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Book II of Riverworld. A world of resurrection where every soul who ever lived is brought back to indefinite life - where death is a momentary inconvenience. A world of peace and the end of all fear? By no mean. Among the billions clawing through warfare, slavery and violent aggression is Sam Clemens, alias Mark Twain. Sam's dream is to build a Mississippi-style paddle wheeler ad to find the source of the River, resurrected Man's focus and Riverworld's artery. But even with the aid of one of the mysterious beings responsible for Riverworld and of Sam's Neanderthal blood-brother, he is hard put to bring his dream to life. There are others - King John, for example - who will stop at nothing to steal the Fabulous Riverboat...Cover art by Peter Jones. -
Book II of World Of Tiers. Imagine a whole series of separate universes, made to suit the whims of a race of super-beings. Imagine these universes with their own laws, cultures, creatures, and ecologies - all existing solely to please the fancies of their individual master. Then imagine one such universe constructed as a diabolical trap to destroy a single person - the man called Robert Wolff, one of the race of universe-makers, and once of Earth. When the satanic Master-Lord, Urizen, kidnap's Wolff's wife, he forces Wolff to enter the deadly universe of ambushes, filled with every kind of tortuous snare that the evil mind of the Master-Lord can devise. Wolff has only his courage and his wits with which to combat this cosmic maze - unless he can perform a miracle, he and Chryseis are doomed. -
The Lavalite World is a world of slow and constant change. The very landscape moves. Here, mountains rise from plains or sink into seas. New oceans form as vast hollows collapse and seas rush in. There is only one escape from this bizarre planet: a single gateway to other universes which is in the palace of Lord Urthona. Paul Janus Finnegan - also known as Kickaha - must reach it if he is going to survive. And he must do it despite the Lords Urthona and Red Orc, the hired thug McKay, flesh eating vegetation on the run, assorted strange beasts of prey AND planetary pseudopods. Cover art by Fred Gambino. -
Book V in World of Tiers. The lavalite world is a world of slow yet constant change. Here, mountains rise from plains or sink into rifts; new oceans form as vast hollows collapse and seas rush in. There is only one escape from this world - the gateway to other universes is in the palace of the Lord Urthona. Paul Janus Finnegan - also known as Kickaha - must reach it if he is to survive. And he must do so despite Urthona, Red Orc, the hired thug McKay, flesh-eating vegetation that's on the move and planetary pseudopods. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. -
Book IV of Riverworld. After 33 years on the River, Clemens and his crew are finally near the end of their journey in the great iron riverboat Not For Hire, and only one obstacle remains: the evil Earthly king, John Lackland. John is waiting just upriver in the Rex Grandissimus the first riverboat constructed by Sam and stolen by John Lackland. Each are hell-bent on sinking the other and complicating the probable battle is that both boats carry Ethicals, members of the group of advanced beings who created Riverworld for reasons unknown. The battle is set to take place along the shores populated by members of the Church of the Second Chance, a group that believes they must attain ethical perfection in order to proceed to the next phase of existence. The Second Chancers are not violent, but their charismatic leader, La Viro, may attempt to sink one or both of the iron ships in order to prevent the battle. Among the Second Chancers is former Nazi officer Hermann Goring, who has already been more than a nuisance to those on the Quest to find the source of the River...Cover art by Melvyn Grant. -
The Cold War Corps was to be the instrument of salvation in freeing the Earth from the tyranny of the Haijac Union. It was Dr. Leif Barker's idea, but he was getting kept in the dark by his bosses in the March Republic about what the CWC was actually doing. Its network of spies spread throughout the world, working towards the Ultimate Solution that would free the Jacks and turn them towards the True Religion. But Barker had suspicions. Which was freedom, which was tyranny? Which of the two super-powers was really the villain of this terrifying tomorrow? In a mad world where love was a sin and sex a crime against humanity, he had to find out quickly - before the day of Timestop! Previously released as A Woman A Day and The Day Of Timestop. -
Medium is a heart-warming machine, designed to provide a connection with the dead. Now all the world could reach their loved ones - at a price. Anything so emotionally loaded and carrying that kind of price tag could be a powerful political weapon. But no-one, not even the inventor, could guess at how terrible that price might become. Cover art by Peter Jones.
