The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2003

Stories, Listed by Title

• Vampyric Pickup Lines • Matthew Lee Bain • (ss)
• Vandoise and the Bone Monster • Alexander C. Irvine • (nv)
• Vandy, Vandy • Manly Wade Wellman • (ss)
• Vanishing • Lori Selke • (ss)
• Vanishing Point • Christopher Barzak • (ss)
• Vapors • Jack M. Dann • (ss)
• Variation on a Theme • John Collier • (ss)
• Variations on a Theme • Nancy A. Collins • (ss)
• Various Things • Guy Gavriel Kay • (pm)
• Vasagi the Suck • Paul Calvin Wilson • (iv)
• Vashanka’s Minion • Janet E. Morris • (nv)
• Vault of the Beast • A. E. van Vogt • (nv)
• VE Knights • Barry Baldwin • (ss)
• Vela • Lee Clark Zumpe • (pm)
• Velocity • Ed Cowell • (pm)
• Velocity • Kathe Koja • (ss)
• Veniss Exposed: Precursors & Epiphanies (An Afterword) • Jeff VanderMeer • (aw)
• Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer • Faren Miller • (br)
• Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer • Gary K. Wolfe • (br)
• Ventana Cave • Gary Every • (vi)
• Venus Preserved, Tanith Lee • Faren Miller • (br)
• Vermilia • Tanith Lee • (ss)
• The Very Error of the Moon • Megan Powell • (ss)
• A Very Good Deed, Indeed • Peter G. Angelin • (ss)
• Very Large Array • Carolyn Clink • (pm)
• A Very Long War • Geoffrey Maloney • (ss)
• Vestigal Elongation • L. Timmel Duchamp • (ms)
• VI x III x III • Kieran Friel • (pm)
• Via Roma • Robert Silverberg • (na)
• The Vicious Circle • John Russell Fearn • (ss)
• Victim #6 • Julie Shiel • (pm)
• Victim No.9: Undisturbed • Lucy A. E. Ward • (pm)
• The Victim of Azathoyh • Stephen L. Sennitt • (vi)
• Victims • Karen Ann Carpenter • (ss)
• View from a Headlock • Jonathan Lethem • (ex)
• The View from Endless Scarp • Marta Randall • (ss)
• Vikings of the Gloves • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• The Village • Ferrell Rosser • (ss)
• Villanelle • Eileen Kernaghan • (pm)
• Villanelle by Moonlight • Lane Robbins • (pm)
• Villians, Varmints, Fascists, Foes, in Hardcover Anything Goes • Ray Bradbury • (pm)
• Vine Terror • Howard Wandrei • (nv)
• Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Jules Verne, illustrated by Didier Graffet • Karen Haber • (br)
• Violation • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• Violent Alchemy: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky • Jaspre Bark • (ar)
• The Violent Deaths of Goll and Garb • Randy Lee Eickhoff • (ss)
• The Violet Keystone • Garth Nix • (n.)
• The Violet’s Embryos (Argentina, 1973) • Angélica Gorodischer • (ss)
• The Violin-Maker • Zoran Zivkovic • (ss)
• viper wire:
  ___ Black Neurology: A Love Story • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ Crash Kiss • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ Dragon • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ Growth Cycle • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ Lark’s Tongues in Aspic • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ Le Merdier • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ The Mad Hatter • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ The Magnetic Garden • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ Master of the Crossroads • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ Necrophony • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ The Night of the Drunken Heart • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ The Night Patrons • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ Patrimony • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ The Probability Box • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
  ___ Space Time Collapse • Richard Kadrey • (vi)
• Virgil 2.0 • Jason J. Stevenson • (ss)
• Virgin Grass • David J. Hoffman-Dachelet • (ss)
• The Virgin of the Seven Daggers • Vernon Lee • (nv)
• Virgin Steel • Michael Bracken • (ss)
• Virginia Heinlein • Greg Bear • (ob)
• Virginia Heinlein: 1916 - 2003 • Robert James • (ob)
• Virginia Kidd: 1921 - 2003 • Misc. • (ob)
• Virgo • Dan Mitrut • (pm)
• Virgo, of Stars and Bread • Sandra J. Lindow • (pm)
• Viridis • L. A. Story Houry • (ss)
• Virrago • Michael Penncavage • (ss)
• Virtual Light • John Clute • (br)
• The Virtual Temptation of e-Christ.com • Kendall Evans • (pm)
• Virtuous Reality • Brian M. Stableford • (ss)
• The Vision • James Cain • (pm)
• Vision • Christina Sng • (pm)
• A Vision of a Castle Deep in Averonne • Donald Sidney-Fryer • (pm)
• The Vision of Ferchertne • Randy Lee Eickhoff • (ss)
• The Vision of Tom Chuff • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu • (ss)
• Visions • Douglas T. Araujo • (ss)
• Visions of Gingerbread • Bruce Holland Rogers • (vi)
• Visions of the Afterlife: What Awaits in the Great Beyond • Anonymous • (ar)
• The Visit • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• The Visit • Joyce Carol Oates • (nv)
• The Visit • Ferrell Rosser • (ss)
• A Visit from Prospero • Paul Marlowe • (ss)
• Visit the Sins • Cory Doctorow • (ss)
• A Visit to Jelly Bean Island • Ruth Plumly Thompson • (ss)
• The Visitant • John S. Glasby • (ss)
• Visitation Rights • Sara Joan Berniker • (ss)
• Visiting the Dead • Kit Reed • (ss)
• The Visitor • Ray Bradbury • (ss)
• The Visitor • Jack Ketchum • (ss)
• The Visitor • Eric C. Williams • (ss)
• Visitors • Jack M. Dann • (ss)
• Vitals • John Clute • (br)
• Vodka Through a Straw • Peter Hagelslag • (vi)
• A Voice and Bitter Weeping • Buddy Saunders & Howard Waldrop • (ss)
• Voice C • Tom Piccirilli • (ss)
• Voice in a Veteran’s Ear • Manly Wade Wellman • (pm)
• A Voice in Every Wind • Don Sakers • (nv)
• The Voice in the Dawn • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• Voice Lessons • E. G. Young • (ss)
• The Voice of Command • Paul B. Thompson • (nv)
• The Voice of the Pangyricon • Mark McLaughlin • (ss)
• Voices • Kristina Bak • (ss)
• The Voices • Daniel Harr • (pm)
• Voices • Julie Shiel • (pm)
• Voices from The Beyond: Making Contact with The Other Side • Anonymous • (ar)
• Voices in the Light • John Clute • (br)
• The Voices of All Our Yesterdays • Douglas Adams • (bi)
• Voices of the Damned • Lois Tilton • (ss)
• Volans/Flying Fish • Nancy Ellis Taylor • (pm)
• The Volcano Dances • J. G. Ballard • (ss)
• The Volutions • Joan Stewart • (ss)
• Voodoo and Visions • Matt Hills • (br)
• Voodoo Loubge • Christopher Golden • (na)
• Voortrekker • Michael Moorcock • (nv)
• The Vortex Destabilizer • Peter Woodruff • (ss)
• Voting Procedures • Misc. • (ms)
• The Voyage of King Euvoran • Clark Ashton Smith • (ss)
• Voyage of the Shadowmoon • William Thompson • (br)
• Voyage of the Shadowmoon, Sean McMullen • Russell Letson • (br)
• A Voyage to the Moon • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (pm)
• Voyager • Lee Clark Zumpe • (pm)
• Voyages and Digressions • William Thompson • (br)
• Voyeur • Eric M. Witchey • (ss)
• Vrolyck • Mark F. Samuels • (ss)
• Vulpecula (et Anser) • James H. Owens • (pm)
• The Wages of Food-Play • Anna Tambour • (ss)
• Wait for the Thunder • Donald R. Burleson • (ss)
• Waiting at Golgotha • Simon Brown • (ss)
• Waiting for an Angel • Mike Lewis • (ss)
• Waiting for Jenny Rex • Melissa J. Yuan-Innes • (ss)
• Waiting for the Bus of Desolation • Tom Piccirilli • (pm)
• Waiting for the End • Robert Silverberg • (nv)
• Waiting for the Sun • Gary McMahon • (vi)
• Waiting for the Tow • Mike Allen • (pm)
• Waiting for the Zephyr • Tibias Bucknell • (ss)
• Waiting Game • Tiffany Auxier • (pm)
• The Waiting Game • Ellen Straw • (ss)
• The Waiting Thing Inside • Theodore Sturgeon & Don Ward • (ss)
• “‘Waiting, Windless Dark’”: William F. Nolan’s Universe • Christopher Conlon • (in)
• Waitress • Arrianna Juben-Pruitt • (ss)
• Wake Island • Ursula K. Le Guin • (ss)
• Wake Up Outside • Gavin J. Grant • (pm)
• Wake Vol. #4 and #5: The Sign of the Demons, Jean-David Morvan & Philippe Buchet • Karen Haber • (br)
• The Waker Dreams • Richard Matheson • (ss)
• Waking Beauty • Erin Donahoe • (ss)
• Waking the Moon • John Clute • (br)
• A Walk Across Mars • Allen M. Steele • (nv)
• Walk in Sable • Jessica Amanda Salmonson • (pm)
• Walk in Silence • Catherine Asaro • (na)
• A Walk in the Garden • Lucius Shepard • (ss)
• A Walk in the Park • Jane Gwaltney • (pm)
• A Walk in the Sun • Geoffrey A. Landis • (ss)
• A Walk in the Woods • Vaughan Stanger • (ss)
• Walk Like a Mountain • Manly Wade Wellman • (ss)
• A Walk Through the Periodic Chart • Karl Johanson • (ar)
• Walking Contradiction • Nancy Jane Moore • (nv)
• Walking Rain • Ian Keane • (nv)
• Walking the Dog • Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (pm)
• The Wall • Gill Ainsworth • (vi)
• The Wall • Sydney J. Bounds • (ss)
• Wall of Fog • Nancy Caroline Beck • (ss)
• Wallace Bingham’s Bad Day • J. M. Saukkonen • (ss)
• The Wallenstein Gambit • Eric Flint • (na)
• Wallpaper World • Alex Eisenstein & Phyllis Eisenstein • (ss)
• The Walls • Terry Lamsley • (ss)
• The Walls • Keith Laumer • (ss)
• Wally’s Porn • Victoria Elisabeth Garcia • (ss)
• Walpurgisnachtmusik • Simon Whitechapel • (ss)
• Walt’s Matrix • Barbara A. Custer • (nv)
• Waltzing with the Dead • Russell Davis • (pm)
• Wampyr wariations and the English resurgence • Paul Brazier • (br)
• The Wanderer • Jill Bauman • (pm)
• Wandering Child • Melanie Tem • (ss)
• Wandering Eyes • Brent Zirnheld • (ss)
• Wandering Spirit, Carpathian • Misc. • (iv)
• Wandering Star (an unabashed, and free, plug) • Joseph W. Marek • (ms)
• Want’s Master • Patricia S. Bowne • (nv)
• War • Jack London • (ss)
• The War • Stephen M. Wilson • (ss)
• War and Hell • Brett Barkley • (ss)
• “The War Between the States,” New York Ciry, New York, 1922 • Rebecca Rand Kirshner • (nv)
• War in Our Time • Howard L. Myers • (ss)
• The War in Two Parts • Pete Allen • (vi)
• War Is a Mixed Bag • Eric S. Brown & C. Dennis Moore • (ss)
• War of Nerves • A. E. van Vogt • (nv)
• The War of the Flowers • William Thompson • (br)
• The War of the Flowers, Tad Williams • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• The War of the Jewels: The Later Silmarillion Part Two - The Legends of Beleriand • J. R. R. Tolkien • (oc)
• The War of the Ring: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three • J. R. R. Tolkien • (oc)
• War of the Roses • Rosemary Edghill • (ss)
• The War of the Worlds • James P. Blaylock • (nv)
• The War of the Worldviews • James Morrow • (ss)
• The War on Treemon • Nancy Kress • (nv)
• Ward 23 • D. M. Mitchell • (ss)
• Warhorse • Brian Lumley • (pm)
• The Warlock’s Grandfather • Christopher Stasheff • (na)
• The Warlord and the Princess • Patrice E. Sarath • (ss)
• The Warlord of Kul Satu • Brian N. Ball • (ss)
• The Warlord of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs • (n.)
• Warm Lies, Cold Secrets • L. H. Maynard & Michael P. N. Sims • (ss)
• Warm Thick Beer • Jeremy Gottwig • (pm)
• The Warning • Chris Sweeney • (vi)
• Warning, Warning • Allen M. Steele • (ss)
• Warp • Anonymous • (ss)
• Warp • L. H. Maynard & Michael P. N. Sims • (ss)