ROBERT SHECKLEY: FUTUROPOLIS

Cover by Alan Daniels.

Futuropolis: 

"Is a memorable illustration-packed journey to the extraordinary cities of the future as envisioned by some of the most notable artists, writers, philosophers, architects and film makers, past and present, ever assembled in one volume. Here are the fantastic visions of Piero della Francesca and Buckminster Fuller, of Plato, George Orwell and Isaac Asimov, of Fritz Lang, of Breughel and Druillet, and many more. Impossible cities? Nothing but science fiction and fantasy? Many of these astounding visions already exist."

Robert Sheckley: 

"A well-known science fiction writer whose works include Mindswap, Dimension Of Miracles, Citizen In Space and The Tenth Victim, which was made into a movie starring Ursula Andress and Marcello Mastroianni. A Brooklyn-born graduate of New York University, he lives with his family in London."

Painting by Colin Hay for The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin.

Painting by Bob Layzell.

"Fire Time" by Colin Hay.

Amazing Science Fiction Stories, February 1959. Illustration by Phil Berry.

"The City Crumbles" by Bob Layzell.

"Torquedara Varenkor" by Philippe Druillet.

Painting by George Underwood.

Céméroon by Philippe Druillet.

DAGGER OF THE MIND

Pan SF paperback, 1981. Cover illustration by George Underwood.

"'THE ENTIRE HEAD HAD BEEN STRIPPED OF SKIN, CREATING A NIGHTMARISH SCULPTURE IN GELLED BLOOD...' 

The hideous apparition that confronted John Redpath almost defied description. It was the beginning of a horrific ordeal that would cause him to question his own sanity... 

A member of the telepathic research project, Redpath believes the cause to be side-effects from the experimental drugs he is taking - but then stranger things begin to happen. He wakes up to find himself in America...he is drawn to a local house occupied by a bizarre group of people leading an artificial and peculiar life...which events are really happening? 

SLOWLY AN EXPLANATION EMERGES, MORE TERRIFYING THAN ANYTHING HE COULD HAVE IMAGINED..."

STRANGE RELATIONS

Granada paperback, 1982. Illustration by George Underwood.

"If you thought your relations were strange...Come and meet Hugo award-winner Philip José Farmer's strange relations - and outstanding collection of brilliantly disturbing stories where man meets alien in a weird variety of ways. The results of these encounters will shock, startle and astound you as only the acclaimed author of the Riverworld saga can."

Contents:

Mother

Daughter 

Father

Son

My Sister's Brother