Showing posts with label Arrow Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arrow Books. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

SIGHT OF PROTEUS

Arrow paperback, 1981. Cover artist uncredited.


Friday, 13 March 2015

THE CLAW OF THE CONCILATOR

Arrow paperback, 1982. Cover by Bruce Pennington.

Rear cover/synopsis.

Sunday, 14 December 2014

ANYWHEN

Arrow paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Chris Foss.

Rear cover/synopses.

Thursday, 27 March 2014

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Monday, 24 February 2014

PANGLOR

Arrow paperback, 1981. Cover artwork by Tony Roberts (thnx: Yvan).

Rear cover and synopsis.

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

WHITLEY STRIEBER: COMMUNION

Cover painting by Ted Seth Jacobs.

Synopsis: 
"Communion is one man's powerful testimony of his terrifying encounters with creatures - certainly not of human origin - who invaded his home and rendered him helpless, making him doubt his sanity. Whether you believe his story or not, you will be compelled to read every word. Who are these visitors? Where do they come from? Why are they here, and why do they stare at him, seeking the depths of his soul - seeking communion?"

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

CHRONICULES

Arrow paperback, 1976. Cover art by David Bergen.

"A mysterious explosion, a haunting indefinable smell... 
Sitting quietly by a Cornish creek, reading his favourite comic book, Roses Varco hears the bang, catches a trace of the odour - and understands nothing. 
Which is hardly surprising, since Roses has just witnessed the death of a time-traveller lost in a limbo between worlds. Had he known the truth, it would have terrified him - for that travellers was himself."

Monday, 5 September 2011

THE BLOODY SUN

Arrow paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Melvyn Grant.

"Darkover had once been home to Jeff Kerwin - a home he'd left and then yearned after for many years. But when, finally, he returned it was to mystery and fear. For there was no record of his birth there, nor of his childhood. And when he joined the freedom fighters who struggled to overthrow earth's control of the planet, the Darkovans accused him of being a spy. Had Jeff been conditioned, on Earth, to betray Darkover? He, himself was no longer sure of who - or what - he really was!"

Sunday, 4 September 2011

THE SODOM & GOMORRAH BUSINESS

Arrow paperback, 1979. Cover artist uncredited.

"Institute courses told a grim story about the network - that savage world beyond the closely guarded Institute gates. But they wanted to see for themselves. They had to know. 
Were there really females there? Would their training as mercenaries prepare them for the wild bands of grisly subhumans? 
They set out on a journey of discovery only to become the unwitting agents of forces that threatened to destroy the only world they'd ever known."

Thursday, 18 August 2011

THE MEN INSIDE

Arrow SF paperback, 1976. Cover painting by David Bergen.

"EARTH'S ELITE - OR ITS OUTCASTS?
 
For a selected, genetically-fitted few among the teeming millions of the twenty-first century, to become a messenger for the hulm institute is to escape the prison that is life, that is earth. 
A MESSENGER IS NOBLE! 
A MESSENGER IS ONE OF THE CHOSEN. 
A MESSENGER IS A FORERUNNER OF A TIME IN WHICH FEAR AND DISEASE WILL DISAPPEAR FOR EVER. 
And inside a messenger's head is murder, impotence and despair."

Sunday, 15 August 2010

MIDSUMMER CENTURY

Arrow paperback, 1975. Cover painting by Chris Foss.

"When John Martels' new radio telescope obstinately refuses to function, he decides to see for himself what the trouble is. Field strength detector in hand, he clambers up the side of the wave guide - and falls straight down the tube. The fall is bad enough to put him in hospital for weeks. But it doesn't. 
In fact, when Martels regains consciousness, it takes him a little time to grasp exactly where he is: trapped inside someone else's brain, about 23,000 years in the future..."

THE SEEDLING STARS

Arrow SF paperback, 1972. Cover artwork by Chris Yates.

"Pantropy - total biological engineering - Adapted Man, adapted ante-natally to life on other planets: for instance Sweeney, Ganymede dweller. Selective mitotic poisoning, pinpoint X-irradiation, tectogenetic micro-surgery, competitive metabolic inhibition, together with perhaps fifty other processes produce a man no longer Man. 
And on Hydrot: colonists engineered as minute under-water organisms that yet retain something of the personalities of their earth originals. The potential of Homo Sapiens translated into other terms. Man survives by becoming non-man, a dim, racial memory of true man transmuted into a God myth. 
The galaxies seeded with adapted man-organisms."

Contains four stories designed to form an integrated whole: Seeding Program, The Thing In The Attic, Surface Tension and Watershed.

Sunday, 21 September 2008

Thursday, 15 November 2007

ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ

Arrow SF paperback, 1973. Cover illustraton by Chris Yates.

"The tale of Elric, later called womanslayer; of his love for Cymoria and of the rivalry with his cousin Yyrkoon. A rivalry that was to bring the dreaming city crashing in flames, destroyed by the reavers of the young kingdoms. 
Elric, red-eyed, albino, the inheritor of waning powers, his strength precarious, sustained by arcane drugs. A hero seemingly unfit for his role. 
A story that treats of monstrous emotions and high ambitions, of sorceries and treacheries, agonies and fearful pleasures. A story that Elric was to remember only in his nightmares."