The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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Law of the Wolf Tower Tanith Lee (Hodder Childrens Books 0-340-70446-2, Nov 98, £3.99, 233pp, pb, cover by Brad Gray) [Claidi Journals] Young-adult fantasy novel. The orphan-slave Claidi journeys to the place where all laws are made.
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Touch Elmore Leonard (Penguin 0-14-026248-2, May 98 [Jun 98], £5.99, 245pp, pb) Reissue (Arbor House 1987) fantasy novel. This is a film tie-in edition.
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Doctor Who: Dreamstone Moon Paul Leonard (BBC Books 0-563-40585-6, May 98 [Apr 98], £4.99, 250pp, pb) [Doctor Who: New Adventures] Novelisation based on the TV series. Book 11 of the BBC New Adventures series starring the 8th Doctor.
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The New Adventures: Dry Pilgrimage Paul Leonard & Nick Walters (New Adventures 0-426-20525-1, May 98, £5.99, 292pp, pb, cover by Jon Sullivan) [Bernice Summerfield] Novelization based on characters from Doctor Who novelisations, without the Doctor. Book 13 in the Bernice Summerfield series.
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One Hand Clapping Lise Leroux (Viking UK 0-670-87671-2, Feb 98 [Apr 98], £9.99, 341pp, tp) SF novel. A woman decides to become a surrogate mother for body parts.
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Where Angels Fear Rebecca Levene & Simon Winstone (New Adventures 0-426-20530-8, Dec 98 [Nov 98], £5.99, 241pp, pb, cover by Jon Sullivan) [Bernice Summerfield] Novelization, Doctor Who without the Doctor. Book 17 in the Bernice Summerfield series.
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The Complete Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis (Collins 0-00-185713-4, Oct 98 [Dec 98], £29.99, 524pp, hc, cover by Pauline Baynes) [Narnia] Fantasy omnibus. First collected edition of the complete series. Simultaneous with the (not seen) limited Leatherbound edition and differently-titled The Chronicles of Narnia.
- 2 · Introduction · Brian Sibley · in
- 10 · The Magicians Nephew · n. London: The Bodley Head, 1955
- 73 · The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe · n. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950
- 135 · The Horse and His Boy · n. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1954
- 211 · Prince Caspian · n. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951
- 287 · The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" · n. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1952
- 371 · The Silver Chair · n. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953
- 455 · The Last Battle · n. London: The Bodley Head, 1956
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The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis (Collins 0-00-671678-4, Oct 98 [Dec 98], £6.99, 207pp, tp, cover by Pauline Baynes) [Narnia] Reprint (Geoffrey Bles 1954) fantasy novel. Volume three in the Narnia series. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Centenary Edition.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis (Collins 0-00-671677-6, Oct 98 [Dec 98], £6.99, 173pp, tp, cover by Pauline Baynes) [Narnia] Reprint (Geoffrey Bles 1950) fantasy novel. Volume two in the Narnia series. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Centenary Edition.
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The Magicians Nephew C. S. Lewis (Collins 0-00-671683-0, Oct 98 [Dec 98], £6.99, 189pp, tp, cover by Pauline Baynes) [Narnia] Reprint (The Bodley Head 1955) fantasy novel. Volume one in the Narnia series. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Centenary Edition.
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Prince Caspian C. S. Lewis (Collins 0-00-671679-2, Oct 98 [Dec 98], £6.99, 208pp, tp, cover by Pauline Baynes) [Narnia] Reprint (Geoffrey Bles 1951) fantasy novel. Volume four in the Narnia series. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Centenary Edition.
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The Silver Chair C. S. Lewis (Collins 0-00-671681-4, Oct 98 [Dec 98], £6.99, 221pp, tp, cover by Pauline Baynes) [Narnia] Reprint (Geoffrey Bles 1953) fantasy novel. Volume six in the Narnia series. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Centenary Edition.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" C. S. Lewis (Collins 0-00-671680-6, Oct 98 [Dec 98], £6.99, 223pp, tp, cover by Pauline Baynes) [Narnia] Reprint (Geoffrey Bles 1952) fantasy novel. Volume five in the "Narnia series. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Centenary Edition.
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Guests Bentley Little (Headline 0-7472-5257-2, Mar 98 [Apr 98], £5.99, 438pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) Reprint (Headline 1997) horror novel.
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Ferney James Long (HarperCollins UK 0-00-225228-7, Jan 98 [Apr 98], £16.99, 344pp, hc) Literary fantasy novel.
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Ferney James Long (HarperCollins UK 0-00-649310-6, Jul 98, £5.99, 440pp, pb) Fantasy novel. Obsessive love and reincarnation across the centuries.
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The Krilov Continuum J. M. H. Lovegrove (Orion/Millennium 1-85798-536-2, Jun 98, £5.99, 343pp, pb) [Guardians] SF novel, book one of The Guardians.
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The Web: Computopia James Lovegrove (Orion/Dolphin 1-85881-642-4, Nov 98 [Dec 98], £3.50, 115pp, pb, cover by Fangorn) [Web] Young-adult SF novella. Book nine in the series.
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The Angle Between Two Walls: The Fiction of J.G. Ballard Roger Luckhurst (Liverpool University Press 0-85323-831-6, Jan 98 [Feb 98], £14.50, 213pp, hc) Critical study of the authors work. A clear and structured study of this most elusive author. Simultaneous with the US (St. Martins) edition. A hardcover edition (-821-9, £27.50) was announced but not seen. [J. G. Ballard]
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A Coven of Vampires Brian Lumley (NEL 0-340-71542-1, Nov 98, £5.99, xii+292pp, pb, cover by George Underwood) Reprint (Fedogan & Bremer 1998) collection of 13 vampire stories. A foreword by Lumley describes his childhood fascination with vampires. [First U.K. edition]
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- 1 · What Dark God? · ss Nameless Places, ed. Gerald W. Page, Arkham House, 1975
- 13 · Back Row · ss Terror Australis Fll 88
- 25 · The Strange Years · ss Fantasy Tales #9 82
- 35 · Kiss of the Lamia [Tarra Khash] · nv Weirdbook #20 85
- 79 · Recognition · ss Weirdbook #15 81
- 99 · The Thief Immortal · ss Weirdbook #25 90
- 119 · Necros · ss The Second Book of After Midnight Stories, ed. Amy Myers, London: Kimber, 1986
- 143 · The Thing from the Blasted Heath · ss The Caller of the Black, Arkham, 1971
- 157 · Uzzi · ss Fear! Sep/Oct 88
- 175 · Haggopian · nv F&SF Jun 73
- 207 · The Picnickers · nv Final Shadows, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday Foundation, 1991
- 237 · Zack Phalanx Is Vlad the Impaler · ss Weirdbook #11 77
- 249 · The House of the Temple · na Kadath Nov 80
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The House of Doors: Second Visit Brian Lumley (NEL 0-340-70824-7, Oct 98, £6.99, 408pp, pb, cover by George Underwood) [House of Doors] Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1997) SF/dark fantasy novel, sequel to House of Doors. Published in the US as Maze of Worlds (Tor 1998).
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Dark Homecoming Eric Lustbader (HarperCollins UK 0-00-225564-2, Feb 98, £16.99, 353pp, hc) Reprint (Pocket 1997) thriller with dark fantasy elements. Ex-cop Lew Croaker gets involved with mystic doings in Miami. The delay in publication makes the US edition the true first. [First U.K. edition]
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Dark Homecoming Eric Lustbader (HarperCollins UK 0-00-649953-8, Aug 98, £6.99, 482pp, pb) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1997) fantasy mystery. Ex-cop Lew Croaker gets involved in mystical doings in Miami.
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Dragons on the Sea of Night Eric Lustbader (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-649027-1, May 98, £6.99, 318pp, pb, cover by Don Maitz) [Sunset Warrior] Reprint (Voyager 1997) fantasy novel. Fifth volume in the Sunset Warrior Cycle.
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Dragons Winter Elizabeth A. Lynn (Macmillan UK 0-333-72372-4, Mar 98 [Feb 98], £16.99, 358pp, hc, cover by Jon Sullivan) [Dragon] Fantasy novel. First in the Dragon sequence. Rivalry between twin brothers, one who can change into a dragon, the other an embittered human, plunges the land into war.
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Doctor Who: The Witch Hunters Steve Lyons (BBC Books 0-563-40579-1, Mar 98 [Feb 98], £4.99, 282pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Original novel based on the TV series. Book nine of the BBC Missing Adventures.
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The Cassini Division Ken MacLeod (Orbit 1-85723-603-3, May 98 [Apr 98], £15.99, 240pp, hc, cover by Mark Salwowski) [Fall Revolution] SF novel, set in the Jonathan Wilde universe of The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal. The Solar Systems elite defence force faces the Jovian fast folk, and those who have travelled through a wormhole to colonise New Mars.
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The Web: Cydonia Ken MacLeod (Orion/Dolphin 1-85881-640-8, Sep 98, £3.50, 114pp, pb, cover by Fangorn) [Web] Young-adult SF novel set in the worldwide Virtual Reality Web of 2028. Book two in a second series of six linked novels, each written by a different author.
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Doctor Who: The Scarlet Empress Paul Magrs (BBC Books 0-563-40595-3, Sep 98 [Aug 98], £4.99, 283pp, pb, cover by Colin Howard) Novelisation based on the TV series.
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A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-647988-X, Jan 98 [Nov 97], £6.99, 695pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [Song of Ice and Fire] Reprint (Voyager 1996) fantasy novel. Book one of the trilogy A Song of Ice and Fire.
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A Clash of Kings George R. R. Martin (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224585-X, Dec 98, £17.99, 741pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) [Song of Ice and Fire] Fantasy novel, book two of A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Weird World 3: Black Rot Anthony Masters (Bloomsbury 0-7475-3576-0, 1998 [Apr 98], £3.99, 96pp, pb, cover by Mandy Sherlicker) Young-adult SF/horror novel.
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Weird World 4: Temper Temper Anthony Masters (Bloomsbury 0-7475-3577-9, 1998 [Apr 98], £3.99, 95pp, pb, cover by Mandy Sherlicker) Young-adult SF/horror novel.
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House of Bones Graham Masterton (Scholastic/Point UK 0-590-19682-0, Mar 98, £3.50, 236pp, pb) Young-adult horror novel.
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Terror Graham Masterton (Severn House 0-7278-5300-7, Feb 98, £17.99, 218pp, hc) [Jim Rook] Dark fantasy thriller, third in the series about teacher Jim Rook, whose childhood illness has left him with occult powers.
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Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton Graham Masterton, Ray Clark & Matt Williams (The British Fantasy Society 0-952-41534-8, Dec 98, no price, 237pp, tp, cover by Les Edwards) Associational collection of stories (three original) by Masterton, plus essays on his work, a working bibliography, a foreword by Peter James, and an introduction by Clark & Williams. Issued free with the December 1998 BFS Membership mailing.
- 9 · Introduction · Matt Williams & Ray Clark · in
- 11 · Foreword · Peter James · fw
- 13 · Myths and Legends · Ray Clark & Matt Williams · si *
- 23 · Spirit-Jump [Manitou] · Graham Masterton · nv Faces of Fear, Severn House, 1996
- 49 · Jack Be Quick · Graham Masterton · nv White House Horrors, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1996
- 61 · Fantasy Worlds & Parallel Existences · Ray Clark & Matt Williams · si *
- 71 · Evidence of Angels · Graham Masterton · nv 13 Again, ed. A. Finnis, Scholastic UK, 1995
- 85 · Fairy Story · Graham Masterton · nv Faces of Fear, Severn House, 1996
- 113 · Brutality · Ray Clark & Matt Williams · si *
- 121 · Heroine · Graham Masterton · nv Kiss and Kill, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1997
- 137 · The Secret Shih-Tan · Graham Masterton · nv Faces of Fear, Severn House, 1996
- 153 · Themes and Styles · Ray Clark & Matt Williams · si *
- 161 · Anaïs · Graham Masterton · ss *
- 173 · Road Kill [Dracula] · Graham Masterton · ss The Mammoth Book of Dracula, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1997
- 179 · Sagas and Thrillers · Ray Clark & Matt Williams · si *
- 189 · Saving Grace · Graham Masterton · ss *
- 197 · Lolicia · Graham Masterton · nv *
- 213 · Masterton on Masterton · Misc. · iv * [Graham Masterton]
- 220 · Appendix A: Working Bibliography · David J. Howe & Ray Clark · bi * [Graham Masterton]
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Darker Andrew Matthews (Scholastic UK 0-590-11339-9, Nov 98, £3.50, 152pp, pb) Young-adult dark fantasy novel. Something deadly likes the town of Abernant.
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The Perseus Spur Julian May (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224623-6, Feb 98 [Jan 98], £16.99, 310pp, hc, cover by Stephen Bradbury) [Rampart Worlds] SF novel, first in the Rampart Worlds trilogy.
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Perseus Spur Julian May (BCA UK CN2056, Mar 98 [Apr 98], £9.99, 310pp, hc, cover by Stephen Bradbury) [Rampart Worlds] Reprint (Voyager 1998) SF novel. Book 1 of the Rampart Worlds trilogy.
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Perseus Spur Julian May (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224669-4, Aug 98, £10.99, 310pp, tp, cover by Stephen Bradbury) [Rampart Worlds] Reprint (Voyager 1998) SF novel, book one of The Rampart Worlds trilogy.
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Cuddy William Mayne (Red Fox 0-09-937121-9, Jan 98 [Feb 98], £3.50, 195pp, pb, cover by Ken Brown) Reprint (Cape 1995) young-adult fantasy novel.
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The Persistence of Memory Gordon McAlpine (Peter Owen 0-7206-1047-8, May 98 [Apr 98], £14.95, 155pp, hc) Magical realism novel. In an alternate 1901, a near-drowned amnesiac begins to remember...the life of Hamlet. A worldwide edition, distributed in the US by Dufour Editions.
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Ancients of Days Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz 0-575-06428-5, Sep 98 [Oct 98], £16.99, 320pp, hc, cover by Paul Young) [Confluence] SF novel set on an artificial world at the very edge of space and time. The second book in the Confluence trilogy.
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Child of the River Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz/Vista 0-575-60168-X, Oct 98 [Sep 98], £5.99, 350pp, pb, cover by Paul Young) [Confluence] Reprint (Gollancz 1997) SF novel, The First Book of Confluence.
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Freedoms Challenge Anne McCaffrey (Bantam UK 0-593-04318-9, May 98, £15.99, 288pp, hc, cover by Peter Elson) [Catteni] SF novel. Book Three of the Catteni sequence after Freedoms Landing and Freedoms Choice. Simultaneous with the US (Ace/Putnam) edition.
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The MasterHarper of Pern Anne McCaffrey (Bantam UK 0-593-03776-6, Jan 98 [Dec 97], £15.99, 396pp, hc, cover by Steve Weston) [Pern] SF novel in the Pern series, its events leading up to Dragonflight. Simultaneous with the US (Del Rey) edition.
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The MasterHarper of Pern Anne McCaffrey (BCA UK 4205, Mar 98 [Apr 98], £9.99, 396pp, hc, cover by Steve Weston) [Pern] Reprint (Ballantine Del Rey; Bantam UK 1998) SF novel in the Pern series; its events leading up to Dragonflight.
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Nimishas Ship Anne McCaffrey (Bantam UK 0-593-04321-9, Dec 98, £16.99, 328pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) SF novel. When a spaceship designer is dragged through a wormhole into a distant part of the universe, she meets ships and survivors from centuries of such accidents.
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Acorna: The Unicorn Girl Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball (Corgi 0-552-14621-8, Jan 98 [Nov 97], £5.99, 415pp, pb, cover by Fred Gambino) [Acorna] Reprint (HarperPrism 1997) SF novel based on an idea by McCaffrey. [First U.K. edition]
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Acorna: The Unicorn Girl Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball (Severn House 0-7278-2203-9, Aug 98, £17.99, 414pp, hc, cover by Derek Colligan) [Acorna] Reprint (HarperPrism 1997) SF novel based on a comic-book idea by McCaffrey. First UK hardcover.
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Crowes Requiem Mike McCormack (Jonathan Cape 0-224-04107-X, Jun 98 [Aug 98], £9.99, 232pp, tp) Literary fantasy novel.
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver Sharyn McCrumb (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-71714-9, Jun 98 [Nov 98], £16.99, xii+352pp, hc, cover by Kenneth Murray) [Sheriff Spencer Arrowood] Reprint (Dutton 1998) mystery novel with minor fantasy elements, part of the Appalachian Ballad series. An 1832 murder has strange parallels to a present case. [First U.K. edition]
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Foggy Mountain Breakdown Sharyn McCrumb (NEL 0-340-71716-5, Jun 98, £5.99, 326pp, pb) Reprint (Ballantine 1997 as Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories) collection of 24 stories, two original, most with the Southern Appalachian locales and themes of McCrumbs Ballad mysteries. [First U.K. edition]
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The Song of Troy Colleen McCullough (Orion 0-75281-413-3, Apr 98, £16.99, 404pp, hc, cover by Sarah Perkins) Historical novel with fantasy elements, retelling The Iliad in a series of episodes narrated by Helen, Priam, Achilles, Odysseus, and the other major characters.
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Eternity Road Jack McDevitt (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648308-9, Feb 98 [Jan 98], £5.99, 338pp, pb) Reprint (HarperPrism 1997) post-holocaust SF novel. [First U.K. edition]
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Moonfall Jack McDevitt (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224690-2, Oct 98, £16.99, 464pp, hc, cover by John Ennis) Reprint (HarperPrism 1998) SF thriller of a comet on a collision course with the moon. [First U.K. edition]
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Kirinya Ian McDonald (Gollancz 0-575-06077-8, Jun 98, £16.99, 412pp, hc, cover by Mick Posen) [Chaga] SF novel. A sequel to Chaga (US: Evolutions Shore).
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The Child in Time Ian McEwan (Vintage UK 0-09-975501-7, 1998 [Nov 98], £5.99, 220pp, tp) Reissue (Cape 1987) classic literary SF novel. Fifth printing.
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Doctor Who: The Face of the Enemy David McIntee (BBC Books 0-563-40580-5, Jan 98, £4.99, 281pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Novelization based on the TV series.
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Doctor Who: Mission Impractical David A. McIntee (BBC Books 0-563-40592-9, Jun 98 [May 98], £4.99, 280pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Novelization based on the TV series.
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The Lack Brothers Malcolm McKay (Black Swan 0-552-99762-5, Oct 98 [Sep 98], £6.99, 543pp, tp) Reprint (Bantam 1998) literary fantasy novel of angels and London mobsters: heaven meets the Underworld. The original edition was not seen.
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7th Sense John McLaren (Simon & Schuster UK 0-684-82085-4, Apr 98 [Jun 98], £9.99, 398pp, tp) Associational thriller of witches and transferrable telepathy.
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To Hold Infinity John Meaney (Bantam UK 0-553-50588-2, Apr 98 [Feb 98], £5.99, 556pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) SF novel. A first novel.
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The Migration of Ghosts Pauline Melville (Bloomsbury 0-7475-3675-9, Apr 98 [May 98], £15.99, 209pp, hc, cover by William Webb & James Cotter) Literary collection of 12 original occult, fantasy. and mainstream stories.
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Doctor Who: Zeta Major Simon Messingham (BBC Books 0-563-40597-X, Jul 98 [Jun 98], £4.99, 282pp, pb) [Doctor Who: Missing Adventures] Novelisation based on the TV series. Book 13 of the BBC Missing Adventures series.
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The Knights Vengeance Haydn Middleton (Warner UK 0-7515-2370-4, Aug 98, £5.99, 281pp, pb, cover by Stephen Player) [Mordred Cycle] Reprint (Little, Brown UK 1997) Arthurian fantasy novel. Third in the Mordred Cycle.
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King Rat China Miéville (Macmillan UK 0-333-73881-0, Nov 98 [Oct 98], £9.99, 333pp, tp, cover by Mark Moran) Literary dark fantasy novel. Freed from false imprisonment by the shadowy King Rat, Saul seeks his destiny in the night-lands of South London.
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Firebrands: The heroines of science fiction and fantasy Ron Miller & Pamela Sargent (Paper Tiger 1-85585-462-7, Sep 98, £14.99, 112pp, tp, cover by Ron Miller) Art book. Over 100 portraits of fictional heroines, from mediaeval fantasy to present day SF and fantasy. The accompanying text by Sargent traces the development of female characters in the genre.
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Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman Walter M. Miller, Jr. & Terry Bisson (Orbit 1-85723-561-4, May 98, £6.99, 566pp, pb, cover by Matt Zumbo) [St. Leibowitz, Order of] Reprint (Orbit 1997) SF novel. A companion to the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz. The editorial contribution of Terry Bisson, who completed the manuscript after Millers death, is acknowledged only in the dedication.
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