Showing posts with label Bantam Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bantam Books. Show all posts

Saturday, 14 December 2013

COMMUNE 2000 A.D.

Bantam paperback, 1974. Cover artwork uncredited.

Sunday, 1 December 2013

THE TOWERS OF UTOPIA

Bantam books, 1975. Cover by Bruce Pennington.

Sunday, 6 January 2013

JAMES GUNN: THE JOY MAKERS

Bantam paperback, 1961. Cover artwork by William Hofmann.

Rear cover fluff: 
"Why be miserable? Dial P-L-E-A-S-U-R 
Happiness guaranteed by Hedonics Inc. Sounds like a skin-game to you and me. But in James Gunn's future it's the slogan of a legitimate and sucessful business. Product: anything you need to make you happy. 
The Joy Makers rips the lid off: describes pleasures that will make your skin tingle and your mind rattle, tells a story of men and women who are so hysterically happy they turn in strange new directions for diversion." 

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT'S REVENGE

Bantam paperback, 1988. Cover painting by Jim Burns.

GALACTIC GUERILLA RAT! 
It was totally impossible for Cliaand to wage interstellar war...but the crazy little planet was winning, whatever the odds. And there wasn't much the peaceful galaxy could do...except send Slippery Jim di Griz - the Stainless Steel Ray - to wage his own kind of guerilla campaign against the grey men of Cliaand and their leader, the indomitable Kraj. But then the Rat was aided by a band of liberated Amazons and his own beloved, murderous Angelina...and they had to swing the odds in his favour."

THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT GETS DRAFTED

Bantam paperback, 1988. Cover painting by Jim Burns.

"When slippery Jim diGriz broke out so spectacularly from prison and found himself on the run on a planet so primitive it didn't even have the imagination to call itself anything except Planet (in the local lingo, of course), almost the last thing on his mind was joining the army. 
Thoughts of revenge on Captain Garth, the man responsible for his predicament, were uppermost. But one thing led to another and Captain Garth turned out to be General Zennor and General Zennor's defensive action was really a full-scale invasion. And somehow Jim seems to be the only thing standing between a small, defenceless planet and annihilation. 
Unfair odds, really - one Stainless Steel Rat against a merciless tyrant and his heavily armed troops. Zennor doesn't stand a chance..."

Friday, 8 October 2010

TWO TALES AND EIGHT TOMORROWS

Bantam paperback, May 1968. Cover artist uncredited.

"A LEAP INTO FREE SPACE - WHERE DOWN IS UP AND THE ONLY CERTAINTY IS THE UNEXPECTED!  
Alien beings, bizarre customs, hostile environments ... Harry Harrison guides you through a series of startling excursions into new worlds and extra-ordinary experiences."

Contents:

The Streets Of Ashkelon
Portrait Of The Artist
Rescue Operation
Captain Bedlam
Final Encounter
Unto My Manifold Dooms
The Pliable Animal
Captain Honario Harpplayer, R.N.
According To His Abilities
I Always Do What Teddy Says