THREE WORLDS TO CONQUER

Pyramid books, 1964. Cover by Jack Gaughan.

FIRST LENSMAN

Pyramid books, 1964. Cover by Jack Gaughan.

TRIPLANETARY

Pyramid Books paperback, 1968. Cover by Jack Gaughan.

THE LEGION OF SPACE

Pyramid paperback, second edition, Oct 1969. Cover: Paul Lehr.

"They were the most fabulous trio of swashbucklers ever to ship out to deep space - the giant Hal Samdu, the inscrutable Jay Kalam, and that marvel of greed, trickery and deceit, the incomparably dishonest Giles Habibula! Together they thundered across the stars searching for the ultimate prize - the most important female in the galaxy. Together they hurled themselves into the wildest adventure of their strange lives. And together they faced incredible evil and howling destruction - with a known traitor as their only guide!"

THE FURY FROM EARTH

Pyramid paperback, first printing, October 1963.
Cover painting by Jack Gaughan.

"It wasn't possible. No earth-made missile could escape deflection - or destruction! - by the sentry satellites that kept radar watch on the space around Venus for a million miles out. 

But on they came, faster than anything had ever travelled before! And they shook the planet Venus like a toy rattle, ripping deep wounds in its desolate flank, swallowing cities whole. 

What was this strange new weapon? What defense could be erected against a "blind bomb?" the questions came as commands to Venus-born, Earth-reared Alex Frost. But when Alex completed his secret mission to the sweet planet of his youth, he returned weary and disillusioned. 

Once again - in 2154 A.D. - the powers-that-were on earth had corrupted the peaceful research of its scientific community and turned it toward destruction. Space War I could no longer be avoided..."

MAN OF TWO WORLDS

Pyramid paperback, 1963. Cover painting by John Schoenherr.

"CALL ME KETAN! 

Like all my companions in Kronweld I emerged full-grown from the temple of birth. My needs, my wishes, my passions were coldly filed in the perforated transparencies that constitute the integrated will of Kronweld.

But I alone harbor curiosity about our past. I alone know the Bors of dark land and how they are born. I alone have discovered the hidden secret of our birth...And have heard the groaning fertility prisoners of the other world. Here is their message: 

"if any of you live, come through to us. Save us. Bring weapons!" 

I am going to them now, I do not know whether I will ever return from the great edge..."

THE UNDERPEOPLE

Pyramid SF paperback, 1968. Cover: Jack Gaughan.

"DOWNDEEP- 

in the forgotten corridors and caverns under the glittering, crowded surface of old earth - live the underpeople. Mutated from animal stock, they are man's servants - laborers, clerks, even pleasure girls. 

But the scorned underpeople have dreams men do not suspect - powers men cannot conceive. And now they have a strange ally, the richest man who ever lived - the winning piece in their deadly game with lords who rule the universe!"

THE SPACE BARBARIANS

Pyramid Books paperback, 1964. Cover painting by
John Schoenherr.

"OUTCASTS OF THE UNIVERSE 

In three bloody years of spacewar, the "barbarians" of the hell-world Ragnarok had destroyed the Gern empire - and freed the "civilized" planets of Earth and Athena from alien domination. 

But the Earthenians feared and hated the men of Ragnarok and resented the superhuman strength and speed which had won the victory. 

And when a new threat from beyond the stars struck at Ragnarok and left it desolate, the "barbarians" were strictly on their own - abandoned to certain destruction by the rest of mankind!"