The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2004

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DAY, MARTIN (chron.) (continued)

* *Doctor Who: The Sleep of Reason (BBC Books 0-563-48620-1, Aug 2004, £5.99, 281pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Novelization based on the TV series.
de ANGELIS, DAVIDE (chron.)

* *The Seed (Creation 1-84068-114-4, Nov 2004, £9.95, 192pp, tp, cover by Davide de Angelis) Fantasy novel, first in a series. A first novel.
DEATON, HOLLY LISLE; see under Lisle, Holly (chron.)
DeCANDIDO, KEITH R. A. (stories) (chron.)

* *Dragon Precinct (Pocket Star 0-7434-6770-1, Aug 2004, $6.99, 259pp, pb) Fantasy mystery. The guards of the Dragon Precinct in Cliff’s End investigate the murder of a great hero.
* *Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Pocket Star 0-7434-9349-4, Sep 2004, $6.99, 277pp, pb) [Resident Evil] Novelization of the movie based on the Capcom video games. Copyrighted by Davis Films/Impact (Canada)/Constantin Film (UK).
* *Resident Evil: Genesis (Pocket Star 0-7434-9291-9, Aug 2004, $6.99, 277pp, pb) Novelization based on the movie based on the SF video games. Copyrighted by Davis Films/Impact (Canada)/Constantin Film (UK).
* *Star Trek, the Next Generation: A Time for War, a Time for Peace (Pocket 0-7434-9179-3, Oct 2004, $6.99, 341pp, pb) [Star Trek, the Next Generation] Star Trek novelization. Copyrighted by Paramount Pictures.
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* *Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War (Pocket 0-7434-9171-8, Aug 2004, $14.00, 370pp, tp, cover by John Blackford) [Star Trek] Original anthology of 12 Star Trek stories. Copyrighted by Paramount Pictures. (Contents)
DEDOPULOS, TIM (chron.)

* *World of Darkness: Vampire: The Puppet-Masters (White Wolf 1-58846-816-X, Dec 2003, $6.99, 272pp, pb, cover by John Van Fleet) [Clan Brujah Trilogy] Novelization based on the roleplaying game, third in the “Clan Brujah Trilogy”. Copyrighted by White Wolf.
DeFELICE, CYNTHIA C. (chron.)

* *The Ghost of Cutler Creek (Farrar Straus Giroux 0-374-38058-9, Mar 2004, $16.00, 181pp, hc, cover by Leslie Bowman) [Allie Nicholls] Young-adult ghost mystery, third in the series about ghost-magnet Allie Nicholls begun in The Ghost of Fossil Glen.
DE HAVEN, TOM (1949- ) (chron.)

* _Walker of Worlds (ibooks 0-7434-9779-1, Nov 2004, $6.99, 342pp, pb, cover by Luis Royo) [*Chronicles of the King’s Tramp] Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1990) fantasy novel, first book of the “Chronicles of the King’s Tramp”.
DELANEY, JOE; see under Delaney, Joseph H. (chron.)
DELANEY, JOSEPH H(enry) (1932-1999) (chron.)

* *The Spook’s Apprentice (The Bodley Head 0-370-32826-4, Jul 2004, £8.99, 325pp, tp, cover by David Wyatt) [Spook] Young-adult fantasy novel.
DELANEY, MATTHEW B. J. (chron.)

* _Jinn (Macmillan/Pan 0-330-41855-6, Feb 2004, £6.99, 625pp, pb) Reprint (St. Martin’s Press 2003) dark fantasy novel. A first novel. [First U.K. edition]
* _Jinn (St. Martin’s Griffin 0-312-32705-6, Apr 2004, $14.95, 548pp, tp) Reprint (St. Martin’s 2003) horror novel.
DELANY, SAMUEL R(ay, Jr.) (1942- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* _Distant Stars (ibooks 0-7434-8661-7, May 2004, $14.00, 352pp, tp, cover by Michael Whelan) Reprint (Bantam 1981) collection of seven stories illustrated by various artists. Packaged and copyrighted by Byron Preiss Visual Publications.
* _The Fall of the Towers (Random House/Vintage 1-4000-3132-X, Feb 2004, $15.00, 438pp, tp) [Fall of the Towers] Reprint (Ace 1970) omnibus of Out of the Dead City (1963 as Captives of the Flame), The Towers of Toron (1964), and City of a Thousand Suns (1965).
* _The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village (University of Minnesota Press 0-816-64524-8, Apr 2004, $18.95, 572pp, tp) Reprint (Arbor House 1988) autobiographical non-fiction. This follows the 1993 revised Richard Kasak edition. A hardcover edition (-64523-X, $34.95) was announced but not seen. Order from University of Minnesota Press, 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290, Minneapolis MN 55401-2520; [www.upress.umn.edu].
* _The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village (SFBC/QPBC 0-965-90375-3, May 2004, $12.99, 572pp, tp, cover by Ricardo Morin & Rob Stephenson) Reprint (Arbor House 1988) non-fiction, autobiography. A Hugo winner. This has the revised text of the Richard Kasak 1993 edition, plus a new foreword by Rob Stephenson. An offering from the QPBC InsightOut/Triangle Classics club, this lacks a price on the cover.
* _Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Wesleyan University Press 0-8195-6714-0, Nov 2004, $19.95, 356pp, tp) Reprint (Bantam 1984) SF novel. This is a 20th Anniversary Edition with a new foreword by Carl Freedman. Order from University Press of New England, Order Department, 37 Lafayette St., Lebanon NH 03766; [www.upne.com].
de LINT, CHARLES (Henri Diederick Hoefsmit) (1951- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* *The Blue Girl (Penguin/Viking 0-670-05924-2, Oct 2004, $17.99, 368pp, hc, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [Newford] Young-adult contemporary fantasy novel set in de Lint’s town of Newford. Rebellious teen Imogene tries to remake herself when her family moves to Newford, but the supernatural gets in the way.
* _The Harp of the Grey Rose (Penguin/Firebird 0-14-240060-2, Jan 2004, $6.99, 277pp, tp, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [Cerin Songweaver] Reprint (Starblaze 1985) fantasy novel of Cerin the Songweaver, repackaged for young adults.
* _I’ll Be Watching You (Tor/Orb 0-765-30435-X, Mar 2004, $13.95, 351pp, tp, cover by John Picacio) Reprint (Jove 1994 as by Samuel M. Key) dark fantasy novel.
* *Medicine Road (Subterranean Press 1-931081-96-4, Jul 2004, $35.00, 206pp, hc, cover by Charles Vess) [Seven Wild Sisters] Fantasy novel, sequel to Seven Wild Sisters. Two musicians, Laurel & Babs Dillard, get involved in a battle between North American spirits. Illustrated by Charles Vess. A deluxe signed limited edition of 750 with added art (-97-2, $60.00) is also available. Order from Subterranean Press, PO Box 190106, Burton MI 48519; [www.subterraneanpress.com].
* _The Onion Girl (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07397-7, Mar 2004, £6.99, 508pp, pb) [Newford] Reprint (Tor 2001) fantasy novel set in de Lint’s “Newford”.
* _Spirits in the Wires (Tor 0-312-86971-1, Sep 2004, $14.95, 448pp, tp, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Newford] Reprint (Tor 2003) fantasy novel in the Newford series.
* _Waifs and Strays (Penguin/Firebird 0-14-240158-7, Jun 2004, $7.99, 393pp, tp, cover by John Jude Palencar) Reprint (Viking 2002) young-adult collection of 16 stories about teenagers.
* _The Wild Wood (Tor/Orb 0-765-30258-6, Jun 2004, $13.95, 205pp, tp, cover by Stephen T. Johnson) [Faerielands] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1994) contemporary dark fantasy, originally published as the first book in the “Brian Froud’s Faerielands” series.
* _Wolf Moon (Penguin/Firebird 0-14-240077-7, Jan 2004, $6.99, 245pp, pb, cover by Cliff Nielsen) Reprint (Signet 1988) dark fantasy novel about a persecuted werewolf.
de l’ISLE-ADAM, VILLIERS; see under Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (stories) (chron.)
DeLUCA, SANDRA (stories) (chron.)

* *Settling in Nazareth (December Girl Press 1-929653-54-9, 2003, $15.99, 167pp, tp, cover by Sandy DeLuca) Dark fantasy novel. December Girl Press, 37 Earlham Way, Warwick RI 02886; [www.decembergirlpress.com].
DeNIRO, ALAN, ed. (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* _Rabid Transit: Petting Zoo (with Kristin Livdahl, Barth Anderson & Christopher Barzak) See entry under Barth Anderson.
DENNING, LEE; pseudonym of Denning Powell & Leanne Powell Myasnik (chron.)

* *Monkey Trap (Twilight Times Books 1-931201-34-X, Nov 2004, $19.50, 422pp, tp) [Nova sapiens] SF thriller, the first in a trilogy about the emergence of Nova sapiens. Two humans are given great powers by two aliens, one hoping to help humanity, the other to destroy it. Denning is a pen name for father-daughter team Denning Powell & Leanne Powell Myasnik. Twilight Times Books, PO Box 3340, Kingsport TN 37664; 423-323-0183; [www.twilighttimesbooks.com].
DENNING, TROY (1958- ) (chron.)

* _Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost (Random House UK/Arrow 0-09-941045-1, Jan 2004, £6.99, xii+456+viii, pb, cover by Steven D. Anderson) [Star Wars] Reprint (Century 2003) SF novel set in the Star Wars universe. Includes an interview with Denning.
DENNIS, ANDREW (chron.) (assoc.)

* _1634: The Galileo Affair (with Eric Flint) See entry under Eric Flint.
de PIERRES, MARIANNE (stories) (chron.)

* *Code Noir (Time Warner UK/Orbit 1-84149-257-4, Jul 2004, £6.99, 311pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Parrish Plessis] SF novel, second in the “Parrish Plessis” series after Nylon Angel.
DeSMEDT, BILL (chron.)

* *Singularity (Per Aspera Press 0-9745734-4-2, Nov 2004, $25.95, 502pp, hc, cover by Karawynn Long) SF thriller. A scientist wants to capture the submicroscopic black hole he believes caused the Tunguska Event. A first novel. Per Aspera Press, 1425 N. 46th Street, Seattle WA 98103; [www.perasperapress.com].
DEVERAUX, ROBERT (chron.)

* *A Flight of Storks and Angels (Gale Group/Five Star 1-59414-058-8, Oct 2003, $25.95, 339pp, hc) Contemporary fantasy novel. Angels transform a small town. Packaged and edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman. Order from Five Star, 295 Kennedy Memorial Drive, Waterville ME 04901; 800-223-1244; [www.galegroup.com/fivestar].
DiCAMILLO, KATE (chron.)

* *The Tale of Despereaux (Candlewick Press 0-7636-1722-9, Sep 2003, $17.99, 272pp, hc, cover by Timothy Basil Ering) Young-adult fantasy novel about the adventures of a romantic mouse, subtitled “being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread”. Winner of the Newbery Medal. This appears to be the first edition with a Newbery medal on the dust jacket.
DICK, PHILIP K(indred) (1928-1982) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* *Five Great Novels (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07581-3, May 2004, £12.99, 841pp, tp, cover by Sonar) SF omnibus of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964), Martian Time-Slip (1964), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Ubik (1969), and A Scanner Darkly (1977).
* _Lies, Inc. (Random House/Vintage 1-4000-3008-0, Mar 2004, $12.00, 202pp, tp) Reprint (Berkley 1983 as The Unteleported Man) SF novel. This is basically the complete version first published by Gollancz in 1984, but bridging material by John Sladek has been replaced with rediscovered text by Dick. Paul Williams discusses the various versions in his afterword.
* _The Man in the High Castle (SFBC #63548, Jun 2004, $10.99, 193pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton) Reprint (Putnam 1962) SF novel, #11 in the SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection. This has ISBN 0-7394-4403-4, lacks a price, and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
* *Paycheck (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07001-3, Feb 2004, £7.99, 312pp, hc) SF collection. This is a movie tie-in edition, This is copyrighted 2003, but not published until now. A trade paperback (export only) edition (-07583-X, £6.99) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
* _Paycheck (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07585-6, Oct 2004, £6.99, 312pp, pb) Reprint (Gollancz 2004) SF collection. (Contents)
* _The Penultimate Truth (Random House/Vintage 1-4000-3011-0, Aug 2004, $12.00, 191pp, tp) Reprint (Belmont 1964) SF novel.
* _The Simulacra (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07460-4, Sep 2004, £7.99, 220pp, tp, cover by Chris Moore) Reprint (Ace 1964) SF novel. Volume 57 in the “SF Masterworks” series.
* _Vulcan’s Hammer (Random House/Vintage 1-4000-3012-9, Aug 2004, $12.00, 165pp, tp) Reprint (Ace 1960) dystopian SF novel.
DICKENS, CHARLES (John Huffam) (1812-1870) (chron.)

* _A Christmas Carol (with Stephen Krensky & Dean Morrissey) (HarperTrophy 0-06-443606-3, Oct 2004, $6.99, 60pp, tp, cover by Dean Morrissey) Reprint (HarperCollins 2001) illustrated adaptation of Dickens’s classic ghost novel, with text by Krensky and illustrations by Morrissey.
* _A Christmas Carol (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-87180-5, Oct 2004, $3.99, 131pp, tp) [Christmas Carol] Reissue (Chapman & Hall 1843) classic Christmas ghost story, with foreword by Nancy Farmer, and a reading group guide.
* _A Christmas Carol (Tor 0-812-50434-8, Nov 2004, $3.99, 116pp, pb) [Christmas Carol] Reissue (Chapman & Hall 1843) classic Christmas ghost story, with a biography of Dickens, foreword, and afterword by Jane Yolen. 11th printing.
* _Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Tales (Borders Classics 1-58726-079-4, 2003, $7.95, 231pp, hc) Reprint (????) omnibus of three fantastic Christmas novels: A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), and A Cricket on the Hearth (1845). This is dated 2003, but not seen until now. An instant remainder edition.
* _The Haunted House (Random House/Modern Library Classics 0-8129-7306-2, Oct 2004, $6.95, 126 + xxi, tp, cover by Kamil Vojnar) Reprint classic collaborative ghost story co-authored with Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, and others. Introduction by Wesley Stace.
DICKINSON, JOHN (chron.)

* *The Cup of the World (Fickling Books, David 0-385-60516-1, Jan 2004, £12.99, 419pp, hc, cover by Assheton Gordon) [Cup of the World] Young-adult fantasy novel.
* +The Cup of the World (Random House/Fickling 0-385-75025-0, Sep 2004, $15.95, 419pp, hc, cover by Albrecht Altdorfer) [Cup of the World] Young-adult medieval fantasy, first in a series. Phaedra is a pawn in court intrigue. A first novel. First US edition (Fickling UK 1/04).
DICKINSON, PETER (Malcolm de Brissac) (1927- ) (stories) (chron.)

* _The Gift Boat (Macmillan Children’s Books 1-405-03516-1, Mar 2004, £9.99, 138pp, hc) Reprint (Wendy Lamb 2004 as Inside Grandad) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
* *Inside Grandad (Random House/Lamb 0-385-74641-5, Feb 2004, $15.95, 117pp, hc, cover by David Johnson) Young-adult fantasy novella. A teen thinks there’s some connection between his grandfather’s stroke and the selkies.
* _The Tears of the Salamander (Macmillan Children’s Books 0-330-41540-9, Mar 2004, £5.99, 233pp, tp) Reprint (Macmillan Children’s Books 2003) young-adult fantasy novel.
* _Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits (with Robin McKinley) See entry under Robin McKinley.
DICKS, TERRANCE (1935- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *Star Quest (Big Finish 1-84435-066-5, Apr 2004, £14.99, hc) Young-adult SF omnibus. Omnibus of “Star Quest” trilogy, with new Intro by Dicks. (Contents) [Not seen]
DICKSON, GORDON R(upert) (1923-2001) (stories) (chron.)

* _Hour of the Gremlins (with Ben Bova) (Baen 0-7434-8826-1, May 2004, $7.99, 536pp, pb, cover by Csanad Novak) Reprint (Baen 2002) omnibus of three novels of alien encounters by Dickson, one in collaboration with Bova: Gremlins Go Home (1974) by Dickson & Bova, The Hour of the Horde (1970), and Wolfling (1969).
DIETZ, WILLIAM C(orey) (1945- ) (stories) (chron.)

* _For More Than Glory (SFBC #62489, Jan 2004, $12.49, 488pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Legion of the Damned] Reprint (Ace 2003) military SF novel, fifth in the “Legion of the Damned” series. This is similar to the SFBC edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
* _For More Than Glory (Ace 0-441-01214-0, Oct 2004, $7.99, 488pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Legion of the Damned] Reprint (Ace 2003) military SF novel, fifth in the “Legion of the Damned” series.
* *For Those Who Fell (Ace 0-441-01198-5, Oct 2004, $24.95, 410pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Legion of the Damned] Military SF novel, sixth in the “Legion of the Damned” series.
* *McCade for Hire (Ace 0-441-01129-2, Jan 2004, $14.00, 474pp, tp, cover by Kirk Reinert) [Sam McCade] Omnibus of the first two SF novels featuring interstellar bounty hunter Sam McCade: Galactic Bounty (1986) and Imperial Bounty (1988). (Contents)
DI FILIPPO, PAUL (1954- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* +Fuzzy Dice (ibooks 0-7434-9822-4, Oct 2004, $11.95, 296pp, tp, cover by Todd Schorr) Satiric SF novel. A bookstore clerk gets the ability to visit other worlds. Introduction by Rudy Rucker. First US edition (PS Publishing 2003).
* *Neutrino Drag (Four Walls Eight Windows 1-56858-300-1, Apr 2004, $15.95, 492pp, tp, cover by Marcia Salo) Collection of 20 humorous SF stories, with comments on each by the author. (Contents)
* *Spondulix (Cambrian Publications 1-878914-06-5, Jan 2004, $50.00, 345pp, hc, cover by Andy Watson) Satirical quasi-SF novel, expanded from the eponymous story. A sandwich shop owner in Hoboken gives out coupons that become a currency of their own. This is a signed, limited edition of 300. Order from Cambrian Publications, PO Box 41220, San Jose CA 95160-1220; [www.cambrianpubs.com].
DIKTY, JULIAN MAY (1931- ); see under May, Julian (chron.)
DILLON, DIANE (Claire Sorber) (1933- ) (chron.) (assoc.)

* _Between Heaven and Earth: Bird Tales from Around the World (with Howard Norman & Leo Dillon) See entry under Howard Norman.
* _The Porcelain Cat (with Michael Patrick Hearn & Leo Dillon) See entry under Michael Patrick Hearn.
DILLON, LEO; [i.e., Lionel John Dillon, Sr.] (1933- ) (chron.) (assoc.)

* _Between Heaven and Earth: Bird Tales from Around the World (with Diane Dillon & Howard Norman) See entry under Howard Norman.
* _The Porcelain Cat (with Diane Dillon & Michael Patrick Hearn) See entry under Michael Patrick Hearn.
DILMORE, KEVIN (stories) (chron.)

* _Star Trek, the Next Generation: A Time to Harvest (with Dayton Ward) See entry under Dayton Ward.
* _Star Trek, the Next Generation: A Time to Sow (with Dayton Ward) See entry under Dayton Ward.
* _Star Trek: S.C.E.: Foundations (with Dayton Ward) See entry under Dayton Ward.

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