A FAR SUNSET

Coronet paperback, 1979. Cover artwork by Chris Foss.

Rear cover/synopsis.

SLAVES OF THE KLAU

Coronet paperback, 1980. Cover artwork uncredited.

Rear cover/synopsis.

SHADRACH IN THE FURNACE

Coronet paperback, 1981. Cover design by David Cox Studios.

Rear cover, synopsis, etc.

BEYOND THE BEYOND

Coronet paperback, 1973. Cover artwork by John Holmes.

Rear cover and synopsis.

THE ENEMY STARS

Coronet paperback, 1972. Cover artwork by John Holmes.

Rear cover and synopsis.

WHITLEY STRIEBER & JAMES KUNETKA: WARDAY

Cover illustration by David McAllister.

Synopsis: 

"Warday takes you into a world you couldn't imagine...and gives you a chance to change the future. On October 28, 1988 at 4.20 p.m. the first nuclear war in history begins. Thirty-six minutes later it is over. America has deployed an anti-missile system, provoking a desperate Russian response: a nuclear attack over North America. Within minutes, the Americans counter-strike. The result: six million Americans are dead. Whitley Strieber, James Kunetka: two survivors of the horrifying events of Warday. But what really happened on Warday and why? Who has survived? How do the other survivors feel? Five years after the devastation, these two friends set off on a voyage of discovery to find out. Warday was merely a flicker of hell; what remains are the consequences." 

THE RINGS OF TANTALUS

Coronet paperback, 1979. Cover artist uncredited.

"Commander James Conrad and his team of Expendables face the unknown dangers of an alien world in their mission to find planets suitable for colonisation. 

First the Expendables went to Kratos - and faced the Deathworms. Then they went on to Tantalus and tried to fathom the Rings - which could only have been fabricated with the help of highly sophisticated machinery. And then they discovered an alien spaceship orbiting the planet in strict silence and uncommunicability. 

When they finally boarded the vessel, it was obvious that it had been derelict for centuries - as a result of some dreadful battle. Meanwhile down below, the enigmatic Rings lay waiting to deal with intruders - as did the deadly vampire tree..."

THE WAR GAMES OF ZELOS

Coronet paperback, 1980. Cover artist uncredited.

"ZELOS seemed an ideal planet for colonisation. Possessing one large continent and numerous archipelagos, it had a climate and vegetation comfortably like that of Earth. 

Captain James Conrad and his crew of Expendables started on their initial reconnaissance of the planet. For the first time they found human beings already in residence. But this was a society remote from anything they had ever before experienced. For the Emperor of this strange world controlled his domain through the great annual War Games. 

Only the fittest could survive - and the Expendables must compete in the dreaded War Games. And, somehow, they must win."

JUPITER LAUGHS

Coronet paperback, 1981. Cover design credited to David Cox
Studios. Painting is by Fred Gambino.

"Required: one Doomsday weapon capable of ironing out the whole human race. It was a tall order, but then I thought I had a rather tall solution. Oddly enough, several of my junior scientists were quite enthusiastic about the project. They came up with such wild schemes as indestructible viruses, radio-activity and saturation devices, even anti-gravity fields large enough to drain the planet of its atmosphere and so choke us all to death. I dismissed the more original and enthusiastic members of my team. Such people seemed to me to be rather dangerous. 

Besides, by this time I had an idea of my own. It was elegantly simple..."

Contents:

Jupiter Laughs

Falcon Chase

The Life and Death of Plunky Goo

The Menhir

The Doomsday Story
Tomorrow's Gift

The Jar of Latakia

The Unicorn

Ninteen Ninety-four

M 81: Ursa Major

The Brain Child

Welcome Home

Judgment Day

The Butterflies

DIMENSION X

Coronet paperback, 1974. Acrylic sculpture by Haydon Williams.

"Dimension X contains two complete short novels by two of the greatest names in modern science fiction. 

Robert A. Heinlein's The Man Who Sold The Moon is a classic tale of a man obsessed by private vision. It's also a breathtakingly daring story of the ultimate in private enterprise... 

The late, great C M Kornbluth's The Marching Morons makes 1984 look like the Golden Age with its bleak, horrifically funny vision of a future earth populated by morons with an average IQ of 45..."

KRONK

Coronet SF paperback, 1975. Cover artwork by Chris Foss.

"P 939 - the greatest venereal disease in the history of mankind 

The day Gabriel Chrome, a failed book sculptor contemplating suicide on the Thames embankment, stumbled on the suicide bid of the naked Camilla Greylaw, was a day of hopeful redemption for a corrupt and violent world. For the lovely form that he chanced to preserve was the sole carrier of a contagious venereal disease. A bug which could inhibit the aggressive instinct, rendering total placidity in all humans. At once Gabriel's life has new meaning and purpose. To save mankind becomes his hardened ambition. But mankind seems far from hope."

FIVE TO TWELVE

Coronet paperback, second impression, 1974. Cover painting by
Chris Foss.

"The twenty-first century is drawing to an end. Earth's social structure has undergone a complete reversal - women dominate society and men have been reduced to the status of manipulated objects. Into this changed world comes Dion Quern, a self-styled troubadour who refuses to conform to the social norm. But he discovers that women are superior to men in both bodily strength and number. And how can one man hope to change a whole society?"

98.4

Coronet paperback, 1975. Cover art by John Holmes (thanks, Zardoz)

"From the author of FISTFUL OF DIGITS 

another terrifying novel of computerisation gone berserk 

98.4 

The Nerve Controlled Ballistic Missiles described in this book are entirely imaginary and bear no relation to any living person"

FISTFUL OF DIGITS

Coronet paperback, second impression, 1975. Cover painting by
John Holmes (thanks, Zardoz).

"- A natural successor to 1984? 

Fistful of Digits 

- A fascinating story of high adventure and low science fiction? 

- One of the most terrifyingly prophetic novels of the decade? 

On any of these levels, fistful of digits is a book that cries out to be read, a book that will scare the mind out of your head."

MINDMIX

Coronet SF paperback, 1973. Cover by Chris Foss.

"He was a man - but they changed him into a guinea pig. 

The world is dying. A disease more terrible than cancer ravages its populace. Scientists struggle when people die in their thousands. There is no known cure. 

Pete Bratton was a simple man. A drifter who let life nudge him from one day to the next. A nowhere man in a world of pre-destination and disease. A man who should have died, but who survived the terror of Virus Y and became a phenomenon. A human guinea pig for eager scientists to store the ideology of a dying civilization by memory transfer. 

But what of the real Pete Bratton strapped of his rights as a few individual and strapped to an operating table for the cause of science? 

And what of his own mind as it slowly dissolves into a jumble of conflicting ideas and personalities?"