THE KING OF ELFLAND'S DAUGHTER

Lord Dunsany 95$

THE WELL AT THE WORLD'S END VOL i

William Morris 95$

THE WELL AT THE WORLD'S END VOL II

William Morris 95$

THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD

William Morris 95$

THE SILVER STALLION    James Branch Cabell 95$

THE HIGH PLACE    James Branch Cabell 95$

SOMETHING ABOUT EVE James Branch Cabell 95$

TITUS GROAN    Mervyn Peake 95$

GORMENGHAST    Mervyn Peake 95$

DON RODRIGUIZ:

The Chronicles of Shadow Valley Lord Dunsany 95$

VATHEK    William Beckford 95$

THE ISLAND OF THE MIGHTY

Evangeline Walton 95$

LUD-IN-THE-MIST Hope Mirrlees 95$

PHANTASTES    George MacDonald 95$

LILITH    George MacDonald 95$

AND MORE!

To order by mail, send $1.00 for each book to Dept. CS, Ballantine Books, 36 West 20th Street, New York, N.Y. 10003.

“A shining example of what can be done by the technologically oriented writer of science fiction.”

—Algis Budrys

LARRY NIVEN

WORLD OF PTAVVS - In which a telepathic alien almost takes over the planet.

A GIFT FROM EARTH - Which saves the inhabitants of Mount Look-itThat from the organbanks (human organs, that is).

NEUTRON STAR - A superb collection which includes the Nebula Award winning title story.

ALL THE MYRIAD WAYS - In which a topflight writer can seduce his readers into believing the incredible—including teleportation. . .

RINGWORLD - “An excellent . . . si. story. Contains one genuinely mind-boggling concept—a ring-shaped artificial world, large enough to circle its sun ..—A.J.

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Science fiction by a master craftsman

ROBERT SILVERBERG

THE MASKS OF TIME - Vornan-19—a creature who claimed to be a visitor from 1000 years in the future—Was he a demigod or an irresponsible madman? He was equally deadly either way.

TO OPEN THE SKY - The conflict between genes and machines was joined in the year 2077. The atom was their God —but there was something else stronger.

UP THE LINE - Time Travel, at least for the Guides, involved all kinds of hazards—especially for Daniel Elliott III —the Tom Jones of Time Travel.

THORNS - Lona Kelvin—Minner Burris—Duncan Chalk: Ultra Woman, Non-Man, and a human vulture, carrion eater of other people’s emotions, feeding on pain, fear, anger, hatred, jealousy, terror. Surely die strangest triangle the worlds had ever seen.

And Also

SON OF MAN—A Novel A strange, sensuous, misty, partly hallucinatory “trip” in which a man learns about himself—and perhaps something of the nature of man.

And Don’t Miss These Short Story Collections Also by Robert Silverberg

MOONFERNS AND STARSONGS —Containing both a Hugo Award Winner (NIGHTWINGS) and a Nebula Award Winner (THE PASSENGERS)

DIMENSION THIRTEEN NEEDLE IN A TIMESTACK

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The first in a series of superb science fiction short stories.

ALPHA ONE

Edited, by Robert Silverberg

ALPHA TWO soon to be available from Ballantine Books

From the old pro’s to the new wave—the best science fiction of the best science fiction writers.

Damon Knight R. A. Lafferty Fritz Leiber Barry Malzburg Ted Thomas Jack Vance Roger Zelazny

Brian W. Aldiss J. G. Ballard Alfred Bester James Blish Larry Eisenberg Charles L. Harness C. M. Kombluth

The variety of subjects in this collection is matched only by the richness and diversity of their handling —brilliant, frightening, clever, bizarre, powerful, witty, fanny—and several steps in-between.

Wonderful reading by any standards—and a positive feast for science fiction cognoscenti.

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THOMAS BURNETT SWANN

was recognized as one of the field's superior fantasists with the publication of a novelette Where is the Bird of Fire, which mixed history with mythology and humans with demigods.    /

Now. Ballantine Books is happy to present his first full-length work in book form—a strange tale of a remote island, an island which should have been a paradise but quickly became a nightmare in which all known rules of behavior seemed to be reversed, where, in fact, a young man brought up amidst the proprieties of Victorian England, found that his only friend was one small, lonely dolphin—and his enemies included several well-ordered hammerhead sharks...