GEMINI GOD

Penguin SF paperback, 1982. Cover illustration by Chris Moore.

"YEAR 2096 

The human race is in decline. Soon its numbers on earth will drop below survival level. 

Then New Carthage, a world inhabited by strange, cheetah-like creatures, is discovered. Could contact with these aliens provide a lifeline for mankind? 

Using the twins On Lo and Ti, experiments are started to create a human empathic telemetry system between the two worlds. But the encouragement of the closeness factor between the twins provides the catalyst for a far more fantastic event..."

THE PENGUIN SCIENCE FICTION OMNIBUS

Penguin SF paperback, 1980. Cover illustration by Tom Stimpson.

"THE BIGGEST, MOST EXCITING COLLECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION STORIES EVER! 

Including stories from such masters as Harry Harrison, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Arthur C. Clarke, C. M. Kornbluth, James Blish, Clifford Simak, J. G. Ballard and many more... 

Selected and introduced by Brian Aldiss"

Contents:

Sole Solution by Eric Frank Russell

Lot by Ward Moore

The Short-Short Story of Mankind by John Steinbeck

Skirmish by Clifford Simak

Poor Little Warrior! by James H. Schmitz

The Half Pair by Bertram Chandler

Command Performance by Walter M. Miller

Nightfall by Isaac Asimov

The Snowball Effect by Katherine Maclean

The End of Summer by Algis Budrys
Track 12 by J. G. Ballard

The Monkey Wrench by Gordon R. Dickson

The First Men by Howard Fast

Counterfeit by Alan E. Nourse

The Greater Thing by Tom Godwin

Build Up Logically by Howard Schoenfeld

The Liberation of Earth by William Tenn

An Alien Agony by Harry Harrison

The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl

The Store of the Worlds by Robert Sheckley

Jokester by Isaac Asimov

Pyramid by Robert Abernathy

The Forgotten Enemy by Arthur C. Clarke

TIME AND AGAIN

Penguin SF paperback, 1967. Cover design by Alan Aldridge.

"Asher Sutton has a book in his hands - a book that would change the history of the galaxy, a book by himself...that he had never written. Or had he? Or would he? Simak traces this dazzling paradox along paths of terror and through times past, present and far into the distant future..."

CONSTELLATIONS

Penguin paperback, 1983. Cover art by Tony Robers.

"Holding a telescope to the future... 

When you can race through space on a solar-powered yacht, take a time package-tour back to the crucifixion, enjoy supper with Leonardo da Vinci... 

Twelve of science fiction's most inventive writers give us their visions of tomorrow's world in this dazzling galaxy of stories."

Contents:

 Light Of Other Days by Bob Shaw

A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber, Beyond Lies The Wub by Philip K. Dick

Let's Go To Golgotha! by Garry Kilworth

Of Mist, And Grass, And Sand by Vonda N. McIntyre

Harrison Bergman by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Rescue Operation by Harry Harrison

It's A Good Life by Jerome Bixby

Mister da V. by Kit Reed

Billennium by J. G. Ballard

The Shore Of The Worlds by Robert Sheckley

The Wind From The Sun by Arthur C. Clarke.

XANTHE AND THE ROBOTS

Penguin SF paperback, 1979. Cover illustration by
Adrian Chesterman.

"Xanthe is a member (female) of a research team which is investigating the possibilities of humanoid robots, in a world of chaos and starvation...Two types of robot have been produced: the Pragmapractors, who do the conventional manual work; and the Philophrenics, who have been programmed to more human levels, to feel affection, to talk, and even construct themselves. The question is: should they be allowed to go further?"

FINAL STAGE

Penguin SF paperback, 1975. Cover illustration by David Pelham.

"Thirteen fantastic new stories on the classic themes of science fiction by: Isaac Asimov/Poul Anderson/Robert Silverberg/Harlan Ellison/Frederik Pohl/Brian Aldiss/Harry Harrison/Philip K. Dick and others. Between them the contributors have won all the awards bestowed by science fiction: seventeen Hugos, ten Nebulas and the John W. Campbell memorial award. In this very special original collection, each writer is at the top of his form, each attempting to create the ultimate on a given theme."

Contents:


We Purchased People by Frederik Pohl
The Voortrekkers by Poul Anderson
Great Escape Tours, Inc. by Kit Reed
Diagrams For Three Enigmatic Stories by Brian W. Aldiss
Thou Art Mindful Of Him! by Isaac Asimov
We Three by Dean R. Koontz
An Old Fashioned Girl by Joanna Russ
Catman by Harlan Ellison
Space Rats Of The CCC by Harry Harrison
Trips by Robert Silverberg
The Wonderful All-Purpose Transmogrifier by Barry N. Malzberg
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
A Little Something For Us Tempunauts by Philip K. Dick. 

STAR MAKER

Pengiun Books paperback, 1973. Cover design by David Pelham.

"One moment a man sits on a suburban hill. The next he is whirling through the firmament. Street lamps become blinding stars and rushing grains swell into planets. 

Like H. G. Wells's time traveller, he visits many worlds, often at times of political and social crisis... Like the 'Other Earth' from which he escapes with the quasi-human Bvaltu just before technological change sweeps and annihilates the planet... Like the worlds of the Nautiloids, men-cum-fish-cum-boats, and the Plant men, vast mobile herbs... 

As they search up and down time and space for the Star Maker behind the cosmos, the two travellers are joined by others, to develop into a strange mental community, both 'I' and 'We', reacting multi-dimensionally to a mind-spinning range of experiences."

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."

WOMEN OF WONDER

Penguin SF paperback, 1978. Cover illustration by Candy Amsden.

"'Women are writing many of the things male sf writers thought could never be written; they are making us examine tenets and shibboleths we thought were immutable. The mightily thewed warrior trip is one of these. People like Ursula Le Guin, Joanna Russ, Kate Wilhelm...are making that seem hideously ridiculous' 

-Harlan Ellison. 

In Women of Wonder, Pamela Sargent has assembled a collection of amazing stories which show that some of the most exciting and innovating writing in science fiction is being produced by women."

Contents:


The Child Dreams by Sonya Dorman
That Only Mother by Judith Merril
Contaigon by Katherine Maclean
The Wind People by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Ship Who Sang by Anne Mccaffrey
When I Was Miss Dow by Sonya Dorman
The Farm Food by Kit Reed
Baby, You Were Great by Kate Wilhelm
Sex And/Or Mr Morrison by Carol Emshwiller
Vaster Than Empires And More Slow by Ursula K. Le Guin
False Dawn by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Nobody's Home by Joanna Russ
Of Mist, And Grass, And Sand by Vonda N. Mcintyre

THE DEMOLISHED MAN

Penguin SF paperback, 1974 reprint. Cover illustration by
David Pelham.

"'It's lucky for the world i'm willing to stop at one murder. Together we could rape the universe.' 

Ben Reich, head of Monarch utilities and resources, risks everything in a last-ditch take-over bid for the massive D'Courtney Cartel. When it fails only murder, blackmail and bribery are left. 

So Reich sets himself against the whole sophisticated paraphernalia of twenty-fourth century crime fighting, conducted by the peepers - trained telepathists with a strict code of ethics. And even if he can find a bent peeper, there's still the ultimate penalty if he fails - Demolition."

DESTINATION: VOID

Penguin SF paperback, 1967. Cover design by Alan Aldridge.

"PROBLEM - to build a complete human consciousness out of computer hardware and desperation! By the author of DRAGON IN THE SEA and DUNE. 

Soon after the start, they went mad. The three powerful, disembodied human brains that should have guided them for the 200-year journey to Tau Ceti. Could they manufacture a replacement before emerging from the Solar System into nothingness? Would the circuits reproduce the characteristics they needed, characteristics like conscience, love and guilt? Or would they end up with a zombie? A monster? A power-crazy fanatic? - or a genius? What they did build was fantastic, unguessable. Yet, looking back, it was always on the cards."