THROUGH A GLASS, CLEARLY

NEL reprint, 1970. Artist uncredited.

"Enter the incredible imagination of Isaac Asimov: 

IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY: Nature had been forgotten in this electronic world of the future, until one day, quite by accident, a young boy strayed outdoors and discovered what was there. 

BREEDS THERE A MAN?: The physicist had arrived at a theory - very interesting, but highly improbably. But something not quite human seemed to be causing a bit of trouble... 

THE C-CHUTE: The spaceship had to be recaptured from the aliens, which meant that somebody had to be a hero. But who would that be...and why?

Contents:

It's Such A Beautiful Day

Belief

Breeds There A Man

The C-Chute

BEHOLD THE MAN

Mayflower paperback, 1973 reprint. Cover painting by
Bob Haberfield (thanks, Mark).

"Karl Glogauer, obsessed with the bright silver crucifix that dangles around the little girl's neck, tortured by his growing sexuality and the overwhelming mystic power of religion...Karl Glogauer loves with Eva, innocent and beautiful, but he is too destructive. He loves with a troop of middle-aged women, but they are just a training ground. He loves with Monica, but she is explosive, she stings like a scorpion. He loves. He tries to love. He tries... 

The story of Glogauer's crisis and identity weaves between modern london and ancient palestine, between Glogauer's erotic hunt for personality and Christ's journey to the cross. This is perhaps the most controversial portrait of Christ ever painted."

COLONY

Magnum paperback, 1979. Cover illustration: Chris Moore.

"The first novel of colonies in space 

Hurtling across a vast and rousing canvas, from Baghdad to what remains of New York City...from Messina, the capital of the Earth, to the moon, to Island One, the magnificent colony in space...Ben Bova's extraordinary new novel is a brilliant epic of sheer storytelling power. 

COLONY is the story of once-proud cities of the earth made humble by greed and revenge, of stone age cultures and advanced civilizations in space, of a cast of extraordinary and memorable characters from the remote corners of the globe and beyond... And of David Adams, the first genetically perfect test-tube human being - the only man who can save the earth from final destruction."

I, ROBOT

Panther SF paperback, 1969. Photograph by Dennis Rolfe.

"I, ROBOT 

To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. You don't know them. They're a cleaner, better breed than we are 

I, ROBOT 

When Earth is ruled by master-machines...when robots are more human than mankind 

I, ROBOT 

Isaac Asimov's unforgettable, spine-chilling vision of the future"

Contents:

Robbie

Runaround

Catch That Rabbit

Liar!

Little Lost Robot

Escape!

Evidence

The Evitable Conflict