The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghostly Horror ed. Paul F. Olson & David B. Silva (Dell Abyss 0-440-20792-4, Jan 92 [Dec 91], $4.99, 368pp, pb) Reprint (St. Martins 1989) original anthology of 17 horror stories with an introduction by the editors and an afterword by Dean R. Koontz.
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Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghostly Terror ed. Paul F. Olson & David B. Silva (Severn House 0-7278-4212-9, Apr 91, £12.99, 349pp, hc) Reprint (St. Martins 1989) original horror anthology.
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The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid Rebecca Ore (Tor 0-812-50672-3, May 91 [Apr 91], $3.95, 314pp, pb, cover by Dean Morrissey) Sf novel about artificial people. Recommended (FCM).
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The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid Rebecca Ore (SFBC #18347, Jul 91 [Jun 91], $6.98, 210pp, hc, cover by Bryn Barnard) Reprint (Tor 1991) sf novel about artificial people. This is the first hardcover edition. Recommended (FCM).
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Dark Lullaby Jessica Palmer (Pocket 0-671-70309-9, May 91 [Apr 91], $4.95, 337pp, pb) Horror novel. The ghost of an abused little girl dead in a fire is determined to make her family pay.
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Extreme Measures Michael Palmer (Bantam 0-553-072630-3, Mar 91 [Dec 91], $14.95, 390pp, hc) Sf/medical thriller. A doctor at a Boston hospital and a girl seeking her missing brother discover that a secret experiment to develop a super-antiviral drug is creating zombies.
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Dream Science Thomas Palmer (Collins Harvill 0-00-271099-4, Mar 91, £13.99, 308pp, hc, cover by Ian Craig) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1990) literary sf novel.
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Rite of Passage Alexei Panshin (Easton Press, Jul 91, no price, 248pp, hc) Reprint (Ace 1978) Nebula Award-winning sf novel, with an introduction by Edward Bryant and artwork by Debbie Hughes. This special leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the Masterpieces of Science Fiction series and is available by subscription only.
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The James Gang Rosemary Pardoe (Haunted Library, Dec 91, £1.30, 16pp, ph, cover by Dallas Clive Goffin) Bibliography of writers in the tradition of M.R. James, with an introduction by Hugh Lamb.
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The Great Science Fiction Films II James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts (Scarecrow Press 0-8108-2247-4, Oct 90 [Jan 91], $49.50, 488pp, hc) Non-fiction; reference. Includes discussions of over 400 sf/fantasy films.
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The Cult of Loving Kindness Paul Park (Morrow 0-688-10574-2, Jul 91 [Jun 91], $20.00, 312pp, hc, cover by Linda Burr) [Starbridge Chronicles] Sf novel, third book of the Starbridge Chronicles.
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Things in Corners Ruth Park (Viking 0-670-82225-6, Apr 91 [Mar 91], $12.95, 197pp, pb) Collection of five young-adult horror stories. First American edition (Penguin Australia 1989).
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For Loves Sake Only Laura Parker (Dell 0-440-20918-8, Aug 91 [Dec 91], $4.50, 443pp, pb) Regency romance with two real ghosts who play matchmaker between a feisty widow and a brooding Marquess.
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DragonLance Heroes II: The Gates of Thorbardin Dan Parkinson (Penguin 0-14-014371-8, Feb 91, £4.50, 310pp, pb, cover by Jeff Easley) [DragonLance: Heroes II] Reprint (TSR 1990) fantasy novelization. Volume 2 in the trilogy.
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The Man Upstairs T. L. Parkinson (Penguin/Dutton 0-525-93349-2, Sep 91, $18.95, 226pp, hc, cover by Neil Stuart) Psychosexual thriller with fantasy elements. A new upstairs neighbor drives a man over the edge of reality. A first novel.
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Heros Song Edith Pattou (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-233807-1, Oct 91 [Nov 91], $16.95, 290pp, hc, cover by Douglas Girard) [Songs of Eirren] Young-adult Celtic fantasy. A boy hunting his kidnapped sister becomes the champion fated to battle the Queen of the Ghosts.
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Liars & Tyrants & People Who Turn Blue Barbara Paul (International Polygonics 1-55882-110-4, Oct 91 [Nov 91], $5.95, 179pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1980) thriller with fantasy elements of a woman who can tell a lie from truth by seeing the aura of the person speaking.
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Canyons Gary Paulsen (Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-21023-2, Sep 91 [Nov 91], $3.50, 184pp, pb) Reprint (Delacorte 1990) young-adult psychic thriller of a modern boy whose spirit is linked with an Apache boy killed in the 1860s, making him run a gauntlet of terror to bring the Apaches skull to rest.
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Fast Forward Jenny Pausacker (Morrow/Lothrop Lee & Shepard 0-688-10195-X, May 91 [Apr 91], $12.95, 88pp, hc, cover by Donna Rawlins) Young-adult fantasy novella. A boy learns to fast forward and rewind his own life. First American edition (Angus & Robertson 1989).
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Landscape Painted with Tea Milorad Pavic (Random House/Vintage 0-679-73344-2, Oct 91, $12.00, 339pp, tp, cover by Graham Rust) Reprint (Knopf 1990) literary fantasy novel. Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Christina Pribicevic-Zoric, this was originally published in Yugoslavia as Predeo Slikan Cajem (Prosveta 1990).
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The Mistress of the Jewels Diana L. Paxson (Tor 0-812-54866-3, Aug 91 [Jul 91], $4.99, 503pp, pb, cover by Thomas Canty) [Westria] Omnibus of the first two books of the Westria fantasy series, Lady of Light (Timescape 1982) and Lady of Darkness (Timescape 1983). The cover calls this the First Book of the Westria.
- 3 · Lady of Light · n. New York: Timescape Books, 1982
- 261 · Lady of Darkness · n. New York: Timescape Books, 1983
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The Sea Star Diana L. Paxson (NEL 0-450-53718-8, Feb 91 [Jan 91], £4.50, 374pp, pb) [Westria] Reprint (Tor 1988) fantasy novel. Book Four of The Chronicles of Westria.
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The Serpents Tooth Diana L. Paxson (Morrow 0-688-08339-0, Jul 91, $20.00, 402pp, hc, cover by Thomas Canty) Historical fantasy novel about the Celtic prototype for Shakespeares King Lear.
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Adrift in Time Roberto Pazzi (Andre Deutsch 0-233-98715-0, Sep 91 [Nov 91], £12.99, 154pp, hc) Novel ranging in time from Napoleon in exile to the most terrible of future wars (in 2015). Translated from the Italian, La Malattia del Tempo (Marietti, 1987), by Vivien Sinott.
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Toms Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce (Dell Yearling 0-440-48819-2, Jan 91 [Feb 91], $3.50, 232pp, tp, cover by Tom Newsom) Reissue (Oxford 1958) young-adult ghost fantasy, with an afterword by Zilpha Keatley Snyder; fifth printing.
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A Handful of Time Kit Pearson (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-032268-X, Mar 91 [Feb 91], $3.95, 186pp, pb, cover by Laura Fernandez) Reprint (Penguin Canada 1987) young-adult time-travel fantasy.
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Spirit Crossings Claudia Peck (Bantam Spectra 0-553-27641-7, May 91 [Apr 91], $4.50, 312pp, pb, cover by Mick McGinty) Fantasy novel. A house in rural Tennessee is haunted by the spirits of the past. A first novel.
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Voices After Midnight Richard Peck (Macmillan UK 0-333-53446-8, Feb 91 [Apr 91], £4.99, 181pp, tp, cover by David Mitcheson) Reprint (Delacorte 1989) young-adult fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
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Seal Child Sylvia Peck (Bantam Skylark 0-553-15868-6, Apr 91, $3.50, 192pp, pb, cover by Linda Benson) Reprint (Morrow 1989) young-adult fantasy about a little girl who befriends a selkie.
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Doctor Who: The Chase John Peel (Target 0-426-20336-4, Jul 91 [Aug 91], £2.50, 144pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who] Reissue (Target 1989) young-adult sf novelization. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the U.S. for $4.95. Volume 140 in the series.
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The Gallifrey Chronicles John Peel (Doctor Who Books 1-85227-329-1, Oct 91 [Sep 91], £14.99, 137pp, hc, cover by Andrew Skilleter) [Doctor Who] Non-fiction book about the planet from which Doctor Who originated, and including an original short story entitled The Scrolls of Rassilon.
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Timewyrm: Genesys John Peel (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20355-0, Jun 91 [May 91], £3.50, 230pp, pb, cover by Andrew Skilleter) [Doctor Who] Original novel based on the Doctor Who series, with a preface by Peter Darvill-Evans, the series editor, and a foreword by Sophie Aldred. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the U.S. for $5.95. Volume 1 in Doctor Who: The New Adventures.
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Doctor Who: The Pescatons Victor Pemberton (Target 0-426-20353-4, Sep 91 [Aug 91], £2.50, 124pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who] Novelization of an LP record featuring Tom Baker as Doctor Who. Volume 153 in the series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the U.S. for $4.95.
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Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction ed. Constance Penley, Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spigel & Janet Bergstrom (University of Minnesota 0-8166-1912-3, Jan 91 [Feb 91], $13.95, 298pp, tp) Non-fiction; criticism. A collection of nine essays on feminism and sf tv/film plus a screenplay by Peter Wollen. This is an expanded version of a special issue of Camera Obscura (1986). A hardcover edition (-1911-5, $29.95) was announced but not seen.
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The Bruce Pennington Portfolio Bruce Pennington (Paper Tiger 1-85028-138-6, Jan 91, £9.95, 64pp, tp, cover by Bruce Pennington) Portfolio of 28 full page (16" x 11") reproductions of Bruce Pennington covers, with introductory text by Nigel Suckling.
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Fenella Fang and the Time Machine Ritchie Perry (Hutchinson 0-09-176367-3, May 91, £7.99, 133pp, hc, cover by Jean Baylis) Humorous young-adult horror novel, a sequel to Fenella Fang.
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The Albino Knife Steve Perry (Ace 0-441-01391-0, Jul 91 [Jun 91], $4.50, 294pp, pb, cover by Royo) [Khadaji] Sf adventure novel, fifth book of the Matador series.
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Conan the Formidable Steve Perry (Tor 0-812-51377-0, Aug 91 [Jul 91], $3.99, 274pp, pb, cover by Ken Kelly) [Conan] Reprint (Tor 1990) fantasy novelization based on Robert E. Howards character.
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The Hero Curse Steve Perry (DimeNovels 1-56317-008-6, Jul 91, $1.99, 94pp, pb, cover by Zac Reisner) Fantasy novella of a stableboy who becomes the keeper of an enchanted sword. This is a small format paperback (11.5 x 7.5 cm.).
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The Machiavelli Interface Steve Perry (Ace 0-441-51356-5, Oct 91 [Sep 91], $3.99, 197pp, pb, cover by Richard Berry) [Khadaji] Reissue (Ace 1986) sf adventure novel, third book of the Matador series the copyright page still identifies this as a first printing, but its at least the second.
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The Man Who Never Missed Steve Perry (Ace 0-441-51918-0, Aug 91, $3.95, 195pp, pb, cover by James Gurney) [Khadaji] Reissue (Ace 1985) sf adventure novel, first book of the Matador series; fourth printing.
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Matadora Steve Perry (Ace 0-441-52207-6, Sep 91 [Aug 91], $4.50, 211pp, pb, cover by Richard Berry) [Khadaji] Reissue (Ace 1986) sf adventure novel, second book of the Matador series; third printing.
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Psi-Man: Main Street D.O.A. David Peters (Diamond 1-55773-492-5, Apr 91 [Mar 91], $3.50, 185pp, pb) [Psi-Man] Mens adventure fantasy novel with a renegade psychic Quaker hero, third book of a series.
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Psi-Man: Stalker David Peters (Diamond 1-55773-617-0, Dec 91 [Nov 91], $3.99, 171pp, pb) [Psi-Man] Mens adventure fantasy novel with a renegade psychic Quaker hero, fifth book of an ongoing series.
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Psi-Man: The Chaos Kid David Peters (Diamond 1-55773-540-9, Jul 91, $3.50, 171pp, pb) [Psi-Man] Mens adventure fantasy novel with a renegade psychic Quaker hero, fourth book of the Psi-Man series.
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The Last Camel Died at Noon Elizabeth Peters (Warner 0-446-51483-7, Sep 91, $18.95, 352pp, hc, cover by Bill Teason) [Amelia Peabody Emerson] Romantic historical fantasy adventure à la Haggard, sixth book of the ongoing Amelia Peabody series of comic mysteries. Victorian explorer Amelia Peabody, with her archaeologist husband and inhumanly precocious son, discover a lost city deep in the Sudan and attempt to drag it kicking and screaming into the 19th century. Peters is a pseudonym for Barbara Mertz.
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The War in 2020 Ralph Peters (Pocket 0-671-67670-9, Mar 91 [Feb 91], $19.95, 434pp, hc) Near-future sf technothriller of war in a world decimated by plague.
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The War in 2020 Ralph Peters (Lime Tree 0-413-45281-6, May 91 [Apr 91], £14.99, 533pp, hc) Reprint (Pocket 1991) sf novel about a future war in the 21st century between the Americans, the Russians and the Japanese. [First U.K. edition]
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The War in 2020 Ralph Peters (Pocket Star 0-671-75172-7, Jan 92, $5.99, 607pp, pb) Reprint (Pocket 1991) near-future sf technothriller of war in a world decimated by plague.
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The Ghost Now Standing on Platform One ed. Richard Peyton (Futura 0-7088-4997-0, Dec 91, £4.99, 382pp, pb, cover by Tony Roberts) Reprint (Souvenir Press 1990) anthology of pieces about phantoms of the railway in fact and fiction.
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Journey Into Fear and Other Great Stories of Horror on the Railways ed. Richard Peyton (Wings 0-517-06007-8, Oct 91, $7.99, 322pp, hc, cover by Peter Fiore) Anthology of 25 ghost and horror stories about trains, with introductory material by the editor. This is an instant remainder edition. First American edition (Souvenir Press 1990 as The Ghost Now Standing on Platform One).
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Future Forward Susan Beth Pfeffer (Dell Yearling 0-440-40475-4, Jul 91 [Jun 91], $3.25, 123pp, tp, cover by Dave Henderson) [Rewind to Yesterday] Reprint (Delacorte 1989) young-adult humorous sf novel about a VCR that is also a time machine, sequel to Rewind to Yesterday.
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Rewind to Yesterday Susan Beth Pfeffer (Dell Yearling 0-440-40474-6, Jul 91 [Jun 91], $3.25, 138pp, pb, cover by Dave Henderson) [Rewind to Yesterday] Reprint (Delacorte 1988) young-adult humorous time-travel sf novel.
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A Haunted Year Ann Phillips (Oxford University Press 0-19-271650-6, Nov 91, £8.95, 124pp, hc, cover by Alison James) Young-adult ghost novel.
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The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories ed. Robert Phillips (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-780-1, Nov 91 [Oct 91], $10.95, 373pp, tp, cover by Stanley Spencer) Reprint (Carroll & Graf 1989 as Triumph of the Night: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural) anthology of 27 ghost and horror stories by literary writers.
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Charlie Peace Paul Pickering (Random House 0-394-58544-5, Nov 91 [Oct 91], $20.00, 301pp, hc, cover by David Tamura) Literary fantasy novel of two children who grow up listening to the stories of a mysterious man who might be God and search for him when they grow up.
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The Pearl of the Soul of the World Meredith Ann Pierce (Little, Brown/Joy Street 0-316-70743-0, Aug 91, $15.95, 243pp, hc, cover by Palo Amtmann) [Darkangel] Reissue (Little, Brown 1990) young-adult fantasy novel, third book of the Darkangel trilogy; second printing.
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He, She and It Marge Piercy (Knopf 0-679-40408-2, Oct 91, $22.00, 446pp, hc, cover by Rafal Olbinski) Literary sf novel set in a toxic 21st-century dystopian America.
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Fall into Darkness Christopher Pike (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-54713-8, Oct 91, £3.50, 172pp, pb, cover by Davies) Reprint (Archway 1990) young-adult thriller of associational interest. [First U.K. edition]
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Sati Christopher Pike (Tor 0-812-51035-6, Jul 91, $4.99, 276pp, pb, cover by Scott Hague) Reprint (St. Martins 1990) fantasy novel about a girl hitchhiker who claims to be god and has powers that transform the lives of the people she comes into contact with.
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Scavenger Hunt Christopher Pike (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-53037-5, Jun 91, £3.50, 176pp, pb) Reprint (Archway 1989) young-adult horror novel. Recommended. (PSP) [First U.K. edition]
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Whisper of Death Christopher Pike (Pocket Archway 0-671-69058-2, Dec 91, $3.50, 180pp, pb) Young-adult fantasy novel of five teenagers indirectly involved in the suicide death of a teenage girl wake to find themselves the only human beings left on Earth.
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Thirteen ed. Tonya Pines (Scholastic 0-590-45256-8, Oct 91, $3.50, 343pp, pb) Original anthology of 13 young-adult horror stories, one a reprint.
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Chicago Days/Hoboken Nights Daniel M. Pinkwater (Addison-Wesley 0-201-52359-0, Nov 91 [Oct 91], $17.95, 168pp, hc) Associational non-fiction, a memoir of Pinkwaters life and career.
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Alone in the House Edmund Plante (Avon Flare 0-380-76424-5, Oct 91 [Sep 91], $2.99, 166pp, pb, cover by Mark Fresh) Young-adult horror novel. A vampire stalks a young girl while her parents are out of town.
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The Silicon Man Charles Platt (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28950-0, Mar 91 [Feb 91], $4.50, 253pp, pb, cover by Jean Francois Podevin) Sf novel. An FBI agent discovers a scientific conspiracy dedicated to achieving immortality by placing human minds inside computers.
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Doctor Who: Battlefield Marc Platt (Target 0-426-20350-X, Jul 91 [Aug 91], £2.50, 172pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who] Young-adult sf novelization. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the U.S. for $4.95. Volume 152 in the series.
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Out of a Forest Clearing Randall Beth Platt (John Daniel & Company 0-936784-89-X, Nov 91 [Dec 91], $9.95, 220pp, tp, cover by Rick Garcia) Fantasy novel, an environmental fable of all animals joining together to save the planet from human military technology.
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (Doubleday 0-385-07407-7, Mar 91, $19.95, 821pp, hc, cover by Jackie Schuman) Reissue (Doubleday 1966) collection of 66 stories, the short novel The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Poes complete poems; 21st printing.
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The Gold-Bug and Other Tales Edgar Allan Poe (Dover 0-486-26875-6, Aug 91, $1.00, 121pp, tp, cover by Paul E. Kennedy) Collection of nine classic stories. A Dover Thrift Edition.
- 1 · Ligeia · ss American Museum Sep, 1838
- 14 · The Fall of the House of Usher · ss Burtons Gentlemens Magazine Sep, 1839
- 30 · The Murders in the Rue Morgue [C. Auguste Dupin] · nv Grahams Ladys and Gentlemans Magazine Apr, 1841
- 57 · The Masque of the Red Death · ss Grahams Ladys and Gentlemans Magazine May, 1842
- 62 · The Pit and the Pendulum · ss The Gift: a Christmas and New Years Present, MDCCCXLIII, an, 1842, 1842
- 74 · The Tell-Tale Heart · ss The Pioneer Jan, 1843
- 79 · The Gold-Bug · nv Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper Jun 21-28, 1843
- 108 · The Black Cat · ss Philadelphia United States Saturday Post Aug 19, 1843
- 116 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · ss Godeys Ladys Book Nov, 1846
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The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition Edgar Allan Poe (University of Illinois Press 0-252-06125-X, Feb 90 [Jan 91], $17.95, 633pp, tp) Reprint (Bobbs Merrill 1976) collection of all of Poes short fiction, edited and with notes by Stuart and Susan Levine, plus an introduction by Stuart Levine and a bibliography. This has been the standard text of Poes short fiction.
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Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (Morrow/Books of Wonder 0-688-07509-6, Sep 91 [Aug 91], $19.95, 308pp, hc, cover by Barry Moser) Collection of 14 stories with illustrations by Barry Moser and an afterword by Peter Glassman.
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The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee Frederik Pohl (Easton Press, Jan 91, no price, 241pp, hc) [Heechee (Robinette Broadhead)] Collection of 10 Heechee stories/vignettes, with an introduction by James Gunn and the original illustrations by Frank Kelly-Freas. Published simultaneously with the Del Rey edition which appeared two months earlier. This special leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the Signed First Editions of Science Fiction series and is available by subscription only.
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