The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

SILVERBERG, ROBERT (stories) (chron.) (continued)

• * _Great Tales of Science Fiction (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Crown/Galahad 0-88365-701-5, Jun ’88 [Jul ’88], $9.98, 529pp, hc) Reissue (A&W/Galahad 1985) anthology, an abridged version of The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces (Arbor House 1983). Has the same ISBN as earlier edition, but says “published 1988” and has a new dust jacket.
• * *The Horror Hall of Fame (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-692-9, Jul ’91, $21.95, 416pp, hc) Anthology of 18 classic horror stories. There is an uncredited introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz. (Contents)
• * _The Horror Hall of Fame (with Martin H. Greenberg) (SFBC #18773, Jan ’92 [Mar ’92], $9.98, 416pp, hc) Reprint (Carroll & Graf 1991) anthology of 18 classic horror stories. There is an uncredited introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz. Similar to the Carroll & Graf edition except it lacks an ISBN and price. The SFBC number is on the back jacket.
• * _The Horror Hall of Fame (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Robert Hale 0-7090-4902-1, Sep ’92, £14.95, 416pp, hc, cover by Helen Hale) Reprint (Carroll & Graf 1991) anthology of 18 classic horror stories. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Horror Hall of Fame (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-880-8, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $12.95, 416pp, tp) Reprint (Carroll & Graf 1991) anthology of 18 classic horror stories, with an uncredited introduction by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz.
• * *Isaac Asimov’s Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction # 6: Neanderthals (with Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh) (NAL/Signet 0-451-14716-2, Feb ’87 [Jan ’87], $3.95, 351pp, pb) Anthology of 11 stories and an article. (Contents)
• * *Legends (Tor 0-312-86787-5, Oct ’98 [Sep ’98], $27.95, hc) Original anthology of 11 short novels by modern masters of fantasy, set in their most popular series. Authors include Stephen King with a “Dark Tower” story, Terry Pratchett (“Discworld”), Anne McCaffrey (“Pern”), and Robert Jordan (“The Wheel of Time”). A leatherbound, boxed, limited edition (-86863-4, $250.00), signed by all contributing authors, was announced but not seen. (Contents)
• * _Legends (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-225666-5, Oct ’98, £17.99, xiv+591pp, hc, cover by Josh Kirby & Geoff Taylor) Reprint (Tor 1998) fantasy anthology of 11 original stories in famous series by Pratchett, King, McCaffrey, Jordan, Le Guin, etc., each with an introduction by Silverberg. A trade paperback (export only) edition (-225667-3, £9.99) was announced but not seen. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Legends (SFBC #00740, Dec ’98 [Nov ’98], $13.98, 715pp, hc) Reprint (Tor 1998) original anthology of 11 short novels by modern masters of fantasy, set in their most popular series. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price, and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Robinson 0-948164-71-9, Jun ’88, £4.95, 431pp, tp) Reprint (Arbor House 1983, as The Fantasy Hall of Fame) fantasy anthology. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Robinson 0-948164-71-9, Jul ’90, £4.99, 431pp, tp, cover by Chris Achilleos) Reissue (Arbor House 1983 as The Fantasy Hall of Fame) fantasy anthology.
• * *Murasaki (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Bantam Spectra 0-553-08229-9, May ’92 [Apr ’92], $20.00, 290pp, hc, cover by Stephen Youll) Original shared-world sf anthology/quasi-novel in six parts, with an introduction by the editor and appendices concerning the created world by Poul Anderson and Frederik Pohl. (Contents)
• * _Murasaki (SFBC #19839, Jun ’92 [Aug ’92], $9.98, 290pp, hc, cover by Stephen Youll) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1992) original shared-world sf anthology/quasi-novel in six parts, with an introduction by the editor and appendices concerning the created world by Poul Anderson and Frederik Pohl. Similar to the Bantam edition except it lacks an ISBN and price and the SFBC number is on the back jacket.
• * _Murasaki (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56187-1, Jun ’93 [May ’93], $5.99, 377pp, pb, cover by Stephen Youll) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1992) original shared-world sf anthology/quasi-novel in six parts, with an introduction by the editor and appendices concerning the created world by Poul Anderson and Frederik Pohl. The order of the stories has been corrected for this edition.
• * _Murasaki [with Martin H. Greenberg] (Grafton 0-586-21445-3, Mar ’93, £5.99, 290pp, pb) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1992) original anthology of six stories set on the same world, with an introduction by the editor and appendices concerning the created world by Poul Anderson and Frederik Pohl. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Nebula Awards #18 (Bantam 0-553-24371-3, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $2.75, 240pp, pb) Reprint (Arbor House 1983) anthology.
• * *Robert Silverberg’s Worlds of Wonder (Warner 0-446-51369-5, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $17.95, 352pp, hc) Anthology of 13 stories. Introduction and biographical essay by Silverberg. (Contents)
• * _Robert Silverberg’s Worlds of Wonder (Gollancz 0-575-04356-3, Nov ’88, £4.99, 349pp, pb) Reprint (Warner 1987) anthology of 13 stories, with an essay on each by Silverberg, who also contributes an introduction and autobiographical essay. Also available in hc (-04355-5) for £12.95. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Robert Silverberg’s Worlds of Wonder (Warner 0-446-39012-7, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], $12.95, 352pp, tp) Reprint (Warner 1987) sf anthology, with an introduction and an autobiographical essay by Silverberg. There is a full writing course in the introduction to the stories and why, as a writer, Silverberg found them important. Highly recommended for any would-be writers (CNB).
• * _The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1 (SFBC #17987, Aug ’98, $10.98, 560pp, hc) Reprint (Doubleday 1970) anthology of 26 classic SF stories. This edition, similar to the Doubleday 1970 edition, has ISBN 1-56865-878-8; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I (Avon 0-380-00795-9, Jul ’86 [Jun ’86], $4.95, 672pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1970) anthology of 26 stories chosen by SFWA members as “the greatest short stories of all time.” 24th printing.
• * *Time Gate (Baen 0-671-69850-8, Dec ’89 [Nov ’89], $3.95, 277pp, pb, cover by David Mattingly) [Time Gate] Original shared-world anthology of five stories, set in a world created by Silverberg, packaged by Bill Fawcett & Associates. (Contents)
• * *Time Gate Vol. 2: Dangerous Interfaces (Baen 0-671-72017-1, Oct ’90 [Sep ’90], $3.95, 296pp, pb, cover by David B. Mattingly) Original anthology of six time-travel stories, with “interludes” by Silverberg. (Contents)
• * _The Time Travelers: A Science Fiction Quartet (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Donald I. Fine/Primus 0-917657-66-7, May ’86 [Apr ’86], $3.95, 284pp, pb) Reprint (Fine 1985) anthology of 4 novellas by Asimov, Wyndham, Kuttner & Moore, and Leinster.
• * *The Time Travelers: A Science Fiction Quartet (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Donald I. Fine 0-917657-34-9, Apr ’85 [Mar ’85], $16.95, 284pp, hc) Anthology of four novellas. (Contents)
• * *The Time Travelers: A Science Fiction Quartet (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Primus/Fine 0-917657-66-7, Apr ’85 [Mar ’85], $3.95, 284pp, pb) Paperback edition of the above.
• * _The Ultimate Dinosaur (with Byron Preiss) See entry under Byron Preiss.
• * *Universe 1 (with Karen Haber) (Doubleday Foundation 0-385-26771-1, Apr ’90 [Feb ’90], $8.95, 449pp, tp, cover by Richard Kriegler) Original anthology of 20 stories. A hardcover edition (-24812-1, $19.95) is also available. (Contents)
• * _Universe 1 (with Karen Haber) (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28924-1, Apr ’91 [Mar ’91], $4.95, 449pp, pb, cover by Richard Kriegler) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1990) original anthology of 20 stories.
• * *Universe 2 (with Karen Haber) (Bantam Spectra 0-553-35123-0, Mar ’92 [Feb ’92], $10.00, 397pp, tp, cover by Jean-Francois Podevin) Original anthology of 21 stories and one apparent novel excerpt, with an introduction by Silverberg. A hardcover edition (-08038-5, $22.00) is also available. (Contents)
• * *Universe 3 (with Karen Haber) (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56580-X, Apr ’94 [Mar ’94], $5.99, 419pp, pb, cover by Michael David Ward) Original anthology of 15 stories, with an introduction by Silverberg. (Contents)
• * _Voyagers in Time (Bart 1-55785-097-6, Apr ’89 [Sep ’89], $3.50, 208pp, pb) Reprint (Meredith 1967) anthology of 12 time travel stories.
• * _Worlds Imagined (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Avenel 0-517-68029-7, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], $8.98, 704pp, hc) Reprint (Arbor House 1980 as The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels) anthology; this instant remainder book omits “The Miracle Workers” by Jack Vance which appeared in the original edition. (Contents)

SILVERMAN, KENNETH (Eugene) (1936- )

• * *Edgar Allan Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance (HarperCollins 0-06-016715-7, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $27.50, 564pp, hc) Non-fiction, a massive and detailed biography of Poe. This takes advantage of new discoveries and information.
• * _Edgar Allan Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance (HarperPerennial 0-06-092331-8, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], $13.00, 564pp, tp) Reprint (HarperCollins 1991) non-fiction, a massive and detailed biography of Poe that takes advantage of new discoveries and information. Recommended (SW). [Poe]

SILVERMAN, MAIDA

• * *Dune Pop-up Panorama Book (with Daniel Kirk) (Grosset & Dunlap 0-448-23353-3, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], $6.95, unpaginated, hc) [Dune] Four scenes from the movie version of the book, plus characters and vehicles to punch out and place in the panoramas. [Herbert]

SILVERSTEIN, HERMA (1937- )

• * *Mad, Mad Monday (Dutton Lodestar 0-525-67239-7, Feb ’88 [Jan ’88], $12.95, 120pp, hc) Humorous juvenile fantasy novel; a teenager conjures up a teenage ghost from the fifties.

SILVERSTEIN, JANNA, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * _Full Spectrum 5 (with Jennifer Hershey & Tom Dupree) See entry under Jennifer Hershey.

SILVERTHORN, RICHARD J.

• * *Satan’s Spawn (Avon 0-380-75316-2, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $3.95, 247pp, pb) Possessed child horror novel.

SILVEY, ANITA, ed.

• * *Children’s Books and their Creators (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-65380-0, Nov ’95 [Feb ’96], $40.00, 800pp, hc, cover by Maurice Sendak,et al.) Non-fiction, reference. An encyclopedic guide to contemporary American children’s literature, with overviews of different types of books, articles about authors, and autobiographical sketches by 75 authors and illustrators, including Lloyd Alexander, Susan Cooper, Margaret Mahy, and Laurence Yep. There are also 16 unpaginated pages of classic illustrations in full color.

SIMA, CAROL ANN

• * *Jane’s Bad Hare Day (Dalkey Archive Press 1-56478-072-4, Apr ’95 [Mar ’95], $21.95, 248pp, hc, cover by R. Elkins) Literary fantasy novel, a mix of Harvey and Alice in Wonderland. A woman is mugged by a six-foot hare in Manhattan, and follows it into a surreal, Wonderland-like fable. A first novel.

SIMAK, CLIFFORD D(onald) (1904-1988) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _All Flesh Is Grass (Methuen 0-413-59990-6, Dec ’85 [Jan ’86], £2.50, 255pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1965) sf novel.
• * _All Flesh Is Grass (Avon 0-380-39933-4, Mar ’88 [Feb ’88], $3.50, 254pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1965) sf novel; third printing.
• * _All Flesh Is Grass (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0045-9, Dec ’93 [Nov ’93], $4.95, 255pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1965) sf novel.
• * _All the Traps of Earth (Avon 0-380-45500-5, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $3.50, 278pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1962) collection of 9 stories; second Avon printing.
• * *The Autumn Land and Other Stories (Mandarin 0-7493-0185-6, Feb ’90 [Dec ’89], £3.50, 172pp, pb) Collection of 6 sf stories (3 previously uncollected), edited and introduced by Francis Lyall. Recommended. (PSP) (Contents)
• * *Brother and Other Stories (Severn House 0-7278-1417-6, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], £8.95, 165pp, hc) A new collection of Simak’s short stories, edited by Francis Lyall. This has a 1986 copyright date, but has only just appeared. (Contents)
• * _Brother and Other Stories (Methuen 0-413-17760-2, Dec ’88, £2.95, 165pp, pb) Reprint (Severn House 1986) sf collection, edited and introduced by Francis Lyall.
• * _Catface (Mandarin 0-7493-0599-1, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], £3.99, 251pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1978 as Mastodonia) sf novel.
• * _Cemetery World (Methuen 0-413-41990-8, Mar ’87, £2.50, 191pp, pb) Reissue (Putnam 1973) sf novel.
• * _Cemetery World (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-985-5, Jun ’93 [May ’93], $3.50, 159pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1973) sf novel.
• * _City (Methuen 0-413-14630-8, Aug ’88, £3.50, 255pp, pb) [City (Websters)] Reprint (Gnome 1952) sf collection. This edition follows the contents of the Ace 1981 edition by including the story “Epilog”.
• * _City (Mandarin 0-7493-0589-4, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], £3.99, 255pp, pb) [City (Websters)] Reprint (Gnome 1952) sf collection. This edition follows the contents of the Ace 1981 edition by including the story ’Epilog’.
• * _City (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-025391-5, Jan ’92 [Feb ’92], $5.95, 183pp, pb, cover by Paul Lehr) [City (Websters)] Reprint (Gnome 1952) sf quasi-novel. The text is that of the 1981 Ace edition, which adds a final story to the series. One of the classics of sf. Highly recommended (CNB).
• * _City (SFBC #01155, Sep ’92, $6.98, 211pp, hc, cover by Michael Budden) [City (Websters)] Reprint (Gnome 1952) sf quasi-novel. One of the classics of sf. This has the Macmillan name on the spine, but it follows the text of the original edition and does not include “Epilog”, which was present in the earlier SFBC edition.
• * *The Civilisation Game and Other Stories (Severn House 0-7278-5169-1, Jul ’97, £16.99, 250pp, hc) SF collection of seven stories, edited and with an introduction by Francis Lyall. Most of these relatively early stories have not been previously reprinted, and the Hugo Award-winning, novella “The Big Front Yard” has not been in any previous UK Simak collection. (Contents)
• * _Cosmic Engineers (Methuen 0-417-05730-X, Oct ’88, £2.95, 159pp, pb) Reissue (Gnome Press 1950) sf novel.
• * *The Creator and Other Stories (Severn House 0-7278-4569-1, Dec ’93, £14.99, 278pp, hc) Collection of nine sf stories, 4 previously uncollected, edited and introduced by Francis Lyall. A trade paperback edition (-9004-2, £8.99) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
• * _Enchanted Pilgrimage (Mandarin 0-7493-0078-7, Dec ’90 [Nov ’90], £3.99, 218pp, pb, cover by Peter Elson) Reprint (Berkley 1975) sf novel.
• * _The Fellowship of the Talisman (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33957-6, Feb ’87 [Jan ’87], $3.50, 314pp, pb) Reissue (Del Rey 1978) fantasy novel; 5th printing.
• * _The Goblin Reservation (Methuen 0-413-14530-1, Mar ’87, £2.50, 190pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1968) sf novel.
• * _The Goblin Reservation (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-897-2, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], $3.95, 192pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1968) humorous sf novel.
• * _A Heritage of Stars (Methuen 0-413-58800-9, May ’86, £2.50, 219pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley/Putnam 1977) sf novel.
• * *Highway of Eternity (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33220-2, Jun ’86 [May ’86], $14.95, 289pp, hc) Sf novel of time travel and immortality.
• * _Highway of Eternity (SFBC #10448, Dec ’86, $4.98, 249pp, hc) Reprint (Del Rey 1986) sf novel.
• * _Highway of Eternity (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32497-8, Jun ’88 [May ’88], $3.50, 294pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1986) sf novel.
• * _Highway of Eternity (Mandarin 0-7493-0038-8, Jun ’89 [May ’89], £2.99, 289pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1986) sf novel.
• * _Highway to Eternity (Severn House 0-7278-1498-2, Aug ’87, £9.95, 289pp, hc) Reprint (Del Rey 1986, as Highway of Eternity) sf novel. Listed as Highway of Eternity on title page only. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Immigrant and Other Stories (Mandarin 0-7493-0644-0, Aug ’91 [Jun ’91], £3.99, 190pp, pb) Collection of seven short stories, two previously uncollected, edited and introduced by Francis Lyall. Recommended. (PSP) (Contents)
• * _The Marathon Photograph (Methuen 0-413-59060-7, Jun ’87, £2.50, 171pp, pb) Reprint (Severn House 1986) sf collection.
• * *The Marathon Photograph and Other Stories (Severn House 0-7278-1221-1, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], £8.95, 171pp, hc) Collection of stories, edited by Francis Lyall, on time paradoxes. (Contents)
• * *Off-Planet (Methuen 0-413-18500-1, Aug ’88, £10.95, 223pp, hc) A collection of seven stories not set on Earth, all but one of them previously uncollected. Edited and selected by Francis Lyall. Recommended. (PSP) (Contents)
• * _Off-Planet (Mandarin 0-7493-0099-X, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], £3.50, 223pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) Reprint (Methuen 1988) sf collection. This edition has a new postscript to the introduction by Francis Lyall.
• * _Our Children’s Children (Mandarin 0-7493-0592-4, Jan ’91 [Dec ’90], £3.99, 186pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam’s 1974) sf novel.
• * _Out of Their Minds (Methuen 0-413-15320-7, Sep ’87, £2.50, 175pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1970) sf novel.
• * *Over the River and Through the Woods: The Best Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (Tachyon Publications 0-9648320-2-X, Oct ’96 [Nov ’96], $25.00, 218pp, hc, cover by Michael Dashow) Collection of eight stories. There is an introduction by Poul Anderson. This is a limited edition of 874. It is also available in a leatherbound edition of 100 ($40.00), or a boxed, leatherbound, lettered edition ($65.00); both special editions signed by Poul Anderson. (Contents) [ed: Jacob Weisman]
• * _Ring Around the Sun (Mandarin 0-7493-0353-0, Jul ’90 [Jun ’90], £3.50, 205pp, pb, cover by Alex Pang) Reprint (Simon and Schuster 1953) sf novel.
• * _Ring Around the Sun (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-852-2, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $3.95, 205pp, pb) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1953) sf novel. Contains a 1977 introduction on Simak by Harry Harrison.
• * _Shakespeare’s Planet (Methuen 0-413-41980-0, Sep ’86, £2.50, 188pp, pb) Reissue (Berkley-Putnam 1976) sf novel.
• * _Shakespeare’s Planet (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-29870-5, Jun ’88 [May ’88], $2.95, 202pp, pb) Reissue (Berkley Putnam 1976) sf novel, third Del Rey printing.
• * _So Bright the Vision (Severn House 0-7278-1323-4, Sep ’86, £8.50, 160pp, hc) Reprint (Ace 1968) sf collection.
• * _They Walked Like Men (Avon 0-380-42861-X, May ’88 [Apr ’88], $3.50, 256pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1962) sf novel; third printing.
• * _Time and Again (Methuen 0-413-59980-9, Dec ’85 [Jan ’86], £2.50, 255pp, pb) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1951) sf novel of time paradoxes.
• * _Time and Again (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-025395-8, May ’92 [Apr ’92], $9.00, 233pp, tp, cover by Erik Olson) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1951) sf novel.
• * _Time and Again (SFBC #01199, Aug ’93 [Jul ’93], $7.98, 235pp, hc, cover by Erik Olson) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1951) sf novel. Similar to the 1992 Collier Nucleus edition except it lacks a price, has the soft cover printed as the jacket, and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Time Is the Simplest Thing (Methuen 0-413-42420-0, Dec ’86, £1.95, 191pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1961) sf novel.
• * _Time Is the Simplest Thing (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-082075-5, Jun ’93 [Apr ’93], $9.00, 263pp, tp, cover by Peter Scanlon) Reprint (Doubleday 1961) sf novel.