The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

BUSBY, F(rancis) M(arion, Jr.) (stories) (continued)

• * _The Alien Debt (Orbit 0-7088-8255-2, Feb ’88, £2.95, 226pp, pb) [Rissa Kerguelen; Bran Tregare] Reprint (Bantam 1984) sf novel. Volume 3 in the “Hulzein” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _All These Earths (Bantam Spectra 0-553-25413-8, Dec ’85 [Nov ’85], $2.95, 215pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley 1978) sf novel.
• * *Arrow from Earth (AvoNova 0-380-77232-9, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $5.50, 418pp, pb, cover by Duane Myers) [Slow Freight] SF space opera novel. The adventures of the starship Arrow, its captain, and his smuggled-aboard teenaged daughter.
• * *The Breeds of Man (Bantam Spectra 0-553-27008-7, Mar ’88 [Feb ’88], $3.95, 294pp, pb) Sf novel of biological superhumans and their struggle for survival.
• * _The Demu Trilogy (Pocket 0-671-53229-4, Jan ’87, $3.95, 522pp, pb) [Barton (Demu)] Reissue (Pocket 1980) omnibus of sf novels Cage a Man (1973), The Proud Enemy (1975), and End of the Line (1980), plus a short story.
• * *Getting Home (Ace 0-441-28267-9, Aug ’87 [Jul ’87], $2.95, 195pp, pb) Collection of 20 stories. (Contents)
• * *If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy (Pulphouse 1-56146-554-2, Jun ’92 [Jul ’92], $1.95, 43pp, pb, cover by Gregorio Montejo) Sf short story that originally appeared in Universe 5. Short Story Paperback #54. A 100-copy signed limited hardcover edition (-934-3, $20.00) is also available. Order from Pulphouse Publishing, Box 1227, Eugene OR 97440.
• * *Islands of Tomorrow (AvoNova 0-380-77231-0, Feb ’94 [Jan ’94], $4.99, 347pp, pb, cover by J. K. Potter) [Slow Freight] Time-travel sf novel about a genetic disaster that causes man to overbreed.
• * _The Long View (Berkley 0-425-07118-9, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $2.75, 301pp, pb) [Rissa Kerguelen] Reprint (Berkley Putnam 1976) of Part 3 of Rissa Kerguelen.
• * *The Rebel Dynasty, Volume I (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26954-2, Dec ’87 [Nov ’87], $4.95, 443pp, pb) [Bran Tregare] Omnibus of two space opera novels, Star Rebel (Bantam 1984) and Rebel’s Quest (Bantam 1984), in the “Hulzein Dynasty” series. Busby writes some of the best modern space opera. Recommended. (CNB) (Contents)
• * *The Rebel Dynasty, Volume II (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26988-7, Jan ’88 [Dec ’87], $4.95, 475pp, pb) [Bran Tregare] Omnibus edition of The Alien Debt (Bantam 1984) and Rebel’s Seed (Bantam 1986), two parts of the “Hulzein Dynasty” space opera series. (Contents)
• * *Rebel’s Quest (Bantam 0-553-24727-1, Jan ’85 [Dec ’84], $2.75, 243pp, pb) [Bran Tregare] Sf novel, sequel to Star Rebel. An excellent space opera. Recommended. (CNB)
• * _Rebel’s Quest (Orbit 0-7088-3578-3, Nov ’87, £2.50, 243pp, pb) [Bran Tregare] Reprint (Bantam 1985) sf novel. Volume 2 in the “Hulzein” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Rebels’ Seed (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26115-0, Aug ’86 [Jul ’86], $2.95, 249pp, pb) [Bran Tregare] Sf novel in the “Hulzein” series. This one is a direct sequel to Rebels’ Quest.
• * _Rebel’s Seed (Orbit 0-7088-8260-9, Jun ’88, £3.50, 249pp, pb) [Bran Tregare] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1986) sf novel. Volume 4 in the “Hulzein” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *The Singularity Project (Tor 0-312-85443-9, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], $21.95, 349pp, hc, cover by David Richard) Sf thriller about the development of the first working matter transmitter.
• * _The Singularity Project (Tor 0-812-52130-7, Feb ’94 [Jan ’94], $4.99, 349pp, pb, cover by David Richard) Reprint (Tor 1993) sf thriller about the development of the first working matter transmitter.
• * *Slow Freight (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29110-6, Oct ’91 [Sep ’91], $4.99, 311pp, pb, cover by John Eaves) Sf novel of an alien ship damaged by humans that requires the destruction of worlds for power — and it’s headed toward Earth.
• * *The Star Rebel (Bantam 0-553-23852-3, Feb ’84 [Jan ’84], $2.50, 216pp, pb) [Bran Tregare] Sf novel, part of the Hulzein Family saga. Entertaining space opera. (EAL)
• * _Star Rebel (Orbit 0-7088-8236-6, Aug ’87, £2.50, 216pp, pb) [Bran Tregare] Reprint (Bantam 1984) sf novel. Volume 1 in the “Hulzein” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *The Triad Worlds (AvoNova 0-380-78468-8, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $5.99, 374pp, pb, cover by Eric Peterson) [Slow Freight] SF novel. A lost starship stumbles on a war between three planets. The third book set in the “Slow Freight” universe after Arrow from Earth and Islands of Tomorrow.
• * *Young Rissa (Berkley 0-425-07061-1, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $2.50, 177pp, pb) [Rissa Kerguelen] First separate edition of a book making up part of the sf novel Rissa Kerguelen (Berkley Putnam 1976) and the omnibus Rissa Kerguelen (Berkley 1977).
• * _Young Rissa (Orbit 0-7088-8272-2, Oct ’88, £2.99, 177pp, pb) [Rissa Kerguelen] Reprint (Berkley 1984) sf novel. Volume 1 in the “Rissa Kerguelen” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Zelde M’Tana (Berkley 0-425-09296-8, Sep ’86 [Aug ’86], $2.95, 316pp, pb) [Rissa Kerguelen] Reprint (Dell 1980) sf novel. An offshoot of the main “Rissa Kerguelen” saga; excellent space opera. Recommended. (CNB)

BUSH, ANNE KELLEHER (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Children of Enchantment (Warner Aspect 0-446-60216-7, Jan ’96 [Dec ’95], $5.50, 352pp, pb, cover by Thomas Canty) [Power and the Pattern] Futuristic fantasy novel, second in “The Power and the Pattern”.
• * *Daughter of Prophecy (Warner Aspect 0-446-60087-3, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $5.50, 357pp, pb, cover by Tom Canty) [Power and the Pattern] Fantasy novel with SF pretensions. A far-future king hopes to restore America to its ancient glory with the help of a witch who knows the lost magic of mathematics.
• * *The Misbegotten King (Warner Aspect 0-446-60331-7, Jan ’97 [Dec ’96], $5.99, 357pp, pb, cover by Thomas Canty) [Power and the Pattern] Futuristic fantasy novel, third in “The Power and the Pattern”.

BUSHNELL, GEORGE H. (1896-1973) (stories)

• * _A Handful of Ghosts (St Andrews Preservation Trust 0-9502079-2-6, 1993 [Jan ’94], £3.50, 61pp, tp) Reprint (St Andrews University 1945) collection of five original ghost stories set in, and around, St Andrews. Order from 12 North Street, St. Andrews, KY16 9PW, including an additional 50p for postage. (Contents)

BUSIEK, KURT, ed. (1960- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Untold Tales of Spider-Man (with Stan Lee) See entry under Stan Lee.

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; there’s 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- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Ghost Cat (Scholastic 0-590-41837-8, Aug ’88 [Oct ’88], $2.50, 189pp, pb) Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1984) young-adult ghost story.
• * *Witch’s 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 family’s new house wants it back.
• * _Witch’s 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 Children’s 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 man’s lost love haunts young Petra. First US edition (Orion 1997). A first novel.
• * *Timon’s 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 Coleridge’s poetry. A first novel.

BUTLER, JACK (Armand) (1944- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *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) (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.
• * *Clay’s Ark (St. Martin’s 0-312-14321-4, Mar ’84 [Feb ’84], $12.95, 201pp, hc) [Patternist] Sf novel.
• * _Clay’s Ark (SFBC #2742, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], $3.98, 186pp, hc) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martin’s 1984) sf novel.
• * _Clay’s Ark (Ace 0-441-11089-4, Jun ’85 [May ’85], $2.75, 201pp, pb) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martin’s 1984) sf novel.
• * _Clay’s Ark (Gollancz 0-575-04820-4, Jul ’91, £3.99, 201pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martin’s 1984) sf novel. Volume 3 in the “Patternist” series.
• * _Clay’s Ark (Warner Aspect 0-446-60370-8, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], $5.99, 213pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martin’s 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 Women’s Press 0-7043-4162-X, Oct ’88, £4.95, 264pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1979) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Kindred (The Women’s 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 Women’s 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)

_____, [ref.]

• * _Suzy McKee Charnas, Joan Vinge, Octavia Butler See entry under Marleen S. Barr.

BUTNER, RICHARD, ed. (stories)

• * _Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (with John Kessel & Mark L. Van Name) See entry under John Kessel.

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)

• * _Savoy Dreams (with David Britton) See entry under David Britton.

BUTTREY, DOUGLAS NORTON (1918- ); see pseudonym Densil Barr