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| Orbit paperback, 1980. Cover artwork by Alan Craddock. |
"DIS!
was a planet, a wasteland, a world of death where living was dying and dying was better than living.
DIS!
was a scorching desert, its people crude, barbaric, backward and miserable - and they would become seven million blackened corpses unless Ihjel stopped the H-bombs. But Ihjel had foreseen his sudden death, and only one man could take his place - Brion Brandd, Champion of Champions and master of a secret power..."
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| Orbit paperback, 1980 reprint. Cover art by Alan Craddock. |
"INTER-GALACTIC MAYHEM
Chuck and Jerry, two fun-loving students at an American College, discover a faster-than-light space drive and smuggle it into the football team's plane. They, together with the lovely Sally Goodfellow, crusty Pop and loveable old John view with horror a practical joke gone awry as the plane screams off to Titan, a frozen moon of Saturn. But that's only the beginning. When loveable old John's true and awful identity becomes known, a wild battle across the Universe and through centuries ensues, catapulting friends and deadly foes into the midst of a yarn spun from the grandest tradition of the classic 'Space Opera'."
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| Orbit paperback, 1984. Cover art by Alan Craddock (thanks: Staz Johnson) |
"L M Greenspan, the head of ailing Climactic Studios, gave producer Barney Hendrickson, five days to get a major movie in the can - and Climactic out of it.
Impossible?
Not with Professor Hewett's miraculous presto chango time machine, the answer to a Hollywood producer's prayer.
Nipping back to AD 1,000 with a whole film crew and two glam stars, Barney sets out to prove that the Vikings discovered America five hundred years before Columbus - and to film the event in glorious technicolor. But it's not as easy as it sounds, as they realise when history lets them down and their Viking Columbus fails to show up in the new world..."
