* * Star Trek: Probe ( Pocket 0-7, Apr ∩2, $18.95, hc, cover by Keith Birdsong) Star Trek novelization.* _ Star Trek: Dwellers in the Crucible ( Titan 1-85286-206-8, Sep ∨9, £3.95, 308pp, pb, cover by Boris Vallejo) Reprint (Pocket 1985) sf novelization.* * Star Trek: Dwellers in the Crucible ( Pocket 3-6, Sep ∨5, $3.50, 308pp, pb) Star Trek novel, Star Trek #25.* _ Saturns Child (with Nichelle Nichols) See entry under Nichelle Nichols.* _ Preternatural ( Tor 4-1, Nov ∩7, $5.99, 314pp, pb, cover by Michael Koelsch) Reprint (Tor 1996) SF novel.A struggling SF writer is getting messages from the telepathic aliens in her current work-in-progress. Martins 8-6, Aug ∩3, $19.95, 306pp, hc, cover by Adam Niklewicz) Sf novel, third book of The Others series. Martins edition except it lacks an ISBN and price and has a BOMC mark on the back. Martins 1991) sf novel, sequel to The Others. * _ Otherwhere ( BOMC no ISBN, Jan ∩2, $16.95, 317pp, hc, cover by Adam Niklewicz) Reprint (St.Martins 3-0, Nov ∩1, $19.95, 317pp, hc, cover by Adam Niklewicz) Sf novel, sequel to The Others. Martins except it lacks an ISBN and price and has the jacket printed as the paperback cover. * _ The Others ( BOMC/QPBC no ISBN, Jul ∩1, $8.95, 370pp, tp, cover by Adam Niklewicz) Reprint (St.Martins except it lacks an ISBN and price, and has a BOMC mark on the back. * _ The Others ( BOMC no ISBN, May ∩1, $17.95, 370pp, hc, cover by Adam Niklewicz) Reprint (St.Martins 0-9, Oct ∩0, $19.95, 370pp, hc, cover by Adam Niklewicz) Sf novel set on an alien world about the conflict between two races, and a woman caught between them. Volume 40 in the Star Trek Novels series. Newly translated from the Dutch (Het Spectrum BV 1941) by Gina Louise Sanders.

* * Eric in the Land of Insects ( Houghton Mifflin 1-6, Mar ∩4, $14.95, 197pp, hc, cover by Mark Richardson) Young-adult fantasy novel about a boy who enters the world of insects through the painting on his bedroom wall.This book was co-published with Basil Blackwood in England. * * The Language of 1984: Orwells English and Ours ( University of Tennessee Press 0-87049-412-0, Sep ∨4, $19.95, 252pp, hc) Non-fiction, a scholarly study of modern English in the light of Orwells theory of language and the Newspeak of 1984.* * Mission: Tori ( Ballantine Del Rey 0-X, Jun ∩0, $3.95, 232pp, pb, cover by Richard Hescox) Sf novel of interstellar intrigue.A female space navy captain is thrown one problem after another in this better than average first novel. * * The Alien Within ( Ballantine Del Rey 1-5, Jan ∨9, $3.50, 277pp, pb) Sf novel.BarrīOLTON, J(ames) T(homas) see pseudonym John Grey (stories) (chron.) Books, Listed by Author The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

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