The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2004
Books, Listed by Author
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- LAIMO, MICHAEL (stories) (chron.)
- * *Deep in the Darkness (Leisure 0-8439-5314-4, Feb 2004, $6.99, 369pp, pb) [Golden Eyes] Horror novel set in the same world as the Golden Eyes story trilogy. A limited first edition from Flesh & Blood Press was announced but not seen.
- * *Sleepwalker (Delirium Books 1-929653-64-6, Dec 2004, $50.00, 407pp, hc) Horror novel. Richard Sparkes nightmares start to spill over into the waking world. This is a signed, limited edition of 250. Delirium Books, PO Box 338, North Webster IN 46555; [www.deliriumbooks.com]; [sales@deliriumbooks.com].
- LAKE, JAY; [i.e., Joseph Edward Lake, Jr.] (1964- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *American Sorrows (Wheatland Press 0-9755903-0-8, Sep 2004, $16.95, 169 + viii, tp, cover by Aynjel Kaye) Collection of four stories, two original. Includes Hugo nominee Into the Gardens of Sweet Night. Introduction by James Van Pelt. A print-on-demand book, available online at [www.wheatlandpress.com], or from Wheatland Press, PO Box 1818, Wilsonville OR 97070. (Contents)
- * *Dogs in the Moonlight (Wildside Press/Prime Books 1-930997-57-4, Nov 2004, $17.95, 156pp, tp) Collection of 16 stories, seven original, one previously published in online audio format. Introduction by Ray Vukcevich. A hardcover edition (-56-6, $29.95) was announced but not seen. This is a print-on-demand edition, available online at [www.primebooks.net] or from Wildside Press, PO Box 301, Holicong PA 18928-0301. (Contents)
- * *Green Grow the Rushes-Oh (Fairwood Press 0-9746573-0-1, Apr 2004, $6.99, 57pp, ph, cover by Keith Boulger) Chapbook collection of 12 stories based on an old counting song, originally published online at [www.strangehorizons.com]. Order from Fairwood Press, 5203 Quincy Ave. SE, Auburn WA 98092; add $1.00 postage; [www.fairwoodpress.com]; [info@fairwoodpress.com]. (Contents)
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- LAND, JON (1957- ) (chron.)
- * *The Last Prophecy (Tor/Forge 0-765-30969-6, Apr 2004, $25.95, 383pp, hc, cover by Robert Santora) Thriller with possible supernatural elements. Lost prophecies of Nostradamus may help prevent disaster striking the United States.
- * _The Last Prophecy (Tor 0-765-34850-0, Dec 2004, $7.99, 422pp, pb, cover by Robert Santora) Reprint (Forge 2004) thriller with possible supernatural elements.
- LANE, JOEL (Richard), ed. (1963- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- LANGFORD, DAVID (Rowland) (1953- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * *Different Kinds of Darkness (Wildside Press/Cosmos Books 1-59224-122-0, Jun 2004, $17.95, 286pp, tp) Collection of 36 stories. Langford provides afterwords on the writing of each story. This is a print-on-demand edition, available online at [www.wildsidepress.com], or from Wildside Press, PO Box 301, Holicong PA 18928-0301. (Contents)
- * *He Do the Time Police in Different Voices (Wildside Press/Cosmos Books 1-59224-058-5, Jun 2004, $16.99, 222pp, tp) Collection of humorous pieces, most parodies and pastiches of SF and fantasy. Includes The Dragonhikers Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dunes Edge: Odyssey Two (1988). This is a print-on-demand edition, available online at [www.wildsidepress.com], or from Wildside Press, PO Box 301, Holicong PA 18928-0301. (Contents)
- LANGRISH, KATHERINE (chron.) (assoc.)
- * +Troll Fell (HarperCollins 0-06-058304-5, Jun 2004, $15.99, 264pp, hc, cover by Christophe Vacher) [Troll] Young-adult fantasy novel. Orphan Peer must live with his vicious uncles in a valley inhabited by a secret kingdom of trolls. First US edition (Collins 5/04).
- * *Troll Fell (HarperCollins Childrens Books UK 0-00-717071-8, Jul 2004, £10.99, 319pp, hc, cover by Larry Rostant) [Troll] Young-adult fantasy novel.
- LANSDALE, JOE R(ichard Harold) (1951- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * _Bubba Ho-tep (with Don Coscarelli) (Night Shade Books 1-892389-46-0, Mar 2004, $25.00, 159pp, hc) Reprint (Night Shade Book 2003) collection of Lansdales novella about Elvis, JFK, and a mummy, plus the movie script by Coscarelli, with introductions by both authors, and stills. The previous signed, limited edition of 750 (-62-2, $40.00) was not seen. Night Shade Books, 3623 SW Baird St., Portland OR 97219; [night@nightshadebooks.com]; [www.nightshadebooks.com].
- * *Bumper Crop (Golden Gryphon Press 1-930846-24-X, Apr 2004, $24.95, 199 + xi, hc, cover by John Picacio) Collection of 26 stories, with a foreword by Lansdale, who describes these as his best short stories in the twist and surprise and aint that damn weird school. Order from Golden Gryphon Press, 3002 Perkins Road, Urbana IL 61802; [www.goldengryphon.com]. (Contents)
- * *Sunset and Sawdust (Random House/Knopf 0-375-41453-3, Mar 2004, $22.00, 321pp, hc, cover by Robert de Soto) Associational mystery.
- LARIAR, LAWRENCE (1908-1981); see pseudonym Michael Lawrence (chron.)
- LAU, MILLER; pseudonym of Deborah J. Miller (chron.)
- LAUMER, (John) KEITH (1925-1993) (stories) (chron.)
- * *Legions of Space (Baen 0-7434-8855-5, Oct 2004, $7.99, 470pp, pb, cover by Jeff Easley) Collection of two novels, A Trace of Memory (1963) and collaboration with Gordon R. Dickson Planet Run (1967), plus four stories. Edited by Eric Flint. Preface by Joel Rosenberg. (Contents)
- LAURENT, PATRICIA (chron.)
- * *Santiagos Way (Owen, Peter 0-7206-1190-3, Jun 2004, £12.50, 112pp, hc) Surreal fantasy novel of a woman haunted since childhood by a mysterious inner presence. Translated by Geoff Hargreaves from the Spanish El Camino de Santiago (Conarte Mexico 2000 as by Patricia Laurent Kullick) which won the Literatura Nuevo León prize.
- LAWHEAD, STEPHEN R. (1950- ) (chron.)
- * _Patrick (HarperCollins UK 0-00-714885-2, Mar 2004, £6.99, 454pp, pb) Reprint (HarperCollins 2003) fantasy novel.
- * _Patrick: Son of Ireland (HarperTorch 0-06-001282-X, Feb 2004, $7.99, 579pp, pb) Reprint (Zondervan 2003) historical novel with minor fantasy elements.
- LAWRENCE, MICHAEL; pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar, (1908-1981) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *A Crack in the Line (Watts/Orchard Books UK, Franklin 1-84121-166-4, Sep 2003, £12.99, 281pp, hc, cover by Chris Inns) [Aldous Lexicon] Young-adult fantasy novel, the first in the Aldous Lexicon trilogy. A boy traumatized by his mothers death finds an alternate world where she lives but has a daughter. This is dated 2003 but not seen until now.
- * +A Crack in the Line (HarperCollins/Greenwillow 0-06-072477-3, Aug 2004, $15.99, 323pp, hc, cover by Chad W. Beckerman) [Aldous Lexicon] Young-adult fantasy. A boy finds an alternate world where his mother still lives, but has a daughter instead of a son. First US edition (Orchard Books UK 9/03).
- * _A Crack in the Line (Orchard Books UK 1-84362-416-8, Sep 2004, £5.99, 279pp, tp) [Aldous Lexicon] Reprint (Orchard Books 2003) young-adult fantasy novel, the first part of the Aldous Lexicon trilogy.
- * *Small Eternities (Orchard Books UK 1-84121-168-0, Sep 2004, £12.99, 283pp, hc) [Aldous Lexicon] Young-adult fantasy novel. Second in the Aldous Lexicon trilogy after A Crack in the Line.
- LAWS, ROBIN D. (stories) (chron.)
- * *Warhammer: Sacred Flesh (BL Publishing/Black Library 1-84416-091-2, May 2004, £6.99, 409pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Warhammer: Angelika Fleischer] Novelization based on the roleplaying game, second in the Angelika Fleischer series.
- * +Warhammer: Sacred Flesh (BL Publishing/Black Library US 1-84416-091-2, Jul 2004, $7.99, 409pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Warhammer] Novelization based on the roleplaying game universe. Copyrighted by Games Workshop.
- LAWS, STEPHEN (1952- ) (chron.)
- * +The Wyrm (Leisure 0-8439-5219-9, Apr 2004, $6.99, 342pp, pb) Horror novel. A vampire-like creature is set loose in the English countryside. First US edition (Souvenir Press 1987).
- LAWSON, JOHN (Arthur) (chron.)
- * *Witch Ember (AmErica House 1-59129-038-4, May 2002, $29.95, 489pp, tp, cover by Jason Nunes) [Witch Ember] Fantasy novel. A street urchin has unprecedented magical powers. This is dated 2002 but not seen until now. Order online from AmErica House Book Publishers at [www.publishamerica.com].
- LAWSON, JOHN EDWARD, ed. (stories) (chron.)
- * *Sick: An Anthology of Illness (Raw Dog Screaming 0-9745031-1-8, Dec 2003, $15.95, 296pp, tp, cover by David Anthony Magitis) Original anthlogy of 26 horror stories, nine reprints, about illness. Authors include Mark McLaughlin, Michael A. Arnzen, and Jeffrey Thomas. Order from Raw Dog Screaming Press, 5103 72nd Place, Hyattsville MD 20784; [www.rawdogscreaming.com]. (Contents)
- LAYDEN, JOE (chron.)
- LAYMON, RICHARD (Carl) (1947-2001) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * _Amara (Hodder Headline 0-7472-6731-6, Dec 2003, £6.99, xii+436pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) Reprint (Headline 2003) dark fantasy novel, with an introduction by Dean Koontz.
- * +Body Rides (Leisure 0-8439-5182-6, Mar 2004, $7.99, 534pp, pb) Horror novel. A mysterious bracelet lets its wearer enter the bodies of others. First US edition (Headline 1996); this follows Laymons manuscript, not the edited UK edition.
- * +Endless Night (Leisure 0-8439-5184-2, Jul 2004, $7.99, 466pp, pb) Associational thriller. First US edition (Headline 1993).
- * *The Lake (Hodder Headline 0-7472-6933-5, Apr 2004, £18.99, 346pp, hc, cover by Steve Crisp) Associational horror novel.
- * +The Lake (Leisure 0-8439-5450-7, Sep 2004, $24.00, 374pp, hc) Associational non-supernatural horror novel. First US edition (Headline 4/04).
- * _To Wake the Dead (Leisure 0-8439-5468-X, Nov 2004, $7.99, 386 + xi, pb) Reprint (Hodder Headline 2003) horror novel. Introduction by Dean Koontz.
- LAYNE, DEBORAH, ed. (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *Polyphony, Volume 4 (with Jay Lake) (Wheatland Press 0-9720547-6-6, Sep 2004, $17.95, 412 + vii, tp, cover by Jay Lake) Original anthology of 24 slipstream stories. Authors include Lucius Shepard, Michael Bishop, Tim Pratt, and Jeff VanderMeer. This is a print-on-demand book, available online at [www.wheatlandpress.com], or from Wheatland Press, PO Box 1818, Wilsonville OR 97070. (Contents)
- LEBBON, TIM (stories) (chron.)
- * *Changing of Faces (PS Publishing 1-902880-68-4, Jan 2004, £25.00, 98 + ix, tp, cover by Alan M. Clark) [Naming of Parts] Horror novella, sequel to Naming of Parts. Introduction by Simon Clark. This is a limited edition of 300 signed by Lebbon and Simon Clark; a trade paperback edition of 500 (-68-4, £10.00) signed by Lebbon is also available. Available from PS Publishing, Hamilton House, 4 Park Ave., Harrogate, HG2 9BQ, UK; [www.pspublishing.co.uk].
- * *Changing of Faces (PS Publishing 1-902880-67-6, Mar 2004, £10.00, 98pp, tp, cover by Alan M. Clark) [Naming of Parts] SF/horror novella, with an introduction by Simon Clark. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Also available in a hardcover edition (-68-4, £25.00), limited to 300 numbered copies.
- * *Fears Unnamed (Leisure 0-8439-5200-8, Feb 2004, $6.99, 337pp, pb) Collection of four horror novellas, one original; two won British Fantasy Awards. A limited hardcover edition from Borderlands Press was announced but not seen. (Contents)
- LeBLANC, DEBORAH (chron.)
- * *Family Inheritance (Leisure 0-8439-5347-0, Aug 2004, $6.99, 358pp, pb) Horror novel. A woman returns to her roots in the Louisiana bayous to save her mad brother from an evil entity.
- LEE, DIANA (chron.)
- LEE, EDWARD; pseudonym of Lee Edward Seymour, (1957- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * _Infernal Angel (Leisure 0-8439-5203-2, Jan 2004, $6.99, 338pp, pb) [City Infernal] Reprint (CD Publications 2003) horror novel, sequel to City Infernal. Cassie is forced to returned to the damned city of Hell.
- * *The Messenger (Leisure 0-8439-5204-0, Aug 2004, $6.99, 337pp, pb) Reprint (Necro Publications 2004, not seen) horror novel.
- LEE, GWEN, ed. (chron.)
- * _What If Our World Is Their Heaven?: The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick (with Doris Elaine Sauter) (Overlook Press 1-58567-378-1, Jan 2003, $16.95, 204pp, tp) Reissue (Overlook Press 2000) non-fiction. Second printing. [Dick]
- LEE, J. ARDIAN (stories) (chron.)
- * _Sword of King James (Ace 0-441-01185-3, Jul 2004, $6.99, 358pp, pb, cover by Dan Craig) [Son of the Sword] Reprint (Ace 2003) fantasy time-travel novel, third in the series begun in Son of the Sword.
- * *Sword of the White Rose (Ace 0-441-01171-3, Jul 2004, $14.00, 309pp, tp, cover by Tristan Elwell) [Son of the Sword] Fantasy time-travel novel, fourth in the series begun in Son of the Sword.
- LEE, RACHEL; pseudonym of Susan Civil-Brown & Christian Brown (chron.)
- LEE, SAMANTHA; pseudonym of Maggie Webb (chron.)
- * *Demon II (Scholastic UK 0-439-97755-X, Jan 2004, £4.99, 278pp, pb) [Demon] Young-adult dark fantasy novel, sequel to Demon. A Point Horror novel.
- LEE, SHARON (1952- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * _Balance of Trade (with Steve Miller) (SFBC #1170927, Nov 2004, $12.49, 461pp, hc, cover by Donato Giancola) [Liaden] Reprint (Meisha Merlin 2004, not seen) SF adventure novel in the Liaden universe.
- LEE, TANITH; [i.e., Tanith Lee Kaiine] (1947- ); see pseudonym Esther Garber (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * *Cast a Bright Shadow (Macmillan/Tor UK 1-4050-0634-X, May 2004, £10.99, 431pp, tp, cover by Dominic Harman) [Lionwolf] Fantasy novel, book one of the Lionwolf trilogy.
- * *Death of the Day (Egerton House 0-9546275-2-0, Dec 2004, £13.99, 339pp, tp, cover by John Kaiine) Associational mystery novel. This is a print-on-demand edition. Egerton House, 3 Egerton Road, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, TN39 3HH, UK; [books@egertonhousepublishing.co.uk].
- * *Piratica (Hodder Childrens Books 0-340-85446-4, Feb 2004, £10.99, 370pp, hc) [Piratica] Young-adult alternate-history fantasy novel about a girl determined to be a pirate like her mother.
- * _Piratica (Hodder Childrens Books 0-340-85445-6, Aug 2004, £5.99, 370pp, tp, cover by John Avon) [Piratica] Reprint (Hodder Childrens Books 2004) young-adult alternate-history fantasy novel.
- * +Piratica (Penguin/Dutton 0-525-47324-6, Sep 2004, $17.99, 288pp, hc, cover by Glenn Harrington) [Piratica] Associational YA pirate adventure. First US edition (Hodder 2/04).
- * _Saint Fire (Overlook Press 1-58567-425-7, Aug 2003, $14.95, 335pp, tp, cover by J. K. Potter) [Secret Books of Venus] Reprint (Overlook Press 1999) dark fantasy novel, volume two of The Secret Books of Venus. This is dated 2003 but not seen until now.
- * *The Secret Books of Venus III & IV (SFBC #61395, Dec 2003, $13.99, 476pp, hc, cover by Gary Lippincott) [Secret Books of Venus] Omnibus of two dark fantasy novels set in an alternate 18th-century Venice: A Bed of Earth (2002) and Venus Preserved (2003). This has ISBN 0-7394-3842-5; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket. (Contents)
- * _Wolf Wing (Penguin/Firebird 0-14-240247-8, Nov 2004, $6.99, 229pp, tp, cover by Victor Lee) [Claidi Journals] Reprint (Hodder Silver 2002) young-adult fantasy, fourth and final book of The Claidi Journals.
- LEE, VERNON; pseudonym of Violet Paget, (1856-1935) (stories) (chron.)
- * _Supernatural Tales: Excursions into Fantasy (Dufour/Peter Owen 0-7206-1194-6, Mar 2004, $19.95, 222pp, tp) Reprint (Grove Press 1954 as The Snake Lady and Other Stories) collection of six tales written between 1881 and 1913, edited and with an introduction by I. Cooper Willis. This follows the abridged Peter Owen 1955 edition. Lee is a pen name for Violet Paget. This is the Peter Owen 2004 edition with Dufour stickers, available from Dufour Editions, PO Box 7, Chester Springs PA 19425-0007; 610-458-5005; [www.dufoureditions.com]. (Contents)
- LEFEBVRE, MARK LESLIE; see pseudonym Mark Leslie (stories) (chron.)
- LE GUIN, URSULA K(roeber) (1929- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)
- * _The Birthday of the World (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07539-2, Jan 2004, £6.99, 362pp, pb) Reprint (HarperCollins 2002 as The Birthday of the World and other stories) collection of eight stories, one an original novella, Paradises Lost.
- * _Changing Planes (Gollancz 0-575-07564-3, Jan 2004, £8.99, i+214pp, hc) Reprint (Harcourt 2003) original collection of 10 stories, six reprints. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Changing Planes (Ace 0-441-01156-X, Aug 2004, $14.00, 244pp, tp, cover by Cliff Nielsen) Reprint (Harcourt 2003) collection of 16 stories. Winner of the 2004 Locus Award.
- * _The Farthest Shore (Pocket 1-4165-0964-X, Nov 2004, $14.00, 259pp, tp) [Earthsea] Reprint (Atheneum 1972) YA fantasy novel, third in the Earthsea series. This is a TV movie tie-in.
- * _Four Ways to Forgiveness (HarperCollins/Perennial 0-06-076029-X, Dec 2004, $13.95, 304pp, tp) Reprint (HarperPrism 1995) collection of four related SF novellas, including the award-winning Forgiveness Day.
- * *Gifts (Harcourt 0-15-205123-6, Sep 2004, $17.00, 274pp, hc, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [Annals of the Western Shore] Young-adult fantasy novel. In a land where everyone has powerful gifts and fears the neighbors, two youngsters decide not to use theirs.
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