Showing posts with label Barry Malzberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barry Malzberg. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 December 2014

GUERNICA NIGHT

NEL paperback, 1979. Cover painting by Tim White.

Rear cover/synopsis.

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

OVERLAY

NEL paperback, 1975. Artwork by Ray Feibush.

"Earth was a planet of incompetents, but Simmons was the greatest loser of all. It seemed as if the powers of the universe were concentrated on grinding his small soul into ultimate insignificance...Until the aliens came. To them, simmons was the most important human on the planet - for only through his mind could they overcome this world."

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."

Friday, 12 August 2011

FINAL STAGE

Penguin SF paperback, 1975. Cover illustration by David Pelham.

"Thirteen fantastic new stories on the classic themes of science fiction by: Isaac Asimov/Poul Anderson/Robert Silverberg/Harlan Ellison/Frederik Pohl/Brian Aldiss/Harry Harrison/Philip K. Dick and others. Between them the contributors have won all the awards bestowed by science fiction: seventeen Hugos, ten Nebulas and the John W. Campbell memorial award. In this very special original collection, each writer is at the top of his form, each attempting to create the ultimate on a given theme."


Contents:


We Purchased People by Frederik Pohl
The Voortrekkers by Poul Anderson
Great Escape Tours, Inc. by Kit Reed
Diagrams For Three Enigmatic Stories by Brian W. Aldiss
Thou Art Mindful Of Him! by Isaac Asimov
We Three by Dean R. Koontz
An Old Fashioned Girl by Joanna Russ
Catman by Harlan Ellison
Space Rats Of The CCC by Harry Harrison
Trips by Robert Silverberg
The Wonderful All-Purpose Transmogrifier by Barry N. Malzberg
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
A Little Something For Us Tempunauts by Philip K. Dick