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| Hodder paperback, 1966. Cover artist uncredited. |
"When explorer John Brunt, a tough, womanising adventurer agrees to make the last exploration left to man, he cannot calculate the spiritual and physical terrors that await him. This is a story of the future and of now. Brunt finds there is no escape from either. He finds he cannot shake off the seeds of destruction he takes with him to the years beyond now. But does destruction come? There must be escape somewhere, somehow. But where? How?"
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| Hodder paperback, 1965. Cover artist uncredited. |
"A man has been experimenting to make contact with the outer world. One night he disappears - to become the master of the forces he has unleashed, or their first victim?"
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| 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 A man with his 'outdated' ideas could be very dangerous - a fact the androids realized only too well..."
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| 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.
