TOMORROW IS TOO FAR

Corgi paperback, 1973. Cover credit: Solution.

SORCERESS OF DARSHIVA - BOOK FOUR OF THE MALLOREON

Corgi paperback, 1991. Cover artwork by Geoff Taylor

OMNIVORE

Corgi paperback, 1977. Cover artwork by Peter Jones.

Rear cover. More art!/synopsis.

THE POST READER OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION

Corgi paperback, 1966. Cover illustration uncredited.

Synopsis: 

"A journey with a man who is given one hour in the past - A search for the lost continent of Atlantis - A fantastic hunt with a phantom dog, and the experience of the calamitous, supernatural effects of an atom bomb test...It has become axiomatic in our time that today's fiction is tomorrow's fact. These stories demonstrate the twilight zone where fantasy becomes more real than life, and, science reveals its hidden core of fantasy..." 

Contents: 

Doctor Hanray's Second Chance by Conrad Richter

Fallout Island by Robert Murphy

The Green Hills Of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein

Doomsday Deferred by Will F. Jenkins

Test-Tube Terror by Robert Standish

Island Of Fear by William Sambrot

Sinister Journey by Conrad Richter

The Place Of The Gods by Stephen Vincent Benét

The Phantom Setter by Robert Murphy

The Big Wheel by Fred McMorrow

The Death Dust by Frank Harvey

The Lost Continent by Geoffrey Household

The Trap by Ken Bennett

Space Secret by William Sambrot

The Unsafe Deposit Box by Gerald Kersh

The Second Trip To Mars by Ward Moore

The Voice In The Earphones by Wilbur Schramm

Moon Crazy by William Roy Shelton

The Little Terror by Will F. Jenkins

The Answer by Philip Wylie

THE LOVERS

Corgi paperback, 1982. Cover painting by Jim Burns.

"Escaping the religious tyranny of a 31st-century Earth by a fluke assignment to the planet of Ozagen, linguist Hal Yarrow found that the worst of Earth had followed him - Pornsen, his personal Guardian Angel, vigilant for any evidence of a sin or wrong thinking. 

Conditioned by a lifetime of submission, Yarrow would have accepted Pornsen's constant spying as an unpleasant necessity, had it not been for Jeanette, the beautiful but dangerously different fugitive he found hiding in the ancient ruins..."

DEATHHUNTER

Corgi paperback, 1982. Cover painting by Peter Jones.

"HE BUILT A TRAP FOR DEATH - AND FOUND HIMSELF IN A NIGHTMARE WORLD OF THE IMAGINATION... 

Todhunter was one of the world's elite - a guide in the House of Death - preparing the retiring for their coming departure... 

Then he was given a violent man, a murderer, to shepherd into death, and Weinberger convinced him that those about to die emit a chemical signal which attracts a strange predator - a creature which is Death itself. Together they built a cage to trap Death - and then followed the Being into the strange alien world of the Afterlife..."

NO MAN FRIDAY

Corgi paperback, 1958. Cover painting by John Richards.

"The others were dead, 

I was going in to land...Alone 

I knew a little about the technique of landing a rocket - but not enough. Now I could see the surface of the planet - the jagged fangs of the rocks... 

I was going in-"

BEYOND INFINITY

Corgi SF paperback, 1964. Cover painting by Josh Kirby.

"BEYOND CONSCIOUSNESS 

What happens when a man must control his nightmares - or die? 

BEYOND THE STARS 

What happens on a fearful journey across the bright side of the planet Mercury? 

BEYOND DIMENSION 

What happens when earth becomes the object of invasion from a fourth dimension? 

BEYOND GRAVITY 

What happens when earth is plagued by a race of repellent creatures who have learned to control gravity? 

BEYOND INFINITY 

What happens?????"

Contents:

Tiger by the Tail

Nightmare Brother

PRoblem

The Coffin Cure

Brightside Crossing

The Native Soil

Love Thy Vimp

Letter of the Law

Family Resemblance

At first I thought the cover was by Richard Powers, the book wasn't mentioned in the checklist in The Art Of Richard Powers (Paper Tiger, 2001) - I thought; it's Powers or someone doing a really good Powers impression. To add to the confusion, the Macfadden edition of this book (title: Tiger By The Tail) does actually have a cover by Powers. A little detective work uncovered that the illustrator here is (perhaps unsurprisingly) Josh Kirby. The original painting can be seen here at The Illustration Exchange.

THE EDGE OF TOMORROW

Corgi paperback, 1962. Cover artist uncredited.

"WAY OUT 

around the fringes of consciousness Howard Fast found some ideas that were too bold and terrifying for the here and now. They leaped the barriers of time and imagination and found their place in some of the most startling, provocative science fiction stories ever written. Here, in time, space and the galaxy, is all the story-telling genius of the celebrated author of Spartacus."

Contents:

The First Men

The Large Ant

Of Time And Cats

Cato The Martian

The Cold, Cold Box

The Martian Shop

The Sight Of Eden.

CYCLE OF FIRE

Corgi paperback, 1966. Cover artist uncredited.

"The planet had two suns - a red dwarf and a blue giant. And when the red dwarf ascended, the planet boiled and the ice caps melted. 

Dar Lang Ahn had only a short time in which he and his generation must prepare for the cycle of death. The death that meant life to the next civilisation of Abyormen."

JOURNEY BEYOND TOMORROW

Corgi paperback, 1966. Cover artist uncredited.

"Joenes was a man of the fabulous twentieth century, that remote and misty period of time about which very little is known.

Many tales are told of Joenes and his travels through the last years of the old era and the first years of the new but now, for the first time, the stories of Joenes have been carefully collected and together they present a fascinating picture of that mythical period of time known as the twentieth century."

THE SHORES OF SPACE

Corgi SF paperback, 1965 reissue. Cover artist uncredited,
though I've been reliably informed that it's Josh Kirby (thanks: Mark).

"It was getting dark and he couldn't be sure of what he saw. He stood paralysed and numb, staring with blood-drained face at the thing that moved across the ground towards the man's body; the thing that had a shape, yet not shape, that crept like a current of shimmering jellies. 

A terrified gagging filled his throat. He tried to move, but couldn't. He didn't want to hear the hideous gurgling sound, the turbid bubbling that was like vats of boiling tallow. 

Then the man was gone from the earth. Les stared at the place where he had been, stared at the luminous mass that pulsated there. He stared at it until the man had been completely eaten... 

'Being', one of thirteen extraordinary stories of fantasy and science fiction in this collection by Richard Matheson" 

Contents:

Being

Pattern For Survival

Steel

The Test

Clothes Make The Man

Blood Son

Trespass

When Day Is Dun

The Curious Child

The Funeral

The Last Day

Little Girl Lost

The Doll That Does Everything

SUNDOG

Corgi SF paperback, 1966. Cover artist uncredited.

"The solar system was imprisoned. Locked in a vast, invisible screen. Set there by something - or someone - but no one knew why...And man, banned from the stars, turned inward to himself, to a world of carefully controlled thoughts and ideas, a world where it was forbidden to dream..."

THE SHIP WHO SANG

Corgi paperback, 1972. Cover artist uncredited.

"The brain was perfect, the tiny, crippled body useless.

So technology rescued the brain and put it in an environment that conditioned it to live in a different kid of body - a spaceship.

Here the human mind, more subtle, infinitely more complex than any computer ever devised, could be linked to the massive and delicate strengths, the total recall, and the incredible speeds ot space. But the brain behind the ship was entirely feminine - a complex, loving, strong, weak, gently savage - a personality, all-woman, called Helva..."

RESTOREE

Corgi paperback, 1970. Cover artist uncredited.

"There was the sudden stench of a dead sea creature.... 

There was the horror of a huge black shape closing over her.... 

There was nothing.... 

Then there was the memory....isolated fragments that were so horrible her mind refused to accept them....Intense heat and shivering cold....Excruciating pain....Dismembered pieces of the human body....Sawn bones and searing screams.... 

And when she awoke she found she was in a world that was not earth, and with a face and body that were not her face and body. 

She had become a Restoree..."

FAR OUT

Corgi paperback, 1963. Cover artwork by Josh Kirby.

"A WORLD BEYOND TIME AND SPACE 

In these brilliant stories, Damon Knight takes you on a dazzling tour of the outer galaxies of the imagination:

The occasion when an alien race send two representatives to the United Nations. 

The meeting of two lovers whose only problem is that they are the only people left on Earth. 

The moment when an unborn child begins to communicate with its parents. 

Improbable? Not when the stories are written with the astonishing wit, the incredible logic and the surprising twists you have come to expect from this master of adult science fiction."

Contents:

To Serve Man

Idiot Stick

Thing Of Beauty

The Enemy

Not With A Bang

Babel II, Anachron

Special Delivery

You're Another

Time Enough

Extempore

Cabin Boy

The Last Word

THE DUNE ENCYCLOPEDIA

Corgi edition, 1984 (paperback), cover painting by Bruce Pennington.

"EIGHT YEARS IN THE MAKING, THE WORLD OF PAINSTAKING SCOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH, CONTAINING THOUSANDS OF ENTRIES AND CROSS-REFERENCES... 

Futurist, journalist, bestselling author, world-maker Frank Herbert's magnificent future history, The Dune Chronicles, has proven itself the most popular and enduring work of speculative fiction of our age - not only for the grandeur of its epic sweep, but for the complexity and intricacy of its world. Now, for the first time, Dune is revealed in panoramic detail - the people, the desert planet, the ecology, the history, the entire universe of the visionary masterpiece! 

The legendary history of Paul Atreides, the Kwisatz Haderach 

Salusa Secondus: the prison planet 

Fremen Desert survival techniques 

Duncan Idao (10158 - 10191): Swordmaster of the Ginaz 

A complete guide to the heraldry of the major house of Harkonnen 

"How Muad'Dib got his name": a folktale from the Oral history 

The Dune tarot; or the Golden Path 

the assassin's handbook: a complete guide to professional Chaumurky 

THE AUTHORIZED GUIDE AND COMPANION TO DUNE! ORIGINAL, NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED MATERIAL!"

THE SHIP WHO SANG

Corgi paperback, 1977. Cover painting by Angus McKie.

"The brain was perfect, the tiny, crippled body useless. So technology rescued the brain and put it in an environment that conditioned it to live in a different kind of body - a spaceship. Here the human mind, more subtle, infinitely more complex than any computer ever devised, could be linked to the massive and delicate strengths, the total recall, and the incredible speeds of space. But the brain behind the ship was entirely feminine - a complex, loving, strong, weak, gentle savage - a personality, all-woman, called Helva..."

A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ

Corgi paperback, 1979 reissue. Cover painting by Peter Jones.

"After the Fallout, when the Atomic Rain had stopped, the plagues and madness began. And after that came the simplification when the people - those who were left - turned against the rulers, the teachers, the scientists who had turned the world into a barren desert. All knowledge was destroyed, all the learned were killed - only Leibowitz managed to save some of the books... 

And the monks of the order of Leibowitz inherited the sacred relics - spent their lives copying, engraving, interpreting the holy fragments, slowly fashioning a new Renaissance in a barbarous and fallen world..."