The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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Dark Gods T. E. D. Klein (Pan 0-330-29714-7, Jan 87, £2.50, 259pp, pb) Reprint (Viking 1985) collection of 4 horror novellas. [First U.K. edition]
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The Jehovah Contract Victor Koman (Franklin Watts 0-531-15043-7, Apr 87, $16.95, 277pp, hc) A professional assassin on the skids in 1999 is hired to assassinate God, with the help of an ancient Hollywood witch and a 12-year-old telepathic hooker. This novel first appeared in Germany as Der Jehova Vertrag (Heyne 1985), although written originally in English.
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Strangers Dean R. Koontz (Star 0-352-31986-0, Mar 87, £3.95, 710pp, pb) Reprint (W.H. Allen/Putnam 1986) sf/horror novel.
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Twilight Eyes Dean R. Koontz (W.H. Allen 0-491-03475-X, Apr 87, £11.95, 478pp, hc) Fantasy novel expanded and revised from an earlier version (Land of Enchantment 1985).
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Twilight Eyes Dean R. Koontz (Berkley 0-425-10065-0, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $4.95, 451pp, pb) Horror novel. A slightly different version of Part 1 appeared from The Land of Enchantment (under the same title) in 1985. This is the first complete American edition (W.H. Allen 1987).
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Watchers Dean R. Koontz (Putnam 0-399-13263-5, Feb 87 [Jan 87], $17.95, 352pp, hc) Supernatural/sf thriller about genetically manipulated dogs with unusual powers.
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Watchers Dean R. Koontz (Headline 0-7472-0041-6, Sep 87, £10.95, 352pp, hc) Reprint (Putnam 1987) plausible, yet terrifying, horror novel about two very different experimental animals escaped from the research labs. Highly recommended. [First U.K. edition]
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Watchers Dean R. Koontz (SFBC #10749, Oct 87, $5.98, 406pp, hc) Reprint (Putnam 1987) sf/horror thriller.
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The Island Worlds Eric Kotani & John Maddox Roberts (Baen 0-671-65648-1, Jun 87 [May 87], $2.95, 279pp, pb) [Act of God] Sf novel of Earth vs. the asteroid belt in a war of independence.
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An Alien Light Nancy Kress (Arbor House 0-87795-940-4, Jan 88 [Dec 87], $18.95, 370pp, hc) Sf novel, an intense investigation of the nature of humanity. Highly recommended. (FCM)
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Empery Michael P. Kube-McDowell (Berkley 0-425-09887-7, Jun 87 [May 87], $3.50, 325pp, pb) [Trigon Disunity] Sf novel, conclusion of the Trigon Disunity trilogy.
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Isaac Asimovs Robot City, Book 1: Odyssey Michael P. Kube-McDowell (Ace 0-441-73122-8, Jul 87 [Jun 87], $2.95, 211pp, pb) [Robot City] Sf novel, first in a shared-world series based on Asimovs Laws of Robotics (and Humanics).
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The Hunt James Howard Kunstler (Tor 0-812-52093-9, Jan 88 [Dec 87], $3.50, 217pp, pb) Horror novel. Bigfoot hunts the hunters.
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Star Griffin Michael Kurland (Doubleday 0-385-19395-5, Mar 87 [Feb 87], $12.95, 180pp, hc) Sf/fantasy novel of decadence and futuristic wizardry.
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The Bishops Heir Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34761-7, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.95, 363pp, pb) [Deryni: King Kelson] Reissue (Del Rey 1984) fantasy novel in the Deryni series, The Histories of King Kelson Vol. 1; 4th printing.
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Camber of Culdi Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34767-6, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.95, 314pp, pb) [Deryni: Camber] Reissue (Del Rey 1976) fantasy novel in the Deryni series, Vol. 1 of The Legends of Camber of Culdi; 16th printing.
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Camber the Heretic Katherine Kurtz (Century 0-7126-1585-7, Mar 87 [Aug 87], £11.95, 510pp, hc) [Deryni: Camber] Reprint (Del Rey 1981) fantasy novel. Volume 3 in The Legends of Camber of Culdi.
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Deryni Checkmate Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34764-1, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.95, 302pp, pb) [Deryni] Reissue (Del Rey 1972) fantasy novel, second in the Deryni series; 16th printing.
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Deryni Rising Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34763-3, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.95, 271pp, pb) [Deryni] Reissue (Del Rey 1970) fantasy novel, first in the Deryni series; 15th printing.
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High Deryni Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34766-8, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.95, 369pp, pb) [Deryni] Reissue (Del Rey 1973) fantasy novel, third in the Deryni series; 15th printing.
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The Kings Justice Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34762-5, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.95, 322pp, pb) [Deryni: King Kelson] Reissue (Del Rey 1985) fantasy novel in the Deryni series, Vol. 2 of The Histories of King Kelson; 3rd printing.
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The Quest for Saint Camber Katherine Kurtz (SFBC #106294, Mar 87, $5.98, 401pp, hc) [Deryni: King Kelson] Reprint (Del Rey 1986) fantasy novel in the Deryni series.
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The Quest for Saint Camber Katherine Kurtz (Arrow 0-09-950360-3, May 87, £3.50, 435pp, tp) [Deryni: King Kelson] Reprint (Del Rey 1986) fantasy novel. Volume 3 in the Histories of King Kelson. [First U.K. edition]
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The Quest for Saint Camber Katherine Kurtz (Century 0-7126-1616-0, Aug 87, £11.95, 435pp, hc) [Deryni: King Kelson] Reprint (Del Rey 1986) fantasy novel. Volume 3 in the History of King Kelson series.
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The Quest for Saint Camber Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-30099-8, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.95, 449pp, pb) [Deryni: King Kelson] Reprint (Del Rey 1986) fantasy novel in the Deryni series, Vol. 3 of The Histories of King Kelson.
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Saint Camber Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34768-4, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.95, 449pp, pb) [Deryni: Camber] Reissue (Del Rey 1978) fantasy novel in the Deryni series, The Legends of Camber of Culdi Vol. 2; 10th printing.
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Swordspoint Ellen Kushner (Unwin Hyman 0-04-823352-8, Feb 87 [Aug 87], £9.95, 269pp, hc) [Swordspoint] Fantasy novel. A first novel.
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Swordspoint Ellen Kushner (Unwin 0-04-823373-0, Sep 87, £3.95, 269pp, tp) [Swordspoint] Reprint (Unwin Hyman 1987) fantasy novel.
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Swordspoint Ellen Kushner (Arbor House 0-87795-923-4, Nov 87 [Oct 87], $15.95, 269pp, hc) [Swordspoint] Fantasy novel set in an imaginary, elegant, decadent civilization. An outstanding first novel. Recommended. (FCM) First U.S. edition (Unwin Hyman 1987).
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Prince Raynor Henry Kuttner (Gryphon 0-936071-06-0, Jul 87, $5.95, 79pp, tp) [Prince Raynor] Small booklet containing 2 Kuttner fantasies from 1939 pulps, plus an introduction by L. Sprague de Camp. Limited to 500 copies.
- 6 · Henry Kuttner: An Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in
- 9 · Cursed Be the City · nv Strange Stories Apr 39
- 41 · The Citadel of Darkness · nv Strange Stories Aug 39
- 78 · Afterword · Virgil Utter · aw
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The Haunted Mesa Louis LAmour (Bantam 0-553-05182-2, Jul 87 [Jun 87], $18.95, 357pp, hc) Western novel with an sf element a gate between dimensions.
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The Haunted Mesa Louis LAmour (Bantam UK 0-593-01385-9, Nov 87, £10.95, 357pp, hc) Reprint (Bantam 1987) western with sf elements. [First U.K. edition]
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Many Waters Madeleine LEngle (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.
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Arrows Fall Mercedes R. Lackey (DAW 0-88677-255-9, Jan 88 [Dec 87], $3.50, 319pp, pb) [Valdemar: Heralds] Fantasy novel, third in the Arrows of the Queen trilogy.
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Arrows Flight Mercedes R. Lackey (DAW 0-88677-222-2, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.50, 318pp, pb) [Valdemar: Heralds] Fantasy novel, second in the Heralds of Valdemar trilogy. Despite some signs of middle book syndrome, this is better written than its predecessor. Recommended. (TM)
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Arrows of the Queen Mercedes R. Lackey (DAW 0-88677-189-7, Mar 87 [Feb 87], $2.95, 320pp, pb) [Valdemar: Heralds] Fantasy novel a girl with unusual talents finds a place where she is accepted and trained; a cross between McCaffreys Harper Hall books and Bradleys Free Amazons of Darkover. (CFC) A first novel and the first of an announced trilogy.
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My Heart Leaps Up, Chapters 3 & 4 R. A. Lafferty (Chris Drumm 0-936055-30-8, Apr 87, $2.75, 44pp, ph) Two more chapters of a serialized work which is itself the first part of In a Green Tree. Also available in a signed edition, -31-6, $6.00.
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My Heart Leaps Up, Chapters 5 & 6 R. A. Lafferty (Chris Drumm 0-936055-33-2, Dec 87, $2.95, 54pp, ph) Two more chapters of a serialized work which is itself the first part of In a Green Tree. Also available in a signed edition, -34-0, $6.00.
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Serpents Egg R. A. Lafferty (Morrigan 1-870338-15-4, Aug 87, £27.50, 177pp, hc) Fantasy novel mixing Laffertys quirky Catholic fundamentalism with clones, robots, and a strange unknown sentient race on a future Earth. 250 copy limited edition, includes an extra story.
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Serpents Egg R. A. Lafferty (Morrigan 1-870338-10-3, Aug 87, £10.95, 166pp, hc) 750 copy limited edition of the above.
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Dads Nuke Marc Laidlaw (Critics Choice 1-55547-147-1, Feb 87 [Jan 87], $3.50, 255pp, pb) Reprint (Fine 1985) satirical sf novel.
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The Space Eater David Langford (Baen 0-671-65619-8, Feb 87 [Jan 87], $2.95, 281pp, pb) Reprint (Arrow 1982) sf novel.
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Earthdoom! David Langford & John Grant (Grafton 0-586-06739-6, May 87, £2.95, 303pp, pb) Spoof disaster novel featuring villainous aliens, rabid lemmings and cloned Hitlers, among others.
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The Nightrunners Joe R. Lansdale (Dark Harvest 0-913165-17-4, Aug 87, $18.95, 241pp, hc) Horror novel, illustrated by Gregory Manchess, with an introduction by Dean R. Koontz. The blurb warns, Extreme violence, language and sexual situations may offend some readers. A deluxe limited edition was announced; not seen.
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Eileen Goudges Swept Away #2: Woodstock Magic Fran Lantz (Avon Flare 0-380-75129-1, Sep 86 [Feb 87], $2.50, 166pp, pb) Young-adult sf/romance novel in a series about time-traveling teens time travel to Woodstock! Issued in 1986; not seen until now.
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Eileen Goudges Swept Away #8: All Shook Up Fran Lantz (Avon Flare 0-380-75136-4, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $2.50, pb) Teenage timetravel romance, set in 1950 with the birth of rocknroll.
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Battlestar Galactica #14: Surrender the Galactica! Glen A. Larson & Robert Thurston (Ace 0-441-05104-9, Jan 88 [Dec 87], $2.95, 203pp, pb) Sf novelization based on the long-gone tv series.
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Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson (Firecrest 0-85997-926-1, Jul 87 [1987], £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]
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The Complete Robert Bloch: An Illustrated, Comprehensive Bibliography Randall D. Larson (Fandom Unlimited 0-9607178-1-1, Jul 86, $10.00, 126pp, tp) Non-fiction, bibliography. The copyright is 1986, but we were not sent a copy until 1987. [Robert Bloch]
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Robert Bloch Randall D. Larson (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. [Robert Bloch]
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Home Free Kathryn Lasky (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.
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Retief to the Rescue Keith Laumer (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.
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Retief: Diplomat at Arms Keith Laumer (Baen 0-671-65358-X, Oct 87 [Sep 87], $2.95, 214pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Timescape 1982) collection of sf stories featuring Retief.
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Retief: Envoy to New Worlds Keith Laumer (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).
- 1 · Protocol [The Yillian Way] · ss If Jan 62
- 25 · Sealed Orders [Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain] · nv If May 62
- 49 · Cultural Exchange · ss If Sep 62
- 79 · Aide Memoire · ss If Jul 62
- 109 · Policy [The Madman from Earth] · nv If Mar 62
- 149 · Palace Revolution [Gamblers World] · nv If Nov 61
- 185 · Rank Injustice · na New Destinies, Vol. 1, ed. Jim Baen, Baen, 1987
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Time Trap Keith Laumer (Baen 0-671-65340-7, Aug 87 [Jul 87], $2.95, 156pp, pb) [Time Trap] Reprint (Putnam 1970) sf time travel novel.
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The Ultimax Man Keith Laumer (Baen 0-671-65652-X, Jun 87 [May 87], $2.95, 249pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1978) sf adventure novel.
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Earthblood Keith Laumer & Rosel George Brown (Baen 0-671-65348-2, Aug 87 [Jul 87], $2.95, 311pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1966) sf novel.
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In the Hall of the Dragon King Stephen R. Lawhead (Lion 0-85648-859-3, Jan 87, £2.95, 351pp, pb) [Dragon King] Reissue (Crossway 1982) fantasy novel. Volume 1 in the Dragonking Saga.
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The Sword and the Flame Stephen R. Lawhead (Lion 0-85648-875-5, Jan 87 [May 87], £2.95, 313pp, pb) [Dragon King] Reissue (Crossway 1984) fantasy novel. Volume 3 in the Dragonking Saga.
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Taliesin Stephen R. Lawhead (Crossway Books 0-89107-407-4, Aug 87 [Oct 87], $10.95, 452pp, tp) [Pendragon Cycle] Fantasy novel, first in the Pendragon Cycle.
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The Warlords of Nin Stephen R. Lawhead (Lion 0-85648-874-7, Jan 87, £2.95, 367pp, pb) [Dragon King] Reissue (Crossway 1983) fantasy novel. Volume 2 in the Dragonking Saga series.
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Moonwind Louise Lawrence (Harper & Row/Starwanderer 0-694-05617-0, Sep 87, $2.95, 180pp, pb) Reprint (Harper & Row 1986) young-adult sf novel where an Earth boy falls in love with an astral spirit.
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Moonwind Louise Lawrence (Lions 0-00-672750-6, Nov 87, £1.95, 154pp, pb) Reprint (Bodley Head 1986) juvenile sf novel.
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Star Lord Louise Lawrence (The Bodley Head 0-370-31153-1, Oct 87 [Dec 87], £4.50, 154pp, tp) Reprint (Harper & Row 1978) juvenile sf novel. This edition is substantially revised.
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Ghost Train Stephen Laws (Sphere 0-7221-5386-4, Mar 87, £2.95, 343pp, pb) Reprint (Souvenir 1985) horror novel.
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Spectre Stephen Laws (Tor 0-812-52102-1, Jul 87 [Jun 87], $3.95, 279pp, pb) Reprint (Souvenir Press 1986) horror novel.
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The Wyrm Stephen Laws (Souvenir Press 0-285-62810-0, Oct 87, £9.95, 301pp, hc) Horror novel.
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The Beast House Richard Laymon (Paperjacks 0-7701-0684-6, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.95, 294pp, pb) [Beast House Chronicles] Horror novel. First U.S. edition (NEL 1986).
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Beware! Richard Laymon (Paperjacks 0-7701-0703-6, Oct 87 [Sep 87], $3.95, 268pp, pb) Horror novel of an invisible killer. First American edition (NEL 1985).
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Flesh Richard Laymon (W.H. Allen 0-491-03487-3, Oct 87 [Nov 87], £11.95, 333pp, hc) Horror novel.
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Tread Softly Richard Laymon (Tor 0-812-52108-0, Feb 87 [Jan 87], $3.95, 311pp, pb) Horror novel of evil in the woods. First American edition (Sphere 1986). [This is an original per W.H. Allen, see under Richard Kelly]
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In a Glass Darkly Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Alan Sutton 0-86299-379-2, Sep 87, £3.50, 192pp, tp) [Martin Hesselius] Reprint (Richard Bently 1872) ghost/horror collection. [Not seen]
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The Beginning Place Ursula K. Le Guin (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26282-3, Aug 87 [Jul 87], $2.95, 183pp, pb) Reissue (Harper & Row 1980) young-adult fantasy novel; 4th printing.
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Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Ursula K. Le Guin (Capra Press 0-88496-270-9, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $15.95, 196pp, hc) Collection of stories and poetry about animals (and plants and minerals) sf, fantasy, and associational. The title story is a fine original. (FCM) PW described the book and Le Guin as a mixture of prodigious talent and stubborn polemic, which has alternately exhilarated and exasperated sf readers since the 60s a perfect summing-up (CNB).
- 9 · Introduction · in
- 14 · Come Into Animal Presence · Denise Levertov · pm, 1961
- 17 · Buffalo Gals, Wont You Come Out Tonight · nv *
- 55 · Three Rock Poems · si
- 56 · The Basalt · pm Open Places Spr 82
- 56 · Flints · pm, 1986
- 57 · Mount St. Helens/Omphalos · pm Wild Angels, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1975
- 61 · The Wifes Story and Mazes · si
- 61 · Mazes · ss Epoch, ed. Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg, Berkley, 1975
- 67 · The Wifes Story · ss The Compass Rose, Harper & Row, 1982
- 75 · Five Vegetable Poems · si
- 76 · Torrey Pines Reserve · pm Lord John Press: Northridge, CA, 1980
- 77 · Lewis and Clark and After · pm The Seattle Review Sum 87
- 77 · West Texas · pm, 1980
- 78 · Xmas Over · pm Clinton Street Quarterly, 1984
- 78 · The Crown of Laurel · pm, 1987
- 83 · The Direction of the Road and Vaster than Empires · si
- 84 · The Direction of the Road · ss Orbit 12, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnams, 1973
- 92 · Vaster Than Empires and More Slow · nv New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971
- 131 · Seven Bird and Beast Poems · si
- 132 · What is Going on in The Oaks Around the Barn · pm, 1986
- 133 · For Ted · pm Wild Angels, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1975
- 132 · Found Poem · pm, 1986
- 132 · Totem · pm Hard Words & Other Poems, Harper & Row, 1981
- 135 · Winter Downs · pm Hard Words & Other Poems, Harper & Row, 1981
- 135 · The Man Eater · pm, 1986
- 136 · Sleeping Out · pm, 1985
- 139 · The White Donkey and Horse Camp · si
- 140 · The White Donkey · vi TriQuarterly #49 80
- 143 · Horse Camp · ss New Yorker Aug 25 86
- 151 · Four Cat Poems · si
- 152 · Tabby Lorenzo · pm, 1984
- 152 · Black Leonard in Negative Space · pm, 1978
- 153 · A Conversation with a Silence · pm, 1986
- 154 · For Leonard, Darko, and Burton Watson · pm, 1982
- 157 · Schrödingers Cat and The Author of the Acacia Seeds · si
- 158 · Schrödingers Cat · ss Universe 5, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974
- 167 · The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics · ss Fellowship of the Stars, ed. Terry Carr, Simon & Schuster, 1974
- 179 · Mays Lion · ss The Little Magazine v14 #1&2 83
- 191 · Eighth Elegy [from The Duino Elegies] · Rainer Maria Rilke; trans. by Ursula K. Le Guin · pm
- 194 · She Unnames Them · vi New Yorker Jan 21 85
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The Compass Rose Ursula K. Le Guin (Bantam Spectra 0-553-23512-5, Nov 87 [Oct 87], $3.50, 271pp, pb) Reissue (Harper & Row 1982) collection of 20 stories. 4th printing.
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Orsinian Tales Ursula K. Le Guin (Harper & Row/Perennial Library 0-06-091433-5, Sep 87, $6.95, 179pp, tp) Reprint (Harper & Row 1976) collection of 11 stories almost mainstream, but set in an imaginary country.
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The Winds Twelve Quarters Ursula K. Le Guin (Harper & Row/Perennial Library 0-06-091434-3, Sep 87, $6.95, 303pp, tp) Reprint (Harper & Row 1975) collection of 17 stories.
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The Origins of Dracula: The Background to Bram Stokers Gothic Masterpiece ed. Clive Leatherdale (Kimber 0-7183-0657-0, Oct 87 [Dec 87], £12.50, 239pp, hc) Collection of essays about Dracula. [Bram Stoker]
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The Unicorn Quest John Lee (Orbit 0-7088-8216-1, Mar 87, £2.95, 381pp, pb) [Unicorn Saga] Reprint (Tor 1986) fantasy novel. First of a trilogy. [First U.K. edition]
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