The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
Books, Listed by Author
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- WALKER, ROBERT W(ayne) (1948- ); see pseudonym Geoffrey Caine
- * *Aftershock (St. Martins 0-312-90906-3, Nov 87 [Oct 87], $3.95, 248pp, pb) Horror novel. Mutant escapes laboratory during earthquake.
- * *Burning Obsession (Zebra/Pinnacle 1-55817-214-9, May 89 [Apr 89], $3.95, 304pp, pb) [Dean Grant] Horror novel about a psychokiller who burns his victims alive.
- * *Disembodied (St. Martins 0-312-91110-6, Jun 88 [Jul 88], $3.95, 263pp, pb) Psychic horror novel of a supernatural killer and astral projection.
- WALKER, SAGE (stories)
- * *Whiteout (Tor 0-312-85765-9, Apr 96 [Mar 96], $23.95, 352pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) Near-future SF novel. A first novel.
- * _Whiteout (Tor 0-312-86302-0, Apr 97 [Mar 97], $13.95, 352pp, tp, cover by Bruce Jensen) Reprint (Tor 1996) near-future SF novel.
- WALKER, STEPHEN JAMES (stories)
- _____, ed.
- WALKER, STEVE
- * *21st Century Blues (Coronet 0-340-61841-8, Jan 95, £4.99, 369pp, pb) [Twenty-First Century Blues] Novelization of the Radio 4 SF comedy, subtitled The Book of the Century, Being the Life and Times of Chaff Chaffinch, the Famous Stylite, Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Leader of the Revolution of 24, Saviour of the World, Etcetera, Spoken by Himself, Mostly in the Year 2099, Up a Pole in Ethiopia, Written Down by his Long-Suffering Disciple and Lost Soul, Tadese Mblook.
- * *22nd Century Blues (Coronet 0-340-66663-3, Jul 96 [Jun 96], £5.99, 371pp, pb) [Twenty-First Century Blues] Humorous SF novel, sequel to Twenty-First Century Blues. Subtitled The Book of the Century, Being the Life and Incredible Times of Muggeridge Chaffinch, who left England during the Final Days of the Anita Government to Travel Far into the Stars, First as Prefect of HMS Billingsgate, later as Archbishop of Bunnyland, Written in the Year 2199 on the Planet Cats-by-Nowhere, Witnessed and with a Prologue and Footnotes by J.W. Mathis, False Man. Soon to be a Radio Series.
- WALKER, WENDY (1951- ) (stories)
- * _The Sea-Rabbit (Sun & Moon Press 1-55713-001-9, Nov 94 [Feb 95], $12.95, 272pp, tp, cover by Ann Klefstad) Reissue (Sun & Moon 1988) collection of nine literary stories and fairy tales. Second printing. (Contents)
- * *The Secret Service (Sun & Moon Press 1-55713-084-1, Oct 92 [Sep 92], $13.95, 459pp, tp) Literary novel with fantasy elements set in an alternate 18th century where the English Secret Service conducts surveillance when transformed into inanimate objects.
- WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER (1962-2008) (stories)
- * *The Broom of the System (Viking 0-670-81230-7, Jan 87, $18.95, 467pp, hc) Pynchonesque literary sf novel of the near future.
- * *The Broom of the System (Penguin 0-14-009868-2, Jan 87, $7.95, 467pp, tp) Paperback edition of the above.
- * _The Broom of the System (Avon 0-380-71991-6, May 93 [Apr 93], $12.00, 467pp, tp, cover by James Stiles) Reprint (Viking 1987) literary fantasy novel.
- * _The Broom of the System (Avon 0-380-73030-8, Jul 97 [Aug 97], $6.99, 530pp, pb) Reprint (Viking 1987) literary SF novel.
- WALLACE, DAVID RAINS (1945- )
- * *The Vermilion Parrot (Sierra Club 0-87156-630-3, Jun 91 [May 91], $18.00, 217pp, hc, cover by Sandra Dean) Environmentally correct sf/ecothriller, sequel to The Turquoise Dragon.
- WALLACE, (Richard Horatio) EDGAR (1875-1932) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *The Death Room (Kimber 0-7183-0591-4, May 86, £8.50, 224pp, hc) Assorted collection, some sf, some supernatural. (Contents)
- * _Planetoid 127 (Greenhill 0-947898-47-6, Jan 87 [1987], £8.95, 144pp, hc) Reprint (Readers Library 1929) sf novel. Earliest example of the twin world theme in sf. [Not seen]
- WALLACE, IAN; pseudonym of John W. Pritchard, (1912-1998)
- * *Megalomania (DAW 0-88677-351-2, May 89 [Apr 89], $3.75, 179pp, pb) [Croyd] Sf novel of political intrigue among godlike beings that rule entire galaxies. The latest in the Croyd series of van Vogtian superman novels.
- WALLACE, PAMELA (Diane) (1949- ); see pseudonym Pamela Simpson
- WALLACE, PATRICIA; [i.e., Patricia Wallace Estrada] (1949- )
- * *Fatal Outcome (Zebra 0-8217-3747-3, May 92 [Apr 92], $4.50, 382pp, pb) Medical thriller with sf elements. A mysterious new therapy for terminally ill patients effects miraculous cures but awakens deadly latent powers.
- * *Lullabye (Zebra 0-8217-2917-9, Mar 90 [Feb 90], $3.95, 287pp, pb) Horror novel. A comatose young mother becomes a murderous zombie.
- * *Mondays Child (Zebra 0-8217-2760-5, Sep 89, $3.95, 288pp, pb) Horror novel about a little girl who causes deaths wherever she goes.
- * *See No Evil (Zebra 0-8217-2429-0, Aug 88 [Jul 88], $3.95, 286pp, pb) Psychic horror novel.
- * *Thrill (Zebra 0-8217-3142-4, Oct 90, $4.50, 383pp, pb) Horror thriller about a deadly near-future state-of-the-art amusement park built on ancient Indian sacred land.
- * *Twice Blessed (Zebra 0-8217-1766-9, Feb 86, $3.75, 333pp, pb) Horror novel of evil twins.
- * *Water Baby (Zebra 0-8217-2188-7, Oct 87 [Sep 87], $3.95, 301pp, pb) Horror novel. She was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea....
- WALLACE, SEAN (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *The Tall Adventurer: The Works of E.C. Tubb (with Philip Harbottle) (Beccon Publications 1-870824-32-6, Aug 98 [Sep 98], £12.00, 199pp, tp, cover by Ron Turner) Illustrated bibliographic guide to every book, story, comic, and piece of non-fiction published by Tubb, including translations and reprints. Includes extensive critical summaries of all fiction, plus a profile and interview. Available from 75 Rosslyn Ave, Harold Wood, Essex RM3 0RG (75p postage; $20 & $2 from the US). [Tubb]
- WALLER, GREGORY A(lbert) (1950- )
- * *The Living and the Undead: From Stokers Dracula to Romeros Dawn of the Dead (University of Illinois Press 0-252-01208-9, Mar 86, $24.95, 376pp, hc) Non-fiction, critical study of the vampire genre. More on film than on literature.
- _____, ed.
- * *American Horrors (University of Illinois Press 0-252-01448-0, Jan 88 [Dec 87], $14.50, 228pp, tp) Non-fiction, essays on modern American horror films. A hardcover was announced (0-292-01447-2, $34.95), but not seen.
- WALLER, JANE
- * *Saving the Dinosaurs - A Death Star Heads for Planet Earth (Piper 0-330-33098-5, Mar 94 [Feb 94], £3.50, 133pp, pb, cover by Adrian Chesterman) Time-travelling youth tries to save dinosaurs from the meteorite that will destroy them.
- WALLIS, G(eraldine June) McDONALD (1925- ); see pseudonym Hope Campbell
- WALLIS, RAYMOND
- * *The Mills of Space (Frontlines 0-361-08537-0, Oct 89, £2.99, 181pp, pb, cover by Sarah John) [Triangulum] Young-adult sf novel. Also available in hardcover (-08536-2, £5.99). Volume two in the Triangulum trilogy.
- * *Starbloom (Purnell 0-361-08503-6, Apr 89, £1.99, 158pp, pb, cover by Sarah John) [Triangulum] Young-adult sf novel.
- WALLIS, VELMA
- * _Two Old Women (The Womens Press 0-7043-4424-6, Oct 94, £5.99, 140pp, pb, cover by Geraldine Brocet) Reprint (Epicenter 1993) fantasy novel based on an Alaskan legend. [First U.K. edition]
- WALLOP, (John) DOUGLASS (III) (1920-1985)
- * _Damn Yankees (W.W. Norton 0-393-31266-6, Jul 94 [Jun 94], $10.00, 250pp, tp) Reprint (Norton 1954 as The Year the Yankees Lost the Penant) baseball fantasy novel.
- WALPOLE, HORACE; [i.e., Horatio Walpole] (1717-1797) (stories)
- * _The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Oxford University Press 0-19-282351-5, Sep 96 [Oct 96], £3.99, xxxviii+125pp, tp, cover by John Singleton Copley) Reprint (Thos. Lownds 1764 as The Castle of Otranto, A Story) gothic fantasy novel. Edited by W.S. Lewis, with an introduction and notes by E.J. Clery, this is the 1798 text of a seminal novel first published as a translation by William Marshall from the original Italian by Onuphrio Muralto. (Contents)
- * *Hieroglyphic Tales (Mercury House 1-56279-049-8, Oct 93, $12.95, 89pp, tp, cover by Jill McElmurry) Collection of seven fantasy stories. Six were originally published in a seven-copy private edition in 1785, with the preface and postscript by Walpole included here. A Birds Nest originally appeared in Horace Walpole: Writer, Politician, Connoisseur (Yale University Press 1967). With new illustrations by Jill McElmurry and an editors note by Thomas Christensen. (Contents)
- WALSH, ANN (stories)
- * _The Ghost of Soda Creek (Beach Holme/Porcepic 0-88878-292-6, Feb 92 [May 92], $7.95, 170pp, tp, cover by Ron Lightburn) Reissue (Porcepic 1990) young-adult fantasy by a Canadian writer. Two teens try to help a little girls ghost; second printing. Available from Beach Holme, 4252 Commerce Circle, Victoria BC V8Z 4M2, Canada.
- * _Your Time, My Time (Beach Holme/Porcepic 0-88878-219-5, Jan 91 [May 92], $7.95, 156pp, tp, cover by Ron Lightburn) Reprint (Porcepic 1984) young-adult time-travel historical fantasy. A young girl finds a ring in a cemetery, and discovers it allows her to travel back in time, where she falls in love. Fifth printing. This is a 1991 book not seen until now. Available from Beach Holme, 4252 Commerce Circle, Victoria BC V8Z 4M2, Canada.
- WALSH, CHAD (1914-1991)
- * *Chad Walsh Reviews C.S. Lewis (The Mythopoeic Press 1-887726-05-5, 1998 [Aug 98], $4.95, 34pp, ph) Non-fiction collection of 19 reviews of works by C.S. Lewis. Foreword and bibliography of Walshs writings on Lewis by Joe R. Christopher; introduction by Damaris Walsh McGuire. Order from The Mythopoeic Society, PO Box 1363, Minnetonka MN 55345; add $1.00 postage. [Lewis]
- WALSH, JILL PATON; [i.e., Gillian Paton Walsh] (1937- ); see under Paton Walsh, Jill (stories)
- WALSH, JOHN EVANGELIST (Jr.) (1927- )
- * *Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe (Rutgers University Press 0-8135-2605-1, Oct 98, $23.00, 198pp, hc) Non-fiction, biography probing into the cause of Poes death. Includes notes, selected bibliography, index, and eight unpaginated pages of photos. Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Piscataway NJ 08854-8099. [Poe]
- WALTERS, ANNA LEE (1946- )
- * _Ghost Singer (University of New Mexico Press 0-8263-1545-3, Dec 94 [Feb 95], $17.95, 248pp, tp, cover by David Jenney) Reprint (Northland Publishing 1988) anthropological horror novel. Smithsonian researchers are persecuted by Native American ghosts.
- WALTERS, HUGH; pseudonym of Walter Llewellyn Hughes, (1910- )
- * *P-K (Severn House 0-7278-1364-1, Dec 86 [Oct 86], £7.50, 128pp, hc) Juvenile sf novel.
- WALTERS, LORI J., ed.
- * *Lancelot and Guinevere: A Casebook (Garland 0-8153-0653-9, May 96, $57.00, 310pp, hc) Critical examination of the characters of Arthurian legend and major trends in literary portrayals, primarily in older works; of sixteen essays, one covers Walker Percys Lancelot; one deals with Guinevere in modern fiction (T.H. White, Mary Stewart, Parke Godwin); another covers Sharan Newmans Guinevere trilogy. (Marion Zimmer Bradleys Mists of Avalon is discussed only briefly.) The introduction by the editor gives a detailed overview and select bibliography. Available from Garland Publishing, 717 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2500, New York NY 10022-8101; 1-212-751-7447.
- WALTERS, NICK
- WALTERS, R. R. (stories)
- * *Ladies in Waiting (Tor 0-812-52700-3, Sep 86 [Aug 86], $3.95, 411pp, pb) Horror novel. The women in the paintings were alive and hungry for revenge!
- * *Lily (Tor 0-812-52703-8, Jul 88 [Jun 88], $3.95, 408pp, pb) Horror novel. Demon. Temptress. Mankinds deadliest and most ancient enemy. Where she hunts, children die!
- * *Wind Chimes (Zebra 0-8217-3448-2, Jul 91 [Aug 91], $4.50, 352pp, pb) Horror novel of a child haunted by a deadly fantasy world.
- WALTERS, RAY
- * *Paperback Talk (Academy Chicago 0-89733-108-7, Nov 85 [Oct 85], $19.95, 329pp, hc) Non-fiction, of associational interest. A survey of paperback publishing in the U.S., based on Walters New York Times book review column and other articles which have appeared over the past 25 years. Its a compendium of short pieces, rather than a history and has sections on sf, fantasy, and horror; it even mentions sf conventions. The introduction is by the Ballantines, and the new Future of Publishing essay is of particular interest. Recommended. (CNB)
- WALTHER, DANIEL (1940- ) (stories)
- * *The Book of Shai (DAW 0-87997-899-6, Jan 84 [Dec 83], $2.25, 156pp, pb) [Shai] Sf/fantasy novel, translated by C.J. Cherryh from the French Le Livre de Swa (Fleuve Noir 1982). [Cherryh]
- * +Shais Destiny (DAW 0-88677-033-5, Apr 85 [Mar 85], $2.75, 221pp, pb) [Shai] Fantasy novel, the second book of Shai. This French novel has been translated by C.J. Cherryh.
- WALTON, BARBARA E.
- * *Quantum Leap: Odyssey (Boxtree 0-7522-0687-7, Oct 95 [Sep 95], £4.99, 280pp, pb, cover by Colin Howard) [Quantum Leap] SF novelisation. Book 12 of the series based on the TV show.
- * _Quantum Leap: Odyssey (Boulevard 1-57297-092-8, Mar 96 [Feb 96], $5.99, 275pp, pb, cover by Stephen Gardner) [Quantum Leap] Reprint (Boxtree 1995) novelization based on the TV show. Copyrighted by MCA Publishing Rights.
- WALTON, EVANGELINE; [i.e., Evangeline Walton Ensley] (1907-1996); later as Evangeline Walton Ensley (stories)
- * _The Children of Lllyr (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-026474-7, May 92 [Apr 92], $9.00, 221pp, tp, cover by Alan Lee) [Mabinogion] Reprint (Ballantine 1971) fantasy novel, a retelling of the second branch of the Mabinogion.
- * _Island of the Mighty (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-026472-0, Aug 93 [Jul 93], $10.00, 368pp, tp, cover by Alan Lee) [Mabinogion] Reprint (Willet Clark 1936 as The Virgin and the Swine) fantasy novel, the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion. Includes some comments on Walton reprinted from On Evangeline Walton and Magic by Patrick Merla from The Saturday Review.
- * _Prince of Annwn (Macmillan Collier 0-02-026471-2, Jan 92 [Dec 91], $8.95, 179pp, pb, cover by Alan Lee) [Mabinogion] Reprint (Ballantine 1974) fantasy novel, part of a series of four based on the Welsh epic, The Mabinogion.
- * _The Song of Rhiannon (Macmillan/Collier Nucleus 0-02-026473-9, Sep 92 [Oct 92], $9.00, 208pp, tp, cover by Alan Lee) [Mabinogion] Reprint (Ballantine 1972) fantasy novel, part of a series of four based on the Welsh epic, The Mabinogion.
- * _The Sword is Forged (Pocket 0-671-44034-9, Mar 84 [Feb 84], $3.95, 339pp, pb) Reprint (Simon & Schuster Timescape 1983) historical fantasy novel.
- * _Witch House (Macmillan Collier 0-02-026242-6, May 91 [Apr 91], $4.95, 196pp, pb, cover by Lee MacLeod) Reprint (Arkham House 1945) classic psychic detective novel.
- WALZ, MARJORIE A.; see pseudonym Dareion Morgan
- WANDOR, MICHELENE (1940- )
- * *Guests in the Body (Virago 0-86068-711-2, Nov 86, $12.95, 147pp, hc) Collection of stories, many with elements of fantasy. Some are originals. This edition, identical to the British, is available in the U.S. through Salem House.
- WANDREI, DONALD (Albert) (1908-1987) (stories)
- * *Colossus: The Collected Science Fiction of Donald Wandrei (Fedogan & Bremer 1-878252-00-3, 1989 [Oct 89], $28.00, 421pp, hc) Collection of 21 stories, with an introduction by Richard L. Tierney, a selected bibliography by D.H. Olson, and illustrations by Rodger Gerberding. This is a limited edition of 1,000 copies bound and laid out similar to the older Arkham House books. (Contents)
- * *Dont Dream (Fedogan & Bremer 1-878252-27-5, Jun 97 [May 97], $29.00, 395pp, hc, cover by Jon Arfstrom) Collection of 26 stories, mostly horror and fantasy, with 14 miscellaneous items: prose poems, essays, and marginalia. Two stories and ten of the miscellany are original to this volume; three stories were previously uncollected. Introduction by Helen Mary Hughesdon; afterword by D.H. Olson. Illustrated by Rodger Gerberding. Available from Fedogan & Bremer, 4325 Hiawatha Ave #2115, Minneapolis MN 55406; 612-721-8848, fax -9491; add $2.00 shipping. (Contents) [ed: Philip J. Rahman] [ed: Dennis E. Weiler]
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