Search Worlds Without End

First there was Della, the woman who wanted . . . love? She did not - could not - know, for where love should have been was emptiness. Then came the Poet, who wanted only to please, but did not know how. His every effort was rejected - but he could not stop trying. Rogers was the completion, the part above all other parts that made the whole. And then there was Archer - and the thing in his brain . . .

originally published under the pseudonym K. M. O'Donnell

Final War and Other Fantasies

Barry Malzberg's first collection, published under the pseudonym "K. M. O'Donnell", and including the stories:

• Final War - (1968)
• Death to the Keeper - (1968)
• A Triptych - (1969)
• How I Take Their Measure - (1969)
• Oaten - (1968)
• The Ascension - (1969)
• The Major Incitement to Riot - (1969)
• Cop-Out - (1968)
• We're Coming Through the Window - (1967)
• The Market in Aliens - (1968)
• By Right of Succession - (1969)

Treasure of Tau Ceti

Think unearthly - and the world's wisdom is yours.

In the Pocket and Other S-F Stories

Malzberg's second collection, published under the J. K. O'Donnell pseudonym used for his early work.

Contents:

• In the Pocket - (1970)
• Gehenna - (1971)
• Ah, Fair Uranus - (1971)
• Notes Just Prior to the Fall - (1970)
• As Between Generations - (1970)
• The Falcon and the Falconeer - (1969)
• July 24, 1970 - (1969)
• Pacem Est - (1970) - with Kris Neville
• The New Rappacini - (1970)
• Bat - (1971)
• A Question of Slant - (1971)
• What Time Was That? - (1969)
• A Soulsong to the Sad, Silly, Soaring Sixties - (1971)
• Addendum - (1971)
• The Idea - (1971)

Gather in the Hall of the Planets

Science fiction writer Sanford Kvass has a problem. Three problems, actually. He's suffering from terrible writer's block and owes his agent a large sum of money. The last thing he needs is the approaching distraction of the World Science Fiction Convention, with it's obsessive fans, sex-mad SF groupies and professional writers and editors getting drunk and behaving badly. But we said 'three problems', didn't we? The best that can be said about Sanford Kvass' third problem is that it renders his first two irrelevant.

Kvass is approached by an alien (a genuine alien, not a cosplay one) who informs him that the human race is to be tested: an alien will appear at the World Science Fiction Convention, disguised as a human being, and unless Kvass can unmask it, the Earth will be destroyed. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't present much of a challenge. All he'd have to do, is to observe as many people as he could and identify the one who clearly had no experience of normal social interaction. Voila! One unmasked alien. There's just one problem: this is Worldcon...

The Gates of Time

The last Earthman vs. the Empire that died before Earth was born.

Dwellers of the Deep

What! A science fiction novel about science fiction fans? And why not? Or - like it says in this novel: "Do you really think that a group of science fiction fans could save this planet? Could understand this situation to save it?" "I most certainly do," she says. "Who else?" Who else, indeed? Not since Frederic Brown's "What Mad Universe" has there been a novel like this.