The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998


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Law of the Wolf Tower Tanith Lee (Hodder Children’s 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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


The Magician’s 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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Ferney James Long (HarperCollins UK 0-00-225228-7, Jan ’98 [Apr ’98], £16.99, 344pp, hc) Literary fantasy novel.


Ferney James Long (HarperCollins UK 0-00-649310-6, Jul ’98, £5.99, 440pp, pb) Fantasy novel. Obsessive love and reincarnation across the centuries.


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”.


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.


‘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 author’s work. A clear and structured study of this most elusive author. Simultaneous with the US (St. Martin’s) edition. A hardcover edition (-821-9, £27.50) was announced but not seen. [J. G. Ballard]


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]


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).


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]


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.


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”.


Dragon’s 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.


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”.


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 System’s elite defence force faces the Jovian “fast folk”, and those who have travelled through a wormhole to colonise New Mars.


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.


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.


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”.


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”.


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.


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.


House of Bones Graham Masterton (Scholastic/Point UK 0-590-19682-0, Mar ’98, £3.50, 236pp, pb) Young-adult horror novel.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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”.


Freedom’s 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 Freedom’s Landing and Freedom’s Choice. Simultaneous with the US (Ace/Putnam) edition.


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.


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.


Nimisha’s 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.


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]


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.


Crowe’s Requiem Mike McCormack (Jonathan Cape 0-224-04107-X, Jun ’98 [Aug ’98], £9.99, 232pp, tp) Literary fantasy novel.


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]


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 McCrumb’s “Ballad” mysteries. [First U.K. edition]


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.


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]


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]


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: Evolution’s Shore).


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


The Knight’s 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”.


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.


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.


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 Miller’s death, is acknowledged only in the dedication.


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