THE TRITONIAN RING

Sphere books paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Melvyn Grant.

Rear cover/synopsis.

SPACE VIKING

Sphere books paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Melvyn Grant.

Rear cover/synopsis.

CONAN THE SWORDSMAN

Sphere paperback, 1978. Cover painting by Melvyn Grant.

Synopsis: 

"From the wild and wintry borders of Asgard to exotic Iranistan, from the perilous Pictish Marches to the awesomely-guarded stronghold of the miser-wizard Siptah, Conan the incomparable cuts his savage swathe through a matchless world of swordplay and sorcery in his most thrilling adventures yet!" 

FAITH OF TAROT

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1982. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"On the ancient world of TAROT dreams come true - and fanged nightmares stalk the land. Sent to pierce the dread curtain of the Animation that turns fantasy into hideous reality, the wanderer-monk Paul finds himself on a trip to the ultimate, most terrifying fantasy of all. Hell."

VISION OF TAROT

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1982. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"On the planet TAROT nothing is real. Or everything. For the shimmering Animation curtain is moving across the worldscape like a storm of monsters, changing fantasy into hideous reality, trapping the wanderer-monk Paul in a nightmare of dragons, demons and spectacular lusts!"

GOD OF TAROT

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1982. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"Moments from now and light years away, on the ancient planet of Tarot, the new religions still flourish. But all who dwell in that occult world still worship the timeless Tree of Life as the one supreme god. 

Now this primitive culture is being haunted by apparitions from the mystery-ridden deck of Tarot - by Animations who destroy minds and take human life. can this horror be their god's ultimate challenge to his people? 

A young Earthling adventurer is sent to find the answer. Alone he dares to conjure a Tarot Animation, penetrate its awesome domain - and risk being trapped forever within the mystic borders of the ancient cards."

THE MAGIC LABYRINTH

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1982. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"Here all mysteries revealed, all quests completed, in the fabulous planet of Riverworld 

THE MAGIC LABYRINTH 

is the most herald science fiction event of recent times. It is the culminating achievement of the epoch-making Riverworld Series which has been pronounced the most daring, wide-ranging and speculative in the annals of science fiction. Here Philip José Farmer concludes the adventures of his all-star cast - Sir Richard Burton, Mark Twain, Jack London, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hermann Goering, Peter Frigate and literall everyone who has ever lived - all resurrected now along the banks of an enormous river on a mysterious planet known as Riverworld."

THE SAILOR ON THE SEAS OF FATE

Granada / Mayflower paperback, 1981. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"Elric of Melnibone, last of the emperors of a once mighty land, self-exiled bearer of the sword of power called Stormbringer, found a ship wreathed in mist waiting for him on an alien seashore. 

When he boarded the mysterious vessel, he learnt from his shadowy captain that he was to serve a strange quest side by side with other heroes from other times. For this ship sailed no earthly waters. These warriors and champions fought sorcerers and demons in a journey spanning seas that seemed to connect not continents and coastlines but whole eras and different worlds. For they were sailors on the seas of fate..."

THE BLOODY SUN

Arrow paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Melvyn Grant.

"Darkover had once been home to Jeff Kerwin - a home he'd left and then yearned after for many years. But when, finally, he returned it was to mystery and fear. For there was no record of his birth there, nor of his childhood. And when he joined the freedom fighters who struggled to overthrow earth's control of the planet, the Darkovans accused him of being a spy. Had Jeff been conditioned, on Earth, to betray Darkover? He, himself was no longer sure of who - or what - he really was!"

BEHIND THE WALLS OF TERRA

Sphere SF paperback, 1978 reprint. Cover painting
by Melvyn Grant.

"Behind the walls of Terra lay a secret no man could be allowed to learn. But Kickaha - the Earth-born adventurer of the Tiered Worlds - had to uncover that secret, or watch his home world destroyed. 

Kickaha was returning to earth from the World of Tiers, the many-levelled universe of the god-like lords, that he had entered many years ago as Paul Janus Finnegan. Now he had returned to a world he no longer knew, to find it ruled by Red Orc, a lord jealous of his personal domain and hostile to intruders. Yet Kickaha had to stay alive in order to defeat the deadly enemy that threatened Rarth and the other Worlds of Tiers - the 'Beller', the malignant creature that was the mind-essence of a rebel lord."

THE STEEL TSAR

Granada / Mayflower paperback, 1982. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"IN THE RUSSIAN SECTOR OF A BATTLE-TORN UNIVERSE, CAPTAIN OSWALD BASTABLE CONFRONTS THE MYTHICAL AGENTS OF DESTRUCTION AND DEATH 

In his epical adventures in the alternate twentieth century, Chrononaut Bastable, member of the League of Temporal Adventurers, has crossed and re-crossed many different time-streams... 

THE STEEL TSAR finds him travelling backwards in time from a shell-shocked Singapore to a Tsarist empire seething with conflict, and preyed on by motley bands of rogues and adventurers. Here he meets up with fellow-time-traveller miss una persson, and together they change the course of a history whose mythical deeds go beyond the boundaries of everyday imagination and glitter in the exuberant land of the eternal present..."

THE LAND LEVIATHAN

Granada / Panther paperback, 1984. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"A BARBARIC NEW DARK AGE- 

IN AN ALTERNATIVE TWENTIETH CENTURY 

Seeking the answer to the mystery of life, Captain Oswald Bastable visits the Temple of the Future Buddha and is thrown through time to a new twentieth century. Plague, anarchy and superstition rule the world where he finds himself. Bands of diseased mutants pillage the continents while pirate U-boats prowl the oceans. 

But from this chaos emerges the Black Attila, commander of the African Hordes and master of the most terrible weapon ever devised by Man - the Land Leviathan, a terrifying ziggurat on wheels, a moving mountain of deadly artillery. 

At last, after centuries of cruel oppression, the Land Leviathan helps the Black Attila establish Black Power on an unimaginable, global scale. Unimaginable that is, to anyone except Michael Moorcock who has rewritten the history of the twentieth century in his own totally original, biting style."

THE WAR LORD OF THE AIR

Granada / Panther paperback, 1984. Cover illustration by
Melvyn Grant.

"THE ADVENTURES OF OSWALD BASTABLE, TRANSPORTED TO A WORLD EPICAL-HISTORICAL-FANTASTICAL 

This is the amazing story of Captain Oswald Bastable, late of the 53rd Lancers - stowaway, opium addict and time traveller extraordinary. 

Beginning in Nepal in 1903, Bastibale is jettisoned into a brave new world seventy years in the future: where the British Empire is stronger than ever, cities soar skyward, and the airship rules supreme. 

But when Bastable discovers to his dismay that his own ship is alive with fugitive anarchists, two cultures and two moralities clash. Together they, and all mankind, await the fearful advent of the War Lord of the Air."

THERE WILL BE TIME

Sphere SF paperback, 1984 reprint. Cover by Melvyn Grant.

"Jack Havig seemed like an ordinary man. But since he was a small child he had kept a frightening and exhilarating secret. He was a born time-traveller - a man who could cross the centuries just by willing himself to. Over the years, he had investigated the past - from Christ's Jerusalem to the America of the Indian tribes, from Athens to mediaeval Constantinople. And, seeing the future, he found meaning in life and a reason for his gift. He sensed that there were others like him. Men and women who must fight for man's future. Because that future threatened the extinction of the whole of human civilization..."