Thursday 23 June 2011

WEB OF THE CHOZEN

Del Rey SF paperback, second printing, May 1982. Cover art
by Ralph McQuarrie. 

"Nobody Beats Bar Holliday 
He was paid to find terraformable worlds, new planets for his corporation to plunder. Up until the day he came upon the Peace Victory, an abandoned generation ship hovering ominously above a definitely habitable planet, he believed nobody ever could.  
Nobody Beats Bar Holliday 
...because he was never satisfied with anything lower than first place, because he was always the oddball, in charge of his own welfare, his own destiny...A man determined to make his mark in the world and win all games at any cost. 
Nobody Ever Beats Bar Holliday 
...because he only took the wrong chances at the right times. But on the planet Patmos, where everything looked safe, but nothing was, Bar Holliday had at last met his match!"

Tuesday 21 June 2011

THE CITY


"In the aftermath of mankind's final war the few survivors scratch an existence from the ruins. This is no brave new world. From the shattered fragments of a once great civilization crawl the Rats - to claim the domain as their own. The city and its pitiful human inhabitants finally belong to them. The people have become prey, the hunters the hunted. But now the traveller has arrived and he is no victim. In search of his past, he has come to take back the dream of life as it was before. But in the city the only dreams left are nightmares."



Monday 20 June 2011

LONE SLOANE : DELIRIUS


"Philippe Druillet is one of Europe's most prominent and popular artists in the field of illustrated fantasy and science fiction. The adventures of Lone Sloane through time and space and on the incredible world of Delirius are here presented for the first time in English. Forthcoming books by druillet in the series include "Yragael" and "Urm". 
He is at present working on further adventures of Lone Sloane. Druillet (pronounced dru-yay) has won numerous awards in Europe and America for his books. 
He says that his ultimate ambition is 'to create a whole universe of science fiction. It would be terrible to think of not doing it. I have worlds to create, characters to develop. It's what i have in me, and i want to experiment. I believe that i will always draw comics; they are among the most beautiful things that can be imagined - and they are true.'"




YRAGAEL : URM


"Philippe Druillet is one of europe's most prominent and popular artists in the field of illustrated fantasy and science fiction. This book is the second in the series of English translations of Druillet's work published by Dragon's Dream; the first "Lone Sloane - Delirius" was released in 1977. Druillet (pronounced dru-yay) has won numerous awards in Europe and America for his books. He says that his ultimate ambition is 'to create a whole universe of science fiction. It would be terrible to think of not doing it. I have worlds to create, characters to develop. It's what i have in me, and i want to experiment. I believe that i will always draw comics; they are among the most beautiful things that can be imagined - and they are true.'"