BEYOND TOMORROW

Pan paperback, 1973. Cover artwork by Ian Miller.

Rear cover.

ACE DOUBLE: OFF CENTER + THE RITHIAN TERROR

Ace Double paperback, 1965. Cover by Jack Gaughan.

"The room was quiet; the man in front of the mirror was the only living thing there, and he was too horrified to utter a sound. 

In the mirror, five faces stared back at him: one young and ruddy, which was his own, and four that did not belong in that place at all, for they were wrinkled, malevolent, small as crabapples and blue as smoke. 

So begins Damon Knight's "Be My Guest," a story of the human race possessed by things that were - well, not exactly demons ... but not exactly not demons, either. It's just one of the unpredictable imaginitive tales in this fascinating collection by a modern master of science fiction." 

Contents: 

What Rough Beast

The Second-Class Citizen

Be My Guest

God's Nose

Catch That Martian

Ace Double paperback, 1965. Painting by Jack Gaughan.

"The fate of the Earth Empire hung in the balance - and Security Commissioner Spangler knew it was up to him to find the monster, the Rithian Terror, ans some called it. Seven Rithians had landed on Earth. Six had been disposed of. One was loose. 

Surely, Spangler reasoned, the stereoptic fluroscope would flush it out. "That's one test the Rithian can't meet, no matter how good his human disguise may be." Spangler explained to Pembun, the strange, little Colonial who had been sent to help find the monster. 

But Penbun didn't agree. "The trouble," he said, "is that the Rithi have no bones. Which would be indication enough under a fluroscope, if it weren't for the fact that it can easily swallow a skeleton." 

Spangler Shuddered."

BEYOND THE BARRIER

Hamlyn SF paperback, 1978. Illustration: Peter Jones.

"Was he human or alien, sent to rescue Earth or to destroy it? 

This is a novel of Time... 

Of a man who travelled through the swirling worlds of space - and who killed. 

And when he had killed he found himself moving to another dimension - to a time ten thousand years in the future...or in the past."

DIMENSION X

Coronet paperback, 1974. Acrylic sculpture by Haydon Williams.

"Dimension X contains two complete short novels by two of the greatest names in modern science fiction. 

Robert A. Heinlein's The Man Who Sold The Moon is a classic tale of a man obsessed by private vision. It's also a breathtakingly daring story of the ultimate in private enterprise... 

The late, great C M Kornbluth's The Marching Morons makes 1984 look like the Golden Age with its bleak, horrifically funny vision of a future earth populated by morons with an average IQ of 45..."

100 YEARS OF SCIENCE FICTION - BOOK ONE

Pan paperback, 1972. Artist uncredited.

"Worlds of Tomorrow

Aliens, on Earth and Elsewhere

Other Dimensions

Damon Knight has said that SF and prophecy are two different things. SF deals with what may be, not what will be. This superb collection allows the reader to enter worlds which exist nowhere else, to experience many things still undreamed of in earthly philosophy."

Contents:

I - Worlds of Tomorrow

With The Night Mail by Rudyard Kipling

Mr Murphy of New York by Thomas McMorrow

New Apples in the Garden by Kris Neville

Sanity by Fritz Leiber

II - Aliens, on Earth and Elsewhere

The Shapes by J.-H. Rosny aîné

The Other Celia by Theodore Sturgeon

Black Charlie by Gordon R. Dickson

III Other Dimensions

A Subway Named Mobius by A. J. Deutsch

The Man Who Came Early by Poul Anderson

The Other Now by Murray Leinster.

ANALOGUE MEN

Sphere SF paperback, 1967. Cover artist uncredited.

"A voice in your brain...Warning you away...That one drink too many...Or the crime of violence...Or the wrong kind of friends...Guiding your every move from birth to death...That's the analogue machine!"

FAR OUT

Corgi paperback, 1963. Cover artwork by Josh Kirby.

"A WORLD BEYOND TIME AND SPACE 

In these brilliant stories, Damon Knight takes you on a dazzling tour of the outer galaxies of the imagination:

The occasion when an alien race send two representatives to the United Nations. 

The meeting of two lovers whose only problem is that they are the only people left on Earth. 

The moment when an unborn child begins to communicate with its parents. 

Improbable? Not when the stories are written with the astonishing wit, the incredible logic and the surprising twists you have come to expect from this master of adult science fiction."

Contents:

To Serve Man

Idiot Stick

Thing Of Beauty

The Enemy

Not With A Bang

Babel II, Anachron

Special Delivery

You're Another

Time Enough

Extempore

Cabin Boy

The Last Word

A CENTURY OF GREAT SHORT SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS

Mayflower paperback, 1970 reprint. Cover art by Josh Kirby.

"The themes which constantly reappear in novels and stories of fantasy and the future are explored in this unique volume with dazzling imagination. Among them are: the co-existence in man of good and evil; the shape and substance of a superman; the time machine; and the manufacture of god in a chemically pure form."

Contents:

The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Absolute At Large by Karel Capek

Gulf by Robert A Heinlein

E For Effort by T L Sherred

Hunter, Come Home by Richard Mckenna