Alan Smithee (Bizarre #20, May 1999)

A special clipping today, as this is one of my old articles. The idea was to treat Alan Smithee, a pen-name used on movies when the director was dumped or the producers took over the editing to try and make a film more commercial, as an auteur film director. The article appeared in Bizarre magazine, published by John Brown, under the name Noel A. Martena – an anagram of Not A Real Name, which was my way of telling people that the article on Smithee was not to be taken seriously. I doubt if anyone even spotted it.

Somewhere I have the first issue of Bizarre which suffered from a bit of censorship, with copies reaching the shops with a page torn out. I have a complete copy somewhere and will come back to this story when I find it. (To be honest, I've completely forgotten what the censored story was about – nothing written by me, I hasten to add, and the Wikipedia entry for Bizarre doesn't refer to it at all.)

Rebellion Releases (2000AD)

The latest releases from Rebellion Publishing for 19 June 2019.

2000AD Sci-Fi Special 2019
Cover: Mick McMahon
The 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special focuses on the legacy of Carlos Ezquerra, who died last year. As well as brand new strips featuring some of his most beloved characters, it includes his last work - the first 20 pages of Spector, the brand new creator-owned strip he was working on with John Wagner when he passed away.
JUDGE DREDD: NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM by Alan Grant (w) Robin Smith (a) Matt Soffe (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
FIENDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT: STRANGE MEETING by Guy Adams (w) Dave Kendall (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
SPECTOR by John Wagner (w) Carlos Ezquerra (a) Jim Campbell (l)
WULF STERNHAMMER: VALHALLA by  Michael Carroll (w) Patrick Goddard (a) Simon Bowland (l)

2000AD Prog 2136
Cover: Tiernen Trevallion

JUDGE DREDD: THE SAMARITAN by Kenneth Niemand (w) Staz Johnson (a) Chris Blythe (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
SCARLET TRACES: HOME FRONT by Ian Edginton (w) D'Israeli (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
THISTLEBONE by TC Eglington (w) Simon Davis (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
ABSALOM: TERMINAL DIAGNOSIS by Gordon Rennie (w) Tiernen Trevallion (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

Judge Dredd Megazine 408
Cover: Nick Percival

JUDGE DREDD: RED QUEEN'S GAMBIT by Arthur Wyatt (w) Jake Lynch (a) John Charles (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
LAWLESS: ASHES TO ASHES by Dan Abnett (w) Phil Winslade (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
DIAMOND DOGS by James Peaty (w) Warren Pleece (a) Simon Bowland (l)
THE RETURNERS: CHANDU by Si Spencer (w) Nicolo Assirelli (a) Eva De La Cruz (c) Simon Bowland (l)
THE DARK JUDGES: THE TORTURE GARDEN by John Wagner (w) Nick Percival (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Features: 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special, Tammy & Jinty Special, Mike Perkins interview
Bagged reprint: Mind Wars Vol.2

Comedy stars of TV Express

 

Stan Lee (Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 14 July 1996)

 

Hayao Miyazaki (Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 10 April 2005)

 

 

Illustrators #26 (Summer 2019)

The Summer issue of Illustrators has arrived with a trio of lengthy features, two recognisable names and a third that I'm happy to be introduced to.

David Ashford and Norman Wright lead off the issue with a piece on John Millar Watt a painter and comic strip artist with a unique look that is instantly recognisable. I was always surprised that Watt spent most of his pre-WW2 career drawing a cartoon strip, 'Pop', as my introduction to his work was via Look and Learn where he was chiefly a supplier of beautifully and intricately painted illustrations.

'Pop' was a rotund businessman, often the butt of jokes relating to his family life. The relatively simple linework of Pop's many misadventures disguises a complexity that was unusual for cartoons in the 1920s, Watt experimenting with the the panel structure and backgrounds to give the strip an illusion of a single image broken up into frames.

'Pop' was so popular that when Watt tried to leave the strip during the Second World War he was persuaded to keep going. Eventually he was able to quit in 1949, and turn to illustration and painting for the rest of his career, although during a downturn in the market in the late 1950s, he did draw a few issues of Thriller Picture Library. His association with Amalgamated Press's juvenile division led to him drawing extensively for their colour gravure papers, including Princess, Look and Learn and Ranger, including a gorgeously painted adaptation of Treasure Island reprinted by Bear Alley Books a couple of years ago.

Petar Meseldžija was unknown to me before this issue arrived. Thankfully, Diego Cardoba's article corrects that situation, with a detailed interview that spans the career of this Serbian fantasy artist, today living in Holland. Chiefly an illustrator of children's books, he broke through into the international market through the American publication of his The Legend of Steel Bashaw (based on a Serbian legend) in 2010.

David Ashford then looks at the works of Philip Mendoza, a firm favourite here at Bear Alley for many years. His early career as a political cartoonist after the Great War is covered, including some rarely seen early cartoons and advertising from the 1930s and the war years. In the post-War years, Mendoza churned out dozens of covers for paperbacks, from Hank Janson to the more upmarket Pan Books, before finding himself kept increasingly busy by the Amalgamated Press, drawing for Sun, Thriller Comics, Cowboy Comics and others.

In 1954, Amalgamated's Mike Butterworth tapped into Mendoza's talents as a fairy-tale artist with the launch of Playhour Pictures, and Mendoza remained associated with the nursery comic section for many years, drawing 'Gulliver Guinea Pig' (Playhour), 'Katie Country Mouse' (Harold Hare's Own) and illustrating many classic novels for Treasure and the 'Town Mouse and Country Mouse' tales in Once Upon a Time.

Mendoza's colourful art was matched only by his colourful character, his talents taking him from street artist to driving a Bentley. For the most part forgotten, it's nice to think that the article might reach a new generation of fans who will be able to appreciate his unique talents.

A brief gallery of work by Arthur Barbosa rounds out the issue.

For more information on Illustrators and back issues, visit the Book Palace website, where you can also find details of their online editions, and news of upcoming issues. Issue 27 will have features on wild west artists Frederic Remington and Charles Schreyvogel.

Comic Cuts - 14 June 2019

My efforts at tidying up and getting some stuff out of the house have been going quite well. The living room still looks like a disaster zone, but holes are beginning to appear where the carpet and walls can be seen. Who knew we had a radiator at the back of the room? It hasn't been seen since we moved in nine years ago.

The pic at the top is a flashback to twenty-five years ago to the 1994 UKCAC. The fetching young alien is promoting the independently published comic Vogarth. Doing a bit of digging around, I discovered that this was issue two, dated Sept/Oct 1994. The alien is Katika Mu, one of the stars of the comic, and Vogarth has a website, although I think it may have been inactive for some while. The character was the creation of Ben Hunt, who is still active on Facebook.

The question is... who was the alien. My memory always lets me down, but the clue, I think, is on the cover, drawn by Hunt Emerson "For Ben and Sonja". One of the strip creators who worked with Ben on Vogarth was Sonja Curtis who, according to Bryan Talbot, also played keyboards with Ben in a band, including a gig at the Preston Speculative Fiction Group when they celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Bash Street Kids (mentioned in his annotations to Grandville: Force Majeure).

I found a box full of miscellaneous junk, everything from a pencil rubber to a Trainspotting Zippo lighter. Amongst the contents were a load of old badges from the UK and Glasgow Comic Art Conventions.

I can't recall which was my first convention, but it would have been some time in the latter half of the 1980s when a small group of us got together to split the cost of hotel rooms. I'm not sure who was on the first trip, but it boiled down to a hardcore group of Me, Larry, Pete, Lance and Nicola. It would be great to find a few photos from that era, but I've managed to unearth just two. One you can see above and there's a second one taken on the last day of the last (1995) GlasCAC of a stripped and signed Frank Plowright.

These are the only two comic convention photos I've found – and I'm pretty certain I don't have any more. A couple of friends (Alan Woollcombe, Lance Rickman) were more handy with a camera and for many of the conventions I was either working at the Comic World table or drinking in whatever bar we were all in – the student bar at lunchtime and the hotel bar in the evening/early morning. I can't imagine what any photos I took would look like. As blurry as my memory is.

Here's my selection of  badges... happy days!

Below are some reviews of recently watched TV shows...don't read if you hate spoilers.

The moment the first nun exploded, you just know that Happy! is back and as uncompromising and hilarious as ever. The plot involves Sonny Shine (Christopher Fitzgerald) trying to put on an Eggs-tacular Easter Special by blackmailing head of network Kap Gostynski, Meanwhile, in prison, "Blue" Scaramucci (Ritchie Coster) battles for possession of his body with a demon named Orcus; and  sociopath Smoothie (Patrick Fischler) wants revenge on everyone, and plans to have Hailey (Bryce Lorenzo) the daughter of Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni) and Amanda Hansen (Medina Senghore), murder Sonny live on TV.

Although this sounds like it could be the plot of a regular cops, crooks and celebrities drama, let's not forget that this is based on a comic strip by Grant Morrison, who is also an executive producer and co-developer of the TV series. The 4-issue mini-series has become an 18-episode, 2 season series that is not for the fainthearted.

Front and centre is Meloni, who looks like he's having a whale of a time after 12 seasons of playing it straight in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (1999-2011). As former alcoholic ex-cop/hitman Nick Sax, he's just trying to hold his life together for his daughter while the world tries to tear him apart. His ex-wife is pregnant following an encounter with the Wishies, Sonny's alien backing dancers, and he's even fallen out with his daughter's imaginary unicorn, Happy (Patten Oswald). Adding to the shitstorm that is his life, his former partner Meredith (Lili Mironjnick) is obsessed with arresting Sonny and involves former children's entertainer Dayglo Doug (Curtis Armstrong) in her schemes.

This is the end of Happy!, after only two seasons, but maybe its for the best. Grotesque levels of violence are fun only for a while. As it stands, the 18 episodes tell a story that has a satisfying conclusion and I'd prefer to see the show end on a high rather than go through the motions of another ultra-violent season.

Mel and I have also been watching a few other shows that deserve a mention. Star Trek: Discovery season two was excellent, introducing the Enterprise and its crew – including Captain Pike and Mr. Spock – in a plot involving time travel and a rogue AI. There's a lot of science-bollocks explanations of how problems can be solved, which I find annoying – it removes any jeopardy from a situation if you can solve it by reversing the polarity of something and no amount of dashing around, welding bits of wireto circuit boards and watching a clock count down can cover up bad writing.

That said, for the most part it has the right balance of emotional heft and action, slipping up only noticeably on one occasion (expanding the role of a character in an obvious attempt to elicit some reaction when she is killed off). I'm glad to hear there will be a season three. Oh, and the opening credits are the most beautiful on TV at the moment.

What We Do In The Shadows has been utterly delightful. The film was good, but this 10-part series introduced new characters, expanded on some of the movie's ideas and gave them some breathing space. Kayvan Novak, as Nandor the Relentless, leads a small group of vampires sharing a house at Staten Island, his house mates including Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and her husband Laszlo (Matt Berry), and energy vampire Colin Robertson (Mark Proksch), who sucks the energy out of humans by being intensely boring or annoying. Nandor's familiar/slave is Guillermo (Harvey Guillen), who wants to be a vampire but is endlessly passed over.

Bored, dismissive and sometimes jealous of each other, the vampire life in America is not all it cracked up to be. One of the elder vampires, Baron Afanas (Doug Jones) visits, expecting to find the vampire's now rule over America, leading Nandor to suggest am alliance with another group of vampires. This notion falls apart due to a cursed hat and the accidental death of Baron Afanas.

Some of the funniest moments involve animal control and the meeting of the Vampiric Council, but there isn't a duff episode amongst the ten. A second season has already been announced as due out next year.

But before that, there's a second series of another What We Do In The Shadows spin-off, Wellington Paranormal, due this year. It features a couple of ordinary New Zealand cops, Officers Minogue and O'Leary of the Paranormal Unit, and their encounters with spooks, the possessed and zombies on the streets of Wellington. The 6-episode first series is well worth a watch, if you can find it.

Commando 5235-5238

Brand new Commando issues #5235 – 5258 are out today! From secret messages to Douglas Boston bombers, from Nazi rail guns to a booby-trapped Lee Enfield – these issues have it all!

5235: The Message

Get ready for a rip-roaring adventure as Joe Capshaw is chased across enemy territory by the maniacal SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Weber. Shortly after a British agent relays important information to Joe, he knows he’s got to escape from the prisoner of war camp he’s being held in. With help from the infamous ‘Bakerloo Line’, will he deliver the message — or will it all end in disaster?

Story: Heath Ackley
Art: Carlos Pino
Cover: Carlos Pino

5236: Bombs Away!

The artistic duo of Gordon C Livingstone and Ian Kennedy combine talents for ‘Bombs Away!’, a marvellous RAF story. As recruits flying Avro Ansons, Ted Whitaker’s dislike for Simon Naylor was immediate. Where Ted was calm and collected, Naylor played it fast and loose with his life and that of his crews. When they went their separate ways, Ted hoped never to see Naylor ever again — but fate had something else in store for the hated allies.

Story: Staff
Art: Gordon C Livingstone
Cover: Ian Kennedy
Originally Commando No. 662 (1972).

5237: Ramsey’s Raiders: Off The Rails

The Raiders return for another raucous mission – but what’s this? Where’s the big man himself? Surely it can’t be ‘Ramsey’s Raiders’ without Ramsey?! Without Jimmy the whole thing just might fall apart! But not if Ramsey’s second in command, Lieutenant Tex Hall, has anything to do with it! He’s going to make sure the mission stays on track no matter what the Germans — or the uncooperative Sergeant Derek Jarvis throw at him!

Story: Ferg Handley
Art: Keith Page
Cover:Ian Kennedy

5238: Trigger Trap

It may look like a normal Lee Enfield rifle — but this one has a little secret; it’s a time bomb. Clogged with a plug of hardened clag in its muzzle, it’s just waiting for the right — or wrong — person to pull the trigger. Passed from hand to hand, this deadly weapon is a Trigger Trap just waiting to happen!

Story: CG Walker
Art: Wright
Cover: Ian Kennedy
Originally Commando No. 1558 (1981).

The Men Who Drew For Boys (And Girls)

Regular readers at Bear Alley will have no need of introductions when it comes to Robert J. Kirkpatrick's astonishingly detailed essays about long-forgotten artists. As the host of many of them, I'm unashamedly biased when it comes to his latest book, which has the kind of title that tries to explain the raison d'etre behind the contents, but which you might not be able to take in in a single glance.

The Men Who Drew For Boys (And Girls): 101 Forgotten Illustrators of Children's Books 1844-1970 (phew!) runs to 544 pages, the B5 format (176 x 250 mm) larger than the more common trade paperback size by about an inch in both width and height. I wouldn't want to guess at the total wordage, as each essay is accompanied by an extensive bibliography of books illustrated, but there are plenty of pictures to break up the text and the breadth of the page allows for a nice font size, making reading easier on the eye.

With 101 artists biographies contained in its pages, I'm not about to list them all. In this instance I'm fortunate enough to be able to say, that a scroll down the pages of Bear Alley will turn up plenty of examples. However, it is important to note that many of the essays have been tweaked since their original appearance, with additional information and lengthier bibliographies. Some appeared elsewhere (e.g. Archibald Webb, the two John Campbells), and will be new to readers here.

The subtitle implies that these are forgotten artists, although that is not true of all 101 – C.E. and H.M. Brock, William illustrator Thomas Henry and war and western artist Stanley L. Wood, to take just a few examples. In some instances, you may not recognise the name, but you will know some of their work, e.g. Savile Lumley, the artist of the famous 'Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?' poster. The bulk, however, will only be recognised by ardent collectors of old boys' and girls' books.

The artists are listed in alphabetical order, but range in era from John Absolon, whose career began in the 1840s, to Jennings illustrator D. L. Mays, whose last appearance was in 1970. During the intervening 130 years, there are a wealth of stories, some of artists who worked steadily and successfully for decades before retiring (Paul Hardy even received a civil pension), others featuring artists who struggled with poverty or serious injury (Harold J. Earnshaw, for instance, who had his arm blown off by a shell during the Great War).

Each essay explores the work of the artist with a wealth of background information, most of it revealed for the first time, and I can recommend the book to anyone with an interest in collectable old boys' (and girls') books and wants to know more about the artists who illustrated them.

The Men Who Drew For Boys (And Girls): 101 Forgotten Illustrators of Children's Books 1844-1970 by Robert J. Kirkpatrick.
Robert J. Kirkpatrick ISBN 978-1796-82098-0, June 2019, 544pp, £25.00. Available via Amazon.

Rebellion Releases (2000AD)

Rebellion releases for 12-13 June 2019.

2000AD Prog 2135
Cover: Simon Davis

Cult survivor Avril Eason and journalist Seema Chaudry heads back to the village of Harrowvale to investigate the lingering myth of the titular woodland deity, in a nerve-jangling, atmospheric thriller debuting in 2000AD Prog 2135. It's a brand new series that will make you think twice about taking that shortcut home through the trees...

 JUDGE DREDD: TECHNOPHOBES by Rory McConville (w) Inaki Miranda (a) Eva De La Cruz (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
SCARLET TRACES: HOME FRONT by Ian Edginton (w) D'Israeli (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
THISTLEBONE by TC Eglington (w) Simon Davis (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
KINGMAKER: OUROBOROS by Ian Edginton (w) Leigh Gallagher (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

The Leopard From Lime St. Volume 2 by Tom Tully, Mike Western & Eric Bradbury
Rebellion 978-1781-08678-0, 12 June 2019, 184pp, £14.99. Available via Amazon.

The ‘UK’s answer to Spider-Man’ returns in the second collection of this long lost classic from the hugely popular and long running Buster comic. After being scratched by a radioactive leopard, Billy Farmer discovered that he had somehow developed the powers of the mighty jungle cat. Life is getting tougher for Selbridge’s premier crime-fighter. The criminals are getting tougher, his the local newspaper editor is out for his blood and now his new leopard skin costume is turning him into a savage beast! To make matters worse, a girl from his school suspects his true identity! Is this the end for the Leopard from Lime Street…?

Chopper: Wandering Spirit by David Baillie, Rob Williams, Al Ewing, Tom Eglington & Brendan McCarthy
Rebellion 978-1781-08723-7, 12 June 2019, 100pp, £14.99. Available via Amazon.

The Oz Radback, 2140 AD. Legendary Mega-city skysurfer Marlon Shakespeare has retired to Oz, where he has been living a trouble-free life. But when he goes in pursuit of the mutants that kidnapped his friend Wally during a radstorm, the ageing skysurfer gets far more trouble than he bargained for! This book collects the latest adventure of Mega-City One's greatest skysurfer as well as several Judge Dredd stories also featuring the vibrant psychedelic art of Brendan McCarthy.

Leopard From Lime St. Volume 2

Originally published between June 1977 and July 1978, these six stories continue the adventures of the Leopard from Lime Street in a second volume of reprints from the pages of Buster. There's not much back story to catch up on if you missed the first volume, and that's neatly summarized in the opening panel:

After being scratched by a radioactive leopard, 13-year-old Billy Farmer found that he had somehow developed the strength and agility of the mighty jungle cat, and the ability to lick his own anus.

I may have made that last bit up.

Billy was Britain's answer to Peter "Spider-Man" Parker, an orphan living with his aunt Joan and uncle Charlie, the latter a conniving waster always on the look-out to score a quick reward for the little effort as he can muster. As the latest story opens, Charlie has his eye on a £1,000 reward offered by local newspaper owner Thaddeus Clegg and is convinced that Billy will lead him to the lair of the Beast of Selbridge. By coincidence, £1,000 is also the price of a hip operation at a specialist clinic in Austria that Aunt Joan needs in order to walk properly again.

The publicity attracts a chancer by the name of Bert Flanagan who own a run-down travelling fun-fair. He wants the Leopard as a sideshow attraction and, captured, Billy finds himself on exhibition behind bars at Campbell's Circus.

It's surprising that Uncle Charlie doesn't twig that Billy is the Leopard. It takes only one glance for new girl Debra Stevens to realise that there's something strange about Billy, a natural athlete who runs scared of doing athletics. (Two firemen find it suspicious that he calls a cat a "friend" when Billy has only just met the cat... that's the level of suspicion the Beast has caused in Selbridge!)

Over the coming weeks, Billy is catnapped by an eccentric millionaire, tracks down an escaped leopard ahead of a hunting party, struggles to control violent urges when he dons a new leopard costume, is blamed for a series of muggings in the local area, goes ghost hunting at a haunted cinema and foils a gang of would-be bank robbers.

Billy's acrobatic and action-packed adventures were penned by one of Britain's best scriptwriters, Tom Tully, who knew just how to keep his audience on the edge of their seat and anticipating next week's exciting installment. Combined with artwork by the twin talents of Mike Western penciling and Eric Bradbury inking, and you'll soon be swept along by Billy's efforts to help his aunt, avoid being bullied at school and by his uncle, and do right by the unappreciative citizens of Selbridge. The Leopard From Lime St. ran for almost a decade, so there are plenty of other stories waiting to be re-told in further volumes. Fingers crossed.

The Leopard From Lime St. by Tom Tully, Mike Western & Eric Bradbury. Rebellion Publishing ISBN 978-1781-08678-0, 13 June 2019, £14.99. Available via Amazon.

SF Masterworks cover gallery part 1 (1-25)

1  The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Millennium 1857-98808-6, (Jan) 1999, 254pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore
---- [4th imp.] 2000
Gollancz

2 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Millennium 1857-98809-4, (Jan) 1999, 160pp, £6.99. Cover by Jim Thiesen (rpts US cover Tor, 1995)
Gollancz

3 Cities in Flight by James Blish
Millennium 1857-98811-6, (Feb) 1999, 605pp, £7.99. Cover by John Harris
Gollancz [5th imp.] Nov 2002, 605pp, £7.99. Cover by John Harris
Gollancz [7th imp.] n.d., 605pp, £7.99. Cover by John Harris

4 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Millennium 1857-98813-2, (Feb) 1999, 210pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore
Gollancz [6th imp.] 2001
Gollancz 978-0575-09418-5, 2010, 193pp, £8.99. Cover based on Chris Moore
Gollancz [9th imp.]

5 The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Millennium 1857-98814-0, 1999, 258pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore
---- [2nd imp.] 1999.
Gollancz 978-0575-09419-2 [9th imp.] 2010, 244pp, £8.99. Cover based on Chris Moore

6 Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Millennium 1857-98805-1, 1999, 193pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore
---- [2nd imp.] 2000
Gollancz

7 Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Millennium 1857-98820-5, (Apr) 1999, 319pp, £6.99. Cover by Fred Gambino
---- [2nd imp.] 1999.
Gollancz

8 The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
Millennium 1857-98817-5, (Apr) 1999, 252pp, £6.99. Cover by Fred Gambino
Gollancz

9 Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Millennium 1857-98818-3, (May) 1999, 313pp, £6.99. Cover by Boris Vallejo
Gollancz 978-0575-09423-9, 2010, 279pp, £7.99. Cover based on Boris Vallejo

10 The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith
Millennium 1857-98849-1, 1999, 377pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore

11 Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Millennium 1857-98806-X, 1999, 307pp, £6.99. Cover by Les Edwards

12 Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Millennium 1857-98821-3, 1999, 312pp, £6.99. Cover by Les Edwards
Gollancz

13 Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
Millennium 1857-98837-X, (Jul) 1999, 226pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore

14 The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Millennium 1857-98822-1, (Jul) 1999, 250pp, £6.99. Cover by Jim Burns
Gollancz [3rd imp.] 2001, 250pp, £6.99. Cover by Jim Burns
Gollancz

15 Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Millennium 1857-99836-?, (Aug) 1999, 650pp. Cover by Jim Burns
Gollancz 978-1857-99836-9 [9th imp.], 650pp, £8.99.

16 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Millennium 1857-98882-5, (Aug) 1999, 318pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore
---- [2nd imp.] 2000.
Gollancz

17 The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
Millennium 1857-98883-3, (Sep) 1999, 175pp, £6.99. Cover by Jim Burns
Gollancz [3rd imp.], 2001, 175pp, £6.99. Cover by Jim Burns

18 The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Millennium 1857-98884-1, 1999, 224pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore
Gollancz 978-1875-98884-0, 2004, 224pp, £7.99. Adapted from Chris Moore
---- [16th imp.]

19 Emphyrio by Jack Vance
Millennium 1857-98885-X, (Oct) 1999, 208pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore

20 A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Millennium 1857098847-7, 1999, 217pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore

21 Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Millennium 1857-98807-8, (Nov) 1999, 272pp, £6.99. Cover by Les Edwards

22 Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
Millennium 1857-98848-5, 1999, 124pp, £6.99. Cover by Jim Burns

23 The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
Millennium 1857-98814-7, (Dec) 1999, 222pp, £6.99. Cover by Jim Burns
Gollancz [3rd imp.] Aug 2001, 222pp, £6.99. Cover by Jim Burns

24 The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Millennium 1857-98887-6, (Dec) 1999, 274pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore
Gollancz [3rd imp.] 2001, 274pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore

25 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Millennium 1857-98938-0, 2000, 216pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore
Gollancz [11th imp.] 2002, 216pp, £6.99. Cover by Chris Moore