THE ETERNAL CHAMPION

Mayflower paperback, 1970. Cover artwork by Bob Haberfield.

Rear cover and synopsis.

THE IRON DREAM

Panther SF paperback, 1974. Cover painting by Bob Haberfield.

"Let Adolf Hitler transport you to a far-future Earth, where only Feric Jaggar and his mighty weapon, the Steel Commander, stand between the remnants of true humanity and annihilation at the hands of the totally evil Dominators and the mindless mutant hordes they completely control. 

Lord of the Swastika is recognized as the most vivid and popular of Hitler's science-fiction novels by fans the world over, who honoured it with a Hugo as Best Science-Fiction Novel of 1954. Long out of print, it is now once more available in this new edition, with an Afterword by Homer Whipple of New York University. See for yourself why so many people have turned to this science-fantasy novel as a beacon of hope in these grim and terrifying times."

MASQUE OF A SAVAGE MANDARIN

Panther Science Fiction paperback, 1974. Artist uncredited,
possibly Bob Haberfield.

"Nicholas Coad, the Savage Mandarin: detached, scientific, 'converted' into a state of 'sublime, cosmic indifference'. He is working on a unique project - the 'conversion' and liberation of the soul or higher self from chains of physical bondage. His 'patient' is his good-natured neighbour, Rogers, up-and-coming ad-man. Rogers does not realise that his piercing headaches are caused by the fearsome, hypnotic in coad's flat. But as coad brings him further along the path to liberation, he has no choice. After all, his brain now resembles a chunk of Gruyére cheese..."

Well, you don't see a book cover like that every day (!) the artwork looks familiar but I can't place a name. Haven't read this one yet (like so many others - my 'reading list' is seven feet tall) but judging from the synopsis on the back cover, it's the literary equivalent of taking a few 'shrooms. Thanks to Mark for suggesting the cover artist might be Bob Haberfield, it looks psychedelic enough to be his work to me!

DOORWAYS IN THE SAND

Star Books paperback, 1978. Cover painting by Bob Haberfield.

"Man is no longer alone in the cosmos...The aliens have given a precious relic to the people of earth, the star-stone, but when it vanishes the harmony of the galaxy is threatened. 

Fred Cassidy is a perpetual student cruising his way smoothly through life and human knowledge. All he knows about the star-stone is that it came to earth in an interplanetary cultural exchange for the Mona Lisa and the Crown Jewels. But other sentient beings seem to think otherwise... 

Accused of stealing the stone, he is pursued by telepathic psychologists, extraterrestrial hoodlums, and galactic police in bizarre disguise. He flees into multiple realities, flipping in and out of alien perspectives, through doorways in the sand..."

THE MOMENT OF ECLIPSE

Panther SF paperback, 1973. Cover painting by Bob Haberfield
 (thanks, Mark).

"There's No Time Like the Future... 

and here Brian W. Aldiss proves it brilliantly in fourteen stories of devastating power. From an outrageous satire to haunting fantasy, the renowned author of such science fiction classics as Greybeard and Hothouse displays his unmatched talent for creating tales that illuminate times-to-come with the disconcerting intensity of a cobalt bomb's heat-flash..."

Contents:


The Moment Of Eclipse
The Day We Embarked For Cythera
Orgy Of The Living And The Dying
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long
The Village Swindler
Down The Up Escalation
That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life And Art
Confluence
Heresies Of The Huge God
Circulation Of The Blood And Stagnation Of The Heart
The Worm That Flies
Working In The Spaceship Yards
Swastika!

PHOENIX IN OBSIDIAN

Mayflower paperback, 1970. Cover painting by Bob Haberfield.

"As Erekosë, the Eternal Champion, he slew the human race that had betrayed his ideals. And loved Ermizhad, the Eldren princess. 

Then the voices called him and he was powerless to resist. As Fate's soldier, the eternal one, his lot was to vanquish tyranny. Sent tumbling through the corridors of eternity. Transformed. Now Urlik Skarsol - Prince of the Southern Ice. But called by whom? 

By Bishop Belpheg, Lord Spiritual of Rowenarc, obscene ruler of a damned race born at the end of Time? By Bladrak of the Scarlet Fjord? By the Lady of the Screaming Chalice? By the Silver Warriors, incandescent men of Moon? 

Urlik Skarsol would need take up the Black Sword, the monstrous weapon that demanded blood, be it friend's or be it foe's, before his tortured soul could rest. Before the powers of Evil could be conquered. Before he could rediscover Ermizhad. Before he could know peace again..."

STORMBRINGER

Mayflower paperback, 1968. Cover art by Bob Haberfield.

SWORD AND SWORDSMAN...BUT WHICH WAS MASTER? 

STORMBRINGER, the mighty runesword, hung far away in the city's armoury. ELRIC, haunted albino warrior-king had sworn never again to touch the enchanted blade. But he needed it now as never before. Evil supernatural beings had abducted his lovely wife Zarozinia. He would sacrifice the world itself to rescue her. But would STORMBRINGER, which seemed to have a life of its own, allow it? 

He was fated to ride out again over spectral landscapes, with the sentient blade he loved and hated...which had slain enemies - and claimed comrades.

BEHOLD THE MAN

Mayflower paperback, 1973 reprint. Cover painting by
Bob Haberfield (thanks, Mark).

"Karl Glogauer, obsessed with the bright silver crucifix that dangles around the little girl's neck, tortured by his growing sexuality and the overwhelming mystic power of religion...Karl Glogauer loves with Eva, innocent and beautiful, but he is too destructive. He loves with a troop of middle-aged women, but they are just a training ground. He loves with Monica, but she is explosive, she stings like a scorpion. He loves. He tries to love. He tries... 

The story of Glogauer's crisis and identity weaves between modern london and ancient palestine, between Glogauer's erotic hunt for personality and Christ's journey to the cross. This is perhaps the most controversial portrait of Christ ever painted."