Showing posts with label James H. Schmitz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James H. Schmitz. Show all posts

Thursday, 8 September 2011

THE LION GAME

Hamlyn SF paperback, 1979. Illustration: Tim White.

"'what's the lion game?' asked Telzey of her captors. 'you're engaged in it now,' was their answer. 
It was a game of mental chess played on the intricate closed-transit circuits of an entire world by a race of giant mentalists who acknowledged no allegiance to the civilized planets. 
Telzey was a human and, as such, a test piece - either a pawn to be sacrificed or a wild queen who could make her own decisions, she was never sure which. Either way the loser would not be just one talented earthling; the loser would be a whole civilization, and possibly a few peaceful planets as well..."

Saturday, 3 September 2011

MORE THAN SUPERHUMAN

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..."

Contents:

Humans Go Home
The Reflected Men
All The Loving Androids
Laugh, Clone, Laugh (with Forrest J. Ackerman)
Research Alpha (with James H. Schmitz)
Him