THE BEST OF ANALOG

Ace paperback, 1978. Cover by Alex Schomburg.

"What? Another Anthology? 

Editor BEN BOVA offers two good reasons: 

This book represents the best stories of the past five years of Analog magazine - adjudged by many to be the best science fiction magazine on the market. 

These stories have been written by the brightest authors in the SF game. 

ROGER ZELAZNY. LARRY NIVEN. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN. JOE HALDEMAN. VONDA MCINTYRE. GORDON R. DICKSON 

...All of our Best and Brightest. 

And the best reason of all: 

This one is fun to read. Enjoy! 

-From his introduction"

Contents:

Persephone and Hades by Scott W. Schumack

Common Denominator by David Lewis

The Four-Hour Fugue by Alfred Bester

How I Lost The Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion by Gene Wolf

A Song For Lya by George R. R. Martin

Unlimited Warfare by Hayford Pierce

Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman

The Present State of Igneos Research by Gordon R. Dickson

Child of All Ages by P. J. Playger

The Hole Man by Larry Niven

Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand by Vonda N. McIntyre

A Thing of Beauty by Norman Spinrad

When I Was In Your Mind by Joe Allred

Unified Field Theory by Tim Joseph

Home is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny

THE DUELLING MACHINE

Puffin paperback, 1977. Cover illustration by Peter Goodfellow.

"The Duelling Machine was invented to keep peace in the outer galaxies. But in the hands of ambitious and violent men it is misused, and not even its inventor seems able to put things right. Will war envelop the universe? Or will Lieutenant Hector Hector of the Star Watch police succeed in wrestling control from the sinister and ruthless Odal?"

COLONY

Magnum paperback, 1979. Cover illustration: Chris Moore.

"The first novel of colonies in space 

Hurtling across a vast and rousing canvas, from Baghdad to what remains of New York City...from Messina, the capital of the Earth, to the moon, to Island One, the magnificent colony in space...Ben Bova's extraordinary new novel is a brilliant epic of sheer storytelling power. 

COLONY is the story of once-proud cities of the earth made humble by greed and revenge, of stone age cultures and advanced civilizations in space, of a cast of extraordinary and memorable characters from the remote corners of the globe and beyond... And of David Adams, the first genetically perfect test-tube human being - the only man who can save the earth from final destruction."