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Contents for anthologies and omnibuses from the Locus Index
to Science Fiction www.locusmag.com/index/
July PROTEUS MANIFEST (2-in-1 of SIGHT OF PROTEUS and PROTEUS UNBOUND) by
Charles Sheffield
[Did I not review these? The first is from the 1970s is basically a police procedural in a world where technology allows people to alter their forms using biofeedback, which was A Big Thing back then. Not all new forms are necessarily viable - there's a whole hobbyist community whose members live short, memorable lives.
As I recall, SIGHT begins with the discovery of some odd corpses and ends with revelations about the lost history of the solar system, based on science that was pretty darn dodgy even then.
The second I have not read]
THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL by Douglas Adams
I missed this.
[That's not true. I am just not an Adams fan]
TWISTOR by John Cramer (Alternate)
A previously undocumented phenomenon gives a researcher access to a (set of?) parallel world, complicated by the machinations of a self-centered and corrupt professor and the people he works for.
Well, at least I finished it, which is more than I can say for Cramer's second book.
SPIRITS OF CAVERN AND HEARTH by M. Coleman Easton (Alternate)
I missed this.
The Complete Compleat Enchanter L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt
(Baen 0-671-69809-5, Mar '89 [Feb '89], $4.50, 532pp, pb)
[*Harold Shea]; Omnibus of the complete "Harold Shea" stories.
+ 1 o Preface o David Drake o pr
+ 5 o The Roaring Trumpet o na Unknown May '40
+ 113 o The Mathematics of Magic o na Unknown Aug '40
+ 239 o The Castle of Iron o n. Unknown Apr '41
+ 397 o The Wall of Serpents o na Fantasy Fiction Jun '53
+ 467 o The Green Magician o na Beyond Fantasy Fiction #9 '54
How did Del Rey let this get away from them?
Harold Shea is an American who discovers a way to think himself into other worlds. Because of how the method works, he ends up in worlds based on various works of mythology and fiction. Highly recommended.
August THE HARROWING OF GWYNEDD by Katherine Kurtz
Missed this.
RIMRUNNERS by C.J. Cherryh
Another tale of a person trying to survive despite too little sleep and information.
THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain Banks (Alternate)
This is set in [well, near] Banks' Culture, an AI dominated civilization seen from the point of view of their human pets. In this novel, a human with a talent for games is sent to compete in a neighboring unpleasant civilization, despite his initial lack of desire to do so.
I'm allergic to games-in-fiction so I don't care for this.
TALES FROM THE END OF TIME (2-in-1 of LEGENDS FROM THE END OF TIME
and A MESSIAH AT THE END OF TIME) by Michael Moorcock (Alternate)
I missed this.
September GUARDIANS OF THE FLAME: THE HEROES (2-in-1 of THE HEIR APPARENT
and THE WARRIOR LIVES) by Joel Rosenberg
And this.
The 1989 Annual World's Best SF ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W.
Saha (DAW 0-88677-353-9, Jun '89 [May '89], $3.95, 315pp, pb);
Anthology of 11 stories, including one Nebula winner and
several awards nominees. With an introduction by Isaac Asimov.
+ 7 o Introduction o Isaac Asimov o in
+ 11 o The Giving Plague o David Brin o ss Interzone #23 '88
+ 33 o Peaches for Mad Molly o Steven Gould o nv Analog Feb '88
+ 59 o Shaman o John Shirley o nv IASFM Nov '88
+ 96 o Schrödinger's Kitten o George Alec Effinger o nv Omni
Sep '88
+ 126 o The Flies of Memory o Ian Watson o na IASFM Sep '88
+ 181 o Skin Deep o Kristine Kathryn Rusch o ss Amazing Jan '88
+ 199 o A Madonna of the Machine o Tanith Lee o nv Other Edens
II, ed. Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock, London: Unwin,
1988
+ 222 o Waiting for the Olympians o Frederik Pohl o na IASFM
Aug '88
+ 271 o Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog o B. W. Clough o ss
Twilight Zone Jun '88
+ 283 o Adrift Among the Ghosts o Jack L. Chalker o ss Dance
Band on the Titanic, Ballantine, 1988
+ 300 o Ripples in the Dirac Sea o Geoffrey A. Landis o ss
IASFM Oct '88
More evidence I was in a deep hole in the middle of the Kalahari Desert as far as short fiction of the 1980s goes. I have heard of some of these, at least.
FAREWELL HORIZONTAL by K.W. Jeter (Alternate)
Here's an author who got a lot of fanfare when he first showed up (For Dr Adder, I think), and while I thought he was ok I never quite understood why all the fuss.
This is set in a society where everyone lives in a very tall
structure for some reason, and the protagonist gets on the wrong side
of the powers that be. Don't remember it all that clearly.
QUOZL by Alan Dean Foster (Alternate)
I think I read this and then forgot it.
Contents for anthologies and omnibuses from the Locus Index
to Science Fiction www.locusmag.com/index/
July PROTEUS MANIFEST (2-in-1 of SIGHT OF PROTEUS and PROTEUS UNBOUND) by
Charles Sheffield
[Did I not review these? The first is from the 1970s is basically a police procedural in a world where technology allows people to alter their forms using biofeedback, which was A Big Thing back then. Not all new forms are necessarily viable - there's a whole hobbyist community whose members live short, memorable lives.
As I recall, SIGHT begins with the discovery of some odd corpses and ends with revelations about the lost history of the solar system, based on science that was pretty darn dodgy even then.
The second I have not read]
THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL by Douglas Adams
I missed this.
[That's not true. I am just not an Adams fan]
TWISTOR by John Cramer (Alternate)
A previously undocumented phenomenon gives a researcher access to a (set of?) parallel world, complicated by the machinations of a self-centered and corrupt professor and the people he works for.
Well, at least I finished it, which is more than I can say for Cramer's second book.
SPIRITS OF CAVERN AND HEARTH by M. Coleman Easton (Alternate)
I missed this.
The Complete Compleat Enchanter L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt
(Baen 0-671-69809-5, Mar '89 [Feb '89], $4.50, 532pp, pb)
[*Harold Shea]; Omnibus of the complete "Harold Shea" stories.
+ 1 o Preface o David Drake o pr
+ 5 o The Roaring Trumpet o na Unknown May '40
+ 113 o The Mathematics of Magic o na Unknown Aug '40
+ 239 o The Castle of Iron o n. Unknown Apr '41
+ 397 o The Wall of Serpents o na Fantasy Fiction Jun '53
+ 467 o The Green Magician o na Beyond Fantasy Fiction #9 '54
How did Del Rey let this get away from them?
Harold Shea is an American who discovers a way to think himself into other worlds. Because of how the method works, he ends up in worlds based on various works of mythology and fiction. Highly recommended.
August THE HARROWING OF GWYNEDD by Katherine Kurtz
Missed this.
RIMRUNNERS by C.J. Cherryh
Another tale of a person trying to survive despite too little sleep and information.
THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain Banks (Alternate)
This is set in [well, near] Banks' Culture, an AI dominated civilization seen from the point of view of their human pets. In this novel, a human with a talent for games is sent to compete in a neighboring unpleasant civilization, despite his initial lack of desire to do so.
I'm allergic to games-in-fiction so I don't care for this.
TALES FROM THE END OF TIME (2-in-1 of LEGENDS FROM THE END OF TIME
and A MESSIAH AT THE END OF TIME) by Michael Moorcock (Alternate)
I missed this.
September GUARDIANS OF THE FLAME: THE HEROES (2-in-1 of THE HEIR APPARENT
and THE WARRIOR LIVES) by Joel Rosenberg
And this.
The 1989 Annual World's Best SF ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W.
Saha (DAW 0-88677-353-9, Jun '89 [May '89], $3.95, 315pp, pb);
Anthology of 11 stories, including one Nebula winner and
several awards nominees. With an introduction by Isaac Asimov.
+ 7 o Introduction o Isaac Asimov o in
+ 11 o The Giving Plague o David Brin o ss Interzone #23 '88
+ 33 o Peaches for Mad Molly o Steven Gould o nv Analog Feb '88
+ 59 o Shaman o John Shirley o nv IASFM Nov '88
+ 96 o Schrödinger's Kitten o George Alec Effinger o nv Omni
Sep '88
+ 126 o The Flies of Memory o Ian Watson o na IASFM Sep '88
+ 181 o Skin Deep o Kristine Kathryn Rusch o ss Amazing Jan '88
+ 199 o A Madonna of the Machine o Tanith Lee o nv Other Edens
II, ed. Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock, London: Unwin,
1988
+ 222 o Waiting for the Olympians o Frederik Pohl o na IASFM
Aug '88
+ 271 o Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog o B. W. Clough o ss
Twilight Zone Jun '88
+ 283 o Adrift Among the Ghosts o Jack L. Chalker o ss Dance
Band on the Titanic, Ballantine, 1988
+ 300 o Ripples in the Dirac Sea o Geoffrey A. Landis o ss
IASFM Oct '88
More evidence I was in a deep hole in the middle of the Kalahari Desert as far as short fiction of the 1980s goes. I have heard of some of these, at least.
FAREWELL HORIZONTAL by K.W. Jeter (Alternate)
Here's an author who got a lot of fanfare when he first showed up (For Dr Adder, I think), and while I thought he was ok I never quite understood why all the fuss.
This is set in a society where everyone lives in a very tall
structure for some reason, and the protagonist gets on the wrong side
of the powers that be. Don't remember it all that clearly.
QUOZL by Alan Dean Foster (Alternate)
I think I read this and then forgot it.
