The Locus Index to Science Fiction
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- CHILD, LINCOLN (stories) (continued)
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- * *Dark Banquet: A Feast of 12 Great Ghost Stories (St. Martins 0-312-18233-3, Oct 85 [Nov 85], $15.95, 255pp, hc) Anthology of 12 tales of the supernatural. (Contents)
- * *Dark Company: The Ten Greatest Ghost Stories (St. Martins 0-312-18231-7, Jan 84 [Dec 83], $12.95, 334pp, hc) Anthology of well-known stories by Poe, Le Fanu, M.R. James, W.W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Blackwood, Oliver Onions, William Hope Hodgson, and Lovecraft. (Contents)
- * _Dark Company: The Ten Greatest Ghost Stories (St. Martins 0-312-18232-5, Aug 84 [Jul 84], $3.95, 334pp, pb) Reprint (St. Martins 1984) anthology of supernatural tales by Poe, Lovecraft, and others.
- * *Tales of the Dark (St. Martins 0-312-90339-1, Jul 87 [Jun 87], $3.50, 184pp, pb) Anthology of 10 horror stories. (Contents)
- * *Tales of the Dark #3 (St. Martins 0-312-90539-4, Feb 88, $3.50, 179pp, pb) Anthology of 9 horror stories. (Contents)
- * *Tales of the Dark 2 (St. Martins 0-312-90769-9, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.50, 181pp, pb) Anthology of 9 late-19th and early-20th-century supernatural stories. (Contents)
- CHILDER, SIMON IAN; pseudonym of John Brosnan & Leroy Kettle (stories)
- * *Tendrils (Grafton 0-586-06437-0, Jan 86, £1.95, 208pp, pb) Horror novel. Childer is a pseudonym for Leroy Kettle and John Brosnan, who also write as Harry Adam Knight.
- * *Worm (Grafton 0-586-06945-3, May 87, £2.50, 189pp, pb) Horror novel. This is a pseudonym for John Brosnan & Leroy Kettle.
- CHILDRESS, MARK (1957- )
- * *Gone for Good (Random House/Knopf 0-375-40021-4, Jun 98, $25.00, 370pp, hc, cover by Lou Beach) Fantasy novel. A rock star nicknamed Superman crashes on a mysterious island where the famous (e.g. Elvis, Amelia Earhart) come to disappear.
- CHILSON, ROB(ert Dean) (1945- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *Black as Blood (Baen 0-671-87883-2, Jul 98 [Jun 98], $5.99, 274pp, pb, cover by Charles Keegan) Humorous horror novel. Uncle Albert just wont stay dead.
- * *Isaac Asimovs Robot City, Book 5: Refuge (Ace 0-441-37385-2, Mar 88 [Feb 88], $2.95, 163pp, pb) [Robot City] Sf novelization in the series based on Asimovs work.
- * *Men Like Rats (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20763-9, Mar 89 [Feb 89], $3.95, 212pp, pb) Sf novel about men living in the corridors and pantries of giant aliens.
- * *Rounded with Sleep (Popular Library Questar 0-445-21026-5, Aug 90 [Jul 90], $3.95, 193pp, pb, cover by Tim Jacobus) Sf/fantasy novel of a professional hero on an Earth taken over by a computerized fantasy role-playing game.
- CHIN, M. LUCIE (1947- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *The Fairy of Ku-She (Ace 0-441-22563-2, Aug 88 [Jul 88], $3.50, 265pp, pb) Fantasy novel of ancient China; a first novel.
- * _The Fairy of Ku-She (Fontana 0-00-617823-5, Feb 90, £2.99, 265pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1988) fantasy novel.
- CHINN, MIKE; [i.e., Michael James Chinn] (1954- ) (stories)
- * *The Paladin Mandates (The Alchemy Press 0-9532260-0-X, Jan 98 [Apr 98], £6.50, 95pp, ph, cover by Bob Covington) Horror/fantasy collection of 6 stories, 3 original, about an occult adventurer. The 3 reprint stories have all been significantly revised for this edition. Available from 46 Oxford Rd, Acocks Green, Birmingham B27 6DT. (Contents)
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- * *Mystique: Tales of Wonder (The British Fantasy Society no ISBN, Jan 88 [Apr 88], £1.00, 34pp, ph) Original anthology of horror stories in the style of the old horror pulps. Volume 13 in the BFS Booklet series. (Contents)
- CHIPPINDALE, PETER
- * *Laptop of the Gods: A Millennium Fable (Simon & Schuster UK 0-684-81613-X, Nov 98, £9.99, 420pp, hc, cover by Stephen Player) Humorous millennial fantasy novel. The bored gods relinquish charge of humanity at the suggestion of the computer GOD.
- * *Mink! (Simon & Schuster UK 0-671-71916-5, Sep 95, £9.99, 565pp, hc) Animal fantasy novel. A first novel.
- CHITTENDEN, MARGARET (Rosalind) (1935- )
- * *The Scent of Magic (Harlequin 0-373-70444-5, Feb 91 [Mar 91], $3.25, 300pp, pb) Fantasy romance about a boutique owner who discovers a magic potion that brings her love. A Harlequin Superromance.
- * *This Time Forever (Harlequin 0-373-79001-5, Sep 90 [Aug 90], $3.25, 252pp, pb, cover by Jeff Wack) Time-travel romance in the Dreamscape line. A woman enters her 18th-century past life and is torn between past and present romances.
- CHIU, TONY (1945- )
- * *Realm Seven (Bantam 0-553-23847-7, Aug 84 [Jul 84], $3.50, 279pp, pb) Novel of gaming, omniscient computers, etc.
- CHIZMAR, RICHARD T(homas) (1965- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *Blood Brothers (Subterranean Press no ISBN, Feb 97, $8.00, 16pp, ph, cover by Rodger Gerberding) Chapbook publication of a short horror story. This is a signed, limited edition of 250. Order from Subterranean Press, PO Box 190106, Burton MI 48519; postage free; email: wks@tir.com
- * *Midnight Promises (Gauntlet Publications 1-887368-03-5, 1996 [Apr 96], $35.00, 272pp, hc, cover by Alan M. Clark) Collection of 17 horror stories. There is an introduction by Ed Gorman and an afterword by Ray Garton. This edition is signed by all authors involved, and limited to 500 copies. Gauntlet Publications, 309 Powell Rd., Springfield PA 19064. Orders: 610-328-5476. Add $5.00 postage. (Contents)
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- * *The Best of Cemetery Dance (Cemetery Dance 1881475247, Mar 98, 786pp, hc) Horror anthology of 29 stories, an interview with Dean Koontz, and an afterword by David B. Silva. (Contents)
- * *Cold Blood (Mark V. Ziesing 0-929480-57-0, Jun 91 [Jul 91], $25.00, 401pp, hc, cover by Nancy Niles) Original anthology of 24 horror stories (some supernatural, some not) plus a stage version of Joe R. Lansdales short story By Bizarre Hands, with a foreword by the editor and an introduction by Douglas E. Winter. Recommended (SW). (Contents)
- * *The Earth Strikes Back (Mark V. Ziesing 0-929480-40-6, Dec 94, $18.95, 311pp, tp, cover by Arnie Fenner) Original anthology of 20 stories of ecological horror. Authors include Dan Simmons, Poppy Z. Brite, Charles de Lint, Thomas F. Monteleone, and Hugh B. Cave. Order from Mark V. Ziesing, PO Box 76, Shingletown CA 96088. (Contents)
- * _The Earth Strikes Back (White Wolf 1-56504-919-5, Apr 96 [Mar 96], $5.99, 462pp, pb) Reprint (Ziesing 1994) original anthology of ecological horror.
- * *Screamplays (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-39429-1, Sep 97, $14.50, 545pp, tp, cover by Dave McKean) Original anthology of seven horror screenplays, none previously published, by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Joe R. Lansdale, Ed Gorman, and Richard Laymon. Introduction by Dean Koontz. (Contents)
- * *Thrillers (CD Publications 1-881475-05-0, Jan 94, $25.00, 264pp, hc, cover by Charles Lang) Original anthology of fiction by Rex Miller (one novella), Nancy A. Collins (four stories), Chet Williamson (a novella and a short story), & Ardath Mayhar (one novella). Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale, and afterwords by the authors, plus interior illustrations by Keith Minnion. A 500-copy signed numbered slipcased edition ($60.00) was announced but not seen. Available from CD Publications, PO Box 18433, Baltimore MD 21237. (Contents)
- CHOLFIN, BRYAN, ed. (stories) (assoc.)
- * *The Best of Crank! (Tor 0-312-86740-9, Sep 98 [Aug 98], $23.95, 320pp, hc, cover by Pangorda) Anthology of 17 stories originally published in Crank!. Authors include Gwyneth Jones, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, and Jonathan Lethem. (Contents)
- * *Monochrome: The Readercon Anthology (Broken Mirrors Press 0-9623824-3-4, Apr 90, $9.95, 158pp, tp) Mostly original anthology of seven stories and five poems, with an introduction by Samuel R. Delany and a foreword by Robert Colby. The poems and five of the stories are original, including work by Wolfe, Kushner, Friesner, etc. A hardcover limited edition (-2-6, $25.00) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
- CHOPRA, DEEPAK (K.) (1946- )
- * *The Return of Merlin (Crown/Harmony 0-517-59849-3, Jul 95 [Jun 95], $24.00, 422pp, hc, cover by Frank Holmes) Modern Arthurian novel. Simultaneous with the UK (Century) edition.
- * *The Return of Merlin (Century 0-71-267606-6, Jul 95, £15.99, 422pp, hc, cover by Frank Holmes) Fantasy novel; the Arthurian conflict moves forward to our own time. In an original twist, Chopra suggests that Camelot was never destroyed, only, like Arthur, it went away from our world until it was needed again. A first novel. Simultaneous with the US (Harmony) edition.
- * _The Return of Merlin (Ballantine/Fawcett Columbine 0-449-91074-1, Mar 96 [Feb 96], $12.95, 422pp, tp) Reprint (Crown/Harmony; Century 1995) modern Arthurian novel.
- * _The Return of Merlin (Arrow 0-09-963971-8, Mar 96, £5.99, 422pp, tp, cover by Method) Reprint (Crown/Harmony; Century 1995) fantasy novel. Merlin and Arthur in modern England.
- CHOPRA, GAUTAMA
- * _Child of the Dawn: A Magical Journey of Awakening (Bantam UK 0-553-50593-9, Mar 98 [Feb 98], £5.99, xviii+180pp, tp) Reprint (Amber-Allen Publishing/New World Library 1996) fantasy novel. A parable based on the bestseller The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra, Gautamas father, who contributes a foreword. A first novel. A hardcover (Bantam Press, 1997) is listed, but not seen.
- CHOWN, MARCUS (1959- ) (stories)
- CHOYCE, LESLEY (Willis) (1951- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *The Dream Auditor (Ragweed Press/Indivisible Books 0-920304-63-X, 1986 [Feb 87], C$9.95, 87pp, tp) Very short story collection of 10 sf stories, 6 of them original. This small press edition has a 1986 copyright date, but we did not see it until now. (Contents)
- * *Trapdoor to Heaven (Quarry Press 1-55082-157-1, 1996 [Jun 98], C$16.95, 218pp, tp) SF/New Age novel following a soul through incarnations spanning 25 centuries and many cultures. Copyrighted 1996, but not seen until now. PO Box 1061, Kingston ONT K7L 4Y5, Canada; 613-548-8429
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- * *Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction (Canada: Pottersfield Press 0-919001-73-4, Sep 92, $14.95, 285pp, tp, cover by Robert Rutherford) Anthology of 22 sf stories, 10 original, with an introduction by the editor and an afterword by Judith Merril. This is a Canadian edition, available from Pottersfield Press, Lawrencetown Beach, RR #2, Porters Lake, Nova Scotia B0J 2S0, Canada. (Contents)
- CHRISTCHILD, RAVAN (stories)
- CHRISTENSEN, JAMES (C.) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *A Journey of the Imagination: The Art of James Christensen (Greenwich Workshop 0-86713-021-0, Aug 94, $39.95, 180pp, hc, cover by James Christensen) Art book with magnificent reproductions of Christensens work, both paintings and sketches. Introduction by James Gurney, text as told to Renwick St. James.
- * *Rhymes & Reasons: An Annotated Collection of Mother Goose Rhymes (Artisan 0-86713-040-7, May 97, $19.95, 56pp, hc, cover by James Christensen) Art book. A childrens picture book with illustrations by Christensen of 73 nursery rhymes, and brief notes about the rhymes. A color poster is included.
- * *Voyage of the Basset (with Renwick St. James & Alan Dean Foster) (Artisan 1-885183-58-5, Oct 96 [Sep 96], $29.95, 168pp, hc, cover by James Christensen) Art book, with extensive illustrations by Christensen, and text by St. James and Foster. A fantastic parody of Darwins Voyage of the Beagle, telling the story of Professor Aislings voyage to collect magic and mythical creatures. Copyrighted by the Greenwich Workshop.
- * _Voyage of the Basset (with Renwick St. James & Alan Dean Foster) (BOMC/QPBC no ISBN, Nov 96 [Oct 96], $18.95, 168pp, tp, cover by James Christensen) Reprint (Artisan 1996) art book, with extensive illustrations by Christensen, and text by St. James and Foster. Copyrighted by the Greenwick Workshop. This trade paperback edition is otherwise similar to the Artisan hardcover edition, except it lacks a price and has the QPBC mark on the back cover.
- CHRISTIAN, CATHERINE (Mary) (1901-1985)
- * _The Pendragon (Warner 0-446-32342-X, Jun 84 [May 84], $3.95, 607pp, pb) Reissue (Knopf 1978) Arthurian fantasy novel.
- CHRISTIAN, DEBORAH (stories) (assoc.)
- * *Kar Kalim (Tor 0-312-86341-1, Aug 97 [Jul 97], $23.95, 320pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) Fantasy novel. A sorceress must stop a mage who has used her to gain great power.
- * _Kar Kalim (Tor 0-812-57190-8, Aug 98 [Jul 98], $5.99, 265pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) Reprint (Tor 1997) fantasy novel.
- * *Mainline (Tor 0-312-86029-3, Jun 96 [May 96], $23.95, 383pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) SF novel. An assassins new friendship may destroy her ability to travel alternate realities. A first novel.
- * _Mainline (Tor 0-812-54908-2, Aug 97 [Jul 97], $5.99, 374pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) Reprint (Tor 1996) SF novel. An assassin travels alternate realities.
- CHRISTIAN, M., ed. (stories)
- * *Eros ex Machina (Masquerade/Rhinoceros 1-56333-593-X, Mar 98, $7.95, 455pp, pb) Original anthology of 29 stories, three reprint, of techno-erotica, many SF. Authors include Nancy Kilpatrick, Lucy Taylor, Marc Laidlaw, and John Shirley. (Contents)
- CHRISTIAN, PEGGY
- * *The Bookstore Mouse (Harcourt Brace 0-15-200203-0, Nov 95, $16.00, 134pp, hc, cover by Gary A. Lippincott) Young-adult fantasy literary fable. A mouse falls into a book and helps a medieval scribe become a knight and vanquish the dragon Censor who has been stealing stories from the kingdom.
- CHRISTIANA, DAVID
- * *A Tooth Fairys Tale (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-37677-8, May 94, $16.00, unpaginated, hc, cover by David Christiana) Childrens picture book with full-page full-color watercolors of fairies by the author. The art is impressive and of interest as adult fantasy work.
- CHRISTIN, P., ed.
- * *Breakthrough (with A. C. Knigge) (Titan 1-85286-293-9, Apr 90, £7.95, 80pp, tp) Remarkable collection of pieces, some sf, by 27 graphic artists, including Dave Gibbons and Moebius, celebrating the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. Published simultaneously in 13 countries including the UK, US and East Germany. Strongly recommended. (PSP)
- CHRISTOPHER, JOE R(andell) (1935- ) (stories)
- * *C.S. Lewis (G.K. Hall/Twayne 0-8057-6944-7, Apr 87, $16.95, 150pp, hc) Non-fiction, critical study which concentrates on the fantasy novels. [Lewis]
- CHRISTOPHER, JOHN; pseudonym of Sam Youd, (1922- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- * _Beyond the Burning Lands (Macmillan Collier 0-02-042572-4, Oct 89, $3.95, 216pp, pb) [Sword of the Spirits] Reissue (Hamish Hamilton 1971) young-adult sf novel, second book of the Sword of the Spirits trilogy.
- * _The Caves of Night (Sphere 0-7221-2310-8, Apr 86, £2.50, 184pp, pb) Reissue (Eyre & Spottiswoode 1958) thriller, of associational interest. This is a pseudonym for C.S. Youd.
- * _City of Gold and Lead (Puffin 0-14-031685-X, Mar 87, £1.75, 159pp, pb) [Tripods] Reissue (Hamish Hamilton 1967) juvenile sf novel. Volume 2 in the Tripods series. This is a pseudonym for C.S. Youd.
- * _The City of Gold and Lead (Macmillan Collier 0-02-042701-8, Oct 88 [Nov 88], $3.95, 218pp, pb) [Tripods] Reprint (Hamish Hamilton 1967) young-adult sf novel, Book Two of the Tripods trilogy. Second Collier edition. Sold in a boxed set with volumes one and three.
- * *Dragon Dance (Viking Kestrel 0-670-81030-4, Jun 86, £6.95, 128pp, hc) [Fireball] Sf novel, volume 3 in the Fireball series. Released simultaneous with the U.S. edition. This is a pseudonym for C.S. Youd.
- * *Dragon Dance (Dutton 0-525-44227-8, Jun 86 [Jul 86], $12.95, 139pp, hc) [Fireball] Young-adult sf novel, conclusion of the Fireball trilogy. An alternate-world tale. Issued simultaneous with the British edition.
- * _Dragon Dance (Puffin 0-14-032056-3, Dec 86, £1.75, 128pp, pb) [Fireball] Reprint (Dutton 1986) juvenile sf novel, third in the Fireball trilogy.
- * *A Dusk of Demons (Hamish Hamilton 0-241-13378-5, May 93, £8.99, 147pp, hc, cover by Stephen Player) Young-adult sf novel set in a post-technological future Scotland, haunted by demons.
- * +Dusk of Demons (Macmillan 0-02-718425-0, Mar 94 [Jun 94], $14.95, 175pp, hc, cover by Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh) SF novel about a boy in a post-holocaust Scotland menaced by demonic creatures. First American edition (Hamish Hamilton 1993).
- * _A Dusk of Demons (Puffin 0-14-036420-X, Sep 94 [Oct 94], £3.50, 147pp, pb, cover by Stephen Player) Reprint (Hamish Hamilton 1993) young-adult SF novel set in a post-technological future Scotland, haunted by demons.
- * _Dusk of Demons (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-80633-7, Nov 96 [Jan 97], $3.99, 175pp, tp, cover by Rebecca Guay) Reprint (Hamish Hamilton 1993 as A Dusk of Demons) young-adult SF novel about a post-holocaust Scotland menaced by demonic creatures.
- * _Empty World (Dutton 0-525-29250-0, Jul 86, $13.95, 134pp, hc) Reissue (Gollancz 1977) young-adult sf novel of a bizarre plague. Fifth hardcover printing.
- * _Empty World (Puffin 0-14-037388-8, Jun 95 [Aug 95], £4.25, 134pp, pb, cover by Dave Holmes) Reprint (Gollancz 1977) young-adult SF novel.
- * _Fireball (Tempo 0-441-23845-9, Jan 84 [Dec 83], $2.25, 148pp, pb) [Fireball] Reprint (Dutton 1981) juvenile alternate-world novel.
- * _The Guardians (Puffin 0-14-030579-3, Aug 88, £1.95, 176pp, pb) Reissue (Hamish Hamilton 1970) young-adult sf novel.
- * _The Guardians (Macmillan Collier 0-02-042681-X, Oct 92 [Nov 92], $4.95, 214pp, pb, cover by Jael) Reprint (Hamish Hamilton 1970) young-adult sf novel about a 13-year-old city-bred boy trying to hide in a strange country.
- * _The Long Voyage (Sphere 0-7221-2315-9, Mar 86, £2.25, 188pp, pb) Reissue (Eyre & Spottiswoode 1958) thriller, of associational interest. This is a pseudonym for C.S. Youd.
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