The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998


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Sideshow Sheri S. Tepper (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648004-7, Mar ’94, £4.99, 482pp, pb, cover by Mick Posen) [Grass] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1992) sf novel.


Voices in the Wind Danielle Thomas (Pan 0-330-32905-7, Jun ’94, £4.99, 383pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan 1993) dark romance with occult elements.


Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) Geoff Tibballs (Boxtree 0-7522-0915-9, Mar ’94, £9.99, 95pp, tp) Illustrated study of the 1960s TV fantasy comedy series, including interviews with its stars, and a summary of all episodes.


The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope: Episode IV Carol Titelman & George Lucas (Titan 1-85286-583-0, Oct ’94 [Nov ’94], £17.99, 175pp, tp, cover by Ralph McQuarrie) [Star Wars] Reprint (Ballantine 1979 as The Art of Star Wars) of the complete movie script of Star Wars illustrated with work from the earliest rough drafts to finished paintings. [First U.K. edition]


Second Wave Michael Tod (Orion 1-85797-367-4, Nov ’94, £12.99, 244pp, hc, cover by Kevin Tweddell) [Woodstock Saga] Fantasy novel. Book Two of “The Woodstock Saga”; sequel to The Silver Tide; the Red and Grey Squirrels are threatened by the harsh religious beliefs of one of their own kind.


The Silver Tide Michael Tod (Orion 1-85797-563-4, Jan ’94 [Mar ’94], £9.99, 226pp, hc, cover by Michael Tweddell) [Woodstock Saga] Reprint (Cadno 1993) fantasy novel. Book One in “The Woodstock Saga”. Further copyrighted 1994, with the addition of new maps. Magical battle for survival between peaceful British Red squirrels and the silver tide of Grey Squirrels invading from America. [First U.K. edition]


The Silver Tide Michael Tod (Orion 1-85797-319-4, Nov ’94, £4.99, 226pp, pb, cover by John Barber) [Woodstock Saga] Reprint (Cadno 1993) fantasy novel. Magical battle for survival between peaceful British Red Squirrels and invading American Grey Squirrels. Book One in “The Woodstock Saga”.


The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien (HarperCollins UK 0-246-10243-5, 1994 [Nov ’94], £9.99, 1193pp, tp, cover by John Howe) [Middle-Earth] Reprint (Allen & Unwin 1968) fantasy omnibus.


Morgoth’s Ring J. R. R. Tolkien (HarperCollins UK 0-261-10300-8, Oct ’94, £9.99, 471pp, tp, cover by John Howe) [Middle-Earth] Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1993) annotated early texts and notes. Volume X in the “History of Middle-Earth” series. Edited by Christopher Tolkien.


Mr. Bliss J. R. R. Tolkien (HarperCollins UK 0-261-10253-2, Sep ’94 [Dec ’94], £9.99, 100pp, hc, cover by J. R. R. Tolkien) Reprint (Allen & Unwin 1982) juvenile fantasy: photo reproductions of Tolkien’s original illustrated manuscript pages, together with their typescript versions.


Poems from The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien (HarperCollins UK 0-261-10312-1, Oct ’94 [Nov ’94], £6.99, 96pp, hc, cover by Alan Lee) [Middle-Earth] Poetry collection, illustrated by Alan Lee.


The Return of the Shadow J. R. R. Tolkien (HarperCollins UK 0-261-10224-9, Oct ’94, £9.99, 497pp, tp, cover by John Howe) [Middle-Earth] Reprint (Unwin Hyman 1988) annotated early texts and notes. Volume VI in the “History of Middle-Earth” series. Edited by Christopher Tolkien.


The War of the Jewels J. R. R. Tolkien (HarperCollins UK 0-261-10314-8, Oct ’94 [Nov ’94], £25.00, 470pp, hc) [Middle-Earth] Collection of notes and variant texts tracing the later history of Tolkien’s work on The Silmarillion, edited by Christopher Tolkien. Volume XI in “The History of Middle-Earth”. Simultaneous with the US (Houghton Mifflin) edition.


Kiss of the Cobra Peter Tremayne (Severn House 0-7278-4672-8, Aug ’94 [Sep ’94], £14.99, 188pp, hc, cover by Tony Masero) Reprint (Sphere 1984) horror novel. This edition has a specially commissioned extra final chapter.


Worldwar: In the Balance Harry Turtledove (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-62490-6, Jul ’94, £16.99, 488pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton) [Worldwar] Reprint (Del Rey 1994) alternate World War II history SF novel. [First U.K. edition]


Worldwar: In the Balance Harry Turtledove (NEL 0-340-61839-6, Nov ’94, £5.99, 656pp, pb, cover by Bob Eggleton) [Worldwar] Reprint (Del Rey 1994) SF novel. Volume One in a four-part series set during an alternate World War II.


Tintin in the New World: A Romance Frederic Tuten (Minerva 0-7493-9610-5, Nov ’94, £5.99, 239pp, tp, cover by Roy Lichtenstein) Reprint (Morrow 1993)literary fantasy novel. The cartoon character, grown to adulthood, experiences real life, death, sex, and despair: a modern Candide. [First U.K. edition]


Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura Kathy Tyers (Bantam UK 0-593-03564-X, Jan ’94, £9.99, 311pp, hc, cover by Drew Struzan) [Star Wars] Sf novelization. Volume four in the series. Simultaneous with US (Bantam) edition.


Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura Kathy Tyers (Bantam UK 0-553-40758-9, Dec ’94 [Nov ’94], £4.99, 341pp, pb, cover by Drew Struzan) [Star Wars] Reprint (Bantam 1994) SF novelization. [First U.K. edition]


The Chatto Book of Ghosts ed. Jenny Uglow (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-6147-7, Oct ’94, £16.99, 479pp, hc, cover by Julian Abela-Hyzler) Anthology of ghost stories from across the continents, and the centuries, with verse, songs, anecdotes, stories and excerpts, ranging from Greek myth to Wilde, Card, Carter, Joyce, William Gibson, and Terry Pratchett.


The Watchers at the Shrine Jean Ure (Methuen 0-416-18824-9, Jun ’94 [Jul ’94], £9.99, 154pp, hc, cover by Daniel Faoro) [Plague 99] Young-adult SF novel. Final book in the trilogy begun with Plague 99 and Come Lucky April.


B.V. Boris Vallejo (Paper Tiger 1-85028-273-0, Aug ’94, £3.99, 43pp, hc, cover by Boris Vallejo) Miniature (100mm x 75mm) art book of 20 paintings, selected from Fantasy Art Techniques and The Boris Vallejo Portfolio.


The Boris Vallejo Portfolio Boris Vallejo (Paper Tiger 1-85028-205-6, Mar ’94, £12.95, 64pp, tp, cover by Boris Vallejo) Twenty-eight poster-size paintings, displaying Vallejo’s spectacularly powerful visual talent. Includes an informative Introduction by Nigel Suckling.


Throy Jack Vance (NEL 0-450-59425-4, Apr ’94, £5.99, 298pp, pb) [Gaean Reach: Cadwal] Reprint (Underwood-Miller 1992) SF novel. Book Three of “The Cadwal Chronicles”.


The Accursed Robert E. Vardeman (NEL 0-450-58840-8, Feb ’94, £7.99, 538pp, tp) Fantasy novel.


The Ophiuchi Hotline John Varley (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21734-7, Apr ’94, £4.99, 247pp, pb) [Eight Worlds] Reprint (Dial 1977) SF novel.


Steel Beach John Varley (HarperCollins UK 0-00-647726-7, Jan ’94, £5.99, 566pp, pb) [Eight Worlds] Reprint (Ace 1992) sf novel.


Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne (Puffin 0-14-036721-7, Aug ’94 [Sep ’94], £3.99, 279pp, tp, cover by Robin Koni) [Nemo] Reprint (Sampson Low 1872) sf novel. A Puffin Classic; abridged (Puffin 1986) by Robin Waterfield.


Across Realtime Vernor Vinge (Millennium 1-85798-147-2, Dec ’94 [Nov ’94], £5.99, 533pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Bobbles] Reprint (SFBC 1986) omnibus of The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime.


The Weird Colonial Boy Paul Voermans (Gollancz 0-575-05715-7, Mar ’94, £4.99, 302pp, pb, cover by Steve Read) Reprint (Gollancz 1993) sf novel set in a parallel world Australia in 1978.


The Wolf of Winter Paula Volsky (Bantam UK 0-553-40815-1, Jul ’94 [Jun ’94], £4.99, 445pp, pb, cover by George Bush) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]


Galápagos Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Flamingo 0-586-09045-2, Jul ’94, £5.99, 237pp, tp, cover by Andy Lovell) Reprint (Delacorte 1985) sf novel.


Welcome to the Monkey House/Palm Sunday/An Autobiographical Collage Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Vintage UK 0-09-938781-6, Jul ’94, £8.99, 642pp, tp, cover by Huntley & Muir) Omnibus. Note that the cover reverses the order of titles. Includes an early Vonnegut short story collection plus essays.


Saving the Dinosaurs - A Death Star Heads for Planet Earth Jane Waller (Piper 0-330-33098-5, Mar ’94 [Feb ’94], £3.50, 133pp, pb, cover by Adrian Chesterman) Time-travelling youth tries to save dinosaurs from the meteorite that will destroy them.


A Dance in Blood Velvet Freda Warrington (Macmillan UK 0-333-62818-7, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], £15.99, 471pp, hc) [Blood Wine] Horror novel. Sequel to A Taste of Blood Wine.


Sorrow’s Light Freda Warrington (Pan 0-330-33348-8, Nov ’94 [Oct ’94], £4.99, 257pp, pb, cover by David Bergen) Reprint (Pan 1993) horror novel.


The Coming of Vertumnus and Other Stories Ian Watson (Gollancz 0-575-05766-1, May ’94, £15.99, 288pp, hc) SF collection.


The Fallen Moon Ian Watson (Gollancz 0-575-05424-7, Sep ’94, £16.99, 546pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) [Book of Mana] Sf novel. The Second (and last) Book of “Mana”.


Lucky’s Harvest Ian Watson (Gollancz 0-575-05779-3, Sep ’94, £5.99, 537pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [Book of Mana] Reprint (Gollancz 1993) sf novel. The First Book of “Mana”.


Warhammer 40,000: Harlequin Ian Watson (Boxtree 0-7522-0965-5, Oct ’94, £15.99, 246pp, hc) [Warhammer 40,000: Inquisition War] SF novelization set in the Warhammer universe of the 41st Century. Second in the “Inquisition War” trilogy, after Inquisitor.


The Mennyms Sylvia Waugh (Red Fox 0-09-930167-9, Jul ’94, £2.99, 236pp, pb) [Mennyms] Reprint (Julia MacRae 1993) young-adult fantasy novel. Volume one in the “The Mennyms” series. Winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Award.


Mennyms in the Wilderness Sylvia Waugh (Julia MacRae 1-85681-209-X, Jul ’94 [Jun ’94], £9.99, 255pp, hc, cover by Patrick Benson) [Mennyms] Young-adult fantasy novel. Sequel to The Mennyms.


The Magic in the Pool of Making Beth Webb (Lion 0-7459-2234-1, 1992 [Sep ’94], £2.99, 192pp, pb, cover by Alan Fraser) Young-adult fantasy novel. Published in 1992, only now seen.


Merlin and the Last Trump Collin Webber (Gollancz 0-575-05718-1, Jul ’94, £4.99, 269pp, pb, cover by Ainslie MacLeod) [Merlin and the Last Trump] Reprint (Gollancz 1993) humorous fantasy novel. A semi-finalist in the BBC Radio 4 Bookshelf/Gollancz first fantasy competition.


Ribwash Collin Webber (Gollancz 0-575-05830-7, Nov ’94, £5.99, 309pp, pb, cover by Ainslie MacLeod) [Merlin and the Last Trump] Comic fantasy novel; sequel to Merlin and the Last Trump.


The Greater Arcana Ron Weighell (Haunted Library 0-906153-27-1, Jun ’94, £2.50, 32pp, ph) Chapbook of three occult stories, one revised, two original.


The Death Gate Cycle, Volume 5: The Hand of Chaos Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Bantam UK 0-553-40377-X, Feb ’94, £4.99, 468pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Death Gate Cycle] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) fantasy novel.


The Death Gate Cycle, Volume 7: The Seventh Gate Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Bantam UK 0-593-02395-1, Nov ’94, £14.99, 320pp, hc, cover by Stephen Youll) [Death Gate Cycle] Reprint (Bantam 1994) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]


Into the Labyrinth Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Bantam UK 0-593-02392-7, May ’94, £14.99, 440pp, hc, cover by Stephen Youll) [Death Gate Cycle] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) fantasy novel. Volume 6 in the “Death Gate Cycle.” This is a third US printing, with a UK jacket. This printing seems to be only for UK distribution. [First U.K. edition]


Into the Labyrinth Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Bantam UK 0-553-40378-8, Nov ’94, £4.99, 464pp, pb, cover by Stephen Youll) [Death Gate Cycle] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) fantasy novel. Volume six in the “Death Gate” Cycle.


Lords of the Sky Angus Wells (Millennium 1-85798-088-3, Jul ’94 [Aug ’94], £9.99, 583pp, tp, cover by Mick Posen) Fantasy novel. A hardcover edition (-085-9, £14.99) was announced but not seen.


The First Men in the Moon H. G. Wells (Everyman 0-460-87304-0, Oct ’93 [Jan ’94], £4.99, 201pp, tp, cover by Percy Wyndham Lewis) Reprint (George Newnes 1901) classic sf novel, with an introduction by Arthur C. Clarke.


The Christmas Ghost Robert Westall (Mammoth 0-7497-1769-6, Oct ’94, £2.99, 64pp, ph, cover by John Lawrence) Reprint (Methuen 1992) ghost story set on Tyneside in the 1930s; illustrated by John Lawrence.


Doctor Who: The Scripts: The Crusade David Whitaker (Titan 1-85286-564-4, Dec ’94 [Nov ’94], £4.99, 140pp, tp, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who] Script from a classic episode of Doctor Who edited by John McElroy, with a background article by Stephen James Walker.


Popes and Phantoms John Whitbourn (Gollancz 0-575-05763-7, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], £5.99, 287pp, pb, cover by Ashley Pearce) Reprint (Gollancz 1993) episodic fantasy novel set in an alternate Renaissance Italy, peopled by animated corpses and time-travelling Illuminati.


Asimov: The Unauthorized Life Michael White (Millennium 1-85798-120-0, May ’94, £17.99, 257pp, hc) Non-fiction; biography. [Isaac Asimov]


T.W. Tim White (Paper Tiger 1-85028-275-7, Aug ’94 [Sep ’94], £3.99, 43pp, hc, cover by Tim White) Miniature (100mm x 75mm) art book of 20 paintings from Chiaroscuro.


The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth 1-85326-836-4, 1994 [Nov ’94], £3.99, 177pp, hc, cover by Anthony Frederick Sandys) [Dorian Gray] Reprint (Ward, Lock 1891) horror novel. Thrift hardback edition.


The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde (Penguin Popular Classics 0-14-062033-8, Feb ’94 [Mar ’94], £1.00, 256pp, pb, cover by Vilhelm Hammershoi) [Dorian Gray] Reprint (Ward, Lock 1891) horror novel. Thrift paperback edition of the classic.


Caliban’s Hour Tad Williams (Legend 0-09-926361-0, Oct ’94, £12.99, 180pp, hc, cover by Bruce Pennington) Short fantasy novel of magic and menace derived from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, wherein Caliban confronts Miranda 20 years after she left the island, seeking revenge for the cruelties she inflicted.


Siege: To Green Angel Tower Part 1 Tad Williams (Legend 0-09-931441-X, Apr ’94, £5.99, 815pp, pb, cover by Michael Whelan) [Memory, Sorrow & Thorn] Reprint (DAW 1993) epic fantasy novel. The first half of To Green Angel Tower, Book 3 of “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn”. Includes a page-long explanation by John Jarrold on why the book had to be split for its paperback printing.


Storm: To Green Angel Tower Part II Tad Williams (Legend 0-09-938261-X, Jul ’94 [Jun ’94], £5.99, 815pp, pb, cover by Michael Whelan) [Memory, Sorrow & Thorn] Reprint (DAW 1993 as To Green Angel Tower) epic fantasy novel. The second half of To Green Angel Tower, Book 3 of “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn”.


Heart of Shadows Philip G. Williamson (Legend 0-09-931451-7, Jun ’94 [May ’94], £9.99, 312pp, tp, cover by Mick Van Houten) [Firstworld Chronicles] Fantasy novel. In “The Firstworld Chronicles”.


Moonblood Philip G. Williamson (Legend 0-09-931461-4, Jun ’94 [May ’94], £4.99, 286pp, pb, cover by Mick Van Houten) [Firstworld Chronicles] Reprint (Legend 1993) fantasy novel. In “The Firstworld Chronicles”.


Uncharted Territory Connie Willis (NEL 0-450-61748-3, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], £4.99, 218pp, pb, cover by Mick Van Houten) Sf collection containing the title novella (Bantam Spectra 1994) plus the novella “Fire Watch” and the prize-winning novelette, “Even the Queen.”


Sister Night F. Paul Wilson (NEL 0-450-59424-6, Feb ’94 [Jan ’94], £4.99, 314pp, pb) Reprint (Dark Harvest 1991 as Sibs) horror novel.


A Bridge of Years Robert Charles Wilson (NEL 0-450-60958-8, Jun ’94, £5.99, 333pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1991) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]


The Women’s Press Book of New Myth and Magic ed. Helen Windrath (The Women’s Press 0-7043-4347-9, Oct ’94, £7.99, 261pp, tp, cover by Phyllis Mahon) Reprint (The Women’s Press 1993) literary fantasy anthology.


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