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Ether Ore: H.C. Turk
$8.00Melody wanted more than anything to be on Marz - but when she got there, there wasn't much to do except dig for ether ore. The only interesting place was the top-secret laboratory where the essence of pure idea was refined. She got her pert little nose too close to the idea-essence and literally faded away. She became a ghost, only to arrive stark naked on a new and different Marz, where primitive farmers greeted her as a witch and gleefully made preparations for burning her at the stake - and then things got complicated! Cover art by Boris Vallejo. -
Area 7: Matthew Reilly
$7.00Area 7: America's most secret Air Force installation, hidden deep in the Utah desert. The President has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he's going to get more than he bargained for - hostile forces are waiting inside...Among the President's helicopter crew is a young Marine: quiet, enigmatic, hiding behind silver sunglasses. His name is Schofield, code name Scarecrow. Rumour has it he's a good ma in a storm. And judging by what the President's just walked into, he'd better be...
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The sudden arrival of the K'Ronarin fleet saved Earth from enslavement to the insectoid biofabs and a new interstellar age has dawned on the planet. John Harrison, hero of the Biofab war, can relax - or can he? Unknown to the Alliance, a few renegade biofabs escaped through a dimensional portal into an alternate universe and they are rebuilding their forces for a counter-strike against humanity - in both universes. Harrison is catapulted into a strange world to discover the location of the biofab nests and burn it out before a new generation hatches. It won't be easy - in this version of Earth, Harrison is a revolutionary on the run from the secret police of the Fourth Reich! Cover art by Alan Gutierrez.
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The world is held in the grip of a second Ice Age, and faces total destruction from rapidly advancing glaciers. Doctor Who, with Victoria and Jamie, lands at a top scientific base in England, where they have just unearthed an ancient Ice Warrior. Can the Doctor overcome these warlike Martians and halt the relentless approach of the ice glaciers? Cover art by Chris Achilleos. -
The Lavalite World is a world of slow and constant change. The very landscape moves. Here, mountains rise from plains or sink into seas. New oceans form as vast hollows collapse and seas rush in. There is only one escape from this bizarre planet: a single gateway to other universes which is in the palace of Lord Urthona. Paul Janus Finnegan - also known as Kickaha - must reach it if he is going to survive. And he must do it despite the Lords Urthona and Red Orc, the hired thug McKay, flesh eating vegetation on the run, assorted strange beasts of prey AND planetary pseudopods. Cover art by Fred Gambino. -
Watson's first short story collection. The title story introduces a time machine which moves backwards through time but only at the same rate as normal time reversed - to travel twenty years into the past takes twenty years. Attempts are made to to communicate with its mad occupant as he grows younger and more sane. Why has he embarked on this journey? Other tales in this volume: Thy Blood Like Milk; Sitting On A Starwood Stool; Agoraphobia AD 2000; Programmed Love Story; The Girl Who Was Art; Our Loves So Truly Meridional; Immune Dreams; My Soul Swims In A Goldfish Bowl; The Roentgen Refugees; A Time-Span To Conjure With; On Cooking The First Hero In pring; The Event Horizon.
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In the hours before dawn, a small Michigan town vanishes from the face of the earth. The people of Two Rivers wake up in a world strangely different from their own: a world of curfews, food rationing and secret police. Something has gone terribly wrong, and it's something to do with the mysterious government facility on the outskirts of town. Schoolteacher Dexter Graham has lost his family and has nothing left that he values; twelve year old Clifford Stockton is driven by a child's curiosity and courage; Evelyn Woodward is torn between obedience to the state and loyalty to her friends; and for physicist Howard Poole, haunted by the memory of his brilliant enigmatic uncle, the only way to escape the nightmare is to journey deeper into fear. Cover art by Ron Wood.
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Nectar Of Heaven: E.C. Tubb
$12.00Book XXIV of Dumarest. The planet had two unique elements: it produced the galaxy's most hallucinatory drug and it was a stockbroker's paradise. Every hour, every minute, rich men's holdings traded on a continuous stock-market. Up and down went values as men conspired to seize each others' properties. The money game controlled everything - the common people, workers, farmers, lives, poverty and luxury. Earl Dumarest went there to find his next stake - the drug-gem, or manipulate the market - but the advisors of the inhuman Cyclan were determined to fix the odds against Dumarest. Cover art by Blas Gallego. -
Featured stories and writers are: The Death of Doctor Island, Gene Wolfe: A mentally disturbed teenage boy is sent to a very high tech rehabilitation center. Part of his therapy is to spend time on a beautiful, almost-deserted, talking island. Shark, Edward Bryant; With Morning Comes Mistfall, George R.R. Martin: Wraithworld, a beautiful planet inhabited by only a few, experiences the daily beauty of of Mistfall. But the beauty of the mist-filled valleys is damaged by the belief in the Wraiths who claim they have killed...The Future of Science - Prometheus, Apollo, Athena, Ben Bova; Of Mist and Grass and Sand, Vonda N. McIntyre: In a post nuclear holocaust world, a young healer whose use of snakes in creating healing venom is misunderstood by those she tries to help. The Deathbird, Harland Ellison: Millions of years ago, 'The Mad One' took possession of the earth. The original creators left behind one member of their race, Dira, to tell humans the truth about their 'God'. As the world now comes to an end, there is only one descendant of Dira left to make the journey to the mountain of 'God' and ask that the Earth be put out of its misery. A Thing of Beauty, Norman Spinrad: In a future depressed and bankrupt America, an antique dealer is approached by a Japanese billionaire who wants to buy the Brooklyn Bridge. Love Is The Plan The Plan Is Death, James Tiptree, Jr: Moggadeet, an intelligent, spider-like creature, decides to resist the violent life-cycle of his species...the lifecycle they call 'The Plan'. The Childhood of the Human Hero, Carol Emshwiller. -
He's three million light years from home. He may be wise and as old as the stars but right now, he needs friends. The secrets of the universe can't help him. He's stranded on Earth: alone, homesick and afraid. Earth is hostile, the police are after him and it seems there's no-one who can help - until he meets the children. To them, he's a magical being from another world. To him, they are friends he will never forget.
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UFO Visitation: Alan Watts
$10.00The author is not only convinced that extra terrestrials are visiting Earth, but that the continued UFO presence over the last 100 years has produced a change in human awareness. In this, the sequel to UFO Quest, he explains how we have been receiving communications from deep space for over twenty years and how, through specific channels and key individuals, messages from a powerful group called the Council of Nine have been received. The messages allegedly contain a wealth of information on the past, present and possible future of the Earth.
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Time: early 27th century. Fifty years earlier, human intervention triggered an ancient alien system designed to warn of the emergence of intelligence. For aeons, the Inhibitors have waited and now the response is on the way. Four hundred years later, Clavain has defected to fight on the side of the Conjoiners, a feared and persecuted human faction dedicated to hive-mind consciousness. Now, in the terminal stages of a brutal interplanetary war, something has struck terror into the Conjoiner Inner Sanctum. As the nature of the threat becomes clear, Clavain wonders if he should defect again. He and a misfit band of allies race to Resurgam, where a long-lost cache of Doomsday weapons has been discovered; he wants the weapons for the good of humanity. But someone else already controls the lost weapons; and Triumvir Volyova has very definite plans of her own. And the weapons themselves aren't exactly lacking in free will....Cover art by Chris Moore.
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The Road To Mars: Eric Idle
$15.00Carlton is an android who works for Alex and Lewis, two twenty-second century comedians who travel the outer vaudeville circuit of the solar system, known ironically as the Road to Mars. His problem, although as a computer he can't understand irony, is that he is attempting to write a thesis about comedy, its place in evolution and whether or not it can be cured. And he's studying the comedians of the late twentieth century - including obscure and esoteric acts such as Monty Python's Flying Circus. Meanwhile, his two employers inadvertently offend the fab diva Brenda Woolley while auditoning for a gig aboard the Princess Di ( a solar cruise ship). This faux pas leads them into a terrorist plot against Mars, home of Showbiz. Can Carlton prevent Alex and Lewis from losing their gigs, help them with the love thingy and finally understand the meaning of comedy in the Universe? Will a robot ever be able to do stand-up? Yes, that is THE Eric Idle of Monty Python fame. A must for Python buffs.
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Ten thousand years ago, something unworldly happened on earth, something long forgotten, something unearthed only in the 20th century. And now a crack team of scientists and soldiers has the power to beyond the last frontier of space on an ultra-secret mission to probe the greatest mystery in the universe. They have no idea what they will find or even if they can return. Only one thing is certain - the ultimate adventure is about to begin, when they enter the Stargate. -
It had been five hundred years since the Terran colony of Corwin had communicated with Earth. But now Corwin is threatened by the warriors of Klodni and the desperate planet needs help. Baird Ewing is chosen as ambassador to get that help and save Corwin. But Earth had changed. Ewing finds a decadent world of worthless pleasure seekers devoid of hope and incapable of help. The only vestige of the old world on Earth is found in the College of Abstract Science. It's Ewing's last hope. If he fails, it's the end for him, for Corwin - and the galaxy. Cover art by Peter Elson. -
Sugar Rain: Paul Park
$15.00The sequel to Soldiers of Paradise. In the city-state of Charn the generation-long winter has given way at last to Spring and the lovers Thanakar and Charity are separated by war and social upheaval. Throughout the harsh winter, Charn's deterministic religion, based on astrology and the erotic love poems of an unwitting god, locks most of the population into unending, hopeless servitude of the Starbridge ruling class. The long-awaited spring - in accordance with prophecy and dim legends - is heralded by floods, the births of monsters and sweet, fertile rain which brings an intoxicating taste of chaos to the burdened poor whose minds are slowly turning to the bloody pleasures of revolution and riot. Thanakar Starbridge, fleeing a death sentence, escapes to distant Caladon and believes his lover to be dead. But Princess Charity journeys through a cavernous underworld to emerge into the sunshine, freedom and the freshness of a world renewed. Cover art by Don Maitz.
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This Other Eden: Ben Elton
$12.00We'd all like to save the world but there seems to be a lot of it and the individual seems so puny. Hence the appeal of the very marketable Claustrosphere, invented by despotic media mogul Plastic Tolstoy: a domestic, self-contained, stunningly tough eco-shelter for the average bloke. It is also the most irresponsible idea ever: the death of the Earth becomes survivable. When Nathan, a self-absorbed British script writer gets access to Tolstoy to pitch his end-of-the-world movie, he feels his time has come. But why is Nathan's script so dangerous? It's the perfect vehicle for Max, the ex-jeans model and multi-media superstar. And should Max be falling for beautiful and utterly stroppy eco-terrorist Rosalie? And what is it about the Claustrosphere marketing campaign that requires the loss of innocence and the slaughter of the innocent? -
Taronga: Victor Kelleher
$10.00An Australian post-nuclear war novel. Two years after the Last Day, Australia has become a dangerous place, a battleground for survival. Ben, who has the telepathic ability to control animals, is living in the bush of the Blue Mountains. Hoping for a kinder existence he makes for Sydney, only to be further disillusioned. Then he finds Taronga Zoo, strangely unaffected by the chaos. Or - has it? -
Book XII of Starfist. The Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) is up against a full-fledged rebellion on Ravenette and a lethally loose cannon of a commanding officer. Desperate to thwart unrelenting aliens and their quest to obliterate humankind, the Confederation has beefed up its defences, but to the citizens on the outer edges of Human Space around Ravenette - unaware that a deadly enemy even exists - the government's move seems oppressive and ten planets respond with a war of secession. -
Prelude to the Dune series, Volume I. Year 10,154 of the Imperial Calendar. For four decades the planet Arrakis - or Dune - has been ruled by the Harkonnen family. Iron-fisted Baron Vladimir dreams of ever-larger harvest of the precious 'spice', the chemical that prolongs life and increases mental powers. But things are changing. An idealistic young planetologist goes to live among the desert Fremen, who hold the secret to 'spice' and the giant sandworms who guard it. On the world of Caladan, Leo Atreides, the Duke's heir, prepares for his birthright. -
The Time Machine: H.G. Wells
$20.00Regarded as the first science fiction thriller, it is the classic tale of the wanderings of the Time Traveller, his excursion in the fantastic machine of his creation into a future of nuclear war's aftermath; he encounters the Eloi - portrayed as the pampered, spiritless descendants of the upper class of his own time; and the Morlocks; the lower class who dwell below ground but who, in this future, control the cossetted Eloi in order to farm them for sustenance. Wells intentionally reflected his views of the class system, working conditions and politics of the late Victorian age in these fictional races, having experienced the unhealthy living and working below ground conditions for himself as a draper's assistant. Many film versions of this multi-layered story only go so far; Wells took his Time Traveller much further than the time of the Morlocks, to see...No, we won't spoil it for you... -
Book V in the Worldwar series. A sci-fi of an alternate universe, in which, in the 1960s, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States cannot stop fighting among themselves in order to ward off a massive wave of extraterrestrials. It may mean the conquest of the earth and the extinction of humanity. -
Jillian Shomer had won the right to compete in the Olympiads that tested the mind as well as the body. Athletes use The Boost - an operation that conveyed brilliant intellect and superhuman strength - at a terrible price. Once Boosted, rapid burnout followed. The only way to halt the effects was connection to The Link, the global information network that sustained the world. Only those who won received the Link. None who dared question the workings of the system had ever survived. But Jillian Shomer dared. Cover art and interior illustrations by Boris Vallejo. -
Teenage sisters Nell and Eva live alone in the forest, recently orphaned and completely isolated. They struggle for normality in a post-holocaust world, in the silence of nature. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. As they blaze a path into the forest, the discover their hidden power, to become pioneers - not just creatures of a new world, but the creators of it. Made into a film in 2015. -
Queen Of Angels: Greg Bear
$10.00Set in 2047 on the eve of the Binary Millennium. In the early years of the Information Age, the number has almost mystical significance: in binary notation, 2047 is 11111111111, while 2048 is 100000000000. The next change will not be for another two thousand years. Here is a world of highly advanced, cybernetically enhanced personalities, complex city arcologies and reports from the robot exploration of a long dead world - and a murder mystery as well. -
This volume contains: The Time Machine; The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Invisible Man; The War of the Worlds; The First Men in the Moon; The Food of the Gods; In the Days of the Comet. A banquet of classic science fiction from the man who seemed to be able to 'see ahead'. -
Book II of The Void. The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the Living Dream's deadline for launching its Pilgrimage into the Void draws closer. Not only is the Ocisen Empire fleet fast approaching on a mission of genocide, but also an internecine war has broken out between the post-human factions over the destiny of humanity. Countering the various and increasingly desperate agents and factions is Paula Myo, a ruthlessly single-minded investigator, beset by foes from her distant past and colleagues of dubious allegiance...but she is fast losing a race against time. At the heart of all this is Edeard the Waterwalker, who once lived a long time ago deep inside the Void. He is the messiah of Living Dream, and visions of his life are shared by, and inspire billions of humans. It is his glorious, captivating story that is the driving force behind Living Dream's Pilgrimage, a force that is too strong to be thwarted. As Edeard nears his final victory the true nature of the Void is finally revealed. Cover art by David Marchal and Paul Youll.
