LIMITS

Orbit paperback, 1988 reprint. Cover artist uncredited.

"LIMITS. Two aliens fascinated by Man's fondness for defining boundaries decide to make sure he doesn't get out of the habit. 

THE LION IN HIS ATTIC. Seventy-six years after Atlantis drowned, a sorceress and a prince learn to their dismay that not all lions eat red meat. 

TABLE MANNERS. When the proprietor of the Draco Tavern is invited to dine with some carnivorous etees, he brings along a xenobiologist to coach him in alien etiquette. But he forgets that he is already outfitted with the oldest guide of all. 

A TEARDROP FALLS. In his youth, Hilary Gage had fought men and studied the ravages of Berserkers. As a machine, he terraformed planets and lay in wait. 

YET ANOTHER MODEST PROPOSAL. At last, a solution to the problem of radioactive wastes that costs nothing and yields an immodest profit."

Contents:

The Lion In His Attic

Spirals (written with Jerry Pournelle)

A Teardrop Falls

Talisman (written with Dian Girard)

Flare Time

The Locust (written with Steve Barnes)

Yet Another Modest Proposal: The Roentgen Standard

More Tales From The Draco Tavern...

Table Manners

The Gren Marauder

War Movie

The Real Thing

Limits

HELLICONIA SPRING

Granada / Triad paperback, 1983. Cover illustration by Tom Gill.

"The great drama of life on Helliconia is shaped by its cosmic limitations. It revolves with three other planets round the star Batalix, the whole group revolving in turn in a giant ellipse round Freyr, fifteen times the size of our sun and 60,000 times as luminous... 

In the fierce contrasts of climate, whole seasons last for centuries and civilizations rise and fall with each three-millennia orbit of Freyr. The winter alone of that Great Year would last for some five centuries..."

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."

CUCKOO'S EGG

Mandarin paperback, 1990. Cover illustration by Michael Whelan.

"They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people but he knew he was different: he was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned and clawless. Yet he was hatani, a member of the élite power class that were judge warriors fighters and defenders. 

Thorn knew that his difference was somehow very important - but not important enough to prevent murderous conspiracies against him, against his protector, against his caste, and, perhaps, against the peace of the world. When Thorn finally learned what his true role in life was to be - that on him hung the fate of two worlds - then he had to stand alone to justify his very existence."

AMAZING STORIES VOL. 1 NO. 8 1954

Cover painting by William Rembach.

AMAZING STORIES VOL. 1 NO. 7 1954

Cover painting by Howard Browne.

AMAZING STORIES VOL. 1 NO. 6 1954

Cover painting by Clarence Doore.

AMAZING STORIES VOL. 1 NO. 5 1954

Cover painting by Mel Hunter.

AMAZING STORIES VOL. 1 NO. 4 1954

Cover painting by Clarence Doore.

AMAZING STORIES VOL. 1 NO. 3 1953

Cover painting by Mel Hunter.

AMAZING STORIES VOL. 1 NO. 2 1953

Cover painting by Art Sussman.

Interior artwork by Virgil Finlay, for Robert Sheckley's Beside Still Waters.

AMAZING STORIES VOL. 1 NO. 1 1953

Cover painting by L. R. (Leo) Summers.

THE JESUS INCIDENT

Orbit paperback, 1980. Cover by Tim White.

"A small group of human colonists are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival. 

Ranged against them, the planet PANDORA, its native life-forms as malevolent and savage as they are murderous. And SHIP, their ship-board computer, who knows that it is a GOD, and - on pain of destruction - demands their worship."

THE PRIESTS OF PSI

Orbit paperback, 1981. Cover by Tim White.

"A PSYCHIC PARASITE WHO HIJACKS PERSONALITIES. 

A COUPLE WHO DISCOVER THE HOUSE OF THEIR DREAMS...IN THE WRONG DIMENSION. 

THE PRIESTS OF PSI, CUSTODIANS OF A FORGOTTEN WISDOM WHICH MAY EXALT OR DAMN MANKIND COMPLETELY. 

Frank Herbert needs no introduction to the million readers of the DUNE trilogy, THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT and THE JESUS INCIDENT. In this, the first collection of short stories for some time, the inventive genius of the novels is powerfully evident."

Contents:

Try To Remember

Old Rambling House

Murder Will In

Mindfield

The Priests of Psi

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."