The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2006

Books, Listed by Author

LINDSKOLD, JANE M. (stories) (chron.)

• * _Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls (Tor/Orb 0-765-31481-9, Aug 2006, $14.95, 287pp, tp, cover by Patrick Arrasmith) Reprint (Avon 1994) SF novel.
• * _Child of a Rainless Year (Tor 0-765-34824-1, Jun 2006, $7.99, 437pp, pb, cover by Gary Kelley) Reprint (Tor 2005) contemporary fantasy novel.
• * *Wolf Hunting (Tor 0-765-31288-3, Apr 2006, $27.95, 528pp, hc, cover by Julie Bell) Fantasy novel, fifth in the “Firekeeper” series begun in Through Wolf’s Eyes. Firekeeper and Blind Seer help the soothsayer-jaguar Truth in the land of Liglim.
• * _Wolf Hunting (Tor 0-765-35143-9, Jan 2007, $7.99, 605pp, pb, cover by Julie Bell) Reprint (Tor 2006) fantasy novel, fifth in the Firekeeper series begun in Through Wolf’s Eyes.

LINEBARGER, PAUL M(yron) A(nthony) (1913-1966); see pseudonym Cordwainer Smith (stories) (chron.)

LINK, KELLY (Denise) (1969- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Magic for Beginners (Harcourt/Harvest 0-15-603187-6, Sep 2006, $14.00, 297pp, tp, cover by Shelley Jackson) Reprint (Small Beer Press 2005) collection of nine stories.

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• * _The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection (with Gavin J. Grant & Ellen Datlow) See entry under Ellen Datlow.

LISLE, HOLLY (1960- ) (chron.)

• * _Talyn (Tor 0-765-34873-X, Dec 2006, $7.99, 576pp, pb, cover by Trinette Reed) Reprint (Tor 2005) fantasy novel.

LISLE, REBECCA (chron.)

• * *The Curse of the Toads (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-89447-4, May 2006, £5.99, 266pp, tp) Young-adult fantasy novel.

LITTLE, BENTLEY (1960- ) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Burning (Penguin/Signet 0-451-21914-7, Aug 2006, $7.99, 391pp, pb) Horror novel.
• * _The Burning (SFBC #1215306, Sep 2006, $10.99, 391pp, hc) Reprint (Signet 2006) horror novel. This has ISBN 978-0-7394-7335-1; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Death Instinct (Penguin/Signet 0-451-21997-X, Dec 2006, $7.99, 381pp, pb) Reprint (Signet 1992 as by Phillip Emmons) associational serial-killer horror novel.

LITTLE, DENISE, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * *Cosmic Cocktails (DAW 0-7564-0398-7, Dec 2006, $7.99, 312pp, pb) Original anthology of 15 space-bar stories. Authors include Loren L. Coleman, Sarah A. Hoyt, and Phaedra M. Weldon. Copyrighted by Little and Martin H. Greenberg’s Tekno Books. (Contents)
• * *Hags, Sirens & Other Bad Girls of Fantasy (DAW 0-7564-0369-3, Jul 2006, $7.99, 307pp, pb) Original anthology of 20 stories about troublemaking females from fantasy, fairy tale, and myth. Authors include Rosemary Edghill, C.S. Friedman, and Laura Resnick. Copyrighted by the editor and Martin H. Greenberg’s Tekno Books. (Contents)
• * *The Magic Toybox (DAW 0-7564-0379-0, Aug 2006, $7.99, 308pp, pb) Original anthology of 14 stories involving toys. Authors include Esther M. Friesner, Jay Lake, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Copyrighted by Little and Martin H. Greenberg’s Tekno Books. (Contents)
• * _The Valdemar Companion (with John Helfers) See entry under John Helfers.

LIU, MARJORIE M. (stories) (chron.)

• * *Eye of Heaven (Leisure 0-8439-5765-4, Dec 2006, $6.99, 356pp, pb) Dark fantasy romance/mystery in the Dirk & Steele series about a global paranormal detective agency.
• * *The Red Heart of Jade (Leisure Love Spell 0-505-52631-X, Jul 2006, $6.99, 369pp, pb) Dark fantasy romance/mystery in the Dirk & Steele series about a global paranormal detective agency. Clairvoyant ex-cop Dean Campbell investigates unusual murders in Taipei and finds the childhood sweetheart he thought had died.
• * *Shadow Touch (Leisure Love Spell 0-505-52630-1, Feb 2006, $6.99, 354pp, pb) Dark fantasy romance/mystery in the Dirk & Steele series about a global paranormal detective agency. Clairvoyant ex-cop Dean Campbell investigates unusual murders in Taipei and finds the childhood sweetheart he thought had died.
• * *X-Men: Dark Mirror (Pocket Star 1-4165-1063-X, Jan 2006, $7.99, 309pp, pb, cover by Ashley Wood) Novelization based on the comic-book characters. Copyrighted by Marvel Characters.

LIVDAHL, KRISTIN, ed. (chron.)

• * _Rabid Transit: Long Voyages, Great Lies (with Christopher Barzak & Alan DeNiro) See entry under Christopher Barzak.

LIVINGS, MARTIN J. (stories) (chron.)

• * *Carnies (Hachetter Livre Australia/Lothian 0-7344-0969-9, Jun 2006, A$19.95, 322pp, pb) Horror novel. The people running a small-town carnival aren’t exactly human. A first novel. This is a pen name for David Carroll, Evan Paliatseas, & Kyla Ward. Lothian Books, 132 Albert Road, South Melbourne, Victoria 3205 Australia; [www.lothian.com.au].

LLOYD, TOM (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Stormcaller (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07727-1, Mar 2006, £12.99, 438pp, tp, cover by Larry Rostant) Fantasy novel. First in a new series. A first novel. A hardcover edition (-07726-3, £17.99) was announced but not seen.

LLYWELYN, MORGAN (1937- ) (chron.)

• * _Druids (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-49131-9, May 2006, $14.95, 451pp, tp, cover by Tom Stimpsom) Reprint (Morrow 1991) Celtic fantasy novel.
• * *The Greener Shore (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-47766-9, Jun 2006, $24.95, 301pp, hc, cover by John Jude Palencar) Celtic historical fantasy novel, sequel to Druids. Gallic druids fleeing Roman invaders find a new home in ancient Ireland.

LOFFICIER, JEAN-MARC, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * *Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 2: Gentlemen of the Night (with Randy Lofficier) (Black Coat Press 1-932983-60-0, Jan 2006, $22.95, 298pp, tp, cover by Fernando Calvi) Anthology of 23 pastiche stories featuring characters from French pulps and other fantastic fiction. Authors include Kim Newman, Jess Nevins, and Brian Stableford. This is a print-on-demand edition available online at [www.blackcoatpress.com] or from Hollywood Comics.com, PO Box 17270, Encino CA 91416. (Contents)
• * *Tales of the Shadowmen: Danse Macabre (with Randy Lofficier) (Black Coat Press 978-1-932983-77-7, Jan 2007, $22.95, 294pp, tp, cover by Daylon) Anthology of 20 pastiche stories featuring characters from French pulps and other fantastic fiction, volume three in the series. Authors include Paul Di Filippo, Michael Moorcock, Chris Roberson, and Brian Stableford. This is a print-on-demand edition available online at [www.blackcoatpress.com] or from Hollywood Comics.com, PO Box 17270, Encino CA 91416. (Contents)

LOFFICIER, RANDY, ed. (chron.)

• * _Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 2: Gentlemen of the Night (with Jean-Marc Lofficier) See entry under Jean-Marc Lofficier.
• * _Tales of the Shadowmen: Danse Macabre (with Jean-Marc Lofficier) See entry under Jean-Marc Lofficier.

LONDON, JEANIE (stories) (chron.)

• * *Retrieval (Tor 0-765-35422-5, Oct 2006, $6.99, 340pp, pb) Dark fantasy romance novel. A dead woman guides souls to Purgatory, but Good and Evil are fighting for control of the passage between life and death.

LONG, NATHAN (chron.)

• * +Warhammer: Orcslayer (BL Publishing/Black Library US 1-84416-391-1, Nov 2006, $7.99, 399pp, pb, cover by Georr Taylor) Novelization based on the fantasy roleplaying game. Copyrighted by Games Workshop. This first US edition has the same ISBN as the Black Library UK (10/06) edition, but only lists US and Canadian prices.
• * *Warhammer: Tainted Blood (BL Publishing/Black Library US 1-84416-371-7, Jul 2006, $7.99, 253pp, pb, cover by Christer Sveen) Novelization based fantasy roleplaying game. Copyrighted by Games Workshop. This has the same ISBN as the simultaneous Black Library UK edition, but only lists US and Canadian prices.
• * *Warhammer: The Broken Lance (BL Publishing/Black Library 1-84416-243-5, Oct 2005, £5.99, 251pp, pb, cover by Christer Sveen) Novelization based on the fantasy roleplaying game, part of the Black Hearts sub-series.

LORD, DAVID THOMAS (stories) (chron.)

• * *Bound in Flesh (Kensington 1-57566-765-7, Aug 2006, $14.00, 298pp, tp) Erotic gay vampire novel, sequel to Bound in Blood. The vampire Courbet and his lover Claude terrorize Las Vegas, opposed only by a victim — an ex-cop vampire — bent on revenge.

LOVE, KATHY (chron.)

• * *I Only Have Fangs for You (Kensington/Brava 0-7582-1135-X, Dec 2006, $14.00, 296pp, tp) Vampire romance, third in the series begun in Fangs for the Memories about vampire brothers who fall in love.

LOVECRAFT, H(oward) P(hillips) (1890-1937) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Collected Essays Volume 3: Science (Hippocampus Press 0-9748789-7-9, 2005, $40.00, 357pp, tp, cover by Virgil Finlay) Associational non-fiction collection of 128 articles and essays, plus several miscellaneous items, on science, primarily astronomy. Edited, with notes, index, and introduction, by S.T. Joshi. [ed: S. T. Joshi]
• * *Collected Essays Volume 4: Travel (Hippocampus Press 0-9761592-1-X, Mar 2006, $20.00, 300pp, tp, cover by Virgil Finlay) Associational non-fiction collection of 15 articles and essays on travel. Edited, with notes, index, and introduction, by S.T. Joshi. This is a print-on-demand edition available online at [www.hippocampuspress.com] or from Hippocampus Press, PO Box 641, New York NY 10156. (Contents) [ed: S. T. Joshi]
• * *The Tales of Inspector Legrasse (with C. J. Henderson) (Mythos Books 0-9728545-3-3, Feb 2006, $20.00, 217pp, tp, cover by Ben Fogletto) [Inspector Legrasse] Collection of six Lovecraftian stories, three original, by C.J. Henderson featuring the character from H.P.L.’s “The Call of Cthulhu” (included). Introduction by Robert M. Price. Mythos Books, 351 Lake Ridge Road, Poplar Bluff MO 63901-2177; [www.mythosbooks.com]. (Contents)

LOVEGROVE, JAMES (1965- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Provender Gleed (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07776-X, Aug 2006, £7.99, 330pp, tp, cover by Laura Brett) Reprint (Gollancz 2005) SF novel.

LOWENTROUT, CHRISTINE I. SMITH (1951- ); see pseudonym Sherwood Smith (chron.)

LOWRY, LOIS (1937- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _Gathering Blue (Random House/Delacorte 0-385-73256-2, Feb 2006, $8.95, 215pp, tp, cover by Lois Lowry) Reprint (Lorraine 2000) young-adult post-holocaust SF novel. This includes a reading group guide.
• * _The Giver (Random House/Delacorte 0-385-73255-4, Feb 2006, $8.95, 179pp, tp, cover by Lois Lowry) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1993) Newbery award-winning young-adult utopian SF novel. This includes a readers guide.
• * *Gossamer (Houghton Mifflin/Lorraine 0-618-68550-2, Apr 2006, $16.00, 140pp, hc) Young-adult contemporary fantasy novella. A trainee dream-giver tries to help an unhappy boy with nightmares.
• * _Messenger (Random House/Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-23912-5, Feb 2006, $6.50, 169pp, pb, cover by Lois Lowry) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 2004) young-adult SF novel that joins characters from The Giver and Gathering Blue.
• * _Messenger (Random House/Delacorte 0-385-73253-8, Sep 2006, $8.95, 169pp, tp, cover by Lois Lowry) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 2004) young-adult SF novel that joins characters from The Giver and Gathering Blue. This includes a readers guide.

LUBAR, DAVID (stories) (chron.)

• * _Invasion of the Road Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales (Tor/Starscape 0-765-35325-3, Sep 2006, $5.99, 180pp, tp, cover by Bill Mayer) Reprint (Starscape 2005) young-adult collection of 35 stories. This includes a reader’s guide.

LUCENO, JAMES (1947- ) (chron.)

• * *Star Wars: Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (Century/Lucasbooks 1-8441-3305-2, Nov 2005, £17.99, 222pp, hc, cover by David Stevenson) SF novelization. Simultaneous with the US (Del Rey) edition.
• * _Star Wars: Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (Random House UK/Arrow 0-09-949123-0, Jun 2006, £6.99, 238pp, pb, cover by David Stevenson) Reprint (Del Rey; Century 2005) SF novelization.
• * _Star Wars: Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (Ballantine Del Rey Lucasbooks 0-345-47733-2, Jul 2006, $7.50, 338pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 2005) novelization.
• * _Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil (Random House/Arrow/Lucasbooks 0-09-948428-5, Jan 2006, £6.99, 370pp, pb, cover by Steven D. Anderson) Reprint (Lucasbooks/Century 2005) original novel based on the Star Wars films, its events occurring just prior to Revenge of the Sith.

LUKYANENKO, SERGEI (chron.)

• * *The Night Watch (Heinemann 0-4340-1412-5, Jul 2006, £10.99, 489pp, tp) Dark fantasy novel, first in the eponymous trilogy. Translated by Andrew Bromfield from the Russian Nochnoi Dozor (1998). A hardcover edition (-1609-8, £18.99) was announced but not seen.
• * +Nightwatch (Hyperion/Miramax Books 1-40135979-5, Aug 2006, $13.95, 455pp, tp) Dark fantasy novel, the first in a trilogy about a Moscow inhabited by the supernatural Others, where the creatures of the Dark are policed by beings of Light on the Night Watch. Translated by Adam Bromfield from the Russian Nochnoi Dozor (1998). This is a movie tie-in edition. First US edition (Heinemann 7/06).

LUMLEY, BRIAN (1937- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Khai of Khem (Tor 0-765-31048-1, Oct 2006, $14.95, 320pp, tp, cover by Bob Eggleton) Reprint (Berkley 1981 as Khai of Ancient Khem) horror novel about an ancient Egyptian in modern London.
• * *Necroscope: The Touch (Tor 0-765-31609-9, Jun 2006, $25.95, 445pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton) Horror novel in the Necroscope series. A new Necroscope faces aliens determined to destroy Earth.
• * *Screaming Science Fiction: Horrors from Out of Space (Subterranean Press 1-59606-042-5, Feb 2006, $35.00, 171pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton) Collection of nine SF horror stories, one original. This is a signed limited edition of 1500; a traycased, lettered edition of 26 ($200.00) is also available. Subterranean Press, PO Box 190106, Burton MI 48519; [www.subterraneanpress.com]. (Contents)
• * _Sorcery in Shad (Tor 0-765-31077-5, Sep 2006, $23.95, 272pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton) Reprint (Headline 1991) horror novel, third in the Tales of the Primal Land.
• * _Tarra Khash: Hrossak! (Tor 0-765-31075-9, Apr 2006, $23.95, 256pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton) Reprint (W. Paul Ganley 1991 as The Complete Khash: Volume One: Never a Backward Glance) collection of six Lovecraftian dark fantasy stories about a barbarian adventurer, volume two in the Tales of the Primal Land series.

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• * _The Brian Lumley Companion (with Stanley Wiater) (Tor 0-765-30440-6, Jul 2006, $17.95, 397pp, tp, cover by Bob Eggleton) Reprint (Tor 2002) non-fiction, reference guide to Lumley’s works, with 14 essays, interviews, bibliographies, and concordances.

LUSTBADER, ERIC VAN (1946- ) (chron.)

• * *The Testament (Tor 0-765-31463-0, Sep 2006, $24.95, 480pp, hc) Associational thriller of secret religious societies and a lost Testament.

LUZZATTO, KFIR (chron.)

• * *The Odyssey Gene (Echelon Press 1-59080-473-2, Jul 2006, $12.99, 280pp, tp) SF novel of genetic discrimination. Echelon Press, 9735 Country Meadows Lane 1-D, Laurel MD 20723; [www.echelonpress.com].

LYNCH, SCOTT (chron.)

• * *The Lies of Locke Lamora (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07802-2, Jun 2006, £12.99, 504pp, tp) Humorous fantasy novel, book one of the Gentleman Bastard series. A first novel. A hardcover edition (-07694-1, £18.99) was announced but not seen.
• * +The Lies of Locke Lamora (Bantam Spectra 0-553-80467-7, Jul 2006, $23.00, 501pp, hc) Fantasy novel. Con artist Locke Lamora leads a band of tricksters in the island city of Camorr. A first novel. First US edition (Gollancz 6/06).
• * _The Lies of Locke Lamora (SFBC #1210836, Jul 2006, $11.99, 501pp, hc) Reprint (Gollancz 2006) fantasy novel. This is similar to the Bantam Spectra edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.

LYNN, TRACY (chron.)

• * _Snow (Simon Pulse 1-4169-4015-4, Nov 2006, $5.99, 259pp, pb, cover by Kinuko Y. Craft) Reissue (Simon Pulse 2003) young-adult novel based on “Snow White”. Copyrighted by Elizabeth Braswell. Repackaged as part of the Once Upon a Time series.

LYON, STEVE; pseudonym of Steven G. Spruill, (1946- ) (chron.)

• * _The Gift Moves (Random House/Laurel-Leaf 0-553-49494-5, Jun 2006, $6.60, 230pp, pb, cover by Mikki Amiko) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 2004, not seen) young-adult SF novel about two young adults in a post-materialistic far-future society.

LYONS, STEVE (chron.)

• * +Warhammer 40,000: Death World (BL Publishing/Black Library US 1-84416-398-9, Jan 2007, $7.99, 248pp, pb, cover by Karl Kopinski) Novelization based on the roleplaying game universe. Copyrighted by Games Workshop. This first US edition has the same ISBN as the Black Library UK (12/06) edition but gives only US and Canadian prices.

MABERRY, JONATHAN (chron.)

• * *Ghost Road Blues (Kensington/Pinnacle 0-7860-1815-1, Jun 2006, $6.99, 472pp, pb) Horror novel, the first in a trilogy. A small town famous for a serial killer’s rampage 30 years before faces a new evil.

MACAIRE, JENNIFER (chron.)

• * *Horse Passages (Medallion Press 1-932815-12-0, Dec 2005, $9.99, 315pp, tp, cover by James Tampa) Young-adult science fantasy. Horses capable of traveling from planet to planet are threatened by alien Raiders after the horses and their human companions. Medallion Press, 225 Seabreeze Ave., Palm Beach FL 33480; [www.medallionpress.com].

MacALISTER, KATIE; pseudonym of Marthe Arends, (1962- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Even Vampires Get the Blues (Penguin/Signet 0-451-21823-X, May 2006, $6.99, 344pp, pb) Supernatural romance novel. A half-elf PI gets a hunky, soulless Moravian vampire for her first client. Copyrighted by Marthe Arends; MacAlister also writes YA novels as Katie Maxwell.
• * _Even Vampires Get the Blues (SFBC #1209256, May 2006, $10.99, 344pp, hc) Reprint (Signet 2006) supernatural romance novel. This is copyrighted by Marthe Arends; MacAlister also writes YA novels as Katie Maxwell. This has ISBN 0-7394-6766-2; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * *Light My Fire (Penguin/Signet Eclipse 0-451-21982-1, Nov 2006, $6.99, 329pp, pb) Humorous supernatural romance novel, the third featuring Aisling Grey, Guardian, demon master, and mate to a dragon. This is copyrighted by Marthe Arends; MacAlister also writes YA novels as Katie Maxwell.

McALLISTER, ANGUS (chron.)

• * *The Tide Turner (Orion Children’s Books 1-84255-122-1, Jun 2006, £9.99, 177pp, hc, cover by Laura Brett) Young-adult fantasy novel.