The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2005

Books, Listed by Author

O’NEIL, DENNY; [i.e., Dennis Joseph O’Neil] (1939- ) (chron.)

• * *Justice League of America: Green Lantern: Hero’s Quest (Pocket 0-7434-1712-7, Apr 2005, $6.99, 339pp, pb, cover by Alex Ross) Novelization based on the comic books. Copyrighted by DC comics.
• * _Justice League of America: Green Lantern: Hero’s Quest (SFBC #1188982, Apr 2005, $10.99, 339pp, hc, cover by Alex Ross) [Green Lantern] Reprint (Pocket 2005) novelization based on the comic books. Copyrighted by DC Comics. This has ISBN 0-7394-5261-4; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.

ONIONS, OLIVER (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Beckoning Fair One (Dover 0-486-43647-0, Jun 2005, $5.95, 89pp, tp) Reprint (Secker 1911 as part of Widdershins) ghost story.

OPPEL, KENNETH (Kerry) (1967- ) (chron.)

• * _Airborn (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-87856-8, Jan 2005, £5.99, 433pp, tp, cover by David Gaadt) [Matt Cruse] Reprint (Hodder Children’s Books 2004) young-adult fantasy novel. First in a series.
• * _Airborn (HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-053182-7, Jun 2005, $6.99, 501pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Matt Cruse] Reprint (HarperCollins Canada 2/04) young-adult fantasy adventure set in a world of pirates and airships.
• * *Skybreaker (HarperCollins Canada 0-00-200699-5, Jul 2005, $22.99, 340pp, hc, cover by David Gaadt) [Matt Cruse] Young-adult fantasy adventure, sequel to Airborn, set in a world of pirates and airships. Matt Cruse finds a lost airship.
• * _Skybreaker (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-87857-6, Sep 2005, £8.99, 458pp, hc, cover by David Gaadt) [Matt Cruse] Reprint (HarperCollins Canada 2005) young-adult alternate world SF novel, sequel to Airborn.
• * +Skybreaker (HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-053227-0, Dec 2005, $16.99, 369pp, hc, cover by Danilo Ducak) [Matt Cruse] Young-adult fantasy adventure, sequel to Airborn, set in a world of pirates and airships. First US edition (HarperCollins Canada 7/05).

OPRISKO, KRIS (chron.)

• * _Clive Barker’s The Thief of Always (with Gabriel Hernandez & Clive Barker) See entry under Clive Barker.

ORAM, HIAWYN (chron.)

• * _The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (with Tudor Humphries & C. S. Lewis) See entry under C. S. Lewis

ORE, REBECCA (Brown); pseudonym of Rebecca Brown, (1948- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _Alien Bootlegger (Aqueduct Press 1-933500-01-8, Nov 2005, $9.00, 121pp, ph) Reprint (Tor 1993 as part of Alien Bootlegger and Other Stories) perfect-bound chapbook novella with a new introduction by Michael Swanwick. Part of the Conversation Pieces chapbook series. Aqueduct Press, PO Box 95787, Seattle WA 98145-2787; [www.aqueductpress.com].

O’ROURKE, THOMPSON (chron.)

• * *Roger Corman’s Dinocroc (ibooks 1-4165-0403-6, Feb 2005, $6.99, 297pp, pb, cover by Todd Marshall) Novelization of the TV movie. Copyrighted by Concorde-New Horizons.

ORWELL, GEORGE; pseudonym of Eric Blair, (1903-1950) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _The Complete Novels (Penguin UK 0-141-18515-5, Feb 2005, £15.99, 925pp, tp) Reissue (Penguin 1983 as The Penguin Complete Novels of George Orwell) mainstream/SF omnibus including Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). 10th printing. A “Penguin Modern Classic”. (Contents)

OSBORNE-McKNIGHT, JUILENE (chron.)

• * _Bright Sword of Ireland (Tor/Forge 0-765-35004-1, Feb 2005, $6.99, 304pp, pb, cover by Julie Bell) Reprint (Forge 2004) historical fantasy novel, a retelling of Irish legend following Finnabair, daughter of Queen Medb of Connacht.

O’SHAUGHNESSY, DARREN; see pseudonym Darren Shan (stories) (chron.)

OSHII, MAMORU (chron.)

• * *Blood the Last Vampire: Night of the Beasts (Dark Horse Comics/DH Press 1-59582-029-9, Oct 2005, $8.95, 298pp, tp, cover by Katsuya Terada) Novelization based on the vampire-hunter character from the movie Blood the Last Vampire. Translated by Camellia Nieh from the Japanese Kemono Tachi No Yoru Blood the Last Vampire (Kadokawa Shoten 2000).

OSTOW, MICOL (chron.)

• * *Charmed: Changeling Places (Simon Spotlight Entertainment 0-689-87852-4, Apr 2005, $5.99, pb) [Charmed] Young-adult novelization, the 29th based on the TV show about three witches. Copyrighted by Spelling Television.

OWENS, ROBIN D. (stories) (chron.)

• * *Guardian of Honor (Harlequin/Luna 0-373-80215-3, Feb 2005, $13.95, 409pp, tp) [Summoning] Contemporary fantasy novel, first in the Summonings trilogy. Attorney Alexa Fitzwalter is transported to a magic realm to fight encroaching evil.
• * *Heart Choice (Berkley Sensation 0-425-20396-4, Jul 2005, $6.99, 334pp, pb) [Celta] Futuristic science fantasy romance set on the planet of Celta.

OXENBURY, HELEN (chron.)

• * _Alice Through the Looking-Glass (with Lewis Carroll) See entry under Lewis Carroll.

OYEYEMI, HELEN (chron.)

• * *The Icarus Girl (Bloomsbury 0-7475-7548-7, Jan 2005, £16.99, 305pp, hc) Literary fantasy novel. A first novel.

PACK, JANET, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * _Magic Tails (with Martin H. Greenberg) See entry under Martin H. Greenberg

PAINE, MICHAEL; pseudonym of John Michael Curlovich (chron.)

• * *Steel Ghosts (Berkley 0-425-20070-1, Jan 2005, $6.99, 312pp, pb) Horror novel. An abandoned steel mill in Pennsylvania holds old ghosts. Paine is a pen name for John Michael Curlovich.

PALMIERI, MARCO, ed. (chron.)

• * *Star Trek Voyager: Distant Shores (Pocket 0-7434-9253-6, Nov 2005, $14.00, 390pp, tp) [Star Trek: Voyager] Star Trek original anthology of 11 stories, plus two framing pieces. A “Tenth-anniversary Celebration” of the TV show. Copyrighted by Paramount Pictures. (Contents)

PALWICK, SUSAN (1959- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Flying in Place (Tor 0-765-31386-3, May 2005, $11.95, 189pp, tp, cover by Kamil Vojnar) Reprint (Tor 1992) fantasy novel. Includes an 11-page reader’s guide.
• * *The Necessary Beggar (Tor 0-765-31097-X, Oct 2005, $24.95, 316pp, hc, cover by Stephan Martiniere) Fantasy novel. A family exiled from an idyllic realm must learn to live in a near-future America at war.

PAMPELLONNE, TERESE (chron.)

• * *The Unwelcome Child (Kensington/Pinnacle 0-7860-1726-0, Dec 2005, $6.99, 318pp, pb) Horror novel. A pregnant woman believes she’s carrying the spirit of a murdered child.

PANSHIN, ALEXEI; [i.e., Alexis Adams Panshin] (1940- ) (chron.)

• * _Rite of Passage (SFBC #1158493, Jan 2005, $10.99, 215pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton) Reprint (Ace 1968) Nebula award-winning SF novel. This is #16 in the SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection; it has ISBN 0-7394-5000-X, lacks a price, and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.

PAOLINI, CHRISTOPHER (chron.)

• * *Eldest (Doubleday UK 0-385-60790-3, Aug 2005, £14.99, xvii+681pp, hc, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Inheritance] Young-adult fantasy novel, book two of Inheritance. Simultaneous with the US (Knopf) edition.
• * *Eldest (Random House/Knopf 0-375-82670-X, Aug 2005, $21.00, 681pp, hc, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Inheritance] Young-adult fantasy novel, second in the Inheritance trilogy. Eragon and his dragon must travel to the land of the elves for more training.
• * _Eldest (SFBC #1193744, Sep 2005, $13.99, 681pp, hc, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Inheritance] Reprint (Knopf 2005) fantasy novel, second in the “Inheritance” trilogy. This is similar to the Knopf edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Eragon (Transworld/Corgi 0-552-55209-7, Jan 2005, £5.99, 517pp, tp, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Inheritance] Reprint (Paolini International 2002) young-adult fantasy novel.
• * _Eragon (Random House/Knopf 0-375-82669-6, Apr 2005, $9.95, 503pp, tp, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Inheritance] Reprint (Paolini International 2002) fantasy novel, first in the “Inheritance” trilogy.

PARADIZ, VALERIE (chron.)

• * *Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales (Basic Books 0-7382-0917-1, Dec 2004, $23.00, 222 + xvi, hc, cover by Walter Crane) Non-fiction, reference, a look at the women who provided many of the Grimm’s stories. Includes notes, bibliography, and index.

PARDOE, BLAINE LEE (chron.)

• * *MechWarrior: Dark Age: Target of Opportunity (Penguin/Roc 0-451-46016-2, Feb 2005, $6.99, 297pp, pb) [MechWarrior: Dark Age] Novelization, the 14th based on the computer game based on the “Battletech” roleplaying game. Copyrighted by WizKids.

PARK, PAUL (Claibourne) (1954- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *A Princess of Roumania (Tor 0-765-31096-1, Aug 2005, $24.95, 368pp, hc, cover by John Jude Palencar) [White Tiger] Contemporary fantasy novel. An orphan grows up to learn she’s a princess with a magical heritage in another world.

PARKER, K. J. (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Devices and Desires (Time Warner UK/Orbit 1-84149-275-2, Apr 2005, £12.99, 548pp, tp) [Engineer] Fantasy novel, book one in The Engineer trilogy. A condemned engineer escapes, and falls in league with his country’s enemy.
• * _Memory (SFBC #1169716, Dec 2004, $12.99, 572pp, hc) [Scavenger] Fantasy novel, third in the Scavenger trilogy. First US edition (Orbit 4/03).
• * _Pattern (SFBC #1170674, Aug 2004, $12.99, 568pp, hc) [Scavenger] Reprint (Orbit 2002) dark fantasy novel, second in the “Scavenger” trilogy. This lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Shadow (SFBC #1161173, Apr 2004, $12.99, 572pp, hc) [Scavenger] Reprint (Orbit 2001) dark fantasy novel, the first in the “Scavenger” series. This lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.

PARKIN, LANCE (chron.)

• * *Doctor Who: The Gallifrey Chronicles (BBC Books 0-563-48624-4, Jun 2005, £5.99, 282pp, pb) [Doctor Who] SF novelization based on the television show. The last of the books featuring the 8th Doctor, this explains why the ninth Doctor is “the last of the Time Lords.”
• * *Faction Paradox: Warlords of Utopia (Mad Norwegian Press 0-9725959-6-1, Nov 2004, $17.95, 180pp, tp, cover by Steve Johnson) [Faction Paradox] SF novel, the third in the Faction Paradox series created by Lawrence Miles, a spin-off from Doctor Who. Mad Norwegian Press, 909 NE Grant St. #303, Ankeny IA 50021; [www.madnorwegian.com].

PARTRIDGE, NORMAN (John) (1958- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales (Subterranean Press 1-59606-032-8, Oct 2005, $40.00, 391pp, hc, cover by Tim Truman) Collection of 19 stories and one unpublished novel excerpt. Significantly expanded from the Stoker award-winning Roadkill Press 1992 edition with an added 11 stories, the novel excerpt, and a new introduction and comments on the stories and writing by the author. Foreword by Edward Bryant. This is a signed limited edition of 750; a traycased, lettered edition of 26 ($150.00) adds another three stories, two original. Subterranean Press, PO Box 190106, Burton MI 48519; [www.subterraneanpress.com]. (Contents)

PATTERSON, JAMES (Brendan) (1947- ) (chron.)

• * *Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (Little, Brown 0-316-15556-X, Apr 2005, $16.99, 423pp, hc, cover by Kamil Vojnar) [Maximum Ride] Young-adult SF thriller, first in a series about six genetically altered kids with wings.
• * _Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (Hodder Headline 0-7553-2192-8, Jul 2005, £12.99, 406pp, hc) Reprint (Little, Brown 2005) young-adult SF novel of genetically engineered children. Though it borrows the situation and some names from When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, the author declares this is not in that series or world. [First U.K. edition]

PATTERSON, TERESA (chron.)

• * _The World of Shannara (with Terry Brooks) See entry under Terry Brooks.

PATTON, FIONA (1962- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Silver Lake (DAW 0-7564-0185-2, Nov 2005, $23.95, 386pp, hc, cover by Steve Stone) [Warriors of Estavia] Fantasy novel, the first in The Warriors of Estavia series set in an city based on ancient Istanbul. A set of street urchins are chosen as champions by gods.

PATTOU, EDITH; [i.e., Edith Pattou Emery] (chron.)

• * _East (Harcourt/Magic Carpet 0-15-205221-6, May 2005, $7.95, 507pp, tp, cover by Stephen T. Johnson) Reprint (Harcourt 2003) young-adult fairy-tale fantasy novel, a retelling of “East of the Sun and West of the Moon.”
• * _Fire Arrow (Harcourt/Magic Carpet 0-15-205530-4, Sep 2005, $7.95, 332pp, tp, cover by Stephen T. Johnson) [Songs of Eirren] Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1998) young-adult fantasy novel, second in The Songs of Eirren series after Hero’s Song.
• * _Hero’s Song (Harcourt/Magic Carpet 0-15-205542-8, Sep 2005, $7.95, 333pp, tp, cover by Michael Hussar) [Songs of Eirren] Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1991) young-adult Celtic fantasy novel, book one of The Songs of Eirren.

PAULSEN, GARY (Melvin) (1939- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Time Hackers (Random House/Lamb 0-385-74659-8, Feb 2005, $13.95, 87pp, hc) Young-adult SF adventure novella about two kids being hassled by pranksters with a time machine.

PAVER, MICHELLE (chron.)

• * *Spirit Walker (Orion Children’s Books 1-8425-5171-X, Sep 2005, £8.99, 278pp, hc, cover by John Fordham) [Chronicles of Ancient Darkness] Young-adult fantasy novel, the second volume in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.
• * +Wolf Brother (HarperCollins 0-06-072825-6, Mar 2005, $16.99, 298pp, tp, cover by Kamil Vojnar) [Chronicles of Ancient Darkness] Young-adult prehistoric fantasy about a boy and his wolf companion, the first in the “Chronicles of Ancient Darkness” series of six. First US edition (Orion 11/04).
• * _Wolf Brother (SFBC #1178244, Jun 2005, $13.99, 298pp, hc, cover by Kamil Vojnar) [Chronicles of Ancient Darkness] Reprint (Orion 2004) young-adult prehistoric fantasy about a boy and his wolf companion, the first in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series.
• * _Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness (Orion Children’s Books 1-84255-131-0, Jun 2005, £4.99, 244pp, tp) [Chronicles of Ancient Darkness] Reprint (Orion Children’s Books 2004) young-adult fantasy novel. Book one of a six-part series.

PAVLOU, STEL (chron.)

• * _Decipher (St. Martin’s 0-312-99643-8, Feb 2005, $6.99, 584pp, pb) Reprint (Simon & Schuster UK 2001) SF novel.
• * *Gene (Simon & Schuster UK 0-7432-0859-5, Jan 2005, £12.99, 430pp, hc) Thriller with elements of historical fantasy. A detective discovers he’s a reincarnated warrior in a battle spanning three millennia.

PAXSON, DIANA L(ucile) (1943- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _Ancestors of Avalon (with Marion Zimmer Bradley) See entry under Marion Zimmer Bradley.
• * _Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ancestors of Avalon (Penguin/Roc 0-451-46028-6, Jun 2005, $16.00, 363pp, tp, cover by Steve Stone) [Avalon] Reprint (Viking 2004) pre-Arthurian fantasy novel.

PEARSALL, ANTHONY (chron.)

• * *The Lovecraft Lexicon: A Reader’s Guide to Persons, Places and Things in the Tales of H.P. Lovecraft (New Falcon Publications 1-56184-129-3, Jun 2005, $19.95, 472pp, tp, cover by Linda Joyce Franks) Non-fiction, reference, an encyclopedic guide to significant features and obscure references in HPL’s works, with a chronology of selected stories, and an appendix on “Caves, Caverns, Wells & Abysses.” [Lovecraft]

PEARSON, RIDLEY (1953- ) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Kingdom Keepers (Disney Editions 0-7868-5444-8, Sep 2005, $17.99, 325pp, hc, cover by David Frankland) Young-adult fantasy. Five child actors at Disney World must save the park from evil forces only they can see. Copyrighted by Page One.

PECK, DALE (1967- ) (chron.)

• * *Drift House: The First Voyage (Bloomsbury USA 1-58234-969-X, Sep 2005, $16.95, 437pp, hc, cover by Martin Hargreaves) [Drift House] Young-adult fantasy. Three children have adventures in a floating house. Simultaneous with the Bloomsbury UK edition.
• * *The Drift House: The First Voyage (Bloomsbury 0-7475-7555-X, Sep 2005, £12.99, 437pp, hc, cover by Martin Hargreaves) [Drift House] Young-adult fantasy novel. Simultaneous with the US (Bloomsbury US) edition. A trade paperback (OME) edition (-8035-9) was announced but not seen.

PEEL, JOHN (Ronald) (1954- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _Diadem: Worlds of Magic: Book of Earth (Llewellyn 0-7387-0613-2, Jan 2005, $4.99, 173pp, tp, cover by Bleu Turrell) [Diadem] Reprint (Scholastic 1997) young-adult fantasy novel, fifth in the series. This has been revised. Llewellyn, PO Box 64383, St. Paul MN 55164-0383; [www.llewellyn.com].
• * _Diadem: Worlds of Magic: Book of Nightmares (Llewellyn 0-7387-0612-4, Mar 2005, $4.99, 177pp, tp, cover by Bleu Turrell) [Diadem] Reprint (Scholastic 1997) young-adult fantasy novel, sixth in the series.
• * *Diadem: Worlds of Magic: Book of Oceans (Llewellyn 0-7387-0748-1, Sep 2005, $4.99, 202pp, tp, cover by Bleu Turrell) [Diadem] Young-adult fantasy novel, eighth in the series.
• * *Diadem: Worlds of Magic: Book of War (Llewellyn 0-7387-0611-6, May 2005, $4.99, 257pp, tp, cover by Bleu Turrell) [Diadem] Young-adult fantasy novel, seventh in the series. This is original, but the copyright page indicates “previously published in 1997 by Scholastic, Inc.”

PELAN, JOHN C., ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * *Lost on the Darkside: Voices from the Edge of Horror (Penguin/Roc 0-451-46043-X, Sep 2005, $7.99, 387pp, pb) Original anthology of 15 horror stories, fourth in the Darkside series. Authors include Ramsey Campbell, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, and David Niall Wilson. (Contents)