The Universe Maker

Startling Stories, January 1950. First appearence of this story as "The Shadow Men".

Pocket Books, 1979. Cover by Jerome Podwil.

Ace double, first edition published in 1953. Cover by Paul Orban.

Ace, 1974. Cover art by Burt Forbes.

Lieutenant Morton Cargill was brought from the past to be punished for his crime, an accidental murder that took place centuries before. Now he is in a world ruled by the Shadows, an evil people who can pass through solid walls and remain untouched by weapons. But the Shadows are being threatened by the Planiacs, a celestial race that lives high above the earth and to whom the preservation of Cargill's life means their own existence.
Now Cargill is hunted by one race, held captive by the other, caught in a deadly clash of minds and machines- in a terrifying world where he doesn't know the rules!

J'Ai Lu.

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1976, jacket design by David Hardy.

Ace, 1974.

Another J'Ai Lu edition.

Sphere, 1981.

Urania, 1958. More here.

Urania, 1969. More here.

J'ai Lu, 1974.