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Poorhouse Fair, The (Knopf, 1959, Crest, ?)
Near future satire.
UPFIELD, ARTHUR W.
Battling Prophet, The (Heinemann, 1956, Penguin, 1960.)
An Inspector Bonaparte murder mystery in which the victim had discovered a one hundred percent accurate long range weather forecasting system that threatened to upset the balance of world power.
No Footprints in the Bush (?, 1940, Doubleday Doran, 1944.)
An Inspector Bonaparte murder mystery in which there is genuine telepathy.
Intimate Abduction (Earth Star, 1988.)
A woman falls in love with the alien who has kidnapped her from Earth.
UPWARD, ALLEN.
Fourth Conquest of England, The (Tyndale, 1904.)
Religion #2.
A return of Catholicism to England results in a new Inquisition.
High Treason (Primrose, 1903.)
Religion #1.
Catholicism is restored in England.
Plague (See Plague 99.)
Plague 99 (Methuen, 1989. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991, as Plague.)
A new plague threatens the world.
UTECHIN, NICHOLAS (See collaborations with Austin Mitchelson.)
UTLEY, BRIAN R.
Martyr (Curtis, 1971.)
Dystopia set in a future when the human race has retreated into underground warrens.
VACHSS, ANDREW
Batman: the Ultimate Evil (Warner, 1995.)
A Batman novel.
Batman goes after child abusers. Marginal.
VALE, RENA
Beyond the Sealed World (Paperback Library, 1965.)
A man is exiled from the domed society within which he has lived, and discovers that the outside world is not as bad as he expected, and more diverse than he could have imagined.
Day After Doomsday, The (Paperback Library, 1970.)
A nuclear war devastates the world, but a handful of people are thrown back through time to just prior to a previous disaster that destroyed an earlier civilization.
Red Court, The (Nelson, 1952.)
Communism takes over the US.
Taurus Four (Paperback Library, 1970.)
A planet full of hippies has to defend itself against an alien invasion.
Windsound (Berkley, 1981.)
A woman refuses to abandon her love, even though he is now a disembodied brain used as a device to telepathically communicate with the stars.
VALENTINE, VICTOR
Cure for Death (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1960, Four Square, 1961.)
The discovery of immortality has unforeseen and frightening consequences.
Global Blackout (Gannet, 1954.)
A worldwide blackout sends humanity into chaos.
Greyland (Belmont Tower, 1972.)
A man has adventures in various dimensions.
Lord of Blood (Lancer, 1970.)
Jamnar #2.
A barbarian world has remnants of super science so powerful and mysterious that they appear to be magical.
Star Barbarian (Lancer, 1969.)
Jamnar #1.
A colony world has settled into barbarism and is terrorized by a fanatical cult that claims to have demonic powers until a barbarian warrior upsets their applecart.
Star Gladiator (Belmont, 1967, bound with Special Delivery by Kris Neville.)
A space traveler is forced to fight for his life in an arena on an alien world.
Starmind (Ballantine, 1969.)
Three disparate and physically separated humans are linked by an unsuspected, unprecedented psychic force, and they are fated to change the world.
Lost in Space (Pyramid, 1967.)
Tie-in to the television series about a family that gets lost in space when their experimental starship is sabotaged by a stowaway.
Fires of Fu Manchu, The (Harper, 1987, Perennial, 1988.)
A sequel to the series by Sax Rohmer. The evil mastermind's latest plot to conquer the world is set in Egypt, and his old nemeses from England are back to stop him.
VANCE, JACK (Note that many of Vance's space adventures are set in the same universe.)
Alastor (Tor, 1995, Orb, 2002.)
Omnibus of Trullion: Alastor 2262, Marune: Alastor 933, and Wyst: Alastor 1716.
Anome, The (Dell, 1973, Coronet, 1975. Ace, 1978, Underwood Miller, 1983, Gollancz, 1987, as The Faceless Man.)
Durdane #1.
A citizen of the planet Durdane breaks the cardinal rules of his society, and brings down the wrath of the dreaded Faceless Man.
Araminta Station (Underwood Miller, 1987, Tor, 1988, New English Library, 1988.)
Cadwal #1.
Very involved political intrigue dealing with the maintenance of a nature preserve on a distant world.
Asutra, The (Dell, 1974, Coronet, 1975, Ace, 1978, Underwood Miller, 1983, Gollancz, 1987.)
Durdane #3.
The ultimate battle between the newly freed people of Durdane and the alien race that has enslaved them is about to take place.
Augmented Agent and Other Stories, The (Underwood Miller, 1986, Ace, 1988, New English Library, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of Jack Vance, The (Pocket, 1976, Taplinger, 1978.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Big Planet (Avalon, 1957, Ryerson, 1957, Ace, 1967, Coronet, 1977, Underwood Miller, 1978, Tor, 1989, Gollancz, 1989. Ace, 1958, bound with Slaves of the Klau,.)
Big Planet #1.
An agent is sent to an oversized world that was populated by all of the nuts and extremists in the universe to gain information about a possible plot against the culture of Earth.
Blue World, The (Ballantine, 1966, Mayflower, 1976, Underwood Miller, 1979, DAW, 1983, Grafton, 1987, Gollancz, 2003. Magazine title was The Kragen.)
A water world is populated with primitive people who live in floating communities. Unfortunately, the ocean is also home to giant sea creatures who kill the humans unless they provide sufficient food.
Book of Dreams, The (DAW, 1981, Underwood Miller, 1981, Coronet, 1982, Grafton, 1988.)
Star Kings #5.
The last of the demon princes is a master of disguise and mystery, and Kirth Gerson may not be able to even track him down, let alone kill him.
Brains of Earth, The (Ace, 1966, bound with The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph. Dobson, 1975, Panther, 1984. DAW, 1980, in omnibus as Nopalgarth.)
The protagonist discovers that mind controlling aliens are dominating the Earth.
Brave Free Men, The (Dell, 1973, Coronet, 1975, Ace, 1978, Underwood Miller, 1983, Gollancz, 1987.)
Durdane #2.
A single rebel has upset the rule of imposed law on Durdane, and now he is urging people toward a war designed to destroy his enemies.
Chasch (See City of the Chasch.)
Chateau D’If and Other Stories (Underwood Miller, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
City of the Chasch (Ace, 1968, Mayflower, 1974, Dobson, 1975, Underwood Miller, 1978, DAW, 1979. Bluejay, 1986, as Chasch.)
Planet of Adventure #1.
A rescue ship sent to a remote world is destroyed by a weapon from the planetary surface, and only one man survives to land on a world whose people have been radically transformed.
Complete Magnus Ridolph, The (Underwood Miller, 1984.)
Collection of related stories.
Coup de Grace and Other Stories (Vance Integral Editions, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dark Side of the Moon, The (Underwood Miller, 1986, New English Library, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Demon Princes Volume One, The (Tor, 1997, Orb, 1997.)
Omnibus of The Star King, The Killing Machine, and The Palace of Love.
Demon Princes Volume Two, The (Tor, 1997, Orb, 1997.)
Omnibus of The Face and The Book of Dreams.
Dirdir, The (Ace, 1969, Dobson, 1975, Mayflower, 1975, Underwood Miller, 1979, DAW, 1979.)
Planet of Adventure #3.
A man stranded on a world dominated by aliens tries to convince one of the races to help him obtain a starship to return him to Earth.
Dragon Masters, The (Ace, 1962, bound with The Five Gold Bands. Dobson, 1965, Panther, 1967, Mayflower, 1972, Gregg, 1976, Berkley, 1985, Easton, 1988, Ibooks, 2003. Ace, 1973, bound with The Last Castle. Tor, 1990, bound with A Short, Sharp Shock by Kim Stanley Robinson.)
Dragon #1.
An interstellar war between humans and a reptile species becomes bizarre when each side genetically alters captured members of the other side as organic weapons of war.
Durdane (Gollancz, 1989.)
Omnibus of the Durdane trilogy.
Dust of Far Suns (See Future Tense.)
Ecce and Old Earth (Underwood Miller, 1991, Tor, 1991, New English Library, 1992.)
Cadwal #2.
One of the chief preservationists on a planet supposedly immune to exploitation must discover the identity of the coalition of humans and aliens who are attempting to subvert the trust.
Eight Fantasms and Magics (MacMillan, 1969, Collier, 1970. Mayflower, 1978, as Fantasms and Magics.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Emphyrio (Doubleday, 1969, Dell, 1970, DAW, 1979, Coronet, 1980, Charles Miller, 1995, Millennium, 1999.)
A refugee from a planet whose population is effectively enslaved by its government escapes into space. He searches for the ancient planet Earth where he hopes to find the knowledge that will allow him to free his people.
Face, The (DAW, 1979, Dobson, 1980.)
Star Kings #4.
Kirth Gerson fears he has finally met his match when he sets out destroy the fourth of the Star Kings, whose home culture is incredibly vicious.
Faceless Man, The (See The Anome.)
Fantasms and Magics (See Eight Phantams and Magics.)
Five Gold Bands, The (Ace, 1962, bound with The Dragon Masters. DAW, 1980, Mayflower, 1980, Underwood Milleer, 1993. Magazine version 1950. Toby, 1953, as The Space Pirate.)
An adventurer travels through the galaxy in search of five bands, each of which is the key to great political power.
Future Tense (Ballantine, 1964. DAW, 1981, as Dust of Far Suns.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Galactic Effectuator (Underwood Miller, 1980, Ace, 1981, Coronet, 1983.)
Collection of two related stories.
Gold and Iron (See Slaves of the Klau.)
Gray Prince, The (Bobbs Merrill, 1974, Avon, 1975, Coronet, 1976, DAW, 1981, Gollancz, 1990, Tor, 1992.)
War erupts among the various altered forms of humanity in a very distant future.
Houses of Iszm, The (Ace, 1964, bound with Son of the Tree. Mayflower, 1974, Underwood Miller, 1983. Magazine version 1954.)
Offworlders plot to steal a seed of a mother tree, a genetically altered plant which the people of Iszm use to grow living houses.
Killing Machine, The (Berkley, 1964, Dobson, 1967, DAW, 1978, Coronet, 1980, Grafton, 1988.)
Star Kings #2.
Kirth Gersen continues his quest by searching for the second of the Star Kings, an outlaw whose fascination for elaborate machines makes him doubly dangerous.
Languages of Pao, The (Avalon, 1957, Ryerson, 1958, Ace, 1958, Mayflower, 1974, DAW, 1980, Tor, 1989, New English Library, 1989.)
The planet Pao has only a single language and its people live in peace. Agents of another world introduce new languages in an effort to cause a schism in Pao's culture, and the power of language to affect thought is proven.
Last Castle, The (Ace, 1967, bound with World of the Sleeper by Tony Russell Wayman. Ace, 1971, bound with The Trouble with Tycho by Clifford D. Simak and Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany. Ace, 1973, bound with The Dragon Masters. Tor, 1989, bound with Nightwings by Robert Silverberg. Underwood Miller, 1980, Berkley, 1985.)
Dragon #2.
Further adventures set in a future when humans and aliens use altered versions of each other to conduct an interstellar war.
Light from a Lone Star (NESFA, 1985.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Lost Moons (Underwood Miller, 1982.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Lurulu (Tor, 2004.)
Myron Tany #2.
Space travelers track down a missing woman.
Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII,, South, Big Planet, The (See Showboat World.)
Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph, The (Ace, 1966, bound with The Brains of Earth. Dobson, 1977, DAW, 1980.)
Collection of related space adventures.
Marune: Alastor 933 (Ballantine, 1975, Coronet, 1978, DAW, 1981, Underwood Miller, 1984.)
Alastor #2.
An amnesiac travels to the planet where he suspects he originated, and finds himself proclaimed as planetary ruler. Unfortunately there's a catch. There's always a catch.
Maske: Thaery (Berkley, 1977, Fontana, 1977.)
Baroque intrigue as an agent seeks to unmask the man who is quietly undermining the society of an entire planet.
Monsters in Orbit (Ace, 1965, bound with The World Between and Other Stories. Dobson, 1977. Magazine version, 1952, as Abercrombie Station.)
A young woman travels to a privately owned satellite in an effort to seduce its rich owner into marrying her.
Moon Moth and Other Stories, The (See The World Between and Other Stories.)
Narrow Land, The (DAW, 1982, Coronet, 1984.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Night Lamp (Tor, 1996, Harper, 1998.)
An orphan travels from world to world seeking the secret of his origin.
Nopalgarth (DAW, 1980.)
Omnibus of The Brains of Earth, retitled here as Nopalgarth, plus Son of the Tree, and The Houses of Iszm.
Palace of Love, The (Berkley, 1967, Dobson, 1968, DAW, 1979, Coronet, 1980, Underwood Miller, 1981, Grafton, 1988.)
Star Kings #3.
An interstellar avenger has accumulated a vast fortune, and now he pits his wits and his resources against a villain who is fascinated with eroticism.
Planet of Adventure (Orb, 1993.)
Omnibus of City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir, and The Pnume.
Pnume, The (Ace, 1970, Dobson, 1975, Mayflower, 1976, Underwood Miller, 1979, DAW, 1979.)
Planet of Adventure #4.
Still stuck on a world people by various alien races, the protagonist this time must escape the clutches of an underground race who wish to place him in their museum.
Ports of Call (Tor, 1998.)
Myron Tany #1.
A young man rebels against his family to pursue a career among the stars.
Servants of the Wankh (Ace, 1969, Dobson, 1975, Underwood Miller, 1978, DAW, 1979. Mayflower, 1985, Bluejay, 1986, as Wankh.)
Planet of Adventure #2.
An offworlder agrees to escort a young woman home over a dangerous stretch of country on a planet where four different alien races live in uneasy juxtaposition.
Showboat World (Pyramid, 1975, Coronet, 1977, Tor, 1989, Gollancz, 1989. Underwood Miller, 1983, as The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII,, South, Big Planet.)
Big Planet #2.
Two entertainers conduct a fierce and occasionally violent rivalry as they ply their trade on the rivers of the largest inhabited planet in the universe.
Slaves of the Klau (Ace, 1958, bound with Big Planet. Coronet, 1980, as Gold and Iron. Magazine title Planet of the Damned.)
Just as the human race is about to spread into space, a galactic civilization shows up, kidnapping large numbers of humans and using them as slave labor on alien worlds. One of the abductees decides to fight back.
Son of the Tree (Ace, 1964, bound with The Houses of Iszm. Mayflower, 1974, Underwood Miller, 1983.)
Interstellar intrigue involving a gigantic tree that is the symbol of power for millions of people. Or is it more than just a symbol?
Space Opera (Pyramid, 1965, DAW, 1979, Coronet, 1982, Underwood Miller, 1984.)
Earth is visited by a mysterious opera troupe that disappears under unusual circumstances. Earth decides to send an opera company of its own to their home world, and the musicians discover the mission isn't as casual as it appears.
Space Pirate, The (See The Five Gold Bands.)
Star King, The (Berkley, 1964, Dobson, 1966, Panther, 1968, Mayflower, 1973, DAW, 1978, Coronet, 1980, Grafton, 1988.)
Star Kings #1.
Five non-human interstellar raiders attack a planet and kill the hero's parents. Reaching maturity, he sets out to track down and kill the first of the five.
Throy (Underwood Miller, 1992, Tor, 1993, New English Library, 1993.)
Cadwal #3.
The battle over the future of a planetary nature preserve comes out in the open as the protagonist seeks to finally defeat the forces plotting to develop the world.
To Live Forever (Ballantine, 1956, Allen, 1956, Sphere, 1976, DAW, 1982, Grafton, 1987, Tor, 1993, Charles Miller, 1995.)
Immortality is achieved by using identical cloned bodies and transferring memories and personality. The incarnation of a man whose previous version committed a terrible crime finds himself drawn into similarly opposing the status quo.
Trullion: Alastor 2262 (Ballantine, 1973, Mayflower, 1979, DAW, 1981, Underwood Miller, 1984, Grafton, 1987.)
Alastor #1.
A water world has a culture that is dominated by hussade, a team sport that seems more important to the inhabitants than politics or business.
Vandals of the Void (Winston, 1953, Gregg, 1979.)
Juvenile adventures in outer space.
Wankh (See Servants of the Wankh.)
When the Five Moons Rise (Underwood Miller, 1992.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
World Between and Other Stories, The (Ace, 1965, bound with Monsters in Orbit. Dobson, 1975, as The Moon Moth and Other Stories.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Worlds of Jack Vance, The (Ace, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Wyst: Alastor 1716 (DAW, 1978, Coronet, 1980, Underwood Miller, 1984.)
Alastor #3.
One world in the Alastor cluster appears to be a Utopia, but something bothers the man who rules the cluster and he sends an agent to find out just what exactly is happening on the planet Wyst.
All the Shattered Worlds (Manor, 1979.)
A woman believes that a man who claims he can destroy the Earth may be telling the truth.
Asgard Run, The (Leisure, 1990, BMI, ?.)
A group of men are exploring a newly discovered alien ship buried on Earth when the doors close, the ship's computer intelligence wakes up, and they discover they are being systematically hunted down.
Planet of the Gawfs (Leisure, 1978.)
Mutant children are exported from Earth to a distant planet which is supposed to be a pleasant home but which is actually very hostile. Some of those exiled are determined to return to Earth and reveal the truth.
Enemy Beyond Pluto (Kelly, 1954, translated from the French.)
Earth is invaded from another star system.
Veniss Underground (Bantam, 2005.)
A novel and related stories set in a far future city.
Heir Apparent (Harcourt, 2002.)
A young girl is trapped in a virtual reality system by saboteurs, and may die for real if she can't survive the game.
User Unfriendly (Harcourt, 1991, Magic Carpet, 2001.)
A computer game that requires you to connect physically to the computer has one disadvantage. What happens in the game has suddenly become real, as a bright teenager is about to discover.
Crucified City, The (New Authors, 1962.)
Survivors battle in London following a nuclear attack.
Evening Fool, The (Hutchinson, 1964.)
A Utopia.
Graffiti (Gollancz, 1983.)
Not seen. After the atomic war.
Judas! (See The Judas Gospel.)
Judas Gospel, The (Atheneum, 1972, Dell, 1973. Gollancz, 1972, as Judas!)
Marginal thriller involving the discovery of documents which contradict Christian history and efforts to suppress them.
Medusa Touch, The (Gollancz, 1973, Stein and Day, 1973.)
Strange novel about a man who may have figured out a way to change the laws of cause and effect.
Mutants: A Novel (Gollancz, 1986.)
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Where Were You Last Pluterday? (DAW, 1973, translated from the 1968 Dutch edition by Danny De Laet and Willy Magiels.)
A spoof in which science fiction is outlawed and the protagonist meets aliens, travels in time, and so forth in search of a beautiful girl.
VAN HISE, DELLA
Killing Time (Pocket, 1985.)
A Star Trek novel.
The Romulans employ a device that changes the fabric of history, leaving Kirk an ensign serving under Spock. The very different Enterprise then struggles to find a way to turn things back to the way they were.
VAN LAUN, H.
Gates of Afree, A.D. 1928, The (White, 1903.)
Not seen.
VAN LHIN, ERIK (Pseudonym of Lester Del Rey, whom see.)
Battle on Mercury (Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1953.)
A host of alien creatures are discovered living secretly within the solar system.
VAN LODEN, ERLE (Pseudonym of Lisle Willis.)
Curse of Planet Kuz (Edwin Self, 1953.)
Various lifeforms and scientific illiteracy on alien worlds.
Voyage into Space (Edwin Self, 1954.)
Adventure in outer space.
VAN MIERLO, H.A.
By Then Mankind Ceased to Exist (Stockwell, 1960.)
Russia launches an atomic attack on Europe.
VAN NAME, MARK L.
One Jump Ahead (Baen, 2007.)
Jon & Lobo #1.
A futuristic soldier battles enemies and political intrigues to rescue a kidnapped woman.
Slanted Jack (Baen, 2008.)
Jon & Lobo #2.
A cyborg teams up with a con man.
VAN PALLANDT, NICOLAS
Anvil (Roc, 1998.)
A woman travels to a mysterious city on an alien world to find out what happened to her sister, who was apparently murdered there.
VAN PELT, JAMES
Last of the O-Forms, The (Fairwood, 2005.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Summer of the Apocalypse (Fairwood, 2006.)
A man searches for a new life in the aftermath of a plague that wipes out most of humanity.
Trial of Adolf Hitler, The (Lester & Dennys, 1978, Summit, 1978, Bantam, 1980.)
Alternate history in which Hitler survived the war, was captured by the allies, and subsequently was tried before an international court.
Assignment Nor'Dyren (Avon, 1973.)
An Earthman is sent to a distant colony world which has inexplicably lost its high technological base and reverted to barbaric primitivism.
Bluesong (Berkley, 1983.)
Starsilk #2.
A woman troubled by strange dreams and phantom memories leaves her tribe to seek an explanation.
Cloud Cry (Berkley, 1978.)
Humans are searching for a new home when Earth is doomed, but the world they chose was once home to a race which gained immortality by sending their personalities into a crystal.
Darkchild (Berkley, 1982, Penguin, 1984.)
Starsilk #1.
A planetbound culture has conflicts with another which travels among the stars.
Daughters of the Sunstone (Doubleday, 1984.)
Omnibus of the Starsilk trilogy.
Deepwater Dreams (Avon, 1991.)
The genetically engineered colonists of a water world have a dangerous coming of age ceremony. Each adolescent is sent out to survive on his or her own in an ocean filled with predators.
Drowntide (Berkley, 1987, Futura, 1987.)
This novel of a distant world where human rulers can communicate with sea dwelling animals has more the feel of fantasy than science fiction.
Saltflower (Avon, 1971.)
The human race must adjust to the existence of alien beings when several very large starships hover enigmatically over the Earth.
Star Mother (Berkley, 1976.)
A woman travels to a planet whose colonists have been plagued by strange mutations which has split them into two hostile groups. While caring for the mutant children, she begins to wonder if she is fulfilling a mysterious prophecy.
Starsilk (Berkley, 1984.)
Starsilk #3.
A man seeks to become reunited with his family on a large and primitive planet. His enemies have other plans.
Sunwaifs (Berkley, 1981.)
A group of children on a distant world develop powerful psi powers.
I Am the World: A Romance (Catto & Windus, 1942.)
A dystopian future.
Story Teller, The (Pete Owen, 1958.)
A five hundred year old man recounts his experiences.
VAN VOGT, A.E. (See also collaboration with E. Mayne Hull and those that follow.)
Anarchistic Colossus, The (Ace, 1977, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978.)
Earth has become an anarchy, but paradoxically one governed by computers. That makes things interesting when an alien race decides to conquer the planet.
Away and Beyond (Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952, Avon, 1953, Berkley, 1959, Panther, 1963.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Battle of Forever, The (Ace, 1971, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972, DAW, ?.)
A small subset of the human race has created what it believes to be a Utopian society, but when one of its denizens ventures out into the outer world, that precipitates a crisis that calls everything into question.
Beast, The (Doubleday, 1963, MacFadden, 1964, DAW, 1984, Carroll & Graf, 1992. Panther, 1969, as Moonbeast.)
The protagonist stumbles upon a machine built by alien technology with the power to control the entire human race. When it disappears and his wife is kidnapped, he sets out to rescue her and retrieve it before it can be used for world domination.
Best of A.E. Van Vogt, The (Sphere, 1974. Contents different than the Pocket collection.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of A.E. Van Vogt, The (Pocket, 1976. Contents different than the Sphere collection.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Blal, The (Zebra, 1976.) Is this the same as Monsters???
Collection of unrelated stories.
Book of Ptath, The (Fantasy Press, 1947, Paperback Library, 1969, Panther, ?, DAW, 1984, Carroll & Graf, 1992. Zebra, ?, as Ptath. Paperback Library, 1964, as Two Hundred Million A.D. Magazine version 1943.)
A man with powers that are godlike is kidnapped into the distant future where he is merely mortal and must battle a superhuman woman.
Book of Van Vogt, The (DAW, 1972. DAW, 1980, New English Library, 1980, as Lost: Fifty Suns.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Changeling, The (MacFadden, 1967.)
Aliens invade Earth by controlling the minds of humans, making their hosts immortal and telepathic, but slaves.
Children of Tomorrow (Ace, 1970, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972.)
A space traveler returns to Earth after a lapse of years to discover that human children have developed unusual powers.
Computer Eye (See Computerworld.)
Computerworld (DAW, 1983. Morrison Raven Hill, 1985, as Computer Eye.)
The preponderance of computers has quickly wiped out most human freedom. The protagonist is one of those who resents this change when he discovers the truth, and he sets out to change the status quo.
Cosmic Encounter (Doubleday, 1980, New English Library, 1981, Carroll & Graf, 1990.)
A crew of space travelers find themselves back in 18th Century Earth and troubled by alien intervention. They must defeat the invaders and prevent their intervention from changing the course of history.
Darkness on Diamondia, The (Ace, 1972. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974, DAW, ?)
A military officer is sent to a colony world to report on the war between humans and alien indigenes. There he discovers a plot so far reaching that he considers using a terrible superweapon in response.
Destination Universe (Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1953, Signet, 1953, Panther, 1960, Berkley, 1964.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Earth Factor X (DAW, 1976. Prentice Hall Reward, 1974, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1975, as The Secret Galactics.)
Aliens have secretly invaded the Earth, taking forms indistinguishable from humans so that they can infiltrate every human institution.
Earth's Last Fortress (Ace, 1960, bound with Lost in Space by George O. Smith. Magazine version, 1954 as Recruiting Station. Fantasy Press, 1950, MacFadden, 1967, as Masters of Time.)
What appears to be a normal recruiting station is actually a way to draft humans from our time into fighting a terrible war in the far future.
Empire of Isher, The (Tor, 2000, Orb, 2000.)
Omnibus of The Weapon Makers and The Weapon Shops of Isher.
Empire of the Atom (Shasta, 1956, MacFadden, 1966, New English Library, 1975. Ace, 1956, bound with Space Station #1 by Frank Belknap Long.)
Clane #1.
Thousands of years after a galactic war, Earth still has the trappings of technology, but no one understands how the starships and weapons work.
Enchanted Village, The (Misfit, 1979.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Far-Out Worlds of A.E. Van Vogt, The (Ace, 1968, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973. Later expanded by Ace as The Worlds of A.E. Van Vogt.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Future Glitter (Ace, 1973. Sphere, 1977, as Tyranopolis.)
A group of scientists form a secret group dedicated to overthrowing a repressive future dictatorship.
Gryb, The (Zebra, 1976, New English Library, 1980.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
House That Stood Still, The (Greenberg, 1950, Harlequin, 1952, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953, Digit, 1960, Paperback Library, 1965, Carroll & Graf, 1993. Beacon, 1960, as The Mating Cry. Panther, 1976, as The Undercover Aliens.)
As Earth faces destruction at the hands, or appendages, of powerful aliens, a man discovers a secret group of immortals who are planning to escape to another world. He convinces one of them to help defend the planet.
Lost: Fifty Suns (See The Book of Van Vogt.)
M33 in Andromeda (Paperback Library, 1971.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Man With a Thousand Names, The (DAW, 1974, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1975.)
The protagonist's journey to another planet has a surprising result. He finds himself back on Earth in another body, and this strange phenomenon is repeated several times.
Masters of Time (Fantasy Press, 1950.)
Omnibus of Earth’s Last Fortress and The Changeling.
Masters of Time (See Earth's Last Fortress.)
Mating Cry, The (See The House That Stood Still.)
Mind Cage, The (Simon & Schuster, 1957, Avon, 1958, Panther, 1960, Tower, 1965, Pocket, 1978.)
In a future where Earth is a dictatorship and robots enforce the laws, a man discovers that his personality has been transferred into another man's body. His efforts to recover himself reveal the dark underside of the government.
Mission: Interplanetary (See The Voyage of the Space Beagle.)
Mission to the Stars (Gnome, 1952, as The Mixed Men. Berkley, 1955, Digit, 1960.)
Several stories cobbled together to form a novel about a starship searching for a lost civilization and their efforts to resist being found.
Mixed Men, The (See Mission to the Stars.)
Monsters (Paperback Library, 1965, Corgi, 1970.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Moonbeast (See The Beast.)
More Than Superhuman (Dell, 1971, New English Library, 1975.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Null-A Three (Morrison Raven Hill, 1985, DAW, 1985, Sphere, 1985.)
Gilbert Gosseyn #3.
This time Gosseyn is off to face down the masters of the universe, an alien race with godlike powers.
One Against Eternity (See The Weapon Makers.)
Pawns of Null-A, The (Ace, 1956, Digit, 1960. Magazine version 1948 as The Players of A. Berkley, 1966, Dobson, 1970, as The Players of Null-A.)
Gilbert Gosseyn #2.
Having proven instrumental in deciding the outcome of the Earth-Venus war, Gosseyn now finds himself being manipulated in a battle that spans star systems. And what is the true nature of the fearsome entity known as the Follower?
Pendulum (DAW, 1978, New English Library, 1982.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Players of Null A, The (See The Pawns of Null-A.)
Proxy Intelligence and Other Mind Benders, The (Paperback Library, 1971.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Ptath (See The Book of Ptath.)
Quest for the Future (Ace, 1970, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1971.)
The first expedition to Alpha Centauri runs into a paradox. Traveling slower than light, it finds that the system has been colonized by faster than light ships sent out generations after they left.
Renaissance (Pocket, 1979.)
Implausible adventure in a future where women are dominant and repress men.
Rogue Ship (Doubleday, 1965, Berkley, 1966, Dobson, 1967, DAW, 1980.)
A starship on a long journey to another star faces one crisis after another as the passengers and crew begin to consider mutiny.
Secret Galactics, The (See Earth Factor X.)
Siege of the Unseen (Ace, 1959, bound with The World Swappers by John Brunner. Magazine title The Chronicler.)
An accident wakens a man to the fact that he has a third eye, one able to see into another universe.
Silkie, The (Ace, 1969, New English Library, 1973, DAW, ?)
Humans create a super race called Silkies to help them manage their society. But are the Silkies really subservient, or are they just biding their time?
Slan (Arkham House, 1946, Simon & Schuster, 1951, Dell, 1953, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953,Panther, 1960, Ballantine, 1961, Aeonian, 1968, Berkley, 1968, Double