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| Omni Vol. 2 No. 10, 1980. Cover painting by Ute Osterwald entitled A New Star In Heaven. |
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| Painting by John Schoenherr, from The Illustrated Dune pictorial. |
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| Omni Vol. 2 No. 2, November 1979. Painting Ears Are Eyes by Ute Osterwald. |
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| Cover painting by Ed Emswhiller ("Emsh") illustrating The Stars My Destination. |
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| Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh") illustrating Let's Build An Extraterrestrial! |
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| Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh") showing A Hot Welcome On Mercury. |
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| Macfadden paperback, second printing, October 1969. Cover painting: Jack Faragasso. |
"ALL LIFE'S PROBLEMS HAD BEEN SOLVED.
Man controlled time, overproduction, fantastically powerful weapons - even death. But universal happiness seemed farther away with each forward stride.
These imaginative stories explore new dimensions of time and space, as man learns that even the most advanced technology cannot protect him against primitive nature, intergalactic enemies, and the weakness, greed and treachery of human beings."
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| Ace Double paperback, 1971. Cover painting by Josh Kirby. |
"There's no time for heroes in the present," said General Superhawk, as he was relieved from his laundry duties to head the spaceship's invasion of the untouched-by-human-hands-or-feet planet, which had been dead for 200,000 years.
"This is absolutely no time for heroes," said the planet's central brain computer which had, in its long, long loneliness, peopled its planet with fabled literary creatures created from its monstrous protoplasma vats.
"I'm no hero!" screamed the small, fat man with the moustache as he was bullied onto the planet as the ship's Number One scout. But Fate and Old Ironjaw had thrust Bernhard Rordin into the role, and in his own bumbling way, he...
But see for yourself...."
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| Ace Double paperback, 1971. Cover painting by Josh Kirby. |
"Monteyiller stared at Alice. "This is supposed to be a rescue mission," he said. "There's a girl in danger somewhere on this mad world!"
She looked covertly at him. "What is it that you want?"
Monteyiller shrugged. "A city. A government center. Anything, as long as we get out of this."
Alice was clearly bewildered. She looked from Monteyiller to Cat and back again, her gaze shifting back and forth as she struggled with an unfamiliar thought. Finally, she said, "Which city?"
Monteyiller kept his face serious with an effort. "Any city," he said. "It's all up to you."
"Anycity," she repeated. "Oh, I see." She looked out over the lush, rolling landscape, frowning thoughtfully.
"And please make it a little bit more lively than this bloody place," Monteyiller said, grinning.
The landscape shifted...."
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| Ace Double paperback, 1967. Cover painting by Jack Gaughan. |
"EARTH ZERO TO EARTH FIFTEEN - WHICH WAS THE REAL ONE?
What the inhabitants of Greater America didn't realize was that theirs was the only inhabited landmass, apart from one island in the Philippines. They still talked about foreign countries, though they would forget little by little, but the countries were only in their imagination, mysterious and romantic places where nobody actually went.
That was the way it was on E-3, one of the fifteen alternate Earths that had been discovered through the subspace experiments.
Professor Faustaff knew that these alternate Earths were somehow recent creations, and that they were under attack from the strange eroding raids of the mysterious bands known as the D-Squads. But there were tens of millions of people on those Earths who were entitled to life and protection - and unless Faustaff and his men could crack the mystery of these worlds' creation and the more urgent problem of their destruction, it would mean not only the end of these parallel planets, but just possibly the blanking out of all civilization in the universe."
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| Ace Double paperback, 1967. Cover painting by Jack Gaughan. |
"IMMORTAL VENGEANCE
About TRAMONTANE:
This fourth science-fantasy novel based on the Finnish legendary epic Kalevala, seemed like a good idea because there are actually four important heroes in these wonderful legends, and this novel completes the cycle, concerning itself with the prophecy of the Great Return when the Vanhat seed shall return to Otava, the planet of their origin. Kullervo is the "bad one" of the legends. Ugly, sullen, despised, he was actually born out of evil. He kicked his cradle to pieces and refused to drown when the wise women flung him into the river. As a vindictive cowherd slave he changed cows into bears and this killed all of Ilmarinen's household. Like Manfred and Oedipus, he was predestined for tragedy and doom. However, he is surely one of the most fascinating characters in all mythology. Jean Sibelius, the great Finnish composer, chose his tragic life for the theme of his magnificent symphonic tone poem Kullervo, one of his finest works, involving choruses, soloists, and a sweeping Wagnerian nobility. My Kullervo Kasi, a prototype of his ancestor, is the spawn of a leakage from a dark dimensionof matter-energy that is invompatible with the life forces in this one. Therefore, Kullervo Kasi is the natural choice of the Starwitch Louhi to find the tag-end remnants of the Vanhat existing somewhere on despoiled Terra and destroy them...."
-Emil Petaja.
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| Ace Double paperback, 1965. Cover painting by Jack Gaughan. |
"OPERATION: TIME-SLIP
Ensign Joe Rate, captain of the experimental Navy yawl Alice, figured that everything that could happen to him in one day had already happened. First, after a freak electrical storm at sea the Alice had somehow been thrown a thousand years back in time, and it looked like they were stranded in the past. They had provisions for two weeks at the most. Then there was the voluptuous barbarian girl they'd saved from captivity - her presence on board a ship full of normal sailors wasn't likely to lessen the problems of the situation.
Then he saw the four Viking raiding ships bearing straight for him, and in a few minutes the first spear thunked into the Alice's foredeck.
The ship that sailed the time stream is a novel of madcap adventure in a past much more lively than any historian ever dreamed!"
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| Ace Double paperback, 1965. Cover painting by Jack Gaughan. |
"SECRETS THE WORLD MUST NEVER LEARN
If you have a friend to whom strange things happen, you can never lack for excitement. And if your friend happens to be the famous Mad Friend of G. C. Edmonson's remarkably authentic accounts of improbable but possible happenings, then you can always count on the unexpected.
This particular friend had a knack for turning up the unearthly, the off-the-record, the things that were "stranger than science." he could spot a time traveller across a restaurant - and then produce the sort of proof that would be more potent than tequila. He could find just where the meteor fell - and show you that it is not just a rock from space but far, far more ominous. He could...
But read stranger than you think for yourself and then start looking around your supposedly workaday world. Things may look different!"
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| Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh") showing Space Time In One Tough Lesson. |
