The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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- BÜSSING, SABINE (1960- ) (stories)
- * *Aliens in the Home: The Child in Horror Fiction (Greenwood 0-313-25420-6, Mar 87 [May 87], $32.95, xxi + 203pp, hc) Non-fiction, critical study; theres an appendix on horror films. Contributions to the Study of Childhood and Youth, No. 4.
- * _Aliens in the Home: The Child in Horror Fiction (Greenwood 0-313-25426-5, May 87, £31.95, 232pp, hc) Associational non-fiction study. [First U.K. edition, not seen]
- * *A Darker Shade of Bale (The Book Guild 0-86332-895-4, Feb 94, £11.95, 200pp, hc, cover by Inky Finger) Collection of macabre tales based on traditional horror motifs. (Contents)
- BUTLER, BEVERLY (Kathleen) (1932- )
- * _Ghost Cat (Scholastic 0-590-41837-8, Aug 88 [Oct 88], $2.50, 189pp, pb) Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1984) young-adult ghost story.
- * *Witchs Fire (Penguin/Dutton/Cobblehill 0-525-65132-2, Oct 93, $14.99, 135pp, hc, cover by Stephen Marchesi) Young-adult fantasy novel of a wheelchair-bound girl who learns that the witch who used to own her familys new house wants it back.
- * _Witchs Fire (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-037614-3, Sep 95, $3.99, 135pp, tp, cover by Bill Schmidt) Reprint (Dutton/Cobblehill 1993) young-adult horror novel.
- BUTLER, CHARLES
- * *The Darkling (Orion/Dolphin 1-85881-383-2, Jun 97 [May 97], £3.99, 168pp, pb, cover by George Smith) Young-adult dark fantasy novel. There is a simultaneous hardback (Orion Childrens Books, -378-6, £9.99).
- * +The Darkling (Simon & Schuster/McElderry 0-689-81796-7, Apr 98 [May 98], $16.00, 164pp, hc, cover by Carol Benioff) Young-adult ghost novel. An old mans lost love haunts young Petra. First US edition (Orion 1997). A first novel.
- * *Timons Tide (Orion/Dolphin 1-85881-646-7, Nov 98 [Dec 98], £4.50, 181pp, pb, cover by George Smith) Young-adult horror novel.
- BUTLER, DAVID (1941- )
- * *The Man Who Mastered Time (Heinemann 0-434-09906-6, Oct 86, £10.95, 262pp, hc) Literary sf novel of time travel and Coleridges poetry. A first novel.
- BUTLER, JACK (Armand) (1944- ) (stories)
- * *Dreamer (Random House/Knopf 0-679-44665-6, 1998 [Jun 98], $25.00, 415pp, hc, cover by Chip Kidd) Science fantasy thriller. The government wants a sleep researcher to create artificial intelligences by teaching computers to dream.
- * *Nightshade (Atlantic Monthly Press 0-87113-315-6, Aug 89 [Jul 89], $18.95, 276pp, hc) Vampire/sf novel set on an Earth-colonized Martian frontier.
- * _Nightshade (Paladin 0-586-09051-7, Jun 91, £5.99, 276pp, tp, cover by Peter Gudynas) Reprint (Atlantic Monthly 1989) literary sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
- BUTLER, MARILYN, ed. (stories)
- * _Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text See entry under Mary W. Shelley.
- BUTLER, OCTAVIA E(stelle) (1947-2006) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *Adulthood Rites (Warner 0-446-51422-5, Jun 88 [May 88], $16.95, 277pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Sf novel, sequel to Dawn, second in the Xenogenesis Trilogy. Bleak novel of a remnant human population on Earth, gene-manipulating aliens, and human/alien hybrids.
- * _Adulthood Rites (Gollancz 0-575-04238-9, Oct 88, £11.95, 277pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1988) sf novel. Volume 2 in the Xenogenesis trilogy. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Adulthood Rites (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20903-8, May 89 [Apr 89], $3.95, 277pp, pb) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1988) sf novel, second book in the Xenogenesis trilogy. Highly recommended (CNB).
- * _Adulthood Rites (Gollancz 0-575-04494-2, Jun 89 [May 89], £3.50, 277pp, pb, cover by George Underwood) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1988) sf novel. Volume Two in the Xenogenesis trilogy.
- * _Adulthood Rites (Warner Aspect 0-446-60378-3, Apr 97 [Mar 97], $5.99, 279pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Xenogenesis] Reissue (Warner 1988) SF novel. Book two of the Xenogenesis trilogy. Eighth printing.
- * *Bloodchild and Other Stories (Four Walls Eight Windows 1-56858-055-X, Sep 95 [Aug 95], $18.00, 144pp, hc) Collection of five stories and two essays. Includes two Hugo winners; the title story also won the Nebula. (Contents)
- * _Bloodchild and Other Stories (Seven Stories Press 1-888363-36-3, Jan 97, $10.00, 145pp, tp) Reprint (Four Walls Eight Windows 1995) collection of five stories and two essays. Includes two Hugo winners; the title story also won the Nebula.
- * *Clays Ark (St. Martins 0-312-14321-4, Mar 84 [Feb 84], $12.95, 201pp, hc) [Patternist] Sf novel.
- * _Clays Ark (SFBC #2742, Dec 84 [Nov 84], $3.98, 186pp, hc) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martins 1984) sf novel.
- * _Clays Ark (Ace 0-441-11089-4, Jun 85 [May 85], $2.75, 201pp, pb) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martins 1984) sf novel.
- * _Clays Ark (Gollancz 0-575-04820-4, Jul 91, £3.99, 201pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martins 1984) sf novel. Volume 3 in the Patternist series.
- * _Clays Ark (Warner Aspect 0-446-60370-8, Dec 96 [Nov 96], $5.99, 213pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martins 1984) SF novel.
- * *Dawn (Warner 0-446-51363-6, May 87 [Apr 87], $15.95, 264pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Sf novel of the far future.
- * _Dawn (Gollancz 0-575-04190-0, Oct 87, £11.95, 272pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1987) sf novel. Volume 1 in the Xenogenesis trilogy. [First U.K. edition, not seen]
- * _Dawn (Gollancz 0-575-04268-0, May 88, £2.95, 264pp, pb) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1987) very impressive sf novel about a first contact in rather unusal circumstances. Recommended. (PSP) Volume 1 in the Xenogenesis trilogy.
- * _Dawn (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20516-4, Jun 88 [May 88], $3.95, 248pp, pb) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1987) sf novel, first in the Xenogenesis trilogy. Highly recommended. (CNB)
- * _Dawn (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20779-5, Apr 90, $4.50, 248pp, pb, cover by Enric) [Xenogenesis] Reissue (Warner 1987) sf novel; fourth printing.
- * _Dawn (Warner Aspect 0-446-60377-5, Apr 97 [Mar 97], $5.99, 249pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Xenogenesis] Reissue (Warner 1987) SF novel. Book one of the Xenogenesis trilogy. 12th printing.
- * *The Evening and the Morning and the Night (Pulphouse 1-56146-538-0, Nov 91, $1.95, 45pp, pb, cover by Alan Giana) Nebula Award-nominated sf short story that originally appeared in Omni 5/87. Short story paperback #38. A signed leatherbound limited edition of 100 copies ($20.00) is also available. Order from Pulphouse Publishing, Box 1227, Eugene OR 97440.
- * *Imago (Warner 0-446-51472-1, May 89 [Apr 89], $19.95, 264pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Sf novel, third book of the Xenogenesis trilogy. An outstanding series about the possible future of Humanity. Highly recommended (CNB).
- * _Imago (Gollancz 0-575-04239-7, Jul 89, £12.95, 264pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1989) sf novel. Triumphant conclusion to the Xenogenesis trilogy. Recommended. (PSP) [First U.K. edition]
- * _Imago (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20977-1, Mar 90 [Feb 90], $4.95, 220pp, pb, cover by Wayne Barlowe) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1989) sf novel, third book of the Xenogenesis trilogy.
- * _Imago (Warner Aspect 0-446-60363-5, Apr 97 [Mar 97], $5.99, 220pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Xenogenesis] Reissue (Warner 1989) SF novel. Book three of the Xenogenesis trilogy. Sixth printing.
- * _Imago: Xenogenesis III (Gollancz 0-575-04776-3, May 90, £3.99, 264pp, pb, cover by George Underwood) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1989 as Imago) sf novel.
- * _Kindred (Beacon Press 0-8070-8305-4, Aug 88, $8.95, tp) Reprint (Doubleday 1979) time travel fantasy/historical novel about a modern black woman in the old South. There is a new 27-page introduction on blacks in sf and Octavia E. Butler in particular, by Robert Crossley. This trade paperback is part of the Black Women Writers Series.
- * _Kindred (The Womens Press 0-7043-4162-X, Oct 88, £4.95, 264pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1979) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Kindred (The Womens Press 0-7043-4162-X, Feb 95, £6.99, 264pp, tp, cover by Deborah Gyan) Reissue (Doubleday 1979) SF novel of a contemporary Black woman who travels back to the American South of 1815, only to find herself enslaved.
- * _Kindred (Beacon Press 0-8070-8305-4, 1998 [Mar 98], $13.00, 264pp, tp) Reissue (Doubleday 1979) SF time-travel novel. This has the 1988 introduction by Robert Crossley. 12th printing.
- * _Mind of My Mind (Gollancz 0-575-04817-4, Mar 91, £3.99, 221pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) [Patternist] Reprint (Doubleday 1977) sf novel. Volume 2 in the Patternist series.
- * _Mind of My Mind (Warner Questar 0-446-36188-7, Aug 94 [Jul 94], $5.50, 217pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Patternist] Reprint (Doubleday 1977) sf novel, second book in the Patternist series.
- * *Parable of the Sower (Four Walls Eight Windows 0-941423-99-9, Dec 93, $19.95, 299pp, hc, cover by Barry Marcus) [Parable] Sf novel set in a dystopian 21st-century California where small walled enclaves hold a brutal world at bay. Recommended (SW).
- * _Parable of the Sower (Warner Aspect 0-446-60197-7, Feb 95 [Jan 95], $5.99, 295pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Parable] Reprint (Four Walls Eight Windows 1993) dystopian SF novel.
- * _Parable of the Sower (The Womens Press 0-7043-4421-1, Feb 95, £6.99, 299pp, tp, cover by Deborah Gyan) [Parable] Reprint (Four Walls Eight Windows 1993) SF novel set in a dystopian 21st-century California where small walled enclaves hold a brutal world at bay. [First U.K. edition]
- * *Parable of the Talents (Seven Stories Press 1-888363-81-9, Nov 98 [Oct 98], $24.95, 365pp, hc) [Parable] Dystopian SF novel, sequel to Parable of the Sower. Lauren and her daughter mature in the war-torn world of 2032.
- * _Patternmaster (Warner Aspect 0-446-36281-6, May 95 [Apr 95], $5.50, 202pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Patternist] Reprint (Doubleday 1976) SF novel of a struggle for succession in a telepathic race.
- * _Wild Seed (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20537-7, Dec 88 [Nov 88], $3.95, 279pp, pb) [Patternist] Reprint (Doubleday 1980) sf novel about the conflict between two immortals, set in 17th-century Africa. Highly recommended. (CNB)
- * _Wild Seed (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20537-7, Apr 90 [Mar 90], $4.50, 279pp, pb, cover by Wayne Barlowe) [Patternist] Reissue (Doubleday 1980) sf novel set in 17th-century Africa; third printing.
- * _Wild Seed (Gollancz 0-575-04819-0, Oct 90, £3.99, 248pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) [Patternist] Reprint (Doubleday 1980) sf novel.
- * *Xenogenesis (SFBC #15462, Nov 89, $9.98, 726pp, hc, cover by Pat Morrissey) [Xenogenesis] Omnibus edition of the Xenogenesis trilogy, consisting of Dawn (Warner 1987), Adulthood Rites (Warner 1988), and Imago (Warner 1989). Highly recommended (CNB). (Contents)
- BUTNER, RICHARD, ed. (stories)
- BUTOR, MICHEL (Marie Francois) (1926- )
- * *Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape (Dalkey Archive Press 1-56478-089-9, Jul 95 [May 95], $10.95, 121pp, tp, cover by Tamara Fox) Fantasy novel. A young man steeps himself in the literature of alchemy, and dreams of becoming an ape. There is a fantasy story within the story. First published in France in 1967. Translated by Dominic Di Bernardi. A hardcover edition (-077-5, $19.95) was announced but not seen. Order from Dalkey Archive Press, Illinois State University, Normal IL 61790; 309-438-7555.
- BUTTERWORTH, MICHAEL, ed. (1947- ) (stories)
- BUTTREY, DOUGLAS NORTON (1918-1994); see pseudonym Densil Barr
- BUTTS, JANE ROBERTS (1929-1984); see pseudonym Jane Roberts
- BUTTS, NANCY
- * *The Door in the Lake (Front Street 1-886910-27-8, Jun 98 [Oct 98], $15.95, 159pp, hc, cover by Dan Burr) Young-adult SF novel. A boy disappears, then returns two years later, no older, and with no memory of the lost time.
- BUXTON, JAMES
- * *Pity (Orion 0-75280-471-5, Oct 97 [Sep 97], £16.99, 394pp, hc) Associational gothic novel of obsessive love, shifting identities, sexes, and allegiances, in 1860s London.
- * *Strange (Warner UK 0-7515-0753-9, Jul 94, £4.99, 332pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) Horror novel.
- * *Subterranean (Orbit 0-7088-4358-1, Nov 89, £3.50, 288pp, pb) Horror novel.
- * *The Wishing Tree (Orion 1-85798-478-1, Jul 96, £9.99, 330pp, tp) Dark fantasy novel.
- * _The Wishing Tree (Orion 0-75280-881-8, Mar 97 [Feb 97], £4.99, 330pp, pb) Reprint (Orion 1996) horror novel.
- BUZZATI, DINO (1906-1972) (stories)
- * _Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati (Carcanet 0-85635-684-0, Feb 87, £4.95, 180pp, tp) Reprint (North Point Press 1984) collection including some sf. [Not seen]
- * *Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati (North Point Press 0-86547-100-2, Jan 84 [Dec 83], $12.00, 122pp, hc) Collection of literary stories with some sf and fantasy elements. (Contents)
- * *The Siren (North Point Press 0-86547-159-2, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $10.50, 147pp, tp) Collection of 14 literary stories with fantasy elements, selected and translated by Lawrence Venuti.
- BYARS, BETSY (Cromer) (1928- )
- * *McMummy (Viking 0-670-84995-2, Oct 93 [Feb 94], $13.99, 149pp, hc, cover by Stephen Marchesi) Young-adult fantasy novel about a mysterious pod growing in a scientists greenhouse.
- * _McMummy (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-036439-0, Sep 95, $3.99, 149pp, tp, cover by Jeff Lindberg) Reprint (Viking 1993) young-adult fantasy about a mysterious pod in a greenhouse.
- * *The Winged Colt of Casa Mia (Avon 0-380-00201-9, Aug 88, $2.50, 128pp, pb) Young-adult Pegasus fantasy novel, illustrated by Richard Cuffari.
- BYATT, ANTONIA S(usan Drabble) (1936- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * +Angels & Insects (Random House 0-679-40512-7, Apr 93, $21.00, 342pp, hc, cover by Jose Conde) Collection of two novellas, the second a ghost story. First American edition (Chatto & Windus 1993).
- * _Angels & Insects (BOMC no ISBN, May 93 [Apr 93], $17.95, 342pp, hc, cover by Jose Conde) Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1993) collection of two novellas, the second a ghost story. Similar to the Random House edition except it lacks an ISBN and price and has a BOMC mark on the back.
- * _Angels & Insects (Vintage UK 0-09-922431-3, Oct 93, £5.99, 290pp, tp, cover by Liz Cooke) Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1993) collection of two original literary short novels, one a fantasy.
- * _Angels & Insects (Random House/Vintage 0-679-75134-3, Apr 94, $12.00, 337pp, tp, cover by Liz Cooke) Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1993) collection of two novellas, the second a ghost story.
- * _Angels & Insects (Random House/Vintage 0-679-75134-3, Sep 95 [Feb 96], $13.00, 337pp, tp) Reissue (Chatto & Windus 1992) collection of two novellas, the second a ghost story. This is a movie tie-in edition. Fifth printing.
- * *Angels and Insects (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-3717-7, Oct 92 [Feb 93], £14.99, 290pp, hc) Collection of two original literary fantasy short novels. (Contents)
- * *The Djinn in the Nightingales Eye (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-6278-3, Nov 94, £9.99, 280pp, hc) Five fairy tales, two original, aimed at adults. Two of the reprints are extracted from her novel Possession, 1980, while an excerpt from the title story was published as The Scholar and the Djinn. (Contents)
- * +The Djinn in the Nightingales Eye (Random House 0-679-42008-8, Nov 97 [Oct 97], $20.00, 274pp, hc) Collection of five adult fairy tales, two original. Two are excerpts from Possession. This is the first US edition (Chatto & Windus 1994).
- * _The Djinn in the Nightingales Eye (Random House/Vintage International 0-679-76222-1, Nov 98 [Oct 98], $12.00, 274pp, tp) Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1994) collection of five adult fairy tales.
- * *Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (Chatto & Windus 0-701-16823-4, Nov 98 [Oct 98], £12.00, 230pp, hc, cover by Edvard Munch) Collection of six mainstream and literary fantasy stories, including the original fantasy novella, Cold. (Contents)
- * *Sugar and Other Stories (Scribners 0-684-18786-8, Jul 87 [Aug 87], $16.95, 248pp, hc) Collection of stories, some of which deal with ghosts and the afterlife. (Contents)
- * *Sugar and Other Stories (Scribners 0-684-18786-8, Jul 87, $16.95, 248pp, hc) Collection of stories, some of which deal with ghosts and the afterlife. (Contents)
- BYERS, EDWARD A(dams) (1939-1989) (stories)
- * *The Babylon Gate (Baen 0-671-65565-5, Apr 86 [Mar 86], $2.95, 246pp, pb) Sf novel of space stations and psychic powers.
- * *The Long Forgetting (Baen 0-671-55980-X, Sep 85 [Aug 85], $2.95, 283pp, pb) Sf novel, a first novel.
- BYERS, RICHARD LEE (1950- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * *Dark Fortune (Diamond 1-55773-864-5, Jan 93 [Dec 92], $4.99, 261pp, pb) Horror novel about a faltering preacher given the power to heal by an evil force.
- * *Dead Time (Zebra 0-8217-3963-8, Nov 92 [Oct 92], $3.99, 286pp, pb) Horror novel. Jack Stone finds a way to break through the time barrier to try and save his sister from a serial killers knife, but inadvertantly provides access to Earth for an evil force.
- * *Deathward (New Infinities 0-425-11598-4, Jan 89 [Dec 88], $3.95, 326pp, pb) Horror novel. A man wakes up in a psychiatric ward with partial memory loss, and a detective believes he holds the key to serial killings that cant be dealt with on human terms.
- * *Fright Line (New Infinities 0-425-11666-2, Mar 89 [Feb 89], $3.95, 330pp, pb) Horror novel.
- * *The Nightmare Club #1: Joy Ride (Zebra/Z-Fave 0-8217-4315-5, Aug 93, $3.50, 179pp, pb) [Nightmare Club] Young-adult horror novel, first book of a loosely-connected series centered around a club where strange things happen. Mike ignores warnings about drinking and driving, but he doesnt know that his new girl was killed by a drunk driver decades ago and is back for revenge.
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