Alphabetical SFF

[chrispenycate]

Feels about time: "P"

Authors Jerry Pournelle, pTerry Pratchett, Tim Powers, Fletcher Pratt, Frederick Pohl, Edgar Pangbourne, Edgar Allen Poe

Plot elements : phule, prince(sse) protean (posh word for a shapechanger) paperbacks, pixie, pictsie, paladin, PSI, paranormal, plasma, positronic, phantom, pseudo (prefix added in front of just about anything to indicate imitationess) pooka, phoenix, poltergeist, possession, psycohistory, psyche, psychic, Pan, Promethius, paradox, Planets, pluto (no longer a planet) parallel universes,

Characters Harry Potter, Paksenarrion
Publications : Pavane

[Brown Rat]

Alexei Panshin
Diana Paxson
Philip Pullman

Parable of the Sower
The Postman
Pebble in the Sky
Podkayne of Mars
Psion

prognosticate and predict

And . . . drum roll . . . Chris Penycate!

[j. d. worthington]

Phantastes, by George MacDonald

Poul Anderson -- author of too many sff books to name

Gerald W. Page -- editor in the SFF field (Nameless Places, etc.)

Norvell W. Page -- writer of the pulp series The Spider, and of two fantasy novels of Prester John, Flame Winds (1939) and Sons of the Bear God (1939)

Barry Pain -- writer of many fantasy satires and some notable weird novels, such as The Shadow of the Unseen (1907, with James Blyth), An Exchange of Souls (1911) and Going Home (1921)

Michel Parry -- writer of a few supernatural tales such as Chariots of Fire (1974), but chiefly known as a prolific anthologist of weird and terror tales

Roger Pater -- author of two rare supernatural volumes, Mystic Voices (1923) and My Cousin Philip(1924)

G. G. Pendarves -- author of nineteen tales published in Weird Tales, generally considered among the higher-quality of those published in the magazine, several of these recently collected under the title Thing of Darkness

Emil Petaja -- writer of several sf and fantasy books, some of them based upon the Kalevala, such as Saga of Lost Earths (1966), The Star Mill (1966), The Stolen Sun (1967) and Tramontane (1967).

Eden Phillpotts -- author of several weird and fantasy works, such as A Deal with the Devil (1895), Number 87 (1922), A Voice from the Dark (1925), The Monster (1925), The Girl and the Fawn (1916), Arachne (1927) and the collection Loup-Garou (1899)

Dr. John William Polidori -- Byron's physician, he was also a member of that esteemed party at the Villa Deodati that included Mary and Percy Shelley, he also authored (stolen from an idea of Byron's, but developed by Polidori himself) what is the first true vampire tale in the English language, titled "The Vampyre: A Tale" (1819), which not only in subject matter but some incidents influenced both Sheridan Le Fanu's later "Carmilla" and Stoker's Dracula.

Count Jan Potocki -- author of The Saragossa Manuscript (1804; complete edition 1847); which influenced both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving (thank you for recommending this, Nesa!)

Mrs. Campbell Praed -- a nearly forgotten author of weird stories, such as The Brother of the Shadow (1886), The Soul of Countess Adrian (1891), and The Insane Root (1902).

H. Hesketh Prichard -- creator (with his mother) of psychic investigator Flaxman Low, whose adventures were collected as Ghosts (1899).

"The Phantom 'Rickshaw" -- Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Ship -- Frederick Marryat

"Philinnion and Machates" -- by Phlegon of Tralles, origin of the tale of the Corpse Bride

The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde

The Place Called Dagon -- Herbert S. Gorman

The Purple Cloud -- M. P.Shiel

"Poor Old Bill" and "The Probable Adventure of Three Literary Men" by Lord Dunsany

"A Psychical Invasion" -- Algernon Blackwood

"Pickman's Model", "Polaris", "The Picture in the House", Psychopompos (verse) by H. P. Lovecraft

[cornelius]

Paran ( ?Ganoes?- i'm reading a translated version) from Malazan empire

[Nesacat]

From H.P. Lovecraft:
Frank H Pabodie. Professor Pabodie stood as Professor of Engineering at Miskatonic University in the late 1920s and was a member of the ill-fated Miskatonic University Expedition to the Antarctic in 1930-31. - At the Mountains of Madness.

Mr Parker. A member of the crew of the ill-fated Emma. On March 22nd, the Emma was sunk for trying to move into the area of R’lyeh by the ship Alert. The crew of the Emma was able to board and kill the Alert’s crew and then went on to find R’lyeh. - The Call of Cthulhu.

Peabody Avenue Bridge. A bridge in Arkham, Massachusetts that crosses the Miskatonic River. This bridge was used by Walter Gilman to cross the river so he would not have to look at the unpeopled island in the midst of the river where Keziah Mason and Brown Jenkin were sure to be. - The Dreams In The Witch-House.

Hannah (Wingate) Peaslee. Mother of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee. - The Shadow Out Of Time

Jonathan Peaslee. Father of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee. Jonathon was of Haverhill stock, living at the homestead in Boardman Street near Golden Hill. - The Shadow Out Of Time

Nathanial Wingate Peaslee. Professor of Political Economy at Miskatonic University and the subject of a most extraordinary series of events beginning in 1908 and ending in the deserts of Western Australia July 17-18, 1935. On Thursday, May 14, 1908, at about 10:20 a.m., Professor Peaslee was teaching Political Economy VI. Suddenly strange shapes appeared his eyes. He fainted away and lost over five years of his life. - The Shadow Out Of Time

Professor Wingate Peaslee. Second child of Nathaniel and Alice Peaslee, born in Arkham, Massachusetts in 1900. Through his father’s state of amnesia and the years following up to 1935, Wingate stood by his father when the rest of the family turned their backs on Nathaniel Peaslee. - The Shadow Out Of Time

Darius Peck. A member of the Peck Valley community who died the winter of 1880-1881. When the spring thaw came, he was the first of nine members of the community who died that winter to be buried, on April 12th, 1881. - In The Vault

Peck Valley. A town in New England where George Birch was the undertaker during the late 1800s. - In The Vault

Peck Valley Cemetery. Cemetery in Peck Valley. - In The Vault

Penguin of Leng. Giant albino penguins which live in the bowels of the earth near the subterranean city of the Old Ones. The penguins stand over six feet high and are totally white. Beyond its color, size, and virtual eyelessness, the penguins are much like their other cousins in every aspect. - At the Mountains of Madness

Richard Upton Pickman. Prolific painter who lived in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1920s. Pickman was best known for his ability to fuse life and horror into the canvas. His works caused numerous uproars in the local art world, and most critics would not even look at his material because of its inherent morbidness. - Pickman’s Model

Ammi Pierce. Farmer living west of Arkham and near the Blasted Heath who was born in 1842. Ammi witnessed first hand the events which created the Blasted Heath, along with the death of the Gardner family and the eruption of the Colour Out Of Space from the Gardner well. - The Colour Out Of Space

Plateau of Leng. Plateau located to the east of the Mountains of Madness between that mountain range and Kadath of the Cold Wastes three hundred miles to the east. The city of Leng, the center of the Old Ones civilization, is located on the Plateau of Leng. - At the Mountains of Madness

Pnakotic Manuscripts. Manuscripts originated before the coming of the human race which describes horrific creatures and locations which existed at the beginning of time. One of the known copies existed for 91 years in an arcane library in the Free-Will Church o f Providence, Rhode Island. After Robert Blake’s death in 1935 to the Haunter of the Dark, a Doctor Dexter removed this and other tomes and added it to his library.

Gilbert de la Poer. Declared as first baron Exham of Priory in 1261. - The Rats In The Walls

Godfrey de la Poer. Second son to the fifth baron of Exham Priory. - The Rats In The Walls

Lady Mary de la Poer, Lady Mary. Married the Earl of Shrewfield. Soon after the wedding, the Earl and his mother killed her. The pair were absolved and blessed by a priest for committing the murder. - The Rats In The Walls

Walter de la Poer, Walter. Eleventh Baron of Exham Priory. Branded a murderer after his father, five of his siblings, and several servants at Exham Priory were brutally killed. Walter fled to Virginia and founded the Delapore family line. - The Rats In The Walls

Pond Street. Street in Bolton, Massachusetts where Herbert West and his colleague let a rundown cottage to conduct their experiments of reanimation on human corpses. - Herbert West–Reanimator

Potter's General Store. General store located in Clark's Corner, Massachusetts during the late 1800s. - The Colour Out Of Space

Providence Art Club. Conservative art club in Providence, Rhode Island that considered Henry Wilcox a lost cause because of his reclusive lifestyle. - The Call of Cthulhu

Providence Telegram, The. Newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. - The Haunter of the Dark

Psi Delta. Fraternity house belonging to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Robert Blake’s home looked out upon the Psi Delta house. It was members of this fraternity that discovered Blake’s death and reported it to the police. - The Haunter of the Dark

Pth’thya-l’ya. A female Deep One who married Captain Obed Marsh in 1846 and bore him three children. Two of the three returned to the sea early in life, while the third, a daughter, received an education in Europe under the guidance of a French nanny. When she returned, Captain Marsh tricked a man from Arkham, Benjamin Orne, into marrying her. After Captain Marsh died in 1878, Pth’thya-l’ya returned to Y’ha-nthlei, the city of Deep Ones at the base of Devil’s Reef off the coast of Innsmouth. - The Shadow Over Innsmouth

[Joel007]

Psionics?

[Nesacat]

From Terry Pratchett's Discworld:
Rosemary Palm. Head of the Guild of Seamstresses and owner of a house of negotiable hospitality. Friend to Esme Weatherwax. - Guards! Guards!

Yeoman of the Pantry. A Sto Lat nobleman. - Mort

Pardessus Chatain Pursuivant. One of the Heralds at the Ankh-Morpork Royall College of Heralds. Painter of coats of arms. - Feet Of Clay

Mr Passmore. A resident of Ankh-Morpork who suffered from Dibbler's first steps in Fung Shooey. - The Truth

Patina. Ephebian goddess of wisdom. Carries a penguin (used to be an owl, but not every sculptor is a Michaelangelo). - Small Gods

Patrician (crystallised jellyfish eater). A crooked and twisted figure with a taste for sweet seafood. The traditional Grand Vizier type, later replaced by Vetinari. - The Colour Of Magic.

Patrician Vetinari. Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. Looks like a black, blue-eyed predatory flamingo. A sapphire stare points to a possible (at least in Beth's opinion) link with the Weatherwax clan. Particularly cunning. Has a small, wire-haired terrier named Wuffles and an aunt in Quirm. - Sourcery

Peavie. Treasurer of the Alchemists' Guild. Small, nervous. - Moving Pictures

Pediment. Gargoyle and constable of the Watch. - Jingo

Iago Peedbury. A farmer whose lands adjoin those of Miss Flitworth. Old, but persuadable to accept and test progress. -Reaper Man

Osiric Pencillium. Inventor of the pencil. - Hogfather

Dean of Pentacles. A member of Unseen University faculty. Seventy-two at the time of Soul Music. Weighs over twenty stone, has pale eyes and the usual wizard's taste (or lack of such) in wardrobe. Very susceptible to the influences of wild ideas, especially the ones that make him feel a lot younger. Wrote a treatise on The Use of the Syllable 'ENK' in Levitation Spells of the Early Confused Period. - Moving Pictures

Pestilence. One of the 4 horsemen of the Apocralipse. Friend of Death, Famine and War. - The Light Fantastic

Petulia. Goddess of Negotiable Affection. - Small Gods

Urdo van Pew. President of the Thieves' Guild in Guards! Guards! and presumably for some time later on. Overreacts a little.

Pilgarlic. Leader of a trio of thieves in Ankh-Morpork. Persumably before the formal establishment of the Thieves' Guild, as he didn't flash a license and seemed inclined to dispose of his customers permanently. Didn't like wizards. Appears in Mort, and disappears as a result of messing with the title character

Piloxi. An Ephebian farmer who used Didactylos's services. - Small Gods

Pimple. Student at the UU at the same time as Windle Poons. - Moving Pictures

Constable Ping. A functionary of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. A cautious-looking young man. 'Ping' is a dialect word meaning 'watermeadow'. - The Fifth Elephant

Bezam Planter. Owner of a moving picture pit called the Odium. Has a wife and daughter. - Moving Pictures

Calliope Planter. Bezam's daughter. A beefy young woman. Can't play the organ. - Moving Pictures

Brother Plasterer. Member in good standing of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night. Was trying to learn to play the tuba. - Guards! Guards!

Plugger. An Ankh-Morpork shoemaker. His workshop is in New Cobblers. - Soul Music

Champett Poldy. A Lancre citizen and one-time royal guard. - Wyrd Sisters

Polly. A kitchen girl at the Unseen University. - Soul Music

Windle Poons. One of the oldest wizards on the Discworld. - Moving Pictures

Mr Potts. President of the Bakers' Guild. - Feet Of Clay

Brother Prankster. A teacher at the Fools' Guild. Huge and red-faced. - Wyrd Sisters

Brother Preptil. The master of music in the Citadel. Had the disputable pleasure of teaching Brutha and finally managed to get him Extra Melons instead of Music. - Small Gods

Pretty Butterfly. Twoflower's daughter and leader of the Agatean Changing Things To A More Equitable State While Retaining Due Respect For The Traditions Of Our Forebears And Of Course Not Harming The August Personage Of The Emperor. Sister of Lotus Blossom. Pretty and very intelligent. Has a Rincewind view of the world. - Interesting Times

Lord of the Privy Closet. A high-ranking Sto Lat nobleman. - Mort

Doc Pseudopolis. Leader of the Guild of Gamblers. - Feet Of Clay

Ptaclusp. Piramid architect by tradition. Founder of a dynasty. - Pyramids

Ptaclusp IIA. Son of Ptaclusp and born accountant. - Pyramids

Ptaclusp IIB. Son of Ptaclusp and twin brother of Ptaclusp IIA. Genius architect, speciality: aqueducts. - Pyramids

P'tang P'tang. A newt-like god with 52 believers. Not too smart. - Small Gods

Verity Pushpram (Hammerhead). Nice girl running the clam and cockle barrow in Rime Street, Ankh-Morpork. Smells of fish, has an opposite of a squint. - Jingo

Put. Djelibeybian Lion-Headed God of Justice. - Pyramids

Hrolf Pyjama. Lance-constable in the Watch. - Men At Arms

[Mouse]

Ponaturi - A malevolent sea fairy from New Zealand.
Pantalaimon - Lyra's daemon from Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

[j. d. worthington]

And now for the Q's. And who more fitting to begin this than the man known simply as:

Q (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch): along with his scholarly works, and his preservation of many early poems and ballads (including many fine supernatural entries), "Q" also wrote several ghostly tales scattered throughout his complete works in such volumes as Wandering Heath (1895), Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts (1900), the best of which were recently gathered together as The Horror on the Stair (2000).

Dorothy Quick: a popular contributor to the pulps Weird Tales and Unknown in the 1930s and 1940s, she wrote several tales dealing with reincarnation and spirits, generally of a gentle type with a strong element of pathos.

Seabury Quinn: In his day, he was the most popular contributor to the famed Weird Tales magazine, coming in ahead of even such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. Quinn, though a hack-writer in the truest sense of the term (the number of his tales dealing with the little psychic detective Jules de Grandin number well over a hundred), nonetheless wrote a handful of truly worthwhile tales, including "The Phantom Farmhouse" (1923) and the touching fantasy tale "Roads" (1938), as well as a rather witty series of tales collected together as Is the Devil a Gentleman? (book publication 1970).

The Queen's Enemies: This was a play by Lord Dunsany, based upon a small note in the Histories of Herodotus; though largely nonfantastic itself, it was one of the pieces read by Lord Dunsany during his appearance at the Copley Plaza Hotel in 1919, and heard by a young H. P. Lovecraft, which inspired him to include Queen Nitokris in some of his own tales such as "Under the Pyramids" (aka "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs").

Quantum Physics: certainly used in a great deal of modern sf

Quenya: Elvish language created by JRRT for his tales of Middle-earth

Quelle: "fading", the fourth season of the Eldarin loa (roughly equivalent to our October and November)

Quendi: "the speakers"; the Elves of Middle-earth

Quickbeam: Westron name of the Ent Bregalad from LotR

"The Quest of Iranon": the tale by H. P. Lovecraft of a wandering minstrel seeking the lost city of Aira, where he had been a prince in his youth, only to find a different ending (and beginning) to his tale...

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath: one of the three novels written by H. P. Lovecraft, and the only one to take place in his Dreamlands, culminating his Dunsanian tales into a glorious finale, a spiritual autobiography

The Quest for Simbilis: a novel by Michael Shea, acknowledged sequel to Jack Vance's Eyes of the Overworld, continuing the adventures of Cugel the Clever

[Nesacat]

From Terry Pratchett's Discworld:

Queen Molly: Head of the Beggars' Guild. Not too tidy. Wears velvet. - Men At Arms and Feet Of Clay

Quezovercoalt (The Feathered Boa): God of mass human sacrifices. Half man, half chicken, half jaguar, half serpent, half scorpion and half mad, later trampled by a half suitcase, half homicidal maniac. - Eric

Leonard da Quirm: The Discworld's most ingenious inventor. Going bald on top. Not much when it comes to naming things, eg the Very-Fast-Coffee machine which makes a rather nice espresso. Inventions include the bicycle, post-it notes, a gun, a wave-making machine, a submarine, the ENIGMA and many others. - Men at Arms, Jingo and The Fifth Elephant

Ponce da Quirm: An explorer. Searches for the Fountain of Youth. Old, looks good-natured. Educated. Always sees the good side in things. - Eric

Rulers Quirm: The landlords of the peaceful town of Quirm can be found under Rodley

Ishmale (Pop) Quoom: Inquisitor First Class in the citadel. Worked in No.3 pit. Now retired. - Small Gods

Quoth the Raven: A talking Quirmian raven. Doesn't do the N word. Eyeball-fixated. Friend of Death of Rats and Susan. Speaks Human and Rat, among other things. - Soul Music and Hogfather

From JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings:

Quenta Silmarillion: 'The Tale of the Silmarils'; the full name for the collection of legends and tales more commonly called just 'The Silmarillion'.

[chrispenycate]

Very weak in queues, I fear: Queens, quarks, quantum, quasar, quezalcoatl, quest, Quatermass,

and at least three of those are predestined in previous posts. I had "quality" (as in a characteristic belonging to something) but - who but we would associate that with our chosen literature? And why do "kingdoms" become "monarchies" when falling into the hands of female rulers? Ashamed of the fact?

[Nesacat]

The Questing Beast, or the Beast Glatisant (Barking Beast), is a monster from Arthurian legend, the subject of quests by famous knights like King Pellinore, Sir Palamedes and Sir Percival.

Quarrens or Qarrens are a species of aquatic humanoids that share the planet of Mon Calamari with another sentient aquatic species, the Mon Calamari, from which the planet is named. They are more introverted than their neighbours, preferring the deep water to the surface and rarely inviting guests to their domain. They resemble humanoids with squid like heads.

As race of sentient invertebrates, related to the Xexto of Troiken, the Quermian are a species native to the planet Quermia. They have two brains (one in the head and another in the chest cavity), a long thin neck, six spindly limbs. Their sensitive olfactory glands are located in their hands and they are born with a natural talent in telepathy and mind control.


Qward is a fictional world existing within an anti-matter universe that is part of the DC Comics universe.

[Mouse]

Quantum Daimon: An unidentified flying species that is neither angel nor demon but simply potential - an enegry flowing everywhere that can become a postitive force.

[beenorthern]

I looked through my booklist for 'quest' and 'queen':

*Quester's Endgame* -- Jo Clayton
*Quest for Lost Heroes* -- David Gemmell
*Quest for the White Witch* -- Tanith Lee
*Quest Crosstime* -- Andre Norton
*The Quest for Cush* -- Charles Saunders
*Quest of Three Worlds* -- Cordwainer Smith

<The Questor Tapes> -- D.C. Fontana ... primarily a TV show

<Queen of a Thousand Years> ... Japanime

"Queen of Air and Darkness" -- Poul Anderson
*The Queen of Spells* -- Dahlov Ipcar
*The Queen of the Damned* -- Anne Rice
*The Black Queen* -- Kathryn Kristine Rusch
*The Queen's Squadron* -- R.M. Meluch
*Queensblade* -- Susan Schwartz
*Queen's Gambit Declined* -- Melinda P. Snodgrass

*The Quartered Sea* -- Tanya Huff
*Quarrelling, They Met the Dragon* -- Sharon Baker

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by beenorthern

*The Quest for Cush* -- Charles Saunders

Pardon my ignorance on this, but was this any connection to Imaro? I understand there was a trilogy of the books (though I only had the first)... and that there's been (or is soon to be) a reprinting of them...