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| Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh") showing Space Time In One Tough Lesson. |
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION NO. 25
GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION NO. 23
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| Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh") showing Robots Repaired While U Wait. |
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Friday, 8 October 2010
TWO TALES AND EIGHT TOMORROWS
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| Bantam paperback, May 1968. Cover artist uncredited. |
"A LEAP INTO FREE SPACE - WHERE DOWN IS UP AND THE ONLY CERTAINTY IS THE UNEXPECTED!
Alien beings, bizarre customs, hostile environments ... Harry Harrison guides you through a series of startling excursions into new worlds and extra-ordinary experiences."
Contents:
The Streets Of Ashkelon
Portrait Of The Artist
Rescue Operation
Captain Bedlam
Final Encounter
Unto My Manifold Dooms
The Pliable Animal
Captain Honario Harpplayer, R.N.
According To His Abilities
I Always Do What Teddy Says
The Streets Of Ashkelon
Portrait Of The Artist
Rescue Operation
Captain Bedlam
Final Encounter
Unto My Manifold Dooms
The Pliable Animal
Captain Honario Harpplayer, R.N.
According To His Abilities
I Always Do What Teddy Says
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
THE SAILOR ON THE SEAS OF FATE
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| Quartet paperback, 1977. Cover artist uncredited, possibly Casket Of Souls illustrator Ian McCaig? |
"Elric of Melniboné sits dejected and exhausted on a distant seashore, awaiting with resignation the swordstrokes of his pursuers, when a mysterious mist-wreathed ship saves him from that fate. But worse fates threaten as Elric is carried off on a strange odyssey. With his bloodthirsty sword Stormbringer, and new companions - Hawkmoon, Corum and Erekosë - he has to combat a terrible, obscene new threat to the world.
And after the bitter victory of that grisly battle, his wanderings continue, across an ocean which seems to connect not coastlines and continents but whole eras and universes..."
CITY
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| Methuen paperback, 1988. Cover illustration: Nick Rogers. |
"Jenkins was a robot. He was built to be the perfect worker, tireless and uncomplaining, but quite unexpectedly he also became a close companion to generation after generation of his owners as the human race matured, moved beyond the confines of its one tiny planet, and eventually changed beyond all recognition. And then, because he was a good and dutiful servant, Jenkins went on to serve Earth's inheritors....
Here is a masterful tale of an Earth overrun by ants, a series of parallel worlds ruled by dogs, and a Jupiter where the human race finds its Golden Age - if human it could still be called."
NEW WORLDS SCIENCE FICTION SEPTEMBER 1957
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| Cover painting by Terry Maloney symbolising the 15th world science fiction convention. |
Saturday, 2 October 2010
SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES SEPTEMBER 1957
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| Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh"), illustrating The Slave. |
SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES APRIL 1957
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| Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh") illustrating Clansmen Of Fear. |
Friday, 1 October 2010
PRIME NUMBER
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| Sphere Science Fiction paperback, 1983 reprint. Cover painting by Peter Elson. |
"A FEAST OF THE FUTURE
From the fertile imagination of one of the liveliest minds in the science fiction spectrum come nineteen visions of possible tomorrows. Sometimes sardonic, sometimes sad, often amusing, always brilliant, harry harrison's collection of mind-spinning tales re-emphasises his status as a giant in the science fiction galaxy."
Contents:
Mute Milton
The Greatest Car In The World
The Final Battle
The Powers Of Observation
The Ghoul Squad
Toy Shop
You Men Of Violence
The Finest Hunter In The World
Down To Earth
Commando Raid
Not Me, Not Amos Cabot!
The Secret Of Stonehenge
Incident In The IND
If
Contact Man
The Pad
A Civil Service Servant
A Criminal Act
Famous First Words
Mute Milton
The Greatest Car In The World
The Final Battle
The Powers Of Observation
The Ghoul Squad
Toy Shop
You Men Of Violence
The Finest Hunter In The World
Down To Earth
Commando Raid
Not Me, Not Amos Cabot!
The Secret Of Stonehenge
Incident In The IND
If
Contact Man
The Pad
A Civil Service Servant
A Criminal Act
Famous First Words
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN
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| Sphere Science Fiction paperback, 1971. Artist uncredited. |
"A ship is becalmed; hunger and thirst drive the crew mad; like the wrath of God a cyclone destroys the galleon, leaving only two survivors.
A man and a boy are cast up on a weird, godless shore. No life exists there beyond a jungle of dreadful, flesh-eating plants. Desperately the two survivors trek through the jungle towards a great, fiery range of mountains.
There, on the slopes of a burning, pulsating crag, they meet their destiny..."
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