The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2005

Stories, Listed by Title

• (Dragon Kings Play Songs of Love) • Edward Miller • (cv)
• (Spit Fire) • Gregory Cartwright • (cv)
• (Veritas) • Russell Dickerson • (cv)
• 0wnz0red • Cory Doctorow • (nv)
• 2004 Index • Misc. • (ix)
• 2005 Readers’ Awards • Sheila Williams • (ms)
• 2005 Voting Procedures • Misc. • (ms)
• 20th Century Ghost • Joe Hill • (ss)
• 20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill • Damien Broderick, Matthew Cheney, Lisa Goldstein, Richard Horton & Tim Pratt • (br)
• 27 May 1945 • Kamino Okina • (ss)
• The 3“ x 5” Secret to Good Outlines • Norman Partridge • (ar)
• 325 Park Place • Kit Porter • (ss)
• 34, Tanith Lee (as Esther Garber) • Faren Miller • (br)
• 351073 • Jeff Gardiner • (ss)
• 38 Light Years Out • William John Watkins • (pm)
• 4Thoughts on Numbers • Ellen McAteer • (ar)
• The 57th • John Binns • (nv)
• 82017162211211811757 • 1331279207716 • (vi)
• The 9/11 Connection between The Running Man and Song of Susannah • Patrick McAleer • (ar)
• 9Tail Fox, Jon Courtenay Grimwood • Gary K. Wolfe • (br)
• A Ghost Can Be Born • Ray Russell • (ss)
• A Talk with Richard Matheson • Michael McCarty • (iv)
• A-Positive • Kaaron Warren • (ss)
• A-Z in Descending Order • Liza Granville • (ss)
• Abaddon • Steven Utley • (ss)
• Abattoir Girl • Allen Ashley & Andrew Hook • (ss)
• Abby Cooper: Psychic Eye, Victoria Laurie • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Abducted Souls • Robert Reed • (ss)
• The Aberration • T. A. Wilson • (ss)
• Abimagique • Lucius Shepard • (sl)
• Aboard the Beatitude • Brian W. Aldiss • (nv)
• About Brian Aldiss • Misc. • (bg)
• About John Brosnan • Robert Holdstock • (ob)
• About Our Contributors • Misc. • (bg)
• About the Artist • Anonymous • (bg)
• About the Artists & Writers • Misc. • (bg)
• About the Author • Misc. • (bg)
• About the Authors • Misc. • (bg)
• About the Contributors • Misc. • (bg)
• About the Editor • Anonymous • (bg)
• About the Editors • Anonymous • (bg)
• About the Editors • Misc. • (bg)
• About the Illustrator • Misc. • (bg)
• Above • Joy Poulos • (pm)
• Abraham’s Boys • Joe Hill • (ss)
• Abraham’s Guest • Sonya Taaffe • (vi)
• Abridged Too Far: Harry Potter • Alan Heal • (hu)
• Absalom • Henry Kuttner • (nv)
• An Absentminded Professor • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Absolute Magnitude Spring ’05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Absolute Uncertainty • Lucy Sussex • (nv)
• Absolutely Charming • Michael A. Stackpole • (ss)
• The Abyss • James E. Gunn • (nv)
• Abyss and Apex #15 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Academ’s Fury, Jim Butcher • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Accelerando • Niall Harrison • (br)
• Accelerando, Charles Stross • Damien Broderick • (br)
• Accelerando, Charles Stross • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Access Denied, Donna Andrews • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Accident of the Year • Christopher Chambers • (ss)
• Accidental Hero • John Ling • (ss)
• Accomplishment • Anonymous • (ms)
• According to Art • Bill Read & Jane Read • (ss)
• The Accountant • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• Accountant: Life on the Streets • Bryn Sparks • (ss)
• Acephalous Dreams • Neal L. Asher • (nv)
• The ACES Phone • Jeanne DuPrau • (ss)
• Acetylene • Clive Barker • (il)
• The Achilles Impulse • John Saxton • (ss)
• Acknowledgements • Misc. • (bg)
• Acknowledgments • Misc. • (ms)
• Across the Colour Bar • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Across the Eastern Divide • Allen M. Steele • (na)
• Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories, Garth Nix • Faren Miller • (br)
• Act of God • Jack McDevitt • (ss)
• Action, and the Fear of Going It Alone • Jenn Onofrio • (ar)
• active galactic nuclei • Lee Clark Zumpe • (pm)
• Acts • William Sanders • (ss)
• Acts of Conscience • Shane Tourtellotte • (nv)
• Acts of Faith • Lesley McBain • (nv)
• Acts of Faith (Chicago, 1963: Kandiah) • Mary Anne Mohanraj • (ss)
• Acute Spiritual Fear • Robert M. Price • (nv)
• The Adelaide Effect • Catherine S. Gunson • (ss)
• Adrienne Barbeau: “A Real Gun-Totin’, Ghost-Fightin’ Heroine” • Michael McCarty & Mark McLaughlin • (iv)
• Adrift • Koji Suzuki • (ss)
• Adrift in the Maelstrom • Will McDermott • (ss)
• An Adventure of the Deep Waters • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• Adventure of the Metal Murderer • Fred Saberhagen • (ss)
• The Adventure of the Voorish Sign • Richard A. Lupoff • (nv)
• Adventure Vol 1, Chris Roberson, ed. • Damien Broderick, Lisa Goldstein & Richard Horton • (br)
• Adventure, Vol 1, Chris Roberson, ed. • Nick Gevers • (br)
• The Adventurers’ League • Justina L. A. Robson • (nv)
• Adventures in Dog-Walking in Downtown Philadelphia • John Schoffstall • (ss)
• The Adventures of Jack and Jill • Gerard Brennan • (pm)
• The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor • Anne Sheldon • (pm)
• Advice for Writers • Robert E. Weinberg • (ar)
• Advice from a Young Witch to an Old Priestess • Rosemary Edghill • (ss)
• Advice on Meeting the Devil in Hell • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• Aeon 1 • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Aeon 1 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Aeon 2 • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Aeon 2 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Aeon 3 • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Aeon #4 ’05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Aesop’s Forest • Robert Coover • (nv)
• An Affair • Thomas Donaldson • (ss)
• The Affinities • Robert Charles Wilson • (vi)
• An African Scream • Paul Calvin Wilson • (ss)
• After Almost No Time at All the String on Which He Had Been Pulling and Pulling Came Apart into Two Separate Pieces So Quickly He Hardly Realized It Had Snapped, or: Reflections on “The Beach Fire” • Samuel R. Delany • (ar)
• After Camlann • Liz Holliday • (ss)
• After Medusa • Elizabeth Keogh • (pm)
• After Midnight • Richard Laymon • (n.)
• After Midnight • Andy Russell • (ss)
• After Part of a Line from Lost in the City • Alan Catlin • (pm)
• After the Date • Bentley Little • (vi)
• After the Elephant Ballet • Gary A. Braunbeck • (nv)
• After the Gaud Chrysalis • Charles Coleman Finlay • (nv)
• After the Party • Richard Calder • (sl)
• After the Sabines • Sarah A. Hoyt • (ss)
• After the Sky Fell • Rob Vagle • (ss)
• After the Snow • Donna Taylor Burgess • (pm)
• After the War • Tony Campbell • (ss)
• After the War • Joe R. Lansdale • (vi)
• After These Messages • Adam P. Knave • (ss)
• After-Action Report • Stephen D. Rogers • (pm)
• The Afterlives of SweetDeath • Adam Roberts • (ss)
• Aftermath • Bruce Holland Rogers • (ss)
• Afternoon at Schrafft’s • Jack M. Dann, Gardner R. Dozois & Michael Swanwick • (ss)
• An Afternoon in England in Winter • Ursula K. Le Guin • (pm)
• Afternoon Under Glass • George Alec Effinger • (ss)
• Afterthoughts • Gary A. Braunbeck • (ss)
• Afterwards • Clark Ashton Smith • (pm)
• Afterword • Mike Allen • (aw)
• Afterword • M. W. Anderson & Brett Alexander Savory • (aw)
• Afterword • David Bailey • (lk)
• Afterword • Terry Bisson • (aw)
• Afterword • Ramsey Campbell • (aw)
• Afterword • Suzette Haden Elgin • (aw)
• Afterword • Charles Coleman Finlay • (aw)
• Afterword • Eric Flint • (aw)
• Afterword • Stephen King • (aw)
• Afterword • Martin Lowe • (ed)
• Afterword • Richard A. Lupoff • (aw)
• Afterword • Paul J. McAuley • (aw)
• Afterword • Leigh Mechem & Neil Mechem • (aw)
• Afterword • L. E. Modesitt, Jr. • (aw)
• Afterword • Frank J. Morlock • (aw)
• Afterword • David J. Schow • (aw)
• Afterword • Josepha Sherman • (aw)
• Afterword • St. Michael • (aw)
• Afterword to ‘Amnesty’ • Octavia E. Butler • (as)
• Afterword to ‘Bloodchild’ • Octavia E. Butler • (as)
• Afterword to ‘Crossover’ • Octavia E. Butler • (as)
• Afterword to ‘Furor Scribendi’ • Octavia E. Butler • (as)
• Afterword to ‘Near of Kin’ • Octavia E. Butler • (as)
• Afterword to ‘Positive Obsession’ • Octavia E. Butler • (as)
• Afterword to ‘Speech Sounds’ • Octavia E. Butler • (as)
• Afterword to ‘The Book of Martha’ • Octavia E. Butler • (as)
• Afterword to ‘The Evening and the Morning and the Night’ • Octavia E. Butler • (as)
• Afterword to the film tie-in edition • Robbie Stamp • (aw)
• The Afterword: Enchantress of Worlds • Stephen Jones • (aw)
• Afterword: Fifty Years and Counting • Frederik Pohl • (aw)
• Afterword: Some Facts(?) About Fairies • Marvin Kaye • (aw)
• Afterword: Writing the Valley • Stephen Gallagher • (aw)
• Against Gravity, Gary Gibson • Damien Broderick • (br)
• Against the Ever Expanding Universe • Greg Beatty • (pm)
• Against the Season • Edward C. Lynskey • (ss)
• The Age of Arthur • Sophie Masson • (ar)
• Age of Miracles • Richard Mueller • (ss)
• Age of Unreason • Scott Ciencin • (na)
• Agenda • Travis S. Taylor • (ss)
• Agent of God • Karen Traviss • (vi)
• The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire • David Memmott • (pm)
• The Agreement • Paul Garrety • (ss)
• Ailoura • Paul Di Filippo • (nv)
• Air • Jim Steel • (br)
• Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp, Philip Pullman & Sophy Williams • Karen Haber • (br)
• Alan Smithee Lives in Hell • Matthew S. Rotundo • (ss)
• Alanya to Alanya, L. Timmel Duchamp • Faren Miller • (br)
• The Albatross • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• Albert and the Engine of Albion • Terry Gates-Grimwood • (ss)
• The Albian Message • Oliver Morton • (vi)
• Albino Rhino • Jacqueline Seewald • (ss)
• Alchemical Post-Its: A Rhysling Primer • Robert Frazier • (ar)
• The Alchemist • H. P. Lovecraft • (ss)
• Alchemotherapy • Tyree Campbell • (ss)
• Alderley Edge • Elizabeth E. Wein • (pm)
• Alekhine’s Defense • Cherith Baldry • (ss)
• Alephestra • Bruce Holland Rogers • (ss)
• Alexander’s Feats • Rosaleen Love • (ss)
• Alexandria and Nebs • William R. Eakin • (ss)
• The Algorithms for Love • Ken Liu • (ss)
• Ali Babette • Alan Dean Foster • (ss)
• Alibis, Safety, and Freedom • Stanley Schmidt • (ed)
• Alice Blue Gown • Mike Solomon • (ss)
• Alice in the Time of the Jabberwock • Robert Coover • (ss)
• Alice’s Last Adventure • Thomas Ligotti • (ss)
• An Alien Abduction • Mark Patrick Lynch • (ss)
• Alien Bootlegger • Rebecca Ore • (na)
• Alien Bounty • William C. Dietz • (n.)
• The Alien Cure • Guy Belleranti • (pm)
• Alien Graffiti: Author’s Apologia • Michael Bishop • (in)
• Alien Ground • Anthony R. Lewis • (ss)
• Alien Incarnate • Ann K. Schwader • (pm)
• Alien Juke Box • G. O. Clark • (pm)
• Alien TV • Paul J. McAuley • (ss)
• Alienated • John M. Floyd • (pm)
• The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything • George Alec Effinger • (ss)
• All Along the Watchtower • Eric S. Brown & Gail Davis • (ss)
• All Eve’s Hallows, Dean Wesley Smith • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• All Fish and Dracula • Liz Williams • (ss)
• All Gone • Terry D. Scheerer • (pm)