Cradle of the Sun / The Wizards of Senchuria(1969)

Jeff SuttonKenneth Bulmer

Cradle of the Sun:
‘Was the world’s last coward mankind’s final champion?

Call it soul, call it humanity, species-sentience, anything – it was missing. And not only was it gone from mankind, but from man’s ancient enemies, the rats, as well. There was no will to power, no will to live…
Both intelligent species were dying.

The task of saving the world fell to Kavan Lochlain, the last living coward. The only man who cared enough to feel fear, Kavan was afraid of everything. But this fear was going to take him to the Cradle of The Sun, because he was too scared to let anything stop him.

“I haven’t been so struck by the vivid imagery in a book since The Jewels of Aptor or The Dying Earth” – Jack Gaughan’
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The Wizards of Senchuria:
Scobie Redfern was just a nice good-looking American young man who had never heard of such things as Portals, parallel worlds, and Trugs. So when someone materialized in his apartment with the Trugs in hot pursuit, it all seemed sort of a funny game. But there was nothing amusing about it once the monsters themselves arrived.

For it wasn't long before Scobie was himself running for his life from world to world and from Portal to Portal just to keep one jump ahead of the Trugs, and hoping that The Wizards of Senchuria might, just might, be able to get him back home alive and whole!
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Blurbs from the Ace Double 12140 paperback edition.