Carl Bok is a citizen of Springworld, the heavy-gravity planet with monstrous and dangerous flora and fauna. Carl is well over two metres tall and weighs-in at 180 kilograms. Now he has won a scholarship to Starschool. He'll spend a year on this touring school, visiting sixteen of the colonised planets. This will be the experience of a lifetime. It's tough enough for Carl as the poor scholarship student among the rich kids. His problems get worse when they arrive at Earth. Carl finds himself in urgent need of big money and, since he's a pretty tough guy, becomes a paid fighter. He has to fight dangerous and deadly human and animal opponents. His fellow students - B'oosa, Miko, Alegria and Francisco "Pancho" Bolivar - get caught up in his exploits... And then there are the aliens...Cover art by Peter Elson.
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Book II of Star Hounds. I the empty depths between the stars, man has finally met his match - the cold, cruel Jaxdron, an evil empire bent on destruction. Laura Shemzak, a rebellious and beautiful spy in the way against the aliens, has joined a crew of interstellar outlaws on the rogue ship Starbow. Laura's assignment: pilot the XT Mark Nine 'blip-ship' the Starbow crew intends to steal. Her secret mission: rescue her physicist brother from the Jaxdron. But the secret even Laura doesn't now is that she's been programmed to kill the very man she hopes to save. Cover art by John Harris.
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Book I of Acorna: She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the centre of her forehead, odd-looking feet, beautiful silver hair and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow and heal scars and broken bones. A trio of grizzled prospectors found her drifting in an escape pod amid the asteroids, adopted her and took her home to sizzling controversy. Officious bureaucrats wanted to put Acorna in a home and cut off her 'deformity'. Ambitious scientists wanted to isolate and study the 'unicorn girl'. Which was worse? Acorna's 'uncles' weren't waiting around to find out - they took her back at knife-point and ran to the bandit planet Kezdet where no questions are asked and she might grow up free. But Kezdet has dark secrets - an army of toiling, silent children in the mines and factories, unnamed, unloved and unseen, administered to by a mystery man known as 'The Piper'. And the Piper has plans for Acorna...Cover art by John Ennis.
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Time And Again: Jack Finney
$25.00Science fiction, mystery, a love story and a detailed history of Old New York blend together in this story of a young man enlisted in a secret government experiment. Transported from the mid-twentieth century to New York City in the year 1882, Si Morley walks the fashionable "Ladies' Mile" of Broadway, is enchanted by the jingling sleigh bells in Central Park, and solves a 20th-century mystery by discovering its 19th-century roots. Falling in love with a beautiful young woman, he ultimately finds himself forced to choose between his lives in the present and the past. -
In this volume: Running: Martin Livings; Matricide: Lucy Sussex; The Passing of the Minotaurs (Caeli-Amur); Rjurik Davidson; (variant of Passing Of The Minotaurs); Dreaming With the Angels: Jack Dann; Johnny Cash: Ben Peek; The Red Priest's Homecoming: Dirk Flinthart; Once Giants Roamed the Earth: Rosaleen Love; Fresh Young Widow: Kaaron Warren; Watch: Stephen Dedman; Riding the Crocodile: Greg Egan; Skein Dogs: Leanne Frahm; Leviathan: Simon Brown. Cover art by Shaun Tan.
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Doctor Who's first adventure with the Daleks. Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright travel with the mysterious Doctor Who and his granddaughter, Susan, to the planet of Skaro in the space-time machine, the TARDIS. There they strive to save the peace-loving Thals from the evil intentions of the hideous Daleks. Can they succeed? And, what is more important, will they ever see their native Earth again? Cover art by Chris Achilleos. -
Doctor Who Adventure No 129. When the TARDIS lands on a deserted volcanic island the Doctor and his companions find themselves kidnapped by primitive sea-people. Taken into the bowels of the earth they discover they are in the lost kingdom of Atlantis. Offered as sacrifices to the fish-goddess, Amdo, the Doctor and his companions are rescued from the jaws of death by the famous scientist, Zaroff. But they are still not safe and nor are the people of Atlantis. For Zaroff has a plan, a plan that will make him the greatest scientist of all time - he will raise Atlantis above the waves - even if it means destroying the world...Cover art by Alister Pearson. -
Book II of Gambler's Star. Opportunist Deuce McNamara considers himself the Man in the Moon. The former bagman for the Borgioli clan on Moonbase Vegas works every angle and comes up aces. Now right-hand man to Hunter Castle, wealthy businessman and owner of the new casino Darkside City, Deuce spins in an orbit of riches and power. But when a powerful explosions rips apart Castle's fabled spacecraft, Gambler's Star, Deuce's world spins out of control. The lunar St. Valentine's Day-type catastrophe has rubbed out the top echelons of the Six Families that control the Moon and Castle himself, leaving Deuce in the middle of the bloodbath to end all bloodbaths. As the Families pursue their vendettas and the rebels of the Moonsider Liberation Front launch a campaign of terror, it's up to Deuce to intervene, stop the slaughter and prevent puritanical Earthsiders from imposing a tyranny of decency on the Moon. -
Orphans born in the depths of space, they were engineered to range the galaxy in search of fortune. Misfits and outlaws, they defied the huge interstellar cartels that ruled space. Ubu Roy was the strong young bossrider of the starship Runaway, who held all of history in his remarkable memory. Beautiful Maria was an ace star shooter and cybernetic witch, who could bend space time to find the perfect singularity.
