The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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The Moral Voyages of Stephen King Anthony S. Magistrale (Starmont House 1-557-42070-X, 1989, $9.95, 157pp, tp) Non-fiction book on Stephen King. A hardcover edition (-42071-8, $19.95) was announced but not seen. This is a 1989 book not seen until now.
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Obsessions Anthony S. Magistrale & Robert H. Knox (Niekas Publications 0-910619-05-0, Jan 90 [Mar 90], $3.95, 40pp, 4" x 11" pb) Collection of poetry by Magistrale with b/w illustrations by Knox. Niekas #41a.
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The Land of Tomorrow Ben Maile (The Book Guild 0-86332-407-X, Feb 90, £9.50, 161pp, hc, cover by Ben Maile) Fantasy novel.
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Betony and the Sorcerer Carol Main (The Bodley Head 0-370-31438-7, May 90, £6.95, 142pp, hc, cover by Ann Johns) Childrens fantasy novel about a young girl who inherits a sorcerers book of spells.
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A Book of Spells Sara Maitland (Minerva 0-7493-9083-2, May 90, £4.50, 174pp, tp, cover by Steve Wallace) Reprint (Michael Joseph 1987) collection of stories about magic.
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Wingman: Freedom Express Mack Maloney (Zebra 0-8217-2892-X, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $3.95, 379pp, pb) [Wingman] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel, seventh book of the Wingman series.
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Wingman: Skyfire Mack Maloney (Zebra 0-8217-3121-1, Sep 90 [Aug 90], $3.95, 349pp, pb) [Wingman] Post-holocaust military sf novel, part of a series.
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Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic ed. Alberto Manguel (Random House/Clarkson & Potter 0-517-57559-0, Jan 91 [Dec 90], $14.95, 941pp, tp, cover by George Tooker) Anthology of 65 stories and novel excerpts, primarily by literary and mainstream authors. First American edition (Lester & Orpen Dennys 1990).
- xviii · Foreword · Alberto Manguel · fw
- 1 · The Child Who Believed · Grace Amundson · ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 16 50
- 17 · Its a Good Life · Jerome Bixby · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #2, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
- 36 · The Door · E. B. White · ss New Yorker, 1939
- 42 · Mysterious Kôr · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Demon Lover and Other Stories, J. Cape, 1945
- 57 · Nights at Serampore · Mircea Eliade · na Two Tales of the Occult, Herder & Herder, 1970
- 99 · The Dead Fiddler · Isaac Bashevis Singer · nv, 1966
- 127 · The Phoenix · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss The Cats Cradle Book, Viking, 1940
- 132 · The Spider · Hanns Heinz Ewers; trans. by Walter F. Kohn · nv The International Dec 15
- 155 · Changeling · Dorothy K. Haynes · ss Modern Scottish Short Stories, ed. Fred Urquhart & Giles Gordon, Hamish Hamilton, 1978
- 164 · The July Ghost · Antonia S. Byatt · ss Firebird #1 82
- 180 · Poor Girl · Elizabeth Taylor · ss The Third Ghost Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955
- 200 · Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched · May Sinclair · nv The English Review Oct 22
- 222 · The Complete Gentleman · Amos Tutuola · ex The Palm-Wine Drinkard, London: Faber, 1952
- 231 · The Professor and the Mermaid · Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; trans. by Archibald Colquhoun · nv Two Stories and a Memory, Pantheon, 1962
- 255 · The Sausage · Friedrich Dürrenmatt; trans. by Alberto Manguel · vi, 1989
- 258 · A Woman Seldom Found · William Sansom · ss A Contest of Ladies and Other Stories, London: Hogarth Press, 1956
- 262 · Mummy to the Rescue · Angus Wilson · ss Such Darling Dodos and Other Stories, Secker & Warburg, 1950
- 269 · Aghwee the Sky Monster · Kenzaburõ Õe; trans. by John Nathan · nv Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, Grove Press, 1977
- 298 · Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe · Liliana Heker; trans. by Alberto Manguel · ss, 1986
- 305 · The Saint · Antonia White · ss Life and Letters Nov 31
- 313 · The Ghost of Firozsha Baag · Rohinton Mistry · ss Quarry Spr 86
- 328 · The Miracle of Ash Wednesday [1926] · Yevgeny Zamyatin; trans. by Mirra Ginsburg · ss The Dragon, Random House, 1968
- 336 · Heartburn · Hortense Calisher · ss The American Mercury Jan 51
- 347 · The Accident · Ann Bridge · nv The Song in the House, 1936
- 370 · The Old Woman · Joyce Marshall · ss Canadian Short Stories, ed. Robert Weaver, Oxford, 1960
- 383 · A Short Trip Home · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post Dec 17 27
- 405 · The Brute · Joseph Conrad · ss The Daily Chronicle Dec 5 06
- 426 · Mr. Sleepwalker · Ethel Wilson · ss Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories, Toronto: Macmillan, 1961
- 444 · A Self-Possessed Woman · Julian Barnes · ss The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories, Anon., London: Cape, 1975
- 460 · The Woman Who Talked to Horses · Leon Rooke · ss Sing Me No Love Songs, Ill Say You No Prayers, Ecco Press, 1984
- 469 · The White Rooster · William Goyen · ss Mademoiselle Apr 47
- 484 · The Labrenas · Tommaso Landolfi; trans. by Kathrine Jason · nv Words in Commotion, and Other Stories, Viking, 1986
- 508 · The Dead Fish [1955] · Boris Vian; trans. by Damon Knight · ss 13 French Science-Fiction Stories, ed. Damon Knight, Bantam, 1965
- 521 · Major Arandas Hand [1955] · Alfonso Reyes; trans. by Mildred Johnson · ss The Eye of the Heart, ed. Barbara Howes, Bobbs-Merrill, 1973
- 528 · Giving Birth · Margaret Atwood · ss, 1977
- 543 · The Jewbird · Bernard Malamud · ss The Reporter Apr 11 63
- 553 · The Misanthrope · John D. Beresford · ss Nineteen Impressions, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918
- 563 · Bartleby · Herman Melville · nv Putnams Monthly, 1853
- 600 · PrivateKeep Out! · Philip MacDonald · ss F&SF Fll 49
- 616 · Dreams · Timothy Findley · nv Stones, Penguin Books Canada, 1988
- 638 · Mr. Dombey, the Zombie · Geoffrey Drayton · vi, 1951
- 642 · Why I Changed into a Nightingale · Wolfgang Hildesheimer; trans. by Joachim Neugroschel · ss The Art of the Tale, ed. Daniel Halpern, Viking, 1986
- 648 · The Troll · T. H. White · ss Gone to Ground, 1935
- 660 · Two Words [1989] · Isabel Allende; trans. by Alberto Manguel · ss Mother Jones Jan-Feb 91
- 668 · Chien-niang [from Taiping Kwangchi, ca. 900 a.d.] · Chen Xuanyou; trans. by Wayne Schlepp · vi, 1990
- 671 · The Visiting Star · Robert Aickman · nv Powers of Darkness, Collins, 1966
- 696 · Ratanbabu and the Man · Satyajit Ray · ss The Unicorn Expedition, Dutton, 1987
- 711 · How It Happened · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Sep 13
- 716 · Same Time, Same Place · Mervyn Peake · ss Science-Fantasy #60 63
- 726 · The Enigma of Arrival · V. S. Naipaul · ss New Yorker Aug 11 86
- 728 · Faithful Peter · Lion Feuchtwanger; trans. by Renatha Oppenheimer · ss Stories from Far and Near, Viking, 1945
- 736 · The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship · Gabriel García Márquez; trans. by Gregory Rabassa · ss The Leaf Storm and Other Stories, London: Cape, 1972
- 742 · The House-Hunters · Peter Green · ss Habeas Corpus and Other Stories, World, 1963
- 762 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- 780 · Eckhardt at a Window · Eric McCormack · ss Inspecting the Vaults, Penguin Canada, 1987
- 792 · The Lefthanders · Günter Grass; trans. by Alberto Manguel · ss, 1989
- 799 · Mr. Arcularis · Conrad Aiken · nv, 1922
- 819 · The Times My Father Died · Yehuda Amichai; trans. by Yosef Schachter · ss The World Is a Room and Other Stories, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1984
- 830 · The Haunted House · Luigi Pirandello; trans. by Michele Pettinati · ss Medals, and Other Stories, Dutton, 1939
- 847 · The Finder · Elizabeth Spencer · ss New Yorker Jan 23 71
- 866 · Desire · James Stephens · ss The Dial Jun 20
- 874 · The Miraculous Revenge · George Bernard Shaw · ss Time Mar, 1885; ; as The Grave of Brimstone Billy, EQMM Oct 51
- 896 · Room of Blood · Brett Balon · ss, 1984
- 904 · The Shadow · Ben Hecht · ss Liberty Jan 30 26
- 920 · The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
- 928 · The Authors · Misc. · bg
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The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories ed. Alberto Manguel (Oxford University Press: Toronto 0-19-540761-X, Apr 90, $15.95, 276pp, tp) Anthology of 26 ghost stories by Canadian writers, from Mazo De La Roche to Margaret Atwood, with an introduction by the editor. This is the regular Canadian edition with a US price sticker.
- vii · Introduction · Alberto Manguel · in
- 1 · La Corriveau [1863] · Philippe Aubert de Gaspé; trans. by Charles G. D. Roberts · ss The Canadians of Old, D. Appleton, 1890
- 11 · The Gerrard Street Mystery · John Charles Dent · nv The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales, Toronto: Rose, 1886
- 34 · The Misers Ghost · Honoré Beaugrand · ss, 1989
- 39 · A Tale of the Grand Jardin · W. H. Blake · ss Brown Waters and Other Sketches, Toronto, 1915
- 46 · The Flood [Pretty Pierre] · Gilbert Parker · ss Pierre and His People, Methuen, 1892
- 53 · Vengeance Is Mine · Duncan Campbell Scott · ss In the Village of Viger, 1896
- 63 · Buggam Grange: A Good Old Ghost Story · Stephen Leacock · ss Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels, London: John Lane, 1920
- 70 · Portrait of a Wife · Mazo de la Roche · ss The Graphic Dec 30 27
- 80 · Mr. Sleepwalker · Ethel Wilson · ss Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories, Toronto: Macmillan, 1961
- 96 · No Traveller Returns... · A. M. Klein · ss Short Stories, 1983
- 101 · Dickens Digested · Robertson Davies · ss High Spirits, Penguin, 1982
- 109 · The Sight · Brian Moore · ss Irish Ghost Stories, ed. Joseph Hone, Hamish Hamilton, 1977
- 126 · The Snow Walker · Farley Mowat · ss The Snow Walker, McClelland, 1975
- 134 · From the Fifteenth District · Mavis Gallant · ss, 1973
- 140 · Fallowfields · Virgil Burnett · ss Farewell Tour, 1986
- 158 · The Ghost of Lovers Lane [Les Contes de par derrière chez mon père, 1987] · Antonine Maillet · ss, 1989
- 163 · Dreams · Timothy Findley · nv Stones, Penguin Books Canada, 1988
- 183 · If There Is No Gate · Jane Rule · ss
- 188 · Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa · W. P. Kinsella · ex Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982
- 201 · Joseph and His Brother · Audrey Thomas · ss Two in the Bush and Other Stories, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart
- 210 · As Birds Bring Forth the Sun · Alistair Macleod · ss As Birds Bring Forth the Sun, McClelland & Stewart, 1986
- 218 · No Country for Old Men · Eric McCormack · ss Inspecting the Vaults, Penguin Canada, 1987
- 221 · Death by Landscape · Margaret Atwood · ss Saturday Night, 1989
- 238 · Haunt · Sean Virgo · ss Illusion One, ed. Geoff Hancock, Toronto: Aya Press, 1983
- 250 · The Woman with the Lounge-Act Hair · Tim Wynne-Jones · ss Descant #51 85
- 259 · The Ghost of Firozsha Baag · Rohinton Mistry · ss Quarry Spr 86
- 273 · Notes on Authors · Misc. · bg
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The Judas Coins Mark Manley (Zebra 0-8217-3094-0, Aug 90 [Jul 90], $3.95, 318pp, pb) Horror novel of a boy who discovers a coin that gives him tremendous powers.
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Pioneers Phillip Mann (Grafton 0-586-20762-7, May 90, £3.99, 352pp, pb, cover by Mark Salwowski) Reprint (Gollancz 1988) sf novel.
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Wulfsyarn: A Mosaic Phillip Mann (Gollancz 0-575-04767-4, Nov 90 [Oct 90], £13.95, 287pp, hc, cover by John Brettoner) Sf novel.
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The Moonbane Mage Laurie J. Marks (DAW 0-88677-415-2, Apr 90 [Mar 90], $3.95, 254pp, pb, cover by Anne Yvonne Gilbert) [Children of Triad] High fantasy novel set in a kingdom of winged people. Book 2 of The Children of Triad.
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Wittgensteins Mistress David Markson (Dalkey Archive Press 0-916583-25-2, Mar 90 [May 90], $12.95, 240pp, tp) Reprint (Dalkey Archive 1988) surrealistic literary novel of a woman who is probably the last person left on Earth.
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Star Trek: The Prometheus Design Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath (Titan 1-85286-284-X, May 90, £2.99, 190pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reprint (Pocket Books 1982) sf novelization.
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The Telling Line: Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators Douglas Martin (Delacorte 0-385-30048-4, Sep 90 [Nov 90], $49.95, 320pp, hc, cover by Edward Ardizzone) Associational collection of essays on important young-adult illustrators, including Keeping, Pienkowski, and Foreman.
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Dying of the Light George R. R. Martin (Baen 0-671-69861-3, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $3.50, 314pp, pb, cover by Tom Kidd) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1977) sf novel.
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Wild Cards VII: Dead Mans Hand George R. R. Martin & John J. Miller (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28569-6, Aug 90 [Jul 90], $4.50, 328pp, pb, cover by Timothy Truman) [Wild Cards] Sf novel of superheroes created by an alien virus, seventh book of the Wild Cards series, and the first actual novel in it.
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Wild Cards ed. George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26190-8, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $4.50, 410pp, pb, cover by Timothy Truman) [Wild Cards] Reissue (Bantam Spectra 1987) original shared-world anthology, first book of the Wild Cards series; third printing.
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Wild Cards II: Aces High ed. George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26464-8, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $4.50, 390pp, pb, cover by Timothy Truman) [Wild Cards] Reissue (Bantam Spectra 1987) original shared-world anthology; third printing.
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Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild ed. George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26699-3, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $4.50, 374pp, pb, cover by Timothy Truman) [Wild Cards] Reissue (Bantam Spectra 1987) original shared-world anthology; third printing.
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Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad ed. George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra 0-553-27628-X, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $4.50, 467pp, pb, cover by Timothy Truman) [Wild Cards] Reissue (Bantam Spectra 1988) original shared-world anthology presented as a braided novel; second printing.
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Wild Cards V: Down and Dirty ed. George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra 0-553-27463-5, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $4.50, 518pp, pb, cover by Timothy Truman) [Wild Cards] Reissue (Bantam Spectra 1988) original shared-world anthology; second printing.
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Wild Cards VI: Ace in the Hole ed. George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28253-0, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $4.50, 385pp, pb, cover by Timothy Truman) [Wild Cards] Original shared-world anthology presented as a braided novel. The various pieces are not individually credited. The authors are Walton Simons, Victor Milán, Malinda M. Snodgrass, Stephen Leigh & Walter Jon Williams.
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Wild Cards VI: Ace in the Hole ed. George R. R. Martin (SFBC #70902, May 90 [Apr 90], $9.98, hc) [Wild Cards] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1990) original shared-world anthology in the Wild Cards series. First hardcover edition.
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Wild Cards: Volume Five: Down and Dirty ed. George R. R. Martin (Titan 1-85286-275-0, Mar 90 [Feb 90], £3.99, 518pp, pb, cover by Brian Bolland) [Wild Cards] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1988) original shared world anthology with stories set in an alternate world where superheroes were created by an alien virus after WWII.
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Wild Cards: Volume Four: Aces Abroad ed. George R. R. Martin (Titan 1-85286-177-0, Jan 90, £3.95, 467pp, pb, cover by Brian Bolland) [Wild Cards] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1988) original shared world anthology, presented as a braided novel. Theres no table of contents, and there are short bridging sections by Martin. One of the best in the series so far.
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Wild Cards: Volume Six: Ace in the Hole ed. George R. R. Martin (Titan 1-85286-278-5, Apr 90, £3.99, 385pp, pb, cover by Brian Bolland) [Wild Cards] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1990) original shared-world anthology presented as a braided novel. The various pieces by Walter Simons, Victor Milan, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Stephen Leigh and Walter Jon Williams are not individually credited. One of the best in the series so far - strongly recommended. (PSP)
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Doctor Who: Mission to Magnus Philip Martin (Target 0-426-20347-X, Jul 90, £2.50, 122pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Young-adult sf novelization. This is not part of the normal series and contains the third script from the 1985 season that was never filmed. Also available in the US for $3.95.
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Mary Reilly Valerie Martin (Doubleday 0-385-24968-3, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $18.95, 263pp, hc) Literary horror novel; a retelling of the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the viewpoint of the doctors maid.
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Mary Reilly Valerie Martin (BOMC/QPBC, Sep 90 [Aug 90], $9.95, 263pp, tp, cover by Albert Goodwin) Reprint (Doubleday 1990) retelling of Stevensons The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the maids point-of-view. This edition is identical to the hardcover except it lacks an ISBN and has the dustjacket printed as the soft cover.
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Out of Time Paula Martinac (Seal Press 0-931188-91-1, Aug 90 [Sep 90], $9.95, 220pp, tp, cover by Patricia Ridenour) Lesbian ghost fantasy of a woman haunted by a group of women from the 1920s.
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Where the Chill Waits T. Chris Martindale (Warner 0-446-35532-1, Jan 91 [Dec 90], $4.95, 332pp, pb, cover by Bob Hickson) Horror novel of hunters who encounter an ancient evil deep in the woods and bring it back with them.
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The Rainbow Sword Adrienne Martine-Barnes (Headline 0-7472-3410-8, Feb 90 [Jan 90], £2.99, 213pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) [Chronique DAvebury] Reprint (Avon 1988) fantasy novel. Volume 3 in the Swords series.
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The Sea Sword Adrienne Martine-Barnes (Headline 0-7472-3418-3, Aug 90, £3.50, 292pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) [Chronique DAvebury] Reprint (Avon 1989) fantasy novel. Volume Four in the Swords series.
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Black Horizon Robert Masello (NEL 0-450-51110-3, Feb 90, £3.50, 292pp, pb) Reprint (Jove 1989) horror novel.
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Arachne Lisa Mason (Morrow 0-688-09245-4, May 90, $19.95, 263pp, hc, cover by Alan Craddock) [Arachne] Sf novel of cybernetics and the unconscious mind set in a post-quake Bay Area. A first novel. A remarkably detailed world and high-energy plotting make this novel a special experience. Recommended (SW).
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Weapon Robert Mason (Charter 1-55773-309-0, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $4.50, 314pp, pb) [Weapon] Reprint (Putnam 1989) near-future sf thriller about artificial intelligence.
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Weapon Robert Mason (Corgi 0-552-13510-0, Apr 90, £3.99, 367pp, pb) [Weapon] Reprint (Putnam 1989) near-future techno-thriller.
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Plan 9 from Outer Space ed. Tom Mason (Malibu Graphics, May 90, $14.95, 129pp, tp) Associational collection of material on the classic bad sf film, including the original screenplay, cast biographies, an Ed Wood filmography, and an introduction by John Wooley.
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