The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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The Spider #8 Grant Stockbridge (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0040-8, Dec 93 [Nov 93], $5.95, 316pp, pb) [Richard Wentworth (The Spider)] Collection of two Spider pulp adventure novellas originally published in The Spider Magazine in 1941 and 1938.
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Beloved Antoinette Stockenberg (Dell 0-440-21330-4, Oct 93 [Sep 93], $4.99, 394pp, pb) Ghost romance about a graphic designer who inherits a Nantucket cottage haunted by the century-old ghost of a Quaker woman.
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Dracula Bram Stoker (Penguin 0-14-043406-2, Oct 93 [Dec 93], $9.95, 520pp, tp, cover by Albert Penot) [Dracula] Reprint (Constable 1897) classic vampire novel, with a new introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle. Stokers correspondence with Walt Whitman is included, as is an account by Stokers mother Charlotte of a cholera epidemic she experienced.
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Zenith Dirk Strasser (Pan Australia 0-330-27393-0, Jul 93 [Aug 93], A$12.95, 394pp, tp, cover by Mike Worrall) Fantasy novel of twin brothers on a quest to reach the summit of the Great Mountain and learn the secret of the powers they possess. A first novel. This is an Australian edition. Available from Pan Macmillan Australia, PO Box 124, Chippendale NSW 2008 Australia.
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Addams Family Values Todd Strasser (Pocket 0-671-88036-5, Dec 93, $4.99, 212pp, pb) Novelization based on the comic horror/fantasy film.
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The Throat Peter Straub (Borderlands Press, Mar 93, $100.00, 689pp, hc) [Blue Rose; Tim Underhill; Tom Pasmore] Associational thriller, a sequel to both Koko and Mystery. This is a signed slipcased 500-copy limited edition, effectively simultaneous with the trade edition from Dutton.
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The Throat Peter Straub (Penguin/Dutton 0-525-93503-7, Apr 93 [Mar 93], $24.00, 689pp, hc, cover by Rob Wood) [Blue Rose; Tim Underhill; Tom Pasmore] Associational thriller; a sequel to both Koko and Mystery.
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The Throat Peter Straub (BOMC, Apr 93, $19.95, 689pp, hc, cover by Rob Wood) [Blue Rose; Tim Underhill; Tom Pasmore] Reprint (Dutton 1993) associational thriller; a sequel to both Koko and Mystery. Similar to the Dutton edition except it lacks an ISBN and price and has a BOMC mark on the back.
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The Throat Peter Straub (BOMC/QPBC, Dec 93, $12.95, 689pp, tp, cover by Rob Wood) [Blue Rose; Tim Underhill; Tom Pasmore] Reprint (Dutton 1993) associational thriller; a sequel to both Koko and Mystery. Similar to the Dutton edition except it lacks an ISBN and has the jacket printed as the soft cover.
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The Forbidden Zone Whitley Strieber (Dutton 0-525-93683-1, Jul 93 [Jun 93], $21.00, 309pp, hc) Horror novel of a creature that lies dormant under a hill at the outskirts of a small town until someone wakes it up.
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The Forbidden Zone Whitley Strieber (SFBC #01069, Sep 93 [Aug 93], $9.98, 309pp, hc) Reprint (Dutton 1993) horror novel of a creature that lies dormant under a hill at the outskirts of a small town until someone wakes it up. Similar to the Dutton edition except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
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Unholy Fire Whitley Strieber (Penguin/Signet 0-451-17496-8, Feb 93 [Jan 93], $5.99, 414pp, pb) Reprint (Dutton 1992) horror novel of a priest suspected of the murder of a young woman in his church who is forced to confront the demon responsible.
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Argyll: A Memoir Theodore Sturgeon (The Sturgeon Project 0-934558-16-7, Jul 93, $10.00, 79pp, ph) Collection of Sturgeon material, including an autobiographical essay about his relationship with his stepfather, a letter to his mother and stepfather, an introduction by Paul Williams, and an afterword by Samuel R. Delany. All proceeds after cost go toward the projected publication costs for Sturgeons collected stories. Available from Paul Williams, P. O. Box 232517, Encinitas, CA 92023. Please include $2.00 for postage.
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Science Fiction for Young Readers ed. C. W. Sullivan, III (Greenwood Press 0-313-27289-1, Mar 93 [May 93], $49.95, 214pp, hc) Non-fiction, criticism; anthology of 16 essays about sf for young adults, with introductory material by the editor. Order from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Rd. West, Box 5007, Westport CT 06881. Credit card orders (800) 225-5800.
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Black Ships Before Troy Rosemary Sutcliff (Delacorte 0-385-31069-2, Oct 93 [Dec 93], $19.95, 128pp, hc, cover by Alan Lee) Novella retelling the story of the early days of the siege of Troy. With full-color illustrations by Alan Lee throughout. First American edition (Frances Lincoln 1993).
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The Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-41930-2, Sep 93, $4.95, 292pp, tp, cover by Charles Mikolaycak) [History of Britain] Reprint (Oxford 1954) associational young-adult historical novel in Sutcliffs History of Britain series, only part of which is fantasy.
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The Silver Branch Rosemary Sutcliff (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-46648-3, Sep 93, $4.95, 232pp, tp, cover by Charles Mikolaycak) [History of Britain] Reprint (Oxford 1957) associational young-adult historical novel in Sutcliffs History of Britain series, only part of which is fantasy.
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Emperors of the Twilight S. Andrew Swann (DAW 0-88677-589-2, Jan 94 [Dec 93], $4.50, 283pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [Moreau] Sf thriller about a bioengineered superagent whos the target of an assassination squad.
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Forests of the Night S. Andrew Swann (DAW 0-88677-565-5, Jul 93 [Jun 93], $3.99, 284pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [Moreau] Sf/PI novel about a sentient tiger investigator who accepts a human murder case. First book in a new series.
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The Iron Dragons Daughter Michael Swanwick (Morrow AvoNova 0-688-13174-3, Jan 94 [Dec 93], $23.00, 424pp, hc, cover by Dorian Vallejo) [Iron Dragons Daughter] Fantasy novel. A young slave girl agrees to help a junked metal dragon fly again in exchange for a chance to escape her fate of backbreaking toil and early death. Recommended (SW). First American edition (Millennium 1993).
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Mary Renault: A Biography David Sweetman (Harcourt Brace 0-15-193110-0, Jun 93, $24.95, 322pp, hc) Non-fiction, a biography of the author of The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea. First American edition (Chatto & Windus 1993). [Mary Renault]
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Fallout Robert Swindells (Beech Tree 0-688-11778-3, Feb 93 [Jan 93], $3.95, 151pp, tp) Reprint (Oxford UK 1984 as Brother in the Land) young-adult sf novel of children caught up in a nuclear disaster.
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Photographing Fairies Steve Szilagyi (Ballantine 0-345-38323-0, May 93 [Apr 93], $10.00, 321pp, tp, cover by Edward Robert Hughes) Reprint (Ballantine 1992) historical fantasy novel set in Victorian England.
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Telepaths Dont Need Safewords and Other Stories from the Erotic Edge of SF/Fantasy Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press 0-9633970-0-1, Dec 92 [Aug 93], $2.95, unpaginated, pb, cover by D. Cameron Calkins) Original collection of three S&M sf and fantasy stories.
- · Introduction · in
- · Telepaths Dont Need Safewords · ss *
- · Cat Scratch Fever · ss *
- · Hearts Desire · ss *
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Forged Bonds: Erotic Tales of High Fantasy ed. Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press 0-9633970-3-6, May 93, $4.95, 54pp, tp, cover by D. Cameron Calkins) Original anthology of three erotic high fantasy stories, with illustrations by D. Cameron Calkins. Order from Circlet Press, PO Box 15143, Boston MA 02215. Include 95¢ postage.
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SexMagick: Women Conjuring Erotic Fantasy ed. Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press 0-9633970-4-4, Aug 93, $5.95, 71pp, tp, cover by Judith Holman) Anthology of six erotic fantasy stories, five original, with a story by S.N. Lewitt revised from an earlier version.
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Arrows of the Sun Judith Tarr (Tor 0-312-85263-0, Sep 93 [Aug 93], $24.95, 510pp, hc, cover by Romas) [Avaryan] Fantasy novel, fourth book of the Avaryan Rising series.
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Arrows of the Sun Judith Tarr (SFBC #01893, Nov 93 [Oct 93], $11.98, 390pp, hc, cover by Romas) [Avaryan] Reprint (Tor 1993) fantasy novel, fourth book of the Avaryan Rising series. Similar to the Tor edition except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
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His Majestys Elephant Judith Tarr (Harcourt Brace 0-15-200737-7, Oct 93 [Sep 93], $16.95, 193pp, hc, cover by Bryan Leister) Young-adult historical fantasy novel about Charlemagnes half-witch daughter, who must use a magical elephant to save her father from a Byzantine spell.
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The Hound & the Falcon Judith Tarr (Tor/Orb 0-312-85303-3, Jun 93 [May 93], $14.95, 688pp, tp) [Hound and the Falcon] Omnibus of the three books in the Hound and the Falcon trilogy, The Isle of Glass (Bluejay 1985), The Golden Horn (Bluejay 1985), and The Hounds of God (Bluejay 1986).
- · The Isle of Glass · n. New York: Bluejay, 1985
- · The Golden Horn · n. New York: Bluejay, 1985
- · The Hounds of God · n. New York: Bluejay, 1986
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Lord of the Two Lands Judith Tarr (Tor 0-312-85362-9, Mar 93 [Feb 93], $19.95, 317pp, hc, cover by David Cherry) Fantasy novel set in 336 B.C. about Alexander the Greats incursion into Egypt.
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Lord of the Two Lands Judith Tarr (Tor 0-812-52078-5, Jan 94 [Dec 93], $4.99, 401pp, pb, cover by David Cherry) Reprint (Tor 1993) historical fantasy novel set in 336 B.C. about Alexander the Greats incursion into Egypt and his relationship with an Egyptian princess/priestess.
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Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood Maria Tatar (Princeton University Press 0-691-06943-3, Apr 92 [Apr 93], $24.95, 295pp, hc, cover by Ivan Bilibin) Non-fiction, criticism. An academic study of the conversion of fairy tales into childrens literature. This is a 1992 book not seen until now.
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Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood Maria Tatar (Princeton University Press 0-691-00088-3, Dec 93 [Nov 93], $14.95, 295pp, tp, cover by Ivan Bilibin) Reprint (Princeton 1992) non-fiction, criticism. An academic study of the conversion of fairy tales into childrens literature. These are the original hardcover sheets with a new paperback cover. Recommended (CNB). Order from Princeton University Press, 41 William St., Princeton NJ 08540.
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Madeleine Bernard Taylor (Leisure 0-8439-3404-2, Mar 93 [Feb 93], $4.50, 367pp, pb) Horror novel of identical twins, one of whose beauty hides an evil force. First American edition (UK 1987).
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Mothers Boys Bernard Taylor (St. Martins 0-312-95256-2, Oct 93, $4.99, 263pp, pb) Reprint (Grafton 1988) horror novel. A movie tie-in edition.
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The Unknown Jungle John Eugene Taylor (Dorrance Publishing 0-8059-3345-X, Apr 93, $6.95, 73pp, tp, cover by Gary Postrech) Horror novella about an evil force that threatens a city. Order from Dorrance Publishing Co., 643 Smithfield St., Pittsburgh PA 15222.
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The Vampire Legacy: Blood Secrets Karen E. Taylor (Zebra 0-8217-4437-2, Jan 94 [Dec 93], $4.50, 302pp, pb) [Vampire Legacy] Vampire horror novel, first book of a new series about a vampire fashion designer in Manhattan who is trying to stop a male vampire whose kills may make the authorities suspicious of her. A first novel.
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Close to the Bone Lucy Taylor (Silver Salamander Press, Aug 93, $10.00, 179pp, tp, cover by Mark Brill) Collection of ten erotic horror stories, seven original, with an introduction by Edward Bryant. The trade paperback is limited to 500 signed copies. A 300-copy numbered hardcover edition ($35.00) is also available and a 50-copy leatherbound edition ($65.00) was announced but not seen. Order from Silver Salamander Press, 22926 NE Old Woodinville-Duvall Rd., Woodinville WA 98072. (206) 788-9128.
- xi · Obsessive Dread of Flying · Edward Bryant · in *
- 1 · Close to the Bone · nv Pulphouse #16 93
- 29 · Animal Souls · ss *
- 45 · The Best in the Business · ss *
- 59 · Virgin · nv *
- 83 · Cages · ss Aberations #8 93
- 107 · Knockouts · ss *
- 127 · Fear of Phobias · ss *
- 143 · Slips · ss Unnatural Acts, 1993
- 159 · The English Teacher · ss *
- 171 · The Family Underwater · ss *
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The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court Peter Taylor (Knopf 0-679-41990-X, Feb 93, $22.00, 241pp, hc, cover by Olivia Parker) Collection of 11 stories and three one-act plays, most of them ghost stories.
- 3 · The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court · na
- 89 · Demons · nv
- 117 · The Witch of Owl Mountain Springs: An Account of Her Remarkable Powers · nv
- 159 · At the Art Theater · ss
- 167 · Cousin Aubrey · nv The Kenyon Review Win 90
- 189 · The Real Ghost · ss
- 195 · In the Waiting Room · ss
- 213 · Nerves · ss
- 223 · The Decline and Fall of the Episcopal Church (in the Year of Our Lord 1952) · nv
- 249 · The End of Play · ss
- 267 · An Overwhelming Question · ss
- 287 · Familiar Haunts [revised from Two Images, Presences: Seven Dramatic Pieces, Houghton Mifflin 1973] · pl
- 299 · A Redheaded Man · pl
- 311 · Missing Person · pl Presences, Houghton Mifflin, 1973
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Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented Tomorrow Peggy Teeters (Walker 0-8027-8189-6, Jan 93 [Feb 93], $13.95, 120pp, hc, cover by Peter Clarke) Young-adult biography of Jules Verne.
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Making Love Melanie Tem & Nancy Holder (Dell Abyss 0-440-21469-6, Aug 93 [Jul 93], $4.99, 368pp, pb) Horror novel of a repressed woman who dreams her ideal lover into existence and is ecstatic until she realizes that she no longer has control over him. Holders first novel. Recommended (SW).
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After Long Silence Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26944-5, Mar 93 [Feb 93], $5.99, 337pp, pb, cover by Stephen Youll) Reissue (Bantam Spectra 1987) sf novel; third printing.
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Beauty Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29527-6, Mar 93 [Feb 93], $5.99, 463pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday Foundation 1991) time-travel/fairytale/ecological sf novel, winner of the Locus Award. Despite the copyright page, this is at least the second printing.
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The Gate to Womens Country Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28064-3, Mar 93 [Feb 93], $5.99, 315pp, pb, cover by Wilson McLean) Reissue (Doubleday Foundation 1988) sf novel; fourth printing.
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Grass Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28565-3, Mar 93 [Feb 93], $5.99, 449pp, pb, cover by Oscar Chicheni) [Grass] Reissue (Doubleday Foundation 1989) sf novel; sixth printing.
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A Plague of Angels Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra 0-553-09513-7, Oct 93 [Sep 93], $21.95, 423pp, hc, cover by Mark Harrison) Sf/fantasy novel set on a far-future Earth where the remnants of mankind coexist with magical creatures out of myth.
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A Plague of Angels Sheri S. Tepper (SFBC #02036, Dec 93 [Nov 93], $10.98, 423pp, hc, cover by Mark Harrison) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) sf novel set on a far-future Earth where the remnants of mankind coexist with magical creatures out of myth. Similar to the Bantam Spectra edition except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
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A Plague of Angels Sheri S. Tepper (Easton Press, Dec 93, no price, 423pp, hc, cover by Mark Harrison) Sf novel set on a far-future Earth where the remnants of mankind coexist with magical creatures out of myth. With an introduction by James Gunn and artwork by Laura Brodian Kelly Freas. This is being published simultaneously with the Bantam Spectra edition listed three months ago. This special leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the Signed First Editions of Science Fiction series and is available by subscription only.
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Sideshow Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56098-0, Mar 93 [Feb 93], $5.99, 482pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Grass] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1992) sf novel, third book of the series begun in Grass. A meditation on religion and violence.
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Torg: Interview with Evil John Terra (West End Games 0-87431-351-1, Aug 93 [Oct 93], $6.95, 280pp, tp, cover by Paul Jaquays) [Torg] Fantasy novelization based on the Torg: The Possibility Wars game. Available from West End Games, RR 3, Box 2345, Honesdale PA 18431.
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Stephen King: Man and Artist Carroll F. Terrell (Northern Lights 0-9621570-9-0, 1991 [Oct 93], $8.95, 159pp, tp) Non-fiction, criticism. An academic analysis of Kings work. This book has a 1991 copyright, but was not seen until now. Revised from the 1990 limited edition from the same publisher. Order from Northern Lights, 493 College Ave., Orono ME 04473. [Stephen King]
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Correspondence Sue Thomas (Overlook Press 0-87951-480-9, Mar 93 [Apr 93], $19.95, 153pp, hc) Literary sf novel of virtual reality and human mechanization. First American edition (Womens Press 1992).
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Virtual Girl Amy Thomson (Ace 0-441-86500-3, Aug 93 [Jul 93], $4.99, 248pp, pb, cover by Peter Gudynas & Diane Margolin) Sf novel of a robot companion who becomes a sentient being when left on her own. A first novel.
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House of the Toad Richard L. Tierney (Fedogan & Bremer 1-878252-03-8, Mar 93, $24.00, 247pp, hc, cover by Harry O. Morris) Lovecraftian dark fantasy novel of archaeologists and evil cults in a lost city in Mexico. A signed 100-copy limited edition (-09-7, $45.00) was announced but not seen. Order from Fedogan & Bremer, 700 Washington Ave. SE, Suite 50, Minneapolis MN 55414.
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The Curse John Tigges (Leisure 0-8439-3389-5, Feb 93 [Jan 93], $4.50, 396pp, pb) Horror novel. A woman haunted by nightmares takes her children to the country, where they awaken an evil spirit.
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Darkness on the Ice Lois Tilton (Zebra/Pinnacle 1-55817-687-X, Feb 93 [Jan 93], $4.50, 286pp, pb) Vampire horror novel set on Greenland during WWII, where a Nazi vampire is consuming every human on the island.
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The Last Action Hero Robert Tine (Berkley 0-425-14015-6, Jun 93 [May 93], $4.99, 187pp, pb) Movie novelization about a fictional superhero who enters the real world to defeat a supervillain.
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Brightness Falls from the Air James Tiptree, Jr. (Tor/Orb 0-312-85407-2, Sep 93 [Aug 93], $9.95, 382pp, tp, cover by Joe Bergeron) Reprint (Tor 1985) sf novel.
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Greenfire Louise Titchener (TSR 1-56076-685-9, Dec 93 [Nov 93], $4.50, 313pp, tp, cover by Robh Ruppel) Fantasy novel of a young water goddess who must steal back, from a ruthless king, the stone that gives her power.
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Morgoths Ring J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-68092-1, Dec 93, $24.95, 471pp, hc) [Middle-Earth] Collection of notes on, and variant texts for, The Lord of the Rings. Volume ten of the History of Middle-Earth and volume one of The Later Silmarillion. First American edition (HarperCollins UK 1993).
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Tesseracts4 ed. Lorna Toolis & Michael Skeet (Beach Holme/Porcepic 0-88878-322-1, 1992 [Jan 93], C$8.95, 426pp, tp, cover by Jeff Kuipers) Mostly original anthology of 21 Canadian sf stories and eight poems. Fourth in a series. This has a 1992 copyright date, but was not seen until 1993. Available from Beach Holme Publishers, 4252 Commerce Circle, Victoria BC V87 4M2, Canada.
- 1 · Foreword · Lorna Toolis · fw
- 3 · Winter Was Hard [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 10, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1991
- 24 · Gryphons · M. W. Field · pm *
- 26 · The Toy Mill [Toy Mill] · David Nickle & Karl Schroeder · nv *
- 53 · Pointing North · Tom Henighan · pm *
- 54 · The Great Comedians · Tom Henighan · pm *
- 56 · Also Starring · Cliff Burns · vi *
- 59 · Extras · Robert Charles Wilson · nv F&SF Dec 87
- 87 · The Others · Dave Duncan · pm *
- 89 · Equinox · Yves Meynard · ss *
- 108 · Ants · Allan Weiss · ss *
- 124 · Out of Sync · Ven Begamudré · ss *
- 142 · At the Bus Stop, One Autumn Morning · M. W. Field · pm *
- 143 · We Cant Go On Meeting Like This · Phyllis Gotlieb · ss *
- 147 · Baruch, the Man-Faced Dog · Mick Burrs · ss *; first broadcast on Ambience, CBC Saskatchewan, March 28, 1992.
- 159 · Couples · Eileen Kernaghan · nv *
- 180 · Clark Kent in Old Age · Tom Henighan · pm *
- 182 · The Reckoning of Gifts · James Alan Gardner · nv *
- 209 · Ruby · Charles Shelby Goerlitz · ss Zyzzyva Win 90
- 219 · Much Slower than Light · Carolyn Clink · pm On Spec Win 91
- 220 · Judy · Ursula Pflug · ss This Magazine Oct 83
- 227 · Chambered Nautilus · Élisabeth Vonarburg; trans. by Jane Brierley · nv *; Le jeu des coquilles de Nautilus, Aurores Boréales 2, ed. Daniel Sernine, Montréal: Le Préambule 1985.
- 263 · Eternity, Baby · Andrew Weiner · nv IASFM Nov 90
- 290 · The Best of Both Worlds · Lesley Choyce · ss *
- 309 · How They Made the Golem · John Robert Colombo · pm Abracadabra, 1967
- 312 · Falconer · John Park · nv *
- 345 · Time-Shrink · Tim Wynne-Jones · ss *
- 358 · Father Time · Derryl Murphy · ss *
- 368 · Remember, the Dead Say · Jean-Louis Trudel · ss *
- 388 · Death of a Dream · Candas Jane Dorsey · nv *
- 415 · Afterword: No More Manifestos · Michael Skeet · aw *
- 419 · The Contributors · Misc. · bg
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