The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1999
Books, Listed by Author
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- PALMIERI, MARCO, ed. (stories) (chron.)
- * *Star Trek: The Lives of Dax (Pocket 0-671-02840-5, Dec 99 [Nov 99], $14.00, 347pp, tp) [Star Trek] Original anthology of nine stories (one a two-part frame story) featuring the long-lived symbiotic character. Authors include Steven Barnes, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. (Contents)
- PANGBORN, GEORGIA WOOD (1872-1955) (stories) (chron.)
- * *The Wind at Midnight (Ash-Tree Press 1-899562-76-1, Aug 99 [Nov 99], $49.95, 176pp, hc, cover by Deborah McMillion-Nering) Collection of 16 supernatural stories and nine poems. Introduction by editor Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Preface by Patricia A. McKillip. This is a limited edition of 500. (Contents)
- PAPADOPOULOS, GEORGE (chron.)
- * *The Last Dynasty of the Angels (OceanTides Publishing 0-9668015-0-4, Sep 98 [Jun 99], $14.95, 338pp, tp) SF novel of humanitys lost home-planet and the foundation of a colony of angels on Earth. Translated from the Greek by Charles Moore. Copyrighted 1998, but not seen until now. For ordering information: apapadop@wppost.depaul.edu
- PARDOE, BLAINE LEE (chron.)
- * *MechWarrior: By Blood Betrayed (with Mel Odom) (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45766-8, Nov 99, $5.99, 267pp, pb) [Battletech: MechWarrior] Novelization, third in a series based on the computer game based on the Battletech role-playing game. Copyrighted by FASA.
- * *MechWarrior: Roar of Honor (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45761-7, Oct 99, $5.99, 259pp, pb, cover by Peter Peebles) [Battletech: MechWarrior] Novelization, second in a separate series based on computer games set in the BattleTech universe, based on the role-playing game. Copyrighted by FASA.
- PARETSKY, SARA (1947- ) (chron.)
- * _Ghost Country (Delta 0-385-33336-6, May 99, $13.95, 400pp, tp, cover by Nicola Victor Ziroli) Reprint (Delacorte 1998) contemporary novel/fairy tale, with debatable fantasy elements.
- PARK, SEVERNA (stories) (chron.)
- * *The Annunciate (Avon Eos 0-380-97737-0, Nov 99, $23.00, 294pp, hc, cover by D. M. Bowers) SF novel set in a society stratified by degree of access to the computer network called the Mesh; network contamination forces three of the elite to seek the planet where the Mesh originated.
- * _Hand of Prophecy (Avon Eos 0-380-79158-7, Feb 99 [Jan 99], $5.99, 307pp, pb) [Speaking Dreams] Reprint (Avon Eos 1998) SF novel of slaves and interstellar war, set in the same universe as Speaking Dreams.
- PARKER, DANIEL; pseudonym of Daniel Ehrenhaft (chron.)
- * *April (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81822-X, Mar 99, $3.99, 133pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult post-holocaust fantasy/horror novel, fourth in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999. Packaged by 17th Street Productions, a division of Daniel Weiss and Associates; copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft (presumably the authors real name).
- * *August (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81826-2, Jul 99 [Aug 99], $3.99, 133pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult SF novel, eighth in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999. Packaged by 17th Street Productions and copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft (presumably the authors real name).
- * *December (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81830-0, Nov 99, $3.99, 130pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult millennial SF/dark fantasy novel, twelfth and final in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999. Packaged by 17th St. Productions and copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft (presumably the authors real name.)
- * *February (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81820-3, Jan 99 [Feb 99], $3.99, 135pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult SF novel, second in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999. Visionary teens are drawn to a leader in the fight against the demon Lilith. Packaged by Daniel Weiss and Associates; copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft (presumably the authors real name.)
- * *January (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81819-X, Dec 98 [Feb 99], $1.99, 137pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult post-holocaust fantasy novel, first in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999, combined with a contest to win $2,000. Worldwide power failures and plague leave only teenagers to face a demon named Lilith. Packaged by Daniel Weiss and Associates, and copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft (presumably the authors real name.)
- * *July (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81825-4, Jun 99 [Aug 99], $3.99, 131pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult SF novel, seventh in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999. Packaged by 17th Street Productions; copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft (presumably the authors real name).
- * *June (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81824-6, May 99 [Apr 99], $3.99, 133pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult SF novel, sixth in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999. Packaged by 17th Street Productions; copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft (presumably the authors real name).
- * *March (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81821-1, Feb 99, $3.99, 133pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult post-holocaust fantasy novel, third in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999. Packaged by Daniel Weiss and Associates; copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft (presumably the authors real name.)
- * *May (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81823-8, Apr 99 [Mar 99], $3.99, 130pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult SF novel, fifth in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999. Packaged by 17th Street Productions, a division of Daniel Weiss and Associates; copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft (presumably the authors real name).
- * *November (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81829-7, Oct 99 [Nov 99], $3.99, 132pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult millennial SF/dark fantasy novel, eleventh in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999. Packaged by 17th St. Productions and copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft.
- * *October (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81828-9, Sep 99 [Nov 99], $3.99, 132pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult millenial SF/dark fantasy novel, tenth in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999. Packaged by 17th St. Productions, and copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft (presumably the authors real name).
- * *September (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-81827-0, Aug 99, $3.99, 132pp, pb) [Countdown] Young-adult SF novel, ninth in the Countdown series covering each month in 1999. Packaged by 17th Street Productions and copyrighted by them and Daniel Ehrenhaft (presumably the authors real name).
- PARKER, K. J. (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *The Belly of the Bow (Little, Brown/Orbit 1-85723-756-0, Apr 99 [Mar 99], £10.99, 442pp, tp, cover by Mick Van Houton) [Fencer Trilogy] Fantasy novel, second in the Fencer trilogy after Colours in the Steel. Bardas Loredan, fencer-at-law turned bowmaker, faces murderous sibling rivalry and an invasion of his new home.
- * _Colours in the Steel (Little, Brown/Orbit 1-85723-610-6, Mar 99 [May 99], £6.99, 533pp, pb, cover by Mick Van Houton) [Fencer Trilogy] Reprint (Orbit 1998) fantasy novel, first in the Fencer Trilogy.
- PARKES, MICHAEL (chron.)
- * +The World of Michael Parkes (Steltman 90-71867-13-7, 1998 [Mar 99], $49.95, unpaginated, hc, cover by Michael Parkes) Art book. A collection of Parkes fantastic art, with 94 full-color plates, and commentaries on each by Maria Sedoff, in collaboration with Parkes. Introduction by John Russell Taylor.
- PARKINSON, DAN(iel Edward) (1935-2001) (chron.)
- * *Faces of Infinity (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-41381-4, Apr 99 [Mar 99], $6.50, 291pp, pb, cover by Heather Kern) [Gates of Time] Time-travel SF novel, book two of The Gates of Time. An evil genius from the future is opposed by a Kansas couple and their far-future friends. Packaged and copyrighted by Siegel & Siegel Ltd.
- * *Paradox Gate (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-41382-2, Aug 99 [Jul 99], $5.99, 261pp, pb) [Gates of Time] Time-travel SF novel, book three of The Gates of Time. Packaged and copyrighted by Siegel & Siegel Ltd.
- * *Timecop: Blood Ties (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-42197-3, Apr 99 [Mar 99], $5.99, 245pp, pb, cover by Julie Bell) [Timecop] Time-travel SF novelization based on the TV show based on the movie. Copyrighted by Universal Studios Publishing Rights.
- PARRISH, MAXFIELD (1870-1966) (chron.)
- * *Maxfield Parrish 1870-1966 (with Sylvia Yount) (Abrams 0-8109-4367-0, May 99 [Jun 99], $39.95, 160pp, hc, cover by Maxfield Parrish) Art book/exhibition catalog with 132 illustrations, 81 in color, some apparently unpublished previously. Text by Yount, with an added article on Parrishs painting methods by Mark F. Bockrath. Forewords by Serena Rattazzi and Daniel Rosenfeld. Published by Abrams in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which holds the copyright.
- PASSARELLA, JOHN (G.) (chron.)
- * *Wither (Pocket 0-671-02480-9, Feb 99 [Jan 99], $23.00, 304pp, hc, cover by Larry Lurin) [George Witherspoon] Horror novel. A demonic witches coven from the past awakens in contemporary Massachusetts. A first novel.
- PASSMAN, DON(ald S.) (1945- ) (chron.)
- * *The Visionary (Warner 0-446-52159-0, Jun 99, $25.00, 433pp, hc) Serial-killer thriller with psychic elements. A cop, a professor, and a reluctant psychic team to track a vicious killer.
- PATTERSON, TERESA (chron.)
- PATTON, FIONA (1962- ) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *The Granite Shield (DAW 0-88677-842-5, Jun 99 [May 99], $6.99, 512pp, pb, cover by Jody A. Lee) [Brannion] Fantasy novel, the third about the kingdom of Brannion. An illegitimate son of the Essusiate ruler of Brannion tries to reclaim the throne for the Triarctic faith.
- PATTOU, EDITH; [i.e., Edith Pattou Emery] (chron.)
- PAULSEN, GARY (Melvin) (1939- ) (chron.)
- * _Blue Light (Macmillan Childrens Books 0-333-74631-7, Jul 99, £9.99, 248pp, hc, cover by Steve Kingston & Kim Thompson) Reprint (Delacorte 1998 as The Transall Saga) young-adult time-travel SF novel. A teen is transported to what appears to be another world. [First U.K. edition]
- * _The Transall Saga (Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-21976-0, Nov 99 [Dec 99], $5.50, 248pp, pb, cover by Jon Paul Ferrara) Reprint (Delacorte 1998) young-adult time-travel SF novel.
- PAXSON, DIANA L(ucile) (1943- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * *The Hallowed Isle, Book Three: The Book of the Cauldron (Avon Eos 0-380-80547-2, Nov 99, $10.00, 180pp, tp, cover by Tom Canty) [Hallowed Isle] Arthurian fantasy novel, third in the series.
- * *The Hallowed Isle, Book Two: The Book of the Spear (Avon Eos 0-380-80546-4, Apr 99, $10.00, 200pp, tp) [Hallowed Isle] Arthurian fantasy novel, second in the series. A Saxon with a magic spear seeks Arthur.
- * *The Hallowed Isle: The Book of the Sword (Avon Eos 0-380-78870-5, Feb 99 [Jan 99], $10.00, 181pp, tp) [Hallowed Isle] Arthurian fantasy novel, first in a series.
- PAYNE, MICHAEL H. (chron.) (assoc.)
- * _The Blood Jaguar (Tor 0-812-56675-0, Oct 99, $6.99, 256pp, pb, cover by Julie Bell) Reprint (Tor 1998) talking-animal fantasy; Bobcat has to stop the Blood Jaguar from bringing plague.
- PEAKE, MERVYN (Laurence) (1911-1968) (chron.)
- * _A Book of Nonsense (Dufour/Peter Owen 0-7206-1059-1, Jan 99 [Mar 99], $16.95, 88pp, tp, cover by Mervyn Peake) Reprint (Peter Owen 1972) associational collection of 29 short humorous items and poems, with drawings by Peake. Introduction by Peakes widow Maeve Gilmore. This is the 1998 Peter Owen edition, and lacks the usual stickers from Dufour.
- PEARCE, (Ann) PHILIPPA (Christie) (1920-2006) (chron.)
- * _Toms Midnight Garden (Oxford University Press 0-19-271777-4, Jun 99 [Aug 99], £5.99, 229pp, tp, cover by Christian Birmingham) Reissue (Oxford University Press 1958) young-adult fantasy novel.
- * _Toms Midnight Garden (Puffin UK 0-14-030893-8, Aug 99, £4.99, 218pp, pb) Reissue (Oxford University Press 1958) young-adult fantasy novel.
- PEARSON, KIT (1947- ) (chron.)
- * _Awake and Dreaming (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-038166-X, Jun 99 [Jul 99], $4.99, 228pp, pb, cover by Ron Lightburn) Reprint (Viking Canada 1996) young-adult ghost novel. Theo wants a family so bad she dreams one that becomes real.
- PEEL, JOHN (Ronald) (1954- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * *2099: Betrayal (Scholastic 0-439-06031-1, Nov 99 [Dec 99], $4.99, 154pp, tp) [2099] Young-adult SF suspense novel, second in a series.
- * *2099: Doomsday (Scholastic 0-439-06030-3, Sep 99 [Aug 99], $4.99, 181pp, tp) [2099] Young-adult SF suspense novel, first in a new series.
- * *2099: Traitor (Scholastic 0-439-06032-X, Jan 2000 [Dec 99], $4.99, 155pp, tp) [2099] Young-adult SF suspense novel, third in a series.
- PELAN, JOHN C., ed. (stories) (chron.)
- * *The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique (Bereshith/ShadowLands Press 0-9665662-4-6, Aug 99, $60.00, 440pp, hc, cover by Rob Alexander) [Zothique] Original anthology of 19 dark fantasy stories inspired by the work of Clark Ashton Smith. Authors include Gerard Houarner, Gene Wolfe, Lucy Taylor, and Brian Stableford. Introduction by Donald Sidney-Fryer. Illustrated by Allen Koszowski and Fredrik King, This is a signed, limited edition of 500; a slipcased, deluxe edition of 50 with limited-edition prints (-3-8, $100.00) is also available. Order from Shadowlands Press, Bereshith Publishing, PO Box 2366, Centreville VA 20122-2366; www.bereshith.com (Contents)
- PELEVIN, VICTOR (1962- ) (chron.)
- * *The Clay Machine-Gun (Faber and Faber/Harbord Publishing 0-571-19406-0, Apr 99, £9.99, x+335pp, tp, cover by Victor Pelevin) Literary fantasy novel. Translated by Andrew Bromfield from the original Russian Chapaev I Pustota (1996).
- * _The Life of Insects (Faber and Faber 0-571-19405-2, Apr 99, £6.99, 176pp, tp) Reprint (Harbord 1996) literary fantasy novel of a nightmarish future Russia where characters are simultaneously real people and actual insects. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.
- PELLEGRINO, CHARLES R. (1953- ) (chron.)
- * _Dust (Bantam UK 0-553-50706-0, Feb 99, £5.99, 543pp, pb, cover by Black Sheep) Reprint (Avon 1998) SF thriller. Major ecological changes threaten all mankind. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Dust (Avon 0-380-78742-3, Mar 99 [Feb 99], $6.99, 450pp, pb) Reprint (Avon 1998) SF thriller of ecological disaster.
- * _Star Trek, the Next Generation: Dyson Sphere (with George Zebrowski) See entry under George Zebrowski.
- PEMBERTON, MARGARET (1943- ) (chron.)
- * _Undying Love (Severn House 0-7278-5453-4, Jul 99 [Sep 99], £16.99, 191pp, hc) Reprint (??? 1982 as Forever) dark fantasy novel. Beauregarde Clay is magically compelled to meet his lover, even after death. Based on The Monkeys Paw. Copyrighted 1982, 1999, suggesting some revisions. A worldwide edition available in the US at $25.00.
- PENN, MARY E. (stories) (chron.)
- * *In the Dark & Other Ghost Stories (Sarob Press 1-902309-06-5, Oct 99, £18.00, xii+125pp, hc, cover by Paul Lowe) Collection of eight supernature tales first published in The Argosy, edited & introduced by Richard Dalby. Volume two in the Richard Dalbys Mistresses of the Macabre series. Limited to 250 numbered copies. (Contents) [Not seen]
- PENROSE, ROGER (chron.)
- PERKINS, PENNY (chron.)
- * *Bob Bridges: An Apocalyptic Fable (Chrome Deco Press 0-9672304-0-3, Sep 99 [Jun 99], $13.95, 196pp, tp) SF novel. Bob Bridges predicts nuclear doom and gets help from a cockroach-philosopher from the future. A first novel. Order from Chrome Deco Press, PO Box 6507, Albany NY 12206; 1-877-791-8189; www.bobbridges.com
- PERRAKIS, PHYLLIS STERNBERG, ed. (chron.)
- * *Spiritual Exploration in the Works of Doris Lessing (Greenwood Press 0-313-30568-4, Apr 99 [Jul 99], $55.00, 150pp, hc) Non-fiction, a compilation of nine essays exploring spirituality as depicted in Lessings work, with an emphasis on her SF. There is a bibliography and index. Part of the Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy series. Order from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881; Orders 800-225-5800. [Lessing]
- PERRIN, DON (stories) (chron.)
- PERRIN, NOEL (chron.)
- * *A Childs Delight (University Press of New England/Dartmouth 0-87451-840-7, Nov 97 [May 99], $19.95, 161pp, hc) Collection of 30 short essays, most from Perrins Rediscoveries for Children column in the Washington Post. Each essay recommends a wonderful but little-known book for children, at least half of genre interest, including Mary Nortons The Borrowers, T.H. Whites Mistress Mashams Repose, and other genre books by authors including Lucy Boston, Edward Eager, Richard Adams, Diana Wynne Jones, and Ursula K. Le Guin. This is dated 1997 but not seen until now. Order from University Press of New England, 23 S. Main Street, Hanover NH 03755; orders 800-421-1561.
- PERRY, ANNE; pseudonym of Juliet Marion Hulme, (1938- ) (chron.)
- * *Tathea (Headline 0-7472-2260-6, Feb 99, £17.99, 378pp, hc, cover by Lee Gibbons) [Tathea] Christian fantasy novel. An exiled, widowed queen learns that nothing matters except The Book.
- * +Tathea (Deseret Book/Shadow Mountain 1-573455-36-9, Sep 99 [Aug 99], $23.95, 522pp, hc) [Tathea] Fantasy novel. Tathea seeks the meaning of life and finds it in an ancient Book that she must translate so she can share the word of God and thwart the Great Enemy. First US edition (Headline 1999).
- PERRY, ROBERT (stories) (chron.)
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