The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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Christine Stephen King (NAL/Signet 0-451-12838-9, Jan 84 [Dec 83], $3.95, 503pp, pb) Reissue (Viking 1983) fantasy horror novel, movie tie-in edition with a photo section.
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Stephen King (Donald M. Grant 0-937986-50-X, Apr 84 [Mar 84], $20.00, 224pp, hc) [Roland (Gunslinger)] Reissue (Grant 1982) collection of connected stories, the second edition of this fantasy work which has never appeared in a mass edition (and wont, according to the author). The new edition has one-color endpapers and a cheaper binding, but the 10,000 copies quickly sold out.
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Fire-Starter Stephen King (Signet 0-451-13234-3, May 84 [Apr 84], $3.95, 404pp, pb) Reissue (Viking 1980) horror novel; 9th Signet printing. Although this is a movie tie-in, theres no photo insert from the film.
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Night Shift Stephen King (Signet 0-451-12656-4, Mar 84 [Feb 84], $3.50, 327pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1978) collection, being released as a tie-in to a movie based on the story Children of the Corn, with 8 pages of stills. 28th printing.
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Pet Sematary Stephen King (SFBC #14803, Jun 84 [Aug 84], $5.50, 374pp, hc) Reprint (Doubleday 1983) horror novel.
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Pet Sematary Stephen King (G.K. Hall (Large Print) 0-8161-3691-2, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $17.95, 633pp, hc) Reprint (Doubleday 1983) horror/fantasy novel, large print version.
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Pet Sematary Stephen King (NAL/Signet 0-451-13237-8, Nov 84 [Oct 84], $4.50, 410pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1983) horror-fantasy novel, first paperback edition.
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The Talisman Stephen King & Peter Straub (Viking 0-670-69199-2, Nov 84 [Oct 84], $18.95, 646pp, hc) This edition seems to be simultaneous with the British one.
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The Talisman Stephen King & Peter Straub (Viking UK 0-670-69199-2, Nov 84 [Oct 84], £9.95, 646pp, hc) Fantasy novel. This British edition was apparently published simultaneously with the U.S. one, although it was scheduled to appear a month earlier.
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GETA Donald Kingsbury (Panther 0-586-05932-6, Jun 84 [May 84], £3.50, 512pp, tp) Reprint (Simon & Schuster Timescape 1982, as Courtship Rite) sf novel.
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Shoeless Joe W. P. Kinsella (Ballantine 0-345-30921-9, Jan 84 [Dec 83], $2.95, 224pp, pb) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1982) baseball fantasy quest novel.
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Watchers at the Strait Gate Russell Kirk (Arkham House 0-87054-098-X, Sep 84 [Jul 84], $14.95, 255pp, hc) An excellent collection of supernatural fantasy stories. Recommended. (FCM)
- ix · A Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale · pr
- 3 · The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost · nv F&SF Dec 83
- 51 · The Surly Sullen Bell · ss London Mystery Magazine #7 50
- 71 · The Peculiar Demesne of Archvicar Gerontion · nv Dark Forces, ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking, 1980
- 103 · Uncle Isaiah · ss London Mystery Magazine #11 51
- 125 · The Reflex-Man in Whinnymuir Close · nv Whispers IV, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983
- 157 · What Shadows We Pursue · ss F&SF Jan 53
- 175 · Lex Talionis · nv Whispers II, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979
- 201 · Fates Purse · nv F&SF May 79
- 225 · An Encounter by Mortstone Pond · ss
- 235 · Watchers at the Strait Gate · nv New Terrors #1, ed. Ramsey Campbell, London: Pan, 1980
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The Ceremonies T. E. D. Klein (Viking 0-670-20982-1, Jul 84 [Jun 84], $15.95, 505pp, hc) Horror novel, a first novel.
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The Man in the Tree Damon Knight (Berkley 0-425-06006-3, Jan 84 [Dec 83], $2.75, 246pp, pb) Sf novel whose hero is a 8 1/2 foot Christ figure.
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The Clarion Awards ed. Damon Knight (Doubleday 0-385-18383-6, Jun 84 [Jul 84], $11.95, 177pp, hc) Anthology of the best stories from the last six Clarion workshops for sf writers. The first-prize winner, The Etheric Transmitter by Lucius Shepard, is outstanding one of the best novelettes of this year. (FCM)
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Darkfall Dean R. Koontz (Berkley 0-425-07187-1, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $3.95, 371pp, pb) Horror novel. First U.S. edition (W.H. Allen 1984, as Darkness Comes).
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Darkness Comes Dean R. Koontz (W.H. Allen 0-491-03152-1, Feb 84, £11.95, 351pp, hc) Horror novel. [Not seen]
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Queen of Swords William Kotzwinkle (Putnam 0-399-12847-6, Feb 84 [Jan 84], $13.95, 175pp, hc) Novel of contemporary enchantment. Its a modern novel, not sf or fantasy. Listed for Kotzwinkle fans. (EAL)
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A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space Kathryn Kramer (Knopf 0-394-52374-1, Jul 84 [Jun 84], $15.95, 336pp, hc) Literary novel set in a time of future war; a first novel.
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The Golden Grove Nancy Kress (Bluejay 0-312-94180-3, Apr 84 [Mar 84], $13.95, 250pp, hc) Fantasy novel about obsession set in pseudo-historical Greece. I enjoyed it. (EAL)
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Nineteen Eighty-Four to 1984 ed. C. J. Kuppig (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-085-8, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $3.95, 288pp, pb) Non-fiction, collection of critical essays on the novel, plus Orwells memoir of his childhood. [George Orwell]
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The Bishops Heir Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-31824-2, Nov 84 [Oct 84], $14.95, 340pp, hc) [Deryni: King Kelson] Fantasy novel, first in the new Deryni trilogy The Histories of King Kelson. Seventh in the overall series.
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Basilisk ed. Ellen Kushner (Ace 0-441-05080-8, May 84 [Apr 84], $2.50, 244pp, pb) Reissue (Ace 1980) fantasy anthology.
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Half a Sky R. A. Lafferty (Corroboree 0-911169-03-2, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $25.00, 235pp, hc) [Coscuin Chronicles] Historical fantasy novel, Book Two of The Coscuin Chronicles. There are full-color illustrations by David Brian Erickson tipped in, plus some black and white illustrations. A fine piece of bookmaking. (CNB)
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Half a Sky R. A. Lafferty (Corroboree 0-911169-03-2, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $35.00, 235pp, hc) [Coscuin Chronicles] 250 copy, signed, numbered, limited edition of the above.
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The Man Who Made Models and Other Stories R. A. Lafferty (Chris Drumm, Sep 84, $2.50, 51pp, ph) Original collection of five stories. Drumm Booklet #18.
- 3 · The Man Who Made Models · ss *
- 14 · Ill See It Done and Then Ill Die · ss *
- 22 · The Effigy Histories · ss *
- 31 · Of Laughter and the Love of Friends · ss *
- 41 · Two for Four Ninety-Nine · ss *
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Ringing Changes R. A. Lafferty (Ace 0-441-72607-0, Jan 84 [Dec 83], $2.95, 275pp, pb) This is the first English-language edition of a collection of 20 stories which first appeared in Holland as Days of Grass, Days of Straw. Recommended. (FCM)
- ix · Introduction · in
- 1 · Parthen · ss Galaxy May 73
- 9 · Old Foot Forgot · ss Orbit 7, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnams, 1970
- 20 · Dorg · ss Orbit 10, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnams, 1972
- 31 · Days of Grass, Days of Straw · ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973
- 52 · Brain Fever Season · ss Universe 7, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1977
- 70 · And Read the Flesh Between the Lines · ss Universe 4, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974
- 90 · Old Halloweens on the Guna Slopes [Men Who Knew Everything] · ss Fantastic Aug 75
- 103 · The Ungodly Mice of Doctor Drakos · ss The New Mind, Frontiers 2, ed. Roger Elwood, Macmillan, 1973; Four Sides of Infinity, gp
- 113 · The Wooly World of Barnaby Sheen · ss The New Mind, Frontiers 2, ed. Roger Elwood, Macmillan, 1973; Four Sides of Infinity, gp
- 122 · Rivers of Damascus [Men Who Knew Everything] · nv Galaxy Feb 74
- 149 · Among the Hairy Earthmen · ss Galaxy Aug 66
- 161 · In Outraged Stone · ss Frontiers 1: Tomorrows Alternatives, ed. Roger Elwood, Macmillan U.S., 1973
- 179 · And Name My Name · ss Orbit 13, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnams, 1974
- 193 · Sky · ss New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971
- 205 · For All Poor Folks at Picketwire · ss Epoch, ed. Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg, Berkley, 1975
- 223 · Oh Whatta You Do When the Well Runs Dry? · ss *
- 236 · And Some in Velvet Gowns · ss *
- 247 · The Doggone Highly Scientific Door · ss *
- 257 · Interurban Queen · ss Orbit 8, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnams, 1970
- 268 · Been a Long, Long Time · ss Fantastic Dec 70
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The Ring of Truth David J. Lake (DAW 0-87997-935-6, Jun 84 [May 84], $2.95, 192pp, pb) Sf novel. First U.S. edition (Cory & Collins Void 1982).
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Yellow Men Sleep Jeremy Lane (Donald M. Grant 0-937986-58-5, Feb 84 [Jan 84], $15, 243pp, hc) Reprint (Century 1919) Asian fantasy-adventure which first appeared as a pulp magazine serial in 1919, under the title The Fragrant Web. Illustrations by Allan McLucky.
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Hiero Desteen Sterling E. Lanier (SFBC #3292, Mar 84, $8.98, 532pp, hc) [Hiero Desteen] Omnibus edition of Hieros Journey (Chilton 1973) and The Unforsaken Hiero (Del Rey 1983). Sf.
- · Hieros Journey · n. London: Chilton, 1973
- · The Unforsaken Hiero · n. New York: Ballantine, 1983
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The Unforsaken Hiero Sterling E. Lanier (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-30228-1, Apr 84 [Mar 84], $2.95, 247pp, pb) [Hiero Desteen] Reprint (Del Rey 1983) sf novel, sequel to Hieros Journey.
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Battlestar Galactica # 9: Experiment in Terra Glen A. Larson & Ron Goulart (Berkley 0-425-06418-2, Feb 84 [Jan 84], $2.50, 151pp, pb) [Battlestar Galactica] Novelization of two episodes from the tv series.
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Battlestar Galactica #10: The Long Patrol Glen A. Larson & Ron Goulart (Berkley 0-425-07105-7, Nov 84 [Oct 84], $2.75, 171pp, pb) [Battlestar Galactica] Sf novel based on two episodes of the tv series.
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The Victorian Chaise Longue Marghanita Laski (Academy Chicago 0-89733-097-8, Jul 84 [Jun 84], $3.95, 119pp, pb) Reprint (Cresset 1953) novel of time travel and horror.
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Bolo Keith Laumer (Berkley 0-425-07559-1, Dec 84 [Nov 84], $2.75, 216pp, pb) [Bolo] Reissue (Putnam 1976) collection of 6 stories about war machines. Fifth Berkley printing.
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Chrestomathy Keith Laumer (Baen 0-671-55920-6, Nov 84 [Oct 84], $2.95, 254pp, pb) Collection of novel excerpts and a few stories with new forewords by the author.
- 11 · The Great Time Machine Hoax · ex New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964
- 50 · Planet Run · Keith Laumer & Gordon R. Dickson · ex Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967
- 61 · Birthday Party · vi IASFM Jan/Feb 78
- 66 · The Infinite Cage · ex New York: Putnam, 1972
- 80 · Retiefs Ransom [Jame Retief] · ex New York: Putnam, 1971
- 96 · Time Trap [Time Trap] · ex New York: Putnam, 1970
- 105 · The House in November · ex New York: Putnam, 1970
- 114 · Dinosaur Beach · ex New York: Scribners, 1971
- 123 · The Devil You Dont · nv Alchemy & Academe, ed. Anne McCaffrey, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970
- 155 · The Ultimax Man · ex New York: St. Martins, 1978
- 171 · The Other Side of Time · ex New York: Berkley Medallion Aug 65
- 191 · Earthblood · Keith Laumer & Rosel George Brown · ex Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966
- 200 · The Lawgiver · ss The Year 2000, ed. Harry Harrison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970
- 216 · Night of Delusions · ex New York: Putnam, 1972
- 240 · The Star Treasure · ex New York: Putnam, 1971
- 243 · The Long Twilight · ex New York: Putnam, 1969
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The Galaxy Builder Keith Laumer (Ace 0-441-27280-0, Feb 84 [Jan 84], $2.75, 236pp, pb) [Lafayette OLeary] Sf novel, a Lafayette OLeary alternate-reality adventure.
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The Great Time Machine Hoax Keith Laumer (Ace 0-441-30268-8, Aug 84 [Jul 84], $2.75, 210pp, pb) Reissue (Simon & Schuster 1964) sf novel, 2nd Ace printing.
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The Monitors Keith Laumer (Tor 0-812-54369-6, May 84 [Apr 84], $2.95, 251pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley 1966) sf novel.
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Once There Was a Giant Keith Laumer (Tor 0-812-54371-8, Jul 84 [Jun 84], $2.50, 223pp, pb) Collection of two novellas (including the title one) plus a Laumer appreciation by Sandra Miesel. Tor continues to be a bibliographers nightmare. This book is not related to the 8-story 1971 Doubleday collection with the same name. The second story seems to be an original.
- 5 · Once There Was a Giant · na F&SF Nov 68
- 91 · No Ship Boots in Fairyland · na *
- 201 · The Long and Short of It · Sandra Miesel · ar *
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Retief to the Rescue Keith Laumer (Timescape 0-671-81866-X, Feb 84 [Jan 84], $2.95, 237pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (S&S Timescape 1983) sf novel.
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The Return of Retief Keith Laumer (Baen 0-671-55903-6, Sep 84 [Aug 84], $2.95, 221pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Sf novel in the Retief series.
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The Shape Changer Keith Laumer (Ace 0-441-76088-0, May 84 [Apr 84], $2.50, 230pp, pb) [Lafayette OLeary] Reissue (Putnam 1972) sf novel, third in the Lafayette OLeary alternate-worlds series.
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The Time Bender Keith Laumer (Ace 0-441-81014-4, Mar 84 [Feb 84], $2.75, 248pp, pb) [Lafayette OLeary] Reissue (Berkley 1966) sf novel. The first Lafayette OLeary alternate-world adventure. 5th Ace printing.
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A Trace of Memory Keith Laumer (Tor 0-812-54373-4, Nov 84 [Oct 84], $2.95, 256pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley 1963) sf novel.
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The World Shuffler Keith Laumer (Ace 0-441-91702-X, Apr 84 [Mar 84], $2.75, 236pp, pb) [Lafayette OLeary] Reissue (Putnam 1970) Lafayette OLeary sf adventure novel; 4th Ace printing.
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The Northwest Passage Norman Lavers (Fiction Collective 0-914590-86-3, Jul 84 [Jun 84], $12.95, 137pp, hc) A novel composed of a far-future edition of a late-20th-century edition of an 18th-century manuscript, each with its own spelling, punctuation, etc., giving glimpses of three very different ages. Also available in tp (-87-1, $6.95).
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Night Show Richard Laymon (NEL 0-450-05706-2, Dec 84, £1.95, 192pp, pb) Horror novel. [Not seen]
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The Eye of the Heron Ursula K. Le Guin (Bantam 0-553-24258-X, Aug 84 [Jul 84], $2.95, 179pp, pb) Reprint (Gollancz 1982) sf novel. It first appeared as a novella in the anthology Millennial Women (1978).
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The Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin (Bantam 0-553-23828-0, Jul 84 [Jun 84], $2.95, 197pp, pb) [Earthsea] Reissue (Atheneum 1972) fantasy novel, 17th Bantam printing. Third and best in the Earthsea Trilogy. Highly recommended. (CNB)
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The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin (Avon 0-380-01320-7, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $2.95, 175pp, pb) Reissue (Scribners 1971) sf novel; 15th Avon printing.
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Orsinian Tales Ursula K. Le Guin (Bantam 0-553-24791-3, Nov 84 [Oct 84], $2.95, 209pp, pb) Reissue (Harper & Row 1976) collection. 6th printing.
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The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin (Bantam 0-553-23903-1, Jun 84 [May 84], $2.95, 146pp, pb) [Earthsea] Reissue (Atheneum 1971) fantasy novel, second in the Earthsea trilogy.
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A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin (Bantam 0-553-23461-7, Jun 84 [May 84], $2.95, 183pp, pb) [Earthsea] Reissue (Parnassus 1968) fantasy novel, Earthsea #1; 19th Bantam printing.
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The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine/Wonders Hidden: Audubons Early Years Ursula K. Le Guin & Scott Russell Sanders (Capra Press 0-88496-219-9, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $7.50, 122pp, tp) Two novellas in Capras Back-to-Back series. The Le Guin is an excerpt from her upcoming sf novel Always Coming Home; the Sanders is non-sf/fantasy.
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The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine/Wonders Hidden: Audubons Early Years Ursula K. Le Guin & Scott Russell Sanders (Capra Press 0-88496-219-9, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $25.00, 122pp, hc) 200 copy, signed, limited edition of the above.
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Castles Alan Lee & David Day (Bantam 0-553-05066-4, Sep 84 [Aug 84], $24.95, 192pp, hc) Book of art work with a text by David Day. It includes castles of both history and fantasy.
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The Castle of Dark Tanith Lee (Unicorn 0-04-823249-1, Oct 84 [Sep 84], £2.95, 180pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan U.K. 1978) young-adult fantasy novel.
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Delusions Master Tanith Lee (DAW 0-87997-932-1, May 84 [Apr 84], $2.50, 206pp, pb) [Flat Earth] Reissue (DAW 1981) fantasy novel in the Lords of Darkness series.
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The Dragon Hoard Tanith Lee (Tempo 0-441-16621-0, Apr 84 [Mar 84], $2.25, 162pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan U.K. 1971) young-adult fantasy novel. This was Lees first professionally published story.
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Nights Master Tanith Lee (Highland Press 0-916261-00-X, Oct 84 [Sep 84], $35.00, 166pp, hc) [Flat Earth] Reprint (DAW 1978) fantasy novel in the Flat Earth series. First hardcover edition; signed, boxed, numbered, limited to 500 copies. Illustrations by Randy Broecker.
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Quest for the White Witch Tanith Lee (DAW 0-87997-996-8, Dec 84 [Nov 84], $2.95, 317pp, pb) [Birthgrave] Reissue (DAW 1978) fantasy novel, part of the Birthgrave series.
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Tamastara, or the Indian Nights Tanith Lee (DAW 0-87997-915-1, Mar 84 [Feb 84], $2.50, 174pp, pb) Collection of 7 sf and fantasy tales set in India of the past, present, and future. This is some of Lees best work. Recommended. (FCM)
- 7 · Foreign Skins · nv *
- 37 · Bright Burning Tiger · ss IASFM Jan 84
- 55 · Chand Veda · ss IASFM Oct 83
- 68 · Under the Hand of Chance · nv *
- 97 · The Ivory Merchants · nv *
- 123 · Oh, Shining Star · nv *
- 149 · Tamastara · nv *
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The Wars of Vis Tanith Lee (SFBC #2717, Jul 84 [Aug 84], $7.98, 697pp, hc) [Wars of Vis] Omnibus edition of The Storm Lord (DAW 1976) and Anackire (DAW 1983), two fantasy novels set in the same world a generation apart.
- · The Storm Lord · n. New York: DAW, 1976
- · Anackire · n. New York: DAW, 1983
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Conjure Wife Fritz Leiber (Ace 0-441-11749-X, Nov 84 [Oct 84], $2.75, 210pp, pb) Reissue (Twayne 1953 as part of Witches Three) fantasy novel. Third Ace printing of a classic fantasy/horror novel set in modern times.
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The Ghost Light Fritz Leiber (Berkley 0-425-06812-9, Apr 84 [Mar 84], $7.95, 367pp, tp) Collection of 9 stories plus an autobiographical essay, illustrated by a number of different artists.
- 11 · Introduction · in
- 15 · The Ghost Light · nv *
- 55 · Coming Attraction · ss Galaxy Nov 50
- 71 · A Deskful of Girls [Change War] · nv F&SF Apr 58
- 99 · Space-Time for Springers [Gummitch] · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #4, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1958
- 113 · Four Ghosts in Hamlet · nv F&SF Jan 65
- 149 · Gonna Roll the Bones · nv Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967
- 175 · Bazaar of the Bizarre [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] · nv Fantastic Aug 63
- 201 · Midnight by the Morphy Watch · ss Worlds of If Jul/Aug 74
- 223 · Black Glass · nv Andromeda 3, ed. Peter Weston, London: Futura, 1978
- 251 · Not Much Disorder and Not So Early Sex: An Autobiographic Essay · bg The Ghost Light, Berkley, 1984
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The Ghost Light Fritz Leiber (Berkley 0-425-07057-3, Aug 84 [Jul 84], $50.00, 367pp, hc) Reprint (Berkley 1984) collection, first hardcover edition; limited to 750 signed, numbered copies.
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Our Lady of Darkness Fritz Leiber (Ace 0-441-64417-1, Apr 84 [Mar 84], $2.50, 183pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley Putnam 1977) fantasy novel. This received the World Fantasy Award. Highly recommended. (CNB)
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