The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

WILSON, F(rancis) PAUL (stories) (continued)

• * _The Tomb (NEL 0-450-39753-X, Sep ’86, £2.50, 365pp, pb) [Repairman Jack] Reprint (Whispers Press/Berkley 1984) horror novel.
• * _The Tomb (Jove 0-515-08876-5, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $4.50, 404pp, pb) [Repairman Jack] Reissue (Whispers Press/Berkley 1984) horror novel. An ancient evil awakes and is sent to America to fulfill its curse. Second printing.
• * _The Tomb (Tor 0-812-58037-0, Aug ’98 [Jul ’98], $6.99, 426pp, pb) [Repairman Jack] Reprint (Whispers Press/Berkley 1984) horror novel.
• * *The Touch (Putnam 0-399-13144-2, Apr ’86, $18.95, 367pp, hc) Fantasy novel of a doctor who develops a miraculous healing power.
• * _The Touch (NEL 0-450-39067-5, Jun ’86 [May ’86], £9.95, 313pp, hc) Reprint (Putnam 1986) medical fantasy novel of faith healing.
• * _The Touch (Jove 0-515-08733-5, Oct ’86 [Sep ’86], $3.95, 327pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1986) fantasy/horror novel of a doctor with miraculous healing powers.
• * _The Touch (NEL 0-450-42168-6, Mar ’88, £2.95, 313pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam’s 1986) horror novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Wheels Within Wheels (Berkley 0-425-07451-X, Jan ’85 [Dec ’84], $2.75, 186pp, pb) [LaNague] Reprint (Doubleday 1978) sf novel.

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• * *Diagnosis: Terminal (Tor/Forge 0-312-85972-4, Jul ’96, $23.95, 349pp, hc, cover by Robert Santara) Original anthology of 14 stories of medical terror, some with SF or supernatural elements. Authors include Karl Edward Wagner, Ed Gorman, Steven Spruill, and Matthew Costello. (Contents)
• * _Diagnosis: Terminal (Tor 0-812-55088-9, Dec ’97 [Nov ’97], $5.99, 349pp, pb, cover by Robert Santara) Reprint (Forge 1996) original anthology of 14 stories of medical terror, some SF or supernatural.
• * *Freak Show (Pocket 0-671-69574-6, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $5.50, 367pp, pb, cover by Jeff K. Potter) Original shared-world anthology of 19 horror stories featuring a travelling circus. The stories build on each other and are supposed to be read sequentially. (Contents)
• * _Freak Show (Borderlands Press no ISBN, Jan ’93 [Apr ’93], $75.00, 392pp, hc, cover by Phil Parks) Reprint (Pocket 1992) original shared-world anthology of 19 horror stories featuring a travelling circus. This is a signed slipcased 750-copy limited edition.

WILSON, GAHAN (1930- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Cleft and Other Odd Tales (Tor 0-312-86574-0, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $23.95, 333pp, hc, cover by Gahan Wilson) Collection of 24 stories, one original, one (“Campfire Story”) without copyright information. Illustrated by the author. (Contents)
• * _Eddy Deco’s Last Caper (McGraw-Hill 0-07-070728-6, Dec ’88, $5.95, 213pp, tp) Reprint (Times Books 1987) fantasy/detective farce.
• * *Eddy Deco’s Last Caper: An Illustrated Mystery (Times Books 0-8129-1671-9, Nov ’87, $14.95, 213pp, hc) Fantasy/detective farce novel illustrated by the author — the illustrations are part of the story.
• * *Even Weirder (Tor/Forge 0-312-85885-X, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $16.95, 237pp, tp, cover by Gahan Wilson) Collection of cartoons by a master of weird humor.
• * _Everybody’s Favorite Duck (Mysterious Press 0-445-40841-3, Dec ’89 [Nov ’89], $4.95, 202pp, pb, cover by Gahan Wilson) Reprint (Mysterious Press 1988) humorous detective pastiche with fantasy elements.
• * *Gahan Wilson’s America (Simon & Schuster 0-671-55512-X, Nov ’85, $14.95, 143pp, hc) Gahan Wilson’s latest cartoon collection targets the U.S.A.
• * _Gahan Wilson’s America (Simon & Schuster/Fireside 0-671-62789-9, Oct ’86 [Dec ’86], $7.95, 143pp, pb) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1985) book of cartoons of a bizarre America.
• * *Still Weird (Tor/Forge 0-312-85779-9, Dec ’94 [Nov ’94], $13.95, 287pp, tp, cover by Gahan Wilson) Collection of cartoons by a master of weird humor, 100 not previously published. A hardcover (-85290-8, $24.95) is also available.

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• * *Gahan Wilson’s The Ultimate Haunted House (HarperPrism 0-06-105315-5, Sep ’96 [Aug ’96], $15.00, 191pp, tp, cover by Gahan Wilson) Original anthology of 13 horror stories based on the art of Gahan Wilson. Authors include Kathe Koja, Norman Partridge, and Lucy Taylor. Nancy A. Collins is the “Consulting Editor”; there is an introduction and illustrations by Gahan Wilson. Packaged and copyrighted by Byron Preiss Visual Publications. (Contents)

WILSON, JACQUELINE DIAMOND HYMAN; see under Hyman, Jackie (stories)

WILSON, JAMES ANDREW (1948- ); see pseudonym Snoo Wilson

WILSON, JOHN ANTHONY BURGESS (1917-1993); see pseudonym Anthony Burgess (stories)

WILSON, MARTIN

• * *The Castle of Oblivion (Christoffel Press 0-9527723-2-9, Dec ’97 [Nov ’97], £4.99, 140pp, pb, cover by Ramon Lull) [Castle of Oblivion] Fantasy novel, first in a gothic trilogy. A youth confined in a crumbling castle by a sinister servant discovers he has magic powers.
• * *The Homunculus (Christoffel Press 0-9527723-3-7, Nov ’98, £5.99, 169pp, pb) [Castle of Oblivion] Fantasy novel, second in a trilogy after The Castle of Oblivion. Available in the US for $8.00. Available from The Christoffel Press, 44 Elm Road; Wisbech, Cambridgeshire UK PE13 2TB.

WILSON, PETER LAMBORN, ed. (1945- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Semiotext(e) SF (with Robert Anton Wilson & Rudy Rucker) See entry under Rudy Rucker.

WILSON, RICHARD (1920-1987) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Kid from Ozone Park & Other Stories (Chris Drumm 0-936055-32-4, Aug ’87 [Jul ’87], $3.50, 62pp, pb) Small pamphlet collection of 8 original stories, put together by the author before his death in March 1987. Drumm Booklet #27. (Contents)

WILSON, ROBERT ANTON (1932-2007) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _The Earth Will Shake (Bluejay 0-312-94128-5, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $8.95, 369pp, pb) [Historical Illuminatus Chronicles] Reprint (Tarcher 1983) historical novel with slight fantasy elements. First of a new “Illuminatus” series.
• * _The Earth Will Shake (Lynx 1-55802-176-0, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $4.95, 385pp, pb) [Historical Illuminatus Chronicles] Reprint (Bluejay 1984) historical fantasy novel of worldwide conspiracies, Vol. 1 of “The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles”.
• * _The Eye in the Pyramid (with Robert J. Shea) See entry under Robert J. Shea
• * _The Golden Apple (with Robert J. Shea) See entry under Robert J. Shea
• * _The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles Volume 1: The Earth Will Shake (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45086-8, Feb ’91 [Jan ’91], $4.95, 381pp, pb) [Illuminatus] Reprint (Bluejay 1982) historical conspiracy thriller with fantasy elements, first book of a series.
• * _The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles Volume 2: The Widow’s Son (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45077-9, Apr ’91 [Mar ’91], $4.99, 378pp, pb) [Illuminatus] Reprint (Bluejay 1985) historical conspiracy thriller with fantasy elements, second book of a series.
• * *The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles Volume 3: Nature’s God (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45059-0, Jun ’91 [May ’91], $4.99, 215pp, pb, cover by Joe Burleson) [Illuminatus] Historical conspiracy thriller with fantasy elements, third book of a series.
• * _The Illuminatus Trilogy (with Robert J. Shea) See entry under Robert J. Shea
• * _The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert J. Shea) See entry under Robert J. Shea
• * _Illuminatus: The Widow’s Son (Lynx 1-55802-177-9, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $4.95, 392pp, pb) [Historical Illuminatus Chronicles] Reprint (Bluejay 1985) historical fantasy novel, Volume Two in the “Historical Illuminatus Chronicles”.
• * _Leviathan (with Robert J. Shea) See entry under Robert J. Shea
• * _Masks of the Illuminati (Dell 0-440-50306-X, Jun ’90 [May ’90], $8.95, 355pp, tp) [Illuminatus] Reprint (Timescape 1981) occult fantasy novel.
• * *Reality Is What You Can Get Away With (Dell 0-440-50332-9, May ’92 [Apr ’92], $13.00, 148pp, tp) Humorous sf novel in the form of an illustrated screenplay discovered in the far-future ruins of Beverly Hills, commented on by more advanced humans.
• * *Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy (Dell 0-440-50070-2, Nov ’88 [Oct ’88], $10.95, 545pp, pb) [*Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy] Omnibus of The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons (all Pocket 1979). (Contents)
• * _Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy (Orbit 0-7474-0649-9, Apr ’90, £5.99, 545pp, tp) [*Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy] Reprint (Dell 1988) sf omnibus.
• * *The Widow’s Son (Bluejay 0-312-94457-8, 1985 [Dec ’85], $9.95, 343pp, pb) [Illuminatus] Historical novel, Vol. II of the “Historical Illuminatus Chronicles”.

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• * _Semiotext(e) SF (with Rudy Rucker & Peter Lamborn Wilson) See entry under Rudy Rucker.

WILSON, ROBERT C.

• * *Second Fire (Jove 0-515-11070-1, Mar ’93 [Feb ’93], $5.50, 372pp, pb) Horror novel of an ancient killing flame released by Indians against archaeologists who defile the graves of their dead.

WILSON, ROBERT CHARLES (1953- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *A Bridge of Years (Doubleday Foundation 0-385-41937-6, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $12.00, 237pp, tp) Time-travel sf novel. The previously announced hardcover edition was cancelled, despite the ISBN appearing on the copyright page of this edition. Highly recommended (FCM).
• * _A Bridge of Years (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29892-5, Oct ’92 [Sep ’92], $4.99, 333pp, pb, cover by Wil Cormier) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1991) time-travel sf novel.
• * _A Bridge of Years (NEL 0-450-60958-8, Jun ’94, £5.99, 333pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1991) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Darwinia (Tor 0-312-86038-2, Jun ’98 [May ’98], $22.95, 320pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) SF novel of an alternate 20th century in which Europe has been replaced by Darwinia, a land of jungles and monsters.
• * _Darwinia (SFBC #19168, Oct ’98 [Sep ’98], $10.98, 320pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) Reprint (Tor 1998) SF novel. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * *The Divide (Doubleday Foundation 0-385-26655-3, Jan ’90, $8.95, 249pp, tp, cover by Jean-François Podevin) Sf novel of genetic experiments and alternate personae. Recommended (FCM). Also available in hardcover (-24947-0, $19.95).
• * _The Divide (Orbit 0-7088-4841-9, Dec ’90, £6.99, 249pp, tp) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1990) sf novel.
• * _The Divide (Orbit 0-7088-8365-6, Oct ’91, £3.99, 249pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1990) sf novel.
• * *Gypsies (Doubleday Foundation 0-385-24933-0, Jan ’89, $16.95, 237pp, hc) Science fiction alternate world novel, low-key but compelling. (FCM)
• * _Gypsies (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28304-9, Nov ’89 [Oct ’89], $4.50, 311pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1989) alternate-world sf novel.
• * _Gypsies (Orbit 0-356-19080-3, May ’90, £6.99, 311pp, tp) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1989) fascinating sf novel about a family who can travel to parallel worlds. Recommended. (PSP)
• * _Gypsies (Orbit 0-7088-8353-2, Apr ’91, £3.99, 311pp, pb, cover by Nick Rodgers) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1989) sf novel.
• * *The Harvest (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37110-X, Jan ’93 [Dec ’92], $12.00, 394pp, tp, cover by Pamela Lee) Sf novel of men who refuse an alien offer to transform themselves into something more (or less) than human and live forever. A hardcover edition (-37110-X, $23.00) is also available.
• * _The Harvest (SFBC #00567, May ’93 [Apr ’93], $9.98, 394pp, hc, cover by Pamela Lee) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) sf novel of men who refuse an alien offer to transform themselves into something more (or less) than human and live forever. Similar to the Bantam Spectra edition except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _The Harvest (NEL 0-450-58694-4, Oct ’93, £4.99, 489pp, pb) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) sf novel about the small group of humans who refuse the offer of eternal life from visiting aliens. Recommended (PSP). [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Harvest (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29221-8, May ’94 [Apr ’94], $5.99, 438pp, pb, cover by Pamela Lee) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) sf novel of men who refuse an alien offer to transform themselves into something more (or less) than human and live forever.
• * *A Hidden Place (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26103-7, Nov ’86 [Oct ’86], $2.95, 212pp, pb) Sf novel. Aliens deeply affect two young people in a small American town in the 1930’s. Evocative depiction of time and place and character, but weak sf plot. A first novel.
• * _A Hidden Place (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26103-7, Dec ’89 [Nov ’89], $3.95, 212pp, pb, cover by Jean-François Podevin) Reissue (Bantam Spectra 1986) sf novel set in a small town in the ’30s; third printing.
• * _A Hidden Place (Orbit 0-7088-8341-9, Jul ’90, £3.50, 212pp, pb, cover by Peter Elson) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1986) sf/fantasy novel.
• * *Memory Wire (Bantam 0-553-26853-8, Jan ’88 [Dec ’87], $3.50, 219pp, pb) Sf novel.
• * _Memory Wire (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26853-8, Mar ’90 [Feb ’90], $3.95, 219pp, pb, cover by Jean-François Podevin) Reissue (Bantam Spectra 1987) sf novel; second printing.
• * _Memory Wire (Orbit 0-7088-8340-0, Jul ’90, £3.50, 219pp, pb, cover by Keith Scaife) Reprint (Bantam 1988) sf novel.
• * *Mysterium (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37365-X, May ’94 [Apr ’94], $11.95, 276pp, tp) Sf novel of a small town that disappears from our world and reappears in a strangely different one.
• * _Mysterium (SFBC #03990, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], $8.98, 276pp, hc, cover by Rob Wood) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1994) SF novel of a small town that disappears from our world and reappears in a strangely different one. First hardcover edition. This is similar to the Bantam Spectra trade paperback except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Mysterium (NEL 0-450-60959-6, Jan ’95, £4.99, 345pp, pb, cover by Fred Gambino) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1994) SF novel. A small American town vanishes from our Earth to reappear in a world of curfews, rationing, and secret police. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Mysterium (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56953-8, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $5.99, 309pp, pb, cover by Rob Wood) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1994) SF dystopian thriller.

WILSON, ROBIN (Scott), ed. (1928- ) (stories)

• * *Paragons: Twelve Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Craft (St. Martin’s 0-312-14023-1, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], $24.95, 368pp, hc) Anthology and writing guide, with 12 reprint stories accompanied by original essays. Authors include Pat Cadigan, Greg Bear, Lucius Shepard, and Howard Waldrop. (Contents)
• * _Paragons: Twelve Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Craft (SFBC #12098, Sep ’96 [Aug ’96], $11.98, 368pp, hc) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1996) anthology and writing guide. This is similar to the St. Martin’s edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Paragons: Twelve Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Craft (St. Martin’s/Griffin 0-312-15623-5, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $14.95, 368pp, tp) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1996) anthology and writing guide.
• * _Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader (St. Martin’s/Griffin 0-312-14139-4, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], $13.95, 332pp, tp) Reprint (NAL/Mentor 1973) combination anthology and writing guide. Slightly revised, primarily to update author biographies.

WILSON, RUDY

• * *The Red Truck (Knopf 0-394-55846-4, May ’87, $15.95, 178pp, hc) Literary first novel of hallucinatory fantasy — or maybe just madness. The hero envisions Christ as a red truck.

WILSON, SNOO; pseudonym of James Andrew Wilson, (1948- )

• * *Inside Babel (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-2853-4, Aug ’85 [Oct ’85], £9.95, 208pp, hc) “Spoof sf” satirical novel — Chrissie’s adventures in a strange future society.
• * *Spaceache (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-2785-6, 1984, £7.95, 160pp, hc) Satirical sf novel. [Not seen]
• * +Spaceache (Ballantine 0-345-33455-8, Jan ’87 [Dec ’86], $3.50, 203pp, pb) Satirical sf novel. First U.S. publication (Chatto & Windus 1984).

WILSON, STEVE (1943- )

• * _The Lost Traveler (Ballantine 0-345-34113-9, Jul ’87 [Jun ’87], $2.95, 228pp, pb) Reprint (U.K. 1976) post-holocaust sf novel.

WIMPFEN, SHELDON

• * *The Pringle Progression (American Literary Press 1-56167-413-3, Mar ’98, $12.95, 184pp, tp) Near-future SF novel of genetic engineering and ecological disaster. A scientist changes human DNA to reduce consumption. Order from American Literary Press, 8019 Belair Rd, Suite 10, Baltimore MD 21236; credit card orders 800-873-2003.

WIMSATT, MARY ANN, ed. (stories)

• * _Tales of the South See entry under William Gilmore Simms.

WINCH, MARGARET, ed. (stories)

• * _Alien Shores (with Peter McNamara) See entry under Peter McNamara.

WIND, D. M.

• * *The Others (Leisure 0-8439-3530-8, Nov ’93 [Dec ’93], $4.50, 360pp, pb) Horror novel of immortal shapeshifters plotting to destroy mankind.

WIND, DAVID; see pseudonym Monica Barrie (stories)

WINDLING, TERRI (1958- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Wood Wife (Tor 0-312-85988-0, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], $22.95, 320pp, hc, cover by Susan Seddon Boulet) Fantasy novel. A woman encounters wild desert magic in Arizona while investigating a poet’s death. A first novel.
• * _The Wood Wife (SFBC #15131, Mar ’97, $10.98, 319pp, hc, cover by Susan Seddon Boulet) Reprint (Tor 1996) fantasy novel of poetry and wild desert magic in Arizona. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _The Wood Wife (Legend 0-09-979691-0, Apr ’97, £5.99, 320pp, pb, cover by Brian Froud) Reprint (Tor 1996) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Wood Wife (Tor 0-812-54929-5, Aug ’97 [Jul ’97], $6.99, 295pp, pb, cover by Susan Seddon Boulet) Reprint (Tor 1996) fantasy novel of poetry and wild desert magic in Arizona.

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• * *The Armless Maiden (Tor 0-312-85234-7, Apr ’95 [Mar ’95], $22.95, 382pp, hc) Anthology of 46 stories, poems, and essays, 31 original, with a theme of “childhood and its darker passages." (Contents)