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Cover art: Jack Gaughan
Blurb: “
ARMAGEDDON IS TONIGHT AT TWELVE!
You might have thought that the Fiesta of the Holy Hermit in the Mexican town of Los Remedios was just another of those quaint colorful ceremonies that the Indian natives put on each year for the mystification of tourists. And perhaps for the past few hundred years it had been nothing more than that-but this year was to be different.
For Jacob Clay, the American expatriate, had been poking into the buried secrets of that mountain community which dated back before the Aztec Empire, and he had begun to entertain a shocking suspicion. Before that fiesta was over he was due to learn the volcanic reality behind:
The Holy Hermit-a mummy that was not a mummy •..
Tlaloc-a statue that was not just a thing of stone ...
Huitzilopochtli-a legend that was stark realism . . • And what started as a holiday turned into a nightmare on which pivoted the fates of the very stars themselves!”
Other Blurb: CAPTIVE PLANET
Flashing across his viewscreen, an iridescent image was Jeremy Thorpe's first glimpse of the Vegans, the mysterious infiltrators of Earth's galactic sector, bent upon a seemingly mindless determination to eliminate the men of Earth.
That first glimpse was very nearly his last when.
Jeremy's ship Quest was almost instantly plunged into the cehrer of a holocaust of heat-beams and fragmentation bombs.
Jeremy and the two other survivors of Quest escaped with their lives only to find themselves stranded on the shores of a Vega-occupied planet. And in order to survive they had to discover that the key to Vega lay in the strange magic of a race that seemed to consist entirely of the opposite sex.“