SPACE VIKING

Sphere books paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Melvyn Grant.

Rear cover/synopsis.

LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN

Ace paperback, 1965. Cover by Jack Gaughan.

"The Paratime Police patrolled the vast number of alternate time-dimensions - the worlds which had branched off at every major decision in history. Their aim was to keep the many Earths from mixing and destroying each other. 

But the Time cops could make mistakes and they made a big one when Calvin Morrison, a member of the Pennsylvania State Police on the Fourth Level, Europe-American, Hispano-Columbian subsector, was accidentally tossed through the dimensions and deposited in Aryan-Transpacific, Styphon's House Subsector. 

The man been there only a few weeks and already he was called Lord Kalvan and was masterminding a local war that could blow the whole Paratime secret sky-high!"

FIRST CYCLE

Ace paperback, first printing, January 1982. Cover artist uncredited,
possibly Wayne D. Barlowe?

"In a galaxy very far away, two planets were born in a fiery collision and began to circle a yellow sun. One was watery while the other was hot and arid, but life is tenacious, and managed to develop slowly on both worlds. On the water planet, fish crawled from the sea and became amphibians, then grew greenish fur to protect them from the cold, and finally walked upright and bore patches of green hair only on their heads. On the arid planet, creatures like large slugs developed bones from their cartilage, crept through the desert as lizards, and finally evolved into red-furred creatures with cat-like faces and monkey's limbs. On both planets the natives grew more intelligent, learned about trade and war, and sang songs celebrating their exploits. The centuries went by, and eventually it was inevitable that two civilizations living so close to each other would find a way to meet. The history of all civilizations could have predicted that their meeting would not be peaceable..."

THE COSMIC COMPUTER

Ace paperback, 1983. Cover art by Michael Whelan.

"Merlin - the magical name that conjured up visions of unlimited knowledge and power. Merlin - the god-like, infallible computer that could mean the salvation of a war-torn human race. But did such a fantastic cybernetic marvel really exist? 

Was Merlin just another legend of the spaceways, as most people believed? Or was it really hidden somewhere on the colony planet, Poictesme? 

And if it was to be found, would it save mankind...Or be its destruction?