Wednesday 14 November 2012

MAN PLUS

Panther SF paperback, 1978. Front cover illustration by
Peter Gudynas.

Rear cover synopsis: 
"Man Plus is a haunting vision of to-morrow's man - less mortal than monster, more machine than flesh and blood... 
Man Plus is a desperate top-level plan to save mankind and satisfy the sinister predictions of a government computer... 
Man Plus is Frederik Pohl's stunning new novel of an all-too-plausible future where man must be biologically modified for survival on an alien planet before he exterminates himself on Earth."

THE TIME DWELLER

Mayflower SF paperback, 1981. Cover by Bob Haberfield (thanks: Jerry).

Back cover fluff: 
"From the mercurial mind of Michael Moorcock... 
Tales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including: 
Escape from Evening: one man finds there is only one ironical escape in a sad, dying world. 
The Mountains: the two last men on earth search for the last woman. 
The Golden Barge: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards? 
Consuming Passion: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference. 
The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangle in a garden of strange, living plants?"