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| NEL paperback, 1980. Cover by Gerald Grace. |
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| Rear cover/synopsis. |
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| NEL paperback, 1980. Cover by Gerald Grave. |
Rear-cover synopsis:
"In a society revolutionised by a device that lets you walk through a door and be anywhere in the world - instantly...
At a time when unauthorised travel has caused millions to die violent deaths... In a world where invasion of privacy is the ultimate crime...
HE IS THE VISITOR."
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| NEL paperback, October 1980. Illustration: Gerald Grace. |
"In a future world women are the dominant sex and men wear chemically treated spectacles to keep them in line. On man has discovered a flaw in the lenses, an unnoticeable crack that can liberate him from the female tyranny. Yet every moment he is being monitored by underground revolutionaries who need his powers for the overthrow of their extra-planetary masters..."
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| NEL paperback, April 1980. Illustration: Gerald Grace. |
"For thousands of years Man has retreated behind the barrier - evolving a miniature physiology for a life of peace and philosophical contemplation. Modyun agrees to grow his body large and to return beyond the barrier, where animal-men roam the world. His quest will lead him deeper into darkness and deeper into the uncertain..."
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| NEL paperback, 1980 reprint. Illustration: Gerald Grace. |
"A lone scientist working on man's one desperate chance against conquerors from space. A man and a woman in a world where the battle of the sexes has become a death struggle. A future world where citizens are commanded to be happy or to suffer destruction. A last stand against the all-powerful dictatorship that has taken over earth..."
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| NEL paperback, 1981. Illustration: Gerry Grace. |
"Time had collapsed. For a brief instant, like the sudden reopening of a disused mineshaft forty million years deep. The strata of millennia upon millennia had compressed, bearing their fossils of the future, impacted and pressed down irresistibly on one spot. AD 1704. The ship Orinda, outward bound on piracy, dipped through the Caribbean swell. Intent only on its murderous rendezvous with a fat ripe merchantman, it noticed nothing. Never saw the man from the future who climbed aboard. Only saw too late the alien bulk of the Lantellan battlecraft that loomed and filled the eastern horizon. Could not know that the Lantella was at war and would live in a universe of total hostility. But, uncomprehending and terrified, did see the boarding craft that was skimming towards them..."