The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2000

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The Jaguar Mask Daniel Easterman (HarperCollins UK 0-00-225861-7, May 2000, £16.99, 419pp, hc); Associational lost city novel with horror elements. An archeological expedition uncovers a monstrous secret tied to ritual serial murders in France. Easterman is a pen-name for Denis McEoin, who also writes as Jonathan Ayclffe.

The Redemption of Althalus David & Leigh Eddings (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224754-2, Jul 2000, £17.99, 693pp, hc, cover by Geoff Taylor); Fantasy novel of a thief hired to steal a book from the House at the End of the World. This is set in an entirely new world and is (so far) a standalone novel. A deluxe edition (-710352-2, £100.00) was announced but not seen.

The Worm Ourobouros E. R. Eddison (Orion/Millennium 1-85798-993-7, Apr 2000, £6.99, 520pp, tp, cover by Edward Burne-Jones & Richard Carr); Reprint (Cape 1922) fantasy novel. Volume 3 in the “Fantasy Masterworks” series.

Stone & Sea Graham Edwards (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-651071-X, May 2000, £5.99, 439pp, pb, cover by Les Edwards) [Stone Trilogy]; Fantasy novel. Book Two of “The Stone Trilogy” after Stone & Sky. In a vertical wall the size of a world, Jonah and Annie encounter myths and magical creatures of our lost past.

Teranesia Greg Egan (Orion/Millennium 1-85798-864-7, Aug 2000, £6.99, 248pp, pb); Reprint (Gollancz 1999) SF novel.

Greetings from Earth: The Art of Bob Eggleton Bob Eggleton & Nigel Suckling (Paper Tiger 1-85585-662-X, Mar 2000, £14.99, 112pp, tp, cover by Bob Eggleton); Art book themed around the idea of a time/space capsule sent to aliens to show Earth (straight landscapes), our visions of Earth (fantasy), and its stellar neighbourhood (in the Bonestell sense). Text by Nigel Suckling.

The Forest of Hours Kerstin Ekman (Random House/Vintage UK 0-09-975171-2, Nov ’99, £6.99, 488pp, tp); Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1998) literary fantasy novel. Translated from the original Swedish by Anna Paterson.

The Burning Stone Kate Elliott (Little Brown/Orbit 1-85723-976-8, Feb 2000 [Dec ’99], £7.99, 916pp, pb, cover by Melvin Grant) [Crown of Stars]; Reprint (DAW 1999) fantasy novel. Volume Three of the “Crown of Stars” series. Elliott is a pen-name for Alis Rasmussen.

Child of Flame Kate Elliott (Little Brown/Orbit 1-85723-947-4, Nov 2000, £10.99, 850pp, tp, cover by Melvin Grant) [Crown of Stars]; Reprint (DAW 2000) fantasy novel, fourth volume of “Crown of Stars”. Elliott is a pen-name for Alis Rasmussen. A hardcover edition (-962-8, £17.99) was announced but not seen. [First U.K. edition]

Stark and Gridlock Ben Elton (Warner UK 0-7515-3144-8, 2000, £9.99, 454+435pp, pb); Omnibus of two satirical SF novels: Stark (1989), and Gridlock (1991). The novels are separately paginated.

Doctor Who: Casualties of War Steve Emmerson (BBC Books 0-563-53805-8, Sep 2000, £5.99, 271pp, pb) [Doctor Who: New Adventures]; Novelization based on the TV series. Book 38 of the BBC “New Adventures” series starring the 8th Doctor.

Deadhouse Gates Steven Erikson (Transworld/Bantam 0-593-04622-6, Sep 2000, £10.99, xix+684pp, tp, cover by Steve Stone) [Malazan Book of the Fallen]; Epic fantasy novel, second in “The Malazan Book of the Fallen” series after Gardens of the Moon.

Gardens of the Moon Steven Erikson (Transworld/Bantam UK 0-553-81217-3, Mar 2000, £5.99, 712pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Malazan Book of the Fallen]; Reprint (Bantam UK 1999) epic fantasy novel, first “Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen”.

Whispers in the Sand Barbara Erskine (HarperCollins UK 0-00-225784-X, Sep 2000, £16.99, 402pp, hc, cover by Kevin Tweddell, Paul Mason & Doug Plummer); Fantasy novel. A contemporary woman journeying through Egypt is haunted by an ancestor’s story, and a growing spectral presence.

Dreamtime: Ice Tower Chris Evans (Orion/Dolphin 1-85881-709-9, Aug 2000, £3.99, 119pp, pb) [Dreamtime]; Third of a 6-book series by different authors. In a tale based on Celtic myths, Rhys and Jack are transported to the world of the Ice Tower.

From a Past Life Penny Faith (Flame 0-340-72842-6, Feb 2000, £10.00, 323pp, tp); Ghost novel of two women linked despite being born 70 years apart.

From a Past Life Penny Faith (Hodder & Stoughton/Flame 0-340-72843-4, Oct 2000, £6.99, 323pp, pb); Reprint (Flame 2000) ghost novel.

Brotherhood of the Wolf David Farland (Simon & Schuster/Earthlight 0-7434-0827-6, Apr 2000, £6.99, 610pp, pb, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) [Runelords]; Reprint (Tor; Earthlight UK 1999) fantasy novel. Book 2 of “The Runelords”. Farland is a pseudonym of Dave Wolverton.

The Aquarian Frontier B. T. Fearon (The Book Guild 1-85776-056-5, Feb 2000, £6.95, 190pp, tp); SF/fantasy thriller. A paranormal group defends Britain against an evil with greater psychic powers.

Patriarch’s Hope David Feintuch (Little Brown/Orbit 1-85723-961-X, Apr 2000, £6.99, 488pp, pb, cover by Stephen Youll) [Nicholas Seafort]; Reprint (Warner Aspect 1999) SF novel, sixth in the “Nicholas Seafort” series. Secretary General Seafort’s plans to clean up Earth’s ecology anger his beloved space Navy. [First U.K. edition]

Krondor: Tear of the Gods Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224680-5, Nov 2000, £17.99, 372pp, hc, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar Legacy]; Fantasy novel. Third of “The Riftwar Legacy”, and based on the game, Return to Krondor.

Krondor: The Assassins Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224695-3, Sep ’99, £16.99, 352pp, hc, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar Legacy]; Fantasy novel. Volume six in the “Serpentwar Saga”. Book II of the “Riftwar Legacy”.

Krondor: The Assassins Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224700-3, Mar 2000, £10.99, 352pp, tp, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar Legacy]; Reprint (Voyager 1999) fantasy novel, book two of “The Riftwar Legacy”, based on the CD-ROM game, Betrayal at Krondor.

Krondor: The Assassins Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648335-6, Sep 2000, £5.99, 352pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar Legacy]; Reprint (Voyager 1999) fantasy novel. Volume Six in the “Serpentwar Saga”. Book II of the “Riftwar Legacy”.

Krondor: The Betrayal Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648334-8, Nov ’99, £6.99, 418pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar Legacy]; Reprint (Avon Eos; Voyager 1998) fantasy novel. Volume five in the “Serpentwar Saga”. Book I of the “Riftwar Legacy”.

Krondor: The Betrayal Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648334-8, Nov ’99, £6.99, 418pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar Legacy]; Reprint (Avon Eos; Voyager 1998) fantasy novel. Book I of the Riftwar Legacy.

Daughter of the Empire Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-586-07481-3, Nov 2000, £6.99, 528pp, pb) [Riftwar: Empire]; Reissue (Doubleday 1987) fantasy novel in the “Riftwar” series, first in the “Empire” trilogy. Seventh printing.

Mistress of the Empire Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-586-20379-6, Nov 2000, £7.99, 860pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar: Empire]; Reissue (Doubleday Foundation; HarperCollins UK 1992) fantasy novel, third in the “Empire” trilogy. Fifth printing.

Servant of the Empire Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-586-20381-8, Nov 2000, £7.99, 837pp, pb) [Riftwar: Empire]; Reissue (Doubleday Foundation 1990) fantasy novel. Second in the “Empire” trilogy. 11th printing.

The Mistress of Lilliput, or, The Pursuit Alison Fell (Transworld/Anchor UK 1-862-30048-8, Jan 2000, £6.99, 351pp, tp, cover by Paul Aston); Reprint (Doubleday UK 1999) recursive literary fantasy novel.

Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (Dedalus 1-873982-59-3, Nov 2000, £8.99, 199pp, tp, cover by Jean Corbechon & David Bird); Literary fantasy novel, translated by Margaret Jull Costa from the Spanish original (1951). A worldwide edition available from SCB Distributors, California, for $13.99.

The Dark Satanic... Paul Finch (Enigmatic Press, Jan ’99, £4.00, 61pp, ph, cover by Gerald Gaubert); Chapbook original collection of “two terror tales from the north of England.” This has ISSN 1464-1461. Enigmatic press, 1 Gibbs Field, Bishops Stortford, Herts CM23 4EY England; www.epress.force9.co.uk

The Shadow’s Beneath Paul Finch (Enigmatic Press 0-9537476-1-1, Apr 2000, £4.00, 80pp, ph, cover by Gerald Gaubert); Original collection of three supernatural stories, one a reprint. Volume three in the “Enigmatic Variations” series.

Pilgrim Timothy Findley (Faber and Faber 0-571-20268-3, May 2000, £10.99, 486pp, tp); Reprint (HarperCollins Canada 1999) literary fantasy novel. An immortal is psychoanalysed by Carl Jung after a 1912 suicide attempt. [First U.K. edition]

Flain’s Coronet Catherine Fisher (The Bodley Head 0-370-32602-4, Feb 2000, £10.99, 234pp, hc, cover by Richard Jones) [Book of the Crow]; Young-adult SF/fantasy novel, volume three of “The Book of the Crow”.

The Interrex Catherine Fisher (Red Fox 0-09-926394-7, Feb 2000, £3.99, 213pp, pb) [Book of the Crow]; Reprint (The Bodley Head 1999) young-adult fantasy/SF novel, volume two of “The Book of the Crow”.

The Lammas Field Catherine Fisher (Hodder Silver 0-340-73699-2, Jan 2000, £4.99, 172pp, pb, cover by Andrew Potter); Young-adult fantasy novel.

Monster Maker Nicholas Fisk (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-74992-X, Oct ’99, £3.99, 156pp, pb, cover by Paul Young); Reprint (Pelham Books 1979) young-adult fantasy novel.

The Candle House Pauline Fisk (Red Fox 0-09-960071-4, Jul 2000, £4.99, 264pp, pb); Reprint (The Bodley Head 1999) young-adult fantasy novel of parallel lives, fate, and identity.

Temple of the Winds James Follett (Severn House 0-7278-5568-9, May 2000, £17.99, viii+308pp, hc) [Temple of the Winds]; SF/fantasy novel, first in a trilogy. A community isolated behind a mysterious force-field reverts to the mythic patterns of life in Olde England.

Wicca James Follett (Severn House 0-7278-5626-X, Nov 2000, £17.99, 314pp, hc) [Temple of the Winds]; SF/fantasy novel, second in a trilogy after Temple of The Winds. A community, isolated behind a mysterious force-field, reverts to the ways of Olde England, including laws on witchcraft.

Calabash Christopher Fowler (Little Brown/Warner UK 0-7515-3040-9, May 2000, £8.99, 346pp, tp); Associational novel of a dissatisfied teenager in 1970s Britain who escapes into the richly imagined fantasy kingdom of Calabash.

Treading on the Past Derek M. Fox (Enigmatic Press 0-9537476-2-X, May 2000, £5.00, 83pp, ph, cover by Frank Mafrici); Original collection of four supernatural stories. Volume four in the “Enigmatic Variations” series.

Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It Frank Kelly & Laura Brodian Freas (Paper Tiger 1-85585-848-7, Nov 2000, £20.00, 112pp, hc, cover by Frank Kelly Freas); Art book, with art by Frank Kelly Freas from a wide range of sources: cover illustrations, portraits, private commisions, and work for NASA. The text, written with Laura Brodian Freas, discusses the craft and business of art and publishing. Foreword by Tim Powers.

This Alien Shore C. S. Friedman (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648375-5, Jan 2000 [Dec ’99], £6.99, 564pp, pb); Reprint (DAW 1998) SF novel. Mutated colonists form a new race that controls interstellar commerce. Copyrighted 2000, with no earlier ascription. [First U.K. edition]

The Heart of Myrial Maggie Furey (Little Brown/Orbit 1-85723-971-7, Jul 2000, £5.99, 505pp, pb, cover by Mick Van Houten) [Shadowleague]; Reprint (Orbit 1999) fantasy novel, “Book One of The Shadowleague”.

Smoke and Mirrors Neil Gaiman (Headline 0-7472-7418-5, Dec ’99, £9.99, 374pp, tp); Reprint (Avon 1998) collection of 35 stories and poems. This is an expanded version of Gaiman’s earlier collection Angels & Visitations (DreamHaven 1993). Copyrighted 1999, this edition adds five items not in the US original, including an original story and vignette. A hardcover edition (-7424-X, £16.99) was announced but not seen. [First U.K. edition]

Smoke and Mirrors Neil Gaiman (Hodder Headline 0-7472-6368-X, May 2000, £5.99, 431pp, pb); Reprint (Avon 1998) collection of 35 stories and poems, an expanded version of Gaiman’s earlier collection Angels & Visitations (1993).

Stardust Neil Gaiman (Hodder Headline 0-7472-6369-8, Jan 2000, £5.99, 280pp, pb, cover by Lalique); Reprint (DC/Vertigo 1998) fantasy novel of a young man’s quest into Faerie to retrieve a fallen star. This lacks the illustrations of the DC Comics/Vertigo edition and follows the slightly revised Avon text.

Dark Universe Daniel F. Galouye (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07137-0, Oct 2000, £9.99, 154pp, tp); Reprint (Bantam 1961) SF novel. An “SF Collectors’ Edition”.

Anonymous Rex Eric Garcia (HarperCollins UK 0-00-225962-1, Mar 2000, £10.99, 276pp, tp) [Vincent Rubio]; Reprint (Random House/Villard 1999) satiric SF/fantasy novel of an intelligent dinosaur masquerading as human. Private investigator Vincent Rubio is a velociraptor living undercover in LA. A first novel. [First U.K. edition]

Bikini Planet David Garnett (Little Brown/Orbit 1-85723-950-4, Feb 2000, £5.99, 344pp, pb, cover by John Bolton) [Bikini Planet]; Humorous SF novel. A 20th-century cop wakes after 300 years and is recruited into a battle for the ultimate holiday resort.

Warhammer 40,000: Into the Maelstrom ed. Marc Gascoigne & Andy Jones (Black Library 1-84154-103-6, Sep ’99, £5.99, 282pp, pb, cover by Wayne England) [Warhammer 40,000]; Anthology of stories set in the “Warhammer 40,000” universe, all reprinted from Inferno! magazine. Published in 1999, but not seen until now. Copyrighted by Games Workshop.

Warhammer: Realm of Chaos ed. Marc Gascoigne & Andy Jones (Black Library 1-84154-107-9, Jan 2000, £5.99, 280pp, pb, cover by Martin Hanford) [Warhammer]; Original anthology of 12 stories based on the SF role-playing games. Copyrighted by Games Workshop.

Pagans Susan Gates (Scholastic UK 0-439-01469-7, Aug 2000, £4.99, 123pp, tp, cover by Mark Preston); Young-adult fantasy novel.

Doctor Who: Last of the Gadarene Mark Gatiss (BBC Books 0-563-55587-4, Jan 2000 [Nov ’99], £5.99, 284pp, pb) [Doctor Who: Missing Adventures]; Novelization based on the TV series, starring the third Doctor. Book 27 of the BBC “Missing Adventures” series.

Bloodstone David Gemmell (Little Brown/Orbit 1-85723-832-X, Aug ’99, £5.99, 298pp, pb, cover by John Dolton) [Sipstrassi; Jon Shannow]; Reprint (Legend 1994) fantasy novel. Book 3 in the “Sipistrassi/Jon Shannow” series.

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