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Inferno, a novel by Larry Niven about a Science Fiction writer's walk through Hell,
was the first hardback Science Fiction book cover the Artist created,
(for W.H. Allen Publishers in 1977 in London) and it then appeared on
subsequent paperback editions around the world. It also led on to other
work with the paperback division of W.H. Allen.The
events are etched in the mind of the Artist because of a chance meeting with a
Dalek and a meeting in an unusual Art Director's office . . . . . . . . 
"W.H.
Allen had a grand set of offices just off London's Park Lane and
amongst its various endevours was the publication of the Doctor Who
paperback tie-ins to the TV Series. Outside the entrance to the
publisher's office, at the top of the steps down to the street, stood a
Dalek. Silver. Black orbs on its sides. Shiny. It felt strange to
actually see one in physical form rather than two-dimensional on the TV
screen. As I walked down the steps (marble ones
that did not rattle or reverberate with footfall) the Dalek's eye probe
dropped down and glared after me - intimidating! "After
aa few months, the new paperback imprint, Star Books, needed "cover treatment
extablishment" and the equally new Art Director phoned to ask me to
"come over and see me at the paperback division" and duly gave me
another upmarket address. "When I arrived I could not find the door to "the office" - because there wasn't one! Puzzled
by being confronted by a corrugated garage door and nothing else I
wondered what to do next. While wondering, suddenly, the door flew
upwards and inside was a very large and quite dark garage with concrete floor and
nothing else much, except, a desk with an anglepoise lamp on it."Hello. Sorry about the office. We're expanding, and we haven't had time to sort an office yet".Actually,
Peter knew the Art Director from a previous company he'd worked at and
so a good laugh was had all round and a goodly number of cover design
jobs followed . . . . . . . . 
See it in this
Collector's Edition book
