Sci-Fi/UFO

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  • Battletech Universe 21. Melissa Steiner's assassination ignited the fire of civil war and now secessionist factions clamour for rebellion against the Federal Governments.  The rebels' plans hinge on gaining control of the Skye March, thus controlling the crucial Terran corridor. The final piece of the plan requires the rebels to gain access to the planet Glengarry and the mercenary Gray Death Legion.  When Prince Davion summons Grayson Death Carlyle and his wife Lori to the Federated Government capital, the rebel force seize the chance to establish a garrison on Glengarry - but the rebels didn't expect the legion's newest members to take matters into their own hands. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. Illustrations by Rick Harris and FASA.
  • Trouble has come to Clarke County in the shape of Macy Westmoreland, gangster's moll on the run from the Mafia.  She's followed by the Golem, the ultimate killing machine, and Macy's his latest contract.  More than enough problems for John Bigthorn - sheriff by day and shaman by night.  He knew better than to mess with Jenny Schorr, wife of the leader of the 'New Ark' cult. So why did he? Add to that a ghost in the machine that thinks it's Bob Dylan, and a reincarnation of Elvis Presley,  and you could be in New York on a typical day.  Except that Clarke County is 200,000 miles from Earth, and someone's just launched a nuclear missile at it. Cover art by Julian Baum.
  • Book II of The Commonwealth Saga. After hundreds of years secretly manipulating the human race, the Starflyer alien has succeeded in engineering a war which should result in the destruction of the Intersolar Commonwealth. Now, thanks to Chief Investigator Paula Myo, the Commonwealth's political elite finally acknowledge the Starflyer's existence, and put together an unlikely partnership to track down this enegmatic and terrifying alien before it can cause any more damage. The invasion from Dyson Alpha continues with dozens of Commonwealth worlds falling to the enemy. The Commonwealth navy fights back with what it believes to be war-winning superweapons, only to find that the alien fleet has been given equally powerful weapons. How the aliens got them and why the weapons are so similar is the question which haunts Admiral Kime. Could it be that the Commonwealth's top-secret defence project has been compromised by the Starflyer's agents, or is the truth even worse?  For Mark Vernon, mechanic and general repairman extraordinaire, it appears he's landed on his feet when he finds the perfect job on the most secure world in the Commonwealth. He and his family will never be in danger again now he's helping to build the starships that will evacuate the ultra-rich should the war be lost. Until one day when Nigel Sheldon arrives to ask him a small favour. You don't say no to the man who created the Commonwealth. But the problem with small favours is the way they tend to grow...With the war going badly and the Starflyer's treachery threatening the very heart of the Commonwealth, only the alien's destruction can turn the tide. Cover art by Jim Burns.
  • Danny Hawkins is  a bright lad who wants to grow up to be a scientist like his father, who died in an accident in space. But Danny is a victim of polio and lives a restricted life with his mother in a remote corner on Earth. One day eminent scientist Samuel Gob;e arrives at Danny's home to recruit him to join a special scientific exploration on Triton, one of Neptune's moons. The team will be a small group of gifted children who will be transformed by matter transmission into creatures capable of surviving the crushing gravity and poisonous atmosphere of Neptune's surface. Transformed, Danny will never miss the use of his arms and legs - Goble says that he will be the same as all the others. And this top secret mission, in its early project stage, was the one that claimed Danny's father's life. They are to explore the planet Neptune and try and establish contact with an alien race that seems to be  colonising the planet.   Cover art by Bob Walters.
  • Danny Caiden thought of himself as a normal guy, no special talents - just leading an ordinary and uneventful life. Until he suddenly realises he can see into the future. Before he knows it, he's developed a dozen more alarming powers, lost his job, run afoul of the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department and the Mob... and  found himself at the centre of a shattering, psychic struggle for the future of humanity. Cover art by Chris Foss.
  • Thirty years ago the Empire of humans found, investigated and decided to use a blockade of space ships to prevent the spread of an alien culture called the Moties, who inhabited a single star system and were only just discovering faster-than-light travel. Now, because of a change in the stellar neighbourhood, the Moties will be able to leave their home system and spread across the galaxy, which will be bad for mankind because they combine great ingenuity with rapid and unstoppable population increase. Horace Bury, a wealthy trader, and his pilot Kevin renner (who is actually a serving member of the Imperial Space Navy) have spent the last thirty years travelling the Empire checking that no Moties have escaped; now they return to the Motie system to try to prevent the expected breakout. Their only real weapon is a symbiotic worm which can stop the continuous cycle of population increase that has caused so many problems. As soon as they enter the Motie system they are taken prisoner. Their plans have to be revised to find a solution that will be acceptable to both the Empire and the Moties. Cover art by John Harris.

  • The War of the Worlds: Regarded as one of the first and greatest sci-fi novels and written before men had begun to fly, H.G. Wells has the Martians arriving on Earth in huge metal cylinders.  No-one knows what these white-hot cylinders mean, until one begins to open...                A Dream Of Armageddon: A white-faced stranger on a train tells the narrator that his dreams are killing him. He goes on the describe that in the future, he will be a major political figure who gives up his position to live with a younger woman on Capri. He is then approached by an envoy who begs him to resume his old duties as his political successor is going to bring about a war.  What will he chose, even in a dream?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             The Land Ironclads: Originally published in 1903, Well's imagination uncannily conjured a vision of a 100 ft. machine with remote controlled guns and accommodation for 42 soldiers and seven officers. The story is set in a war similar to World War I and gave Wells a reputation as a prophet as the 'Ironclads' seem to anticipate the tanks of WWI. Once again, as in The War of the Worlds he describes a battle between wildly technologically unmatched opponents - one side believes they will win with their horse-riding  abilities, rifle skills and healthy outdoor lifestyle that makes better soldiers than the 'city men' with their science and engineering abilities.
  • Kesbe Temiya was making a special delivery flight millions of miles long.  A collector of rare craft on the planet Oneway had bought a WWII C-47 transport that she'd reconditioned centuries after it was marooned on an iceberg. After the starship dropped her and her cargo on the planet, bad weather of the Barranca Madre canyon forced her down on a plateau far from her destination.  Only with the help of a mysterious figure riding  an alien flying creature could she make an emergency landing. Her rescuer was a member of a long-vanished Pueblo Indian colony which had come to Oneway following the prophecy of the the Blue Star Kachina to live the old ways, away from technology and white man.  Kesbe hereself was of Pueblo blood, but here she was an interloper.  Only by becoming a member of the People of the Sky could she secure their help in getting the Gooney Berg half way across the planet.  This involves a ritual that will strip away her modernity - of it doesn't kill her. Cover art by Maren.
  • Book III of Arbai. Barbaric customs and bizarre human cults are preserved on the planet Elsewhere.  The rest of the Universe has been taken over by the Hobbs Land Gods, which means everyone alive - except the people on Elsewhere - lives in perfect harmony with nature and with each other. But Elsewhere is ruled by computer encrypted professors who have been dead for a thousand years.  The professors were dedicated to maintaining human diversity.  Their ancient analogs are dedicated to something more sinister. The time has come to consider whether enslavement by the Hobbs Land Gods is not preferable to the depravity cultivated on Elsewhere.  The time has come to ask the Big Question: What is the Destiny of Man?  And answer it. Cover art by Mick Posen.