The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

del REY, LESTER (stories) (continued)

• * *Once Upon a Time: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales (with Risa Kessler) (Legend 0-7126-4993-X, Nov ’91 [Oct ’91], £9.99, 341pp, tp, cover by Michael Pangrazio) Original fantasy anthology. Simultaneous with U.S. (Ballantine) edition. Also available in hardcover (-4992-1, £16.99).

DELRIO, MARTIN; house pseudonym (stories)

• * *Harold R. Foster’s Prince Valiant (Avon 0-380-79405-5, Jul ’98 [Jun ’98], $5.99, 246pp, pb) Movie novelization based on Hal Foster’s Arthurian comic strip. Copyrighted by King Features Syndicate/Constantin Film Produktion GmbH.
• * *Mortal Kombat (Tor 0-812-54453-6, Aug ’95 [Jul ’95], $3.99, 57pp, pb) Young-adult “novelization” (under 10,000 words) based on the movie based on the video game. This is the abridged digest version. Copyrighted by New Line Productions.
• * *Spider-Man: Global War [by Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald] (Pocket 0-671-00799-8, Apr ’96, $4.99, pb, cover by Steven Geiger & John Nyberg) [Spider-Man] Young-adult novelization based on the comic-book character. Copyrighted by Marvel Characters Inc.; packaged by Byron Preiss Multimedia.
• * *Spider-Man: Midnight Justice [by Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald] (Pocket 0-671-56851-5, Apr ’96 [May ’96], $4.99, 140pp, pb, cover by Mike Zeck & Phil Zimelman) [Spider-Man] Young-adult novelization based on the comic-book character. Copyrighted by Marvel Characters Inc.; packaged by Byron Preiss Multimedia.

de MACEDO, ANTÓNIO, ed. (1931- ) (stories)

• * _Frontiers/Fronteiras (with Maria Augusta) See entry under Maria Augusta.
• * _Side Effects (with Maria Augusta) See entry under Maria Augusta.

de MAUPASSANT, GUY; see under Maupassant, Guy de (stories) (chron.)

de MERS, JOE; pseudonym

• * _The Return (Penguin Onyx 0-451-40729-6, Jan ’97 [Dec ’96], $6.99, 448pp, pb) Reprint (Dutton 1996) thriller. Christ has risen. Copyrighted by Sea Biscuit Pty Ltd.

DEMPSEY, AL

• * _Miss Finney Kills Now and Then (Tor 0-812-58190-3, Aug ’89 [Jul ’89], $3.95, 256pp, pb) Reissue (Tor 1982) horror novel based on an original screenplay by Joseph Van Winkle; second printing.

DENIS, JOHN; pseudonym of John Edwards & Denis Frost

• * *Goliath (Fontana 0-00-617351-9, Mar ’87, £2.95, 284pp, pb) Futuristic thriller. Author is a pseudonym of John Edwards & Denis Frost.
• * _Goliath (Collins 0-00-223159-X, Apr ’87, £10.95, 256pp, hc) Reprint (Fontana 1987) futuristic thriller. Author is a pseudonym of John Edwards & Denis Frost. [Not seen]

DENNING, TROY (1958- ); see pseudonym Richard Awlinson (stories) (chron.)

• * *Dark Sun: The Amber Enchantress (TSR 1-56076-236-5, Oct ’92, $4.95, 342pp, tp, cover by Brom) [Dark Sun: Prism Pentad] Fantasy novelization based on the “Dark Sun” role-playing game, third book of the “Prism Pentad” series.
• * *Dark Sun: The Cerulean Storm (TSR 1-56076-642-5, Sep ’93 [Aug ’93], $4.95, 341pp, tp, cover by Brom) [Dark Sun: Prism Pentad] Fantasy novelization based on the “Dark Sun” game, fifth book of the “Prism Pentad.”
• * *Dark Sun: The Crimson Legion (TSR 1-56076-260-8, Apr ’92 [Mar ’92], $4.95, 341pp, tp, cover by Brom) [Dark Sun: Prism Pentad] Fantasy novelization based on the “Dark Sun” role-playing game, second book of the “Prism Pentad” series.
• * *Dark Sun: The Obsidian Oracle (TSR 1-56076-603-4, Jun ’93 [May ’93], $4.95, 340pp, tp, cover by Brom) [Dark Sun: Prism Pentad] Fantasy novelization based on the “Dark Sun” game, fourth book of “The Prism Pentad”.
• * *Dark Sun: The Verdant Passage (TSR 1-56076-121-0, Oct ’91, $4.95, 341pp, tp, cover by Gerald Brom) [Dark Sun: Prism Pentad] Fantasy novelization based on the “Dark Sun” game.
• * *Forgotten Realms: Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad (TSR 0-7869-0724-X, Feb ’98, $5.99, 378pp, tp, cover by Alan Pollack) [Forgotten Realms] Novelization based on the fantasy role-playing game, sequel to Prince of Lies. Book five in the “Avatar” series. Copyrighted by TSR.
• * *Forgotten Realms: Dragonwall (TSR 0-88038-919-2, Aug ’90, $4.95, 311pp, tp, cover by Larry Elmore) [Forgotten Realms: Empires] Fantasy novel based on the “Forgotten Realms” game, second book of the “Empires” trilogy.
• * _Forgotten Realms: Dragonwall (Penguin 0-14-014370-X, Jan ’91, £4.50, 311pp, pb, cover by Larry Elmore) [Forgotten Realms: Empires] Reprint (TSR 1990) fantasy novelization. Book Two of the “Empires” trilogy.
• * *Forgotten Realms: Faces of Deception (TSR 0-7869-1183-2, Nov ’98, $5.99, 312pp, tp, cover by Fred Fields) [Forgotten Realms: Lost Empires] Novelization based on the role-playing game, second in the “Lost Empires” sub-series. Copyrighted by TSR.
• * *Forgotten Realms: The Giant Among Us (TSR 0-7869-0098-9, Feb ’95 [Jan ’95], $4.95, 314pp, tp, cover by John Lakey & Laura Lakey) [Forgotten Realms: Twilight Giants] Fantasy novelization based on the role-playing game. Second book in the “Twilight Giants” trilogy. Copyrighted by TSR.
• * *Forgotten Realms: The Ogre’s Pact (TSR 1-56076-891-6, Sep ’94, $4.95, 314pp, tp, cover by Brom) [Forgotten Realms: Twilight Giants] Fantasy novelization based on the Forgotten Realms game, first book of the “Twilight Giants” trilogy. Copyrighted by TSR.
• * *Forgotten Realms: The Parched Sea (TSR 1-56076-067-2, Jul ’91 [Jun ’91], $4.95/£3.99, 310pp, tp, cover by Fred Fields) [Forgotten Realms: Harpers] Fantasy novelization based on the “Forgotten Realms” game, first book of “The Harpers” series. This is a worldwide edition with U.S. and U.K. prices.
• * *Forgotten Realms: The Titan of Twilight (TSR 0-7869-0172-1, Sep ’95, $5.99, 314pp, tp, cover by John Lakey & Laura Lakey) [Forgotten Realms: Twilight Giants] Fantasy novelization based on the role-playing game, third volume in the “Twilight Giants Trilogy”. Copyrighted by TSR.
• * *Forgotten Realms: The Veiled Dragon (TSR 0-7869-0482-8, Mar ’96, $5.99, 311pp, tp, cover by Nick Jainschigg) [Forgotten Realms: Harpers] Fantasy novelization based on the role-playing game, twelfth in “The Harpers” series. Copyrighted by TSR.
• * *Planescape: Pages of Pain (TSR 0-7869-0508-5, Sep ’96, $19.99, 309pp, hc, cover by Robh Ruppel) [Planescape] Novelization based on the role-playing games. Copyrighted by TSR.
• * _Planescape: Pages of Pain (TSR 0-7869-0671-5, Dec ’97 [Jan ’98], $5.99, 309pp, tp, cover by Robh Ruppel) [Planescape] Reprint (TSR 1996) novelization based on the role-playing games. Copyrighted by TSR.

DENNIS, CAROL L(arkey) (1938- )

• * *Dragon’s Knight (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20718-3, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $3.95, 198pp, pb) [*Dragon’s Knight] Fantasy novel, sequel to Dragon’s Pawn.
• * *Dragon’s Pawn (Popular Library/Questar 0-445-20320-X, Jan ’87 [Dec ’86], $3.50, 232pp, pb) [*Dragon’s Knight] Humorous fantasy novel with an untrained hero and a pacifist dragon. A first novel.
• * *Dragon’s Queen (Warner Questar 0-446-36152-6, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $4.99, 247pp, pb, cover by Janny Wurts) [*Dragon’s Knight] Fantasy novel, third book of the “Dragon’s Knight” series.

DENNIS, IAN (1952- )

• * *Bagdad (Macmillan Canada 0-7715-9892-0, Jun ’86 [May ’86], C$17.95, 210pp, hc) [Prince of Stars] Arabian Nights-style fantasy novel, Vol. I of “The Prince of Stars in the Cavern of Time”, a duology. A first novel.
• * _Bagdad (Unwin/Unicorn 0-04-823274-2, Jul ’86, £8.95, 224pp, hc) [Prince of Stars] Reprint (Macmillan Canada 1986) Arabian Nights-style fantasy novel. Volume 1 in the “Prince of Stars in the Crown of Time” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Bagdad (Unwin 0-04-823307-2, Oct ’87, £2.95, 210pp, pb) [Prince of Stars] Reprint (Macmillan Canada 1986) fantasy novel. Volume 1 in the Prince of Stars in the “Cavern of Time” series.
• * *The Prince of Stars (Unwin 0-04-823306-4, Nov ’87, £2.95, 221pp, pb) [Prince of Stars] Fantasy novel. Volume 2 in the “Prince of Stars in the Cavern of Time” series.
• * *The Prince of Stars in the Cavern of Time (Viking Overlook 0-87951-298-9, Feb ’89, $18.95, 433pp, hc) [Prince of Stars] Arabian Nights satirical fantasy novel. First U.S. editions of both (Macmillan Canada 1986, 1987, in two volumes, Bagdad and The Prince of Stars).

DENNIS, K. C.

• * *Blood Red! (Vantage Press 0-686-91074-5, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $8.95, 156pp, tp) Horror novel from a vanity press.

DENNIS, NIGEL (Forbes) (1912-1989)

• * _Cards of Identity (Penguin 0-14-006608-X, Feb ’84 [Jan ’84], $4.95, 302pp, pb) Reprint (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1955) satiric fantasy novel.

DENT, LESTER (1905-1959) (stories)

• * *The Sinister Ray (Gryphon 0-936071-04-4, Oct ’87, $9.95, 175pp, tp) [Lynn Lash] Collection of three scientific detective stories, originally published in the old pulps. (Contents)

DENTON, BRADLEY (Clayton) (1958- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Blackburn (St. Martin’s 0-312-08705-5, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], $19.95, 296pp, hc) Associational non-supernatural horror novel, portions of which have appeared in Pulphouse and in F&SF. Recommended. (SW)
• * _Blackburn (NEL 0-450-60395-4, Jul ’94, £4.99, 296pp, pb) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1993) associational non-supernatural horror novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Blackburn (St. Martin’s/Picador 0-312-13029-5, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $12.00, 296pp, pb) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1994) associational serial-killer horror novel.
• * *Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede (Morrow 0-688-10822-9, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $22.00, 359pp, hc, cover by Mark Harrison) Rock and roll sf chase thriller with drive-in revivals and a resurrected Buddy Holly on every TV station.
• * _Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede (Easton Press no ISBN, Mar ’92, no price, 359pp, hc) Sf novel. This edition is being published “simultaneously” with the Morrow edition listed in August 1991. This special leather-bound gilt-edged edition is part of the “Signed First Editions of Science Fiction” series and is available by subscription only.
• * _Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede (Headline 0-7472-3835-9, Apr ’92, £4.99, 359pp, pb, cover by Mick Brownfield) Reprint (Morrow 1991) rock and roll sf chase thriller. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede (AvoNova 0-380-71876-6, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $4.50, 290pp, pb, cover by Tim O’Brien) Reprint (Morrow 1991) rock and roll sf chase thriller with drive-in revivals and a resurrected Buddy Holly on every TV station. Recommended (SW).
• * *The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians (Wildside Press 1-880448-38-6, Oct ’94 [Feb ’95], 208pp, hc) Collection of five stories, with an introduction by Howard Waldrop and illustrations by Doug Potter. Available only in a boxed set with A Conflagration Artist, also by Denton; the set is also available in limited editions, with different bindings (snakeskin, etc.) for each edition (-36-X, $250.00, lettered; -37-8, $125.00, 100 copies numbered.) Available from Wildside Press, 37 Fillmore Street, Newark NJ 07105. (Contents)
• * *A Conflagration Artist (Wildside Press 1-880448-42-4, Oct ’94 [Feb ’95], $70.00, 207pp, hc) Collection of eight stories, with an introduction by Steven Gould and illustrations by Doug Potter. Available only as part of a boxed set with The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Commedians; the set is also available in limited editions, each edition with a different binding (-40-8, $250.00, 26 lettered copies; -41-6, $125.00, 100 numbered copies.) Available from Wildside Press, 37 Fillmore Street, Newark NJ 07105. (Contents)
• * *Lunatics (St. Martin’s 0-312-14363-X, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $23.95, 325pp, hc, cover by Maurice Vellekoop) Wry, humorous fantasy novel. The goddess of the moon falls in love with a guy named Jack in Austin, Texas.
• * _Lunatics (Bantam 0-553-37891-0, Jul ’97 [Jun ’97], $12.95, 343pp, tp, cover by Ronald Finger) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1996) humorous fantasy novel.
• * *One Day Closer to Death (St. Martin’s 0-312-18150-7, Feb ’98 [Jan ’98], $23.95, 337pp, hc) Collection of eight stories, one original. All but one other story were previously collected in The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and The Conflagration Artist. Each story has an introduction by the author. (Contents)
• * *Wrack & Roll (Popular Library/Questar 0-445-20306-4, Nov ’86 [Oct ’86], $3.50, 406pp, pb) Alternate-world sf novel of straights vs. Wrackers. A better than average first novel. Recommended. (FCM)
• * _Wrack and Roll (Headline 0-7472-3009-9, Jul ’87, £3.50, 406pp, pb) Reprint (Questar 1986) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Wrack and Roll (Headline 0-7472-0016-5, Aug ’87, £10.95, 406pp, hc) Reprint (Questar 1986) sf novel.

DENYER, TREVOR, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * _Gravity’s Angels (with Sarah Ellender, Trevor Mendham, Martin Owton & Gary Couzens) See entry under Gary Couzens.

DENZEL, JUSTIN (Francis) (1917- )

• * *Hunt for the Last Cat (Putnam/Philomel 0-399-22101-8, Oct ’91, $14.95, 191pp, hc) Young-adult prehistoric adventure novel of a young girl blamed by her clan for the depredations of a marauding saber-tooth.

de OVALLE, PILAR

• * *Calabrinia Falling (The Crossing Press 0-89594-433-2, Sep ’90, $8.95, 194pp, tp, cover by Mark Johnson) Feminist fantasy novel of a princess with a quest.

DE PAUW, LINDA GRANT

• * *Baptism of Fire (The Minerva Center 0-9634895-0-X, May ’93 [Feb ’93], $14.95, 393pp, tp, cover by Hannah M. G. Shapero) Sf novel about the adventures of Lt. Maggie Steele, “a woman hero in the heroic tradition of Horatio Hornblower,” newly graduated and facing the adjustment from simulated interstellar combat to the real thing. Order from The Minerva Center, 20 Granada Rd., Pasadena MD 21122.

DE QUEIROZ, EÇA (stories)

• * *The Mandarin (and Other Stories) (with Margaret Jull Costa,trans.) (Dedalus 0-946626-98-7, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], £6.99, 125pp, tp) Collection of three literary fantasy stories, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. The book was edited by Robert Webb, who also contributes an afterword. (Contents)
• * *The Relic (with Margaret Jull Costa,trans.) (Dedalus 0-946626-94-4, Jun ’94, £8.99, 281pp, tp, cover by J. M. Turner) Literary fantasy novel, translated from the Portugese (1887) and with an Introduction by Margaret Jull Costa. Apparently the first English-language edition. [First U.K. edition]

DERESKE, JO (1947- )

• * *The Lone Sentinel (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31552-X, Oct ’89 [Nov ’89], $13.95, 169pp, hc, cover by Alan C. Olson) Young-adult sf novel set in a remote colony on an alien world.

de RICO, UL; pseudonym of Ulderico Gropplero di Troppenburg, (1944- )

• * *The White Goblin (Thames and Hudson 0-500-01724-7, Oct ’96, $19.95, unpaginated, hc, cover by Ul de Rico) [Rainbow Goblins] Children’s picture book, sequel to The Rainbow Goblins. Translated from the German by Stanley Baron, but no earlier edition is listed.

DERLETH, AUGUST (William) (1909-1971) (stories)

• * *The Cthulhu Mythos (Barnes & Noble 0-7607-0253-5, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $9.98, 448pp, hc) Collection of 17 Lovecraftian stories, containing all of Derleth’s non-collaborative contributions to the Mythos, including the contents of The Mask of Cthulhu (1958), and The Trail of Cthulhu (1962), plus six others. There is an introduction by Ramsey Campbell, copyrighted 1977. (Contents)
• * *The Final Adventures of Solar Pons (Battered Silicon Dispatch Box/Mycroft & Moran 1-55246-012-6, Nov ’98 [Dec ’98], $28.00, 202pp, hc, cover by Jean-Pierre Cagnat) [Solar Pons] Original collection of early unpublished stories — one novel, six stories, and a series of vignettes — featuring Derleth’s Sherlockian detective, Solar Pons. Two stories are SF collaborations with Mack Reynolds, with an article describing how the two came to collaborate by editor Peter Ruber, who also provides the introduction. The Mycroft & Moran imprint is used under a special licensing agreement with Arkham House, which is distributing the book in the US. Order from The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, PO Box 204, Shelburne ON Canada L0N 1S0; fax 519-925-3482; e-mail gav@gbc.com; add $3.00 postage. (Contents)
• * *In Lovecraft’s Shadow (Battered Silicon Dispatch Box/Mycroft & Moran 1-55246-003-7, Nov ’98 [Dec ’98], $60.00, 351pp, hc, cover by Stephen Fabian) Collection of all 23 of Derleth’s complete Lovecraftian Mythos stories (excluding his actual Lovecraft collaborations), three poems (one previously unpublished), and essay “A Note on the Cthulhu Mythos”. Illustrated by Stephen Fabian. Introduction and comments on the artist by Joseph Wrzos. The Mycroft & Moran imprint is used under a special licensing agreement with Arkham House, which is distributing the book in the US. Order from The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, PO Box 204, Shelburne ON Cnada L0N 1S0; fax 519-925-3482; e-mail gav@gbc.com; add $3.00 postage. (Contents)
• * _The Loved Dead (with H. P. Lovecraft) See entry under H. P. Lovecraft
• * _The Lurker at the Threshold (with H. P. Lovecraft) See entry under H. P. Lovecraft
• * _The Mask of Cthulhu (Grafton 0-586-04139-7, Jul ’88, £2.50, 204pp, pb) Reprint (Arkham House 1958) horror collection. (Contents)
• * _The Mask of Cthulhu (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0337-7, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], $4.95, 201pp, pb) Reprint (Arkham House 1958) collection of six Lovecraftian stories.
• * _The Trail of Cthulhu (Grafton 0-586-04138-9, Jul ’88, £2.95, 256pp, pb) [Laban Shrewsbury] Reprint (Arkham House 1962) horror collection. (Contents) [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Trail of Cthulhu (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0341-5, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $4.95, 248pp, pb) [Laban Shrewsbury] Reprint (Arkham House 1962) collection of five Lovecraftian stories.
• * _Walden West (University of Wisconsin Press 0-299-13594-2, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], $12.95, 262pp, tp, cover by Mike Jaynes) Reprint (Duell 1961) associational autobiographical non-fiction, a collection of vignettes of Wisconsin life. With the original woodcuts by Grisha Dotzenko. A hardcover edition (-13590-X, $35.00) was announced but not seen. Available from University of Wisconsin Press, 114 N. Murray St., Madison WI 53715.
• * _The Watchers Out of Time (with H. P. Lovecraft) See entry under H. P. Lovecraft

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• * _The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0387-3, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], $4.95, 245pp, pb) Reprint (Arkham House 1944) collection of 10 Lovecraftian stories, two collaborations with Lovecraft, the rest by other authors, though the cover credits Lovecraft as the sole author; the title page credits Lovecraft “and Others”. Derleth is mentioned only on the copyright page. This has the same text as the 1970 Beagle Boxer edition, which reprinted half of the 1944 Arkham House collection.