These are swiftly told and energetic, but they do not press against the routine demands of the form. Under his own name he remains best known for a series of paperback Space Operas featuring Simon Rack and his Galactic Security Service Comrades, which begins in a Ruined Earth about 500 years hence but soon shifts to the stars: Earth Lies Sleeping ( 1974 vt Simon Rack: Earth Lies Sleeping 1974), War on Aleph ( 1974 vt Simon Rack: Starcross 1974), The Rack Series: Backflash ( 1975), The Rack Series: Planet of the Blind ( 1975) and Simon Rack: New Life for Old ( 1975). As James he began publishing sf with "And Dug the Dog a Tomb" for New Worlds Quarterly 3 (anth 1972) edited by Michael Moorcock, an sf development of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (trans 1954).
Over one four-year period he averaged about a book a month. (1942-2000) UK paperbacks editor in the early 1970s and then author active under his own name and under at least nine pseudonyms and house names, including James Axler, James Barton, James Darke, Richard Haigh, William James, John M McLaglen, James McPhee, James W Marvin, Jonathan May, Christopher Molan, Klaus Netzen, Mick Norman and some further house names for non-fantastic work, including James Frazier, Neil Langholm and Andrew Quiller, all of which he shared with Kenneth Bulmer his non-sf or fantasy output spread over various genres including Westerns, thrillers, historical romances and soft-core pornography.
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