BattleTech Universe No. 47. Edwin Amis, new commander of the Eridani Light Horse faces a tough decision: Should he openly defy the First Lord of the Star League? Sun-Tzu Liao, First Lord, has sent Star League troops as 'peace-keepers' to the St. Ives Compact to prevent open rebellion by angry citizens - but the troops aren't seeking peace. Amis knows the mission is actually for reclaiming territory for the Capellan Confideration and he's ready to station counter-forces on Milos, close to the heart of the Capellan capital. But on Milos, events are already escalating - Death Commando Chen Shao and his ruthless partner, Nessa Ament have secretly murdered a rebel's family in cold blood. Full scale war is about to erupt. Cover art by Peter Peebles. Illustrations by Duane Loose and FASA.
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Congo: An expedition sent by Earth Resources Technology is attacked and killed by unknown creatures. The team had stumbled on the legendary lost city of Zinj while searching for diamond deposits and a video image from a camera transmitted by satellite to the base in Houston show the killers to be grey haired gorillas. The second expeditionary team locate the demolished camp and encounter the gorillas, several of which are killed. An autopsy reveals they are gorilla-chimpanzee-human hybrids and closer to humans than gorillas. But who bred them? And why? https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-congo-dylan-walsh-laura-linney-ernie-hudson-tim-curry/ The Terminal Man: Covering four days in 1971, Harry Benson suffers from epileptic seizures and blackouts since a car accident in 1969. He has no memory of what happens during the blackouts; but when he attacks a man and is arrested, he is deemed a candidate for the experimental procedure of having a 'brain pacemaker' implanted to see if it will stop the seizures. But the seizures become more frequent, and the monitoring shows that Benson has learnt to initiate seizures involuntarily because the result is a shock of pleasure - leading to more seizures. He escapes from the hospital - and when his identity is found at a murder scene, the hunt is on. -
Comrade Pyotr Shapirov has a secret of vital importance to world science but the only man with the skill to extract it from his comatose brain is American scientist Albert Morrison. Natalya Boranova, sent by Russian high command to get Morriosn's help will stop at nothing to ensure his co-operation. But there is one major problem -the necessity for human miniaturisation. Wrenched from a routine conference and transported to a vast underground Soviet City dedicated to scientific experiment, Morrison is shrunk to a microscopic fraction of normal size and p0laced in a specially designed 'submarine' to be injected into Shapirov's veins to travel deep into the uncharted regions of the brain - and with only twelve hours to complete his task, Morrison must find the origins of human thought. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
Ringworld: Larry Niven
$12.00Book I of Ringworld. Earth, 2850 AD - Louis Gridley Wu is celebrating his 200th birthday. He's in perfect physical health thanks to boosterspice. Nessus, a Pierson's puppeteer, offers him a mysterious job: to investigate the Ringworld, a gigantic artificial ring, 1.6 million kilometres wide and 940 million kilometres in circumference. Pierson's puppeteers are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and in addition to Louis - who they believe to be mad - assemble a team of another mad human, a mad puppeteer and a kzin, a huge war-hungry cat-like alien, to explore it. But their ship, The Lying Bastard, crash-lands on the vast edifice, communications are knocked out and the crew are forced to go on a desperate and dangerous trek across the Ringworld. Cover art by Eddie Jones. -
Book III of the Cluster series. Twice the Milky Way Galaxy has been on the verge of extinction and twice a heroic defender has come forward to throw back invaders from the Andromeda Galaxy. Now the galaxies are untied in a peaceful alliance. But Hweeh of Weew, Milky Way's leading research astronomer has noticed at Amoeba - just beyond the galaxies' common frontier - is expanding in their direction. Herald the Healer is called in and armed only with his hypertensive Kirlian aura he wages almost single-handed battle against the greatest threat ever to face the galaxies. But first he must unravel the secrets of the Ancients, astounding secrets whose import could never have been imagined...Cover art by Fred Gambino -
The author is a former Air Force intelligence officer who worked on Project Blue Book. Includes: new information on the Roswell incident; documented reports of mental contact with aliens and abductions aboard UFOs; pilots who have died chasing UFOs; mysterious green lights over New Mexico; astonishing photographic evidence of sightings in Texas. Regarded as a firm base of information that would be especially useful for anyone interested and written with sound commonsense. -
Starspinner: Dale Aycock
$5.00The 'rim' is a punishing mistress -a fractional delay can send an interstellar ship hurtling to its destruction. In the 27th century, travel over vast distances takes only an instant - a terrifying, gut-churning instant. Pilot Christopher Marlow must navigate spacecraft through the dangerous space/time warp. Then Galactic Control's power-hungry Jorge Engleman visits Marlow's space station and a tug of war over the fragile 'rim' threatens the Empire's existence. Cover art by Attila Hejja . -
The Earth has been invaded by an advanced alien species - giant, wasp-like beings who wiped out all who opposed them with fantastic brain-implosion powers, destroying all technology, and who view both the planet and its peoples as expendable pawns in a galaxy wide war. "The Protector" is the alien-appointed ruler, who keeps humankind in a feudal police state. It is a grim and sad world, where humans struggle to survive a collapsing economy, political rivalry, rebellious soldiers, and hostile aliens. But a new hero has arisen to overthrow the dictatorial Protector. Religion is his sword and the faith of the masses his shield. He also has some very powerful friends...Cover art by Dan La Mountain. -
Book I of Dilbia. John Tardy has been drafted by Helping Hand, and packed off to Dilbia to locate and rescue the interplanetary contact agency's first envoy, Ty Lamorc. Dilbia, and its unusually intelligent native race, are being wooed by two major galactic powers - and Earth is determined to win their respect and allegiance. But the Dilbians don't seem to be co-operating. In fact, they seem to treat John and his mission as some kind of joke. But there's nothing funny about the consequences if the lovely Ty can't be saved, and it's up to John to get the job done. First, he has to survive a cross-country trek with a particularly large fun-loving Dilbian...Cover art by Tom Kidd. -
Star Trek Original Series No. 78. An entire solar system begins to disintegrate into cosmic rubble, and Captain Kirk suspects that rumors of a new Klingon superweapon are all too true. The Tautee system houses a flourishing pre-Warp civilization not quite ready to join the Federation, so the Prime Directive limits Kirk's ability to prevent the disaster - and to make matters worse his rescue efforts provoke an attack from four Klingon warships. But soon Kirk recognizes that he must get to the bottom of the forces at work in the Tautee system before they spill over into the rest of the galaxy. -
Book and DVD: Timeline: Michael Crichton
$5.00–$14.00An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. This mystery will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years War. Imagine the risks of such a journey - imagine the impossible! Cover art by Chip Kidd. DVD: Region 4; preloved.
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When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two in Heathrow Airport shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame, the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, the the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement saying the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage and the site would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic before finally admitting that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. So the explosion was designated an Act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently - which God? And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two trying to catch the 15.37 to Oslo? Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Divergent: In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue - Candour (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful) and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is - she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are -and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves….or it might destroy her. Insurgent: One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves - and herself - while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so. Allegiant: The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. Four: Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation's faction leader did the same. Tobias's transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents gave him. Here, he will not let fear turn him into a cowering child. Newly christened "Four," he discovers during initiation that he will succeed in Dauntless. Initiation is only the beginning, though; Four must claim his place in the Dauntless hierarchy. His decisions will affect future initiates as well as uncover secrets that could threaten his own future - and the future of the entire faction system. Two years later, Four is poised to take action, but the course is still unclear. The first new initiate who jumps into the net might change all that. With her, the way to righting their world might become clear. With her, it might become possible to be Tobias once again. -
Magnificat: Julian May
$12.00Book III of the Galatic Milieu series. By mid 21st century humanity is enjoying its membership of the galactic Milieu; a confederation of exotic races spread throughout the Galaxy. Human colonies thrive on numerous planets, more and more are being born with metapsychic abilities and before long these gifted minds will at last achieve total unity. But a growing corps of rebels keep the people of Earth forever separate in the name of human individuality. Leading them is Marc Remillard, scion of the very family that led humanity into the Galactic Milieu and the most formidable metapsychic ever. He aims to elevate human metapsychics above all others by the artificial enhancement of mental faculties. His horrific goal - a generation of bodiless brains. Only Marc's brother, Jack the Bodiless and a young woman called Diamond Mask can foil Marc's awful plans and pave the way for the Golden Age of the Galactic Milieu to begin. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury. -
Voyage To Venus: C.S. Lewis
$12.00Out of space they came. Two men from earth plunging through the cloud belt of Venus. One was a man possessed, an emissary of all that is evil - the other a man burdened with a terrible yet inspiring mission. On the surface of the mysterious planet Dr. Ransom and his enemy were to meet in a titanic struggle to decide the destiny of a young and joyous world. -
Book X of Acorna. Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, has followed in Acorna's footsteps leading their people from danger, but the pressure to succeed and fulfill a legacy is tremendous. For the deadly foe that has ravaged the known worlds and weakened even her famous parents has launched its final assault, and only Khorii and her newly discovered sister, Ariin, are able to stop the brutal attack. But success is elusive, and fragile, and even time itself may not be enough to help their desperate quest to save their family - much less the universe. Cover art by Chris McGrath. -
In the day of modern technology, it;s difficult to fathom that there are still mysteries for which we have no explanation. We've walked on the moon, developed the Internet, unlocked the building blocks of life and yet there are some events and circumstances that continue to baffle us. Some of the most puzzling are those that are still unsolved, such as Jack the Ripper and the Bermuda Triangle; and then there's mysterious creatures such Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster - and the countless reports of extra terrestrial interaction. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, this book provides a glimpse of mysteries that encourages the reader to seek further information. -
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. -
Book I of Tomorrow. When Ellie and her friends go camping in a remote location the locals call Hell, they have no idea they're leaving their old lives behind forever. Despite a less-than-tragic food shortage and a secret crush or two, everything goes as planned. But when they return home, they find they are really in Hell - their homes are abandoned and their pets starving or dead. Something has gone wrong - horribly wrong. Before long, they realize the country has been invaded and the entire town has been captured - including their families and all their friends. Ellie and the other survivors face an impossible decision: They can flee for the mountains or surrender. Or they can fight... Cover photo by International Photographic Library. -
At the end of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, the hero, Bill Masen, his wife, and four-year-old son leave the British mainland to join a new colony on the Isle of Wight. The Night of the Triffids takes up the story 25 years later. The survivors are safe, for the time being at least, on their island, where they have continued efforts to combat the triffids, while also striving in various ways to build a new civilisation. Elsewhere in the world, similar colonies cling to survival, while the triffids persist in their attempts to destroy humanity. One morning Bill Masen’s now-adult son, David, wakes to a world plunged into darkness. Now, the triffids have an advantage over even sighted humanity...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Close encounters of the first, second and third kinds are on the increase - why are world governments determined to conceal the truth? In 1947, a pilot saw nine bright flashing objects in brilliant sunlight, and estimated they were travelling at 1700 miles per hour...In 1961, a New Hampshire couple walking in the White Mountains noticed a bright light coming from a strange craft - they then lost consciousness for two hours...In 1976, the passengers, crew and pilots of a Trident jet all saw a dazzling light int he sky with two dark objects beneath it and on their return flight, a massive object showed up on radar in the same position - so what's going on? -
High above London, on the rooftops of the city lives a secret society of misfits governed by a bizarre code of honour. It is a world known only to a few people on the streets below - until the murderous battle for leadership erupts. As the Roofworld fights to keep the murderous Chymes and his occult worshipping followers at bay, Robert Linden and Rose Leonard, two innocent outsiders, are drawn into the dangerous twilight world, to face far greater terrors than they could have imagined. -
In this issue: Blind Windows, Garry Kilworth; Healer, P.E. Cunningham; The Man With The Little Red Wagon, Ross Appel; Superbiometalemon, Christopher Anvil; Sule Skerry, Jane Yolen; Die And Follow Me, Gary Jennings; The Last Run, Alan Dean Foster; The Buck, Reid Collins; The Lion In His Attic, Larry Niven. With book, film and a science review by Isaac Asimov. Cover art by David Hardy. -
Book II of The Amtrak Wars. After countless years of fighting - pitting sophisticated technology against the primitive, surface dwelling inhabitants who seem to possess supernatural powers - the Federation is no closer to ending the battle. Then a lone flier is hauled into one of the underground bunkers - his very existence is a challenge to the all-pervading wisdom of the First Family. Cover art by Tony Roberts.
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Star Trek Original Series. Captain Kirk and the crew of of the Enterprise have finally gone their separate ways; Spock, McCoy, Sulu and the others are scattered across the galaxy, pursuing their own destinies. Bored with retirement and ill-suited to teaching at the Starfleet Academy, Kirk jumps at the chance to help his young nephews colonise an uninhabited planet is a distant corner of Alpha Quadrant. He even persuades Scotty and Chekov to come along for the ride. But the human colonists are not alone on the planet they call Sanctuary...Cover art by Keith Birdsong.
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Omari had violated every sanction of his world to hijack the Forerunner and blast his way through a black star to reach the Uncharted Zone - and freedom. But on Ruantl, a toxic world lit by a black sun, Omari found himself a hostage in an underground citadel deep beneath a radioactive wasteland. Here the enigmatic high priest and his black-robed barbarian mutants guard an army of crystal caskets - and plan a bloody rebellion to save their race from extinction. Omari has one chance to survive - but does he dare undergo the ultimate sacrifice and become one the of Children of Anthi? Cover art by Greisbach & Martucci
