The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2006

Stories, Listed by Author

VANDERHOOFT, JoSELLE (chron.) (continued)

• * The Minotaur’s Last Letter to His Mother, (pm) Mythic Delirium #14 2006
• * Miranda, (pm) Jabberwocky 2, ed. Sean Wallace, Prime Books 2006
• * The River in Winter, (ss) Cabinet des Fées v1 #1 2006
• * The Tale of the Desert that Vanished Inside Her, (ss) Mythic 2, ed. Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium Books 2006
• * Two Rivers, (pm) Mythic Delirium #15 2006
• * Witches’ Sabbath, (pm) Star*Line v29 #5 2006

VanderMEER, JEFF(rey Scott) (1968- ) (books) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * American Fantasy?, (ed) Postscripts Win 2006
• * Exhibit H: Torn Pages Discovered in the Vest Pocket of an Unidentified Tourist, (ss) Secret Life, Golden Gryphon Press 2004
  • Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, ed. James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, Tachyon Publications 2006
• * The Farmer’s Cat, (ss) Polyphony, Volume 5, ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, Wheatland Press 2005
  • Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Locus Press 2006
  • Year’s Best Fantasy 6, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Tachyon Publications 2006
• * Glen Cook: Godfather of Modern Heroic Fantasy, (in)
  • A Cruel Wind: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire, Glen Cook, Night Shade Books 2006
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Lost Worlds, Clark Ashton Smith, University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books 2006
• * Learning to Leave the Flesh, (ss) Dreams from the Strangers’ Café #5 1996
  • Dark Arts, ed. John Pelan, CD Publications 2006
• * Lost, (ss) TEL: Stories, ed. Jay Lake, Wheatland Press 2005
  • Horror: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition, ed. John Gregory Betancourt & Sean Wallace, Wildside Press/Prime Books 2006
• * My Report on the Secret Life of Shane Hamill, (vi) Eidolon I, ed. Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G. Byrne, Eidolon Publications 2006
• * The Secret Paths of Rajan Khanna, (ss) ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories, ed. Rusty Morrison & Ken Keegan, Omnidawn Publishing 2006

VANDE VELDE, VIVIAN (1951- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Best Friends, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * Cemetery Field Trip, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * Come in and Rest a Spell, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * Edward, Lost and Far from Home, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * Holding On, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * I Want to Thank You, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * MARIAN, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * Morgan Roehmar’s Boys, (nv) Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales, ed. Deborah Noyes, Candlewick Press 2004
  • All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * My Real Mother, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * Only on All Halloes’ Eve, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * Pretending, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * When and How, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006
• * When My Parents Come to Visit, (ss) All Hallows’ Eve: 13 Stories, Harcourt 2006

VAN DYK, AMBER (chron.)

• * Disquiet, (ss) Fantasy Magazine #5 2006
• * The Dying of the Light (with Elizabeth Bear), (ss)
  • The Chains That You Refuse, Elizabeth Bear, Night Shade Books 2006
• * The Green Man, (ss) Fantasy Magazine #4 2006

van EEKHOUT, GREG (books) (chron.)

• * Anywhere There’s Game, (ss) Realms of Fantasy Apr 2006
  • Show and Tell and Other Stories, Tropism Press 2006
• * Authorwerx, (ss) Amazing Feb 2005
  • Show and Tell and Other Stories, Tropism Press 2006
• * Far As You Can Go, (ss) Show and Tell and Other Stories, Tropism Press 2006
• * In the Late December, (ss) Strange Horizons (online) Dec 22 2003
  • Show and Tell and Other Stories, Tropism Press 2006
• * Native Aliens, (ss) So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy, ed. Nalo Hopkinson & Uppinder Mehan, Arsenal Pulp Press 2004
  • Show and Tell and Other Stories, Tropism Press 2006
• * The Osteomancer’s Son, (ss) Asimov’s Apr/May 2006
• * Robots and Falling Hearts (with Tim Pratt), (ss) Realms of Fantasy Oct 2005
  • Year’s Best Fantasy 6, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Tachyon Publications 2006
• * Show and Tell, (ss) Strange Horizons (online) Jun 10 2002
  • Show and Tell and Other Stories, Tropism Press 2006
• * Story Notes, (bi)
  • Show and Tell and Other Stories, Tropism Press 2006

VAN GELDER, GORDON (Mark) (1966- ) (chron.)

• * Afterword, (aw) Map of Dreams, Golden Gryphon Press 2006
• * Editorial, (ed) F&SF Oct/Nov 2006

VAN NAME, MARK L. (chron.)

• * Slanted Jack, (ss) Jim Baen’s Universe (online) Jun 2006
• * Upload Your Life Now, (ar) Jim Baen’s Universe (online) Jun 2006

VAN NATTA, TOM (chron.)

• * Flint’s Lock (with Leonard Hollar, Bob Hollingsworth & John Zeek) [*1632], (ar) Grantville Gazette
  • The Grantville Gazette III, ed. Eric Flint, Baen 2007

VAN PELT, JAMES (1954- ) (books) (chron.)

• * The Inn at Mount Either, (ss) Analog May 2005
  • Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Wildside Press/Prime Books 2006
• * The Road’s End, (ss) Realms of Fantasy Feb 2006
• * The Small Astral Object Genius, (ss) Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2006
• * Tiny Voices, (ss) Talebones Sum 2006

van VOGT, A(lfred) E(lton) (1912-2000) (books) (chron.)

• * The Barbarian [Clane], (nv) Astounding Dec 1947
  • Transgalactic, Baen 2006
• * Child of the Gods [Clane], (nv) Astounding Aug 1946
  • Transgalactic, Baen 2006
• * Co-Operate—or Else! [Rulls], (nv) Astounding Apr 1942
  • Transgalactic, Baen 2006
• * Concealment [Dellian Robots], (ss) Astounding Sep 1943
  • Transgalactic, Baen 2006
• * Hand of the Gods [Clane], (nv) Astounding Dec 1946
  • Transgalactic, Baen 2006
• * Home of the Gods [Clane], (nv) Astounding Apr 1947
  • Transgalactic, Baen 2006
• * The Mixed Men [Dellian Robots], (nv) Astounding Jan 1945
  • Transgalactic, Baen 2006
• * The Second Solution [Rulls], (nv) Astounding Oct 1942
  • Transgalactic, Baen 2006
• * Slan Hunter (with Kevin J. Anderson) [*Slan], (sl) Jim Baen’s Universe (online) Dec 2006
• * A Son Is Born [Clane], (ss) Astounding May 1946
  • Transgalactic, Baen 2006
• * The Storm [Dellian Robots], (nv) Astounding Oct 1943
  • Transgalactic, Baen 2006
• * The Weapon Shop [Isher], (nv) Astounding Dec 1942
  • Freedom!, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Mark Tier, Baen 2006
• * The Wizard of Linn [Linn], (n.) New York: Ace 1962
  • Transgalactic, Baen 2006

VARLEY, JOHN (Herbert) (1947- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Air Raid [as by Herb Boehm], (ss) IASFM Spr 1977
  • Novel Ideas: Science Fiction, ed. Brian M. Thomsen, DAW 2006

VAUGHAN, BETH; see under Vaughan, Elizabeth A. (books) (chron.)

VAUGHAN, CARRIE (chron.)

• * Kitty and the Mosh Pit of the Damned, (ss) Weird Tales Jan/Feb 2006

VAUGHAN, ELIZABETH A. (books) (chron.)

• * Wan Sui Ye, (nv) Furry Fantastic, ed. Jean Rabe & Brian M. Thomsen, DAW 2006

VAUGHN, CARRIE (books) (chron.)

• * Crows, (ss) Talebones Win 2006
• * For Fear of Dragons, (ss) Weird Tales Oct/Nov 2006
• * Kitty Meets the Band [Kitty the werewolf], (ss) Kitty Goes to Washington, Carrie Vaughn, Warner 2006
• * Of Swords & Horses, (ss) Realms of Fantasy Dec 2006
• * Winnowing the Herd, (ss) Strange Horizons (online) Oct 16 2006

VAUGHN, ROBERT (chron.)

• * Vaughn’s Diary, (ss) Arkham Tales, ed. William Jones, Chaosium 2006

VAZ, KATHERINE (chron.)

• * The Kingdom of Melting Glances, (ss) A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Simon & Schuster 2000
  • The Dark of the Woods, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 2006
• * My Swan Sister, (ss) Swan Sister, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Simon & Schuster 2003
  • The Dark of the Woods, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 2006

VEALE, KEVIN (chron.)

• * The Patternspinner, (ss) Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #25 2006; (NOT in the PDF).

VELDE, VIVIAN VANDE; see under Vande Velde, Vivian (books) (chron.)

VELICHANSKY, MICHAIL (chron.)

• * Games on the Children’s Ward, (ss) L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXII, ed. Algis Budrys, Galaxy Press 2006

VENN, CHRIS (chron.)

• * Farthing drabble #10, (vi) Farthing May 2006

VENUGOBAN, ALISON (chron.)

• * Aspies and Auties and Long-leggedy Beasties, (ss) Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #26 2006

VERMETTE, AL J. (chron.)

• * Blood Notes, (cl) Blood Moon Rising #28, #29, #30 2006
• * Creature Feature, (cl) Blood Moon Rising #28 2006
• * Creature Feature: Alien, (cl) Blood Moon Rising #29 2006
• * Creature Feature: Scarecrows, (cl) Blood Moon Rising #30 2006

VERNON, STEVE (chron.)

• * The Chicken Crossed the Road, (ss) DeathGrip: Exit Laughing, ed. Walt Hicks, HellBound Books 2006
• * A Conversation with Neil Gaiman, (iv) Cemetery Dance #54 2006
• * Hooney Jew, Hooney Jew, (ss) Not One of Us Oct 1991
  • The Best of Not One of Us, ed. John Benson, Wildside Press/Prime Books 2006
• * New Voices: Jeremy Robert Johnson, (ar) Cemetery Dance #56 2006
• * Potboiler, Told in a Spanish Key, (ss) Cthulhu Sex v3 #13 2006
• * Tank Tanka, (pm) On Our Way to the Battle: Poetry from the Trenches, ed. Samantha Henderson, Carnifex Press 2006
• * Under the Skin, Under the Bones, (ss) From the Trenches, ed. Joseph Paul Haines & Samantha Henderson, Carnifex Press 2007

VERNON, STEVEN (chron.)

_____, reviews:

• * The Film Vault (with Michael McBride & Jeffrey Thomas), (mr) Dark Wisdom #9 2006

VERRONEN, MAARIT (chron.)

• * Basement, Man and Wife, (ss) The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy, ed. Johanna Sinisalo, Dedalus 2006; Black Train / Basement, Man and Wife, gp.; tr. by David Hackston
• * Black Train [, , 1996], (ss) The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy, ed. Johanna Sinisalo, Dedalus 2006; Black Train / Basement, Man and Wife, gp.; tr. by David Hackston
• * Black Train / Basement, Man and Wife, (gp) The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy, ed. Johanna Sinisalo, Dedalus 2006; Black Train [, , 1996], ss; Basement, Man and Wife, ss.; originally published in Finnish as “Musta juna” in Kulkureita ja unohtajia (1996). originally published in Finnish as “Kellarimies ja vaimo” in Kulkureita ja unohtajia (1996).; tr. by David Hackston

VERTLIEB, STEVE (chron.)

• * Behemoth, (pm) Outer Darkness #32 2006
• * The Veil, (pm) Outer Darkness #34 2006
• * Witch House, (pm) Outer Darkness #33 2006

VESS, CHARLES (1951- ) (books) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * Comics and Graphic Novels: 2005, (ar) (*) 2006
  • The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin’s Griffin 2006

VIAN, JACK (chron.)

• * Follow Me, Granola Boy, See if I Care, (ss) Black Petals Sum 2006
• * Hell’s Sweet Angel Baby Ride, (pm) Black Petals Sum 2006
• * Stopped Terra, (pm) Black Petals Sum 2006

VICK, EDD (chron.)

• * Moon Does Run, (ss) Electric Velocipede Fll 2006

VIDAL, GORE; [i.e., Eugene Luther Vidal, Jr.] (1925- ) (chron.)

• * Introduction, (in)
  • Tarzan of the Apes and The Prisoner of Zenda, ed. Anonymous, Penguin/Signet Classics 2006

VIGUIÉ, DEBBIE (books) (chron.)

• * Wicked: Curse (with Nancy Holder) [*Wicked], (n.) 2003
  • Wicked: Witch & Curse, Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie, Simon Pulse 2006
• * Wicked: Legacy (with Nancy Holder) [*Wicked], (n.) 2003
  • Wicked: Legacy & Spellbound, Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie, Simon Pulse 2006
• * Wicked: Spellbound (with Nancy Holder) [*Wicked], (n.) 2003
  • Wicked: Legacy & Spellbound, Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie, Simon Pulse 2006
• * Wicked: Witch (with Nancy Holder) [*Wicked], (n.) 2002
  • Wicked: Witch & Curse, Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie, Simon Pulse 2006

VILLEGAS, HALLI (books) (chron.)

• * Hair Wreath, (ss) In the Dark: Stories from the Supernatural, ed. Myna Wallin & Halli Villegas, Tightrope Books 2006

VILLIERS de l’ISLE-ADAM, (Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, Comte de) (1838-1889) (chron.)

• * The Torture of Hope, (ss) The Strand Jun 1891; in Contes Cruels, 1883.
  • H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural, ed. Stephen Jones, Pegasus Books 2006

VINCENT, BEV (chron.)

• * The Deer of St. Bart’s, (ss) Shivers IV, ed. Richard Chizmar, CD Publications 2006
• * False Witness, (ss) Thou Shalt Not..., ed. Lee Allen Howard, Dark Cloud Press 2006
• * The Garden of Earthly Delights, (ss) Damned Nation, ed. Robert N. Lee & David T. Wilbanks, HellBound Books 2006
• * Stephen King News: From the Dead Zone, (cl) Cemetery Dance #54, #55, #56 2006

VINGE, JOAN D.; [i.e., Joan Carol Dennison Vinge Frenkel] (1948- ) (chron.)

• * Anime and Manga: 2005, (ar) (*) 2006
  • The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin’s Griffin 2006

VINGE, VERNOR (Steffen) (1944- ) (books) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * The Cookie Monster, (na) Analog Oct 2003
  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2006, ed. Gardner Dozois, Penguin/Roc 2006
• * The Ungoverned [Bobbles], (na) Far Frontiers Vol. III, ed. Jerry Pournelle & Jim Baen, Baen 1985
  • Freedom!, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Mark Tier, Baen 2006

VIRTES, SCOTT C. (chron.)

• * boundaries, (pm) Beyond Centauri Apr 2006
• * for the dogs, (pm) Beyond Centauri Jul 2006
• * Pondering Poetry - Pacing & Spacing, (ar) Star*Line v29 #5 2006

VITACCO, DOMINIC J. (chron.)

• * Science Fiction Sudoku Contest Results (with Lyle Wiedeman), (ms) Asimov’s Jul 2006

VIVANT, SAGE (books) (chron.)

• * The Maiden of Grand Proportions, (ss) Garden of the Perverse, ed. Sage Vivant & M. Christian, Thunder’s Mouth Press 2006

VOGEL, WILLIAM BLAKE, III (chron.)

• * Melted, (pm) Champagne Shivers #2 2006
• * Screamo, (pm) Champagne Shivers #2 2006
• * The Spur, (pm) Champagne Shivers #2 2006
• * Winter Winds, (pm) Champagne Shivers #2 2006

VOGT, JOSH (chron.)

• * The Soul Shop, (ss) The Leading Edge #52 2006