The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
Books, Listed by Author
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- WANDREI, HOWARD (Elmer) (1909-1956) (stories)
- * *The Last Pin (F&B Mystery 1-878252-25-9, Oct 96, $29.00, 356pp, hc, cover by Gary Gianni) Associational collection of 11 spicy mystery and hard-boiled detective stories, by one of the most neglected authors of the Pulp Era whose pseudonyms included H.W. Guernsey and Robert A. Garron. Edited and with an introduction by D.H. Olson. Illustrations by Gary Gianni. A limited edition (-26-7, $95.00) was announced but not seen. Available from F&B Mystery, 5116 39th Avenue S, Minneapolis MN 55417; credit card orders: 800-738-2660. (Contents)
- * *Three Tales (Fedogan & Bremer, 1995, 48pp, ph, cover by Howard Wandrei) Collection of three stories selected from Time Burial, a forthcoming Wandrei collection, presented as an advance reading copy. (Contents)
- * *Time Burial (Fedogan & Bremer 1-878252-22-4, Nov 95 [Jan 96], $29.00, 317pp, hc, cover by Howard Wandrei) Collection of 20 horror and fantasy tales, two original, by one of the most neglected authors of the Pulp Era, with illustrations by the author, and a biographic introduction by editor D. H. Olson. Available from Fedogan & Bremer, 603 Washington Ave. SE #77, Minneapolis MN 55414-2950; credit card orders: 800-738-2660. (Contents)
- WANGERIN, WALTER, Jr. (1944- )
- * *The Book of Sorrows (Harper & Row 0-06-2500929-2, Jun 85 [May 85], $14.95, 338pp, hc) [Book of the Dun Cow] Fantasy novel, sequel to The Book of the Dun Cow.
- * _The Book of Sorrows (Harper & Row Perennial Library 0-06-250936-5, May 89, $8.95, 339pp, tp) [Book of the Dun Cow] Reprint (Harper & Row 1985) fantasy novel, sequel to The Book of the Dun Cow.
- * _The Book of the Dun Cow (Harper & Row Perennial Library 0-06-250937-3, May 89, $8.95, 241pp, tp) [Book of the Dun Cow] Reprint (Harper & Row 1978) fantasy novel.
- * *The Crying for a Vision (Simon & Schuster 0-671-79911-8, Oct 94 [Dec 94], $16.00, 279pp, hc, cover by E. B. Lewis) Young-adult contemporary American Indian coming-of-age fantasy novel.
- WANZER, ORVILLE J.
- * *The Elfin Brood (Commonwealth Publications 1-55197-312-X, 1997 [Aug 97], $5.99, 315pp, pb) Fantasy novel, book one in the Elfin Trilogy. Copyrighted 1996; the copyright page indicates this is a 1997 edition.
- WARBURG, TESSA (Elizabeth) (1929- ); see pseudonym Emma Lorant
- WARBURTON, NICK (stories)
- * *The Thirteenth Owl (The Bodley Head 0-370-31818-8, Mar 93 [Feb 93], £8.99, 124pp, hc, cover by George Smith) Young-adult fantasy novel.
- * _To Trust a Soldier (Walker 0-7445-3692-8, Aug 95 [Sep 95], £3.99, 160pp, pb, cover by Stuart Bodek) Reprint (Walker 1994) young-adult SF novel about the horror and moral conflicts of war in a machineless future.
- WARD, A(rthur Henry) SARSFIELD (1883-1959); see pseudonym Sax Rohmer (stories)
- WARD, C. E. (stories)
- * *Vengeful Ghosts (Sarob Press 1-902309-01-4, Aug 98, £18.00, xii+104pp, hc, cover by Paul Lowe) Collection of eight ghost stories, two previously unpublished, and all but one of which is set in the authors native Staffordshire. Limited to 250 numbered copies. (Contents)
- WARD, DAVID (stories)
- * *Perimeter One Adventures #1: The Misenberg Accelerator (Thomas Nelson 0-8407-9235-2, Sep 94, $4.99, 162pp, tp, cover by Catherine Huerta) [Perimeter One Adventures] Young-adult SF novel. The Graham family finds danger on the Perimeter One space station.
- * *Perimeter One Adventures #2: The SHONN Project (Thomas Nelson 0-8407-9236-0, Sep 94, $4.99, 162pp, tp, cover by Catherine Huerta) [Perimeter One Adventures] Young-adult SF novel. The Graham family innocently helps develop an artificial intelligence used for crime.
- * *Perimeter One Adventures #3: Out of Time (Thomas Nelson 0-8407-9237-9, Nov 94, $4.99, 159pp, tp, cover by Catherine Huerta) [Perimeter One Adventures] Young-adult Christian SF novel. The Graham family gets caught up in a time experiment gone wrong.
- * *Perimeter One Adventures #4: The Mines of Venus (Thomas Nelson 0-8407-9238-7, Nov 94, $4.99, 161pp, tp, cover by Catherine Huerta) [Perimeter One Adventures] Young-adult Christian SF novel. The Graham family fight evil spirits on Venus.
- WARD, JAMES M(ichael) (1951- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *Forgotten Realms: Pool of Radiance (with Jane Cooper Hong) (TSR 0-88038-735-1, Dec 89 [Nov 89], $3.95, 316pp, tp) [Forgotten Realms] Fantasy novelization based on the Forgotten Realms game.
- * _Forgotten Realms: Pool of Radiance (with Jane Cooper Hong) (Penguin 0-14-014584-2, Jul 90, £3.99, 316pp, pb, cover by Clyde Caldwell) [Forgotten Realms] Reprint (TSR 1989) fantasy novelization.
- * *Forgotten Realms: Pool of Twilight (with Anne K. Brown) (TSR 1-56076-582-8, Nov 93 [Oct 93], $4.95, 312pp, tp, cover by Fred Fields) [Forgotten Realms: Pools] Fantasy novelization based on the Forgotten Realms game, third book in the Pools series.
- * *Forgotten Realms: Pools of Darkness (with Anne K. Brown) (TSR 1-56076-318-3, Feb 92, $4.95, 313pp, tp, cover by Fred Fields) [Forgotten Realms] Fantasy novelization based on a computer game based on (and a sequel to) the book Pool of Radiance set in the world of the Forgotten Realms roleplaying game.
- * *Forgotten Realms: The Paladins (with David Wise) (TSR 0-7869-0865-3, Jan 98 [Feb 98], $2.99, 88pp, tp, cover by Heather LeMay) [Forgotten Realms] Novellazation based on the role-playing game. Book two in the Double Diamond Triangle Saga. Copyrighted by TSR.
- WARD, JOEL (stories)
- WARDMAN, GORDON
- * *Reparations (Secker & Warburg 0-436-56171-9, Jan 87 [Feb 87], £9.95, 196pp, hc) Near-future thriller.
- WARE, PAUL
- * *Beyond Freedom (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-68915-3, Oct 98 [Nov 98], £17.99, 376pp, hc, cover by Steve Crisp) [Flight of the Mariner] Fantasy/SF novel. A sequel to Flight of the Mariner. David Shaw returns to Shushuan to find the woman he left behind, only to discover the gods have thrown him into a battle for the Empire.
- * *The Flight of the Mariner (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-68913-7, May 97 [Apr 97], £17.99, 489pp, hc, cover by Steve Crisp) [Flight of the Mariner] Fantasy/SF novel. A first novel.
- * _Flight of the Mariner (NEL 0-340-68914-5, Nov 97, £6.99, 480pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) [Flight of the Mariner] Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1997) fantasy/SF novel.
- WARNEKE, SARA MARY (1957- ); see pseudonym Sara Douglass (stories) (chron.)
- WARNER, HARRY (Backer), Jr. (1922-2003)
- * *A Wealth of Fable (SCIFI Press 0-9633099-0-0, Aug 92 [Jan 93], $25.00, 456pp, hc, cover by Steve Stiles) Non-fiction, history of science fiction fandom in the 1950s; edited and expanded from a three-volume mimeographed 1977 edition by editor Dick Lynch, with an introduction by Wilson Tucker, and over 200 photographs added.
- WARNER, MARINA (Sarah) (1946- ) (stories)
- * +From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-15901-7, Oct 95, $35.00, 463pp, hc, cover by Henry Fuseli) Non-fiction, feminist critical study of fairy tales. First US edition (Chatto & Windus 1994); we apparently missed the UK edition.
- * _From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Noonday 0-374-52487-4, Sep 96, $16.00, 463pp, tp, cover by Henry Fuseli) Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1994) non-fiction, feminist critical study of fairy tales.
- * *No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-6593-6, Oct 98 [Nov 98], £25.00, xii+435pp, hc) Critical work, illustrated and with colour plates, on the use of anxiety and figures of terror (usually identified as male) in myth, fairy tales, and fantasy fiction, from the ancient world up to the modern horror thriller. A companion to From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, Chatto & Windus, 1994.
- * +Wonder Tales (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-29281-7, Oct 96, $22.00, 243pp, hc, cover by Roxanna Bikadoroff) Anthology of six 17th-century French fairy tales, in new translations by five internationally recognized writers including Gilbert Adair, John Ashbery and A.S. Byatt. The 15-page introduction by Warner details how the fairy tales became a literary form for aristocrats during the reign of Louis XIV. Illustrated by Sophie Herxheimer. First US edition (Chatto & Windus 1994).
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- * _Wonder Tales (Vintage UK 0-09-973591-1, Aug 96 [Jul 96], £7.99, 244pp, tp, cover by Paula Rego) Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1994) fantasy anthology of six adult French fairy tales from the classic period, newly translated. Edited and with an Introduction by Warner. (Contents)
- WARNER, SYLVIA TOWNSEND (1893-1978) (stories)
- * *Selected Stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner (Viking 0-670-82467-4, Dec 88 [Nov 88], $24.95, 440pp, hc) Collection of stories, some fantasy. (Contents)
- WARREN, ALAN (J.); pseudonym of Alan John Ziegenfuss, (1952- ) (stories)
- * *Roald Dahl (Starmont 1-55742-013-0, Oct 88 [Sep 88], $8.95, 105pp, tp) Non-fiction, critical study. [Dahl]
- * *Roald Dahl: Second Edition (Borgo Press 0-8095-3001-5, 1994 [Mar 95], $15.00, 128pp, tp) Non-fiction, critical study of Dahls work, revised (Starmont 1988) and updated with two new chapters and a new conclusion. This has a 1994 copyright date but not seen until now. A hardcover edition (-2001-X, $25.00) was announced but not seen. Available from Borgo Press, PO Box 2845, San Bernardino CA 92406; add $2.50 shipping. Credit card orders: fax 909-888-4942. [Dahl]
- WARREN, BILL; [i.e., William Bond Warren] (1943- ) (stories)
- * *Fandom is a Way of Death (with Allan Rothstein) (LASFS no ISBN, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $3.25, 43pp, pb) An L.A.con publication, this is a murder mystery set at the worldcon, complete with real-life characters.
- * _Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties: Vol. 2 (McFarland 0-89950-170-2, Jan 87, £39.95, 839pp, hc) Reprint (McFarland 1986). Volume 2 of a bibliography of sf movies. [Not seen]
- * *Keep Watching the Skies!, Vol. II (McFarland 0-89950-170-2, Aug 86, $39.95, 839pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference. Second volume of an exhaustive study of American sf movies in the fifties (and beyond); this one covers 1958-1962 and has complete descriptions of each movie. The two-volume set has a special $65.00 price tag.
- WARREN, PATRICIA NELL
- * *One Is the Sun (Ballantine 0-345-37042-2, Apr 91 [Mar 91], $12.95, 535pp, tp, cover by Romeo Washington) New Age historical shamanistic fantasy novel. A Mayan priestess flees the Yucatan and establishes a temple-school in Montana endangered by the encroaching white man.
- WARREN, PAUL
- * *Caleb Beldragons Chronicle of the Three Counties (Heinemann 0-434-97768-3, Oct 95 [Sep 95], £9.99, 44pp, hc, cover by Paul Warren) Oversized, heavily illustrated book detailing the background to a fantasy world which Warren has been developing for the last ten years. Races, societies, languages, songs, histories, constellations, legalities, jobs, landscapes. First in a series about the Three Counties, its target audience is just pre-teen but it has an approach and texture comparable to The Hobbit, and might develop in any number of ways if and when Warren writes the fictional texts.
- WARREN, WILLIAM BOND; see under Warren, Bill (stories)
- WARRICK, PATRICIA S(cott) (1925- ) (stories)
- * *Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick (Southern Illinois University Press 0-8093-1326-X, Jul 87, $18.95, 222pp, tp) Non-fiction, critical discussion of the major fiction of Philip K. Dick. An excellent study written in a clear narrative style, with reference only to the primary literature. Recommended. (CNB)
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- WARRINGTON, FREDA (1956- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * *A Blackbird in Amber (NEL 0-450-41903-7, Feb 88 [Jan 88], £3.95, 437pp, tp) [Blackbird] Fantasy novel. Volume 3 in the Blackbird series.
- * _A Blackbird in Amber (NEL 0-450-56862-8, Oct 92, £4.99, 437pp, pb, cover by Stephen Bradbury) [Blackbird] Reprint (NEL 1988) fantasy novel. Volume III in the Blackbird series.
- * *A Blackbird in Darkness (NEL 0-450-40161-8, Sep 86, £3.50, 473pp, pb) [Blackbird] Fantasy novel. Sequel to A Blackbird in Silver.
- * _A Blackbird in Darkness (NEL 0-450-40161-8, Mar 92 [Feb 92], £4.99, 473pp, pb, cover by Stephen Bradbury) [Blackbird] Reprint (NEL 1986) fantasy novel. Volume II in the Blackbird series.
- * *A Blackbird in Silver (NEL 0-450-05849-2, Jan 86, £2.95, 302pp, tp) [Blackbird] Original fantasy novel in a trade paperback edition.
- * _A Blackbird in Silver (NEL 0-450-05849-2, Aug 87, £2.95, 302pp, tp) [Blackbird] Reissue (NEL 1986) fantasy novel.
- * _A Blackbird in Silver (NEL 0-450-05849-2, Mar 92 [Feb 92], £4.99, 302pp, pb) [Blackbird] Reprint (NEL 1986) fantasy novel. Volume I in the Blackbird series.
- * *A Blackbird in Twilight (NEL 0-450-48908-6, Nov 88 [Oct 88], £3.99, 387pp, tp) [Blackbird] Fantasy novel. Volume 4 in the Blackbird series.
- * _A Blackbird in Twilight (NEL 0-450-56865-2, Oct 92, £4.99, 387pp, pb, cover by Stephen Bradbury) [Blackbird] Reprint (NEL 1988) fantasy novel. Volume IV in the Blackbird series.
- * *A Dance in Blood Velvet (Macmillan UK 0-333-62818-7, Aug 94 [Jul 94], £15.99, 471pp, hc) [Blood Wine] Horror novel. Sequel to A Taste of Blood Wine.
- * _A Dance in Blood Velvet (Pan 0-330-32662-7, Oct 95, £5.99, 584pp, pb) [Blood Wine] Reprint (Macmillan 1994) horror novel. Second in the Blood series after A Taste of Blood Wine.
- * *The Dark Blood of Poppies (Macmillan UK 0-333-63732-1, Oct 95 [Nov 95], £16.99, 519pp, hc) [Blood Wine] Horror novel. Third in the Blood vampire series after A Taste of Blood Wine and A Dance in Blood Velvet. The emphasis changes once more, in this unpredictable series, as the latest vampirised recruit, the ballerina Violette Lenoir, realises she may be about to become the most powerful vampire of all.
- * _The Dark Blood of Poppies (Pan 0-330-33850-1, Dec 96, £5.99, 595pp, pb) [Blood Wine] Reprint (Macmillan UK 1995) dark fantasy novel. Third in the Blood vampire series.
- * *Dark Cathedral (Signet Creed 0-45-118402-5, Mar 96, £5.99, 519pp, pb) [Dark Cathedral] Dark fantasy novel. Brother and sister become opponents in a diabolical battle for the female spirit of Earth.
- * *Darker Than the Storm (NEL 0-450-53817-6, Feb 92 [Jan 92], £4.99, 304pp, pb) [Blackbird] Fantasy novel. Volume V in the Blackbird series.
- * *Dracula: The Undead (Penguin 0-14-026880-4, Oct 97 [Nov 97], £5.99, 300pp, pb) [Dracula] Sequel to Dracula, following Mina and Jonathan Harker eight years later.
- * *Pagan Moon (Signet UK 0-45-118403-3, Apr 97 [Jul 97], £6.99, 404pp, pb) [Dark Cathedral] Dark fantasy novel, a sequel to Dark Cathedral.
- * *The Rainbow Gate (NEL 0-450-49149-8, Jan 90, £13.95, 381pp, hc) Fantasy novel.
- * _The Rainbow Gate (NEL 0-450-53626-2, Nov 90 [Oct 90], £3.99, 381pp, pb) Reprint (NEL 1990) fantasy novel.
- * *Sorrows Light (Pan 0-330-32664-3, Jul 93, £8.99, 257pp, tp, cover by David Bergen) Horror novel. A hardcover edition (-32663-5, £14.99) was announced but not seen.
- * _Sorrows Light (Pan 0-330-33348-8, Nov 94 [Oct 94], £4.99, 257pp, pb, cover by David Bergen) Reprint (Pan 1993) horror novel.
- * *A Taste of Blood Wine (Pan 0-330-32578-7, Oct 92, £8.99, 446pp, tp, cover by Paul Postle & Simon Marsden) [Blood Wine] Horror novel about vampires. A hardcover edition (-31877-2, £15.99) was announced but not seen.
- * _A Taste of Blood Wine (Pan 0-330-32846-8, Jul 93, £4.99, 581pp, pb) [Blood Wine] Reprint (Pan 1992) horror novel.
- WASSER, MARGARET
- * *The Priory (Pocket 0-671-66355-0, Jun 89, $3.95, 281pp, pb) Gothic horror novel about a cursed priory.
- WAT, ALEKSANDER; pseudonym of Aleksander Chwat, (1900-1967) (stories)
- * +Lucifer Unemployed (Northwestern University Press 0-8101-0840-2, Jan 90 [Apr 91], $8.95, 123pp, tp, cover by Victoria Lowe) Collection of nine literary fantasy stories, with a foreword by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated from the Polish by Lillian Vallee. Originally published as Bezrobotny Lucyfer (Hoesick 1927). A hardcover edition (-0839-9, $17.95) was announced but not seen. First American edition (Polonia Book Fund 1988). (Contents)
- WATANABE, SYLVIA A. (stories)
- * *Talking to the Dead (Doubleday 0-385-41887-6, Aug 92 [Jul 92], $20.00, 127pp, hc, cover by Steven Rydberg) Collection of ten connected stories about the life of a young Hawaiian woman, some of which are fantasy. (Contents)
- WATERS, ELISABETH (stories)
- * *Changing Fate (DAW 0-88677-608-2, Apr 94 [Mar 94], $4.99, 240pp, pb, cover by John Howe) Fantasy novel of a shapechanging woman who must learn to survive after being forced out into the world following the death of her father. A first novel.
- * _The Gratitude of Kings (with Marion Zimmer Bradley) See entry under Marion Zimmer Bradley.
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