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The Science Fiction Book Club Reviews Revisited: 1996 (first quarter)
Lists courtesy of Andrew Wheeler.
Contents for anthologies and omnibuses from the Locus Index
to Science Fiction www.locusmag.com/index/
1996
January
STORM RISING by Mercedes Lackey
I missed this.
STAR WARS(r): DARKSABER by Kevin Anderson
I avoided this.
MID-FLINX by Alan Dean Foster (Alternate)
And I missed this.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE by Raymond E. Feist (Alternate)
And this.
SPIDER-MAN(r): THE LIZARD SANCTION by Diane Duane
(Alternate)
And this.
DRAGON WAKING by Craig Shaw Gardner (Alternate)
I avoided this.
Special Cycle # 2
THE ENCHANTED FOREST CHRONICLES (4-in-1 of DEALING WITH DRAGONS, SEARCHING FOR DRAGONS, CALLING OF DRAGONS and SEARCHING FOR DRAGONS) by Patricia Wrede
And I inexplicably never read this even though what I have read of Wrede I have liked.
THE SHIP WHO SANG by Anne McCaffrey
If memory serves this is one of the few AM novels I have read. This is a story of a horribly disfigured little girl whose body is discarded so that her brain, perfectly functional, can be installed in a star ship. I don't recall much about the plot or whether at any point the girl was asked what she thought of the idea of becoming a cyborg.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Science Fiction by Peter Nicolls & John Clute
(Alternate)
This is the second edition of the ESF, as I recall. It's even longer than the the 1979 (?) original even though fantasy was split off for its own encyclopedia. Definitely recommended.
At one point I think one could get the errata (and even the CRC Rubber Bible has errata) on CD. Don't know if that is still true.
[There has, of course been a third edition, an online one. Also, when I say "even the CRC Rubber Bible has errata," I should have said "especially the CRC etc."]
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment ed. David G. Hartwell (SFBC
#1051, May '88 [Apr '88], $6.98, 622pp, hc)
+ xi o Introduction o David G. Hartwell o in
+ 3 o The Rule of Names o Ursula K. Le Guin o ss Fantastic Apr
'64
+ 13 o The Magic Fishbone [part of "Holiday Romance"] o Charles
Dickens o ss Our Young Folks Jan-May, 1868
+ 23 o The Goddess on the Street Corner o Margaret St. Clair o
ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep '53
+ 31 o Feathertop: A Moralized Legend o Nathaniel Hawthorne o
ss Mosses from an Old Manse, Wiley & Putnam, 1846
+ 49 o The Root and the Ring o Wyman Guin o nv Beyond Fantasy
Fiction Sep '54
+ 70 o The Green Magician [Harold Shea] o L. Sprague de Camp &
Fletcher Pratt o na Beyond Fantasy Fiction #9 '54
+ 128 o Our Fair City o Robert A. Heinlein o ss Weird Tales Jan
'49
+ 149 o The Man Who Could Not See Devils o Joanna Russ o ss
Alchemy & Academe, ed. Anne McCaffrey, Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1970
+ 162 o A New Arabian Night's Entertainment o Horace Walpole o
ss Hieroglyphic Tales, self published, 1785
+ 166 o The King and His Three Daughters o Horace Walpole o ss
Hieroglyphic Tales, self published, 1785
+ 169 o The Dice-Box: A Fairy Tale o Horace Walpole o ss
Hieroglyphic Tales, self published, 1785
+ 173 o The Peach in Brandy: A Milesian Tale o Horace Walpole o
ss Hieroglyphic Tales, self published, 1785
+ 176 o Mi Li: A Chinese Fairy Tale o Horace Walpole o ss
Hieroglyphic Tales, self published, 1785
+ 182 o A True Love Story o Horace Walpole o ss Hieroglyphic
Tales, self published, 1785
+ 185 o The Bird's Nest o Horace Walpole o ss Horace Walpole:
Writer, Politician, Connoisseur, ed. Warren Hunting Smith,
Yale University Press, 1967
+ 189 o Bird of Prey o John Collier o ss Presenting Moonshine,
New York: Viking, 1941; Playboy Jan '54
+ 197 o The Detective of Dreams o Gene Wolfe o nv Dark Forces,
ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking, 1980
+ 214 o The Bee-Man of Orn o Frank R. Stockton o ss The Bee-Man
of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales, Scribner's, 1887
+ 224 o The Red Hawk o Elizabeth A. Lynn o nv Cheap Street: New
Castle, VA, 1983
+ 252 o The Canvasser's Tale o Mark Twain o ss Atlantic Monthly
Dec, 1876
+ 261 o The Silken-Swift o Theodore Sturgeon o nv F&SF Nov '53
+ 280 o The New Mother o Lucy Lane Clifford o ss Anyhow
Stories, Moral and Otherwise, 1882
+ 291 o Mr. Lupescu o Anthony Boucher o ss Weird Tales Sep '45
+ 296 o The King of the Cats o Stephen Vincent Benét o ss
Harper's Bazaar Feb '29
+ 310 o Uncle Einar o Ray Bradbury o ss Dark Carnival, Arkham
House: Sauk City, WI, 1947
+ 318 o Space-Time for Springers [Gummitch] o Fritz Leiber o ss
Star Science Fiction Stories #4, ed. Frederik Pohl,
Ballantine, 1958
+ 330 o Great Is Diana o Avram Davidson o ss F&SF Aug '58
+ 339 o The Last of the Huggermuggers: A Giant Story o
Christopher Pearse Cranch o na Boston: Phillips, Sampson,
1856
+ 368 o Tobermory o Saki o ss The Westminster Gazette Nov 27
'09
+ 375 o The King of the Elves o Philip K. Dick o nv Beyond
Fantasy Fiction Sep '53
+ 397 o The Glass Dog o L. Frank Baum o ss American Fairy
Tales, George M. Hill: Chicago, 1901
+ 405 o The Queen of Quok o L. Frank Baum o ss American Fairy
Tales, George M. Hill: Chicago, 1901
+ 413 o The Magic Bonbons o L. Frank Baum o ss American Fairy
Tales, George M. Hill: Chicago, 1901
+ 419 o The Dummy That Lived o L. Frank Baum o ss American
Fairy Tales, George M. Hill: Chicago, 1901
+ 426 o The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers [Neveryon] o Samuel R.
Delany o nv Tales of Neveryon, 1979
+ 455 o from Phantasmion o Sara Coleridge o ex London:
Pickering, 1837
+ 465 o The Sapphire Necklace o Kenneth Morris o ss The
Theosophical Path Nov '30
+ 473 o The Regent of the North [as by C. ApArthur] o Kenneth
Morris o ss The Theosophical Path Aug '15
+ 483 o The Eyeless Dragons: A Chinese Story [as by Quintus
Reynolds] o Kenneth Morris o ss The Theosophical Path Jun '15
+ 491 o Elric at the End of Time [Elric] o Michael Moorcock o
nv Elsewhere v1, ed. Terri Winding & Mark Alan Arnold, Ace,
1981
+ 532 o Lindenborg Pool o William Morris o ss Oxford and
Cambridge Magazine Sep, 1856
+ 540 o The Moon Pool [Walter Goodwin] o A. Merritt o na
All-Story Weekly Jun 22 '18
+ 580 o The Sword of Welleran o Lord Dunsany o ss The Sword of
Welleran and Other Stories, London: G. Allen, 1908
+ 593 o Operation Afreet [Steven Matuchek; Ginny Greylock] o
Poul Anderson o nv F&SF Sep '56
I own a few of these in other forms (the De Camp and the Anderson). If those are any guide this is a pretty good collection.
THE NITPICKER'S GUIDE FOR NEXT GENERATION TREKKERS, VOLUME II by Phil Farrand (Alternate)
No idea what this is like. Nitpicking Trek is a little like fist fighting with a paraplegic.
SPECTRUM 2 edited by Arnie Fenner & Cathy Burnett
(Alternate)
This is an art book, I belive.
February
ENDYMION by Dan Simmons
I had burned out on Simmons when this came out. I should go hunt it down.
[No, I shouldn't]
CROWN OF SHADOWS by C.S. Friedman
As previously described, I have been conditioned not to read Friedman but I know lots people who like her work.
[I got over it and have read a number of her books]
CETAGANDA by Lois McMaster Bujold (Alternate)
Young Miles and That Idiot Ivan take part in a state visit to Ceteganda, the world whose empire once occupied Miles and Ivan's home world of Barrayar. Will complications ensue? Of course they will.
Amusing, slight. Cat lovers may want to skip this one for reasons I can't explain without removing the point of the warning.
THE DRAGON AND THE DJINN by Gordon R. Dickson (Alternate)
I missed this. Damn the readers for buying the Dragon books instead of rewarding Dickson for writing more interesting material.
EVOLUTION'S SHORE by Ian McDonald (Alternate)
A meteor impact in Africa is followed by the transformation of the local lifeforms, including humans. The zone is spreading rapidly and a reporter is sent to investigate the story. As was pretty inevitable, human politics greatly complicate matters.
I like this one quite a lot. Am I correct in thinking that MacDonald has had no US publisher since the late 1990s?
[No longer true; he is published in NorAm now]
YOURS, ISAAC ASIMOV by Isaac Asimov (Alternate)
I don't know what this is.
HEADCRASH by Bruce Bethke (Alternate)
A comic cyberpunk novel, it works about as well as Dilbert does until the author makes the attempt to introduce an actual plot.
CHILDREN OF THE VAMPIRE by Jeanne Kalogridis (Alternate)
Missed this.
GHOSTLIGHT by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Alternate)
Missed this.
Dark Love ed. Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer & Martin H. Greenberg
(Penguin/Roc 0-451-45472-3, Nov '95 [Oct '95], $22.95, 414pp,
hc, cover by Mel Odom)
+ xi o Introduction o T. E. D. Klein o in
+ 17 o Lunch at the Gotham Café o Stephen King o nv *
+ 55 o The Psycho o Michael O'Donoghue o ss *
+ 63 o Pas de Deux o Kathe Koja o ss *
+ 80 o Bright Blades Gleaming o Basil Copper o nv *
+ 109 o Hanson's Radio o John Lutz o ss *
+ 122 o Refrigerator Heaven o David J. Schow o ss *
+ 136 o Ro Erg o Robert Weinberg o ss *
+ 152 o Going Under o Ramsey Campbell o ss *
+ 169 o Hidden o Stuart Kaminsky o ss *
+ 188 o Prism o Wendy Webb o ss *
+ 194 o The Maiden o Richard Laymon o nv *
+ 220 o You've Got Your Troubles, I've Got Mine... o Bob Burden
o nv *
+ 241 o Waco o George C. Chesbro o ss *
+ 248 o The Penitent o John Peyton Cooke o nv *
+ 271 o Driven o Kathryn Ptacek o ss *
+ 286 o Barbara o John Shirley o ss *
+ 301 o Hymenoptera o Michael Blumlein o ss Crank! #1 '93
+ 312 o The End of It All o Ed Gorman o nv Cages, Deadline
Press, 1995
+ 349 o Heat o Lucy Taylor o ss *
+ 359 o Thin Walls o Nancy A. Collins o ss *
+ 375 o Locked Away o Karl Edward Wagner o ss *
+ 392 o Loop o Douglas E. Winter o nv *
Some promising names in there but I have read none of these. Apparently the unifying theme is 'the darker side of love'.
THE HOT BLOOD SERIES: STRANGER BY NIGHT edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett (Enclosure)
Tales of erotic horror but I am too uninventive to discover the ToC for this.
[xi • Introduction (Stranger by Night) • essay by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett
1 • Take It As It Comes • shortstory by Tom Piccirilli
13 • The Body in the Window • shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
31 • Jacking In • novelette by Brinke Stevens
60 • End of the Road • shortstory by Edo van Belkom
71 • Just Sex • shortstory by Michael Garrett
91 • Skin Deep • shortstory by Christa Faust
103 • Home Movies • shortstory by Bruce Jones
114 • The Jajouka Penis-Beetle • novelette by Graham Masterton
149 • Beached • shortstory by Wendy Rathbone
169 • Hot Phosphor • novelette by John B. Rosenman
190 • Male-Call • shortstory by Lucy Taylor
204 • Five Card Stud • shortstory by Michael Newton
214 • Video Date • shortstory by Jeff Gelb
227 • Impulse • novelette by Yvonne Navarro
251 • Dead Girls in Love • shortstory by Gary Bowen and Edward Lee
265 • Getting Wet • shortstory by Alexa deMonterice
278 • Back Row • (1988) • shortstory by Brian Lumley
288 • Godflesh • novelette by Brian Hodge
313 • The Contributors (Stranger by Night) • essay by uncredited
March
TIGER BURNING BRIGHT by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackey
I missed this.
MAGNIFICAT by Julian May
And this.
STAR TREK(r): THE NEXT GENERATION(tm): CROSSOVER by Michael Jan Friedman (Alternate)
And this.
LUTHIEN'S GAMBLE by R.A. Salvatore (Alternate)
And this.
Far Futures ed. Gregory Benford (Tor 0-312-85639-3, Dec '95 [Nov '95],
$23.95, 348pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton)
+ 11 o Introduction: Looking Long o Gregory Benford o in *
+ 23 o Judgment Engine o Greg Bear o nv *
+ 56 o Genesis o Poul Anderson o na *
+ 149 o Historical Crisis o Donald Kingsbury o na *
+ 242 o For White Hill o Joe Haldeman o na *
+ 280 o At the Eschaton o Charles Sheffield o na *
These are all set at least 10,000 years into the future. Oddly while I have read none of these in this form, at lest two of them were expanded into novels that I did read (The Anderson and the Kingsbury). The Anderson was too short, a complaint I almost never make about modern novels. The Kingsbury, a reexamination of some issues raised in Foundation, was pretty good aside from the usual creepy sex stuff.
THE PRINCE AND THE PILGRIM by Mary Stewart (Alternate)
Aside from some Arthurian books I have never read Stewart. No good reason why not, either.
Contents for anthologies and omnibuses from the Locus Index
to Science Fiction www.locusmag.com/index/
1996
January
STORM RISING by Mercedes Lackey
I missed this.
STAR WARS(r): DARKSABER by Kevin Anderson
I avoided this.
MID-FLINX by Alan Dean Foster (Alternate)
And I missed this.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE by Raymond E. Feist (Alternate)
And this.
SPIDER-MAN(r): THE LIZARD SANCTION by Diane Duane
(Alternate)
And this.
DRAGON WAKING by Craig Shaw Gardner (Alternate)
I avoided this.
Special Cycle # 2
THE ENCHANTED FOREST CHRONICLES (4-in-1 of DEALING WITH DRAGONS, SEARCHING FOR DRAGONS, CALLING OF DRAGONS and SEARCHING FOR DRAGONS) by Patricia Wrede
And I inexplicably never read this even though what I have read of Wrede I have liked.
THE SHIP WHO SANG by Anne McCaffrey
If memory serves this is one of the few AM novels I have read. This is a story of a horribly disfigured little girl whose body is discarded so that her brain, perfectly functional, can be installed in a star ship. I don't recall much about the plot or whether at any point the girl was asked what she thought of the idea of becoming a cyborg.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Science Fiction by Peter Nicolls & John Clute
(Alternate)
This is the second edition of the ESF, as I recall. It's even longer than the the 1979 (?) original even though fantasy was split off for its own encyclopedia. Definitely recommended.
At one point I think one could get the errata (and even the CRC Rubber Bible has errata) on CD. Don't know if that is still true.
[There has, of course been a third edition, an online one. Also, when I say "even the CRC Rubber Bible has errata," I should have said "especially the CRC etc."]
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment ed. David G. Hartwell (SFBC
#1051, May '88 [Apr '88], $6.98, 622pp, hc)
+ xi o Introduction o David G. Hartwell o in
+ 3 o The Rule of Names o Ursula K. Le Guin o ss Fantastic Apr
'64
+ 13 o The Magic Fishbone [part of "Holiday Romance"] o Charles
Dickens o ss Our Young Folks Jan-May, 1868
+ 23 o The Goddess on the Street Corner o Margaret St. Clair o
ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep '53
+ 31 o Feathertop: A Moralized Legend o Nathaniel Hawthorne o
ss Mosses from an Old Manse, Wiley & Putnam, 1846
+ 49 o The Root and the Ring o Wyman Guin o nv Beyond Fantasy
Fiction Sep '54
+ 70 o The Green Magician [Harold Shea] o L. Sprague de Camp &
Fletcher Pratt o na Beyond Fantasy Fiction #9 '54
+ 128 o Our Fair City o Robert A. Heinlein o ss Weird Tales Jan
'49
+ 149 o The Man Who Could Not See Devils o Joanna Russ o ss
Alchemy & Academe, ed. Anne McCaffrey, Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1970
+ 162 o A New Arabian Night's Entertainment o Horace Walpole o
ss Hieroglyphic Tales, self published, 1785
+ 166 o The King and His Three Daughters o Horace Walpole o ss
Hieroglyphic Tales, self published, 1785
+ 169 o The Dice-Box: A Fairy Tale o Horace Walpole o ss
Hieroglyphic Tales, self published, 1785
+ 173 o The Peach in Brandy: A Milesian Tale o Horace Walpole o
ss Hieroglyphic Tales, self published, 1785
+ 176 o Mi Li: A Chinese Fairy Tale o Horace Walpole o ss
Hieroglyphic Tales, self published, 1785
+ 182 o A True Love Story o Horace Walpole o ss Hieroglyphic
Tales, self published, 1785
+ 185 o The Bird's Nest o Horace Walpole o ss Horace Walpole:
Writer, Politician, Connoisseur, ed. Warren Hunting Smith,
Yale University Press, 1967
+ 189 o Bird of Prey o John Collier o ss Presenting Moonshine,
New York: Viking, 1941; Playboy Jan '54
+ 197 o The Detective of Dreams o Gene Wolfe o nv Dark Forces,
ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking, 1980
+ 214 o The Bee-Man of Orn o Frank R. Stockton o ss The Bee-Man
of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales, Scribner's, 1887
+ 224 o The Red Hawk o Elizabeth A. Lynn o nv Cheap Street: New
Castle, VA, 1983
+ 252 o The Canvasser's Tale o Mark Twain o ss Atlantic Monthly
Dec, 1876
+ 261 o The Silken-Swift o Theodore Sturgeon o nv F&SF Nov '53
+ 280 o The New Mother o Lucy Lane Clifford o ss Anyhow
Stories, Moral and Otherwise, 1882
+ 291 o Mr. Lupescu o Anthony Boucher o ss Weird Tales Sep '45
+ 296 o The King of the Cats o Stephen Vincent Benét o ss
Harper's Bazaar Feb '29
+ 310 o Uncle Einar o Ray Bradbury o ss Dark Carnival, Arkham
House: Sauk City, WI, 1947
+ 318 o Space-Time for Springers [Gummitch] o Fritz Leiber o ss
Star Science Fiction Stories #4, ed. Frederik Pohl,
Ballantine, 1958
+ 330 o Great Is Diana o Avram Davidson o ss F&SF Aug '58
+ 339 o The Last of the Huggermuggers: A Giant Story o
Christopher Pearse Cranch o na Boston: Phillips, Sampson,
1856
+ 368 o Tobermory o Saki o ss The Westminster Gazette Nov 27
'09
+ 375 o The King of the Elves o Philip K. Dick o nv Beyond
Fantasy Fiction Sep '53
+ 397 o The Glass Dog o L. Frank Baum o ss American Fairy
Tales, George M. Hill: Chicago, 1901
+ 405 o The Queen of Quok o L. Frank Baum o ss American Fairy
Tales, George M. Hill: Chicago, 1901
+ 413 o The Magic Bonbons o L. Frank Baum o ss American Fairy
Tales, George M. Hill: Chicago, 1901
+ 419 o The Dummy That Lived o L. Frank Baum o ss American
Fairy Tales, George M. Hill: Chicago, 1901
+ 426 o The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers [Neveryon] o Samuel R.
Delany o nv Tales of Neveryon, 1979
+ 455 o from Phantasmion o Sara Coleridge o ex London:
Pickering, 1837
+ 465 o The Sapphire Necklace o Kenneth Morris o ss The
Theosophical Path Nov '30
+ 473 o The Regent of the North [as by C. ApArthur] o Kenneth
Morris o ss The Theosophical Path Aug '15
+ 483 o The Eyeless Dragons: A Chinese Story [as by Quintus
Reynolds] o Kenneth Morris o ss The Theosophical Path Jun '15
+ 491 o Elric at the End of Time [Elric] o Michael Moorcock o
nv Elsewhere v1, ed. Terri Winding & Mark Alan Arnold, Ace,
1981
+ 532 o Lindenborg Pool o William Morris o ss Oxford and
Cambridge Magazine Sep, 1856
+ 540 o The Moon Pool [Walter Goodwin] o A. Merritt o na
All-Story Weekly Jun 22 '18
+ 580 o The Sword of Welleran o Lord Dunsany o ss The Sword of
Welleran and Other Stories, London: G. Allen, 1908
+ 593 o Operation Afreet [Steven Matuchek; Ginny Greylock] o
Poul Anderson o nv F&SF Sep '56
I own a few of these in other forms (the De Camp and the Anderson). If those are any guide this is a pretty good collection.
THE NITPICKER'S GUIDE FOR NEXT GENERATION TREKKERS, VOLUME II by Phil Farrand (Alternate)
No idea what this is like. Nitpicking Trek is a little like fist fighting with a paraplegic.
SPECTRUM 2 edited by Arnie Fenner & Cathy Burnett
(Alternate)
This is an art book, I belive.
February
ENDYMION by Dan Simmons
I had burned out on Simmons when this came out. I should go hunt it down.
[No, I shouldn't]
CROWN OF SHADOWS by C.S. Friedman
As previously described, I have been conditioned not to read Friedman but I know lots people who like her work.
[I got over it and have read a number of her books]
CETAGANDA by Lois McMaster Bujold (Alternate)
Young Miles and That Idiot Ivan take part in a state visit to Ceteganda, the world whose empire once occupied Miles and Ivan's home world of Barrayar. Will complications ensue? Of course they will.
Amusing, slight. Cat lovers may want to skip this one for reasons I can't explain without removing the point of the warning.
THE DRAGON AND THE DJINN by Gordon R. Dickson (Alternate)
I missed this. Damn the readers for buying the Dragon books instead of rewarding Dickson for writing more interesting material.
EVOLUTION'S SHORE by Ian McDonald (Alternate)
A meteor impact in Africa is followed by the transformation of the local lifeforms, including humans. The zone is spreading rapidly and a reporter is sent to investigate the story. As was pretty inevitable, human politics greatly complicate matters.
I like this one quite a lot. Am I correct in thinking that MacDonald has had no US publisher since the late 1990s?
[No longer true; he is published in NorAm now]
YOURS, ISAAC ASIMOV by Isaac Asimov (Alternate)
I don't know what this is.
HEADCRASH by Bruce Bethke (Alternate)
A comic cyberpunk novel, it works about as well as Dilbert does until the author makes the attempt to introduce an actual plot.
CHILDREN OF THE VAMPIRE by Jeanne Kalogridis (Alternate)
Missed this.
GHOSTLIGHT by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Alternate)
Missed this.
Dark Love ed. Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer & Martin H. Greenberg
(Penguin/Roc 0-451-45472-3, Nov '95 [Oct '95], $22.95, 414pp,
hc, cover by Mel Odom)
+ xi o Introduction o T. E. D. Klein o in
+ 17 o Lunch at the Gotham Café o Stephen King o nv *
+ 55 o The Psycho o Michael O'Donoghue o ss *
+ 63 o Pas de Deux o Kathe Koja o ss *
+ 80 o Bright Blades Gleaming o Basil Copper o nv *
+ 109 o Hanson's Radio o John Lutz o ss *
+ 122 o Refrigerator Heaven o David J. Schow o ss *
+ 136 o Ro Erg o Robert Weinberg o ss *
+ 152 o Going Under o Ramsey Campbell o ss *
+ 169 o Hidden o Stuart Kaminsky o ss *
+ 188 o Prism o Wendy Webb o ss *
+ 194 o The Maiden o Richard Laymon o nv *
+ 220 o You've Got Your Troubles, I've Got Mine... o Bob Burden
o nv *
+ 241 o Waco o George C. Chesbro o ss *
+ 248 o The Penitent o John Peyton Cooke o nv *
+ 271 o Driven o Kathryn Ptacek o ss *
+ 286 o Barbara o John Shirley o ss *
+ 301 o Hymenoptera o Michael Blumlein o ss Crank! #1 '93
+ 312 o The End of It All o Ed Gorman o nv Cages, Deadline
Press, 1995
+ 349 o Heat o Lucy Taylor o ss *
+ 359 o Thin Walls o Nancy A. Collins o ss *
+ 375 o Locked Away o Karl Edward Wagner o ss *
+ 392 o Loop o Douglas E. Winter o nv *
Some promising names in there but I have read none of these. Apparently the unifying theme is 'the darker side of love'.
THE HOT BLOOD SERIES: STRANGER BY NIGHT edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett (Enclosure)
Tales of erotic horror but I am too uninventive to discover the ToC for this.
[xi • Introduction (Stranger by Night) • essay by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett
1 • Take It As It Comes • shortstory by Tom Piccirilli
13 • The Body in the Window • shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
31 • Jacking In • novelette by Brinke Stevens
60 • End of the Road • shortstory by Edo van Belkom
71 • Just Sex • shortstory by Michael Garrett
91 • Skin Deep • shortstory by Christa Faust
103 • Home Movies • shortstory by Bruce Jones
114 • The Jajouka Penis-Beetle • novelette by Graham Masterton
149 • Beached • shortstory by Wendy Rathbone
169 • Hot Phosphor • novelette by John B. Rosenman
190 • Male-Call • shortstory by Lucy Taylor
204 • Five Card Stud • shortstory by Michael Newton
214 • Video Date • shortstory by Jeff Gelb
227 • Impulse • novelette by Yvonne Navarro
251 • Dead Girls in Love • shortstory by Gary Bowen and Edward Lee
265 • Getting Wet • shortstory by Alexa deMonterice
278 • Back Row • (1988) • shortstory by Brian Lumley
288 • Godflesh • novelette by Brian Hodge
313 • The Contributors (Stranger by Night) • essay by uncredited
March
TIGER BURNING BRIGHT by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackey
I missed this.
MAGNIFICAT by Julian May
And this.
STAR TREK(r): THE NEXT GENERATION(tm): CROSSOVER by Michael Jan Friedman (Alternate)
And this.
LUTHIEN'S GAMBLE by R.A. Salvatore (Alternate)
And this.
Far Futures ed. Gregory Benford (Tor 0-312-85639-3, Dec '95 [Nov '95],
$23.95, 348pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton)
+ 11 o Introduction: Looking Long o Gregory Benford o in *
+ 23 o Judgment Engine o Greg Bear o nv *
+ 56 o Genesis o Poul Anderson o na *
+ 149 o Historical Crisis o Donald Kingsbury o na *
+ 242 o For White Hill o Joe Haldeman o na *
+ 280 o At the Eschaton o Charles Sheffield o na *
These are all set at least 10,000 years into the future. Oddly while I have read none of these in this form, at lest two of them were expanded into novels that I did read (The Anderson and the Kingsbury). The Anderson was too short, a complaint I almost never make about modern novels. The Kingsbury, a reexamination of some issues raised in Foundation, was pretty good aside from the usual creepy sex stuff.
THE PRINCE AND THE PILGRIM by Mary Stewart (Alternate)
Aside from some Arthurian books I have never read Stewart. No good reason why not, either.