The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1999

Books, Listed by Author

STINE, R(obert) L(awrence) (stories) (chron.) (continued)

• * *Fear Street: Seniors #10: Wicked (Golden/Gold Key 0-307-24714-7, Apr ’99 [Jun ’99], $3.99, 148pp, pb) Young-adult horror novel, 10th in a series of 12 about a doomed class of high school seniors. Copyrighted by Parachute Press.
• * *Fear Street: Seniors #12: Graduation Day (Golden/Gold Key 0-307-24716-3, Jun ’99, $3.99, 197pp, pb) Young-adult horror novel, 12th in a series of 12 about the doomed senior class at Shadyside High. Copyrighted by Parachute Press.
• * *Fear Street: Seniors #5: Last Chance (Golden/Gold Key 0-307-24709-0, Dec ’98 [Jun ’99], $3.99, 150pp, pb) Young-adult horror novel, fifth in a series of 12. A Shadyside High student has premonitions of doom for the senior class; one student suspects her teacher is trying to kill her. This is dated 1998, but not seen until now. Copyrighted by Parachute Press.
• * *Fear Street: Seniors #6: The Gift (Golden/Gold Key 0-307-24710-4, Dec ’98 [Feb ’99], $3.99, 151pp, pb) Young-adult horror novel, sixth in a series of 12. The ghost of Dominique Fear returns to kill members of the doomed Shadyside High senior class. Copyrighted by Parachute Press.
• * *Fear Street: Seniors #7: Fight, Team, Fight (Golden/Gold Key 0-307-24711-2, Jan ’99 [Feb ’99], $3.99, 156pp, pb) Young-adult horror novel, seventh in a series of 12 about a doomed class of high-school seniors. Cheerleaders face a killer. Copyrighted by Parachute Press.
• * *Fear Street: Seniors #8: Sweetheart, Evil heart (Golden/Gold Key 0-307-24712-0, Feb ’99, $3.99, 152pp, pb) Young-adult horror novel, eighth in a series of 12 about a doomed class of high-school seniors. Copyrighted by Parachute Press.
• * *Fear Street: Seniors #9: Spring Break (Golden/Gold Key 0-307-24713-9, Mar ’99, $3.99, 204pp, pb) Young-adult horror novel, ninth in a series of 12. Vacationing students from Shadyside High’s doomed senior class find terror in the Arizona desert. Copyrighted by Parachute Press.
• * *Fear Street: The Bad Girl (Golden/Gold Key 0-307-24703-1, Jun ’98 [Feb ’99], $3.99, 148pp, pb, cover by Cliff Nielsen) Young-adult horror novel. Girls find a formula for bringing dead things back to life. This is dated 1998 but not seen until now. Copyrighted by Parachute Press.
• * _Halloween Night (Scholastic/Point UK 0-439-01161-2, Sep ’99, £3.99, 185pp, pb) Reprint (Scholastic 1993) young-adult dark fantasy novel. First in a series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Halloween Night II (Scholastic/Point UK 0-439-01162-0, Sep ’99, £3.99, 178pp, pb) Reprint (Scholastic 1994) young-adult dark fantasy novel. Second in a series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Nightmare Hour (HarperCollins 0-06-028688-1, Aug ’99, $9.95, hc, cover by Shasti O’Leary-Soudant) Young-adult original collection of ten horror stories, each illustrated by a different artist, including Bernie Wrightson, Cliff Nielsen, and John Collier. Copyrighted by Parachute Publishing. (Contents)
• * _The Snowman (Scholastic/Point UK 0-439-01219-8, Nov ’99, £3.99, 181pp, pb) Reprint (Scholastic 1991) young-adult dark fantasy novel.

STIRLING, S(tephen) M(ichael) (1953- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Against the Tide of Years (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45743-9, May ’99 [Apr ’99], $6.99, 454pp, pb, cover by Dominic D’Andrea) [Island in the Sea of Time] Post-holocaust/time travel SF novel, sequel to Island in the Sea of Time. The Republic of Nantucket opposes a renegade seeking to use high-tech to build an empire in Ancient Greece.
• * _Against the Tide of Years (SFBC #20206, Jun ’99, $9.98, 454pp, hc, cover by Dominic D’Andrea) [Island in the Sea of Time] Reprint (Roc 1999) post-holocaust SF novel, sequel to Island in the Sea of Time. This has ISBN 0-7394-0316-8; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * *The Domination (Baen 0-671-57794-8, May ’99, $24.00, 778pp, hc, cover by Steve Hickman) [Draka] Omnibus of the “Draka Trilogy”: Marching Through Georgia (1988), Under the Yoke (1989), and The Stone Dogs (1990). These have been “abridged and revised” somewhat. (Contents)
• * _The Privateer (with James Doohan) See entry under James Doohan.
• * *The Reformer (with David A. Drake) (Baen 0-671-57804-9, Apr ’99, $22.00, 297pp, hc, cover by Gary Ruddell) [General] Far-future SF novel, seventh in the “General” series. A computer’s plans to revive long-collapsed galactic civilization infect a scholar on a planet reduced to ruins.

STOCKER, JACK H., ed. (chron.)

• * *Chemistry and Science Fiction (American Chemical Society 0-8412-3248-2, Jan ’99 [Oct ’99], $29.95, 292pp, tp) Non-fiction, critical. A gathering of 14 articles and two quasi-fiction stories about chemistry in SF, with an introduction by James Gunn, and a chapter on “Science in Science Fiction” by Connie Willis. This is copyrighted 1998, but apparently didn’t appear until 1999, distributed by Oxford University Press.

STODDARD, JAMES (Coston) (chron.)

• * *The False House (Simon & Schuster/Earthlight 0-671-03749-8, Dec ’99 [Nov ’99], £5.99, 401pp, pb, cover by Bob Eggleton) [High House] Fantasy novel, the sequel to the award-winning The High House.
• * _The High House (Earthlight 0-671-02208-3, Dec ’98, £5.99, 321pp, pb, cover by Bob Eggleton) [High House] Reprint (Warner Aspect 1998) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]

STOKER, BRAM; [i.e., Abraham Stoker] (1847-1912) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _The Jewel of Seven Stars (Tor 0-812-56895-8, May ’99 [Apr ’99], $5.99, 280pp, pb, cover by Boris Vallejo) Reprint (Heinemann 1903) classic horror novel.
• * *The Primrose Path (Desert Island Books 1-874287-21-X, May ’99, $29.95, 128pp, hc) Associational collection of two early non-supernatural stories, in first book publication, originally serialized in 1875 in the Dublin weekly The Shamrock as by A. Stoker. The introduction by Richard Dalby and notes from “The Desert Island Dracula Library” series editor Clive Leatherdale place the stories, particularly the title novella (an anti-alchohol parable) in context with Stoker’s life and later work. Originally published in the UK, this is available in the US from Firebird Distributing, 2030 First Street, Unit 5, Eureka CA 95501; 800-353-3575. (Contents)

STONE, DAVE (1964- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Mary-Sue Extrusion (Virgin 0-426-20531-6, Feb ’99 [May ’99], £5.99, 243pp, pb, cover by Fred Gambino) [Bernice Summerfield] SF novelization, “Doctor Who” without the Doctor. Book 18 in the “Bernice Summerfield” series.
• * *The New Adventures: Return to the Fractured Planet (New Adventures 0-426-20534-0, Aug ’99 [Jul ’99], £5.99, 238pp, pb, cover by Fred Gambino) Novelization of “Doctor Who” without the Doctor. Book 21 in the “Bernice Summerfield” series.

STOVER, EUGENE; see under Stover, Leon E. (chron.)

STOVER, LEON E(ugene) (1929-2006) (chron.)

• * _The Annotated H.G. Wells 5: When the Sleeper Wakes: A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Edition (with H. G. Wells) See entry under H. G. Wells

STOVER, MATTHEW WOODRING (chron.)

• * _Heroes Die (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-42145-0, Jun ’99 [May ’99], $6.99, 535pp, pb, cover by Doug Beekman) [Heroes Die] Reprint (Del Rey 1998) fantasy adventure novel of actors using another dimension for their stage. This includes a 10-page interview with Stover.
• * _Jericho Moon (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45758-7, Sep ’99 [Aug ’99], $6.99, 519pp, pb, cover by Keith Birdsong) [Iron Dawn] Reprint (Roc 1998) fantasy novel, sequel to Iron Dawn.

STRAUB, PETER (Francis) (1943- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Mr. X (Random House 0-679-40138-5, Aug ’99 [Jul ’99], $25.95, 483pp, hc) Contemporary dark fantasy novel with Lovecraftian touches, about a man with a doppelgänger.
• * *Pork Pie Hat (Orion 0-75282-512-7, Jul ’99 [Aug ’99], £6.99, 73pp, hc) Associational novella. A legendary jazz saxophonist grants a fan an interview on Halloween, relating the events of the Halloween when he was eleven years old. One of the “Criminal Records” series of novellas, edited by Otto Penzler.

STRAUSS, VICTORIA (chron.)

• * *The Garden of the Stone (Avon Eos 0-380-79752-6, Nov ’99, $6.99, 485pp, pb, cover by Rowena Morrill) [Arm of the Stone] Fantasy novel, sequel to The Arm of the Stone. Bron’s daughter Cariad continues the struggle against the Guardians.

STRETE, CRAIG (Kee) (1950- ) (chron.)

• * *The Lost Boy and the Monster (Putnam 0-399-22922-1, Apr ’99 [May ’99], $15.99, unpaginated, hc, cover by Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher) Children’s picture book of a Native American boy who foils a monster. Illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher.

STRICKLAND, (William) BRAD(ley) (1947- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost (Penguin/Dial 0-8037-2222-2, Sep ’99 [Aug ’99], $16.99, 166pp, hc, cover by Edward Gorey) [Johnny Dixon] Young-adult fantasy novel in the “Johnny Dixon” series created by John Bellairs. Copyrighted by the Estate of John Bellairs.

STRIEBER, (Louis) WHITLEY, ed. (1945- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Whitley Strieber’s Aliens (Pocket 0-671-88597-9, Jan ’99, $6.99, 459pp, pb, cover by John Stephens) Original anthology of 21 stories of alien encounters, in “The Horror Writers Association Presents” series. Authors include Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Esther Friesner, Adam-Troy Castro, and P.D. Cacek. Introduction by Strieber. Copyrighted by The Horror Writers Association. (Contents)

STRINGER, LEE (chron.)

• * *Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing (with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) (Seven Stories Press 1-58322-0038, Oct ’99, $15.00, 80pp, hc, cover by Wolf Kahn) Associational non-fiction, a transcription of two conversations between the authors, beginning with a bookstore talk moderated by Ross Klavan. Foreword by Daniel Simon. Photos by Art Shay.

STROUD, JONATHAN (chron.)

• * *Buried Fire (The Bodley Head 0-370-32730-6, May ’99 [Apr ’99], £10.99, 300pp, hc, cover by Richard Jones & Andrew Warrington) Young-adult dark fantasy novel of a sleeping, buried dragon, whose thoughts corrupt the peace of the land above.

STUBBS, HARRY CLEMENT (1922-2003); see pseudonym Hal Clement (stories) (chron.)

STURGEON, THEODORE; [born Edward Hamilton Waldo] (1918-1985) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Baby Is Three: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 6 (North Atlantic Books 1-55643-319-0, Nov ’99, $30.00, 424pp, hc, cover by Richard M. Powers) Collection of 11 stories, plus two autobiographical essays in an appendix. Foreword by David Crosby. This is the sixth of ten volumes, and covers Sturgeon’s work from 1950 to 1953. Edited and with extensive story notes by Paul Williams. (Contents)
• * _The Dreaming Jewels (Random House/Vintage 0-375-70373-X, Oct ’99 [Sep ’99], $12.00, 217pp, tp, cover by Kevin Irby) Reprint (Greenberg 1950) SF novel.
• * _Killdozer!: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 3 (North Atlantic Books 1-55643-327-1, Nov ’99 [Dec ’99], $18.95, 367pp, tp, cover by Paul Orban) Reprint (North Atlantic 1996) collection of 15 stories, four previously unpublished, and two not previously collected. This is the third of ten volumes and covers Sturgeon’s work from 1941 to 1946.
• * _Thunder and Roses: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 4 (North Atlantic Books 1-55643-328-X, Nov ’99 [Dec ’99], $18.95, 380pp, tp, cover by Jacek Yerka) Reprint (North Atlantic 1997) collection of 15 stories, one previously unpublished, and three not previously collected. This is the fourth of ten volumes and covers Sturgeon’s work from 1946 to 1947. Order from North Atlantic Books, PO Box 12327, Berkeley CA 94712.
• * _To Marry Medusa (Random House/Vintage 0-375-70372-1, Jan ’99, $10.00, 154pp, tp, cover by Kevin Irby & Evan Gaffney) Reprint (Dell 1958 as The Cosmic Rape) SF novel.
• * _Venus Plus X (Random House/Vintage 0-375-70374-8, Oct ’99 [Sep ’99], $12.00, 213pp, tp, cover by Kevin Irby) Reprint (Pyramid 1960) SF novel.

SUCHARITKUL, SOMTOW (Papinian) (1952- ); see pseudonym S. P. Somtow (stories) (chron.)

SUCKLING, NIGEL (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Soft as Steel: The Art of Julie Bell (with Julie Bell) See entry under Julie Bell.

SULLIVAN, C(harles) W(illiam), III, ed. (1944- ) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Young Adult Science Fiction (Greenwood Press 0-313-28940-9, Mar ’99 [Jun ’99], $59.95, 247pp, hc) Non-fiction, a gathering of 11 articles on young-adult SF in the US, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and Germany. Authors include Donald Palumbo, Michael M. Levy, and Franz Rottensteiner. There is an extensive bibliography of criticism and other secondary materials, and an index. Order from Greenwood Publishing Group, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport CT 06881; 800-225-5800.

SULLIVAN, TRICIA (1968- ); see pseudonym Valery Leith (chron.)

• * _Dreaming in Smoke (Orion/Millennium 0-75281-682-9, Aug ’99, £5.99, 290pp, pb, cover by Tricia Sullivan) Reprint (Orion; Bantam Spectra 1998) SF novel. A human virtual reality interface is caught in the crash of the AI that keeps a colony planet alive. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 1998.

SUMMERS, DAVID LEE, ed. (chron.)

• * *Hadrosaur Tales Volume Seven (Hadrosaur Productions 1-885093-14-4, 1999, $5.95, 170pp, tp, cover by Jeff Ward) The poem “Takeover” by Linda Bosson is listed in the TOC as being on page 19 but the page is blank. (Contents)

SUMNER, MARK C. (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *News from the Edge: Vampires of Vermont (Ace 0-441-00628-0, Jul ’99 [Jun ’99], $5.99, 198pp, pb, cover by Jeffrey Walker) [Savvy McKinnon] SF novel, third in the series featuring tabloid reporter Savvy McKinnon. An interview with a vampire leads to encounters with men in black.

SUNSTEIN, CASE R., ed. (chron.)

• * _Clones & Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (with Martha C. Nussbaum) See entry under Martha C. Nussbaum

SUSSEX, LUCY (Jane) (1957- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Scarlet Rider (Tor 0-812-54923-6, Apr ’99, $5.99, 350pp, pb) Reprint (Forge 1996) literary fantasy novel.

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• * +Altered Voices (Scholastic/Point 0-590-60365-5, Dec ’99 [Nov ’99], $4.99, 162pp, pb) Young-adult original anthology of nine stories, three reprints, with an introduction by the editor. Authors include Isobelle Carmody, Sean McMullen, and Sophie Masson. First US edition (Omnibus Australia 1994 as The Lottery).

SUTCLIFF, ROSEMARY (1920-1992) (chron.)

• * _Sword at Sunset (Tor 0-812-58852-5, Apr ’99 [Mar ’99], $5.99, 498pp, pb, cover by Kevin Eugene Johnson) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1963) historical Arthurian novel with minor fantasy elements. Second printing.

SUTTON, DAVID A(mbrose), ed. (1947- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Dark Terrors 4 (with Stephen Jones) See entry under Stephen Jones.

SWANN, S. ANDREW; pseudonym of S. A. Swiniarski, (1966- ) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Fearful Symmetries (DAW 0-88677-834-4, Apr ’99 [Mar ’99], $5.99, 280pp, pb, cover by Luis Royo) [Moreau] SF novel, fourth in the “Moreau” series, subtitled “The Return of Nohar Rajasthan”. Assassins force the tiger-form detective to return from retirement.

SWEENEY, JOYCE (Kay) (1955- ) (chron.)

• * _The Spirit Window (Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-22711-9, Jul ’99 [May ’99], $4.50, 243pp, pb, cover by Ericka Meltzer O’Rourke) Reprint (Delacorte 1998) young-adult novel with minor fantasy elements. We appear to have missed the first hardcover edition.

SWIFT, JONATHAN (1667-1745) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Gulliver’s Travels (Penguin/Signet Classic 0-451-52732-1, Jun ’99 [May ’99], $3.95, 312pp, pb) [Gulliver] Reprint (Benjamin Motte 1726) classic fantasy-satire novel. This has a new introduction by Leo Damrosch.
• * _Gulliver’s Travels (Oxford University Press 0-19-210037-8, Oct ’99 [Nov ’99], £6.99, xxii+316pp, hc) [Gulliver] Reprint (Benjamin Motte 1726) satirical SF/fantasy novel, with a new introduction by Jeanette Winterson. A mini-hardback edition.
• * _Gulliver’s Travels (Tor 0-812-56706-4, Nov ’99 [Oct ’99], $2.99, 294pp, pb, cover by Boris Anikin) [Gulliver] Reprint (Benjamin Motte 1726) classical satirical fantasy novel. This has new forword and afterword by Nancy Springer.

SWINDELLS, ROBERT (Edward) (1939- ) (chron.)

• * _Brother in the Land (Oxford University Press 0-19-271785-5, Jun ’99 [Aug ’99], £5.99, 151pp, tp, cover by Stuart Williams) Reissue (Oxford University Press 1984) young-adult post-holocaust SF novel.
• * _Hydra (Corgi Yearling 0-440-86313-9, Feb ’99 [Jan ’99], £3.99, 208pp, tp, cover by Larry Rostant) Reprint (Doubleday UK 1991) young-adult horror novel.
• * *Invisible! (Transworld/Doubleday UK 0-385-40855-2, Jun ’99 [May ’99], £10.99, 204pp, hc, cover by Larry Rostant) Young-adult fantasy novel of invisible children tracking down a criminal gang. Issued without a dustjacket.

SWINIARSKI, S(teven) A. (1966- ); see pseudonyms Steven Krane & S. Andrew Swann (chron.)

TALIAFERRO, JOHN (chron.)

• * *Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan (Simon & Schuster/Scribner 0-684-83359-X, 1999 [Mar ’99], $30.00, 400pp, hc, cover by Clinton Pettee) Non-fiction, biography. Includes index, bibliographic references, and 14 unpaginated pages of photos. [Burroughs]

TALLIS, FRANK (1958- ) (chron.)

• * *Killing Time (Hamish Hamilton 0-241-14030-7, May ’99, £9.99, 218pp, tp) Quasi-SF novel of a disturbed scientific genius who builds a time-camera.

TAN, CECILIA, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * *Fetish Fantastic (Circlet Press 1-885865-13-9, Jul ’99 [May ’99], $14.95, 181pp, tp, cover by Michael Manning) Original anthology of 11 erotic stories of fantasy, futuristic, and surreal sex. Authors include Raven Kaldera, M. Christian, and Gary Bowen. Order from Circlet Press, 1770 Massachusetts Ave, #278, Cambridge MA 02140. (Contents)
• * *Stars Inside Her: Lesbian Erotic Fantasy (Circlet Press 1-885865-19-8, Nov ’99, $14.95, 169pp, tp, cover by Linda Joyce Franks) Original anthology of nine erotic fantasy stories, one a reprint. (Contents)