R Mason: 57 books

Rick Massey, newly-appointed as executive on the space freighter Zenobia, finds that there are more than simple navigational problems ahead. The ship is carrying the daughter of the fabulously powerful chairman of a commercial empire as his representative in a very delicate piece of trade negotiation....

After millennia of probing into the galaxy, the long retreat had begun. Centaur was a temporary plug in the dyke that kept out the flood of marauding extra-terrestrials. But her crew of two had their own problem when the Time Beacons began to fail. Still, life has to be lived out, wherever or whenever...

Once upon a future century, a young man with both feet firmly planted on the ladder of Establishment success discovered that the powers that be - the powers he served--were plotting to lock the planet into a suicidal course for their own profit. For the earth was in the same condition as Phaeton's...

Visiting a scene of his childhood Mark Savage was minding his own business and soaking up what nostalgia could be found on the automated landscape. When Barbara Lisle appeared at his elbow, barefoot and in an operating shift he was off on a sequence as bizarre as any he had followed as a top security hand in European Space.

The Museum was not very popular. After all, who wanted to see what life had been like in the old days? When people got bent and stiff with age (ghastly) and kids had diseases. (That's what they called it when you were ill.) Of course you knew the living, moving recreation of scenes from ancient life...

For many centuries, Earth Planet had been under observation from the dying world of Typhon. There was nothing the Typhonians did not know about its physical properties and the life style of its people. From where they stood, they reckoned it was gift-wrapped as a new home for their ancient race....

Chris Pitman's liked his aged American convertible. He knew he was taking a risk running it along country lanes, but he wanted to avoid the motorway. Minding his own business, he became entangled in a scene which is played out every day in all corners of the planet--a hill, a fast sports job, another...

In the wasteland of thirteenth century Wirral, Wallasey, the old Island of Strangers, was a forgotten corner of a struggling kingdom. Some liked it that way. Safe, out of reach of the King's law. A tough-minded man like Sir Guy of Barndon could run his affairs in any way he chose. If he believed...

There has been a great advance in the understanding of processes of meta­ morphism and of metamorphic rocks since the last edition of this book appeared. Methods for determining temperatures and pressures have become almost routine, and there is a wide appreciation that there is not a single temperature...

Kalais had his day carefully planned out. For once, he was determined not to let any distractions get in the way. Everything was going well, until a girl appeared on Lupercal's link platform. First impressions were all good; she was beautiful, liked trees, plants, seemed to like him. Although, for...

The Kronos Factor. Cappella knew something didn't quite add up the second she opened Ion's invitation for a 'chat'. Despite all the warnings, she decided to accept. It was clear this meeting wasn't going to be easy, she had even prepared herself for a full-scale row. But from the moment she arrived,...

Nothing much had happened in the five years since the war with Chaos. They had won, just, but their homeworld had been the price--placed into stasis to prevent any repetition. Self-exiled to Earth, only a few of the survivors could now make the transformation back into the physical world and that...

The makeshift camp with its collection of sleeping pods was now the sum total of the Olympus civilisation, if you could call it that. They had reclaimed their homeworld, but the battle with the Oneiroi had left its scars, not least on the planet itself. But then they did have one positive--Aura....

Deep in the meat of the galaxy, Asteroid H730 continued its wandering journey. The crew of Astra One had prepared for an eight year piggyback ride around the solar system, but this was now the new reality. There was no way back and they all knew it, got on with it. It had been a big ask from the off,...