#mark adlard

[science70]

Mark Adlard, Interface, Volteface and Multiface (Orbit editions, 1977).

Cover art: Peter Andrew Jones

[retroscifiart]

Art by Peter Jones for Multiface by Mark Adlard (1977, Orbit / Futura)

[station451]

Spooky 1978 Ace paperback of Volteface by Mark Adlard. I don’t really know much about this obscure series, The Interface Trilogy, but I am digging this skeleton’s attitude. Cover art is by Paul Alexander.

My copy has some kind of writing on it, but I can’t make out most of what it says. This book is definitely an interesting object, and perfect for Halloween!

[70sscifiart]

Mark Adlard

"Adlard’s work, first published in the early 70s, was a harbinger of modern SF’s dystopian approach. His famed T-City trilogy – Interface, Voltface, and Multiface – centers on a powerful, dehumanizing corporation, and those it inevitably crushes. He isn’t known for any works before or after, so his series functions as an intriguing look at 1970s anti-establishmentarianism." 

Asimov to Zelazny: The Science Fiction Author Manual

[hugonebula]

"It must be ten years now since newspapers first reported a new style of training shoe successfully launched in the U.S.A. The Mall Walker is popular with older people as it has a better grip on the tiled floors of the huge shopping malls where so many of these people now spend their time. The malls' air-conditioned ambience varies across the country - cool in the south, warm in the colder north - but provides perfect combined opportunities for shopping and exercise. Sensible people are improving their social life and extending their vitality by joining mall walking clubs. The clubs' membership is increasing every week, L. L. Bean's catalogue seems to offer a wider range of mall shoes in every issue and I've seen the signs at the mall entrances in Massachussetts announcing the times that the clubs will meet to walk.

"Mark Adlard's 'Interface' or 'Tcity' trilogy, published in the early '70s, saw that specific thing happening, among many others..."