The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• Sleepy Hollow To-day • H. P. Lovecraft • (ar)
• Sleight of Nature • Darren Speegle • (ss)
• The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World • Philip José Farmer • (ss)
• Slide Show • Jerry Oltion • (ss)
• Sliding • D. M. Gordon • (pm)
• Sliding Down the Slippery Slip • L. H. Maynard & Michael P. N. Sims • (ss)
• Slightly Imperfect • Beth Wodzinski • (ss)
• Slim and Swede and the Damned Dead Horse: A Tale of Bloodsong • C. Dean Andersson • (ss)
• The Slime: A Love Story • Anna Tambour • (ss)
• Slip • Robert A. Metzger • (ss)
• The Slithering Shadow • Robert E. Howard • (nv)
• The Slow Ones • Larry Niven • (ss)
• Slow Spider Sunset • Todd Hanks • (pm)
• Slow Train to Dawn • Gary McMahon • (ss)
• Slowhand and Little Sister • Paul Di Filippo • (ss)
• The Slug Planet Messiah • Joe Murphy • (ss)
• The Slums of Atlantis • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• The Small Astral Object Genius • James Van Pelt • (ss)
• Small Cogs • Neil Rutledge • (nv)
• Small Ghost • Mike Minnis • (ss)
• A Small Jewel-Box Boutique Amidst the WalMarts • Iain Emsley • (iv)
• Small Magic • Jay Lake • (ss)
• Small Mercy • Richard Ford • (ss)
• Small Talk • Kristine Ong Muslim • (vi)
• The Smallest Choices • Jeremy Yoder • (ss)
• Smallest Library • Zoran Zivkovic • (ss)
• Smallville: Dragon • Alan Grant • (n.)
• Smallville: Hauntings • Nancy Holder • (n.)
• Smallville: Shadows • Diana G. Gallagher • (n.)
• Smallville: Silence • Nancy Holder • (n.)
• Smallville: Strange Visitor • Roger Stern • (n.)
• Smallville: Whodunnit • Dean Wesley Smith • (n.)
• Smash and Grab • James Harris • (vi)
• The Smile • J. G. Ballard • (ss)
• Smite the Heathens, Charlie Brown • Shalom Auslander • (ss)
• Smitten • Zoë Selengut • (ss)
• Smoke & Mirrors • Amanda Downum • (ss)
• Smoked Butt • Brian Egeston • (ss)
• Smokes and Mirror • R. Andrew Heidel • (ss)
• Smokes and Mirror: An Afterword and an Introduction • R. Andrew Heidel • (aw)
• Smoking the Opposition • James Harris • (ss)
• The Smugglers • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• Smut Talk • Larry Niven • (ss)
• SNAFU • Andrew C. Ferguson • (pm)
• Snail Stones • Paul J. Melko, Jr. • (ss)
• Snairls • Neal L. Asher • (ss)
• Snake • Jenn Reese • (vi)
• Snake Charmer • Amanda Downum • (ss)
• The Snake that Barked • David McGillveray • (ss)
• The Snake Woman’s Lover • Catherine Lundoff • (ss)
• A Snake’s Gift • David A. Olson • (ss)
• Snares and Delusions • Matthew Farrer • (nv)
• Snarker’s Son • Brian Lumley • (ss)
• Snipe Hunting for Stewed Tomatoes • Michael Lohr • (iv)
• Snodgrass • Ian R. MacLeod • (nv)
• The Snout in the Dark (draft) • Robert E. Howard • (uw)
• Snow Blind • Kiel Stuart • (ss)
• Snowball’s Chance • Charles Stross • (ss)
• Snowmen • Kealan-Patrick Burke • (ss)
• So Coldly Sweet, So Deadly Fair • Gregory Frost • (ss)
• So Free We Seem • C. J. Henderson • (ss)
• So Hot • Terry Hayman • (ss)
• So the Story Ends • Terry Bramlett • (ss)
• So This Guy Walks Into a Lighthouse... • Kage Baker & Edgar Allan Poe • (ss)
• So This Is Christmas • Tanya S. Huff • (nv)
• “So Unnecessary!” • W. Clark Russell • (ss)
• So You Want to Do Telecommunications in 1633? • Rick Boatright • (ar)
• Soap • Bryan Thao Worra • (pm)
• Soapbox:
  ___ Science Fiction as Message—A Tool for Political, Social, and Religious Commentary • Robert R. Shelsky • (cl)
• Sob in the Silence • Gene Wolfe • (ss)
• The Social Call • Betty Schneider • (vi)
• Sock Puppets • Sean Parker • (vi)
• Soft but Ghostly • Catherine Graham • (pm)
• Soft Flesh, Cold Steel • John Saxton • (ss)
• The Soft Terrible Music • George Zebrowski • (ss)
• Soft, Sweet Music • Drew Williams • (ss)
• Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck • Neal L. Asher • (nv)
• Softly, with a Big Stick • Gavin J. Grant • (ss)
• The Software Soul • Brian Plante • (ss)
• Soho Golem • Kim Newman • (na)
• The Soho Puppeteer • Kate Harrad • (ss)
• Sol Prayer: By the Oracle Duality Chang Shen / Song of the Star Cradle • C. S. MacCath • (pm)
• Solace • R. Andrew Heidel • (vi)
• Solace in Bloom • Jeff D. Jacques • (nv)
• Solar System Commuter Trains: Magbeam Plasma Propulsion • Kathy Ferguson & James Grayson • (ar)
• The Soldier • Roald Dahl • (ss)
• The Soldier • Manuel Ramos Montes • (ss)
• Sole Solution • Eric Frank Russell • (vi)
• The Solipsist at Dinner • Larry Niven • (ss)
• Solitary Isle • Koji Suzuki • (ss)
• Solitude • Christopher Canniff • (ss)
• Solstice • Claire Light • (vi)
• Solvent • Jason Christie • (pm)
• “Some Analytical Genius, No Doubt” • Caleb Carr • (ar)
• Some Comments • Philip José Farmer • (ar)
• Some Darker Star • William H. Pugmire • (ss)
• Some Dutch Footprints in New England • H. P. Lovecraft • (ar)
• Some Fabulous Yonder • Philip José Farmer • (nv)
• Some Notes on a Working Definition of Steampunk • Lavie Tidhar • (ar)
• Some of the Locals • Ursula K. Le Guin • (pm)
• Some People Who Have Had Influence Over Me • Robert E. Howard • (ar)
• Some Thoughts on the Problem of Order • Simon Bucher-Jones • (ss)
• Some Thoughts Re: Dark Destructor • Tad Williams • (ar)
• Somebody Up There Likes You • Shalom Auslander • (ss)
• Someday • R. Andrew Heidel • (ss)
• Someday I Shall Rise and Go • Richard Bowes • (nv)
• Someone Is Stealing the Great Throne Rooms of the Galaxy • Harry Turtledove • (ss)
• Someone Like Me • Tom Holt • (na)
• Someone Like You • Roald Dahl • (ss)
• Someone to Share the Night • Tanya S. Huff • (nv)
• Something Borrowed • Jim Butcher • (nv)
• Something in The Flakes • Gary A. Scheinoha • (ss)
• Something in the Mermaid Way • Carrie Laben • (ss)
• Something New • Simon Strantzas • (ss)
• Something Rich and Strange: Karen Joy Fowler’s “What I Didn’t See” • L. Timmel Duchamp • (ar)
• Sometime I Think If I Stand by the Phone It May Ring • Robert N. Lee • (ss)
• Sometimes • Dustin LaValley • (pm)
• Sometimes I Get Lost • Steve Rasnic Tem • (ss)
• Sometimes, Just Because • Tanya S. Huff • (nv)
• Somewhere in Between: Dolan’s Cadillac and The Colorado Kid • Andrew Jury • (ar)
• Son • Philip José Farmer • (ss)
• A Son Is Born • A. E. van Vogt • (ss)
• Son of a Bitch • Tsultrim Dorjee • (pm)
• Son of Book Monster of Blood Island • Henry W. Wagner • (br)
• Son of Book Monster of Blood Island: Serial Killers in Print • Henry W. Wagner • (br)
• The Son of Chimera • Leena Krohn • (ss)
• Son of Sun • A. M. Matte • (ss)
• Son of the Empire • Robert Allan • (ss)
• The Song • Tim Akers • (ss)
• Song • Ursula K. Le Guin • (pm)
• A Song for Lya • George R. R. Martin • (na)
• The Song of a Mad Minstrel • Robert E. Howard • (pm)
• The Song of Kido • Matthew Corradi • (nv)
• The Song of the Bats • Robert E. Howard • (pm)
• Song of the Deep One • Lucy Francis • (pm)
• Song of the Mine-Born • Len Bains • (ss)
• Song of the Symbols • Eric Hermanson • (pm)
• Song Sparrow Song • Ursula K. Le Guin • (pm)
• Song the City Sang Off-Key (Greg’s Re-Mix) • Cornelius A. Fortune • (pm)
• Songbird • Jeremiah Sturgill • (ss)
• Songs of the Rooftops • Thomas M. Disch • (pm)
• The Sonnet from Hell • Sue Burke • (pm)
• A Sonnet Lumière • Hal Duncan • (pm)
• Sonora to del Rio • Robert E. Howard • (pm)
• Sorceries of San Blas • Ursula K. Le Guin • (gp)
• The Sorrow of Odin the Goth • Poul Anderson • (na)
• The Sought After Collectable • L. B. Sedlacek • (pm)
• Soul Bone • Elana Wolff • (pm)
• Soul Hungry • Rebecca M. Senese • (ss)
• A Soul in a Bottle • John Clute • (br)
• A Soul in a Bottle • Tim Powers • (na)
• The Soul Keeper • Ron Shiflet • (ss)
• The Soul of Cain • Eric Marin • (ss)
• Soul Seduction • Patrick Thomas • (ss)
• The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson’s Poems: A Wellsian Perspective • Connie Willis • (ss)
• Soul Taker • Lisa S. Silverthorne • (ss)
• “Soulless and Deadly” • Gary Romeo • (ss)
• Soul’s Night • Jennifer Rachel Baumer • (ss)
• The Souls of Drowning Mountain • Jack Cady • (ss)
• The Sound Machine • Roald Dahl • (ss)
• The Sound of a Door Opening • Don Webb • (ss)
• The Sound of Music • David Carrico • (ss)
• The Sound-Sweep • J. G. Ballard • (nv)
• Sounding • Elizabeth Bear • (ss)
• Sounds Out of Space, or Cthulhu Metal • Shimotsuki Aoi • (ar)
• Source Acknowledgments • Misc. • (bi)
• The Source and the Stone • Don Webb • (ss)
• The Source of the River • Philip José Farmer • (ar)
• South • Margaret Ballif Simon • (pm)
• Souvenirs from a Damnation • Don Webb • (ss)
• Space 1889: Episodes 3 and 4 • Sandy Auden • (rr)
• Space & Time Books • Melissa J. Yuan-Innes • (ss)
• Space Boy • Orson Scott Card • (na)
• Space Fabric 3 • Bruce Boston • (cv)
• A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline’s “The Heat Death of the Universe” • Mary E. Papke • (ar)
• Space Opera • Michael Kandel • (ss)
• The Space Opera Renaissance • Jim Steel • (br)
• The Space Orb • Ron Shiflet • (ss)
• Space Rats of the C.C.C. • Harry Harrison • (nv)
• Space War • Mike Allen • (pm)
• Space-Monkeys Adventure: I Scream You Scream • MonkeyJohn • (ss)
• The Spacetime Pit • Stephen M. Baxter & Eric Brown • (ss)
• A Spark in the Darkness • Juliet E. McKenna • (nv)
• Sparking Anger • Margaret Ronald • (ss)
• Spatterjay • Neal L. Asher • (ss)
• Speak, Geek • Eileen Gunn • (vi)
• A Speaker for the Wooden Sea • Ian Watson • (na)
• Spear and Fang • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• A Special Breed • Christopher Fahy • (ss)
• Special Features • Jeff Strand • (ss)
• A Special Introduction • Julie E. Czerneda • (in)
• Special Makeup • Kevin J. Anderson • (ss)
• Special Secret Bonus • Michael Gerber • (fa)
• The Specialist’s Hat • Kelly Link • (ss)
• The Specific Gravity of Pain • Greg Beatty • (pm)
• Speculations • Lorraine Schein • (pm)
• Speculative Poem • Lorraine Schein • (pm)
• The Speed of Dark • Catherine MacLeod • (ss)
• Spellbound • L. A. Banks • (nv)
• Spheres • Suzanne Palmer • (ss)
• The Sphinx and Ernest Hemingway • Wade Ogletree • (ss)
• The Sphinx and the Prince • Heather J. Cuthbertson • (pm)
• Spider • Duncan Barford • (vi)
• A Spider on My Tongue • T. M. Wright • (na)
• Spiked! • Saint James Harris Wood • (ss)
• Spinning Out • Jamie Barras • (sl)
• Spiral Scream • Ann K. Schwader • (pm)
• Spirey and the Queen • Alastair Reynolds • (nv)
• Spirit • Jason Christie • (pm)
• Spirits in the Night • Jeani Rector • (ss)
• Spirts of the ‘Cane • Eric Diehl • (ss)
• Splatterjay • Neal L. Asher • (ss)
• Splinter • Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca Moesta • (nv)
• Spooks.com • Karen May • (cl)