The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998


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A Quiet of Stone Stephen Leigh (Bantam 0-553-23893-0, Feb ’84 [Jan ’84], $2.75, 226pp, pb) [Hoorka Trilogy] Sf novel, conclusion of the “Hoorka” trilogy. Less successful than the first two; not really a conclusion. (EAL)


The Forgotten Planet Murray Leinster (Crown 0-517-55412-7, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $8.95, 209pp, hc) [Burl] Reprint (Gnome 1954) sf novel made up of three novellas of primitive adventure. A very dated book. (CNB)


The Chain of Chance Stanislaw Lem (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-616500-7, Jun ’84 [May ’84], $2.95, 179pp, pb) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978) sf/mystery novel with a former-astronaut detective.


His Master’s Voice Stanislaw Lem (Harvest 0-15-640300-5, Mar ’84 [Feb ’84], $2.95, 199pp, pb) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983) sf novel.


Imaginary Magnitude Stanislaw Lem (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-144118-9, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $15.95, 122pp, hc) Prefaces to non-existent books written in the future. Translated by Marc E. Heine.


The Book of the Night Rhoda Lerman (Holt Rinehart & Winston 0-03-071081-2, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $16.95, 292pp, hc) Sf/fantasy novel where the tenth century and the twentieth coexist as Light battles Darkness.


Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire Doris Lessing (Vintage 0-394-72386-4, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $4.95, 179pp, pb) [Canopus in Argus: Archives] Reprint (Knopf 1983) sf novel, Book 5 of “Canopus in Argus: Archives”.


A Binding Spell Betty Levin (Dutton/Lodestar 0-525-67151-X, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $12.95, 179pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy novel about a ghost horse.


Concordance to Cordwainer Smith Anthony R. Lewis (NESFA Press 0-915368-24-2, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $6, 90pp, tp) This compendium covers people, places, things, and stories. From “air whale” to “wet stinker”, Boom Lagoon to Santuna (“a girl, fulfilled in 1,000 ways”), this is one of the most entertaining reference books around. It should delight all of Smith’s fans. (FCM) [Cordwainer Smith]


First and Final Rites Shariann Lewitt (Ace 0-441-23998-6, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $2.75, 282pp, pb) Fantasy novel.


Rensime Jacqueline Lichtenberg (Doubleday 0-385-17627-9, Feb ’84 [Jan ’84], $11.95, 178pp, hc) [Sime-Gen] Sixth novel in the “Sime/Gen” sf series.


Rensime Jacqueline Lichtenberg (DAW 0-87997-980-1, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], $2.95, 250pp, pb) [Sime-Gen] Reprint (Doubleday 1984) sf novel.


The Limbreth Gate Megan Lindholm (Ace 0-441-48358-5, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $2.75, 232pp, pb) [Windsingers] Fantasy novel, third in the series about Ki and Vandien.


The Windsingers Megan Lindholm (Ace 0-441-89248-5, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $2.75, 268pp, pb) [Windsingers] Fantasy novel, sequel to Harpy’s Flight.


Uninvited Ghosts Penelope Lively (Heinemann 0-434-94960-4, Jul ’84, £5.95, 120pp, hc) Young-adult ghost collection. [Not seen]


Dicing with Dragons: An Introduction to Role-Playing Games Ian Livingstone (SFBC #35485, Apr ’84, $6.98, 210pp, hc) Reprint (NAL 1983, revised American edition); non-fiction, associational — guide for gamers.


Element of Time Cathy Livoni (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-225369-6, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $12.95, 182pp, hc) Young-adult sf novel, a first novel.


Salvage and Destroy Edward Llewellyn (DAW 0-87997-898-8, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $2.95, 256pp, pb) Sf novel.


Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish Morgan Llywelyn (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-35352-1, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $16.95, 466pp, hc) Historical novel of the ancient Irish and the (possibly) magical Tuatha De Danann.


Captives of the Savage Empire Jean Lorrah (Berkley 0-425-06465-4, Feb ’84 [Jan ’84], $2.75, 210pp, pb) [Savage Empire] Conclusion of the “Savage Empire” fantasy trilogy.


Dragon Lord of the Savage Empire Jean Lorrah (Berkley 0-425-07045-X, Mar ’84 [Feb ’84], $2.75, 220pp, pb) [Savage Empire] Reprint (Playboy 1982) fantasy novel, second in the “Savage Empire” series.


Savage Empire Jean Lorrah (Berkley 0-425-07044-1, Mar ’84 [Feb ’84], $2.75, 224pp, pb) [Savage Empire] Reprint (Playboy 1981) fantasy novel, first in the series.


Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders Jean Lorrah (Pocket 0-671-50054-6, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $3.50, 278pp, pb) [Star Trek] Star Trek novelization.


The Illustrated ‘Fungi from Yuggoth’ H. P. Lovecraft (Dream House, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $5.00, unpaginated, pb) Lovecraft sonnet cycle with illustrations by Robert Kellough.


The Watchers Out of Time H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth (Arkham House 0-87054-033-5, Aug ’84 [Jul ’84], $14.95, 405pp, hc) Reissue (Arkham House 1974) fantasy collection; 2nd printing, of 2000 copies.


A Vision of Beasts 1: Creation Descending Jack Lovejoy (Tor 0-812-54500-1, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $2.95, 222pp, pb) [Vision of Beasts] Sf novel, first in a series.


A Vision of Beasts 2: The Second Kingdom Jack Lovejoy (Tor 0-812-54502-8, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $2.95, 252pp, pb) [Vision of Beasts] Sf novel; post-holocaust, far future, mutants, etc.


Witchwood Tim Lukeman (Timescape 0-671-47549-5, Feb ’84 [Jan ’84], $13.95, 190pp, hc) [Witchwood] First novel in a fantasy tetralogy.


Psychosphere Brian Lumley (Granada 0-586-06029-4, 1984, £1.95, 272pp, pb) [Psychomech] Horror novel. Sequel to Psychomech.


2018 A.D. Sam J. Lundwall (DAW 0-87997-926-7, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $2.25, 160pp, pb) Reissue (DAW 1975) sf novel.


Circumpolar! Richard A. Lupoff (Simon & Schuster/Timescape 0-671-49941-6, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $14.95, 319pp, hc) [Twin Planets] Parallel-world air race involving the Red Baron, Howard Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and others.


Sun’s End Richard A. Lupoff (Berkley 0-425-07022-0, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $2.95, 280pp, pb) [Sun’s End] Sf novel, first in a trilogy.


The Red Hawk Elizabeth A. Lynn (Cheap Street 0-941826-04-X, 1983 [Jan ’84], $65.00, 68pp, hc) Original fantasy novelette, illustrated by Alicia Austin. Edition of 128 copies. (“Publisher’s Edition” of 40 copies, in slipcase, announced for “around $140.”) Another of Lynn’s fine fantasy stories set in the imaginary country of Ryoka, this tale features a woman who, literally, takes on the mantle of a god — and the attendant problems, including the god’s irresponsible son. A beautiful production, but non-collectors, will probably want to wait for a less loving, less expensive version. (DN)


The Silver Horse Elizabeth A. Lynn (Bluejay 0-312-94404-7, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $9.95, 126pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy novel, illustrated by Jeanne Gomoll.


Damiano’s Lute R. A. MacAvoy (Bantam 0-553-24102-8, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $2.75, 254pp, pb) [Damiano] Fantasy novel, second in the “Damiano” trilogy.


Raphael R. A. MacAvoy (Bantam 0-553-24370-5, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $2.75, 230pp, pb) [Damiano] Fantasy novel, conclusion of the “Damiano” trilogy.


Demon-4 David Mace (Granada 0-586-05855-9, Jun ’84 [May ’84], £1.50, 205pp, pb) Sf novel of killer weapons after WWIII. A first novel.


The Last Warrior Queen Mary Mackey (Berkley 0-425-07007-7, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $2.75, 240pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1983) historical fantasy novel.


The Watcher Charles MacLean (Penguin 0-14-007085-0, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $4.95, 343pp, pb) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1982) horror novel, with some fantasy elements.


Buckeroo Banzai Earl MacRauch (Pocket 0-671-54058-0, Aug ’84 [Jul ’84], $3.50, 222pp, pb) Novelization of the “contemporary sf comedy-adventure” film.


Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, 5 vols. ed. Frank N. Magill (Salem 0-89356-450-8, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $250.00, 2538pp, hc) A five-volume encyclopedia covering themes, authors (mainstream and genre), chronology, and annotated bibliographies, plus 19 essays giving background on categories of fantasy.


The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance Margaret Mahy (Dent 0-460-06153-4, May ’84, £6.95, 220pp, hc) Young-adult occult novel. [Not seen]


The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance Margaret Mahy (Atheneum 0-689-50303-2, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $11.95, 214pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy novel by a consistently excellent writer. First U.S. edition (Dent 1984). Recommended. (FCM)


Leaf Magic and Five Other Favourites Margaret Mahy (Dent 0-460-06151-8, Jun ’84, £4.95, 64pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy collection. [Not seen]


Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer (Warner 0-446-32109-5, Jun ’84 [May ’84], $4.95, 19844pp, pb) Reprint (Little, Brown 1983) historical fantasy novel.


The Alien Trace H. M. Major (Signet 0-451-13063-4, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $2.95, 222pp, pb) [Alien Trace] First of a series of “adult sf” adventure novels by a pair of pseudonymous authors.


Time Twister H. M. Major (NAL/Signet 0-451-13283-1, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], $2.95, 255pp, pb) [Alien Trace] Sf novel, “Alien Trace” #2. “Adult” sf.


The Secret Adrian Malone, Sharlene Bellanger & Steven Talley (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-35356-4, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $15.95, 390pp, hc) Five-generation novel extending from the past into the future and containing elements of mysticism.


Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature ed. Alberto Manguel (Crown 0-517-55269-8, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $11.95, 967pp, tp) Anthology of stories by 72 authors, including Dickens, Kafka, Nabokov, and Borges. First U.S. edition (Picador 1983).


Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature ed. Alberto Manguel (Picador 0-330-28141-0, 1983 [Feb ’84], £4.95, 967pp, tp) Anthology of 72 stories and excerpts, from “literary” fantasists (including Bradbury and Le Guin as well as Poe, Kafka, Calvino, etc.) A 1983 book — not seen till 1984.
  • xvi · Foreword · Alberto Manguel · fw
  • 1 · House Taken Over · Julio Cortázar · ss End of the Game and Other Stories, Random House, 1967
  • 7 · How Love Came to Professor Guildea [“The Man Who Was Beloved”] · Robert S. Hichens · na Pearson’s Magazine Oct, 1897
  • 49 · Climax for a Ghost Story · I. A. Ireland · vi, 1919
  • 50 · The Mysteries of the Joy Rio · Tennessee Williams · ss, 1954
  • 62 · Pomegranate Seed · Edith Wharton · nv The Saturday Evening Post Apr 25 ’31
  • 92 · Venetian Masks · Adolfo Bioy Casares; trans. by Alberto Manguel · ss *
  • 110 · The Wish House · Rudyard Kipling · ss Maclean’s Oct 15 ’24
  • 127 · The Playground · Ray Bradbury · ss Esquire Oct ’53
  • 141 · Importance · Manuel Mujica Lainez · ss, 1978
  • 144 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century May ’16
  • 171 · A Visitor from Down Under · L. P. Hartley · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
  • 188 · Laura · Saki · ss Beasts and Super-Beasts, John Lane, 1914
  • 193 · An Injustice Revealed · Anon. · ss
  • 198 · A Little Place Off the Edgware Road · Graham Greene · ss Nineteen Stories, Heinemann, 1947
  • 204 · From “A School Story” · M. R. James · ex More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Arnold, 1911
  • 206 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas, 1866
  • 219 · The Tall Woman · Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · nv
  • 235 · A Scent of Mimosa · Francis King · ss The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories, Anon., London: Cape, 1975
  • 249 · Death and the Gardener [from Le Grand Ecart] · Jean Cocteau · ex, 1923
  • 250 · Lord Mountdrago [“Doctor and Patient”] · W. Somerset Maugham · nv The International Feb ’39
  • 273 · The Sick Gentleman’s Last Visit · Giovanni Papini · ss The Blind Pilot, 1907
  • 279 · Insomnia [1956] · Virgilio Pinera · vi
  • 280 · The Storm [“Frritt-Flacc”] · Jules Verne · ss; Le Figaro Illustre December 1884.
  • 287 · A Dream (from The Arabian Nights Entertainments) · Anon. · vi
  • 289 · The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review Dec, 1845
  • 299 · Split Second · Daphne du Maurier · nv The Apple Tree, London: Gollancz, 1952
  • 345 · August 25, 1983 · Jorge Luís Borges · ss, 1982
  • 351 · How Wang-Fo Was Saved · Marguerite Yourcenar · ss; in Nouvelles Orientales, 1963.
  • 361 · From “Peter and Rosa” · Isak Dinesen · ex Winter’s Tales, Putnam, 1942
  • 363 · Tattoo · Junichiro Tanizaki · ss, 1910
  • 371 · John Duffy’s Brother · Flann O’Brien · ss Story Jul/Aug ’41
  • 377 · Lady into Fox · David Garnett · na New York: Knopf, 1923
  • 430 · Father’s Last Escape · Bruno Schulz · ss Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, 1937
  • 435 · A Man by the Name of Ziegler · Hermann Hesse · ss, 1954
  • 440 · The Argentine Ant [1952] · Italo Calvino; trans. by Archibald Colquhoun · nv Adam, One Afternoon, Colliro, 1957
  • 470 · The Lady on the Grey · John Collier · ss New Yorker Jun 16 ’51
  • 478 · The Queen of Spades [1834] · Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin; trans. by Rosemary Edmonds · nv
  • 503 · Of a Promise Kept · Lafcadio Hearn · ss A Japanese Miscellany, Little, Brown, 1901
  • 507 · The Wizard Postponed [from The Book of Examples of Count Lucanor, adapt. 1935] · Juan Manuel, Jorge Luís Borges, adapt.; trans. by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss A Universal History of Infamy, Allen Lane, 1973
  • 511 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Sep ’02
  • 522 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald Feb 8-Mar 1, 1891
  • 550 · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
  • 565 · Certain Distant Suns · Joanne Greenburg · ss High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979
  • 582 · The Third Bank of the River · João Guimarães Rosa · ss, 1967
  • 588 · Home · Hilaire Belloc · ss
  • 596 · The Door in the Wall · H. G. Wells · ss The Daily Chronicle Jul 14 ’06
  • 612 · The Friends · Silvina Ocampo · ss, 1982
  • 619 · Et in Sempiternum Pereant · Charles Williams · ss The London Mercury Dec ’35
  • 629 · The Captives of Longjumeau · Léon Bloy · ss, 1967
  • 634 · The Visit to the Museum · Vladimir Nabokov · ss, 1958
  • 644 · “Autumn Mountain” · Ryunosuke Akutagawa · ss
  • 652 · The Sight · Brian Moore · ss Irish Ghost Stories, ed. Joseph Hone, Hamish Hamilton, 1977
  • 670 · Clorinda · André Pieyre de Mandiargues · ss, 1979
  • 675 · The Pagan Rabbi · Cynthia Ozick · nv The Hudson Review, 1966
  • 704 · The Fisherman and His Soul · Oscar Wilde · nv The House of Pomegranates, 1891
  • 735 · The Bureau d’Echange de Maux · Lord Dunsany · ss The Smart Set Jan ’15
  • 740 · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973
  • 748 · In the Penal Colony · Franz Kafka · nv; Kurt Wolff Verlag, May ’19.
  • 774 · A Dog in Durer’s Etching “The Knight, Death and The Devil” · Marco Denevi · ss, 1968
  • 782 · The Large Ant · Howard Fast · ss Fantastic Universe Feb ’60
  • 792 · The Lemmings · Alex Comfort · ss
  • 800 · The Grey Ones · J. B. Priestley · ss Lilliput Apr-May ’53
  • 816 · The Feather Pillow · Horacio Quiroga · ss, 1907
  • 820 · Seaton’s Aunt · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury Apr ’22
  • 849 · The Friends of the Friends [“The Way It Came”] · Henry James · nv Chap Book May, 1896
  • 874 · The Travelling Companion · Hans Christian Andersen · ss, 1835
  • 891 · The Curfew Tolls · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 5 ’35
  • 907 · The State of Grace · Marcel Aymé · ss Across Paris and Other Stories, Paris, 1947; F&SF Dec ’59
  • 919 · The Story of a Panic · E. M. Forster · nv Independent Review Mar ’04
  • 940 · An Invitation to the Hunt · George Hitchcock · ss San Francisco Review Mar ’60
  • 950 · From the “American Notebooks” · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ex, 1868
  • 952 · The Dream · O. Henry · ss Cosmopolitan Sep ’10; completed by Cosmopolitan editor.
  • 956 · The Authors · Misc. · bg


Aquarius Mark (Atheneum 0-689-31051-X, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $12.95, 224pp, hc) Fantasy novel of a water diviner and a “rain king”, a powerful study of obsession and the force of human needs. (FCM) First U.S. edition (U.K. 1982).


Collected Stories Gabriel García Márquez (Harper & Row 0-06-015364-4, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], $16.95, 311pp, hc) Collection of 26 stories by the 1982 Nobel prize winner, many fantasy. These were originally published in English as three volumes: No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories (1968), Leaf Storm and Other Stories (1972), and Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1978). They now appear in chronological order.
  • 3 · The Third Resignation · ss Bananas #15 ’79
  • 13 · The Other Side of Death · ss
  • 23 · Eva Is Inside Her Cat · ss
  • 35 · Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers · ss Translation
  • 40 · Dialogue with the Mirror · ss
  • 47 · Eyes of a Blue Dog · ss New Yorker May 8 ’78
  • 55 · The Woman Who Came at Six O’Clock · ss, 1978
  • 68 · Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait · ss
  • 78 · Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses · ss New Yorker Mar 27 ’78
  • 83 · The Night of the Curlews · ss New Yorker Apr 17 ’78
  • 89 · Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo · ss
  • 99 · Tuesday Siesta · ss
  • 107 · One of These Days · ss
  • 111 · There Are No Thieves in This Town · nv
  • 138 · Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon · ss
  • 147 · Montiel’s Widow · ss
  • 154 · One Day After Saturday · nv
  • 177 · Artificial Roses · ss
  • 184 · Big Mama’s Funeral · ss
  • 203 · A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · ss New American Review
  • 211 · The Sea of Lost Time · ss New Yorker Jun 3 ’74
  • 230 · The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World · ss Playboy Nov ’71
  • 237 · Death Constant Beyond Love · ss Atlantic Monthly Jul ’73
  • 246 · The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship · ss The Leaf Storm and Other Stories, London: Cape, 1972
  • 252 · Blacáman the Good, Vendor of Miracles · ss Esquire Jan ’72
  • 262 · The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother · na Esquire Jun ’73


The King of Satan’s Eyes Geoffrey Marsh (Doubleday 0-385-19082-4, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $11.95, 185pp, hc) [Lincoln Blackthorne] Fantasy adventure about a New Jersey tailor/treasure hunter, a first novel. The hero’s trio of elderly sidekicks are engaging, though the novel falters when the assortment of unlikely villains go into action. More tales of tailor Blackthorne may follow. (FCM)


Star Trek: The Fate of the Phoenix Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath (Bantam 0-553-24638-0, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $2.95, 262pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reissue (Bantam 1979) Star Trek novelization; 4th printing.


Star Trek: The Price of the Phoenix Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath (Bantam 0-553-24635-6, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $2.95, 182pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reissue (Bantam 1977) Star Trek novelization; 4th printing.


Star Trek: The Prometheus Design Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath (Pocket 0-671-49299-3, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $2.95, 188pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reissue (Timescape 1983) Star Trek novelization. Number 5 in the series.


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