The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998


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The Genesis Code John Case (Century 0-7126-7708-9, Aug ’97 [Oct ’97], £15.99, 435pp, hc) SF thriller of genetic engineering. A heretical Vatican conspiracy causes the murder of mothers and boy children round the world.


Similon: The Chronicles of Theromantia Kathryn Cave (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-65354-X, Nov ’96 [Jan ’97], £3.99, 234pp, pb, cover by Fred Preston) Fantasy novel.


Babylon 5: The Shadow Within Jeanne Cavelos (Boxtree 0-7522-2339-9, Apr ’97, £4.99, 259pp, pb, cover by Bob Parkin) [Babylon 5] Reprint (Dell 1997) SF novelisation. Book seven in the series based on the TV series by J. Michael Straczynski. [First U.K. edition]


1999 Philip Caveney (Headline 0-7472-1942-7, Jul ’97, £17.99, 313pp, hc, cover by Steve Crisp) Dark fantasy novel.


Bad to the Bone Philip Caveney (Headline 0-7472-5456-7, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], £5.99, 375pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) Reprint (Headline 1996) dark fantasy novel.


Scissorman Mark Chadbourn (Gollancz 0-575-06480-3, Nov ’97, £16.99, 352pp, hc, cover by David Farren) Dark fantasy novel. Jon Summers opens the secret door to the Scissorman, a mythical killer whose winter soul demands a bloody season.


Cloud’s Rider C. J. Cherryh (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-68911-0, Feb ’97, £16.99, 373pp, hc) [Rider at the Gate] Reprint (Warner Aspect 1996) SF novel, sequel to Rider at the Gate. [First U.K. edition]


Cloud’s Rider C. J. Cherryh (NEL 0-340-68912-9, Jul ’97, £5.99, 373pp, pb) [Rider at the Gate] Reprint (Warner Aspect 1996) SF novel. Sequel to Rider at the Gate.


Battle of Dorking & When William Came George Tomkyns Chesney & Saki (Oxford University Press 0-19-283285-9, May ’97, £5.99, xxii+182pp, tp, cover by David Axtell) Collection of two famous early stories about Future War between Britain and Germany: an 1871 novella, and a novel from 1913. There is an Introduction by I.F. Clarke.


The Man Who Was Thursday and Related Pieces G. K. Chesterton (Oxford University Press 0-19-282359-0, Oct ’96 [Jan ’97], £5.99, xlvi+194pp, tp) Collection of the classic fantasy novel (Arrowsmith, 1907) and some related works. Edited and with an Introduction by Stephen Medcalf.


Shocks Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes (The British Fantasy Society 0-952-41532-1, Dec ’97, £6.00, 59pp, ph) Collection of four dark fantasy stories, with an introduction by David J. Howe. Issued free to BFS Members with the December 1997 mailing.


Veronica Nicholas Christopher (Bantam UK 0-553-50411-8, May ’97 [Jul ’97], £6.99, 319pp, pb) Reprint (Dial Press 1996) fantasy novel.


Vixens of Night Valentina Cilescu (Headline Delta 0-7472-5582-2, May ’97 [Jul ’97], £5.99, 279pp, pb) [Kiss of Death] Explicitly erotic vampire novel: fifth in a series ranging from Ancient Egypt to today.


Shadow Dawn Chris Claremont & George Lucas (Bantam UK 0-593-04056-2, Jan ’97 [Mar ’97], £14.99, 415pp, hc, cover by Ciruelo Cabral) [Shadow War] Fantasy novel by Claremont, based on a story by George Lucas. Second in a series set after the film Willow, sequel to Shadow Moon. Simultaneous with the US (Bantam Spectra) edition. Copyrighted by Lucasfilm.


Into the Black David Aaron Clark (Eros Plus 1-85286-679-9, Jun ’97 [Jul ’97], £5.99, 236pp, tp, cover by Kyo Nakamura) Dark fantasy erotic novel.


King Blood Simon Clark (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-66061-9, Feb ’97, £16.99, 534pp, hc, cover by Steve Crisp) Dark fantasy novel.


King Blood Simon Clark (NEL 0-340-66062-7, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], £5.99, 533pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1997) dark fantasy novel.


2010: Odyssey Two Arthur C. Clarke (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-586-05699-8, Nov ’97, £5.99, 297pp, pb, cover by Michael Whelan) [Space Odyssey] Reprint (Del Rey 1982) SF novel. Sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey.


2061: Odyssey Three Arthur C. Clarke (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-586-20319-2, Nov ’97, £6.99, 302pp, pb, cover by Michael Whelan) [Space Odyssey] Reprint (Del Rey; Grafton 1988) SF novel. Third in the series.


3001: The Final Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-246-12689-2, Mar ’97, £16.99, 273pp, hc, cover by Chris Moore) [Space Odyssey] SF novel. Book four in a series. Simultaneous with the Del Rey edition.


3001: The Final Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-586-06624-1, Nov ’97 [Oct ’97], £5.99, 273pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Space Odyssey] Reprint (Del Rey; Voyager 1997) SF novel. Book 4 in a series after the classic 2001, 2010 and 2061.


The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke (Gollancz/Vista 0-575-60153-1, Mar ’97, £4.99, 258pp, pb, cover by Roy Virgo) Reprint (Gollancz 1979) SF novel. Includes a 1989 “Addition to the Afterword”.


Imperial Earth Arthur C. Clarke (Vista 0-575-60158-2, Apr ’97 [Feb ’97], £4.99, 287pp, pb, cover by Terry Pastor) Reprint (Gollancz 1975) SF novel.


The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come ed. I. F. Clarke (Liverpool University Press 0-85323-642-9, Oct ’97, £14.99, xvi+440pp, tp, cover by Michael Mattingley) Anthology of SF stories and extracts published in Britain and Germany at the turn of the last century, Second in the five-volume series, “Future-War Fiction, 1763-2001” after The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914.


The Encyclopedia of Fantasy John Clute & John Grant (Orbit 1-85723-368-9, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], £50.00, xvi+1049pp, hc, cover by Peter Goodfellow) Critical book. Launched at Eastercon, 28 March 1997.


The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ed. John Clute & John Grant (Orbit 1-85723-368-9, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], £50.00, 1049pp, hc, cover by Peter Goodfellow) Critical book.


Web Weaver Ann Coburn (Red Fox 0-09-964321-9, Mar ’97, £2.99, 119pp, pb, cover by Angelo Renaldi) [Borderland Sequence] Young-adult fantasy novel. Book two in “The Borderlands Sequence” set on the border of two countries, and the membrane between past and present. A hardcover from The Bodley Head (0-370-32352-1, £9.99) was announced but not seen.


Lewis Carroll: A Biography Morton N. Cohen (Picador 0-333-66033-1, Oct ’96 [Jan ’97], £12.00, 580pp, tp) Reprint (Knopf 1995) biographical book. [First U.K. edition] [Lewis Carroll]


The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll ed. Morton N. Cohen (Papermac 0-333-64258-9, Oct ’96, £12.00, 302pp, tp) Reprint (Macmillan 1982) associational reference work. Copyrighted 1982, 1989. [Lewis Carroll]


The Timura Trilogy Volume 1: When the Gods Slept Allan Cole (NEL 0-340-68192-6, May ’97 [Apr ’97], £6.99, 469pp, pb, cover by Peter Elson) [Timuras] Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1997) fantasy novel. First volume in the “Timura” trilogy.


When the Gods Slept Allan Cole (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-68191-8, Feb ’97, £16.99, 469pp, hc, cover by Peter Elson) [Timuras] Fantasy novel. First volume in the “Timura” trilogy.


Back of Town Blues D. G. Compton (Vista 0-575-60131-0, Jan ’97 [Apr ’97], £5.99, 208pp, pb) [Alec Duncan] Reprint (Gollancz 1996) mystery novel. Volume two in the “Alex Duncan” series.


Invasion Robin Cook (Pan 0-330-35288-1, Nov ’97, £5.99, 393pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley 1997) near-future thriller of an alien plague. A TV tie-in. [First U.K. edition]


Aliens to Earth ed. Wendy Cooling (Dolphin 1-85881-443-X, Mar ’97, £1.00, 71pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) Young-adult anthology of five original SF stories by authors including Eric Brown and Douglas Hill.


Bad Dreams ed. Wendy Cooling (Dolphin 1-85881-452-9, Mar ’97, £1.00, 74pp, pb) Young-adult anthology of six original horror stories by authors including Ann Halam.


Spine Chillers ed. Wendy Cooling (Dolphin 1-85881-454-5, Mar ’97, £1.00, 73pp, pb) Young-adult anthology of six original ghost stories.


Time-Watch ed. Wendy Cooling (Dolphin 1-85881-450-2, Mar ’97, £1.00, 74pp, pb) Young-adult anthology of six original SF stories of ‘The Past and the Future’. Authors include Stephen Bowkett.


Weird and Wonderful ed. Wendy Cooling (Dolphin 1-85881-446-4, Mar ’97, £1.00, 70pp, pb) Young-adult anthology of six original weird stories.


Both Sides of Time Caroline B. Cooney (Mammoth 0-7497-2678-4, Jun ’97 [Jul ’97], £3.99, 210pp, pb, cover by Kamil Vojnar) [Time Travelers] Reprint (Delacorte 1995) young-adult time-travel romance. First of a series. [First U.K. edition]


Out of Time Caroline B. Cooney (Mammoth 0-7497-2478-1, Jun ’97, £3.99, 210pp, pb, cover by Kamil Vojnar) [Time Travelers] Reprint (Delacorte 1996) young-adult time-travel romance, sequel to Both Sides of Time. [First U.K. edition]


The Night Walkers Otto Coontz (Mammoth 0-7497-0044-0, Sep ’97, £3.99, 179pp, pb) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1982) young-adult horror novel.


The Dark Caller Louise Cooper (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-68173-X, Dec ’97, £3.99, 280pp, pb, cover by John Avon) [Shar Tillmer] Young-adult fantasy novel. A sequel to Daughter of Storms.


The King’s Demon Louise Cooper (Headline 0-7472-5371-4, May ’97 [Apr ’97], £5.99, 314pp, pb, cover by J. Sullivan) Reprint (Headline 1996) fantasy novel. An export edition (same details) was available 1 April 1997.


Sacrament of Night Louise Cooper (Headline 0-7472-1716-5, Sep ’97 [Aug ’97], £17.99, 344pp, hc, cover by J. Sullivan) Fantasy novel.


The Shrouded Mirror Louise Cooper (Puffin 0-14-038218-6, Sep ’96 [Jan ’97], £2.99, 91pp, pb, cover by George Smith) [Dark Enchantment] Dark fantasy novel. In the “Dark Enchantment” series.


The Miracle Strain Michael Cordy (Bantam UK 0-593-04220-4, Sep ’97, £9.99, 365pp, tp) SF thriller. Genetic engineers create a clone from relics of Christ. A first novel.


The New Adventures: Oh No It Isn’t! Paul Cornell (Virgin 0-426-20507-3, May ’97, £4.99, 249pp, pb, cover by Jon Sullivan) [Bernice Summerfield] Humorous SF novel. Book 1 in a new series featuring Bernice Summerfield from the Doctor Who “New Adventures”.


Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell (Michael Joseph 0-7181-0060-3, Mar ’97, £9.99, 397pp, tp, cover by Bill Gregory) [Warlord Chronicles] Reprint (Michael Joseph 1996) associational historical novel of Arthur. Book two of a trilogy.


Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell (Penguin 0-14-023247-8, Sep ’97, £5.99, 473pp, pb) [Warlord Chronicles] Reprint (Michael Joseph 1996) historical fantasy novel. Second in “The Warlord Chronicles” Arthurian trilogy after The Winter King.


Excalibur Bernard Cornwell (Michael Joseph 0-7181-0057-3, Oct ’97, £16.99, 436pp, hc, cover by Bill Gregory) [Warlord Chronicles] Arthurian novel. Last in the trilogy after The Winter King and Enemy of God.


Darkfell Mary Corran (Orion 0-75280-665-3, Jul ’97 [Jun ’97], £5.99, 326pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) [Imperial Light] Reprint (Millennium 1996) fantasy novel, set in the same world as Imperial Light.


Bag of Bones Helen Cresswell (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-67301-X, Mar ’97 [Jul ’97], £10.99, 207pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy novel.


Bag of Bones Helen Cresswell (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-67302-8, Sep ’97, £3.99, 207pp, pb) Reprint (Hodder Children’s Books 1997) young-adult fantasy novel.


Congo Michael Crichton (Arrow 0-09-932081-9, Jul ’96 [Jan ’97], £5.99, 370pp, pb) Reissue (Knopf 1980) SF novel. Second printing.


The Lost World Michael Crichton (Arrow 0-09-924062-9, Jul ’97, £5.99, 431pp, pb) [Jurassic Park] Reprint (Knopf 1995) SF novel. A sequel to Jurassic Park.


Sphere Michael Crichton (Pan 0-330-30127-6, Apr ’97, £5.99, 385pp, pb, cover by Geoff Hunt) Reissue (Knopf 1987) SF novel.


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