The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2005

Stories, Listed by Title

• La Course de Kathryn • Élisabeth Vonarburg • (ss)
• LaBrea Tar Pits, Early Summer, Dinnertime • Mary A. Turzillo • (pm)
• The Labyrinth • Peter H. Wood • (ss)
• A Lack - Throughout • Misc. • (nf)
• Lacunae • Yoon Ha Lee • (pm)
• Lacunal Visions • Samuel T. Payne • (ss)
• The Lad Who Stared Everyone Down • Jane Yolen • (ss)
• The Ladder to the Moon • K. S. Hardy • (pm)
• The Lady and the Merman • Jane Yolen • (vi)
• Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 1/05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 7/05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Lady Into Fox • David S. Garnett • (na)
• Lady MacDeath • Karen L. Newman • (pm)
• The Lady of Glass • K. S. Hardy • (pm)
• Lady of Mazes, Karl Schroeder • Russell Letson • (br)
• The Lady of Situations • Stephen Dedman • (ss)
• The Lady of the Mercians • Mary Frances Zambreno • (ss)
• Lady of the Skulls • Patricia A. McKillip • (ss)
• Lady Victoria’s Mind • Alexander Marsh Freed • (ss)
• The Lady Was a Tramp • Judith Merril • (ss)
• Lago di Iniquità • Darren Speegle • (ss)
• Laika Comes Back Safe • Maureen F. McHugh • (ss)
• The Lake of Souls: The Saga of Darren Shan: Book 10 • Darren Shan • (n.)
• Lakes of Light • Stephen M. Baxter • (nv)
• Lakshmi’s Diary (Chicago, 1969: Kandiah/Vallipuram) • Mary Anne Mohanraj • (ss)
• Lambing Season • Molly Gloss • (ss)
• Lament for Alexander • Shirl Sazynski • (pm)
• Lament for Gaia • Liza Granville • (pm)
• Lamia • Frida Westford • (pm)
• Lancelot • Sophie Masson • (ss)
• The Land • Patrick Lestewka • (ss)
• Land O’ Goshen • Michael Bishop • (br)
• Land of Night • K. S. Hardy • (pm)
• The Land of Ordinary People • Eleanor Arnason • (pm)
• A Land of Romance • David A. Drake • (ss)
• The Land of the Awful Shadow • Brian A. Hopkins • (nv)
• Landfall • Trevor Denyer • (ss)
• The Landlady • Roald Dahl • (ss)
• Landscape of the Imagination • Mercedes R. Lackey • (ss)
• Langthwaite Road • Simon Clark • (na)
• Language for Time-Travelers • L. Sprague de Camp • (ar)
• Language Lessons • Amy Bechtel • (nv)
• The Language of Dead Flowers • Sonya Taaffe • (pm)
• The Language of Knives • K. S. Hardy • (pm)
• The Language of Love • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• The Language of Moths • Christopher Barzak • (ss)
• The Lantern Is the Moon • Charles de Lint • (ss)
• Lapland, or Film Noir • Peter Straub • (ss)
• A Larger Sky • Michael Bishop • (br)
• Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband • George Saunders • (ss)
• Laryngeal Love • Monte Davis • (ss)
• Las Vegas • Ralph Robert Moore • (ss)
• Lasagna • Harvey Jacobs • (ss)
• The Lass of Loch Royal • Holly Phillips • (ss)
• The Last • Teresa Tunaley • (pm)
• The Last Akialoa • Alan Dean Foster • (ss)
• The Last Bee Tree in Lynchburg County • Catherine M. Morrison • (ss)
• The Last Big Herd • Keith P. Graham • (ss)
• The Last Blowoff • Neil Morris • (ss)
• Last Breath • Joe Hill • (ss)
• The Last Broadcast • Matthew Griffiths • (ss)
• Last Contact • Jack McDevitt • (ss)
• The Last Cut • Jennifer B. Crow • (pm)
• Last Dance at the Sergeant Majors’ Ball • Cat Sparks • (ss)
• The Last Day • Graham Masterton • (pm)
• The Last Day of the War, with Parrots • James Alan Gardner • (nv)
• The Last Days of Shandakor • Leigh Brackett • (nv)
• Last Days of the Mahdi • Tom Pendergrass • (nv)
• The Last Death in Lubbock, Texas • Thomas Donaldson • (ss)
• The Last Feast of Harlequin • Thomas Ligotti • (nv)
• The Last Four Pages • Karl Johanson • (ar)
• The Last Generation to Die • Carlos Hernandez • (na)
• The Last Good Times • Tim Lebbon • (ss)
• The Last Halloween • David Lubar • (ss)
• The Last Hand of War • Jana Paniccia • (nv)
• The Last Homosexual • Paul Park • (ss)
• Last Laugh • Robert Bloch • (ss)
• The Last Living Thing • Gregory Bernard Banks • (vi)
• Last Man Standing • Esther M. Friesner • (nv)
• Last Man Standing • Xaviera Young • (vi)
• The Last Mars Trip • Michael Cassutt • (ss)
• Last Night • Mark Curtis • (ss)
• The Last of the Chime Trees • Stephen D. Rogers • (ss)
• The Last of the Line • David F. Hamilton • (ss)
• The Last of the O-Forms • James Van Pelt • (ss)
• The Last of the O-Forms & Other Stories, James Van Pelt • Richard Horton • (br)
• Last One • Robert Coover • (ss)
• The Last One Left • Mary Frances Zambreno • (ss)
• The Last One to Let You Down • S. L. Rector • (ss)
• The Last Reel • Dennis Etchison • (ss)
• The Last Ride • Robert Enders Allen & Robert E. Howard • (na)
• Last Rites [from Star Ascendant] • Louise Cooper • (ex)
• Last Stop • John C. Pelan • (ss)
• Last Sunrise • Terry D. Scheerer • (pm)
• The Last Sunset • Donna Taylor Burgess • (pm)
• The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai • Geoff Ryman • (nv)
• Last Things in the Shadow City • Gary William Crawford • (pm)
• Last Thoughts Drifting Down • Jeremy Robert Johnson • (ss)
• The Last Three Pages • Karl Johanson • (ar)
• The Last Three Pages • Misc. • (ms)
• The Last Universe, William Sleator • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• The Last Unseen Window in the Last Unseen Car • Bruce Holland Rogers • (vi)
• The Last Vampire • Kristine Grayson • (ss)
• The Last Vendetta • Rick Lai • (ss)
• The Last Wave • Kay Kenyon • (ss)
• The Last Witch • James A. Bibby • (ss)
• The Last Word on The Dark Tower • Joel P. M. Edminster • (ar)
• Last Year’s Doll • Liza Granville • (ss)
• A Lasting Relationship • Terry D. Scheerer • (pm)
• Late Bloomer • Kristine Ong Muslim • (pm)
• Late in the Tenth Moon • Barbara Casey • (ss)
• The Late Shift • Dennis Etchison • (ss)
• Late Show • Gary W. Shockley • (ss)
• The Laughing Corpse • Laurell K. Hamilton • (n.)
• Laura’s Knot • Neal L. Asher • (vi)
• Laurel Winter: A Dip in the Gene Pool • Charles N. Brown • (iv)
• Lavender’s Blue, Lavender’s Green • Patrick Samphire • (ss)
• Law of the Kuzzi • James Chambers • (ss)
• Law-Shooters of Cowtown • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• The Laws of the Space Frontier • Michael Underwood • (ar)
• The Laxian Key • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• Layers • Mike Simon • (ss)
• The Laying-Out • Sonya Taaffe • (pm)
• L’Chaim! • Harvey Jacobs • (ss)
• The Leading Man • Aimee Bender • (ss)
• A Leafing • J. A. Howe • (ss)
• Learning the World, Ken MacLeod • Damien Broderick, Matthew Cheney, Lisa Goldstein, Richard Horton & Tim Pratt • (br)
• Learning the World, Ken MacLeod • Gary K. Wolfe • (br)
• Learning to Sing • Melissa Marr • (pm)
• Leaves • Steven Utley • (ss)
• Leaving His Cares Behind Him • Kage Baker • (nv)
• Leaving the Harbour • Fahrija Velic • (cv)
• The Leech • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• Lefitation • Joe R. Lansdale • (vi)
• The Left Behind • Kaaron Warren • (ss)
• Left Brain Attack • Joseph R. Grych • (pm)
• Legacies • Misc. • (ms)
• The Legacy • Liza Granville • (ss)
• The Legacy of Stars: The Worlds of Clifford D. Simak • John C. Pelan • (in)
• Legend • Garrett Peck • (gs)
• The Legend of the Whiney Man • John Morressy • (ss)
• The Legend of Wounded Ridge • Banjo Bandolas • (ss)
• Lemmings • Richard Matheson • (vi)
• Lemmings in the Third Year • Jerome Stueart • (ss)
• Lenore • John Hayes • (pm)
• Lenox Avenue 3-4/05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Les Berceaux • Jaida Jones • (pm)
• L’Esprit de la Belle Mariette • Charles de Lint • (ss)
• Less Than Nothing • Karen R. Porter • (pm)
• Lesser Figures of the Greater Trumps • James Alan Gardner • (ss)
• A Lesson for the Teacher • Robert Bloch • (ss)
• Lessons from the Night Manager • J. R. Salling • (ss)
• Lest Darkness Fall • L. Sprague de Camp • (n.)
• Lest We Forget • Marion Arnott • (ss)
• Let Me Call You Sweetheart • Michael A. Stackpole • (ss)
• Let Sleeping Dogs Lie • Robert Anderson • (ss)
• Let the Ants Try • Frederik Pohl • (ss)
• Let There Be Light • Robert A. Heinlein • (ss)
• Let There Be Write • Nancy Fulda • (ar)
• Let’s Do It for Love • Robert Bloch • (ss)
• Let’s Make Love in a Spaceship • Amitava Dasgupta • (pm)
• Let’s Pretend • Dean Wesley Smith • (ss)
• Letter • Margaret Cho • (ar)
• A Letter from Caroline Herschel • Siv Cedering • (pm)
• The Letter from Mohaun Los • Clark Ashton Smith • (nv)
• Letter from the Editor • Beth Wodinski • (ed)
• Letter to P—, December 10, 2001 • Samuel R. Delany • (lt)
• Letter to P. Schuyler Miller • Robert E. Howard • (lt)
• Letter to Q—, October 28, 1997 • Samuel R. Delany • (lt)
• Letter to R—, March, 1996 • Samuel R. Delany • (lt)
• Letter to Rudolf Arnheim • James Tiptree, Jr. • (lt)
• Letter to S—, July 26, 1996 • Samuel R. Delany • (lt)
• Letters • Readers • (lt)
• Letters from the Eighth Circle • Sonya Taaffe • (ss)
• The Letters of Dune • Kevin J. Anderson & Brian Herbert • (ar)
• Letters of Transit • Brian Plante • (ss)
• Letters to the Magazine • Readers • (lt)
• Letting Bygones Be Bygones • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Letting Go • Keith R. A. DeCandido • (nv)
• Leverage • Christopher Anvil • (ss)
• Leviathan • Alyssa Sturgill • (ss)
• Leviathan Wept • Daniel Abraham • (ss)
• Levitation • John Dodds • (ss)
• Lexical Patterning: How Poets Choose Their Words • Suzette Haden Elgin • (ar)
• Liberty Journals • Allen M. Steele • (nv)
• Liberty Pipe • Sarah Prineas • (ss)
• Libra • David G. Barnett • (nv)
• The Library • Carol Emshwiller • (ss)
• The Library of Babel • Jorge Luís Borges • (ss)
• Lie-Down-Johnny • Andrew Roberts • (ss)
• Lies • Jane Yolen • (pm)
• Life • Thomas Donaldson • (ss)
• The Life and Times of Penguin • Eugie Foster • (ss)
• Life Beyond... • Eric Brown • (ss)
• Life Forms • James Robinson • (ss)
• Life Happens • Ralph Roberts • (ss)
• Life in Stone • Tim Pratt • (ss)
• Life in the Air • Jack M. Dann & Barry N. Malzberg • (vi)
• A Life in the Day • Xanna Eve Chown • (ss)
• A Life in the Day Of • Frank M. Robinson • (ss)
• Life Is Good • C. J. Henderson • (ss)
• Life Line • Liz La Valley • (pm)
• The Life of Riley • Rick Kleffel • (br)
• The Life of Riley, Alex Irvine • Nick Gevers • (br)
• The Life of Saint Serena • Stepan Chapman • (ss)
• The Life of the World to Come • Kage Baker • (n.)
• The Life of the World to Come, Kage Baker • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• The Life of the World to Come, Kage Baker • Nick Gevers • (br)
• A Life Sealed in Wax • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• Life Sentence • Rosie Oliver • (ss)
• A Life with Semisent • Gregory Benford • (vi)
• Lifeboat 2200 • James M. Thompson • (ss)
• The Lifeboat Mutiny • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• Lifeloop • Orson Scott Card • (ss)
• Lifeloop: a one-act play • Aaron Johnston • (pl)