The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2005

Stories, Listed by Title

• Pied Piper • Robert A. Heinlein • (ss)
• Pig • Jenn Reese • (vi)
• Pigeons from Hell • Robert E. Howard • (nv)
• Pigs on the Wing • K. Erik Ziemelis • (vi)
• Piker’s Peek • Ben Bova • (ss)
• The Pilgrim • J. W. Schnarr • (ss)
• Pilgrimage to Earth • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• The Pillar • Stephen Dedman • (ss)
• Pillows, Guitars, and Elves • David A. Olson • (ss)
• Pilot, Pilot • David Lunde • (pm)
• Pink Leatherette • Craig Synder • (ss)
• Pioneer 10 Signing Off • James P. Hogan • (ar)
• Pioneer Stock • Judith Merril • (ss)
• Pip and the Fairies • Theodora Goss • (ss)
• Pipe-Dreams • Paul Calvin Wilson • (ed)
• Pipeline • Brian W. Aldiss • (nv)
• Piper • Paul E. Martens • (ss)
• Pirates • E. F. Benson • (ss)
• The Pirates of Zan • Murray Leinster • (n.)
• The Pirate’s True Love • Seana Graham • (ss)
• Pisces Ya Bas • Gavin Inglis • (ss)
• Pisspot Bay • Elizabeth Massie • (ss)
• Pistol Politics • Robert E. Howard • (nv)
• The Pit and the Pendulum • Edgar Allan Poe • (ss)
• Pit Boy • Elizabeth Massie • (ss)
• The Pit of the Serpent • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• The Pitiless Stars • Jim Young • (ss)
• A Place in History • John M. Floyd • (vi)
• A Place in the Sun • Douglas Hewitt • (ss)
• The Place of Storms • William Hope Hodgson • (pm)
• The Place Where Guards Snore at Their Posts • Ed Greenwood • (nv)
• Placebo • Lauren Slater • (ss)
• The Placebo Effect • K. C. Winters • (n.)
• The Places They Hide (Algernon Blackwood) • Mark Morris • (ss)
• The Plague Demon • H. P. Lovecraft • (ss)
• The Plague of St. James Infirmary • Ken Asamatsu • (n.)
• Plains of Zeetmar • Steve Sneyd • (pm)
• Planet of the Amazon Women • David Moles • (nv)
• Planting in Autumn • Dave Cooper • (pm)
• Plasma Mine • Andy Miller • (pm)
• Plastered • Scott H. Urban • (pm)
• Plato’s Tomatoes • Nan Fry • (pm)
• Play It Again, Psam • Ian Stewart • (vi)
• Playback • Sam Dawson • (ss)
• Playboy Cover: 1958 • Misc. • (il)
• Playboy Cover: 1971 • Misc. • (il)
• Playing Games • Susan Forest • (ss)
• Playing House • Robert Coover • (ss)
• Playing the Game • Jack M. Dann & Gardner R. Dozois • (ss)
• Playing With Fire • Arthur Conan Doyle • (ss)
• Playmate • Kit Reed • (ss)
• A Plaything of Our Betters • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Please Let Me Out • Edward Lee • (ss)
• Please Read Before Assembly • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• Please Stand By • Tim Curran • (ss)
• Pleasing Mister Ross • Robert S. Neilson • (ss)
• A Pleasing Shape • Gaie Sebold • (ss)
• Plot Device • Eric Choi • (ss)
• The Plucker, Brom • Karen Haber • (br)
• Plumage from Pegasus:
  ___ Et in Arcadia Superego • Paul Di Filippo • (cl)
  ___ The Marching Models • Paul Di Filippo • (ss)
  ___ Moody’s Angels • Paul Di Filippo • (cl)
  ___ Nothing to Fear But Books Themselves • Paul Di Filippo • (cl)
  ___ Soul Mining • Paul Di Filippo • (cl)
• Plumbling Problems • Walt Trizna • (ss)
• The Pluripotentiary • Chris Lynch • (ss)
• The Plutonian Drug • Clark Ashton Smith • (ss)
• Pnakotic Manuscripts • Misc. • (ms)
• The Pocket-Book of Science Fiction Films • Gary Couzens • (br)
• Pods • Kevin Anderson • (ss)
• poem • Greg Bauder • (pm)
• poem • Nancy Bennett • (pm)
• poem • Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal • (pm)
• poem • Gretchen L. Bourquin • (pm)
• poem • Dana Brammer • (pm)
• poem • Keith W. Brown • (pm)
• poem • Donna Taylor Burgess • (pm)
• poem • James R. Cain • (pm)
• poem • Alan Catlin • (pm)
• poem • Dave Church • (pm)
• poem • Holly Day • (pm)
• poem • Sandra DeLuca • (pm)
• poem • Mary Ann Bencivengo Gow • (pm)
• poem • Bradley Mason Hamlin • (pm)
• Poem • Robert E. Howard • (pm)
• poem • Jason R. Huff • (pm)
• poem • Michael A. Internicola • (pm)
• poem • Daniel S. Irwin • (pm)
• poem • Laura R. Jacobsen • (pm)
• poem • Colin James • (pm)
• poem • Michael Keshigian • (pm)
• poem • Lyn Lifshin • (pm)
• poem • Duane Locke • (pm)
• poem • Natalie N. Narine • (pm)
• poem • J. D. Nelson • (pm)
• poem • B. Z. Niditch • (pm)
• poem • Rob Plath • (pm)
• poem • Karen R. Porter • (pm)
• poem • Terrie Leigh Relf • (pm)
• poem • Greg Scharf • (pm)
• poem • Joseph M. Shea • (pm)
• poem • Amber J. Smiley • (pm)
• poem • Meg Smith • (pm)
• poem • Kelley Jean White • (pm)
• poem • Thomas Zimmerman • (pm)
• A Poet on Board • Terrie Leigh Relf • (pm)
• Poet Snow • Robert Reed • (ss)
• The Poetess in Hell • Rebecca Marjesdatter • (ed)
• Poetry and the Gods • H. P. Lovecraft • (ss)
• A Poetry Project Newsletter Interview:
  ___ A Silent Interview • Anonymous • (iv)
• Poetry Readings, Workshops, and Other Events • Suzette Haden Elgin • (ar)
• Point of Origin • Catherine Wells • (nv)
• Poison Study, Maria V. Snyder • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Poisonous Puns • Anonymous • (hu)
• Poker Boy vs. a Denizen of Gambling Hell • Dean Wesley Smith • (ss)
• Polaris • H. P. Lovecraft • (ss)
• Policeman Bluejay • L. Frank Baum • (ss)
• The Policeman’s Daughter • Wil McCarthy • (na)
• The Political Officer • Charles Coleman Finlay • (na)
• Pollock’s Knives • Mike Allen • (pm)
• The Poltergeist of Polaris • Elizabeth Barrette • (pm)
• Polyhedrons • Robert A. Metzger • (nv)
• Polyphony 5, Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, eds. • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Pond Life • Sam Dawson • (vi)
• Pop Star in the Ugly Bar • Bentley Little • (ss)
• The Pope of the Chimps • Robert Silverberg • (nv)
• The Pope, Sonny Liston and Me • Robert S. Neilson • (ss)
• The Poppet • L. Jagi Lamplighter • (ss)
• Poppies by Moonlight • Sydney J. Van Scyoc • (ss)
• Porcelain Salli • Trent Jaimeson • (ss)
• Port Wine • Richard Ramsey • (ss)
• The Portrait • T. Jain • (ss)
• Portrait of the Founder • D. Harlan Wilson • (ss)
• Ports of Call • Jack Vance • (n.)
• Positive Obsession • Octavia E. Butler • (ar)
• Possibilities • Yael Fattal • (pm)
• Postcards • Rebecca Moesta • (ss)
• Postcards from the Province of Hyphens • Sonya Taaffe • (ss)
• Postcretaceous Era • D. Ellis Dickerson • (ss)
• Postscript • Arthur Machen • (aw)
• Postscripts Summer ’04 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Postscripts Spring ’05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Postscripts Summer ’05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Postscripts Autumn ’05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Potato pilots • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (pm)
• Potherb Gardening • Ruth Berman • (pm)
• Pottering About • David Rafer • (ms)
• Poulet à la Richelieu • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The Powder Men • Scott Thomas • (ss)
• The Power and the Gory • James A. Bibby • (nv)
• The Power of Dreams • Daniel C. Smith • (pm)
• Power of the Pen • Steven E. Burt • (ss)
• Power Play • Jack Whyte • (ss)
• Pow’r • James E. Gunn • (nv)
• Practical Mistake • Peter Andrew Smith • (ss)
• Practical Villainy • Janni Lee Simner • (ss)
• Prairie-Dog Town • L. Frank Baum • (ss)
• Pray for the Tiny Monsters • W. Gregory Stewart • (pm)
• Prayer for a Dead Paramecium • Carl Frederick • (ss)
• A Prayer for the Dead • Eric Brown • (ss)
• Prayer for the Earth • Kendall Evans • (pm)
• A Prayer for the Silent • John Sunseri • (ss)
• A Prayer for Tinkerbelle • J. Dansereau • (pm)
• Prayer of Antigone • Angelo Sphere • (pm)
• The Praying Man • Steven E. Burt • (ss)
• Preacher • Cullen Bunn & Michael Howard • (ss)
• Precautions • Kit Reed • (ss)
• Precious Memories • David Lubar • (ss)
• The Precise Reason I Will Never Drink a Magic Love Potion Again • Erin Jensen • (ss)
• Precognitive Myopia • Forrest Aguirre • (ss)
• Preface • Kevin J. Anderson & Brian Herbert • (pr)
• Preface • Chaz Brenchley • (pr)
• Preface • Octavia E. Butler • (pr)
• Preface • Jack M. Dann & Gardner R. Dozois • (pr)
• Preface • Lord Dunsany • (pr)
• Preface • David Eddings • (pr)
• Preface • Suzette Haden Elgin • (pr)
• Preface • Dennis Etchison • (pr)
• Preface • James E. Gunn • (pr)
• Preface • Drew Morse • (pr)
• Preface • Garth Nix • (pr)
• Preface • Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany • (pr)
• Preface • Al Sarrantonio • (pr)
• Preface and Acknowledgements • Samuel R. Delany • (pr)
• Preface to Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary • M. R. James • (pr)
• Preface to More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary • M. R. James • (pr)
• Preface to the Second French Edition • Michel Houellebecq • (pr)
• The Pregnant Sky (Franz Kafka) • Andrew Hook • (ss)
• The Prehistory of Global Climate Change • Richard A. Lovett, Ph.D. • (ar)
• Prelude • Allen M. Steele • (lk)
• Premonitions • Dan Foley • (ss)
• The ’Prentices’ Mutiny • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• Presence • Maureen F. McHugh • (nv)
• The Present • Nan Fry • (pm)
• Present Pefect • Loren L. Coleman • (ss)
• The Presentation • Michael Shea • (ss)
• Preserves • Jim Rockhill • (ss)
• President Buck Jones Rallies and Waves the Flag • Patricia Highsmith • (nv)
• Presidents • Robert Coover • (ss)
• President’s Message • Mike Allen • (ms)
• Presley 45 • David Morrell • (ss)
• Pretend That We’re Dead • Alison J. Littlewood • (ss)
• Pretty Meat • Steven Utley • (ss)
• The Pretty Place • Eric Marin • (ss)
• The Price • Neil Gaiman • (ss)
• The Price of Arrogance • Eric S. Brown • (ss)
• Pride • Wolfgang H. Baur • (nv)
• Pride • Jacqueline Rayner • (lk)
• Pride of Place • Erika Milo • (ss)
• Primary Ignition • Allen M. Steele • (cl)
• Primate in Forest • Kim Stanley Robinson • (ex)
• Primates in Love • Michael Bishop • (br)
• Primitive Hunt, Day One • Monte Davis • (ss)
• Primitive Hunt, Day Two • Monte Davis • (ss)
• Prince Charming • Helena Bell • (pm)
• Prince Charming Comes • Jane Yolen • (pm)
• Prince Mud-Turtle • L. Frank Baum • (ss)
• The Prince of Ebon Rih • Anne Bishop • (n.)
• The Prince of Mules • Carol Emshwiller • (ss)
• Princess Academy, Shannon Hale • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• The Princess in the Forest (Chicago, 1955: Kandiah) • Mary Anne Mohanraj • (ss)
• A Princess of Roumania • John Clute • (br)