SO BRIGHT THE VISION

Magnum paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Chris Moore.

Rear cover/synopsis.

THE GOLDEN MAN

Magnum paperback, 1981. Cover illustration: Chris Moore.

"Here's a chance to read not just one but fifteen stories created by one of the most popular SF writers of today. This anthology is full of both new and classic ideas, brimming over with wit and the author's natural sense of fun. 

If you want to learn about THE GOLDEN MAN - totally irresistable to women, of the secret life of wub fur, of chameleon-like aliens called fnools, and a great deal more, read on... This collection includes an introduction, story notes and afterword by Philip K. Dick."

Contents:

The Golden Man

Return Match

The King of the Elves

The Mold of Yancy

Not By Its Cover

The Little Black Box

The Unreconstructed M

The War with the Fnools

The Last of the Masters

Meddler

A Game of Unchance

Sales Pitch

Precious Artifact

Small Town

The Pre-Persons

ON WINGS OF SONG

Magnum paperback, 1981. Cover illustration: Chris Moore.

"The twenty-first century in the United States. 

Society ranges from the extremes of megadecadent New York to the bleakly repressive and religiously obsessed mid-western states like Iowa. A future where the ultimate trip is to release the spirit through singing and fly, leaving the body behind in suspension. But in Iowa singing and music are taboo. 

Daniel Weinrib grows up in Iowa, and as a teenager is sent to Spirit Lake detention centre for circulating a radical newspaper - a prison without bars where each prisoner carries an electrically controlled explosive in his stomach. 

Although embittered by this experience, Daniel is determined to learn to fly. His struggle leads him through the grotesque extremes of the country in which he lives."

I AM NOT THE OTHER HOUDINI

Magnum paperback, 1980. Cover illustration: Tony Roberts.

"AD 2079. Sterling, an illusionist extraordinary and going one better than Houdini every time, is planning his greatest trick of all for next July Fourth. To pass through a hoop of molten silver - outside the Earth's atmosphere. 

Arcad, drunken drop-out afraid of his psychokinetic poweers, is 'persuaded' to infiltrate the Sterling household, for political chicanery is suspected. Before the magic stops California is at war with the rest of America and thousands are in danger of political brainwashing."

SUM VII

Magnum paperback, 1981. Cover illustration by Chris Moore.

"A medical research trip to Egypt leads to the opening of a magnificent new tomb and the discovery of a unique mummy. Code-named SUM VII, the mummy is so perfectly preserved that specialists are able to revive the body - a being considered dead for nearly 5000 years! Believed to be a high priest to a Pharaoh, SUM VII reveals awesome powers. Soon a fugitive hunted by the men who returned him to life, his true identity is stranger and more mysterious yet..."

COLONY

Magnum paperback, 1979. Cover illustration: Chris Moore.

"The first novel of colonies in space 

Hurtling across a vast and rousing canvas, from Baghdad to what remains of New York City...from Messina, the capital of the Earth, to the moon, to Island One, the magnificent colony in space...Ben Bova's extraordinary new novel is a brilliant epic of sheer storytelling power. 

COLONY is the story of once-proud cities of the earth made humble by greed and revenge, of stone age cultures and advanced civilizations in space, of a cast of extraordinary and memorable characters from the remote corners of the globe and beyond... And of David Adams, the first genetically perfect test-tube human being - the only man who can save the earth from final destruction."