The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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- BROOKS, TERRY (stories) (chron.) (continued)
- * _The Wishsong of Shannara (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-31823-4, Mar 91 [Feb 91], $17.95, 498pp, hc, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) [Shannara] Reissue (Del Rey 1985) fantasy novel, third book of the Shannara series, with a new authors note. There is a 15th printing slug, but that probably includes the paperback edition.
- * _The Wishsong of Shannara (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35636-5, Mar 96 [Feb 96], $6.99, 504pp, pb, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) [Shannara] Reissue (Del Rey 1985) fantasy novel, third book in the Shannara series. 16th printing.
- * *Witches Brew (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38701-5, Apr 95 [Mar 95], $22.00, 304pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Magic Kingdom] Fantasy novel, fifth book in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series.
- * *Witches Brew (Legend 0-09-960311-X, Apr 95, £15.99, 304pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Magic Kingdom] Fantasy novel. Fifth book in the series. Ben Holiday, High Lord of Landover, must face seven challenges to protect his kingdom, and get back his kidnapped daughter. Simultaneous with the US (Del Rey) edition.
- * _Witches Brew (SFBC #07482, Jul 95 [Jun 95], $10.98, 304pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey 1995) fantasy novel, fifth book in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series. Similar to the Del Rey edition, except this lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
- * _Witches Brew (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38702-3, Jun 96 [May 96], $6.99, 320pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey; Legend 1995) fantasy novel, fifth book in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series. Marked March 1996 inside, but did not appear earlier.
- * _Witches Brew (Legend 0-09-960181-8, Jun 96 [May 96], £5.99, 304pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey; Legend 1995) humorous fantasy novel.
- * *Wizard at Large (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34773-0, Oct 88 [Sep 88], $17.95, 291pp, hc) [Magic Kingdom] Humorous fantasy novel, third in the Landover series.
- * _Wizard at Large (Orbit 0-7088-4001-9, Dec 88, £4.99, 291pp, tp) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel. Ben Holiday returns to Earth to rescue Abernathy. Good harmless fun. Volume 3 in the Magic Kingdom series. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Wizard at Large (Macdonald 0-356-17197-3, Dec 88, £11.95, 291pp, hc) [Magic Kingdom] Hardback edition of the above. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Wizard at Large (SFBC #14295, Apr 89 [Mar 89], $5.98, 238pp, hc) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel; book three of The Magic Kingdom of Landover series.
- * _Wizard at Large (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36227-6, Aug 89 [Jul 89], $4.95, 303pp, pb) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel, third book in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series.
- * _Wizard at Large (Orbit 0-7088-8311-7, Dec 89 [Nov 89], £3.50, 291pp, pb, cover by Rowena Morrill) [Magic Kingdom] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel. Volume 3 in the Magic Kingdom series.
- * _Wizard at Large (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36227-6, Mar 96 [Feb 96], $6.99, 303pp, pb, cover by Rowena Morrill) [Magic Kingdom] Reissue (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel, third book in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series. This states 10th printing, September 1993 but has a higher price than editions previously listed.
- BROPHY, CATHERINE (1941- ) (stories)
- * *Dark Paradise (Wolfhound Press 0-86327-291-6, Sep 91 [Jan 92], £4.99, 222pp, tp) Fantasy novel.
- * *Dark Paradise (Dufour/Wolfhound 0-86327-291-6, May 92, 222pp, tp, cover by Fearghal Fitzpatrick) Sf novel about a strictly-controlled alien society where a rebellion is brewing. In the style of Murder in Millenium VI. This is the 1991 original Wolfhound Press Irish edition with a Dufour sticker. Available from Dufour editions, PO Box 449, Chester Springs PA 19425.
- BROSNAN, EDEL; see under Anon.
- _____, ed.
- BROSNAN, JOHN (Raymond) (1947-2005); see under Harry Adam Knight; see pseudonyms Simon Ian Childer & Harry Adam Knight (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * _Bedlam [as by Harry Adam Knight] See entry under Harry Adam Knight.
- * *Damned & Fancy (Legend 0-09-951221-1, Apr 95 [Mar 95], £4.99, 188pp, pb, cover by Stephen Lee) Humorous fantasy of an investigative journalist transported by a demon to another world. Volume one in a new series.
- * *The Fall of the Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-04381-4, Jun 91, £14.99, 284pp, hc) [Sky Lords] Sf novel. Volume 3 in the Sky Lords trilogy.
- * _The Fall of the Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-04556-6, Oct 91, £3.99, 284pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) [Sky Lords] Reprint (Gollancz 1991) sf novel. The Third Volume of the Sky Lords trilogy.
- * *Have Demon Will Travel (Legend 0-09-951231-9, Apr 96, £4.99, 168pp, pb, cover by Paul Sample) Humorous fantasy novel. Travis Thomson escapes from the other world into the hands of a psychiatrist.
- * *The Opoponax Invasion (Gollancz 0-575-05199-X, Nov 93, £8.99, 223pp, tp, cover by Peter Mennim) Sf novel.
- * _The Opoponax Invasion (Gollancz 0-575-05827-7, Sep 94, £4.99, 223pp, pb, cover by Peter Mennim) Reprint (Gollancz 1993) sf novel.
- * *The Primal Screen: A History of Science Fiction Film (Orbit 0-356-20222-4, Oct 91 [Sep 91], £16.95, 402pp, hc) Personal and discursive survey of sf movies from 1910 to 1990. Recommended. (PSP)
- * *The Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-03986-8, Aug 88 [Jul 88], £11.95, 318pp, hc) [Sky Lords] SF novel about a post-nuclear world ruled by giant airships. Great fun despite a rather flat ending. Recommended. (PSP)
- * _The Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-04490-X, Apr 89, £3.50, 318pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) [Sky Lords] Reprint (Gollancz 1988) sf novel. Volume 1 in the Sky Lords trilogy.
- * +The Sky Lords (St. Martins 0-312-05964-7, May 91 [Apr 91], $17.95, 317pp, hc) [Sky Lords] Post-holocaust sf novel set in a world ruled by feudal warlords in giant airships. First American edition (Gollancz 1988).
- * *War of the Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-04380-6, Oct 89, £12.95, 252pp, hc) [Sky Lords] Sf novel. Volume two in the Sky Lords trilogy.
- * _War of the Sky Lords (Gollancz 0-575-04555-8, Nov 90, £3.99, 252pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) [Sky Lords] Reprint (Gollancz 1989) sf novel. Volume 2 in the Sky Lords trilogy.
- * +War of the Sky Lords (St. Martins 0-312-07882-X, Jul 92 [Jun 92], $18.95, 252pp, hc) [Sky Lords] Sf novel, second book of the Sky Lords series. First American edition (Gollancz 1989).
- BROUGHTON, JANE, ed.
- BROWN, ALAN (stories)
- * *Sword and Sorcery (Hodder Childrens Books 0-340-69806-3, Dec 97, £3.99, 298pp, pb) Young-adult Arthurian fantasy novel.
- BROWN, ANNE K.
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-1810) (stories)
- * *Three Gothic Novels (Library of America 1-883011-57-4, Oct 98 [Dec 98], $35.00, 914pp, hc, cover by James Sharples) Omnibus of three early American gothic novels by the first full-time American writer, and an author who reportedly influenced Poe: Wieland (1798), Arthur Mervyn (1799), and Edgar Huntly (1799). The texts are corrected versions published by Kent State University in 1977, 1980, and 1984. Includes chronology and notes. Order from Library of America, 14 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022. (Contents)
- BROWN, CHARLES N(ikki) (1937-2009) (stories) (chron.)
- * *The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1997) (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press, Apr 98, $49.95, 2,787pp, CD-ROM) Non-fiction, reference. An index to SF books, magazines, and stories published from 1984 through 1997. Expanded from the annual Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror volumes published by Locus Press. Included in the index is Contentos Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections which covers those books published before 1984.
- * *Science Fiction in Print: 1985 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-2-1, Dec 86 [Nov 86], $29.95 + $2.00 postage, 237pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference book. Lists all the books and stories published in 1985.
- * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1984 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-5-6, May 90 [Apr 90], $50.00, 269pp, hc) Non-fiction; reference. Besides book listings from Locus this includes an index to short fiction appearing in magazines and anthologies plus summaries of the year and recommended reading. This volume connects the later volumes to the Contento anthology index which covers through 1983.
- * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1986 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-3-X, Sep 87, $35.00, xiii + 347pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference book. Lists all material, both books and shorter fiction, published in English in 1986. Limited to 600 copies.
- * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1987: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Books and Short Fiction Published in the English Language (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-4-8, Dec 88, $45.00, 417pp, hc) Non-fiction, bibliography. Besides the lists of books from Locus, this has indexes to all the magazines and anthologies, plus reprinted commentaries on the year, etc.
- * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1988 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-6-4, Sep 89 [Aug 89], $50.00, 463pp, hc) Non-fiction; bibliography. Besides book listings from Locus, this includes indexes of all the magazines and anthologies plus commentaries on the year and a research index by Hal W. Hall.
- * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1989 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-7-2, Aug 90, $60.00, 515pp, hc) Non-fiction; reference. This bibliography includes book listings from Locus, indexes of all the magazines and anthologies plus commentaries on the year and a research index by Hal W. Hall.
- * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1990 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-8-0, Aug 91, $60.00, 587pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference. This bibliography includes book listings from Locus, indexes of all the magazines and anthologies plus commentaries on the year in the field and a research index by Hal W. Hall. A list of cover artists has been added this year.
- * *Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1991 (with William G. Contento) (Locus Press 0-9616629-9-9, Aug 92 [Jul 92], $60.00, 482pp, hc) Non-fiction, reference. This bibliography includes book listings from Locus, indexes of all the magazines and anthologies plus commentaries on the year in the field and a research index by Hal W. Hall. Available from Locus Press, PO Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661. Please add $5.00 for shipping and handling on US orders, $10.00 overseas orders.
- BROWN, CROSLAND; pseudonym of A. W. Grey
- * *Tombleys Walk (Avon 0-380-76097-5, Feb 91 [Jan 91], $4.50, 407pp, pb, cover by Lee MacLeod) Horror novel about werewolves infesting a small Texas town. Brown is a pen name for A.W. Grey.
- BROWN, DALE (Francis) (1956- )
- * *Day of the Cheetah (Donald I. Fine 1-55611-121-5, Jul 89 [Jun 89], $18.95, 504pp, hc) [Patrick McLanahan] Near-future technothriller about a piloting system that creates symbiotic relationship between man and machine.
- * _Day of the Cheetah (Grafton 0-246-13611-1, Oct 89, £7.95, 416pp, tp, cover by Chris Moore) [Patrick McLanahan] Reprint (Fine 1989) near-future techno-thriller. Also available in hardcover (-13484-4, £12.95). [First U.K. edition]
- * _Day of the Cheetah (Grafton Overseas 0-586-20630-2, 1990 [May 90], £3.99, 656pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Patrick McLanahan] Reprint (Fine 1989) near-future techno-thriller. This is an Open Market edition and is not generally available in the UK.
- * _Day of the Cheetah (Berkley 0-425-12043-0, Jun 90 [May 90], $5.50, 502pp, pb) [Patrick McLanahan] Reprint (Fine 1989) near-future technothriller with sf elements.
- * _Day of the Cheetah (Grafton 0-586-20630-2, Nov 90, £4.99, 656pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Patrick McLanahan] Reprint (Fine 1989) near-future techno-thriller.
- * *Silver Tower (Donald I. Fine 1-55611-060-X, Apr 88 [Mar 88], $18.95, 349pp, hc) Near-future sf intrigue novel about space stations.
- * _Silver Tower (Grafton 0-246-13308-2, Aug 88, £11.95, 367pp, hc) Reprint (Fine 1988) novel about limited nuclear war in space. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Silver Tower (Grafton Overseas 0-586-20269-2, 1989 [May 89], £3.99, 367pp, pb, cover by Image Bank) Reprint (Fine 1988) sf novel. This special Open Market edition is not available in the UK.
- * _Silver Tower (Berkley 0-425-11529-1, Apr 89 [Mar 89], $4.95, 384pp, pb) Reprint (Fine 1988) near-future high-tech political/sf novel about limited nuclear war in space.
- * _Silver Tower (Grafton 0-586-20269-2, Jun 89, £3.99, 367pp, pb, cover by Image Bank) Reprint (Fine 1988) high-tech thriller set in a military space station.
- * *Sky Masters (Donald I. Fine/Putnam 0-399-13705-X, Jun 91 [Jul 91], $21.95, 510pp, hc, cover by Rob Wood) [Patrick McLanahan] Near-future technothriller about an experimental bomber and a Chinese nuclear strike against the Philippines.
- BROWN, ERIC (1960- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *Blues Shifting (Pan 0-330-33590-1, Dec 95 [Nov 95], £4.99, 264pp, pb, cover by Paul Youll) SF collection of 8 long stories; two are original, including the title novella. (Contents)
- * *Engineman (Pan 0-330-33043-8, Aug 94, £4.99, 373pp, pb, cover by Fred Gambino) Sf novel.
- * *Meridian Days (Pan 0-330-32287-7, Aug 92 [Jul 92], £8.99, 165pp, tp, cover by Mark Salwowski) Sf novel about a community of artists on a small colony planet. A first novel. Recommended (PSP).
- * _Meridian Days (Pan 0-330-32716-X, Aug 93 [Jul 93], £3.99, 165pp, pb, cover by Mark Salwowski) Reprint (Pan 1992) sf novel about a community of artists on a small colony planet.
- * *The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories (Pan 0-330-31366-5, Aug 90 [Jul 90], £3.99, 216pp, pb, cover by Philip Tonkyn) Sf collection. (Contents)
- * _The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories (Drunken Dragon Press 0-947578-03-X, Oct 90 [Nov 90], £13.50, 216pp, hc, cover by Fangorn) Reprint (Pan 1990) sf collection. First world hardcover edition, and is beautifully produced. Recommended. (PSP) Also available in a limited, leatherbound with gold foil edges, edition of 100 numbered copies signed by the author (-53-6, £35).
- * *The Web: Untouchable (Dolphin 1-85881-426-X, Oct 97 [Sep 97], £3.50, 103pp, pb, cover by Fangorn) [Web] Young-adult SF novel set in the worldwide Virtual Reality Web of 2027. Book 3 in a series of six linked novels, each by a different author. A hardcover edition (-528-2, £9.99) was announced but not seen.
- BROWN, FREDRIC (William) (1906-1972) (stories) (chron.)
- * *And the Gods Laughed (Phantasia Press 0-932096-47-6, Oct 87 [Sep 87], $19.00, 431pp, hc) Collection of 70 fantasy and SF stories, 6 written in collaboration with Mack Reynolds, with an introduction by Richard A. Lupoff. It contains the complete text of two earlier collections, Nightmares and Geezenstacks (1961) and Honeymoon in Hell (1958), plus additional stories. There is a signed, limited, boxed 475-copy edition ($50) with bound signed sheets left over from an earlier book. (Contents)
- * *Before She Kills (Dennis McMillan, 1984, 197pp, hc) Collection; non-sf/fantasy associational. Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps, Vol. 2. Six pulp mystery stories plus a personal remembrance by William F. Nolan. (Contents)
- * _Before She Kills (Dennis McMillan 0-9609986-3-2, Dec 86 [Nov 86], $5.95, 197pp, pb) Reprint (Dennis McMillan 1984) collection; non-sf/fantasy associational. Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps, Vol. 2. Six pulp mystery stories plus a personal remembrance by William F. Nolan.
- * *Brother Monster (Dennis McMillan no ISBN, Mar 87 [Nov 90], $40.00, 180pp, hc, cover by Joe Servello) Collection of mystery stories and poems. This edition is limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Harry Altshuler. Volume nine in the Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps series. (Contents)
- * *Carnival of Crime (Southern Illinois University Press 0-8093-1192-5, 1985, 314pp, hc) Mystery collection, included for Brown collectors. Edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg. (Contents)
- * *The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches (Dennis McMillan no ISBN, Jun 85 [Feb 92], $30.00, 218pp, hc, cover by William L. McMillan) Associational collection of the novella version of The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches plus the greatly enlarged (but unfinished and unpublished) novel version, with an introduction by Lawrence Block. Limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Lawrence Block. Volume four in the Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps series. (Contents)
- * _The Freak Show Murders (Dennis McMillan 0-9609986-4-0, Dec 86 [Nov 86], $5.95, 206pp, pb, cover by William L. McMillan) Reprint (Dennis McMillan 1985) collection; non-sf/fantasy, associational. Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps, Vol. 5. Six pulp mystery stories plus an appreciation by Richard Lupoff. (Contents)
- * *The Gibbering Night (Dennis McMillan no ISBN, Jan 91 [Dec 91], $35.00, 190pp, hc, cover by Joe Servello) Associational mystery collection. This edition is limited to 425 numbered copies, signed by Joe Lansdale. Volume 18 in the Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps series. (Contents)
- * *Happy Ending (Dennis McMillan no ISBN, Jun 90 [Aug 90], $40.00, 230pp, hc, cover by Joe Servello) Collection of various pieces of Brown material, mostly sf stories, including poetry and an essay by Browns wife Elizabeth. Some of the stories are appearing for the first time. This is a numbered limited edition of 450 copies. Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps Volume 16. (Contents)
- * *Homicide Sanitarium (Dennis McMillan, 1984, 194pp, hc) Associational, non-sf collection. Listed for Brown collectors. Limited hardcover edition. Contains seven pulp mysteries plus an introduction by Bill Pronzini. (Contents)
- * _Homicide Sanitarium: Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps, Vol. 1 (Dennis McMillan 0-9609986-2-4, Nov 85, $5.95, 194pp, pb) Reprint (Dennis McMillan 1984) associational, non-sf collection. Listed for Brown collectors. This is the first trade edition after a limited first hc. Contains seven pulp mysteries plus an introduction by Bill Pronzini.
- * *Madmans Holiday (McMillan, Dennis no ISBN, Mar 85, $30.00, 133pp, hc, cover by William L. McMillan) Associational, non-sf collection, of two pulp mysteries plus an introduction by Newton Baird. Limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by Newton Baird. Volume three in the Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps series. (Contents)
- * _Martians Go Home (Grafton 0-586-07164-4, Nov 87, £2.95, 203pp, pb) Reprint (Dutton 1955) hilarious sf novel, available in the UK for the first time. [First U.K. edition]
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