THE PORTALS

Panther/Granada paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Peter Gudynas.

Rear cover/synopsis.

THE VOID CAPTAIN'S TALE

Panther/Granada paperback, 1984. Cover artwork by Geoff Taylor.

Rear cover/synopsis.

THE COMPASS ROSE

Panther/Granada paperback, 1984. Cover illustration by Peter Goodfellow.

Back cover fluff: 

"From dream worlds to nightmare planets, from the boundaries of madness to the six points of Ursula Le Guin's three dimensional compass, these stories are a mind-shaking reminder of the uniqueness of Le Guin's unsettling visions." 

This is a short story collection, and contains the following stories: The Author of the Acacia Seeds, The New Atlantis, Schrodinger's Cat, Two Delays on the Northern Line, SQ, Small Change, The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb, The Diary of the Rose, The White Donkey, The Phoenix, Intracom, The Eye Altering, Mazes, The Pathways of Desire, Gwilan's Harp, Malheur County, The Water Is Wide, The Wife's Story, Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time and Sur.

FAITH OF TAROT

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1982. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"On the ancient world of TAROT dreams come true - and fanged nightmares stalk the land. Sent to pierce the dread curtain of the Animation that turns fantasy into hideous reality, the wanderer-monk Paul finds himself on a trip to the ultimate, most terrifying fantasy of all. Hell."

VISION OF TAROT

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1982. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"On the planet TAROT nothing is real. Or everything. For the shimmering Animation curtain is moving across the worldscape like a storm of monsters, changing fantasy into hideous reality, trapping the wanderer-monk Paul in a nightmare of dragons, demons and spectacular lusts!"

GOD OF TAROT

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1982. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"Moments from now and light years away, on the ancient planet of Tarot, the new religions still flourish. But all who dwell in that occult world still worship the timeless Tree of Life as the one supreme god. 

Now this primitive culture is being haunted by apparitions from the mystery-ridden deck of Tarot - by Animations who destroy minds and take human life. can this horror be their god's ultimate challenge to his people? 

A young Earthling adventurer is sent to find the answer. Alone he dares to conjure a Tarot Animation, penetrate its awesome domain - and risk being trapped forever within the mystic borders of the ancient cards."

HELLICONIA SPRING

Granada / Triad paperback, 1983. Cover illustration by Tom Gill.

"The great drama of life on Helliconia is shaped by its cosmic limitations. It revolves with three other planets round the star Batalix, the whole group revolving in turn in a giant ellipse round Freyr, fifteen times the size of our sun and 60,000 times as luminous... 

In the fierce contrasts of climate, whole seasons last for centuries and civilizations rise and fall with each three-millennia orbit of Freyr. The winter alone of that Great Year would last for some five centuries..."

THE MAGIC LABYRINTH

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1982. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"Here all mysteries revealed, all quests completed, in the fabulous planet of Riverworld 

THE MAGIC LABYRINTH 

is the most herald science fiction event of recent times. It is the culminating achievement of the epoch-making Riverworld Series which has been pronounced the most daring, wide-ranging and speculative in the annals of science fiction. Here Philip José Farmer concludes the adventures of his all-star cast - Sir Richard Burton, Mark Twain, Jack London, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hermann Goering, Peter Frigate and literall everyone who has ever lived - all resurrected now along the banks of an enormous river on a mysterious planet known as Riverworld."

STARWORLD

Granada paperback, 1988. Cover illustration by Peter Gudynas.

"STARWORLD EXPLODES WITH REVOLUTION 

The twilight planet of Halvmork is free. The Earth space fleet has left to guard Homeworld and to prepare for the ultimate, cataclysmic showdown. For a moment, the entire galaxy seems to hold its breath... 

For Jan Kulozik, exiled on Halvmork, this is the moment of decisions. Will he find himself a leader of a new society...or an eternal slave to the absolute power of Earth? 

Starworld completes the epic To The Stars trilogy with one of the most breathtaking space sequences yet seen in science fiction."

NOW WAIT FOR LAST YEAR

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1979 reprint. Cover illustration
by Chris Foss.

"ONLY ONE MAN COULD SAVE THE WORLD, AND HE WAS DEAD. AGAIN. 

Once Gino Molinari, elected leader of Earth and supreme commander of its armed forces in a war against the reegs, had been assassinated by a political rival. The second time he had a heart attack while negotiation a surrender to the enemy. But now he was back, younger and more vigorous than before, giving Earth new hope in its battle for survival. 

Had he really died? Was an artificial Molinari - a robant - masquerading as the overlord of Earth? And what about the men from Lilistar, supposedly Earth's allies? Come to that, what about the reegs, supposedly Earth's enemies? One way and another, the Solar System was in bad trouble - and Molinari was the only one who could get it out of the mess it was in. If he could stay alive long enough. Or at least not stay dead too long..."

MIRACLE VISITORS

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1980. Cover illustration by
Tony Roberts.

"Did Michael Peacocke really see a flying saucer on the Yorkshire Moors? Was he really invited inside the spaceship and seduced by a beautiful, alien blonde? True or not, this curious occurrence is destined to change the lives of Peacocke and all around him."

THE VERY SLOW TIME MACHINE

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1981. Cover illustration by
Trevor Webb.

"The Very Slow Time Machine arrives on earth in 1985. Its sole inhabitant is old and mad. Soon it becomes apparent that for him, time is going slowly backward. With every day, he is getting younger and saner. The world, and its whole concept of time, science and philosophy, must wait for him to speak. But while the world waits, it changes..."

THE STONE GOD AWAKENS

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1979 reprint. Cover painting by
Bruce Pennington.

"MILLIONS OF YEARS AFTER MAN'S EXTINCTION - ONE MAN SURVIVES... 

Ulysses Singing Bear was a scientist back in 1985. But an experiment with matter molecules backfired - and he became 'petrified'. Millions of years later he 'awakens'. But the world has changed - drastically - and he finds he is worshipped as a god by people no longer human. Hoping to find a human female with whom to start his race again, he sets out. But there is an obstacle - The Tree, Wurutana arch enemy of the Stone God's people, the mightiest tree ever known, whose branches touch the heavens and whose roots clasp hell. Ullyssses-turned-god must conquer The Tree and the weird race it shelters, move heaven and hell - no easy task, even for a god..."

TIME'S LAST GIFT

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1979 reprint. Cover illustration by
Geoff Cummings.

"12,000 B.C. 

They were four trained scientists, each of them skilled in several disciplines - because this was an opportunity that would never occur again. There would never be another chance for men from the world of 2070 A.D. to examine in person the world of 12,000 B.C. What they learned and taped would be the only record ever made of this dim, enigmatic period of prehistory. But absolutely no one in the world of 2070 or in the borrowed time of 12,000 B.C. could have imagined what the tapes would reveal..."

ROGUE SHIP

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1980 reprint. Cover illustration by
Peter Jones.

"THE HOPE OF MAN... 

A mighty space cruiser coasts through the dreadful emptiness of space on its voyage of human survival. Multimillionaire Averill Hewitt built her, crewed her with handpicked men and women, and had her launched on a one-way trip to the planets clustered around Centaurus. But he had not counted on radical changes developing in the social hierarchy on board - on mutiny and revolution, on space madness - nor on the astounding scientific advances made in that awful isolation..."

HOMEWORLD

Granada SF paperback, 1980. Cover illustration by Peter Gudynas.

"HOMEWORLD IS HEAVEN ON EARTH 

IF YOU DON'T ASK QUESTIONS... 

Homeworld is stable at last, hundreds of years after the collapse of the 20th Century economy. For the millions of proles, life is still a grim ordeal, but for the lucky few, like Engineer Jan Kulozik, there is every kind of luxury. Except one. On Homeworld, where everything and everyone is monitored by the faceless power of government, there is no freedom. 

Jan Kulozik knew nothing of the Resistance; he probably didn't want to. But suddenly, he is part of it. And running for his life... 

The first volume in Harry Harrison's epic To the Stars trilogy, Homeworld is one of the most stark and compelling visions of the future since 1984."

CAPELLA'S GOLDEN EYES

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1982. Cover illustration by
Peter Gudynas.

"For over a century, the human colonists on the planet Gaia have prospered under the guidance of the M'threnni. But when David arrives in the capital Helixport and makes contact with the aliens, he begins to learn the terrifying truth about them. From that moment on he is in mortal danger, for the M'threnni, far from being silent benefactors, may turn out to be the deadliest of cruel dictators..."

CHTHON

Granada paperback, 1983. Cover artist uncredited.

"THE LOWER DEPTHS... 

Aton's crime was a dreadful one. He had loved a Minionette. All the worlds of mankind despised and feared this almost mythical siren. But no creature anywhere could tell Aton why. 

In the brutally hot garnet mines of Chthon to which he had been condemned, Aton sought an answer. And when he could not find it he determined to seek it elsewhere.  

He had to escape. And no man had ever escaped from Chthon and lived. But the mystery of the Minionette had to be solved. Aton had to have his answer..."

THOUSANDSTAR

Granada paperback, 1984. Cover illustration by Tim White.

"A TREACHEROUS SPACE RACE FOR THE LEGACY OF THE ANCIENTS 

For Heem of Highfalls - an outlawed Hydr0 - and Jessica of Capella - a Solarian impostor, the new competition is a matter of life and death. 

The target planet is a wilderness world - Eccentric. The objective of the competition is an Ancient site. And the site is believed to be in operable condition. 

That means that the competition will be murderously stiff. It will be a race against time, enemy aliens and black holes. 

And for Heem and Jessica - linked together in the most intimate way possible - the contest is very simple: they can win. 

Or they can die... 

Thousandstar takes Piers Anthony's marvellously inventive Cluster series exploding further across the bounds of space and time."

STEPPE

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1980. Cover illustration by
Fred Gambino.

Alp the Uigur steps into the Game 

Alp is a 9th Century warrior on the great Steppes of Russia, suddenly plucked from his own time by 24th Century Galactics, players of the Game. 

The Game is a reconstruction of history, controlled by a super-computer. Any Galactic with enough money can buy himself a part. The more he prospers, the more points he scores and the more fans he acquries on the outside. The history being re-run now is Steppe, 9th Century...with a difference. Instead of on rolling grasslands, the Game is played over an entire galaxy. Instead of on sturdy ponies, the competitors travel by individual spaceship. Only the women, and the need to use cunning and strength, seem the same..."