The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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- LARSON, GLEN A. (chron.) (continued)
- * *Battlestar Galactica #11: The Nightmare Machine (with Robert Thurston) (Berkley 0-425-08618-6, Dec 85 [Nov 85], $2.95, 216pp, pb) Sf novel based on the tv series.
- * *Battlestar Galactica #12: Die, Chameleon!" (with Robert Thurston) (Berkley 0-425-09095-7, May 86 [Apr 86], $2.95, 217pp, pb) [Battlestar Galactica] Sf novel based on the tv series.
- * *Battlestar Galactica #13: Apollos War (with Robert Thurston) (Berkley 0-425-09476-6, Jan 87 [Dec 86], $2.95, 198pp, pb) [Battlestar Galactica] Novelization based on episodes of the tv sf series.
- * *Battlestar Galactica #14: Surrender the Galactica! (with Robert Thurston) (Ace 0-441-05104-9, Jan 88 [Dec 87], $2.95, 203pp, pb) Sf novelization based on the long-gone tv series.
- * _The Cylon Death Machine (with Robert Thurston) (Titan 1-85286-089-8, Aug 88 [Jul 88], £2.95, 250pp, pb) [Battlestar Galactica] Reprint (Berkley 1979) sf novelization. Volume 2 in the Battlestar Galactica series.
- * _The Tombs of Kobol (with Robert Thurston) (Titan 1-85286-090-1, Oct 88, £2.95, 215pp, pb) [Battlestar Galactica] Reprint (Berkley 1979) sf novelization. Volume 3 in the Battlestar Galactica series. [First U.K. edition]
- LARSON, MAJLISS
- * _Pawns and Symbols (Firecrest 0-85997-926-1, Jul 87, £7.95, 288pp, hc) [Star Trek] Reprint (Pocket 1985) sf novel. Volume 41 in the Star Trek Novels series. [First U.K. edition, not seen]
- * *Star Trek: Pawns and Symbols (Pocket 0-671-55425-5, Nov 85 [Oct 85], $3.50, 277pp, pb) [Star Trek] Star Trek novel, #26 in the series.
- * _Star Trek: Pawns and Symbols (Pocket 0-671-66497-2, May 88 [Jun 88], $3.95, 277pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reissue (Pocket 1985) sf novelization. 26th in the popular series of original novelizations.
- * _Star Trek: Pawns and Symbols (Titan 1-85286-323-4, Sep 90, £3.99, 277pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reprint (Pocket 1985) sf novelization.
- LARSON, RANDALL D(ouglas) (1954- ) (stories)
- * *The Complete Robert Bloch: An Illustrated, Comprehensive Bibliography (Fandom Unlimited 0-9607178-1-1, Jul 86 [Aug 87], $10.00, 126pp, tp) Non-fiction, bibliography. The copyright is 1986, but we were not sent a copy until 1987. [Bloch]
- * *Film Into Books: An Analytical Bibliography of Film Novelizations, Movie and TV Tie-Ins (Scarecrow Press 0-8108-2928-2, Apr 95 [Jun 95], $69.50, 608pp, hc) Non-fiction critical examination and bibliography of that widely despised (and highly misunderstood) sub-genre, novelizations. Includes interviews with more than 50 authors who share their perspectives of the hows and whys of tie-ins. Authors mentioned include Isaac Asimov, Piers Anthony, John Jakes, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Order from University Press of America, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham MD 20706; credit card orders: 800-462-6420.
- * *Robert Bloch (Starmont House 0-930261-58-5, Dec 86 [Jan 87], $8.95, 148pp, tp) Non-fiction, critical study, Starmont Readers Guide 37, including primary and secondary bibliographies. [Bloch]
- * *The Robert Bloch Companion: Collected Interviews 1969-1989 (Starmont House 1-55742-146-3, 1989 [Aug 90], $11.95, 157pp, tp, cover by Allen Koszowski) Non-fiction; reference. A book-length interview with Bloch pieced together from 34 interviews that appeared during the 20-year period. A hardcover edition (-147-1, $21.95) was announced but not seen. [Bloch]
- LASENBY, JACK
- * _The Conjuror (Oxford University Press 0-19-558259-4, Sep 93, £8.95, 238pp, hc) Reprint (OUP New Zealand 1992) young-adult sf novel set in post-holocaust New Zealand. [First U.K. edition]
- LASH, BATTON (stories)
- * *Wolff & Byrd: Counselors of the Macabre (Adrion Books 0-933773-12-9, Feb 88, $7.00, unpaginated, tp) Graphic novel, humorous horror featuring a team of lawyers who only have supernatural clients. Collected from the National Law Journal.
- LASKI, MARGHANITA (1915-1988) (stories)
- * _The Victorian Chaise Longue (Academy Chicago 0-89733-097-8, Jul 84 [Jun 84], $3.95, 119pp, pb) Reprint (Cresset 1953) novel of time travel and horror.
- LASKY, KATHRYN; [i.e., Kathryn Lasky Knight] (1944- )
- * *Home Free (Four Winds Press 0-02-751650-4, Jan 86 [Feb 86], $13.95, 245pp, hc) Young-adult sf novel of naturalists vs developers, and children with strange powers.
- * _Home Free (Dell/Laurel-Leaf 0-440-20038-5, Jan 88 [Dec 87], $2.95, 245pp, pb) Reprint (Four Winds 1985) young-adult novel of naturalists vs. developers, and children with strange powers.
- * *Memoirs of a Bookbat (Harcourt Brace 0-15-215727-1, May 94, $10.95, 215pp, hc, cover by Michael Steirnagle) Associational young-adult novel about a young girl, daughter of itinerant fundamentalists, who is rescued from a terrible family situation by an SF writer.
- * *Shadows in the Water (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-273533-X, Oct 92 [Nov 92], $6.95, 211pp, tp, cover by Ed Gazsi) [Starbuck Twins] Young-adult fantasy novel, second book of the Starbuck Twins series. The twins use their telepathic powers to enlist a school of dolphins to help stop toxic waste dumpers in the Florida Keys.
- * *A Voice in the Wind (Harcourt Brace 0-15-294102-9, Nov 93 [Oct 93], $10.95, 256pp, hc, cover by Ed Gazsi) [Starbuck Twins] Young-adult fantasy/mystery novel, the third featuring the telepathic Starbuck twins, who release the earthbound spirit of an ancient Native American. A trade paperback edition (-294103-7, $3.95) is also available.
- LATHAM, ROBERT (Arch), ed. (1959- ) (stories)
- * *Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (with Robert A. Collins) (Greenwood Press 0-313-29085-7, Oct 95, $69.50, 234pp, hc) Collection of 25 essays with a focus on fantasy and politics. Order from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport CT 06881; credit card orders: 800-225-5800.
- * _Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual 1990 (with Robert A. Collins) See entry under Robert A. Collins
- * _Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual 1991 (with Robert A. Collins) See entry under Robert A. Collins
- * _Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual 1989 (with Robert A. Collins) See entry under Robert A. Collins
- LA TOURETTE, AILEEN (1946- )
- * *Cry Wolf (Virago 0-86068-584-5, May 86, £9.95, 193pp, hc) Post-holocaust sf novel.
- * *Cry Wolf (Virago 0-86068-589-6, May 86, £3.95, 193pp, tp) Paperback edition of the above.
- LAUGHLIN, FLORENCE (stories)
- * _The Little Leftover Witch (Macmillan Aladdin 0-689-71273-1, Oct 88 [Sep 88], $3.50, 91pp, tp) Reprint (? 1960) childrens fantasy novella about a witch stranded with a mortal family when her broomstick crash-lands. Illustrations by Sheila Greenwald.
- LAUMER, (John) KEITH (1925-1993) (stories) (chron.)
- * *Alien Minds (Baen 0-671-72055-4, May 91 [Apr 91], $4.50, 326pp, pb, cover by Doug Anderson) Collection of ten stories including two originals about alien races. (Contents)
- * *Back to the Time Trap (Baen 0-671-72127-5, Jul 92 [Jun 92], $5.99, 339pp, pb, cover by Dean Morrissey) [Time Trap] Humorous time-travel sf novel, sequel to Time Trap (Putnam 1970). Far-future superhumans are warring with alien conquerors for control of the time stream.
- * _Beyond the Imperium (Tor 0-812-54381-5, Feb 86 [Jan 86], $2.95, 318pp, pb) [Imperium] Reissue (Tor 1981) omnibus volume of The Other Side of Time (Berkley 1965) and Assignment in Nowhere (Berkley 1968). 2nd Tor printing.
- * _Bolo (Berkley 0-425-07559-1, Dec 84 [Nov 84], $2.75, 216pp, pb) [Bolo] Reissue (Putnam 1976) collection of 6 stories about war machines. Fifth Berkley printing.
- * _Bolo (Ace 0-441-06997-5, Jul 86 [Jun 86], $2.95, 216pp, pb) [Bolo] Reprint (Berkley/Putnam 1976) collection of stories about fighting machines.
- * _The Breaking Earth (Tor 0-812-54387-4, May 88 [Apr 88], $3.50, 287pp, pb) Reissue (Tor 1981) collection. Reprint of Catastrophe Planet (Berkley 1966), with some short stories, plus afterwords by G. Harry Stine and Frederik Pohl.
- * *Chrestomathy (Baen 0-671-55920-6, Nov 84 [Oct 84], $2.95, 254pp, pb) Collection of novel excerpts and a few stories with new forewords by the author. (Contents)
- * *The Compleat Bolo (Baen 0-671-69879-6, Jun 90 [May 90], $3.95, 314pp, pb, cover by Stephen Hickman) [Bolo] Omnibus of the collections Bolo (Putnam 1976) and Rogue Bolo (Baen 1986). (Contents)
- * _Dinosaur Beach (Baen 0-671-65581-7, Jul 86 [Jun 86], $2.95, 204pp, pb) Reprint (Scribners 1971) sf novel of time travel and suspense.
- * _Earthblood (with Rosel George Brown) (Bluejay 0-312-94125-0, Feb 85 [Jan 85], $7.95, 318pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1966) sf adventure novel. New illustrations by Alan Gutierrez.
- * _Earthblood (with Rosel George Brown) (Baen 0-671-65348-2, Aug 87 [Jul 87], $2.95, 311pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1966) sf novel.
- * *End As a Hero (Ace 0-441-20656-5, Aug 85 [Jul 85], $2.95, 150pp, pb) Sf novel.
- * _Galactic Odyssey (Tor 0-812-54385-8, Jan 87 [Dec 86], $2.95, 252pp, pb) Reissue (Berkley 1967) sf novel; 2nd printing.
- * *The Galaxy Builder (Ace 0-441-27280-0, Feb 84 [Jan 84], $2.75, 236pp, pb) [*Lafayette OLeary] Sf novel, a Lafayette OLeary alternate-reality adventure.
- * _The Great Time Machine Hoax (Ace 0-441-30268-8, Aug 84 [Jul 84], $2.75, 210pp, pb) Reissue (Simon & Schuster 1964) sf novel, 2nd Ace printing.
- * *Judsons Eden (Baen 0-671-72038-4, Feb 91 [Jan 91], $4.95, 379pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) Sf novel of a crash survivor who finds himself on a very strange planet.
- * _Knight of Delusions (Tor 0-812-54362-9, Jul 88 [Jun 88], $3.95, 287pp, pb) Reissue (Tor 1982) sf collection, with the novel Night of Delusions (Berkley 1972) plus 2 stories; second printing.
- * _The Long Twilight (Ace 0-441-48928-1, Jan 86 [Dec 85], $2.95, 222pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1969) sf novel.
- * _The Monitors (Tor 0-812-54369-6, May 84 [Apr 84], $2.95, 251pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley 1966) sf novel.
- * *Once There Was a Giant (Tor 0-812-54371-8, Jul 84 [Jun 84], $2.50, 223pp, pb) Collection of two novellas (including the title one) plus a Laumer appreciation by Sandra Miesel. Tor continues to be a bibliographers nightmare. This book is not related to the 8-story 1971 Doubleday collection with the same name. The second story seems to be an original. (Contents)
- * _The Other Sky/the House in November (Tor 0-812-54377-7, Nov 85 [Oct 85], $2.95, 249pp, pb) Reprint (Tor 1981) omnibus Tor Double with back-to-back sf novels.
- * _A Plague of Demons (Baen 0-671-55982-6, Sep 85 [Aug 85], $2.75, 218pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley 1965) sf novel.
- * *Retief and the Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude (Baen 0-671-65556-6, Mar 86 [Feb 86], $2.95, 278pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Collection of an original novelette which gives the book its new title plus the novel Retiefs Ransom (Putnam 1971). (Contents)
- * *Retief and the Rascals (Baen 0-671-72168-2, May 93 [Apr 93], $4.99, 241pp, pb, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Jame Retief] Sf novel in the long-running Retief series.
- * _Retief and the Warlords (Baen 0-671-65575-2, Jun 86 [May 86], $2.95, 266pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Doubleday 1968) novel in the Retief series.
- * _Retief at Large (Ace 0-441-71507-9, May 85 [Apr 85], $3.50, 440pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reissue (Ace 1978) collection, 6th Ace printing. The stories are culled from earlier Retief collections.
- * *Retief in the Ruins (Baen 0-671-65599-X, Nov 86 [Oct 86], $2.95, 247pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Collection of three stories: two originals (the title story and The Woomy) plus There is a Tide. Retief #5. (Contents)
- * _Retief of the CDT (Baen 0-671-55990-7, Oct 85 [Sep 85], $2.95, 220pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Doubleday 1971) collection of stories featuring Retief.
- * _Retief to the Rescue (Timescape 0-671-81866-X, Feb 84 [Jan 84], $2.95, 237pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (S&S Timescape 1983) sf novel.
- * _Retief to the Rescue (Baen 0-671-65376-8, Jan 88 [Dec 87], $2.95, 250pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Simon & Schuster/Timescape 1983) sf novel in an endless humorous series.
- * _Retief Unbound (Ace 0-441-71254-1, Mar 85 [Feb 85], $2.95, 343pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reissue (Ace 1979) of an omnibus volume which collects 5 of the 6 stories from Envoy to New Worlds (Ace 1963) plus the novel Retiefs Ransom (Putnam 1971).
- * _Retief: Diplomat at Arms (Baen 0-671-65358-X, Oct 87 [Sep 87], $2.95, 214pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Timescape 1982) collection of sf stories featuring Retief.
- * _Retief: Emissary to the Stars (Baen 0-671-65605-8, Dec 86 [Nov 86], $2.95, 270pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Dell 1975) collection of 7 stories about Retief.
- * *Retief: Envoy to New Worlds (Baen 0-671-65635-X, Apr 87 [Mar 87], $2.95, 245pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Collection of Retief stories which includes the six stories from Envoy to New Worlds (Ace 1963) plus Rank Injustice (which first appeared in New Destinies earlier this year). To add to the confusion, five of the six Envoy stories appeared along with a short novel as Retief Unbound (Ace 1979). (Contents)
- * _Retiefs War (Baen 0-671-55976-1, Aug 85 [Jul 85], $2.95, 218pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Doubleday 1966) sf novel.
- * *The Return of Retief (Baen 0-671-55903-6, Sep 84 [Aug 84], $2.95, 221pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Sf novel in the Retief series.
- * _The Return of Retief (Baen 0-671-55902-8, Dec 85 [Nov 85], $2.95, 221pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reissue (Baen 1984) sf novel. Second printing.
- * *Reward for Retief (Baen 0-671-69804-4, Feb 89 [Jan 89], $3.95, 340pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Sf novel in the humorous Retief series.
- * *Rogue Bolo (Baen 0-671-65545-0, Jan 86 [Dec 85], $2.95, 233pp, pb) [Bolo] Collection of two connected short novels, apparently new, plus a reprint of A Short History of the Bolo Fighting Machines. (Contents)
- * _The Shape Changer (Ace 0-441-76088-0, May 84 [Apr 84], $2.50, 230pp, pb) [*Lafayette OLeary] Reissue (Putnam 1972) sf novel, third in the Lafayette OLeary alternate-worlds series.
- * *The Star Treasure (Baen 0-671-65596-5, Oct 86 [Sep 86], $2.95, 271pp, pb) Collection, including the complete novel The Star Treasure (Putnam 1971), plus 3 short stories. There is no contents page. (Contents)
- * *The Stars Must Wait (Baen 0-671-69859-1, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $3.50, 283pp, pb, cover by Laurence Schwinger) Sf novel. A 21st-century astronaut wakes from suspended animation to a world inhabited by barbarians and sentient senile tanks.
- * _The Time Bender (Ace 0-441-81014-4, Mar 84 [Feb 84], $2.75, 248pp, pb) [*Lafayette OLeary] Reissue (Berkley 1966) sf novel. The first Lafayette OLeary alternate-world adventure. 5th Ace printing.
- * _Time Trap (Baen 0-671-65340-7, Aug 87 [Jul 87], $2.95, 156pp, pb) [Time Trap] Reprint (Putnam 1970) sf time travel novel.
- * _A Trace of Memory (Tor 0-812-54373-4, Nov 84 [Oct 84], $2.95, 256pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley 1963) sf novel.
- * _A Trace of Memory (Tor 0-812-51689-3, Dec 91 [Nov 91], $3.99, 256pp, pb, cover by Bob Layzell) Reissue (Berkley 1963) sf novel; second printing.
- * _The Ultimax Man (Baen 0-671-65652-X, Jun 87 [May 87], $2.95, 249pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1978) sf adventure novel.
- * _The World Shuffler (Ace 0-441-91702-X, Apr 84 [Mar 84], $2.75, 236pp, pb) [*Lafayette OLeary] Reissue (Putnam 1970) Lafayette OLeary sf adventure novel; 4th Ace printing.
- * _Worlds of the Imperium (Tor 0-812-54379-3, Jan 86 [Dec 85], $2.95, 288pp, pb) [Imperium] Reissue (Tor 1982) collection of the title novel (Ace 1962) plus two novelettes. Third Tor printing in this form.
- * *Zone Yellow (Baen 0-671-72028-7, Dec 90 [Nov 90], $4.50, 247pp, pb, cover by Tom Kidd) [Imperium] Sf adventure novel in the Imperium series.
- _____, ed.
- * *Dangerous Vegetables (with Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh) (Baen 0-671-57781-6, Dec 98 [Nov 98], $5.99, 378pp, pb, cover by Bob Eggleton) Anthology of 22 stories, two original, featuring vegetables. A take-off on the Dangerous Visions anthologies. Authors include Ray Bradbury, Michael Bishop, and John D. MacDonald. The cover notes Created by Keith Laumer; Greenberg and Waugh are noted only in the copyright. The introduction by Ben Bova is about Laumer, and says the book was Laumers idea, but he died without doing it. Copyrighted by Tekno Books and Charles G. Waugh. (Contents)
- LAUNAY, ANDRÉ (Joseph) (1930- ); see pseudonym Andrew Laurance
- * _The Harlequins Son (Pan 0-330-29599-3, Dec 86, £2.50, 240pp, pb) Horror novel.
- * *Seance (Pan 0-330-30273-6, May 91 [Apr 91], £4.99, 285pp, pb, cover by George Underwood) Occult thriller.
- LAUNIUS, ROGER D.
- * *NASA & the Exploration of Space (with Bertram Ulrich) (Stewart Tabori & Chang 1-55670-696-0, Oct 98, $60.00, 224pp, hc, cover by Paul Hudson) Associational art book celebrating NASAs 40-year anniversary, with more than 200 full-color illustrations from NASAs art collection, focusing on fine art, with artists such as Norman Rockwell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Robert McCall; artists known for SF include Vincent Di Fate.
- LAURANCE, ANDREW; pseudonym of André Launay, (1930- )
- * +The Black Hotel (Charter Diamond 1-55773-376-7, Aug 90 [Jul 90], $3.95, 246pp, pb) Horror novel of a haunted hotel. First American edition (Star 1983).
- * +The Blood of Nostradamus: The Link (Diamond 1-55773-553-0, Aug 91, $3.95, 206pp, pb) [Blood of Nostradamus] Horror novel, second book of the Blood of Nostradamus trilogy. First American edition (Star 1980 as The Link).
- * +The Blood of Nostradamus: The Premonition (Diamond 1-55773-511-5, May 91 [Apr 91], $3.95, 199pp, pb) [Blood of Nostradamus] Horror novel, first book of a series about Nostradamus descendants. First American edition (Star 1979 as Premonitions of an Inherited Mind).
- * +The Blood of Nostradamus: The Unborn (Diamond 1-55773-598-0, Oct 91 [Sep 91], $4.50, 236pp, pb) [Blood of Nostradamus] Horror novel, third book of a series about Nostradamus descendants. First American edition (Star 1980 as The Embryo).
- * +Catacomb (Diamond 1-55773-460-7, Feb 91 [Jan 91], $3.95, 219pp, pb) Horror novel of a man who can see death in the faces of its soon-to-be victims. First American edition (W.H. Allen 1981 as The Hiss).
- * +Ouija (Charter Diamond 1-55773-415-1, Nov 90 [Oct 90], $3.95, 235pp, pb) Horror novel of the evils lurking in wait for anyone who uses the deadly board. First American edition (Star 1982).
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