The Time-Swept City

The Time-Swept City by Thomas F. Monteleone
Popular Library, 1977
Price I paid: $1

ETERNAL CHICAGO
built to serve man and now seeking mastery of man
ETERNAL CHICAGO
evolving like a live organism over the milleniums toward the zenith of monstrous perfection
ETERNAL CHICAGO
flourishing behind its force fields as disaster ravishes the globe—and voyagers from space vanish among the stars
ETERNAL CHICAGO
the ultimate battleground between human and extrahuman power—where the future of earth and the universe will be decided

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Cinnabar

Cinnabar by Edward Bryant
Bantam Books, 1977
Price I paid: 50¢

To experience the magic of Cinnabar…
use this book as your map.

Here are some of your traveling companions:
Tourmaline Hayes, Network sex star.
Obregon, the star scientist of the anti-city
Leah Sand, melancholy media artist.
Jade Blue, the computer-womb-born catmother.
Cougar Lou Landis, once a pudgy kid, now the last hero.
Sidhe, the great white shark that sprang from oceans 350 million years deep!

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Element 79

Element 79 by Fred Hoyle
Signet Books, 1968
Price I paid: none

Earthlings are dominated by the Devil, manipulated by Martians, headed for extinction at the hands of nonhumans…a horror-scope of the future, masterminded by one of the foremost astronomers of our time.

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