CHESSBOARD PLANET

Hamlyn paperback, 1983. Cover artwork uncredited.

Rear cover/synopsis.

FURY

Hamlyn paperback, 1981. Cover artist uncredited.

"The Earth is long since dead, blasted in a self-sustaining chain reaction. Human survivors settled on Venus have organised themselves into a static, class-ridden society living in huge citadels buried beneath the Venusian seas. 

The rulers are Immortals, genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more. Their subjects are the ordinary people with normal life spans. 

Sam Reed's insane father had him mutilated as a baby so that he doesn't realise he's an Immortal until he reaches the age of eighty. 

Then he goes looking for revenge..."

MUTANT

Hamlyn SF paperback, 1979. Illustration: Peter Elson.

"When there were no telepaths men were used to being alone. But I couldn't remember a time when I'd been locked in the bony prison of my skull, utterly and absolutely cut off from all other men. Deafness or blindness wouldn't have mattered as much. They wouldn't have mattered at all - to a telepath." 

Originating after the great Blow-up, they were a sub-species of the human society. Because of their hairless bodies they were known as the Baldies, telepaths all linked to each other by thought and sensation - objects of suspicion to the rest of mankind. 

The survivor is alone. But still he can remember how it was - two hundred years ago..."