The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998


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A Short History of the Future W. Warren Wagar (University of Chicago Press 0-226-86901-6, Nov ’89 [Oct ’89], $24.95, 323pp, hc) Speculative history of the next two hundred years told from the perspective of the year 2200 A.D. In the style of Well’s Things to Come.


Author’s Choice Monthly Issue 2: Unthreatened by the Morning Light Karl Edward Wagner (Pulphouse, Oct ’89, $4.95, 101pp, tp) Collection of three stories, with an introduction by the author. Also available in a signed hardcover edition ($25.00). A Signed deluxe leatherbound edition ($50.00) was announced but not seen.


Echoes of Valor II ed. Karl Edward Wagner (Tor 0-312-93189-1, Oct ’89, $17.95, 274pp, hc) Anthology of 12 obscure stories of heroic fantasy, with non-fiction commentary by C.L. Moore, Forrest J Ackerman, Sam Moskowitz, and the editor. This contains the minor rare items from famous series and is mainly of historical interest.


Horrorstory Volume 5 ed. Karl Edward Wagner (Underwood-Miller 0-88733-078-9, Nov ’89 [Dec ’89], $40.00, 704pp, hc, cover by Michael Whelan) Omnibus edition of DAW’s The Year’s Best Horror Stories #13, The Years’s Best Horror Stories #14, and The Year’s Best Horror Stories #15 anthologies. Contains 55 stories, with the original introductions by Wagner. A special leatherbound edition (-077-0, $150.00) was announced but not seen.


Intensive Scare ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-402-0, Jan ’90 [Dec ’89], $3.95, 303pp, pb, cover by J. K. Potter) Anthology of 13 horror stories with medical backgrounds.


The Year’s Best Horror Stories: XVII ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-381-4, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $3.95, 351pp, pb) Anthology of 20 horror stories from 1988, with an introduction by the editor.


Mage Three: The Hero Discovered Matt Wagner (Donning/Starblaze 0-89865-616-8, Mar ’89 [Feb ’89], $12.95, 144pp, tp) [Mage] Graphic novel.


A Dozen Tough Jobs Howard Waldrop (Mark V. Ziesing 0-929480-01-5, Apr ’89, $16.00, 135pp, hc) Fantasy novella that transplants the Labors of Hercules to the rural south in the 1920’s. Highly recommended (FCM). Also available in a limited signed edition (-02-3, $40.00).


Strange Things in Close-up: The Nearly Complete Howard Waldrop Howard Waldrop (Legend 0-09-964440-1, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], £4.50, 363pp, tp) Omnibus of Howard, Who? (Doubleday 1986) and All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past (Ursus 1987).


Them Bones Howard Waldrop (Mark V. Ziesing 0-929480-04-X, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], $20.00, 250pp, hc) Reprint (Ace 1984) alternate history sf novel. This is the first hardcover edition. Also published in a limited signed edition (-05-8 at $50.00).


Them Bones Howard Waldrop (Legend 0-7126-3426-6, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], £5.95, 218pp, tp) Reprint (Ace 1984) sf novel. Also available in hardcover (-2944-0, £11.95). [First U.K. edition]


Burning Obsession Robert W. Walker (Zebra/Pinnacle 1-55817-214-9, May ’89, $3.95, 304pp, pb) [Dean Grant] Horror novel about a psychokiller who burns his victims alive.


Megalomania Ian Wallace (DAW 0-88677-351-2, May ’89 [Apr ’89], $3.75, 179pp, pb) [Croyd] Sf novel of political intrigue among godlike beings that rule entire galaxies. The latest in the “Croyd” series of van Vogtian superman novels.


Monday’s Child Patricia Wallace (Zebra 0-8217-2760-5, Sep ’89, $3.95, 288pp, pb) Horror novel about a little girl who causes deaths wherever she goes.


The Mills of Space Raymond Wallis (Frontlines 0-361-08537-0, Oct ’89, £2.99, 181pp, pb, cover by Sarah John) [Triangulum] Young-adult sf novel. Also available in hardcover (-08536-2, £5.99). Volume two in the “Triangulum” trilogy.


Starbloom Raymond Wallis (Purnell 0-361-08503-6, Apr ’89, £1.99, 158pp, pb, cover by Sarah John) [Triangulum] Young-adult sf novel.


Torch Jill Paton Walsh (Puffin 0-14-032275-2, Apr ’89, £1.99, 176pp, pb, cover by Chris Molan) Reprint (Viking Kestrel 1987) young-adult sf novel.


Colossus: The Collected Science Fiction of Donald Wandrei Donald Wandrei (Fedogan & Bremer 1-878252-00-3, 1989 [Oct ’89], $28.00, 421pp, hc) Collection of 21 stories, with an introduction by Richard L. Tierney, a selected bibliography by D.H. Olson, and illustrations by Rodger Gerberding. This is a limited edition of 1,000 copies bound and laid out similar to the older Arkham House books.


The Book of Sorrows Walter Wangerin, Jr. (Harper & Row Perennial Library 0-06-250936-5, May ’89, $8.95, 339pp, tp) [Book of the Dun Cow] Reprint (Harper & Row 1985) fantasy novel, sequel to The Book of the Dun Cow.


The Book of the Dun Cow Walter Wangerin, Jr. (Harper & Row Perennial Library 0-06-250937-3, May ’89, $8.95, 241pp, tp) [Book of the Dun Cow] Reprint (Harper & Row 1978) fantasy novel.


Forgotten Realms: Pool of Radiance James M. Ward & Jane Cooper Hong (TSR 0-88038-735-1, Dec ’89 [Nov ’89], $3.95, 316pp, tp) [Forgotten Realms] Fantasy novelization based on the “Forgotten Realms” game.


The Priory Margaret Wasser (Pocket 0-671-66355-0, Jun ’89, $3.95, 281pp, pb) Gothic horror novel about a cursed priory.


Dark Winds Graham Watkins (Berkley 0-425-11609-3, Jun ’89 [May ’89], $3.95, 328pp, pb) Horror novel about a man haunted by his father’s mistress.


Journal Wired, Winter ’89 ed. Andy Watson & Mark V. Ziesing (Mark V. Ziesing 0-929480-14-7, Dec ’89, $7.95, 118pp, tp, cover by Arnie Fenner & Joseph Truitt) Original anthology/quarterly magazine with two stories (by Rucker and Attanasio) plus four non-fiction pieces by Shirley, Shepard, and others plus interviews with Abbie Hoffman and Iain M. Banks.


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