The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

L’ENGLE, MADELEINE (stories) (continued)

• * *Many Waters (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-34796-4, Sep ’86 [Aug ’86], $12.95, 310pp, hc) [Meg Murry] Fantasy novel, part of the Wrinkle in Time sequence. The Murry twins are transported to the world of Noah and the Ark.
• * _Many Waters (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-34797-2, Nov ’86, $50.00, 310pp, hc) [Meg Murry] Signed, reprint (Farar/Strause/Giroux 1986) edition (250 copies) of a juvenile novel featuring characters from the Murry family of the “Time Trilogy”.
• * _Many Waters (Dell/Laurel Leaf 0-440-95252-2, Sep ’87, $3.25, 310pp, pb) [Meg Murry] Reprint (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986) fantasy novel, part of the “Wrinkle in Time” sequence.
• * _Many Waters (Dell Yearling 0-440-40548-3, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $3.99, 310pp, tp, cover by Jody Lee) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986) young-adult sf novel; third printing.
• * _Many Waters (Dell/Laurel-Leaf 0-440-22770-4, Jun ’98 [May ’98], $5.50, 310pp, pb, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986) young-adult SF novel. This commemorative edition has the new series introduction by L’Engle. This indicates first printing, but acknowledges “one previous edition”.
• * _Many Waters (Dell Yearling 0-440-40548-3, Jun ’98 [Sep ’98], $5.50, 310pp, tp, cover by Peter Sis) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986) young-adult SF novel, fourth in the series beginning with A Wrinkle in Time. This commemorative edition has the new series introduction by L’Engle. 16th printing.
• * _The Sphinx at Dawn (Harper & Row San Francisco 0-06-250502-5, Dec ’89 [Jan ’90], $5.95, 46pp, tp, cover by Vivian Berger) [Sphinx] Reprint (Seabury Press 1982) collection of two linked stories set in ancient Egypt, with wood engravings by Vivian Berger. (Contents)
• * _A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Gold Books 0-340-51749-2, Jun ’91, £2.99, 256pp, pb, cover by Rowena Morrill) [Meg Murry] Reprint (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1978) young-adult sf novel.
• * _A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Dell Yearling 0-440-40158-5, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $3.99, 278pp, tp, cover by Jody Lee) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1978) young-adult fantasy novel; 14th printing.
• * _A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Dell/Laurel-Leaf 0-440-90158-8, Jun ’98 [May ’98], $5.50, 256pp, pb, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1978) young-adult SF novel. This commemorative edition has the new series introduction by L’Engle. 44th printing.
• * _A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Dell Yearling 0-440-40158-5, Jun ’98 [Sep ’98], $5.50, 278pp, tp, cover by Peter Sis) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1978) young-adult SF novel, third in the series begun in A Wrinkle in Time. This is a commemorative edition with the new series introduction by L’Engle. 32nd printing.
• * _A Wind in the Door (Marshall-Pickering 0-7208-0733-6, Jun ’88, £2.95, 211pp, pb) [Meg Murry] Reprint (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1973) young-adult sf novel. Volume 2 in the “Meg Murry” series.
• * _A Wind in the Door (Dell Yearling 0-440-48761-7, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $3.99, 211pp, tp, cover by Jody Lee) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1973) young-adult sf novel; 30th printing.
• * _A Wind in the Door (Dell/Laurel-Leaf 0-440-98761-X, Jun ’98 [May ’98], $5.50, 203pp, pb, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1973) young-adult SF novel. This commemorative edition has the new series introduction by L’Engle. 44th printing.
• * _A Wind in the Door (Dell Yearling 0-440-48761-7, Jun ’98 [Sep ’98], $5.50, 211pp, tp, cover by Peter Sis) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1973) young-adult SF novel, second in the series begun in A Wrinkle in Time. This commemorative edition has the new series introduction by L’Engle. 43rd printing.
• * _A Wrinkle in Time (Puffin, Jul ’86 [Aug ’86], £1.75, pb) [Meg Murry] Reprint (Farrar, Straus 1962) sf novel.
• * _A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-38614-5, Nov ’87 [Mar ’88], $50.00, 203pp, hc) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus 1962) fantasy novel. This is a limited edition of 500 copies, signed by the author for the book’s 25th anniversary. Dated 1987; not seen until 1988.
• * _A Wrinkle in Time (Dell Yearling 0-440-49805-8, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $3.99, 211pp, tp, cover by Jody Lee) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus 1962) young-adult sf novel; 47th printing.
• * _A Wrinkle in Time (Puffin 0-14-037231-8, Oct ’95, £4.99, 217pp, tp, cover by Keith Scaife) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar Straus 1962) classic young-adult SF novel. Adds an Afterword by Elaine Moss, and interior illustrations by Keith Scaife. A Puffin Modern Classic edition.
• * _A Wrinkle in Time (Dell Yearling Newbery 0-440-22039-4, Jun ’96 [Jul ’96], $2.49, 211pp, pb, cover by Jody Lee) [Meg Murry] Reprint (Ariel 1962) young-adult SF novel. This is a special promotional edition, marked “Special low price” on the cover, and containing an excerpt from Dell’s latest Newbery Honor book.
• * _A Wrinkle in Time (Dell Yearling Newbery 0-440-22715-1, Jun ’97, $2.69, 211pp, pb, cover by Jody Lee) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1962) young-adult SF novel. This is a special promotional edition, marked “Special low price” on the cover.
• * _A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-38613-7, 1998 [Oct ’98], $17.00, 203pp, hc, cover by Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1962) young-adult SF novel. 58th printing.
• * _A Wrinkle in Time (Dell/Laurel-Leaf 0-440-99805-0, Jun ’98 [May ’98], $5.50, 198pp, pb, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1962) young-adult SF novel. This commemorative edition has the new series introduction by L’Engle. 78th printing.
• * _A Wrinkle in Time (Dell Yearling 0-440-49805-8, Jun ’98 [Aug ’98], $5.50, 211pp, tp, cover by Peter Sis) [Meg Murry] Reissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1962) young-adult SF novel. This is a commemorative edition. 64th printing.

LENTZ, HARRIS M., III

• * *Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits Supplement 2: Through 1993 (McFarland & Co. 0-89950-927-4, May ’94, $75.00, 854pp, hc) Non-fiction, media reference. Supplement to the 1983 book listing all actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, etc., from genre film and TV shows to 1993, including those missing from the earlier volumes. Available from McFarland & Co., Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640. Please add $2.00 for postage.
• * *Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits Supplement: Through 1987 (McFarland 0-89950-364-0, Mar ’89 [Feb ’89], $65.00, 923pp, hc) Non-fiction. Film and television reference, supplement to Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits (1983), listing all actors, actresses, directors, producers, screenwriters, cinematographers, art directors, make-up people, special effects people, costumers, and others from all films and tv shows to 1987, including those missing from the earlier volume.

LEON, MARK

• * *The Gaia War (AvoNova 0-380-77873-4, Nov ’95 [Oct ’95], $4.99, 314pp, pb, cover by Eric Peterson) [Mind-Surfer] Science fantasy novel, sequel to Mind Surfer. Lew Slack fights ecological destruction and a man-made goddess, Gaia.
• * *Mind-Surfer (AvoNova 0-380-77582-4, Jan ’95 [Dec ’94], $4.99, 262pp, pb, cover by Dorian Vallejo) [Mind-Surfer] New Age SF novel. Crystals and computers combine to draw programmer Lew Slack into a metaphysical landscape.
• * *The Unified Field (AvoNova 0-380-78651-6, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $5.99, 281pp, pb, cover by Daniel Horne) Science fantasy novel, the third featuring metaphysical hacker Lew Slack. Lew’s buddy Alan Fain has a spaceship.

LEONARD, ELMORE (John, Jr.) (1925- )

• * *Touch (Arbor House 0-87795-905-6, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $17.95, 245pp, hc) Quasi-fantasy/religious allegory novel about a priest with the power to heal. The Christ-figure in modern times. It reads almost the same as Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon, with some striking parallels. Like Godbody, it was written many years ago and was considered unpublishable until recently.
• * _Touch (Viking 0-670-81654-X, Feb ’88, £10.95, 245pp, hc) Reprint (Arbor House 1987) novel about an ex-priest with miraculous healing powers [First U.K. edition]
• * _Touch (Avon 0-380-70386-6, Sep ’88, $4.50, 231pp, pb) Reprint (Arbor House 1987) psychic thriller.
• * _Touch (G.K. Hall 0-8161-4513-X, Nov ’88, $18.95, 309pp, hc) Reprint (Arbor House 1987) fantasy novel of a man with the power to heal. This is the large print edition.
• * _Touch (Penguin 0-14-026248-2, May ’98 [Jun ’98], £5.99, 245pp, pb) Reissue (Arbor House 1987) fantasy novel. This is a film tie-in edition.

LEONARD, LAWRENCE

• * _The Horn of Mortal Danger (Walker 0-7445-0847-9, Apr ’89, £1.99, 224pp, pb) Reprint (Julia MacRae 1980) young-adult fantasy novel.

LEONARD, PAUL (1961- ) (stories)

• * *Doctor Who: Dancing the Code (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20441-7, Apr ’95, £4.99, 279pp, pb, cover by Paul Campbell) [Doctor Who] Novelisation based on the TV series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $5.95.
• * *Doctor Who: Dreamstone Moon (BBC Books 0-563-40585-6, May ’98 [Apr ’98], £4.99, 250pp, pb) [Doctor Who: New Adventures] Novelisation based on the TV series. Book 11 of the BBC “New Adventures” series starring the 8th Doctor.
• * *Doctor Who: Toy Soldiers (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20452-2, Sep ’95, £4.99, 244pp, pb, cover by Peter Elson) [Doctor Who] Novelisation based on the TV series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $5.95.
• * *The New Adventures: Dry Pilgrimage (with Nick Walters) (New Adventures 0-426-20525-1, May ’98, £5.99, 292pp, pb, cover by Jon Sullivan) [Bernice Summerfield] Novelization based on characters from Doctor Who novelisations, without the Doctor. Book 13 in the Bernice Summerfield series.
• * *Speed of Flight (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20487-5, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], £4.99, 244pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who: Missing Adventures] Original novel based on the Doctor Who TV series. This is a world-wide edition, available in the US for $5.95. Volume 27 in “The Missing Adventures”.
• * *Venusian Lullaby (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20424-7, Oct ’94 [Nov ’94], £4.99, 312pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson & Jim Mortimore) [Doctor Who: Missing Adventures] Novelization based on the Doctor Who TV series. Third of a new “Missing Adventures” series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $5.95.

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• * *Decalog 5: Wonders (with Jim Mortimore) (Virgin 0-426-20515-4, Sep ’97 [Jul ’97], £5.99, 313pp, pb, cover by Colin Howard) Original SF anthology of 10 stories. Authors include Stephen Baxter and Jeanne Cavelos. (Contents)

LEONARD, RAYMOND (1941- )

• * *Legacy of the Shroud (W.H. Allen Star 0-352-32198-9, Feb ’88, £2.50, 233pp, pb) Religious thriller with sf touches.
• * _The Nostradamus Inheritance (Star 0-352-31820-1, Dec ’86, £2.50, pb) Horror novel.
• * *Omega (Poplar 0-907657-12-5, Sep ’86, £9.95, 197pp, hc) Sf novel.

LEPPEK, CHRISTOPHER (1954- )

• * *The Surrogate Assassin (Write Way 1-885173-54-7, 1998 [Oct ’98], $24.95, 336pp, hc) Associational Sherlock Holmes mystery/secret history about the true killer of Abraham Lincoln. Order from Write Way Publishing, 10555 E Dartmouth, Suite 210, Aurora CO 80014.

LEPPIN, PAUL (1878-1945) (stories)

• * *The Road to Darkness (Dedalus 1-873982-33-X, Nov ’97 [Oct ’97], £7.99, 151pp, tp, cover by David Smith) Literary fantasy omnibus of two novels and a story in the vein of de Sade. Translated by Mike Mitchell from the German. Originally published as Daniel Jesus (1905), Severin’s Road to Darkness (1914) and “The Ghost of the Jewish Ghetto” (c. 1915). This is a worldwide edition available in the US at $11.95. (Contents)

LERANGIS, PETER (1955- )

• * *Star Trek IV: The Journey Home (Simon & Schuster/Wanderer 0-671-63243-4, Dec ’86 [Feb ’87], $5.95, 91pp, pb) [Star Trek] Movie tie-in (juvenile version) with color stills from the film. A 1986 book, not seen until 1987.
• * _The Yearbook (Scholastic UK 0-590-55903-6, Apr ’95, £2.99, 229pp, pb) Reprint (Scholastic 1994) young-adult horror novel. [First U.K. edition]

LERMAN, RHODA (1936- )

• * *The Book of the Night (Holt Rinehart & Winston 0-03-071081-2, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $16.95, 292pp, hc) Sf/fantasy novel where the tenth century and the twentieth coexist as Light battles Darkness.
• * _The Book of the Night (The Women’s Press 0-7043-3991-9, Mar ’86, £2.50, 292pp, pb) Reprint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1984) sf novel with strong fantasy elements.
• * _Call Me Ishtar (Syracuse University Press 0-8156-0533-1, Sep ’98, $17.95, 247pp, tp) Reprint (Doubleday 1973) satirical feminist fantasy novel. The goddess Ishtar returns as a suburban housewife to right the wrongs of patriarchal society. Order from Syracuse University Press, 1600 Jamesville Ave, Syracuse NY 13244-5160; credit card orders 800-365-8929; add $4.00 shipping.

LERNER, EDWARD M. (1949- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Probe (Warner 0-446-36081-3, Jul ’91 [Jun ’91], $4.99, 314pp, pb, cover by Ben Perini) Sf technothriller of intrigue surrounding the discovery of an alien spacecraft in the outer reaches of the solar system.

LERNER, FREDERICK ANDREW (1945- ) (stories)

• * *A Bookman’s Fantasy: How Science Fiction Became Respectable and Other Essays (NESFA Press 0-915368-65-X, Feb ’95, $11.95, 97pp, tp, cover by Merle Insinga) Non-fiction collection of 24 essays (two not previously published, the remainder published in largely obscure sources) about SF, book collecting, librarians, and Vermont, with original introductions to each section. This book was issued to commemmorate Lerner’s appearance as a Guest of Honor at the 1995 Boskone. Order from NESFA Press, PO Box 809, Framingham MA 01701-0203; $2.00 postage.
• * *Modern Science Fiction and the American Literary Community (Scarecrow 0-8108-1794-2, Aug ’85 [Jul ’85], $26.00, 325pp, hc) Non-fiction, study of the response to sf in the U.S., with a history of sf conventions, etc. It’s a doctoral thesis and is aimed at dumb professors. (CNB)
• * *The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age (Continuum 0-8264-1114-2, Nov ’98, $24.95, 246pp, hc) Associational non-fiction, a look at the development of libraries from ancient times to now. Includes 10 unpaginated pages of illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Order from Continuum, 370 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10017.

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• * *A Silverlock Companion: The Life and Works of John Myers Myers (Niekas Publications 0-910619-02-6, Jun ’88 [Jul ’88], $7.95, 52pp, tp) 8½" x 11". Non-fiction, a glossary of the allusions in Silverlock plus some appreciations and a Myers bibliography. [Myers]

LERNER, JONATHAN (1948- )

• * *Caught in a Still Place (Serpent’s Tail 1-85242-146-0, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], £5.95, 122pp, tp, cover by Lauren Deutsch) Novel set in a Florida that has been devastated by a plague.

LEROE, ELLEN W.

• * *Meet Your Match, Cupid Delaney (Penguin/Lodestar 0-525-67309-1, Aug ’90 [Apr ’91], $13.95, 150pp, hc, cover by Richard Lauter) [Cupid Delaney] Young-adult fantasy novel about a cupid-in-training who becomes a high-school girl, sequel to Have a Heart, Cupid Delaney. This is a 1990 book not seen until now.
• * *Robot Raiders (Harper & Row 0-06-023835-6, Jul ’87, $11.95, 181pp, hc) Juvenile science fiction novel.
• * *Robot Romance (Harper & Row 0-06-023746-5, Jul ’85 [Jun ’85], $7.95, 179pp, pb; $11.89 hc — library binding) Young-adult sf novel of a robot-run high school.

LeROSS, D. E. (stories)

• * _The Final Diary Entry of Kees Huijgens (with Jozef P. Janszoon) See entry under Jozef P. Janszoon

LEROUX, GASTON (1868-1927) (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-249-4, Apr ’86 [Mar ’86], $3.95, 357pp, pb) Reprint (Bobbs Merrill 1911 - translated from the French) classic horror novel. This is sort of an advance tie-in edition, with blurbs announcing that it is “soon to be a musical” by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Star 0-352-31716-7, Oct ’86, £2.95, 265pp, pb) Reprint (Bobbs Merrill 1911) horror novel with a new introduction by Peter Haining; published to tie in with a new musical.
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Warner 0-446-30120-5, Oct ’86 [Dec ’86], $2.95, 264pp, pb) Reprint (Bobbs-Merrill 1911) horror novel.
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (O’Mara 0-948397-17-9, Oct ’87 [Dec ’87], £12.00, 245pp, hc) Reprint (Bobbs-Merril 1911) horror novel, with new introduction by Richard Dalby. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne.
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Mysterious Press 0-89296-279-8, Mar ’88 [May ’88], $25.00, 245pp, hc) Reprint (Lafitte 1910) horror novel. 75th anniversary of the first U.S. publication. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne. Introduction by Richard Dalby. First U.S. printing of a 1987 British edition (O’Mara).
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Armada 0-00-692993-1, Jul ’88, £1.95, 112pp, tp) Reprint (Bobbs-Merrill 1911) horror novel. Edited and abridged by Doris Dickens.
• * _The Phantom of the Opera (Dedalus 0-946626-70-7, Sep ’90, £6.99, 385pp, tp, cover by David Bird) Reprint (Bobbs-Merrill 1911) horror novel. Includes a new introduction, chronology and bibliography by Dr. Penelope Woolf. Also available in the US (0-87052-937-4, $9.95).
• * *The Real Opera Ghost and Other Tales (Alan Sutton 0-7509-0782-7, Oct ’94, £5.99, 200pp, pb, cover by Jean Beraud) Collection of ten macabre tales by the author of The Phantom of the Opera. Edited and with an introduction by Peter Haining. (Contents)

LEROUX, LISE

• * *One Hand Clapping (Viking UK 0-670-87671-2, Feb ’98 [Apr ’98], £9.99, 341pp, tp) SF novel. A woman decides to become a surrogate mother for body parts.

LESLIE, PETER (Meyrick Johnston) (1922- ); see pseudonym Patrick Macnee

LESSER, ROBERT, ed.

• * *Pulp Art (Random House/Gramercy 0-517-20058-9, Sep ’97, $19.99, 183pp, hc, cover by Richard Lillis) Art book showing original cover paintings for American pulp magazines of the 1930s and ’40s. Text by Lesser, with 18 additional essays by editors, collectors, and others, including Sam Moskowitz and Forrest J Ackerman.

LESSING, DORIS (May, née Taylor) (1919- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Canopus in Argus: Archives (Random House/Vintage 0-679-74184-4, Dec ’92, $20.00, 1229pp, tp) [Canopus in Argus: Archives] Sf omnibus of the “Canopus in Argus: Archives” series, Re: Colonised Planet 5: Shikasta (Knopf 1979), The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (Knopf 1980), The Sirian Experiment (Knopf 1981), The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Knopf 1982), and Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Knopf 1983). (Contents)