The Terror Cubes was a science fiction book written by Granville Wilson and published by Granada in 1982. The cover was illustrated by Alan Craddock and the book itself was illustrated by Paul Turner.
I haven’t read this book, unfortunately, and have been informed that it is actually “a bit dull”, but the illustrations are absolutely amazing, and not dull at all, so now I don’t know what to think.
Thanks to Phil Alderman for sending me these.
The four Jerry Cornelius books by Michael Moorcock were originally published in the 60s and 70s. The Cornelius Quartet collection was published by Thunder’s Mouth Press in 1993 and illustrated by Malcolm Dean and Jill Riches, and this edition of The Condition of Muzak was published by Fontana in 1978 and was illustrated by Richard Glyn Jones.
The Final Programme – illustrated by Malcolm Dean
The Cure For Cancer – illustrated by Malcolm Dean
The English Assassin – illustrated by Jill Riches
The Condition of Muzak – illustrated byRichard Glyn Jones
These illustrations are from the 1978 Fontana edition.
This is the audio from a children’s book and tape version of the Howard the Duck film, from 1986. Unfortunately, we don’t have the book that accompanied the tape anymore. It was, I suspect, one of the most beautiful artifacts ever created by man.
The constant quacking noise throughout is a prompt to tell you to turn the page of your book, but it sounds like it’s a sound effect for highlighting punchlines all the way through, which adds immeasurably to the story.
Thanks to Chriddof for this.
Tales From The Galaxies was a science fiction anthology published in 1973 by Pan Books.
This anthology contains four stories (The Red Stuff by John Wyndham, Miss Inman and the Kloots by Amabel Williams-Ellis, The Odour of Thought by Robert Sheckley and Exploration Team by Murray Leinster) and also a comic strip reprinted from Astounding Stories (The Heritage, which was illustrated by Malcom Stokes). The cover was illustrated by Alan Lee.
There’s a single illustration in the book, which is a picture of a Kloot from the story that is about Kloots. It was drawn by Mike Jackson. It’s really lovely.
The book doesn’t mengion who wrote the comic strip that they reprint. All it says was that it was illustrated by Malcolm Stokes and originally published in Astounding Stories. It doesn’t even say when it was first printed and just lists it as copyright unknown. It also feels like they’ve not printed all of it. I quite enjoyed it though, due to dinosaurs, and the spacemen’s incredibly haggard faces.
THE END, maybe.
Invasion of the Ormazoids was a choose your own adventure book starring Doctor Who. It was written by Philip Martin, illustrated by Gail Bennett, and published by Severn House in 1986.
In this book you get to help Doctor Who fight some monstrous pretend Davros and his army of genetically engineered abominations on a planet at the edge of the universe. The whole thing is completely incomprehensible in every way. I think it might be the worst book I’ve ever read.
I’ve read the sentence that starts “The question is” about a hundred times in an attempt to understand it, but I cannot. It is just too much.
The book also messes up the conceit that the character you’re playing is actually you by repeatedly including “you” in the illustrations. Luckily it appears that you’re just David Tennant.
There were at least five more books in this series, but I don’t know if I dare seek them out.
