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1981

Neptune's Cauldron


Michael G. Coney - 1981
    Pursued by the interplanetary police for a crime he did not commit, space traveller Tyg is forced down on the planet Storm, where he finds a revolution brewing among the Tadda against King Caiman, the planet's tyrannical ruler.He must prove his innocence of the crime with which he is charged, as he fights for survival beneath the Storm's seething oceans, where the very existence of the Tadda is threatened by the deadly undersea volcano known as NEPTUNE'S CAULDRON

The Transgalactic Guide to Solar System M-17


Jeff Rovin - 1981
    Where to go and what to see - Accommodations on 5 Fabulous Planets & Their Satellites. Welcome to Solar System M-17. Lying nearly ten billion light years away from our own solar system, M-17 consists of five planets and seven natural satellites. Here is the only official guide, served up with the care and quality that have become synonymous with the Transgalactic name. Your guidebook provides you with everything you need to know: where to go, what to do and how to get there. Concise histories are provided for each civilization, basic working vocabularies of each planet are included in dictionary format, and all accommodations have been carefully rated. Your travels through hyper-dimensional space will begin on the Transgalactic Star Cruiser, which is equipped with holograph libraries, casinos, special sex facilities, a four-star cuisine, and services to meet every need of creaturely comfort. But the planet themselves are the real stars. DIS - home of Tukkadis, fierce beasts adapted to endure fire-storms, and the bristling Alladis, whose phosphorescent excrement has lent a charming pastel tone to the planet's surface. MORANA - the Kashpagus' oozing planet. Here, you'll tour on foot and on the marvel of Moranses locomotion, the aoo. ARGOS - the planet to barbarian to bear, home of the Brutes and the good-natured trolls. URIEL - communication is entirely by odor on this decidedly pungent planet. VIRTUS - it isn't called the scholar's retreat for nothing. While touring all the don't miss sights described in this guide, Jeff Rovin has written several books, including "From the Land Beyond, Beyond" and "The Fantasy Almanac."