Showing posts with label Richard M. Powers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard M. Powers. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 March 2018

THE UGLY SWANS

The Ugly Swans by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, 1980. Art by Richard Powers.

Monday, 26 January 2015

THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE [ARTWORK]

Isolated artwork from the cover of The Uncertainty Principle. Artwork by Richard M. Powers.

THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE

Collier paperback, 1979. Cover artwork by Richard M. Powers.

Rear cover/fluff.

HALF A LIFE [ARTWORK]

Isolated artwork from the cover of Half A Life. Illustrator: Richard M. Powers.

HALF A LIFE

Collier paperback, 1979. Cover By Richard M. Powers.

Rear cover/fluff.

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

COSMIC ENGINEERS

Paperback Library paperback, 1969. Cover artwork by Richard M. Powers.

Rear cover and synopsis.

THEY WALKED LIKE MEN

Macfadden paperback, 1967. Cover artwork by Richard M. Powers.

Rear cover and synopsis.

Saturday, 8 March 2014

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Saturday, 30 November 2013

Thursday, 29 August 2013

THE WINDS OF TIME

Cover by Richard M. Powers.

"They had slept for 15,000 years. But they were men. Nevertheless it was a fantastic experience for Wes Chase to discover them while on a casual fishing trip. It was a long time before they were able to explain to Wes why they were on earth and what they needed. It was even longer before Wes conquered his horror and decided he could help them in their mission to bring peace to the universe. When Wes finally found the daring answer to their problems, he realized that he would have to leave his own life behind and go with them into the future and the winds of time."

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

HOUR OF THE HORDE

Berkley Medallion paperback, 1971. Cover artwork by Richard M. Powers.

Rear cover synopsis:
"As a horde of monstrous travelers advances through space annihilating everything before it, a super-defense force, consisting of one especially talented man from each as yet untouched planet, converges in an attempt to turn back the horde. 
Miles Vander, Earth's representative, finds himself with a small group regarded as the less civilized of the defending force. But in the final showdown, it is these creatures capable of independent action and raw courage who give a surprising twist to this galactic cliffhanger..."

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

THE BROKEN LANDS

Ace paperback, 1968. Cover by Richard M. Powers.

"The passing of thousands of years left the planet Earth a series of broken lands ... a mutated world of distant alien empires and near-at-hand rapacious satraps. 
The hunted common people were sustained by one last legend - that some day one would come who would "ride the Elephant" and thereby bring back the Golden Age. 
This is the gripping novel of the young rebel who found out what the legend really signified, and of how he sought to use that banned knowledge in the very heart of the satrap's stronghold of alien magics and well-guarded scientific mysteries. 
THE BROKEN LANDS combines the best elements of sword-and-sorcery and top-notch science-fiction."

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

BEYOND

Berkley Medallion paperback, 1963. Cover artwork
by Richard M. Powers.

"The late, lamented Beyond, edited by H. L. Gold, published during its career some of the best adult fantasy and science fiction stories written in America - stories by masters such as Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury and Algis Budrys" 
-Damon Knight.
"The Watchful Poker Chip - Ray Bradbury tells the story of a man who had one of his eyes replaced with the most beautiful poker chip in the world... 

The Real People - a startling story which shows that most of us are only puppets - and Algis Budrys proves it... 

The Ghost Maker - Frederik Pohl demonstrates that if you track real magic to its lair, you may be very, very sorry..."

Contents:

 The Watchful Poker Chip by Ray Bradbury
The Ghost Maker by Frederik Pohl
Can Such Beauty Be? by Jerome Bixby
The Real People by Algis Budrys
The Beautiful Brew by James E. Gunn
I'd Give A Dollar by Winston Marks
The Root And The Ring by Wyman Guinn
Double Whammy by Fredric Brown
Talent by Theodore Sturgeon

Sunday, 4 September 2011

THE OTHER WORLD

Mayflower-Dell paperback, 1964. Cover painting by
Richard M. Powers.

"George Braderick, a civilian GS-5 civil service employee, was also a sergeant major in the national guard. His principal duty was to guard the local armoury. It was as such that he became the target of the sinister dr. Ludwig taun - and the victim. Here is the story of a desperate struggle for power in a world without the dimensions we know."