The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2004

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D is for Dahl Wendy Cooling (Penguin/Puffin UK 0-670-91416-9, Oct 2004, £9.99, 152pp, hc, cover by Quentin Blake); Alphabetical guide to the life and works of Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.

Sea Horses: The Talisman Louise Cooper (Penguin/Puffin UK 0-14-131440-0, Mar 2004, £4.99, 179pp, tp, cover by David Wyatt) [Sea Horses]; Young-adult fantasy novel, sequel to Sea Horses.

Lionboy Zizou Corder (Puffin 0-141-31726-4, May 2004, £4.99, 339pp, tp, cover by Gino D’Achille) [Lionboy]; Reprint (Puffin 2003) young-adult fantasy novel, first of a trilogy. Corder is a pseudonym for Louisa Young and Isabel Adomakoh Young.

Lionboy: The Chase Zizou Corder (Penguin/Puffin UK 0-141-38052-7, Sep 2004, £12.99, 323pp, hc, cover by Gino D’Achille & Fred von Deelen) [Lionboy]; Young-adult fantasy novel, second of a trilogy. Corder is the pseudonym for Louisa Young and Isabel Adomakoh Young.

British Summertime Paul Cornell (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07404-3, Feb 2004, £6.99, 404pp, pb, cover by blacksheep); Reprint (Gollancz 2002) SF novel.

Doctor Who: The Scream of the Shalkor Paul Cornell (BBC Books 0-563-48619-8, Feb 2004, £5.99, 248pp, pb) [Doctor Who]; Novelization based on the TV series. This expands on an unproduced outline script by Cornell, also included.

Heretic Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins UK 0-00-714989-1, Jun 2004, £6.99, 435pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Grail Quest]; Reprint (HarperCollins UK 2003) associational historical novel, third in “The Grail Quest” series.

Grey Knights Ben Counter (Black Library 1-84416-087-4, Apr 2004, £6.99, 412pp, pb, cover by Philip Sibbering) [Warhammer 40,000]; Far-future war novel set in the “Warhammer 40,000” universe.

Warhammer 40,000: The Bleeding Chalice Ben Counter (BL Publishing/Black Library 1-84416-054-8, Dec 2003, £6.99, 413pp, pb, cover by Adrian Smith) [Warhammer 40,000: Soul Drinkers]; Novelization set in the world of the far-future roleplaying game.

Deep Ten: A Tenth-Anniversary Anthology for the T Party Writers’ Group ed. Gary Couzens & Sara-Jayne Townsend (T Party Books 0-9532949-1-9, Jan 2004, £5.00, 128pp, tp, cover by Hilary Waite); Anthology of 10 horror, SF, and slipstream stories, three originals, by members of a writers’ group.

The Dark Ground Gillian Cross (Oxford University Press 0-19-271925-4, Apr 2004, £9.99, 242pp, hc, cover by Paul Young) [Dark Ground]; Young-adult SF thriller about miniaturisation and survival, the first in a trilogy. Copyrighted 2003, but not published until now.

Arthur: King of the Middle March Kevin Crossley-Holland (Orion Children’s Books 1-84255-155-8, Aug 2004, £5.99, 396pp, tp) [Arthur]; Reprint (Orion Children’s Books 2003) young-adult Arthurian novel. Last in a trilogy after Arthur: The Seeing Stone and Arthur: At the Crossing Places.

Postscripts Number 1 ed. Peter Crowther (PS Publishing 1-904619-20-7, May 2004, £6.00, 170pp, tp, cover by Edward Miller); Original anthology/magazine with 13 stories, one poem, and three nonfiction pieces; this is the first issue, dated Spring 2004. Authors include Gene Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Brian Aldiss, and Ramsey Campbell. A hardcover signed limited edition of 150 (£50.00) is also available. PS Publishing, Hamilton House, 4 Park Avenue, Harrogate HG2 9BQ, England; [www.pspublishing.co.uk]. Contents listed under magazines.

Mobius Dick Andrew Crumey (Picador 0-330-41991-9, Jun 2004, £16.99, 312pp, hc, cover by Sara Fanelli); Literary fantasy novel.

The Rules of Magic Annie Dalton (Egmont 1-4052-0058-8, Oct 2004, £4.99, 295pp, tp); Young-adult fantasy novel. Urban legends are real.

The Battle of Evernight Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Macmillan/Tor UK 0-333-90758-2, Jan 2004, £10.99, xv+469pp, tp, cover by Paul Gregory) [Bitterbynde]; Reprint (Macmillan Tor Australia 2002) fantasy novel, third in “The Bitterbynde” trilogy.

The Battle of Evernight Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Macmillan/Tor UK 0-330-48957-7, Aug 2004, £7.99, xvii+632pp, pb, cover by Paul Gregory) [Bitterbynde]; Reprint (Pan Macmillan Tor Australia 2002) fantasy novel, the third book of “The Bitterbynde”.

The Iron Tree Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Macmillan/Tor UK 1-4050-4710-0, Nov 2004, £17.99, 425pp, hc, cover by Julek Heller) [Crowthistle Chronicles]; Fantasy novel, the first book of “The Crowthistle Chronicles”.

Mad, Bad and Totally Dangerous Susan Davis (Transworld/Corgi 0-552-55191-0, Jul 2004, £4.99, 260pp, tp, cover by Grey Roman) [Henry Game]; Young-adult fantasy novel, third after The Hendy Game and Delilah and the Dark Stuff.

Doctor Who: The Sleep of Reason Martin Day (BBC Books 0-563-48620-1, Aug 2004, £5.99, 281pp, pb) [Doctor Who]; Novelization based on the TV series.

The Seed Davide de Angelis (Creation 1-84068-114-4, Nov 2004, £9.95, 192pp, tp, cover by Davide de Angelis); Fantasy novel, first in a series. A first novel.

The Onion Girl Charles de Lint (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07397-7, Mar 2004, £6.99, 508pp, pb) [Newford]; Reprint (Tor 2001) fantasy novel set in de Lint’s “Newford”.

Code Noir Marianne de Pierres (Time Warner UK/Orbit 1-84149-257-4, Jul 2004, £6.99, 311pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Parrish Plessis]; SF novel, second in the “Parrish Plessis” series after Nylon Angel.

The Spook’s Apprentice Joe Delaney (The Bodley Head 0-370-32826-4, Jul 2004, £8.99, 325pp, tp, cover by David Wyatt) [Spook]; Young-adult fantasy novel.

Jinn Matthew B. J. Delaney (Macmillan/Pan 0-330-41855-6, Feb 2004, £6.99, 625pp, pb); Reprint (St. Martin’s Press 2003) dark fantasy novel. A first novel. [First U.K. edition]

Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost Troy Denning (Random House UK/Arrow 0-09-941045-1, Jan 2004, £6.99, xii+456+viii, pb, cover by Steven D. Anderson) [Star Wars]; Reprint (Century 2003) SF novel set in the Star Wars universe. Includes an interview with Denning.

Five Great Novels Philip K. Dick (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07581-3, May 2004, £12.99, 841pp, tp, cover by Sonar); SF omnibus of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964), Martian Time-Slip (1964), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Ubik (1969), and A Scanner Darkly (1977).

Paycheck Philip K. Dick (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07001-3, Feb 2004, £7.99, 312pp, hc); SF collection. This is a movie tie-in edition, This is copyrighted 2003, but not published until now. A trade paperback (export only) edition (-07583-X, £6.99) was announced but not seen.

Paycheck Philip K. Dick (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07585-6, Oct 2004, £6.99, 312pp, pb); Reprint (Gollancz 2004) SF collection.

The Simulacra Philip K. Dick (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07460-4, Sep 2004, £7.99, 220pp, tp, cover by Chris Moore); Reprint (Ace 1964) SF novel. Volume 57 in the “SF Masterworks” series.

The Cup of the World John Dickinson (Fickling Books, David 0-385-60516-1, Jan 2004, £12.99, 419pp, hc, cover by Assheton Gordon) [Cup of the World]; Young-adult fantasy novel.

The Gift Boat Peter Dickinson (Macmillan Children’s Books 1-405-03516-1, Mar 2004, £9.99, 138pp, hc); Reprint (Wendy Lamb 2004 as Inside Grandad) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]

The Tears of the Salamander Peter Dickinson (Macmillan Children’s Books 0-330-41540-9, Mar 2004, £5.99, 233pp, tp); Reprint (Macmillan Children’s Books 2003) young-adult fantasy novel.

The Man Who Tried to Get Away Stephen Donaldson (Orion 0-7528-4935-2, May 2004, £6.99, 346pp, pb) [Mick “Brew” Axbrewder]; Third in a trilogy after The Lady Tree and Quicksilver. Reprint (Ballantine 1990 as by Reed Stephens) associational novel.

The Runes of the Earth Stephen Donaldson (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07598-8, Oct 2004, £18.99, 593pp, hc, cover by Laura Brett) [Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]; Fantasy novel, the first book of “The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant”. Simultaneous with the US edition. A trade paperback (OME) edition (-07599-6, £12.99) was announced but not seen.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 17th Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois (Robinson 1-84119-924-9, Nov 2004, £9.99, xlv+718pp, tp, cover by joeroberts); Reprint (St. Martin’s 2004 as The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection) best-of-the-year anthology of 29 stories, with a summation of the year by Dozois. [First U.K. edition]

Goddess of the Ice Realm David Drake (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07570-8, Sep 2004, £6.99, 496pp, pb, cover by Donato Giancola) [Lord of the Isles]; Reprint (Tor 2003) fantasy novel, fifth in the “Lord of the Isles” series. [First U.K. edition]

The Journals of Eleanor Druse Eleanor Druse (Transworld/Bantam UK 0-553-81696-9, May 2004, £6.99, 249pp, tp); Reprint (Hyperion 2004) novelization based on Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital TV series. Druse is a pseudonym. [First U.K. edition]

Seven Tales of Sex and Death Patricia Duncker (Picador 0-330-49012-5, Mar 2004, £7.99, 228pp, tp); Reprint (Picador 2003) original associational/fantasy collection.

The Burning Shore Robert Earl (Black Library 1-84416-129-3, Apr 2004, £6.99, 411pp, pb, cover by Paul Dainton) [Warhammer: Florin & Lorenzo]; Fantasy-war novel set in the “Warhammer” universe.

Warhammer: Wild Kingdoms Robert Earl (BL Publishing/Black Library 1-84416-149-8, Oct 2004, £5.99, 255pp, pb, cover by Jon Hodgson) [Warhammer: Florin & Lorenzo]; Novelization based on the roleplaying game world, in the “Florin d’Artaud” series after The Burning Shore.

The Elder Gods David & Leigh Eddings (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-715759-2, Jan 2004, £12.99, 424pp, tp, cover by Stephen Frink) [Dreamers]; Reprint (Voyager 2003) fantasy novel, book one of “The Dreamers Quartet”.

The Treasured One David & Leigh Eddings (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-715761-4, Jun 2004, £18.99, i+519pp, hc) [Dreamers]; Fantasy novel, second in “The Dreamers” quartet after The Elder Gods.

Never Surrender Clive Egleton (Severn House 0-7278-6059-3, Feb 2004, £18.99, 192pp, hc); Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1970 as A Piece of Resistance) SF novel of Britain’s resistance to occupation after a Russian atomic strike. Includes a new foreword by Egleton. Copyrighted 1970, 2004, suggesting some revisions.

The Byzantium Bazaar Stephen Elboz (Oxford University Press 0-19-275368-1, May 2004, £4.99, 136pp, tp, cover by Rob Hefferan); Reprint (Oxford University Press 1996) young-adult fantasy novel.

The Murkmere Patricia Elliott (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-87790-1, May 2004, £5.99, 334pp, tp, cover by Mark Edwards) [Murkmere]; Young-adult fantasy novel.

Children of the Streets Harlan Ellison (Severn House/Edgeworks Abbey 0-7278-6105-0, Aug 2004, £18.99, ii+182pp, hc); Reprint (Ace 1961 as The Juvies) collection of juvenile delinquent stories with a new introduction by the author. [First U.K. edition]

Infernum: The Art of Jason Engle Jason Engle (Paper Tiger 1-84340-203-3, Oct 2004, £20.00, 128pp, hc, cover by Jason Engle); Collection of fantasy and mainstream art, with text by Engle.

The Healthy Dead Steven Erikson (PS Publishing 1-904619-09-6, Aug 2004, £10.00, 103pp, tp, cover by Edward Miller); Fantasy novella of necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach. Introduction by Paul Kearney. This is a limited edition of 500 signed by Erikson; a hardcover edition of 400 (-09-6, £25.00) signed by Erikson and Kearney is also available. Available from PS Publishing, Hamilton House, 4 Park Ave., Harrogate, HG2 9BQ, UK; [www.pspublishing.co.uk].

Midnight Tides Steven Erikson (Transworld/Bantam UK 0-593-04628-5, Mar 2004, £12.99, 698pp, tp, cover by Steve Stone) [Malazan Book of the Fallen]; Fantasy novel, the fifth volume of “The Malazan Book of the Fallen”. A hardcover edition (-04627-7, £20.00) is also available.

Sands of Time Barbara Erskine (HarperCollins UK 0-00-651209-7, Apr 2004, £6.99, 416pp, pb); Reprint (HarperCollins UK 2003) collection of 23 stories and three poems.

The Village of Widows Ravi Shankar Etteth (Transworld/Black Swan 0-552-77078-7, May 2004, £6.99, 302pp, tp, cover by Judy Haslam-Jones); Literary novel with fantasy elements. A hardback (Doubleday UK 0-385-60404-1, £12.99) scheduled for 1/04 was cancelled.

Medalon Jennifer Fallon (Time Warner UK/Orbit 1-84149-326-0, May 2004, £7.99, 615pp, pb, cover by Lee Gibbons) [Demon Child]; Reprint (Voyager Australia 2000) fantasy novel, the first book of “The Demon Child” trilogy. [First U.K. edition]

The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer (Simon & Schuster UK 0-689-86043-9, Oct 2004, £12.99, 459pp, hc, cover by Mel Grant); Reprint (Atheneum 2004) young-adult fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]

Warhammer 40,000: Legacy Matthew Farrar (Black Library 1-84416-092-0, Jul 2004, £5.99, 251pp, pb, cover by Clint Langley) [Warhammer 40,000]; Novelization based on the future-war roleplaying game universe, second in the “Shira Calpurnia” series.

Exile’s Return Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224683-X, Sep 2004, £18.99, v+356pp, hc) [Conclave of Shadows]; Fantasy novel, third book of “Conclave of Shadows”.

King of Foxes Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224686-4, May 2004, £11.99, iii+374pp, tp, cover by Martin McKenna) [Conclave of Shadows]; Reprint (Voyager 2003) fantasy novel, book two of “Conclave of Shadows”.

Prince of the Blood Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-717616-3, Sep 2004, £7.99, 356pp, pb, cover by Dominic Harman); Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1989) fantasy novel.

Jimmy the Hand Raymond E. Feist & Steve Stirling (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648390-9, Jun 2004, £6.99, 369pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor); Reprint (Voyager 2003) fantasy novel, book three of “Legends of the Riftwar”, 15th in the overall “Rift” series.

Something Rotten Jasper Fforde (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-83558-3, Jul 2004, £12.99, 400pp, hc, cover by Mark Thomas) [Thursday Next]; Humorous alternate-world fantasy novel. Fourth in the “Thursday Next” series. A collector’s edition (£18.99) was announced but not seen.

The Well of Lost Plots Jasper Fforde (Hodder Headline/NEL 0-340-82593-6, Jan 2004, £6.99, 368pp, tp) [Thursday Next]; Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 2003) alternate-Earth humorous SF/fantasy novel. Third in the “Thursday Next” series after The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book.

The Archon Catherine Fisher (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-84377-2, Feb 2004, £5.99, i+392pp, tp, cover by Tracey Hurst & Jerry Paris) [Oracle Prophecies]; Young-adult fantasy novel, sequel to The Oracle.

The Glass Tower Catherine Fisher (Random House UK/Red Fox 0-09-947298-8, Aug 2004, £5.99, 351pp, tp, cover by Paul Young); Omnibus of three unconnected young-adult fantasy novels: The Conjuror’s Game (1990), The Candle Man (1994), and Fintan’s Tower (1991).

Wild Magic Jude Fisher (Simon & Schuster/Pocket UK 0-7434-4041-2, Jul 2004, £6.99, 565pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Fool’s Gold]; Reprint (DAW 2003) fantasy novel. Book Two of “Fool’s Gold”. Fisher is a pseudonym of Jane Johnson.

The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque Jeffrey Ford (Macmillan/Tor UK 0-330-41318-X, Apr 2004, £6.99, 324pp, pb, cover by blacksheep); Reprint (HarperCollins/Eos 2002) fantasy novel.

Breathe: Everyone Has To Do It Christopher Fowler (Telos 1-903889-67-7, Jun 2004, £7.99, 102pp, tp); Dark fantasy novella of a business whose offices have an extreme “sick building syndrome.” Available from Beech House, Chapel Lane, Moulton, Cheshire CW9 8PQ. A limited, numbered hardcover edition (-68-5, £25.00) was announced but not seen.

Demonized Christopher Fowler (Serpent’s Tail 1-85242-848-1, Feb 2004, £10.00, x+241pp, tp, cover by wall); Original collection of 17 dark fantasy stories, four reprints.

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