Showing posts with label Lancer Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lancer Books. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 April 2014

SEETEE SHIP / SEETEE SHOCK

Lancer Books paperback, 1972. Cover artwork by Jeff Jones.

Rear cover, synopsis, etc.

Thursday, 27 March 2014

STORMBRINGER

Lancer paperback, 1967. Cover artwork by Jack Gaughan.

Rear cover and synopsis.

Sunday, 29 January 2012

WATERS OF DEATH

Lancer paperback, 1967. Cover artist uncredited.

Rear-cover synopsis: 
"Food. In the year 2160, it was man's greatest problem. With the enormous increase in population and the extension of longevity, there simply wasn't enough to go around. The sea farms were the only solution - but they were in themselves a potential threat to man's future. Science and technology had advanced fantastically, of course. The real trouble was...People. Human beings had not changed. The sea farmers had good reasons for being rebellious; their work was hard and dangerous and the rewards small. And the rest of the population was rapidly becoming a total police state, but one which might revolt at any moment. Then the harvests from the sea began to drop off...And the government decided to hand the whole problem to just one man. Dr. Robert Wilde found himself as no man had ever before: with a clouded past, hated by those he was trying to help, harassed by powerful men seeking more power....Did he have any future? Did the world?"

Thursday, 7 July 2011

GOLDEN BLOOD

Lancer paperback, 1964. Artwork by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh").

"Au / 79 / 197.2 
Chemical symbol...Atomic number...Atomic weight... 
Scientific terms for gold...But science can't begin to explain the mystery and magic of gold. 
It was gold that lured the "Secret Legion" - as oddly mixed a group of adventurers as any in song or story - into the world's most treacherous desert. 
And gold they found - a golden man, an exotic golden woman, a huge golden tiger, and an eerie golden snake. 
Gold brought them together ... Gold made them enemies in a battle to the death...Gold held the key to the mysterious forces that assailed them. 
Jack Williamson, alchemist with words, spins a rare web of adventure, fantasy and science...a gem from the golden age of Weird Tales, now available in book form for the first time."

Wednesday, 18 May 2011

ANYTHING YOU CAN DO...

Lancer paperback, 1969. Artwork by Bill Skurski

"Aliens aren't Human!
 
No matter what the shape of an alien body or how great the intelligence of an alien brain, a creature born under another star and reared on another planet is not a man. He (or it) will not think, feel or react as a human would in the same circumstances - which doesn't mean that aliens cannot be thinking, feeling, or reacting creatures. When one Nipe is shipwrecked on earth, the entire race of man finds itself in a ten-year battle against a different mind - a battle to gain ten million years of alien knowledge - a battle to win the stars!"

Saturday, 14 August 2010

BEASTCHILD

Lancer paperback, 1970. Cover artwork by Gene Szafran.

"WHAT ALIEN? 
The naoli came to Earth as conquerors, while the last men skulked through the ruins of their civilization. The two races, human and naoli, were the most powerful intelligences in the galaxy - and destined to be immediate and perpetual enemies! 
Then the adult Hulann met the boy Leo ... And each became a traitor to his race. For it was only through treason that the future of each race could be assured."