Showing posts with label Star Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Star Books. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

STARSHIP DEATH

Star paperback, 1982. Cover painting by Attila Hejja.

"They were in deep space, past the point of no return, when the saboteur struck. There were plenty of suspects, including an experimental robot, and many possible motivations. But when they found the first body, they knew they were facing a ruthless killer who would murder them all if he was not caught - and blow up the ship if he was."

Thursday, 8 March 2012

THE MASKS OF TIME

Star paperback, 1982 reprint. Cover painting by Bruce Pennington.

"He appeared suddenly and mysteriously, claiming to be a visitor from a thousand years in the future, but his evidence was not entirely convincing. 
Was he merely an ingenious fraud? 
As a popular cult figure the World Government could use him to counter the threat posed by the apocalyptists who were wreaking chaos while preaching the imminent destruction of the world. 
But was Vornan-19 himself an agent of another kind of chaos? 
If he were genuine, then he was living proof that the world would endure after the century's end. 
And could anyone in 1999 afford to ignore that possibility?"

THE MAN IN THE MAZE

Star paperback, 1982 reprint. Cover painting by Bruce Pennington.

"Muller had been sent to spy on the first alien race man had ever encountered. But they discovered him and cursed him with a terrible power that made his presence unbearable to his fellows, theirs to him. 
Now, alienated and embittered, he chooses to live out his life in an abandoned city on a long-dead planet. But men must enter Muller's murderous labyrinth and try to lure him out, for humanity still needs his unique talents."

Thursday, 9 September 2010

DOORWAYS IN THE SAND

Star Books paperback, 1978. Cover painting by Bob Haberfield.

"Man is no longer alone in the cosmos...The aliens have given a precious relic to the people of earth, the star-stone, but when it vanishes the harmony of the galaxy is threatened. 
Fred Cassidy is a perpetual student cruising his way smoothly through life and human knowledge. All he knows about the star-stone is that it came to earth in an interplanetary cultural exchange for the Mona Lisa and the Crown Jewels. But other sentient beings seem to think otherwise... 
Accused of stealing the stone, he is pursued by telepathic psychologists, extraterrestrial hoodlums, and galactic police in bizarre disguise. He flees into multiple realities, flipping in and out of alien perspectives, through doorways in the sand..."