1932- )
- * *Moscow 2042 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-162444-5, Jun 87 [May 87], $16.95, 424pp, hc) Sf time travel novel. First English language edition. Orginally published in Russian, 1986.
- * _Moscow 2042 (QPB no ISBN, Feb 88 [Mar 88], $8.50, 424pp, tp) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1987) quasi-sf novel. This is exactly the same as the HBJ hardcover except that it has no ISBN.
- * _Moscow 2042 (Jonathan Cape 0-224-02532-5, Apr 88, £11.95, 424pp, hc) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovavovich 1987) comic sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Moscow 2042 (Picador 0-330-30732-0, May 89 [Apr 89], £4.99, 424pp, tp, cover by Ralph Steadman) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1987) literary sf novel.
- * _Moscow 2042 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-662165-7, Sep 90 [Apr 92], $12.95, 431pp, tp) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1987) time-travel sf novel, with a new afterword by the author. Translated from the Russian by Richard Lourie. This is a 1990 book not seen until now.
- VOLK, STEPHEN (stories) (chron.)
- * *Gothic (Grafton 0-586-07335-3, Feb 87, £2.95, 223pp, pb) Novelization of Ken Russells film.
- VOLLMANN, WILLIAM T(anner) (1959- ) (stories)
- * *The Ice-Shirt (Andre Deutsch 0-233-98506-9, Apr 90 [Jun 90], £14.95, 404pp, hc, cover by Timothy Ely) [Seven Dreams] Literary fantasy novel about the Norse discovery of America. First in the Seven Dreams series.
- * +The Ice-Shirt (Viking 0-670-83239-1, Oct 90 [Sep 90], $19.95, 415pp, hc, cover by Fred Marcellino) [Seven Dreams] Prehistoric literary fantasy novel of Norse Greenlanders in North America, first book of the Seven Dreams series. First American edition (Andre Deutsch 1990).
- * _The Ice-Shirt (BOMC no ISBN, Feb 91 [Jan 91], $17.95, 415pp, hc, cover by Fred Marcellino) [Seven Dreams] Reprint (Andre Deutsch 1990) literary historical fantasy novel of Norsemen in North America. This is identical to the 1990 Viking edition except it lacks an ISBN and price and has a BOMC mark on the back.
- * _The Ice-Shirt (Picador 0-330-31787-3, May 91, £6.99, 404pp, tp, cover by Timothy Ely) [Seven Dreams] Reprint (Andre Deutsch 1990) literary historical fantasy novel.
- * _The Ice-Shirt (BOMC/QPBC no ISBN, Nov 91, $10.95, 415pp, tp, cover by Fred Marcellino) [Seven Dreams] Reprint (Andre Deutsch 1990) literary fantasy novel of Norsemen in North America. This is identical to the 1990 Viking edition except it lacks an ISBN and price and has the dust jacket printed as the soft cover.
- * _The Ice-Shirt (Penguin 0-14-013196-5, Jul 93, $12.50, 411pp, tp, cover by Gerard Mercator) [Seven Dreams] Reprint (Andre Deutsch 1990) literary novel with fantasy elements about the Norse discovery of America. First book of the Seven Dreams series.
- * *The Rainbow Stories (Andre Deutsch 0-223-98351-1, Jul 89, £12.95, 541pp, hc) Collection of 13 literary short stories with fantasy elements.
- * +The Rainbow Stories (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-11961-5, Jul 89, $19.95, 541pp, hc) Very literary collection of 13 stories with some fantasy content. First American edition (Andre Deutsch 1989). (Contents)
- * _The Rainbow Stories (Picador 0-330-30266-3, Feb 90, £7.99, 542pp, tp, cover by Mark Edwards) Reprint (Andre Deutsch 1989) literary fantasy collection.
- * *You Bright and Risen Angels (Atheneum 0-689-11852-X, May 87, $22.95, 635pp, hc) Pynchonesque comic/surreal novel of magic and technology; a first novel.
- * _You Bright and Risen Angels (Picador 0-330-29654-X, Jun 88, £6.95, 656pp, tp) Reprint (Athenuem 1987) literary sf/fantasy novel.
- * _You Bright and Risen Angels (Penguin 0-14-011087-9, Dec 88 [Nov 88], $9.95, 635pp, tp) Reprint (Atheneum 1987) satiric literary fantasy novel about insects vying for world domination against the evil inventors of electricity.
- VOLSKY, PAULA (stories)
- * *The Gates of Twilight (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37394-3, Mar 96 [Feb 96], $12.95, 341pp, tp, cover by Stephen Hickman) Quasi-historical fantasy novel set in an analog of the last days of the British raj in India. The gods are real aliens.
- * _The Gates of Twilight (Bantam Spectra 0-553-57269-5, Feb 97 [Jan 97], $6.50, 389pp, pb, cover by Stephen Hickman) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1996) quasi-historical fantasy novel, set in an analog of the British Raj.
- * *Illusion (Gollancz 0-575-05138-8, Dec 91 [Nov 91], £8.99, 700pp, tp, cover by David Farren) Fantasy novel about a world where the magic is dying. Also available in hardcover (-05137-X, £15.99).
- * +Illusion (Bantam Spectra 0-553-35135-4, Feb 92 [Jan 92], $10.00, 577pp, tp, cover by Michael Whelan) Fantasy novel, an alternate-world retelling of the events of the French Revolution. A hardcover edition (-08145-4, $22.50) is also available. First American edition (Gollancz 1991).
- * _Illusion (Gollancz 0-575-05296-1, Aug 92, £5.99, 700pp, pb, cover by David Farren) Reprint (Gollancz 1991) fantasy novel.
- * _Illusion (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56242-8, Feb 93 [Jan 93], $5.99, 674pp, pb, cover by Michael Whelan) Reprint (Gollancz 1991) fantasy novel, an alternate-world retelling of the events of the French Revolution.
- * *The Luck of Relian Kru (Ace 0-441-83816-2, Jun 87 [May 87], $2.95, 294pp, pb) Humorous fantasy novel. Plagued by strange bad luck since infancy, young Relian is forced to learn to use his supranormal powers by a gross, egotistical master, in a land of poisonous mystery and rampant eccentricity.
- * _The Luck of Relian Kru (Legend 0-09-962010-3, Sep 89, £3.50, 294pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1987) humorous fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
- * *The Sorcerers Curse (Ace 0-441-44458-X, Jul 89 [Jun 89], $3.95, 299pp, pb) [*Sorcerers Lady] Fantasy novel, third in the Sorcerers Lady series.
- * *The Sorcerers Heir (Ace 0-441-77231-5, Jun 88 [May 88], $3.50, 279pp, pb) [*Sorcerers Lady] Fantasy novel, sequel to The Sorcerers Lady.
- * *The Sorcerers Lady (Ace 0-441-77533-0, Apr 86 [Mar 86], $2.95, 264pp, pb) [*Sorcerers Lady] Fantasy novel set in a world that resembles the Verona of Romeo and Juliet. A first novel.
- * _The Sorcerers Lady (Legend 0-09-960720-4, Dec 88, £2.99, 264pp, pb) [*Sorcerers Lady] Reprint (Ace 1986) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
- * *The White Tribunal (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37846-5, Sep 97 [Aug 97], $13.95, 390pp, tp, cover by John Jude Palencar) Fantasy novel. A young man pawns his soul to avenge his fathers death.
- * _The White Tribunal (Bantam Spectra 0-553-57581-3, Aug 98 [Jul 98], $6.50, 501pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1997) fantasy novel. A young man pawns his soul to avenge his fathers death.
- * *The Wolf of Winter (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37210-6, Dec 93 [Nov 93], $12.95, 357pp, tp, cover by George Bush) Quasi-historical fantasy novel set in a Russian-like kingdom, where a beautiful girl matches wits with her necromancer uncle and the ruler of the dead.
- * _The Wolf of Winter (SFBC #03086, May 94 [Apr 94], $9.98, 357pp, hc, cover by Alan M. Clark) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) quasi-historical fantasy novel set in a Russian-like kingdom, where a beautiful girl matches wits with her necromancer uncle and the ruler of the dead. First hardcover edition. This edition has new cover art, lacks an ISBN and price, and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
- * _The Wolf of Winter (Bantam UK 0-553-40815-1, Jul 94, £4.99, 445pp, pb, cover by George Bush) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
- * _The Wolf of Winter (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56879-5, Jan 95 [Dec 94], $5.99, 499pp, pb, cover by George Bush) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) quasi-historical fantasy novel of necromancy in a frozen land.
- VOLTAIRE; pseudonym of François Marie Arouet, (1694-1778) (stories)
- * *Micromegas (and Other Stories) (Dedalus 0-946626-55-3, Nov 89, £4.95, 171pp, tp, cover by Tim Gray) Collection of classic sf stories, translated by W. Fleming. This edition is available in the USA from Hippocrene Books. (Contents)
- von ALLMEN, STEWART (stories)
- * *Saint Vitus Dances Eternity: A Sarajevo Ghost Story (White Wolf 1-56504-947-0, Jun 96 [Jul 96], $21.99, 71pp, hc) Dark fantasy novelette, with simultaneous text in Bosnian translated by Aida Musanovic, who also did the illustrations. Proceeds from the sale of this story go to the New Bosnia Fund. There are afterwords by the author and Michael Moorcock.
- * *The World of Darkness: Werewolf: Conspicuous Consumption (HarperPrism 0-06-105471-2, Aug 95 [Jul 95], $4.99, 260pp, pb, cover by John Cobb) [World of Darkness: Werewolf] Novelization based on the dark-fantasy series of role-playing games; though based specifically on Werewolf: The Apocalypse, this volume has a coupon for an exclusive card for the Rage trading card game. Copyrighted by White Wolf. A first novel.
- * _World of Darkness: Werewolf: Conspicuous Consumption (Boxtree 0-7522-0325-8, Apr 96, £5.99, 260pp, pb, cover by John Cobb) [World of Darkness: Werewolf] Reprint (HarperPrism 1995) novelisation based on the role-playing fantasy card game, Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Copyrighted by White Wolf Fiction. [First U.K. edition]
- VONARBURG, ÉLISABETH (Ferron-Wehrlin Morché) (1947- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * *In the Mothers Land (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29962-X, Dec 92 [Nov 92], $5.99, 487pp, pb, cover by Oscar Chichoni) [Silent City] Sf novel of a future world where men are punished for destroying civilizations, a loose sequel to The Silent City. Translated from the French by Jane Brierley. Although an earlier edition is listed on the copyright page, it has not appeared. This is the first edition in any language.
- * _The Maerlande Chronicles (Beach Holme/Tesseract 0-88878-294-2, Mar 93, C$8.95, 582pp, tp, cover by Charles Vinh) [Silent City] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1992 as In the Mothers Land) sf novel of a future world where men are punished for destroying civilizations, a loose sequel to The Silent City. Translated from the French by Jane Brierley. The US edition also predates the French version. This edition was scheduled to appear before the Bantam Spectra edition, but has just appeared, despite the 1992 copyright date. Avilable from Beach Holme Publishers, 4252 Commerce Circle, Victoria BC V8Z 4M2 Canada.
- * *Reluctant Voyagers (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56242-8, Mar 95 [Feb 95], $5.99, 469pp, pb, cover by Stephen Youll) SF novel of a woman trapped in an alternate Montreal, the first English translation of Les Voyagers malgre eux (Editions Quebec-Amerique 1994). Translated by Jane Brierly.
- * _Reluctant Voyagers (Tesseract 1-895836-09-3, Dec 95 [Feb 96], $9.95, 451pp, pb, cover by Jean-Pierre Normand) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1995) SF novel. Translated by Jane Brierley from Les Voyagers malgre eux (Editions Quebec-Amerique 1994). A hardcover (-15-8, $21.95) edition is also available. The price is the same in US and Canadian money. Available from Tesseract Books, 214-21 10405 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton Alberta Canada T5J 3S2. Add $2.00 postage.
- * *The Silent City (Porcépic Tesseract 0-88878-277-2, 1988 [Jan 89], $9.95, 209pp, tp) [Silent City] Sf novel about life in the last bastion of science and knowledge on a war ravaged Earth. First English language edition (Editions Denoel 1981). Translated from the French by Jane Brierley.
- * _The Silent City (The Womens Press 0-7043-4218-9, Apr 90, £4.95, 247pp, pb, cover by Gretta Kool) [Silent City] Reprint (Porcépic Books 1988) sf novel. Originally published in French in 1981 (as Le Silence de la Cité) by Editions Denoel.
- * +The Silent City (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29789-9, Aug 92 [Jul 92], $4.99, 261pp, pb, cover by Oscar Chichoni) [Silent City] Sf novel about life in the last bastion of science and technology on a war-ravaged Earth. Translated from the French by Jane Brierley. Originally published as Le Silence de la Cité (Editions Denoel 1981). First American edition (Porcépic 1988).
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- * *Tesseracts Q (with Jane Brierley) (Tesseract 1-895836-21-2, Sep 96 [Oct 96], C$8.95, 393pp, pb, cover by Jean-Pierre Normand) Anthology of 22 stories in translation from SF published in French in Quebec. Authors include Yves Meynard, Jean-Louis Trudel, and Alain Bergeron. There is a foreword by Elisabeth Vonarburg, and an afterword by Jane Brierley. A limited hardcover edition (-22-0, C$21.95) was announced but not seen. Order from The Books Collective, 214-21 10405 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton Alberta T5J 0X2, Canada; US orders pay in US dollars. (Contents)
- von FRANZ, MARIE-LOUISE (1915?-1998) (stories)
- * *The Feminine in Fairy Tales (Shambala 0-87773-567-0, Jun 93 [May 93], $15.00, 224pp, hc) Non-fiction, criticism. A study of feminine images in fairy tales from a Jungian perspective. Based on a series of lectures given by the author at the Jung Institute in 1958-59, this is a revised edition of a book originally published as Problems of the Feminine in Fairy Tales (Spring 1972).
- VON GUNDEN, KENNETH (Ray) (1946- )
- * *K-9 Corps (Ace 0-441-09128-8, Feb 91 [Jan 91], $3.95, 229pp, pb, cover by Jim Thiesen) [K-9 Corps] Sf adventure novel of a pack of genetically altered super-dogs and their trainer confronting deadly centaurs on an alien planet. First book of a series.
- * *K-9 Corps: Cry Wolf (Ace 0-441-42495-3, Feb 92 [Jan 92], $3.99, 250pp, pb, cover by Jim Thiesen) [K-9 Corps] Sf adventure novel, third book of the K-9 series featuring a pack of genetically engineered dogs with the power of speech.
- * *K-9 Corps: The Last Resort (Ace 0-441-42496-1, Jan 93 [Dec 92], $4.99, 252pp, pb, cover by Cliff Miller) [K-9 Corps] Sf adventure novel, fourth book of the K-9 series that features a pack of genetically-engineered dogs with the power of speech.
- * *K-9 Corps: Under Fire (Ace 0-441-42494-5, Aug 91 [Jul 91], $3.95, 250pp, pb, cover by Jim Thiesen) [K-9 Corps] Sf adventure novel, second book in the K-9 Corps series featuring a pack of genetically engineered dogs with the power of speech.
- * *The Pale Companion (Ace 0-441-00064-9, Jun 94 [May 94], $4.99, 266pp, pb, cover by Dave Dorman) SF novel of a battle between cyborg secret agents.
- * *The Sounding Stillness (Ace 0-441-77598-5, Nov 93 [Oct 93], $4.99, 250pp, pb, cover by David Dorman) Sf novel of an off-planet secret agent and his cyborg partner investigating the conflict between whalelike natives and genetically engineered human and dolphin colonists.
- * *Starspawn (Ace 0-441-46992-2, Jan 90 [Dec 89], $3.95, 250pp, pb, cover by Mark Ferrari) Sf novel. An alien parasite (origin of the legends of dragons) must be hunted on medieval Earth. A first novel.
- von HARBOU, THEA (1888-1954)
- * _Metropolis (Donning/Starblaze 0-89865-518-8, Jun 88 [May 88], $12.95, 170pp, tp) Reprint (Hutchinson 1927) sf novelization with new illustrations in both color and b&w by Michael W. Kaluta. A hardcover was announced (-519-6, $19.95), but not seen. There is also supposed to be a limited slipcased edition signed by the artist.
- VONNEGUT, KURT, Jr. (1922-2007) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *Bluebeard (Delacorte 0-385-29590-1, Oct 87 [Sep 87], $17.95, 300pp, hc) Novel, non-sf/fantasy of associational interest. The autobiography of a minor character in Breakfast of Champions.
- * _Bluebeard (Jonathan Cape 0-224-02548-1, Apr 88, £10.95, 300pp, hc) Reprint (The Franklin Library 1987) hoax autobiography, of associational interest. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Bluebeard (Paladin 0-586-08919-5, Mar 89, £4.50, 256pp, tp, cover by Martin Sexton) Reprint (Delacorte 1987) associational novel.
- * _Bluebeard (Delta 0-385-33351-X, Oct 98 [Sep 98], $11.95, 318pp, tp, cover by Gene Greif) Reprint (Delacort 1987) associational novel.
- * _Breakfast of Champions (Delacorte/Delta 0-385-28364-4, Apr 86 [Mar 86], $9.95, 295pp, pb) Reissue (Delacorte 1973) quasi-novel about Vonnegut and his created sf writer, Kilgore Trout.
- * _Breakfast of Champions (Dell 0-440-13148-0, Nov 91 [Aug 92], $5.99, 193pp, pb, cover by Gene Greif) Reissue (Delacorte 1973) associational mainstream novel featuring Kilgore Trout; 30th printing.
- * _Cats Cradle (Delacorte/Delta 0-385-28126-9, Apr 86 [Mar 86], $9.95, 231pp, pb) Reissue (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1963) sf novel.
- * _Cats Cradle (Penguin 0-14-002308-9, May 86, £2.95, pb) Reprint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1963) sf novel.
- * _Cats Cradle (Penguin 0-14-002308-9, May 86, £2.95, 179pp, tp) Reissue (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1963) sf novel. [Not seen]
- * _Cats Cradle (Dell 0-440-11149-8, Nov 88 [Oct 88], $4.95, 191pp, pb) Reissue (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1963) sf novel.
- * _Cats Cradle (Dell 0-440-11149-8, Jul 92, $5.99, 191pp, pb, cover by Gene Greif) Reissue (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1963) classic sf novel; 73rd printing.
- * _Cats Cradle (Delta 0-385-33348-X, Oct 98 [Sep 98], $11.95, 287pp, tp, cover by Gene Greif) Reprint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1963) SF novel.
- * *Cats Cradle/God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater/Slaughterhouse-Five (BOMC/QPBC no ISBN, Oct 90, $12.95, 231/271/186pp, tp, cover by Winslow Pinney Pels) Omnibus of three Vonnegut novels. (Contents)
- * _Dead-Eye Dick (Dell 0-440-11765-8, 1985 [Oct 85], $3.95, 240pp, pb) Reprint (Delacorte 1982) sf novel.
- * _Deadeye Dick (Dell 0-440-11765-8, Jun 92 [May 92], $5.99, 240pp, pb, cover by Gene Greif) Reissue (Delacorte 1982) sf novel; 11th printing.
- * _Fates Worse Than Death (Berkley 0-425-13406-7, Sep 92 [Aug 92], $8.95, 240pp, tp) Reprint (Putnam 1991) associational non-fiction, a collection of essays about life in the 80s with connecting material.
- * *Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s (Putnam 0-399-13633-9, Sep 91 [Aug 91], $22.95, 240pp, hc) Associational non-fiction, a collection of essays about life in the 80s strung together by connecting material.
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