Stephen King
THE DARK TOWER 1: The Gunslinger
As the world moved on, he followed for a nameless time. Naked between the unforgiving sun and the sterile sand, blind in the bowels of the mountains where no light penetrates, shadowed by dangers both magic and physical, the gunslinger moved steadily on his destined path.
For beyond the hazards on the way - the crazed seer, the speaking demon, the slow mutants, the undead boy, and yet stranger sorceries - he would hear, on the night that was ten years long, of the dark Tower. Nexus of Time and Space, the tower where he would one day come, winding his horn for some unimaginable final battle.
224 pages trade paperback (Sphere, 1988)
Condition: has faded page edges and owner's signature

THE DARK TOWER 2: The Drawing of the Threer
The gunslinger came alone to the endless shore of the Western sea, his path foretold by the Man in Black. Here to find, amid the mindless menace of the flesh-eating lobstrosities, the doorways between void and void through which he must draw the three.
Three from our world, drawn into the world moved on: the prisoner, trapped between dread and desire; the Lady of Shadows, who herself is three; the Pusher, instrument of death and salvation. Together they are sanctuary in physical extemity, weakness in the time of strength, love in damnation - until Roland is no longer the last gunslinger, but one of the last three, who will sing their names from the Dark Tower.
399 pages trade paperback (Sphere, 1989)
Condition: has faded page edges and owner's signature

Anne McCaffrey
DINOSAUR PLANET (2 vols)
On earth they had died out 70 millions years ago. But on Ireta they ruled in all their bizarre splendour. The Dinosaurs. Relics from a forgotten age, they roamed a planet as mystifying as any in the galaxy, despite its bland appearance. And the expedition sent to explore it was trapped within its toils as quickly and mysteriously as their relief ship disappeared.
And worse, for the heavyworlders, half the expedition's personnel, reverted to type, and as predatory carnivores systematically hunted down their colleagues. Only the frozen sleep of cryogenics offered an escape. But for how long?
188 pages paperback

SURVIVORS (Dinosaur Planet II)
To escape extermination by their heavyworld colleagues, Kai, varian and their companions sought refuge in the suspended animation of cryogenic sleep. Now time has ellapsed - how much is hard to tell, but at least two generations - and the Survivors emerge from their hibernation.
Ireta, the Dinosaur Planet, is much changed. The heavyworlders have regressed to primitive barbarity. Much necessary life-support equipment has malfunctioned or disappeared. The very face of Ireta had changed.
But help is at hand, a rescue ship is on its way. Even as hope begins to spring, however, new problems arise. What are the motives of the mysterious Theks? Why are the intelligent Giffs, pterodactyls locked in an evolutionary blind alley, acting so strangely? Above all, what possibly could be the cause of the mindless hostility of the heavyworlders?
281 pages paperback