HAVE SPACE SUIT-WILL TRAVEL

NEL paperback, 1971. Cover artist uncredited.

STARSHIP TROOPERS

NEL paperback, 1974. Cover artist uncredited.

THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND NAMES

NEL paperback, 1980. Cover by Tim White.

Rear cover/synopsis.

LOST: FIFTY SUNS

NEL paperback, 1980. Cover by Gerald Grace.

Rear cover/synopsis.

GUERNICA NIGHT

NEL paperback, 1979. Cover painting by Tim White.

Rear cover/synopsis.

FRANK HERBERT: EYE

NEL paperback, 1988. Cover artwork by Jim Burns.

Rear cover, synopsis, etc.

Portrait of Irulan, interior illustration from The Road To Dune by Jim Burns.

Portrait of Duncan Idaho, interior illustration from The Road To Dune by Jim Burns.

THORNS

NEL paperback, 1977. Cover illustration by Keith Laban.

Rear cover, synopsis, etc.

PODKAYNE OF MARS

NEL paperback, 1974. Cover artwork is uncredited.

Rear cover and synopsis, etc.

THE SLEEPING SORCERESS

NEL paperback, 1972. Cover artwork by Jan Parker.

Rear cover and synopsis.

TILTANGLE

NEL paperback, 1975. Cover artwork by Ian Miller.

Rear cover and synopsis.

I WILL FEAR NO EVIL

NEL paperback, 1986. Cover artist uncredited.

Rear cover and synopsis.

BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS

NEL paperback, 1975. Cover artist uncredited.

Rear cover and synopsis.

THE PASTEL CITY

NEL paperback, 1971. Cover artwork by Bruce Pennington.

Rear cover.

VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: AN EXCITING AND NOVEL SELECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION ART OF TODAY

It's books like this that make me wish I had an A3 scanner. Actually, I do own one, but it's old (Windows 95/98) and only has a SCSI cable, which I don't think any of my PCs have had since 2005. Anyway... this is a large format paperback book published in 1976 featuring content previously featured either in New English Library's Science Fiction Monthly (an A3 sized poster magazine that run from the mid to late 1970s), or the covers of NEL's line of SF paperbacks. Artists featured include Brent Armstrong, Jim Burns, Gary Chalk, Gareth Colman, Lucinda Cowell, Gordon C. Davies, Roger Dean, Emlyn Duffy, Ray Feibush, Chris Foss, C. Foster, Bob Fowke, Bob Haberfield, David Hardy, G. W. Harrison, Colin Hay, David Higgins, P. Jepson, Josh Kirby, Bob Layzell, Mike Little, Brigid Marlin, Ian Miller, Kristine Nason, Michael Payne, David Pelham, Bruce Pennington, Time White and Chris Yates. There is a little biographical info on each, ranging from a line (date of birth, country) to whole pages. There's also an introduction by A. E. van Vogt.

The back cover, featuring the work of Karel Thole, who is not in the book, unfortunately. 

Rear-cover guff: 

"These imaginative visions of the future have all been culled from the pages of Science Fiction Monthly, Britain's top-selling sf colour magazine. They represent the work of established illustrators like David Pelham, Roger Dean, Bruce Pennington, David Hardy and Chris Yates and also the best of the new sf artists who have been featured over the past two years. Their range of interpretation and expression is quite exceptional - from the mysteriously innocent idylls of Bob Fowke, through the meticulously detailed space hardware of Chris Foss to the bizarre worlds of Ray Feibush. Like all good artists, they challenge us to think twice about our assumptions - whether the world of two hundred (or two million) years from now will be the technological heaven the scientists have promised, or whether it will be a nightmarish landscape in which we and our values have been hopelessly lost to the superiority of other civilizations 'out there'. As A.E. van Vogt says in his introduction, these pictures represent 'a new and remarkable. . .contribution to the slowly shifting balance of the human psyche as it once more tries to confront reality.' Through the airbrush and the photo-collage these artists tell us about ourselves and our place in the universe. At the same time they give us much of the fun of sf it has come down from the world of pulp fiction - bug-eyed monsters, rayguns, gigantic space battleships and fantastic planets. Their approach is wide-ranging and open, as it should be in tackling a world which looms nearer every day."

"Beyond Bedlam" by Jim Burns.

Painting for "Early Asimov 3" by Chris Foss.

Painting (detail) for Hughes Cooper's "Sexmax" by C. Foster.

"Purple Gas" by David Higgins.

"Invasion" (detail) by Bob Layzell.

"The Rat Catcher" by Ian Miller.

Painting (detail) by Bruce Pennington for M. John Harrison's "The Pastel City".

JOHN BRUNNER: WEB OF EVERYWHERE

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."

THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN

New English Library paperback, 1978. Cover by Joe Petagno.

Rear cover synopsis: 

"Three astronauts had returned safely from the Mars landing. Two were dead and Steve West was on the run. On the run from the quarantine hospital which had been treating him ... from the authorities who had to conceal his escape at all costs ... from his friend Ted Nelson ... and from the dreadful organism which had taken possession of his flesh, turning him into a fiendish nightmare but leaving his mind intact to cringe from the murderous horror he had become."

I feel the need to point out that the only reason I bought this (tie-in) book was because I remember seeing the film in all its awfulness on Mystery Science Theater 3000. As a bonus, the eye-catching cover painting is by Joe Petagno.

THE STONE THAT NEVER CAME DOWN

NEL paperback, 1978. Cover artist uncredited.

"Europe in the twenty-first century is a stricken continent. 

Cities crumble with neglect. Governments topple to military coups. Bands of 'godheads' roam the streets armed with plastic crosses. Soon war is bound to break out, and then the world will take the final step towards suicide. 

But one man may just have the answer - VC - a new kind of viral drug which has the power to alter drastically, and permanently, the human mind. He knows it will prevent Man's self-destruction, but is it safe? And does he have the right to take that decision - a decision that will change the destiny of Mankind, by changing the very nature of Man himself."

THE GATES OF EDEN

NEL paperback, 1990. Cover artist uncredited, possibly
Danny Flynn (thanks: Ed).

"Lee Caretta's problem wasn't so much the nightmares and the blackouts - he was used to them - but keeping them secret from his bosses. If they ever found out, they'd send him back to Earth. Which was the last place in the universe someone with his skills would like to be. 

It is an unfortunate fact that good job-opportunities for a xenobiologist are limited.  

But then the starship Ariadne, in transit for 350 years, found an Earthlike world which looked like it might be the answer to everyone's dreams. Until the explorers sent out to investigate it began to die. 

Something for Lee to work on - personal problems permitting - knowing that if he failed to come up with the reason why, all Hell would break loose on a galactic scale."

GATHER, DARKNESS!

NEL paperback, 1979. Cover painting by Tim White.

"THE SECOND ATOMIC AGE IS MENACED BY WITCHCRAFT! 

GATHER, DARKNESS is the watchword in the strange new life of the second atomic age - and age where brain-washing is the means of quelling potential rebels...an age where constant war is wage between priests and witches, angels and devils, the rulers and the ruled...an age where science is supressed, and witchcraft is the way of life... 

But Brother Jarles is the one man whose actions completely upset the established form of government!"

STAR BEAST

NEL paperback, July 1978. Illustration: Joe Petagno.

"When John Thomas Stuart VIII abducted the young star beast from its native planet he knew he was taking a risk. But three generations later the creature was still with the Stuarts, as a long-established family pet. Until, one afternoon, it broke loose... 

The order was out to destroy 'Lummox'. And then its fellow creatures arrived to retrieve it. More powerful and highly developed than any star race previously encountered by Man, the Hroshii threaten Earth with interplanetary war. By the star beast and its 'master', John Thomas Stuart XI, have disappeared."