The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2004

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Waters of Meribah • Tony Ballantyne • (ss)
• “Watson!” • A. E. Dingle • (ss)
• The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, Ursula K. Le Guin • Gary K. Wolfe • (br)
• The Waves at Night Look Scarlet • Kiel Stuart • (ss)
• Waves of Fear • Paula Guran • (cl)
• The Way Back • Peter Carter • (vi)
• a way not avoided • Eric Marin • (pm)
• The Way of All Ghosts: A Myth from Thistledown • Greg Bear • (na)
• The Way of Cross and Dragon • George R. R. Martin • (nv)
• The Way of the Cross • Thomas F. Monteleone • (ss)
• The Way of the Heathen • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• The Way the Future Looks: THX 1138 and Blade Runner • Robert Silverberg • (ar)
• Waycross • Caitlín R. Kiernan • (nv)
• Wayfarers • Algernon Blackwood • (ss)
• Waylaid • Thomas M. Reid • (ss)
• WD40 versus The Three Laws of Robotics • Darren Goossens • (ss)
• We Are All Ghosts • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• We Are Legend: The Social Consequences of the Aids Crisis • Laura M. Kelley • (ar)
• We Are Marching to Utopia: Kurt Vonnegut’s “Player Piano” • Donald E. Morse • (ar)
• We Could Be Sisters • Chris Beckett • (ss)
• We Defy Old Stars • M. C. A. Hogarth • (ss)
• we fell • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (pm)
• We Have Always Spoken Panglish • Suzette Haden Elgin • (ss)
• We Hobbits Are a Merry Folk...: An Incautious and Heretical 1st Draft about J.R.R. Tolkien • David Brin • (ar)
• We Killed Them in the Ratings • J. Michael Straczynski • (nv)
• We Must an Anguish Pay • Steve Mohn • (ss)
• We the Enclosed • K. J. Bishop • (nv)
• We Who Fight Monsters • Paul Finch • (ss)
• The We Who Sing • Stephen M. Baxter • (ss)
• “We Will Water Our Horses in the Mississippi” • James R. Arnold • (ss)
• We Would Be Heroes • Robert N. Stephenson • (ss)
• Wealth • Robert Reed • (ss)
• Weapon of Mass Distraction • Richard A. Lovett, Ph.D. • (nv)
• Weapons of Choice, John Birmingham • Jonathan Strahan • (br)
• Weapons of Mass Production • Michael Stone • (vi)
• Weapons of the Lord Are Not Carnal • Andrew Tisbert • (nv)
• The Weather Artist • Tim Kenyon • (ss)
• The Weather’s Fine • Harry Turtledove • (ss)
• Weaver of Dreams • Jill Bauman • (pm)
• Weavers of the Twilight • Louise Katz • (ss)
• Web of Deception • David M. Weber • (nv)
• Webster • Greg Bear • (ss)
• The Wedding • Simon Bestwick • (ss)
• A Wedding Chest • Vernon Lee • (ss)
• The Wedding Job • Paul McAvoy • (ss)
• The Wedding of Snow and Ice • Alice Hoffman • (ss)
• A Week in the Life of Self Pity • John Llewellyn Probert • (vi)
• A Week in the Unlife • David J. Schow • (ss)
• The Weeping Manse • Jessica Amanda Salmonson • (ss)
• Weeping Walls • Paul Di Filippo • (ss)
• Weetzie Bat • Francesca Lia Block • (na)
• The Weight of a Word • Jo Olluyn • (pm)
• Weird Furka • Adam Golaski • (nv)
• Weird Tales Talks with Terry Pratchett • Joseph McCabe • (iv)
• The Welcome • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Welcome to Andromeda Spaceways In-flight Duty Free • Stuart Barrow & Barbara Robson • (ss)
• Welcome to Dark Tales • Sean Jeffery • (ed)
• Welcome to Justice 2.0 • George Tucker • (vi)
• Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst • Kage Baker • (na)
• Welcome! • Deb Geisler • (ed)
• The Well • Dennis L. McKiernan • (nv)
• We’ll Have Manhattan • Judy Klass • (ss)
• We’ll Just Act Natural • Ray Bradbury • (ss)
• The Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde, read by Elizabeth Sastre • John Joseph Adams • (br)
• Wellbeing • Alasdair Gray • (ss)
• Welles or Wells: The First Invasion from Mars • William Tenn • (ar)
• Wellman, A Farewell • Scott E. Green • (pm)
• Wendigo’s Child • Thomas F. Monteleone • (ss)
• We’re Always Having to Do Some Kind of Dying • Kent Kruse • (pm)
• We’re Going Where the Sun Shines Brightly • Christopher Fowler • (ss)
• Werechihuahua • Ian Watson • (pm)
• The Werewolf in the Supermarket • William John Watkins • (pm)
• West of the Moon • Marianne Willman • (ss)
• Westall’s Vampires • David Longhorn • (ar)
• Western Civilization • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• Wet Blood Dream • Eric Joel Bresin • (pm)
• A Wet Day • Richard Middleton • (ss)
• Wet Work • Gaie Sebold • (ss)
• Wetware • David Langford • (ss)
• What a Friend Told Me About the Men in Her Family • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• What a Good Eater She Is! • Terrie Leigh Relf & Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin • (pm)
• What Are Friends For? • Eileen Gunn • (ss)
• What Can Chloë Want? • Brian M. Stableford • (ss)
• What Can Never Be: The Ancient Dream of a Transparent—Universal—Language • L. Timmel Duchamp • (ar)
• What Dreams May Come • Michael Jan Friedman • (ss)
• What Flowers Might Bloom • Lawrence Barker • (ss)
• What God Abandoned • Mary R. Gentle • (nv)
• What Goes Around • David Gerrold • (ss)
• What Goes Up a Chimney? Smoke! • Paul Di Filippo • (ss)
• What Happened at Cambridge IV • David Langford • (ss)
• What Her Mother Said • Theodora Goss • (pm)
• What I Didn’t See • Karen Joy Fowler • (ss)
• What I Named My Malfunctioning Robot Brother • Mark McLaughlin • (pm)
• What I Saw • Gary McMahon • (vi)
• What If • James F. Yockey • (pm)
• What If Words Had Guardian Angels • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• What Is 21st Century Pulp? • Eric Turowski • (ar)
• What It Comes Down To • David Lunde • (pm)
• What Jorkens Has to Put Up With • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• What Lurke Beneath • Steven L. Shrewsbury • (ss)
• What My Brain Tells My Hands • John Grey • (pm)
• What People Care About • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• What Remains • Ann K. Schwader • (pm)
• What Rough Beast Comes • William Jones & Justin Martin • (gs)
• What Rough Beast Comes • William Jones & Bill Skaar • (gs)
• What Shadows We Pursue • Russell Kirk • (ss)
• What She Left Behind • Sarah A. Hoyt • (ss)
• What Should Never Be • Hannah Strom-Martin • (ss)
• What Sin a Name? • William Edwards • (vi)
• What Sort of Man • Walter C. DeBill, Jr. • (ss)
• What the Cat Told Me • Diana Wynne Jones • (nv)
• What the Sorceress with a Sweet Tooth Had to Say to the Angry Mob Before They Cut Out Her Tongue • Mark McLaughlin • (pm)
• What the Tyger Told Her • Kage Baker • (ss)
• What to Do When an Alien Spacecraft Lands and the Visitors Come Out to Greet You • John Teehan • (pm)
• What to Expect and Not Expect from an Interstellar Voyage • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• What to Take and Not to the Enchanted Forest • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• What Trevor McDonald Doesn’t Tell Us • Steven J. Dines • (ss)
• What We Are Is Not Enough • Matthew Cheney • (pm)
• “What Will the Country Say?” • David M. Keithly • (nv)
• What Wise Men Seek • Michael Moscoe • (nv)
• What You Do Not Know You Want • David Mitchell • (ss)
• Whatever Happened to Lum Slaughter? • Brendan Connell • (ss)
• “Whatever happened to?” • D. G. K. Goldberg • (ss)
• What’s Eating You? • Gary McMahon • (ss)
• What’s One More Kitty More or Less • Terrie Leigh Relf • (pm)
• What’s the Story?: reading Anna Kavan’s Ice - Online Extra • L. Timmel Duchamp • (ar)
• What’s Up, Tiger Lily? • Paul Di Filippo • (nv)
• What’s Wrong with My Daughter? • William Tenn • (ts)
• What’s Your Name? • C. P. Ferraro • (ss)
• The Wheel • Andrew Grossman • (pm)
• When • Orson Scott Card • (pm)
• When a Man Walks into a Room • D. Harlan Wilson • (ss)
• When all your Darkness Screams! • Anonymous • (iv)
• When Brahma Wakes • Fritz Leiber • (vi)
• When Clock Is Egg • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• When Dragons Dream • Kevin G. Maclean • (ss)
• When Fear Rides • Donald Wylie • (na)
• When Fire Knew My Name • James Sallis • (ss)
• When First She Sees Him • Gary McMahon • (vi)
• When Gillings Published Stefniscope • Chuch Harris • (pm)
• When I Die • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer • Greg Beatty • (pm)
• When I Was • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• When Scarabs Multiply • Nnedima Okorafor-Mbachu • (ss)
• When She Calls • William B. Simmons • (ss)
• When She Dances • G. O. Clark • (pm)
• When the Alien Sat Down Next to Me • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• When the Bottom Fell Out • Michael R. Hathaway • (nv)
• When the Earth Trembled • Clark Ashton Smith • (uw)
• When the Machine Dies • Jonathan William Hodges • (ss)
• When the Morning Stars Sang Together • Isaac Szpindel • (nv)
• When the Stars Are Ripe • Stanley C. Sargent • (ss)
• When They Came • Don Webb • (ss)
• When You Visit the Magoebaskloof Hotel, Be Certain Not to Miss the Samango Monkeys • Elizabeth Bear • (ss)
• When? • Antony Mann • (ss)
• Where Ancient Caesars Bled • Michael M. Pendragon • (pm)
• Where and When • James Van Pelt • (ss)
• Where are we at? • Cat Sparks • (ar)
• Where Did All the Porches Go • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• Where Did You Sleep Last Night? • Justine Larbalestier • (ss)
• Where Have You Been?, Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon • Karen Haber • (br)
• Where Is Everybody? • Rod Serling • (pl)
• Where Is the Line • David D. Levine • (ss)
• Where Land Meets Water • Jamie Rosen • (vi)
• Where Memories Dwell • C. S. Watts • (ss)
• Where No One Ever Dies Good • Stephen Gresham • (nv)
• Where Spirits Gat Them Home • John Crowley • (ss)
• Where the Cat Sleeps • B. Z. Niditch • (pm)
• Where the Heart Is • Ramsey Campbell • (ss)
• Where the Tides Ebb and Flow • Lord Dunsany • (pp)
• Where the Vampyres Dwell • Michael M. Pendragon • (ss)
• Where the Wild Geese Go • Meredith Ann Pierce • (nv)
• Where They Went Wrong • Christopher Fowler • (ss)
• Where’s My Hat, What’s My Hurry? • Ray Bradbury • (ss)
• Where’s the Matter • Brian Maycock • (ss)
• Whether To Go Through • Christopher Rowe • (ss)
• Which Apes a Soul • Mark Rich • (ss)
• While Considering the Possibility of Using the Columbia River Gorge as the Setting for an Epic Fantasy • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• While Knitting Your Hat • Michael A. Arnzen • (vi)
• While Set Fled • Fritz Leiber • (vi)
• Whipping Boy • Pam Noles • (ss)
• A Whippoorwill’s Cry • Daniel Byers • (ss)
• Whiskey in the Jar • Bryn Sparks • (ss)
• Whiskey, Popcorn and Gold • T. E. D. Klein • (fw)
• The Whisper • Mark Mansfield • (pm)
• The Whisper in the Roar • James Andrew Schlett • (ar)
• The Whisperer Re-Examined • Fritz Leiber • (ar)
• The Whisperers • Hugh B. Cave • (ss)
• Whispering to Witches, Anna Dale • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Whispers • Carol Johnson Fyfe • (pm)
• Whispers • Scott E. Green • (pm)
• Whispers • Lisa S. Silverthorne • (ss)
• Whispers During Still Moments • Linda D. Addison • (na)
• Whispers in the Dark • Walter Mosley • (nv)
• Whispers of the Dead • Harrison Howe • (pm)
• The Whistling Room • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• White • Tim Lebbon • (na)
• The White Hands • Mark F. Samuels • (ss)
• White Hell, Wisconsin • Weldon Burge • (ss)
• The White Horse Child • Greg Bear • (ss)
• The White Hotel • Alan Dean Foster • (ss)
• White Knuckle Ride • John B. Ford & Paul Kane • (in)
• White Lady • Sophie Wenzel Ellis • (ss)
• The White Man • Thomas M. Disch • (ss)
• The White Man • Thomas F. Monteleone • (nv)
• White Man’s Burden • John Binns • (ss)
• White Midnight, Dia Calhoun • Carolyn Cushman • (br)