A WORLD OUT OF TIME

"... he turned, fighting to stay on his feet. Under a hooded robe of white cloth with a touch of iridescence in it: a bent human form... while the cat-snake distracted him, she had struck. He saw her in shadow: tall and stooped, gaunt, her face all wrinkles, her nose hooked, her eyes deep-set and malevolent in the shadow of the hood. Her swollen hands held a silver cane aimed at Corbell's eyes."

Futura paperback, 1979. Cover artwork by Peter Jones.

Rear cover, etc.

Full artwork by Peter Jones.

PETER JONES - SWORD & SORCERY

"...science fiction, like any fiction, cannot help drawing on the conventions of the past. The writers do it; the illustrators do it. The genre which most self-consciously plays on historic forms and symbolism is often called 'sword-and-sorcery' or 'fantasy' to differentiate it from some imagined 'scientific' fiction."

-Solar Wind, 1980.

Artwork for Apparitions by Celia Green and Charles McCreery.

Artwork for Out Of The Body Experiences by Celia Green.

Artwork for Synaptic Manhunt by Mick Farren.

Artwork for The Dark Twin by Marion Campbell.

Artwork for The Chalk Giants by Keith Roberts.

Artwork for The Warlock In Spite Of Himself by Christopher Stasheff.

Artwork for The Birthgrave by Tanith Lee.

Artwork for The Storm Lord by Tanith Lee.

THE BOOK OF FRANK HERBERT

Panther paperback, 1977. Cover by Peter Jones.

Rear cover/synopsis.

A HOLE IN SPACE

Orbit paperback, 1980. Cover painting by Peter Jones.

Rear cover/synopsis.

THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE

Futura paperback, 1979. Cover artwork by Peter Jones.

Rear cover/synopsis - more art!

OMNIVORE

Corgi paperback, 1977. Cover artwork by Peter Jones.

Rear cover. More art!/synopsis.

ORPHANS OF THE SKY

Panther paperback, 1975. Cover painting by Peter Jones.

Rear cover; synopsis.

THE SILENT INVADERS

Hamlyn paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Peter Jones.

Rear cover and synopsis.

THE LONG ARM OF GIL HAMILTON

Orbit paperback, 1980. Cover artwork by Peter Jones.

Rear cover and synopsis.

STARDANCE

Futura paperback 1979. Cover artwork by Peter Jones.

Rear cover and synopsis.

STRANGLERS' MOON

Panther SF paperback, 1977. Cover illustration by Peter Jones. A
slightly modified version of this painting can be found in his book
"Solar Wind" (Paper Tiger, 1980)

Rear cover synopsis: 

"Vesa was the Empire of Earth's moon of vice. Every year millions of space-voyagers from all corners of the universe travelled there to make or break their fortunes in the exotic gaming palaces. But something much more sinister was going on in the Playground of the Galaxy. 

Already a quarter of a million people had vanished from Vesa. 

The situation shrieked for action. The security of the Empire was at risk. So the Head summoned SOTE's Number One super-agents. For only Jules and Yvette d'Alembert would risk life and limb to smash this interplanetary conspiracy of catastrophic dimensions..."

THE WORLD OF PTAVVS

Orbit paperback, 1982 .Cover painting by Peter Jones.

Rear cover synopsis: 

"Larry Greenberg's telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a critical level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not knowing who he really was. And when Larry's mind is taken over by a sinister alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind."

THE QUEST OF THE DNA COWBOYS

Mayflower SF paperback, 1976. Cover illustration by Peter Jones.

Rear cover fluff: 

"THE WEST THAT'S WILDER THAN YOUR WEIRDEST NIGHTMARES 

From out of the little township of Pleasant Gap stride Billy and Reave, the DNA Cowboys. Reproduction pistols in their hands, portable generators at their belts, they hit the long trail riding through the molecular dissolution of the Nothings, teetering on the edge of non-existence, to Graveyard, the wheelfreaks' paradise, Dogbreath, home of the blue-scaled whores, Port Judas, Puritan outpost, through Dropville and the hippy immortals to the terror city of Akio-Tech. 

Scraps of contemporary myth, fragments of futuristic horror, strange imaginings and bright strands of story-telling ebb, flow, float, jostle and synthesize into this, the first volume of a dazzling new science fantasy trilogy."

DEATHHUNTER

Corgi paperback, 1982. Cover painting by Peter Jones.

"HE BUILT A TRAP FOR DEATH - AND FOUND HIMSELF IN A NIGHTMARE WORLD OF THE IMAGINATION... 

Todhunter was one of the world's elite - a guide in the House of Death - preparing the retiring for their coming departure... 

Then he was given a violent man, a murderer, to shepherd into death, and Weinberger convinced him that those about to die emit a chemical signal which attracts a strange predator - a creature which is Death itself. Together they built a cage to trap Death - and then followed the Being into the strange alien world of the Afterlife..."

ROGUE SHIP

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1980 reprint. Cover illustration by
Peter Jones.

"THE HOPE OF MAN... 

A mighty space cruiser coasts through the dreadful emptiness of space on its voyage of human survival. Multimillionaire Averill Hewitt built her, crewed her with handpicked men and women, and had her launched on a one-way trip to the planets clustered around Centaurus. But he had not counted on radical changes developing in the social hierarchy on board - on mutiny and revolution, on space madness - nor on the astounding scientific advances made in that awful isolation..."

THE INCOMPLEAT ENCHANTER

Sphere paperback, 1979. Cover painting by Peter Jones.

"The Mathematics of Magic - it was the greatest discovery ever. Or so though Professor Harold Shea. With the proper equations he could instantly transport himself and his friend Reed Chalmers back - or sideways - in time to all the wondrous lands of ancient myth and legend. 

But slips in time were a hazard. And Shea's magic didn't always work quite as he expected. A dragon spell might yield a hundred dragons - or, even worse, one tenth of a dragon. And the various imaginary lands he travelled to held countless dangers that even Shea's equations couldn't predict..."

DREAM PARK

Orbit paperback, 1983. Cover painting by Peter Jones.

"They were all playing games...but one of them was playing for keeps. 

Chet Henderson was playing at revenge, and to boost his flagging reputation as a Lore-master. 

Richard Lopez was playing to prove that his earlier successes as a Gamesmaster were no fluke. 

Ollie and Gwen and Mary-em and Tony were playing because it made them feel alive. 

Alex Griffin was palying to protect Dream Park's darkest secret. 

In Dream Park, everyone plays. But if some win, some have to lose. And losing can be a matter of life or death."

THE RINGWORLD ENGINEERS

Orbit paperback, 1981. Cover painting by Peter Jones.

In the decade since its first appearance, RINGWORLD has become the most talk-about locale in Known Space and made the name of Larry Niven synonymous with ingenious, inimitable SF. 

THE RINGWORLD ENGINEERS sees the return of Louis Wu (now hooked on electrical ecstasy as a wirehead) and the aging kzin warrior Speaker-To-Animals, while introducing the Hindmost, puppeteer mate of made Nessus: Together the bizarre crew seek to avert tragic cataclysm in the Ringworld System."

THE MAGIC GOES AWAY

Orbit paperback, 1982. Cover painting by Peter Jones.

"Once there was magic in the world. But hordes of selfish, short-sighted magicians have used up the mana which moved the world and even the most powerful spells are becoming futile. Soon all the creatures of spirit, the unicorns and centaurs, will have disappeared, and unless Orolandes with half a sword succeeds in his quest for the lost power, those stupid barbarians with their stupid swords will win after all..."

THE PATCHWORK GIRL

Orbit paperback, 1982. Cover painting by Peter Jones.

"Only the most beautiful woman on Luna could have sent a near fatal laser into the chest of the Fourth Speaker for the Asteroids. And with the evidence stacked against her she may be destined for the organ bank where criminals wait to 'repay society' with their bodies. Investigator Gil Hamilton will need to move fast to save her from becoming a nicely arranged stack of spare parts."