The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

BROOKS, TERRY (stories) (chron.) (continued)

• * _The Wishsong of Shannara (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-31823-4, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], $17.95, 498pp, hc, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) [Shannara] Reissue (Del Rey 1985) fantasy novel, third book of the “Shannara” series, with a new author’s note. There is a 15th printing slug, but that probably includes the paperback edition.
• * _The Wishsong of Shannara (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35636-5, Mar ’96 [Feb ’96], $6.99, 504pp, pb, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) [Shannara] Reissue (Del Rey 1985) fantasy novel, third book in the “Shannara” series. 16th printing.
• * *Witches’ Brew (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38701-5, Apr ’95 [Mar ’95], $22.00, 304pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Magic Kingdom] Fantasy novel, fifth book in the “Magic Kingdom of Landover” series.
• * *Witches’ Brew (Legend 0-09-960311-X, Apr ’95, £15.99, 304pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Magic Kingdom] Fantasy novel. Fifth book in the series. Ben Holiday, High Lord of Landover, must face seven challenges to protect his kingdom, and get back his kidnapped daughter. Simultaneous with the US (Del Rey) edition.
• * _Witches’ Brew (SFBC #07482, Jul ’95 [Jun ’95], $10.98, 304pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey 1995) fantasy novel, fifth book in the “Magic Kingdom of Landover” series. Similar to the Del Rey edition, except this lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Witches’ Brew (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38702-3, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $6.99, 320pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey; Legend 1995) fantasy novel, fifth book in the “Magic Kingdom of Landover” series. Marked “March 1996” inside, but did not appear earlier.
• * _Witches’ Brew (Legend 0-09-960181-8, Jun ’96 [May ’96], £5.99, 304pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey; Legend 1995) humorous fantasy novel.
• * *Wizard at Large (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34773-0, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $17.95, 291pp, hc) [Magic Kingdom] Humorous fantasy novel, third in the “Landover” series.
• * _Wizard at Large (Orbit 0-7088-4001-9, Dec ’88, £4.99, 291pp, tp) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel. Ben Holiday returns to Earth to rescue Abernathy. Good harmless fun. Volume 3 in the “Magic Kingdom” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Wizard at Large (Macdonald 0-356-17197-3, Dec ’88, £11.95, 291pp, hc) [Magic Kingdom] Hardback edition of the above. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Wizard at Large (SFBC #14295, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], $5.98, 238pp, hc) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel; book three of “The Magic Kingdom of Landover” series.
• * _Wizard at Large (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36227-6, Aug ’89 [Jul ’89], $4.95, 303pp, pb) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel, third book in the “Magic Kingdom of Landover” series.
• * _Wizard at Large (Orbit 0-7088-8311-7, Dec ’89 [Nov ’89], £3.50, 291pp, pb, cover by Rowena Morrill) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel. Volume 3 in the “Magic Kingdom” series.
• * _Wizard at Large (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36227-6, Mar ’96 [Feb ’96], $6.99, 303pp, pb, cover by Rowena Morrill) [Magic Kingdom] Reissue (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel, third book in the “Magic Kingdom of Landover” series. This states “10th printing, September 1993” but has a higher price than editions previously listed.

BROPHY, CATHERINE (1941- ) (stories)

• * *Dark Paradise (Wolfhound Press 0-86327-291-6, Sep ’91 [Jan ’92], £4.99, 222pp, tp) Fantasy novel.
• * *Dark Paradise (Dufour/Wolfhound 0-86327-291-6, May ’92, 222pp, tp, cover by Fearghal Fitzpatrick) Sf novel about a strictly-controlled alien society where a rebellion is brewing. In the style of Murder in Millenium VI. This is the 1991 original Wolfhound Press Irish edition with a Dufour sticker. Available from Dufour editions, PO Box 449, Chester Springs PA 19425.

BROSNAN, EDEL; see under Anon.

• * _Great Vampires & Other Horrors [as by Anonymous] See entry under Anonymous.

_____, ed.

• * *The SF Collection (Chancellor Press 1-85152-317-0, Aug ’94, £4.99, 501pp, hc) Sf anthology. (Contents)

BROSNAN, JOHN (Raymond) (1947-2005); see under Harry Adam Knight; see pseudonyms Simon Ian Childer & Harry Adam Knight (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Bedlam [as by Harry Adam Knight] See entry under Harry Adam Knight.
• * *Damned & Fancy (Legend 0-09-951221-1, Apr ’95 [Mar ’95], £4.99, 188pp, pb, cover by Stephen Lee) Humorous fantasy of an investigative journalist transported by a demon to another world. Volume one in a new series.
• * *The Fall of the Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-04381-4, Jun ’91, £14.99, 284pp, hc) [Sky Lords] Sf novel. Volume 3 in the “Sky Lords” trilogy.
• * _The Fall of the Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-04556-6, Oct ’91, £3.99, 284pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) [Sky Lords] Reprint (Gollancz 1991) sf novel. The Third Volume of the “Sky Lords” trilogy.
• * *Have Demon Will Travel (Legend 0-09-951231-9, Apr ’96, £4.99, 168pp, pb, cover by Paul Sample) Humorous fantasy novel. Travis Thomson escapes from the other world into the hands of a psychiatrist.
• * *The Opoponax Invasion (Gollancz 0-575-05199-X, Nov ’93, £8.99, 223pp, tp, cover by Peter Mennim) Sf novel.
• * _The Opoponax Invasion (Gollancz 0-575-05827-7, Sep ’94, £4.99, 223pp, pb, cover by Peter Mennim) Reprint (Gollancz 1993) sf novel.
• * *The Primal Screen: A History of Science Fiction Film (Orbit 0-356-20222-4, Oct ’91 [Sep ’91], £16.95, 402pp, hc) Personal and discursive survey of sf movies from 1910 to 1990. Recommended. (PSP)
• * *The Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-03986-8, Aug ’88 [Jul ’88], £11.95, 318pp, hc) [Sky Lords] SF novel about a post-nuclear world ruled by giant airships. Great fun despite a rather flat ending. Recommended. (PSP)
• * _The Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-04490-X, Apr ’89, £3.50, 318pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) [Sky Lords] Reprint (Gollancz 1988) sf novel. Volume 1 in the “Sky Lords” trilogy.
• * +The Sky Lords (St. Martin’s 0-312-05964-7, May ’91 [Apr ’91], $17.95, 317pp, hc) [Sky Lords] Post-holocaust sf novel set in a world ruled by feudal warlords in giant airships. First American edition (Gollancz 1988).
• * *War of the Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-04380-6, Oct ’89, £12.95, 252pp, hc) [Sky Lords] Sf novel. Volume two in the “Sky Lords” trilogy.
• * _War of the Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-04555-8, Nov ’90, £3.99, 252pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) [Sky Lords] Reprint (Gollancz 1989) sf novel. Volume 2 in the “Sky Lords” trilogy.
• * +War of the Sky Lords (St. Martin’s 0-312-07882-X, Jul ’92 [Jun ’92], $18.95, 252pp, hc) [Sky Lords] Sf novel, second book of the “Sky Lords” series. First American edition (Gollancz 1989).

BROUGHTON, JANE, ed.

• * _Herzone: Fantasy Short Stories by Women (with Di Williams & Norma Brown) See entry under Norma Brown.

BROWN, ALAN (stories)

• * *Sword and Sorcery (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-69806-3, Dec ’97, £3.99, 298pp, pb) Young-adult Arthurian fantasy novel.

BROWN, ANNE K.

• * _Forgotten Realms: Pool of Twilight (with James M. Ward) See entry under James M. Ward
• * _Forgotten Realms: Pools of Darkness (with James M. Ward) See entry under James M. Ward

BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-1810) (stories)

• * *Three Gothic Novels (Library of America 1-883011-57-4, Oct ’98 [Dec ’98], $35.00, 914pp, hc, cover by James Sharples) Omnibus of three early American gothic novels by the first full-time American writer, and an author who reportedly influenced Poe: Wieland (1798), Arthur Mervyn (1799), and Edgar Huntly (1799). The texts are corrected versions published by Kent State University in 1977, 1980, and 1984. Includes chronology and notes. Order from Library of America, 14 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022. (Contents)

BROWN, CHARLES N(ikki) (1937-2009) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1997) (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press, Apr ’98, $49.95, 2,787pp, CD-ROM) Non-fiction, reference. An index to SF books, magazines, and stories published from 1984 through 1997. Expanded from the annual Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror volumes published by Locus Press. Included in the index is Contento’s Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections which covers those books published before 1984.
• * *Science Fiction in Print: 1985 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-2-1, Dec ’86 [Nov ’86], $29.95 + $2.00 postage, 237pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference book. Lists all the books and stories published in 1985.
• * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1984 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-5-6, May ’90 [Apr ’90], $50.00, 269pp, hc) Non-fiction; reference. Besides book listings from Locus this includes an index to short fiction appearing in magazines and anthologies plus summaries of the year and recommended reading. This volume connects the later volumes to the Contento anthology index which covers through 1983.
• * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1986 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-3-X, Sep ’87, $35.00, xiii + 347pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference book. Lists all material, both books and shorter fiction, published in English in 1986. Limited to 600 copies.
• * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1987: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Books and Short Fiction Published in the English Language (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-4-8, Dec ’88, $45.00, 417pp, hc) Non-fiction, bibliography. Besides the lists of books from Locus, this has indexes to all the magazines and anthologies, plus reprinted commentaries on the year, etc.
• * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1988 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-6-4, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], $50.00, 463pp, hc) Non-fiction; bibliography. Besides book listings from Locus, this includes indexes of all the magazines and anthologies plus commentaries on the year and a research index by Hal W. Hall.
• * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1989 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-7-2, Aug ’90, $60.00, 515pp, hc) Non-fiction; reference. This bibliography includes book listings from Locus, indexes of all the magazines and anthologies plus commentaries on the year and a research index by Hal W. Hall.
• * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1990 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-8-0, Aug ’91, $60.00, 587pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference. This bibliography includes book listings from Locus, indexes of all the magazines and anthologies plus commentaries on the year in the field and a research index by Hal W. Hall. A list of cover artists has been added this year.
• * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1991 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-9-9, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $60.00, 482pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference. This bibliography includes book listings from Locus, indexes of all the magazines and anthologies plus commentaries on the year in the field and a research index by Hal W. Hall. Available from Locus Press, PO Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661. Please add $5.00 for shipping and handling on US orders, $10.00 overseas orders.

BROWN, CROSLAND; pseudonym of A. W. Grey

• * *Tombley’s Walk (Avon 0-380-76097-5, Feb ’91 [Jan ’91], $4.50, 407pp, pb, cover by Lee MacLeod) Horror novel about werewolves infesting a small Texas town. Brown is a pen name for A.W. Grey.

BROWN, DALE (Francis) (1956- )

• * *Day of the Cheetah (Donald I. Fine 1-55611-121-5, Jul ’89 [Jun ’89], $18.95, 504pp, hc) [Patrick McLanahan] Near-future technothriller about a piloting system that creates symbiotic relationship between man and machine.
• * _Day of the Cheetah (Grafton 0-246-13611-1, Oct ’89, £7.95, 416pp, tp, cover by Chris Moore) [Patrick McLanahan] Reprint (Fine 1989) near-future techno-thriller. Also available in hardcover (-13484-4, £12.95). [First U.K. edition]
• * _Day of the Cheetah (Grafton Overseas 0-586-20630-2, 1990 [May ’90], £3.99, 656pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Patrick McLanahan] Reprint (Fine 1989) near-future techno-thriller. This is an ’Open Market’ edition and is not generally available in the UK.
• * _Day of the Cheetah (Berkley 0-425-12043-0, Jun ’90 [May ’90], $5.50, 502pp, pb) [Patrick McLanahan] Reprint (Fine 1989) near-future technothriller with sf elements.
• * _Day of the Cheetah (Grafton 0-586-20630-2, Nov ’90, £4.99, 656pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Patrick McLanahan] Reprint (Fine 1989) near-future techno-thriller.
• * *Silver Tower (Donald I. Fine 1-55611-060-X, Apr ’88 [Mar ’88], $18.95, 349pp, hc) Near-future sf intrigue novel about space stations.
• * _Silver Tower (Grafton 0-246-13308-2, Aug ’88, £11.95, 367pp, hc) Reprint (Fine 1988) novel about limited nuclear war in space. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Silver Tower (Grafton Overseas 0-586-20269-2, 1989 [May ’89], £3.99, 367pp, pb, cover by Image Bank) Reprint (Fine 1988) sf novel. This special ‘Open Market’ edition is not available in the UK.
• * _Silver Tower (Berkley 0-425-11529-1, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], $4.95, 384pp, pb) Reprint (Fine 1988) near-future high-tech political/sf novel about limited nuclear war in space.
• * _Silver Tower (Grafton 0-586-20269-2, Jun ’89, £3.99, 367pp, pb, cover by Image Bank) Reprint (Fine 1988) high-tech thriller set in a military space station.
• * *Sky Masters (Donald I. Fine/Putnam 0-399-13705-X, Jun ’91 [Jul ’91], $21.95, 510pp, hc, cover by Rob Wood) [Patrick McLanahan] Near-future technothriller about an experimental bomber and a Chinese nuclear strike against the Philippines.

BROWN, ERIC (1960- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Blues Shifting (Pan 0-330-33590-1, Dec ’95 [Nov ’95], £4.99, 264pp, pb, cover by Paul Youll) SF collection of 8 long stories; two are original, including the title novella. (Contents)
• * *Engineman (Pan 0-330-33043-8, Aug ’94, £4.99, 373pp, pb, cover by Fred Gambino) Sf novel.
• * *Meridian Days (Pan 0-330-32287-7, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], £8.99, 165pp, tp, cover by Mark Salwowski) Sf novel about a community of artists on a small colony planet. A first novel. Recommended (PSP).
• * _Meridian Days (Pan 0-330-32716-X, Aug ’93 [Jul ’93], £3.99, 165pp, pb, cover by Mark Salwowski) Reprint (Pan 1992) sf novel about a community of artists on a small colony planet.
• * *The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories (Pan 0-330-31366-5, Aug ’90 [Jul ’90], £3.99, 216pp, pb, cover by Philip Tonkyn) Sf collection. (Contents)
• * _The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories (Drunken Dragon Press 0-947578-03-X, Oct ’90 [Nov ’90], £13.50, 216pp, hc, cover by Fangorn) Reprint (Pan 1990) sf collection. First world hardcover edition, and is beautifully produced. Recommended. (PSP) Also available in a limited, leatherbound with gold foil edges, edition of 100 numbered copies signed by the author (-53-6, £35).
• * *The Web: Untouchable (Dolphin 1-85881-426-X, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], £3.50, 103pp, pb, cover by Fangorn) [Web] Young-adult SF novel set in the worldwide Virtual Reality Web of 2027. Book 3 in a series of six linked novels, each by a different author. A hardcover edition (-528-2, £9.99) was announced but not seen.

BROWN, FREDRIC (William) (1906-1972) (stories) (chron.)

• * *And the Gods Laughed (Phantasia Press 0-932096-47-6, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $19.00, 431pp, hc) Collection of 70 fantasy and SF stories, 6 written in collaboration with Mack Reynolds, with an introduction by Richard A. Lupoff. It contains the complete text of two earlier collections, Nightmares and Geezenstacks (1961) and Honeymoon in Hell (1958), plus additional stories. There is a signed, limited, boxed 475-copy edition ($50) with bound signed sheets left over from an earlier book. (Contents)
• * *Before She Kills (Dennis McMillan, 1984, 197pp, hc) Collection; non-sf/fantasy associational. “Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps”, Vol. 2. Six pulp mystery stories plus a personal remembrance by William F. Nolan. (Contents)
• * _Before She Kills (Dennis McMillan 0-9609986-3-2, Dec ’86 [Nov ’86], $5.95, 197pp, pb) Reprint (Dennis McMillan 1984) collection; non-sf/fantasy associational. “Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps”, Vol. 2. Six pulp mystery stories plus a personal remembrance by William F. Nolan.
• * *Brother Monster (Dennis McMillan no ISBN, Mar ’87 [Nov ’90], $40.00, 180pp, hc, cover by Joe Servello) Collection of mystery stories and poems. This edition is limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Harry Altshuler. Volume nine in the “Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps” series. (Contents)
• * *Carnival of Crime (Southern Illinois University Press 0-8093-1192-5, 1985, 314pp, hc) Mystery collection, included for Brown collectors. Edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg. (Contents)
• * *The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches (Dennis McMillan no ISBN, Jun ’85 [Feb ’92], $30.00, 218pp, hc, cover by William L. McMillan) Associational collection of the novella version of “The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches” plus the greatly enlarged (but unfinished and unpublished) novel version, with an introduction by Lawrence Block. Limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Lawrence Block. Volume four in the “Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps” series. (Contents)
• * _The Freak Show Murders (Dennis McMillan 0-9609986-4-0, Dec ’86 [Nov ’86], $5.95, 206pp, pb, cover by William L. McMillan) Reprint (Dennis McMillan 1985) collection; non-sf/fantasy, associational. “Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps”, Vol. 5. Six pulp mystery stories plus an appreciation by Richard Lupoff. (Contents)
• * *The Gibbering Night (Dennis McMillan no ISBN, Jan ’91 [Dec ’91], $35.00, 190pp, hc, cover by Joe Servello) Associational mystery collection. This edition is limited to 425 numbered copies, signed by Joe Lansdale. Volume 18 in the “Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps” series. (Contents)
• * *Happy Ending (Dennis McMillan no ISBN, Jun ’90 [Aug ’90], $40.00, 230pp, hc, cover by Joe Servello) Collection of various pieces of Brown material, mostly sf stories, including poetry and an essay by Brown’s wife Elizabeth. Some of the stories are appearing for the first time. This is a numbered limited edition of 450 copies. Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps Volume 16. (Contents)
• * *Homicide Sanitarium (Dennis McMillan, 1984, 194pp, hc) Associational, non-sf collection. Listed for Brown collectors. Limited hardcover edition. Contains seven pulp mysteries plus an introduction by Bill Pronzini. (Contents)
• * _Homicide Sanitarium: Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps, Vol. 1 (Dennis McMillan 0-9609986-2-4, Nov ’85, $5.95, 194pp, pb) Reprint (Dennis McMillan 1984) associational, non-sf collection. Listed for Brown collectors. This is the first trade edition after a limited first hc. Contains seven pulp mysteries plus an introduction by Bill Pronzini.
• * *Madman’s Holiday (McMillan, Dennis no ISBN, Mar ’85, $30.00, 133pp, hc, cover by William L. McMillan) Associational, non-sf collection, of two pulp mysteries plus an introduction by Newton Baird. Limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by Newton Baird. Volume three in the “Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps” series. (Contents)
• * _Martians Go Home (Grafton 0-586-07164-4, Nov ’87, £2.95, 203pp, pb) Reprint (Dutton 1955) hilarious sf novel, available in the UK for the first time. [First U.K. edition]