R Mason: 57 books

When the Roman peace was a memory and the Conqueror's peace a distant murmur, the land was in limbo. There was an uneasy calm and the jackals were in. It was a waiting time, with a swirl of undercurrents and secret power moves. There was space enough, as ever, for a man and a woman to make a life....

Cassiopia Cassell's IQ had tested at the genius level on more than one occasion. When tragedy strikes, her genius is suddenly driven by love, making her seem almost like a super hero. But in the strange and dangerous dimension called Dreamland, even super powers may not be enough.

Cassiopia Cassell’s high IQ had always been too much for the men she’d dated. But now her beloved father was missing, and the only way to rescue him required she retain the services of a man with special abilities, a man she did not care for, and one she would have to convince to accompany her through an unexplained portal that led to dangers beyond imagination.

In the troubled politics of the Rim, the Inter Galactic Organisation's peace-keeping force had a hard row to hoe. Adam Dalton, trading in and out of Outer Galactic Alliance space in his small starship had a clearer view than most of the problems. When asked to revert to I.G.O. service to pull an...

Mike Finnigan was a natural-born trouble-maker. This put him very much at odds with his world for a starter. Because his world was geared not to allow trouble for its inhabitants. Specifically, humans wore a built-in wristband which monitored their emotional state at all times. Came trouble, and...

Paradise City had come of age in its own right. Complexity born of complexity had given it a mind of its own, which could be served well enough by the androids who had been created to relieve the inhabitants of the boring routines of admin. Now the time was ripe for the human element to be phased...

What is BAZOZZ ZZZ DZZ? The answer--a collection of bizarre, disturbing, out of this world short stories written by one of the most influential SF writers of the last forty years. Stories where the hero doesn't always get the girl! This collection of stories first appeared in the classic American and British SF magazines of the 60's and 70's--the Golden Age of SF.

Gunnar Holt was different. He was a throwback, head and shoulders taller than his fellow humans on Horizon Delta. For a long time it had kept him out of trouble with the androids, programmed to control those of shorter dimensions. It meant that Gunnar could roam at will, pretty much; and he was curious....

Dave Pitman was at rock bottom in emotional stasis. After a gruelling mission, that left his ship in a heap of charred ash, he took the co-pilot slot in the I.G.O. frigate Diomed to fill time that no longer meant anything to him. He was on search and destroy mission--mopping up the remnants of the...

There was no hiding place in Carthage either physically or mentally. And the power crisis didn't help the situation. The monitoring complex had a big reserve setup, but the authorities were making stringent economies right now. Every last watt had to accounted for and the president had to have his...

Violence breeds violence. A chain reaction. An ever widening circle of inevitable cause and effect. As an observer, in one of the small communities in a desert of ash left by a new wave of volcanic disturbance, Boyd Lassen could condemn it. But events pushed him into accepting the attitudes of mind...

Russ Playfer tangled with the Establishment when he criticised computer justice. He was in trouble again when he intervened in a move to assassinate Debra Gilbert--a personable experimental psychologist. He had a hard row to hoe, but, aided by a plump Welsh stripper and a stranded sailor, he stood...

Bauchman was a small god in his own way--the richest man of the richest planet the worlds had ever known. Certainly he had a great deal of power--and he used it wisely. After all, there was that research sphere, presumably serving mankind. Or if not mankind, whom? Bauchman, of course. But what could...

Search of an identity had more problems for Dr. Mark Brant than for most. Programmed at a deep level as an agent and then talked into accepting a dangerous mission, which on the surface level he knew he was being two-faced even to himself. The double-headed symbol of Lados might have been coined...