A WORLD OUT OF TIME

"... he turned, fighting to stay on his feet. Under a hooded robe of white cloth with a touch of iridescence in it: a bent human form... while the cat-snake distracted him, she had struck. He saw her in shadow: tall and stooped, gaunt, her face all wrinkles, her nose hooked, her eyes deep-set and malevolent in the shadow of the hood. Her swollen hands held a silver cane aimed at Corbell's eyes."

Futura paperback, 1979. Cover artwork by Peter Jones.

Rear cover, etc.

Full artwork by Peter Jones.

THE FACE IN THE ABYSS

"Her face was ageless - neither young nor old; free from time, free from the etching acid of the years. She might have been born yesterday - or a million years ago. Her eyes, set wide apart, were round and luminous; they were living jewels filled with purple fires. Her forehead was wide and low; her nose delicate and long the nostrils a little dilated. Her chin was small and pointed. Her mouth was small and hear-shaped; her lips were vivid scarlet. Down her narrow, childish shoulders flowed hair that gleamed like spun silver. It arrow-headed into a point on her forehead. It gave her face that same heart shape in which her lips were formed - a heart of which the chin was the basal point.She had little high breasts, uptilted. Her face, neck, shoulders and breasts were the hue of pearls suffused faintly with rose. Her coils began just below her tilted breasts."

Futura paperback, 1974. Cover by Patrick Woodroffe.

Patrick Woodroffe's full artwork.

THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE

Futura paperback, 1979. Cover artwork by Peter Jones.

Rear cover/synopsis - more art!

STARDANCE

Futura paperback 1979. Cover artwork by Peter Jones.

Rear cover and synopsis.

STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE

Futura paperback, 1980 reprint. Cover artwork by Bob Peak.

Rear cover synopsis: 

"It came from an unexplored quarter of the galaxy. 

It ignored all attempts to communicate with it. 

And it annihilated all opposition with energy bolts of unimaginable ferocity. 

Computer projections showed that it would enter the solar system in precisely three days. 

The USS Enterprise, refitting in dry dock, was the only craft that Starfleet Command could send to intercept the Cloud in time..."

'Why are we now travelling into Space? Why, indeed, did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.' 

- Gene Roddenberry.

THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT

Futura paperback, 1979. Cover illustration by Terry Oakes.

"THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT: Frank Herbert's new novel, a swirling, vividly complex story set on the most alien and challenging world he has yet created - a brutal prison planet where 850 million beings are confined in 40 square kilometres. 

THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT: a stunning evocation of alien cultures, and of an experiment so monstrous it threatens the entire galaxy."