LOST DORSAI

Orbit paperback, 1991. Artwork by Les Edwards.

"Renowned throughout the galaxy as the finest soldiers ever born, the men of the Dorsai had been hired by El Conde, sovereign of Gebel Nahar, to transform his raggle-taggle army into a fighting force to be reckoned with. Now revolution had erupted, and the men once trained by the Dorsai bore arms against them. Bound by their rigid code of honour, the mercenaries' first duty was to protect el conde from the rebels. But what chance had a handful of warriors, however noble and fearless, against the massed ranks of the Naharese?"

SPIRIT OF THE DORSAI

Orbit paperback, 1989. Artwork by Les Edwards.

"The spirit of Dorsai is an illumination of the heart and soul of the planet dorsai and its people, showing with epic clarity and unforgettable vision how and why the Dorsai fight and live. It tells of the beginning when the first Dorsai was formed by mercenaries willing to fight others' battles to buy freedom for their own homes. It tells how even children and old men fought for the dream of the Dorsai. From the mouth of Amanda Morgan, direct descendant of two illustrious women who bore her name, the full story is told in all its splendour."

NEW WORLDS SCIENCE FICTION AUGUST 1961

Cover painting by Sydney Jordan.

TIME STORM

Sphere SF paperback, 1987. Artwork by Peter Elson.

"The day the time storm struck, Marc Despard was one of the handful to survive. Mist walls, moving endlessley across the surface of the earth, created a devastated, shifting patchwork of temporal anarchy. 

But Despard saw strange, dazzling patterns in his head that he knew could lead him through the storm. In the violent, terrifying landscape of an ever-changing world he began to realise his awe-inspiring mission: he must become nothing less than master of the universe - he must become god."

THE STAR WITCHES

Hodder paperback, 1965. Cover artist uncredited.

"A man has been experimenting to make contact with the outer world. One night he disappears - to become the master of the forces he has unleashed, or their first victim?"

THE BIG TIME

Orbit paperback, 1976. Cover artist uncredited,
possibly Bob Haberfield.

"The secret of time travel is the exclusive property of two huge, shadowy organizations who send their agents into the past to change crucial events in history and thus remodel the world in their own image. Fritz Leiber's masterpiece of sustained surrealistic imagination is the most remarkable novel ever to win science fiction's coveted Hugo award."

OUR LADY OF DARKNESS

Fontana SF paperback, 1978. Cover illustration
by Roy Ellsworth.

"What was the evil figure that haunted Franz Westen? Was it his imagination, or was it something infinitely more frightening, connected somehow with those old books he'd been reading? For there was much in those books to connect the figure with the bizarre twilight world of San Francisco in the 1920s, the world of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton smith, Jack London, Dashiell Hammett and Aleister Crowley. The more westen plunged into those misty reaches of the occult, the more he would uncover things which had perhaps better lain undisturbed. For Westen, in trying to unravel the mystery of our lady of darkness, was gambling with his life."

THE TEXTS OF FESTIVAL

Mayflower SF paperback, 1975. Cover illustration by Peter Jones.

"In the wilderness of Britain little of civilization remains. Decadence and division have overtaken the huddled people of festival. And faith in the texts of the old gods - Dhillon, Djeggar and Morrizen - is fading fast. 

Beyond the city walls the tribes are massing, united in evil intent. Hill savages fired by ritual superstition to pillage and slaughter. Satanic horseriders inspired by drugs to rape and defile. And crystal-crazed iggy at the head of them all - a despot in search of a territory. A territory like festival."

THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION MAY 1961

Cover by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh").

MASTERS OF SPACE

Orbit paperback, 1976. Cover artist uncredited.

"Among the handful of writers who make up the real hardcore of science fiction, Edward E. Smith stands supreme. His 'Skylark' and 'Lensman' series set a standard for breathtaking intergalactic adventure which has never been surpassed. 

MASTERS OF SPACE 

shows the master story-teller at the top of his form in this story of a brash new race erupting into space, determined to risk their very existence in a bid to take over the Galactic Empire and prevent it falling into the hands of tyrants."

THE CLOCKWORK TRAITOR

Panther SF paperback, 1977. Cover illustration by Chris Foss.

"Jules and Yvette d'Alembert had faced challenges before - but rarely one as daunting as this. To them fell the perilous task of infiltrating a vicious conspiracy which threatened to destroy the Stanley Dynasty and throw the whole interstellar civilization into chaos. 

Now, as rival candidates from all corners of the galaxy gather for the progress, the two most daring space super-agents of all time go into action. For among the suitors competing to be consort to the royal heiress of the empire of earth, there is a traitor. And somewhere close to the princess, a time bomb is ticking..."

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..."

THE SHIP WHO SANG

Corgi paperback, 1972. Cover artist uncredited.

"The brain was perfect, the tiny, crippled body useless.

So technology rescued the brain and put it in an environment that conditioned it to live in a different kid of body - a spaceship.

Here the human mind, more subtle, infinitely more complex than any computer ever devised, could be linked to the massive and delicate strengths, the total recall, and the incredible speeds ot space. But the brain behind the ship was entirely feminine - a complex, loving, strong, weak, gently savage - a personality, all-woman, called Helva..."

OVERLAY

NEL paperback, 1975. Artwork by Ray Feibush.

"Earth was a planet of incompetents, but Simmons was the greatest loser of all. It seemed as if the powers of the universe were concentrated on grinding his small soul into ultimate insignificance...Until the aliens came. To them, simmons was the most important human on the planet - for only through his mind could they overcome this world."

BUY JUPITER

Panther Science Fiction paperback, 1977 reprint.
Cover illustration by Peter Jones.

"The biggest advertising sign in the solar system...Dinosaurs of the mesozoic era - armed with guns...The fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.

Never before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's greatest master of science fiction."

Contents:

Darwinian Pool Room

Day Of The Hunters

Shah Guido G.

Button, Button

The Monkey's Finger

Everest

The Pause

Let's Not

Each An Explorer

Blank!

Does A Bee Care?

Silly Asses

Buy Jupiter

A Statue For Father

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Founding Father

Exile To Hell

Key Item

The Proper Study

2430 A.D.

The Greatest Asset

Take A Match

Thiotimoline To The Stars

Light Verse