The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

HAMBLY, BARBARA (Joan) (stories) (chron.) (continued)

• * _Those Who Hunt the Night (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36132-6, Jul ’89 [Jun ’89], $4.50, 340pp, pb) [Those Who Hunt the Night] Reprint (Del Rey 1988, also Unwin 1988 as Immortal Blood) horror/mystery novel set in Victorian London about the search for a vampire-killer.
• * _Those Who Hunt the Night (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36132-6, Oct ’95, $5.99, 340pp, pb, cover by Edwin Herder) [Those Who Hunt the Night] Reissue (Del Rey 1988, also Unwin 1988 as Immortal Blood) Victorian vampire mystery. 10th printing.
• * _The Time of the Dark (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648006-3, Apr ’94, £4.99, 284pp, pb) [Darwath] Reprint (Del Rey 1982) fantasy novel. Book one of “The Darwath Trilogy.”
• * _The Time of the Dark (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-31965-6, Aug ’97 [Jul ’97], $5.99, 263pp, pb, cover by Donato Giancola) [Darwath] Reprint (Del Rey 1982) fantasy novel, Book One of the “Darwath” trilogy. Nineteenth printing.
• * +Traveling with the Dead (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38102-5, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], $22.00, 343pp, hc, cover by Victor Sadowski) [Those Who Hunt the Night] Victorian vampire mystery, sequel to Those Who Hunt the Night. First US edition (HarperCollins UK 1995 as Travelling with the Dead).
• * _Traveling with the Dead (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-40740-7, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $5.99, 343pp, pb, cover by Victor Sadowski) [Those Who Hunt the Night] Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1995 as Travelling with the Dead) Victorian vampire mystery, sequel to Those Who Hunt the Night.
• * *Travelling with the Dead (Voyager 0-00-648029-2, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], £4.99, 377pp, pb) [Those Who Hunt the Night] Dark fantasy novel of vampires and spies. Sequel to Immortal Blood, aka Those Who Hunt the Night. Simultaneous with the US (Del Rey) edition.
• * *The Unschooled Wizard (SFBC #11009, Jun ’87, $7.50, 600pp, hc) [Sun Wolf] Omnibus edition of two fantasy novels: The Ladies of Mandrigyn (Del Rey 1984) and its sequel The Witches of Wenshar (Del Rey 1987). (Contents)
• * _The Walls of Air (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648007-1, Apr ’94, £4.99, 314pp, pb) [Darwath] Reprint (Del Rey 1982) fantasy novel. Book two of “The Darwath Trilogy.”
• * _The Walls of Air (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-29670-2, Aug ’97 [Jul ’97], $5.99, 297pp, pb, cover by Donato Giancola) [Darwath] Reprint (Del Rey 1982) fantasy novel, Book Two of the “Darwath” trilogy. Fifteenth printing.
• * *The Witches of Wenshar (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32934-1, Jul ’87 [Jun ’87], $3.95, 339pp, pb) [Sun Wolf] Fantasy novel, an excellent sequel to The Ladies of Mandrigyn. Recommended. (FCM)
• * *The Witches of Wenshar (Unwin 0-04-823381-1, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], £2.95, 339pp, pb) [Sun Wolf] Fantasy novel. Sequel to The Ladies of Mandrigyn.
• * _The Witches of Wenshar (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32934-1, Mar ’90 [Feb ’90], $3.95, 339pp, pb, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) [Sun Wolf] Reissue (Del Rey 1987) fantasy novel, sequel to The Ladies of Mandrigyn; sixth printing.

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• * *Sisters of the Night (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Warner Aspect 0-446-67143-6, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], $12.99, 277pp, tp) Original anthology of 14 stories about female vampires. Authors include M. John Harrison, Pat Cadigan, George Alec Effinger, and Larry Niven. (Contents)
• * _Sisters of the Night (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Warner Aspect 0-446-60052-0, Oct ’98 [Sep ’98], $6.99, 307pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) Reprint (Warner Aspect 1995) original anthology of 14 stories about female vampires.

HAMILTON, ANDY

• * *Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 (with Alistair Beaton) (Little, Brown UK 0-316-91236-0, Sep ’94 [Oct ’94], £9.99, 249pp, hc) The last days of 1999 observed by the news team of the award-winning TV situation comedy: including a Swiss civil war, pirates in the English Channel, and the biggest government cover-up in history.
• * _Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 (with Alistair Beaton) (Warner UK 0-7515-1366-0, Aug ’95 [Sep ’95], £4.99, 329pp, pb) Reprint (Little, Brown UK 1994) humorous novel based on the TV series, and set in an apocalyptic 1999.

HAMILTON, EDMOND (Moore) (1904-1977) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Chronicles of the Star Kings (Arrow/Venture SF 0-09-947860-9, Apr ’86 [Mar ’86], £2.50, 397pp, pb) [John Gordon] Omnibus of the two “Star Kings” novels. (Contents)
• * _Starwolf (Ace 0-441-78425-9, May ’90 [Apr ’90], $4.95, 456pp, pb, cover by David Schleinkofer) [Starwolf] Reissue (Ace 1982) sf omnibus of The Weapons from Beyond (Ace 1967), The Closed Worlds (Ace 1968), & World of the Starwolves (Ace 1968); eighth printing. (Contents)

HAMILTON, JAMES

• * *Arthur Rackham (Little, Brown/Arcade 1-55970-096-3, Sep ’90, $40.00, 199pp, hc, cover by Arthur Rackham) Non-fiction; a biography of the great illustrator with many reproductions of his work. [Rackham]

HAMILTON, JESSICA; pseudonym of Ken Greenhall

• * _Elizabeth (Bart 1-55785-001-1, Jan ’88 [Apr ’88], $3.50, 224pp, pb) Reprint (Random 1976) horror novel.

HAMILTON, LAURELL K. (1963- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Bloody Bones (Ace 0-441-00374-5, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], $5.99, 370pp, pb, cover by Lee MacLeod) [Anita Blake] Dark fantasy mystery featuring Anita Blake, vampire hunter. A job to raise a cemetery-full of zombies turns into a battle against child-murdering monsters.
• * *Blue Moon (Ace 0-441-00574-8, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $6.99, 418pp, pb, cover by Lee MacLeod) [Anita Blake] Dark fantasy detective novel, eighth in the series featuring Anita Blake, vampire hunter. Anita’s werewolf ex-boyfriend gets arrested in rural Tennessee.
• * *Burnt Offerings (Ace 0-441-00524-1, May ’98 [Apr ’98], $6.99, 392pp, pb, cover by Lee MacLeod) [Anita Blake] Dark fantasy detective novel, seventh in the series featuring Anita Blake, vampire hunter. An arsonist is hitting vampire-owned businesses.
• * *Circus of the Damned (Ace 0-441-00197-1, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $5.50, 329pp, pb, cover by Stephen Gardiner) [Anita Blake] Horror novel, third in the “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter” series. Two master vampires fight over Anita.
• * *Club Vampyre (SFBC #18668, Jan ’98, $15.98, 727pp, hc, cover by Luis Royo) [Anita Blake] Omnibus of the first three “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter” mysteries: Guilty Pleasures (1993), The Laughing Corpse (1994), and Circus of the Damned (1995). This special Guild America edition has its own ISBN 1-56865-529-0 ; it lacks a price, and has the SFBC number on the back jacket. (Contents)
• * *Guilty Pleasures (Ace 0-441-30483-4, Oct ’93 [Sep ’93], $4.99, 266pp, pb, cover by Steve Gardner) [Anita Blake] Horror novel of a professional vampire hunter forced by New Orleans’ undead elite to hunt a vampire-killer. First book of a new series.
• * _Guilty Pleasures (NEL 0-450-59560-9, Nov ’93, £4.99, 266pp, pb) [Anita Blake] Reprint (Ace 1993) alternate world vampire novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * *The Killing Dance (Ace 0-441-00452-0, Jun ’97 [May ’97], $6.50, 387pp, pb, cover by Lee MacLeod) [Anita Blake] Dark fantasy detective novel, sixth in the series featuring Anita Blake, vampire hunter. Anita has to chose between her vampire and werewolf boyfriends.
• * *The Laughing Corpse (NEL 0-450-59561-7, May ’94, £4.99, 374pp, pb) [Anita Blake] Horror novel. Sequel to Guilty Pleasures.
• * +The Laughing Corpse (Ace 0-441-00091-6, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], $4.99, 293pp, pb, cover by Steve Gardiner) [Anita Blake] Vampire horror novel, second book of a series featuring Anita Blake, a vampire hunter in an alternate world where vampires and humans coexist. First American edition (NEL 1994).
• * *The Lunatic Cafe (Ace 0-441-00293-5, Jan ’96 [Dec ’95], $5.99, 369pp, pb, cover by Lee MacLeod) [Anita Blake] Dark fantasy/romance novel, fourth in the “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter” series.
• * *The Midnight Cafe (SFBC #17463, Jul ’98, $15.98, 825pp, hc, cover by Luis Royo) [Anita Blake] Omnibus of three “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter” mysteries, #4-6: The Lunatic Cafe (1996), Bloody Bones (1996), and The Killing Dance (1997). This special SFBC edition has its own ISBN 1-56865-765-X, and comes shrinkwrapped with a poster of the cover art; it lacks a price, and has the SFBC number on the back jacket. (Contents)
• * *Nightseer (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45143-0, Mar ’92 [Feb ’92], $4.99, 303pp, pb) Fantasy novel. A half-elf child seeks revenge on the evil witch who murdered her mother. A first novel.
• * _Nightseer (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45143-0, Jun ’98 [May ’98], $5.99, pb) Reissue (Roc 1992) fantasy novel of revenge. Second printing.
• * *Ravenloft: Death of a Darklord (TSR 0-7869-0112-8, Jun ’95 [May ’95], $4.95, 313pp, tp, cover by Robh Ruppel) [Ravenloft] Horror novelization based on the role-playing game. Copyrighted by TSR.
• * *Star Trek, the Next Generation: Nightshade (Pocket 0-671-79566-X, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $5.50, 276pp, pb) [Star Trek, the Next Generation] Star Trek novelization, #24 in the series.
• * *Star Trek, the Next Generation: Nightshade (Titan 1-85286-426-5, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], £3.99, 276pp, pb) [Star Trek, the Next Generation] Sf novelization. Simultaneous with the US (Pocket Books) edition.

HAMILTON, MARGARET, ed. (1941- )

• * _Eerie Tales (Knight Books, 1992, 128pp, pb) Reprint (Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton 1978 as Spooks and Spirits) anthology of eight eerie tales for younger readers.

HAMILTON, PETER F. (1960- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Mindstar Rising (Pan 0-330-32376-8, Mar ’93, £4.99, 438pp, tp, cover by Tom Stimpson) [Greg Mandel] Sf thriller set in 21st-century England.
• * +Mindstar Rising (Tor 0-312-85955-4, Aug ’96 [Jul ’96], $23.95, 383pp, hc, cover by David Mattingly) [Greg Mandel] SF novel, first in the “Greg Mandel” trilogy. A freelance operative with a telepathic edge must protect an industrialist from sabotage and murder in 21st-century England. First hardcover edition. First US edition (Pan 1993).
• * _Mindstar Rising (Tor 0-812-59056-2, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $6.99, 423pp, pb, cover by David Mattingly) [Greg Mandel] Reprint (Pan 1993) SF novel, first in the “Greg Mandel” trilogy.
• * *The Nano Flower (Pan 0-330-33044-6, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], £4.99, 566pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Greg Mandel] Hard SF novel: third (and longest) of the Greg Mandel series.
• * +The Nano Flower (Tor 0-312-86580-5, Feb ’98 [Jan ’98], $25.95, 480pp, hc, cover by Barclay Shaw) [Greg Mandel] SF novel, third in the “Greg Mandel” trilogy about a freelance operative with telepathic powers. First US edition (Pan 1995).
• * *The Neutronium Alchemist (Macmillan UK 0-333-66935-5, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], £17.99, 999pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] SF novel. Second in the massive “Night’s Dawn Trilogy” after The Reality Dysfunction. A signed, limited edition of 306 proof copies was issued in July 1997.
• * _The Neutronium Alchemist (Macmillan UK 0-333-72244-2, Mar ’98, £10.99, 999pp, tp) [*Night’s Dawn] Reprint (Macmillan UK 1997) SF novel. Book Two of the “Night’s Dawn” trilogy after The Reality Dysfunction.
• * _The Neutronium Alchemist (Pan 0-330-35143-5, Oct ’98 [Sep ’98], £7.99, 1273pp, pb) [*Night’s Dawn] Reprint (Macmillan UK 1997) SF novel. Book Two of “The Night’s Dawn Trilogy”.
• * +The Neutronium Alchemist, Part 2: Conflict (Warner Aspect 0-446-60546-8, May ’98 [Apr ’98], $6.50, 580pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] SF novel, sequel to The Reality Dysfunction. This first US edition is only the second part of the earlier British single-volume edition (Macmillan UK 1997).
• * +The Neutronium Alchemist, Part One: Consolidation (Warner Aspect 0-446-60517-4, Apr ’98 [Mar ’98], $6.50, 591pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] SF novel, sequel to The Reality Dysfunction. This first US edition is only the first part of the earlier British edition (Macmillan UK 1997).
• * _The Neutronium Alchemist: Consolidation & Conflict (SFBC #14217, Jul ’98 [Jun ’98], $15.98, 758pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] Reprint (MacMillan UK 1997) SF novel. This is the first single-volume US edition. This special SFBC edition has ISBN 1-56865-762-5.
• * *A Quantum Murder (Pan 0-330-33045-4, Apr ’94, £4.99, 376pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Greg Mandel] Sf novel. Volume two in the “Greg Mandel” series. Murder mystery in a superbly realised future. Recommended (IC).
• * +A Quantum Murder (Tor 0-312-85954-6, Nov ’97 [Oct ’97], $24.95, 352pp, hc, cover by Barclay Shaw) [Greg Mandel] SF mystery, second in the “Greg Mandel” trilogy. First US edition (Pan 1994).
• * _A Quantum Murder (Tor 0-812-55524-4, Jun ’98 [May ’98], $6.99, 375pp, pb, cover by Barclay Shaw) [Greg Mandel] Reprint (Pan 1994) SF novel, second in the “Greg Mandel” trilogy.
• * *The Reality Dysfunction (Macmillan UK 0-333-62626-5, Jan ’96, £16.99, 955pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] SF novel. A 350,000 word far-future space opera, first of “The Night’s Dawn Trilogy”. In AD 2600, humanity seems to have reached a golden age — hundreds of inhabited planets, viable genetic experimentation, living spaceships, the peace kept by the Confederation Navy. A renegade’s meeting with a totally alien entity unleashes the most primal of all human fears — a nightmare that may drown this entire future civilisation in eternal night.
• * _The Reality Dysfunction (Pan 0-333-67563-0, Jun ’96, £9.99, 954pp, tp, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] Reprint (Macmillan UK 1996) SF novel. First in a trilogy.
• * _The Reality Dysfunction (Pan 0-330-34032-8, Mar ’97 [Feb ’97], £7.99, 1225pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] Reissue (Macmillan UK 1996) SF novel. First in the “Night’s Dawn” trilogy. This first UK/second paperback print follows the export-only edition, which was identical except for being priced at £5.99.
• * +The Reality Dysfunction, Part One: Emergence (Warner Aspect 0-446-60515-8, Jul ’97 [Jun ’97], $5.99, 588pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] SF novel. This is the first of two parts originally published in the UK as a single volume (Macmillan UK 1996).
• * +The Reality Dysfunction, Part Two: Expansion (Warner Aspect 0-446-60516-6, Aug ’97 [Jul ’97], $5.99, 572pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] SF novel. Space opera originally published in the UK as one volume. First US edition (Macmillan UK 1996).
• * _The Reality Dysfunction: Emergence & Expansion (SFBC #19385, Jan ’98, $14.98, 778pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] Reprint (Macmillan UK 1996 as The Reality Dysfunction) SF novel. This is the first US single-volume edition. This special Guild America edition has ISBN 1-56865-501-0; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * *A Second Chance at Eden (Macmillan UK 0-333-74125-0, Oct ’98, £17.99, x+431pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] SF collection of the previously unpublished title novel and six SF stories, three original, set in the “Night’s Dawn” universe. The reprints are altered to fit the Confederation timeline. (Contents)
• * +A Second Chance at Eden (Warner Aspect 0-446-60671-5, Jan ’99 [Dec ’98], $6.50, 420pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [*Night’s Dawn] Collection of seven stories, three original, set in the Confederation universe of the “Night’s Dawn” trilogy; previously published stories have been altered to fit the Confederation universe. First US edition (Macmillan UK 10/98).
• * *Softlight Sins (Birmingham Science Fiction Group no ISBN, Nov ’97, no price, ph, cover by Dave Mooring) Reprint short story issued in a limited edition of 350 numbered copies, to coincide with Hamilton’s Guest of Honour appearance at Novacon 27.
• * *The Web: Lightstorm (Orion/Dolphin 1-85881-550-9, Feb ’98, £3.50, 87pp, pb, cover by Fangorn) [Web] Young-adult SF novella set in the worldwide Virtual Reality Web of 2027. Fifth in a series of six linked stories, each written by a different author. A hardcover edition was apparently cancelled.

HAMILTON, TODD CAMERON (stories)

• * _The Guardsman (with P. J. Beese) See entry under P. J. Beese

HAMILTON, VIRGINIA; [i.e., Virginia Esther Hamilton Adoff] (1936-2002) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Dark Way: Stories from the Spirit World (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-222340-1, Sep ’90, $19.95, 154pp, hc, cover by Lambert Davis) Young-adult collection of 25 weird and dark fantasy stories, with full-color illustrations by Lambert Davis.
• * _Dustland (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-224315-1, Aug ’89, $3.95, 214pp, pb) [Justice Cycle] Reprint (Greenwillow 1980) young-adult time-travel sf novel, second book of “The Justice Cycle”.
• * _Dustland (Scholastic/Point 0-590-36217-8, Feb ’98 [Apr ’98], $4.50, 214pp, pb, cover by Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon) [Justice Cycle] Reprint (Greenwillow 1980) young-adult SF novel of teenage time travelers with ESP, second book in the “Justice” cycle.
• * _The Gathering (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-230592-0, Aug ’89, $3.95, 214pp, pb) [Justice Cycle] Reprint (Greenwillow 1981) young-adult time-travel sf novel, third book of “The Justice Cycle”.
• * _The Gathering (Scholastic/Point 0-590-36216-X, Mar ’98 [Apr ’98], $4.50, 216pp, pb, cover by Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon) [Justice Cycle] Reprint (Greenwillow 1981) young-adult SF novel of teenage time travelers with ESP, third book in the “Justice” cycle.
• * _Justice and Her Brothers (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-241640-4, Aug ’89, $3.95, 282pp, pb) [Justice Cycle] Reprint (Greenwillow 1978) young-adult time-travel sf novel, first book of “The Justice Cycle”.
• * _Justice and Her Brothers (Scholastic/Point 0-590-36214-3, Feb ’98 [Apr ’98], $4.50, 282pp, pb, cover by Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon) [Justice Cycle] Reprint (Greenwillow 1978) young-adult SF novel of teenage time travelers with ESP, first book in the “Justice” cycle.
• * *The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Knopf 0-394-86925-7, Oct ’85 [Nov ’85], $12.95, 178pp, hc) (Also available in library binding, 0-394-96925-1, $13.99). Hamilton’s retelling of 24 folktales, with b&w illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon.
• * _Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed (Macmillan Aladdin 0-689-71328-2, Oct ’89 [Nov ’89], $3.95, 208pp, tp, cover by Jerry Pinkney) Reprint (Greenwillow 1983) young-adult novel about a little girl who hears the original broadcast of Welles’ The War of the Worlds and sneaks out to see the Martians for herself. There is a possibility that there actually was an alien invasion.

HAMLEY, DENNIS (C.) (1935- ) (stories)

• * *The Fourth Plane at the Flypast (Andre Deutsch 0-233-97788-0, Oct ’85 [1985], £3.50, 120pp, tp) Young adult ghost novel. [Not seen]
• * _The Fourth Plane at the Flypast (Fontana Lion 0-00-672766-2, May ’87, £1.95, 127pp, pb) Reprint (Andre Deutsch 1985) juvenile ghost story.
• * *Hare’s Choice (Andre Deutsch 0-233-98298-1, Oct ’88 [Dec ’88], £5.95, 96pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy novella. [Not seen]
• * _Haunted United (Lions 0-00-672889-8, Oct ’88 [Dec ’88], £1.95, 143pp, pb) Reprint (Andre Deutsch 1986) young-adult ghost novel.