WALDO + MAGIC INC

Pan paperback, 1975. Cover artwork by Patrick Woodroffe.

Rear cover and synopsis, etc.

THE TIME MACHINE

Pan paperback, 1974. Cover artwork by Ian Miller.

Rear cover and synopsis, etc.

WAR GAMES

Pan paperback, 1981. Cover artwork by Ian Miller.

Rear cover & synopsis.

BEYOND TOMORROW

Pan paperback, 1973. Cover artwork by Ian Miller.

Rear cover.

JASON COSMO

Pan books paperback, 1990. Cover illustration by Josh Kirby.

Rear cover synopsis: 

Jason Cosmo was a humble woodcutter in the village of lower Hicksnittle on the northern fringes of Darnk, where a conversation about mottled pig pox in the Festering Wart Tavern was a major community event. 

But the arrival of a foppish stranger who promptly tried to kill him, made Jason realize that there was more afoot in the magical Elven Kingdoms of Arden than he'd previously suspected. 

In neighbouring Whiteswap, sipping carrot juice under the watchful eye of the Sanitary Police, Jason met the wizard Mercury Boltblaster - and learned some bad news. 

The evil Dark Magic Society had placed a ten million gold crown bounty on Jason's head - and bounty hunters BlackMoon and Red Huntsman were on his trail. Was it a case of mistaken identity? Was there another Jason Cosmo? Or did he have something strangely wrong with his aura?

DAGGER OF THE MIND

Pan SF paperback, 1981. Cover illustration by George Underwood.

"'THE ENTIRE HEAD HAD BEEN STRIPPED OF SKIN, CREATING A NIGHTMARISH SCULPTURE IN GELLED BLOOD...' 

The hideous apparition that confronted John Redpath almost defied description. It was the beginning of a horrific ordeal that would cause him to question his own sanity... 

A member of the telepathic research project, Redpath believes the cause to be side-effects from the experimental drugs he is taking - but then stranger things begin to happen. He wakes up to find himself in America...he is drawn to a local house occupied by a bizarre group of people leading an artificial and peculiar life...which events are really happening? 

SLOWLY AN EXPLANATION EMERGES, MORE TERRIFYING THAN ANYTHING HE COULD HAVE IMAGINED..."

100 YEARS OF SCIENCE FICTION - BOOK ONE

Pan paperback, 1972. Artist uncredited.

"Worlds of Tomorrow

Aliens, on Earth and Elsewhere

Other Dimensions

Damon Knight has said that SF and prophecy are two different things. SF deals with what may be, not what will be. This superb collection allows the reader to enter worlds which exist nowhere else, to experience many things still undreamed of in earthly philosophy."

Contents:

I - Worlds of Tomorrow

With The Night Mail by Rudyard Kipling

Mr Murphy of New York by Thomas McMorrow

New Apples in the Garden by Kris Neville

Sanity by Fritz Leiber

II - Aliens, on Earth and Elsewhere

The Shapes by J.-H. Rosny aîné

The Other Celia by Theodore Sturgeon

Black Charlie by Gordon R. Dickson

III Other Dimensions

A Subway Named Mobius by A. J. Deutsch

The Man Who Came Early by Poul Anderson

The Other Now by Murray Leinster.

EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN

Pan paperback, 1965. Cover artist uncredited.

"Eden, the Earth colony eleven light years away in the black void of space, has failed to answer the anxious signals of the communications operator on earth. Eventually the E-S, the key scientists - the master brains in the world of the future - decide to send a junior E to investigate."

ZARDOZ

Pan paperback, 1974. Cover artist uncredited; signature visible,
albeit illegible.

"Through the lowering clouds came the face of Zardoz, the god who gave Zed and the Exterminators the right to mate, the means to kill. What else in life was meaningful? 

Then Zed entered the Godhead seeking its mysteries, entering the world of the Vortex, where Death was banished for ever, stirring the long-forgotten sexual desires of the eternals, dividing them, reversing time itself to find the true secret of the Tabernacle... 

Zed - an unlikely champion against eternal evil..."

THE TWO-TIMERS

Pan SF paperback, 1971. Cover artist uncredited.

"Defying time, Jack Breton crosses into a parallel world to regain Kate - the wife who, nine years earlier, was found raped and strangled in a lonely park. But, in the alternate time-stream Kate is married to his double, John. And for one husband to remain either Jack or John must die..."

THE CITY

"In the aftermath of mankind's final war the few survivors scratch an existence from the ruins. This is no brave new world. From the shattered fragments of a once great civilization crawl the Rats - to claim the domain as their own. The city and its pitiful human inhabitants finally belong to them. The people have become prey, the hunters the hunted. But now the traveller has arrived and he is no victim. In search of his past, he has come to take back the dream of life as it was before. But in the city the only dreams left are nightmares."

TUNNEL IN THE SKY

Pan paperback, 1968. Cover artist uncredited.

"In an age when rocket ships are museum pieces and interplanetary travel is carried out by means of the Ramsbotham jump. Rod Walker is one of a group of male and female students sent individually on a strenuous survival test to a distant planet. Retrieval arrangements go wrong and the young people are left to face the alarming challenge of an unknown world..."

RED PLANET

Pan paperback, 1967. Cover artist uncredited.

"Through the amazing talents of Willis, an engaging Martian Roundhead, two boys at school in Syrtis Minor discover a plot by the resident agent general to make the colonists his slaves. The boys escape to warn their families in the south colony and survive many dangers before finding sanctuary with the true Martians, who return the boys home to face arrest and disbelief...In a savage battle for survival everything depends on Willis..."

CLONE

Pan Science Fiction paperback, 1981. Cover by Ian Pollock.

"Alvin isn't very clever and his ears stick out. But despite all that, he's a very important person. Or rather, a very important quarter of a person. Or even four people. It's all very confusing being a clone... 

It all started when he was kidnapped by the universal anthropoid brotherhood just after the marble arch massacre. They aren't aware of his amazing telepathic powers yet - but other sinister government agencies are... 

Will Norbert the Chimpanzee, Alvin's valuable friend and advisor, and the lesbian professor poynter find him before they do? Or will Alvin discover his powers and, in between dreaming about the luscious Cheryl, spread his wings a little deep beneath Pall Mall...?"

THE VISUAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION

Pan books paperback, 1977. Cover painting by Tim White.

 "A DOCUMENTED PICTORIAL CHECKLIST OF THE SF WORLD - CONCEPTS/THEMES/BOOKS/MAGS/COMICS/FILMS/TV/RADIO/ART/FANDOM/CULTS/PERSONAL COMMENTARIES BY THE GREATEST NAMES IN SF WRITING ... EDITED BY BRIAN ASH THIS ENCYCLOPEDIA INCLUDES COMMENTARIES FROM: BRIAN W. ALDISS/POUL ANDERSON/ISAAC ASIMOV/J.G. BALLARD/JOHN BRUNNER/KEN BULMER/ARTHUR C.CLARKE/LESTER DEL REY/PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER/HARRY HARRISON/FRITZ LEIBER/LARRY NIVEN/FREDERICK POHL/KEITH ROBERTS/JOSEPHINE SAXTON/ROBERT SHECKLEY/A.E.VAN VOGT/JAMES WHITE/JACK WILLIAMSON."

Painting (no title given) by Bob Layzell.

Illustration by Ian Miller for the Pan edition of Simak's The Werewolf Principle.

Painting by Angus McKie for Clark Dalton's The Thrall Of Hypno.

Painting by Chris Foss for City Of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Illustration by Hannes Bok for Roger Zelazny's A Rose For Ecclesiastes.

Beyond The Solar System by Chesley Bonestell.

A FALL OF MOONDUST

Pan SF paperback, 10th printing, 1976. Cover painting
by Dean Ellis (thanks: Mark).

"The setting is the Moon in the 21st century and it is depicted with brilliant imagination. 

But the vital core of the novel is this: will the crew and passengers of the Dust-cruiser 'Selene', buried fifteen metres down in the Sea of Thirst, be rescued before half a dozen possible catastrophes overcome them?"