THE ELECTRIC FOREST

Hamlyn paperback, 1983. Cover by Tim White.

THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND NAMES

NEL paperback, 1980. Cover by Tim White.

Rear cover/synopsis.

GUERNICA NIGHT

NEL paperback, 1979. Cover painting by Tim White.

Rear cover/synopsis.

BRIAN STABLEFORD: THE CITY OF THE SUN

Hamlyn SF paperback, 1980. Illustration by Tim White.

"It was a circular city - like the City of the Sun, a perfect community dreamed up by the seventeenth-century philosopher Campanella. 

Many utopian groups had emigrated into space to found their ideal settlements. And it was on one such colony world - appropriately called Arcadia - that the recontact starship Daedalus made its fourth planetfall. There in all its splendour stood the fulfilment of Campanella's dream - the real seven-circled City of the Sun. 

But the city was too ordered, the inhabitants too perfect, the world too Arcadian ... and very soon the Daedalus's scientists realized that in this particular utopia the idealists had unleashed a force that could undermine all human culture on other planets."

ROADMARKS

Orbit paperback, 1981. Cover painting by Tim White.

"Somewhere in New York State is a road, which few know how to find, which goes not to any particular destination but backwards and forwards in time. The traveller on the road can turn off to all times and places, even alternate histories which never happened. 

Red Dorakeen has been travelling the Road as far back as he or anyone can remember. A long time ago he walked it as an old man - now, much younger, he is driving his old Dodge pick-up truck, running guns to the Greeks fighting Persian invaders at ancient Marathon. 

But someone has put out a contract on Red. His hidden enemy has searched the past and future for a band of assassins to pursue Red wherever the Road may take him."

THE JESUS INCIDENT

Orbit paperback, 1980. Cover by Tim White.

"A small group of human colonists are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival. 

Ranged against them, the planet PANDORA, its native life-forms as malevolent and savage as they are murderous. And SHIP, their ship-board computer, who knows that it is a GOD, and - on pain of destruction - demands their worship."

THE PRIESTS OF PSI

Orbit paperback, 1981. Cover by Tim White.

"A PSYCHIC PARASITE WHO HIJACKS PERSONALITIES. 

A COUPLE WHO DISCOVER THE HOUSE OF THEIR DREAMS...IN THE WRONG DIMENSION. 

THE PRIESTS OF PSI, CUSTODIANS OF A FORGOTTEN WISDOM WHICH MAY EXALT OR DAMN MANKIND COMPLETELY. 

Frank Herbert needs no introduction to the million readers of the DUNE trilogy, THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT and THE JESUS INCIDENT. In this, the first collection of short stories for some time, the inventive genius of the novels is powerfully evident."

Contents:

Try To Remember

Old Rambling House

Murder Will In

Mindfield

The Priests of Psi

GATHER, DARKNESS!

NEL paperback, 1979. Cover painting by Tim White.

"THE SECOND ATOMIC AGE IS MENACED BY WITCHCRAFT! 

GATHER, DARKNESS is the watchword in the strange new life of the second atomic age - and age where brain-washing is the means of quelling potential rebels...an age where constant war is wage between priests and witches, angels and devils, the rulers and the ruled...an age where science is supressed, and witchcraft is the way of life... 

But Brother Jarles is the one man whose actions completely upset the established form of government!"

GLORY ROAD

NEL paperback, November 1980. Illustration: Tim White.

"It started with an ad in the Herald Tribune: 'Permanent employment, very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger...apply in person...' Gordon got the job, and suddenly found himself catapulted into a new universe, and a new world of intergalactic chivalry and knight errantry. His task - to recover the Egg of the Phoenix, the key to the empire of the Twenty Universes. Together with the beautiful and mysterious 'Star' and a courageous valet, Rufo, he set out on the road to glory..."

PROJECT BARRIER

Hamlyn paperback, 1979. Illustration: Tim White.

"The first starship to Centauri could only carry 120 lb. of human being, yet required three specialist crewmen to handle it. 

The solution was radical but relatively simple. Take a twelve-year-old girl weighing 100 lb., and impress the personalities of three ideal crew members on her mind. 

These "shadow" crewmen then took the ship - with the girl - to the stars. Quite naturally the four became close friends - which would make for a decidedly complex problem when they returned. 

From the psychiatrists's point of view he's merely restoring the girl's sanity. But from the crew's point of view it's murder!"

Contents:

Shuffle Board

Recovery Area

Rub-a-Dub

Reign of the Telepuppets

Project Barrier

The rear-cover makes no light of this, but Project Barrier is a short story collection. The synopsis references Recovery Area, whilst Tim White's cover illustration seems to be for Reign of the Telepuppets. You know, just in case you were wondering.

MACROSCOPE

Grafton / Panther paperback, 1986. Cover illustration by Tim White.

The macroscope is the most expensive, important device ever put into space by the inhabitants of Earth. Many nations have come together to build and run it. 

By using a newly-discovered aspect of radiation, the macroscope is able to give clear images of worlds thousands of light-years away. 

And somewhere - out there - is a civilisation which has learned how to broadcast in the macroscopic band. Some brilliant scientists have already studied the broadcasts, with devastating results. Their brains have been badly damaged. 

There is one person who might be able to cope with the alien broadcasts - Schön, the elusive genius who won't appear if things bore him..."

THOUSANDSTAR

Granada paperback, 1984. Cover illustration by Tim White.

"A TREACHEROUS SPACE RACE FOR THE LEGACY OF THE ANCIENTS 

For Heem of Highfalls - an outlawed Hydr0 - and Jessica of Capella - a Solarian impostor, the new competition is a matter of life and death. 

The target planet is a wilderness world - Eccentric. The objective of the competition is an Ancient site. And the site is believed to be in operable condition. 

That means that the competition will be murderously stiff. It will be a race against time, enemy aliens and black holes. 

And for Heem and Jessica - linked together in the most intimate way possible - the contest is very simple: they can win. 

Or they can die... 

Thousandstar takes Piers Anthony's marvellously inventive Cluster series exploding further across the bounds of space and time."

THE HEAVEN MAKERS

NEL paperback, 1980 reprint. Illustration: Tim White.

"The Chems were the prisoners of eternity, gripped by the despair that immortality brought. They were strange dwellers in a timeless world, inflicting terror and suffering on the creatures they manipulated. 

Enter their world of infinite possibility and discover the fascinating secrets of a master race whose plaything is time. These are the super-beings who control men's destinies and who derive their pleasure from the pain and torture they impose on their human underlings."

THE LION GAME

Hamlyn SF paperback, 1979. Illustration: Tim White.

"'what's the lion game?' asked Telzey of her captors. 'you're engaged in it now,' was their answer. 

It was a game of mental chess played on the intricate closed-transit circuits of an entire world by a race of giant mentalists who acknowledged no allegiance to the civilized planets. 

Telzey was a human and, as such, a test piece - either a pawn to be sacrificed or a wild queen who could make her own decisions, she was never sure which. Either way the loser would not be just one talented earthling; the loser would be a whole civilization, and possibly a few peaceful planets as well..."

RODERICK AT RANDOM

Granada paperback, 1983. Cover illustration by Tim White.

"Roderick wasn't exactly happy, but at least he was holding down a job, even if it was only as a bowl-washer at Danton's Doggie Dinette. He didn't know they were out to get him. He didn't know that in the whole wide world of lunatic game shows, maniacal religious cults, tentacular business corporations, murderous governments, crazy consumerism and pill-popping people, there was no place for one mild-mannered robot."

THE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WORLD OF TIM WHITE

Paper Tiger hardback, 1989 reprint. © Tim White.

 "This is the first published collection in book form of the work of Tim White. His paintings depict the landscape of the imagination, and imagination is our vehicle of exploration into the realms of Fantasy and Science Fiction. 

Fantasy art has always provided a popular means of expression and for the contemporary artist the rapid growth of the Science Fiction and Fantasy scene is an ever-widening frame of reference and an unending fund of inspiration. 

Many of the illustrations contained in this collection were pieces of commissioned artwork for publishers' book covers. Compromises obviously have to be made to accommodate, for example, a publisher's art director, but this can be advantageous rather than merely restrictive. 

Tim White combines superlative detail with a largely figurative approach to his interpretation, and creates a totally realistic image of his landscape of the imagination. 

He has produced over one hundred illustrations for book covers, and his other work includes record sleeves, magazine illustrations and private commissions. His work has also appeared in several exhibitions of Science Fiction and Fantasy art."

Illustration used for the short story Green In The Evening in the magazine
Science Fiction Monthly and subsequently featured on the cover of
Terry Greenhough's Wandering Worlds.

Cover painting for John Blackburn's The Scent Of New-Mown Hay.

 "...The most dreadful thing about it is this. In no instance does the victim die ... This thing does not kill. It doesn't need to. It is against its interest to kill. It blends its cells with those of the victim, incorporates itself with it. In the final form you have a creature that retains a basic human structure and yet its material is purely fungoid. You have a thing that can see and move and very possibly retain some thought processes. Thoughts that if they do exist will have one aim and one alone. That of spreading itself to others..."

Painting for Robert A Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

Cover for Rogue Golem, by Ernest M. Kenyon.

Cover painting for Fritz Leiber's Gather Darkness.

Cover painting for Daniel F. Galouye's short story collection
Project Barrier.

"In the tracks of its superior, a small robot analyser collects samples of the sparse flora in the thin atmosphere of a desolate asteroid. Even the most diminutive member of the team has fallen victim to an unprecedented outbreak of megalomania and broods secretly on a machiavellian plot to improve its position in a larger robot hierarchy."

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.

SCIENCE FICTION MONTHLY VOLUME 2 NUMBER 11 1975

Cover painting Space Cracker by Tim White.

Pirates Of The Asteroids by Bruce Pennington.

Fantastic Planet by reader's painting competition winner Peter Eelson.
This image was presented as an A2-sized poster and according to Peter's official
website, was his first (published?) work.

THE SANTAROGA BARRIER

NEL paperback, April 1979. Illustration: Tim White.

"Why are we forced to close down our branches in Santaroga? Why won't any single Santarogan trade with an outsider? What's this Santarogan barrier which keeps us from doing business there?

Intimations of mass tribal insanity urge Gilbert Dasein to investigate the Santaroga scene himself. And behind the solid, faceless, enduring barrier he finds to his horror that every Santarogan citizen has become an extension of every other Santarogan...The people have lost all personal identity...They are like rays spreading out from a thin hole in a black curtain. And behind the curtain lies...What?"

PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION

Grafton paperback, 1990. Illustration by Tim White.

"THE KEY TO THE FUTURE 

It is the year 12,020 G.E. And the last Galactic Emperor of the Autun Dynasty, Cleon I, sits uneasily on the throne. These are troubled times and Cleon I is desperate to find a way to calm them. When young Hari Seldon arrives on Trantor to present a paper on psychohistory, his astounding theory of prediction, the Emperor believes that his future security may rest on Seldon's prophetic powers. Now Hari is the most wanted man in the Empire as he desperately struggles to keep his remarkable theory from reaching the wrong hands, while forging the key to the future - a power to be known as the Foundation! 

PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION 

marks the long awaited and eagerly anticipated re-appearance of the Outworld mathematician, Hari Seldon. What happened in the many centuries before the events told of in Asimov's other Foundation nobels- hitherto only hinted at- is now revealed."