ANYWHEN

Arrow paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Chris Foss.

Rear cover/synopses.

A TORRENT OF FACES

Arrow paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Chris Foss.

Rear cover and synopsis.

VOR

Avon paperback, fifth printing, April 1970. Cover by Don Crowley.

"FIRST CONTACT! 

The glowing ovoid plummeted earthward, the sky screaming like a metallic banshee as the air boiled away from its sides. 

A supersonic boom broke over the forest. The curious thing glided down; earth fountained away from it like water, and the forest burst into flame! 

Then a thin black line etched a circle on the side of the metal egg; the circle thickened into a door, or airlock; the air was rent by a searing, screaming hiss and suddenly - the strange being soon to be known to all mankind as 

VOR 

emerged...."

BLACK EASTER OR FAUST ALEPH NULL

Penguin SF paperback, 1972. Cover design by David Pelham.

"When Baines, a megalomaniac arms manufacturer, employs for a secret personal project the Black sorcerer Theron Ware, D.D., all hell is let loose - literally! 

One other man is fully aware of their evil machinations, Brother Domenico Garelli of the small, obscure order of Monte Albano, and because of the strict limitations placed on his powers he finds himself unable to stop the rising tide of horror. "each of the opposing sides in any war always predicts victory."

MIDSUMMER CENTURY

Arrow paperback, 1975. Cover painting by Chris Foss.

"When John Martels' new radio telescope obstinately refuses to function, he decides to see for himself what the trouble is. Field strength detector in hand, he clambers up the side of the wave guide - and falls straight down the tube. The fall is bad enough to put him in hospital for weeks. But it doesn't. 

In fact, when Martels regains consciousness, it takes him a little time to grasp exactly where he is: trapped inside someone else's brain, about 23,000 years in the future..."

THE SEEDLING STARS

Arrow SF paperback, 1972. Cover artwork by Chris Yates.

"Pantropy - total biological engineering - Adapted Man, adapted ante-natally to life on other planets: for instance Sweeney, Ganymede dweller. Selective mitotic poisoning, pinpoint X-irradiation, tectogenetic micro-surgery, competitive metabolic inhibition, together with perhaps fifty other processes produce a man no longer Man. 

And on Hydrot: colonists engineered as minute under-water organisms that yet retain something of the personalities of their earth originals. The potential of Homo Sapiens translated into other terms. Man survives by becoming non-man, a dim, racial memory of true man transmuted into a God myth. 

The galaxies seeded with adapted man-organisms."

Contains four stories designed to form an integrated whole: Seeding Program, The Thing In The Attic, Surface Tension and Watershed.

CITIES IN FLIGHT

First Avon printing, Feb 1970. Cover artist uncredited.

"The epic cyclic history of the future is now brought together in one volume. In the tetralogy, James Blish has structured an entire universe in which mankind is no longer bound to the Solar System, but has become both conqueror and victim of the stars."