THE SLAVES OF HEAVEN

The Slaves of Heaven by Edmund Cooper, 1978.
Cover "design" is credited to David Cox Studios, however the artist is Jim Burns.

The Slaves of Heaven, 1977 - clean image from Jim's book Lightship.

A FAR SUNSET

Coronet paperback, 1979. Cover artwork by Chris Foss.

Rear cover/synopsis.

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

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."

THE UNCERTAIN MIDNIGHT

Hodder paperback, 1971. Artwork by Chris Foss.

"They called him the Survivor - a 20th Century man 'reborn' in 2113 

After a devastating atomic holocaust, mankind had now turned to the machine to solve his problems. Which led to the androids - descended from the robot, they were hardly distinguishable from real humans. By the year 2113 they ran society - leaving man to a life of leisure. 

It was into this world that John Markham emerged after spending 146 years of suspended animation in an underground deep-freeze unit. But his new lease on life was likely to be a short one. A man with his 'outdated' ideas could be very dangerous - a fact the androids realized only too well..."

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?"

THE LAST CONTINENT

Hodder paperback, first printing, 1971. Cover painting by Chris Foss.

"The devastated Earth had only a handful of inhabitants - now even their future was in balance 

The Twenty-Second Century had been and gone - and with it, the worst war in the bloody history of mankind: the War of the Black Rising. The Earth was devastated, the moon blasted out of the sky. It was only on Mars, many millions of miles away, that humanity had survived - in the shape of a few isolated Black colonists. 

But out of that few had grown a new civilization - a civilization which now, some two thousand years later, had successfully launched its first ever space exploration - destination, the 'dead' planet Earth.