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Book V of Von Bek. Renark was born to wander under the diamond glare of a myriad suns. He was never alone because he sensed the power of unseen hands which guided the ebb and flow of the universe. Then, after two years of watching and waiting, he was ready for the great journey to the galactic rim and beyond. There he found himself in the arena of the Blood Red Game. Stakes were high. For the human race it meant extinction or rebirth. Cover art by Greg Theakston. -
Book IV of Brainships. Simeon was bored with his life. It wasn't being a shell-person that bothered him - he rather pitied the 'softshells' with their short lives and their laughably limited senses - but the routine of running the mining and processing station that made up his 'body' was getting him down. So the excitement generated by the arrival of an out-of-control refugee ship was ore than welcome - even if it did interrupt his latest wargame. The refugees told of an attack by space barbarians who were headed Simeon's way, and it soon become apparent that if anyone was to survive Simeon had to translate his skills at wargaming into the real thing and become - THE CITY WHO FOUGHT. Cover art by Mark Harrison. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/ship-won-anne-mccaffrey-jody-lynn-nye/
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Earth Winter: Richard Moran
$20.00The sequel to The Empire of Ice. Earth lies on the edge of a second ice age, triggered by an erupting volcano in the North Atlantic. A cloud of ash and steam has darkened the Northern Hemisphere, destroying crops, bringing commerce to a standstill and leaving millions dead. The United States faces the prospect of an endless winter. Yet the world leaders are paralysed by apathy, avarice and fear. Ben Meade, maverick geologist, recognises the scope of the problem. With his lover and fellow scientist Marjorie Glynn, he begins to supervise the construction of biospheres across the country to shelter refugees from the deathly cold and restore agricultural production. With time running out, Ben devises a brilliant scheme to divert the Gulf Stream and bring the Earth's weather back into balance. But the nations of the Southern Hemisphere have been reaping windfall profits from their harvests and there those among them who will stop at nothing to destroy the competition. Cover art by Tim Jacobus. -
The cream of sci-fi published before 1965. In this fabulous collection: That Only a Mother, Judith Merril: Radiation causes mutations in a large percentage of children - and how does a mother perceive her mutated child? Scanners Live In Vain, Cordwainer Smith: Scanners - once human, now more machine than man, creatures with the ability to travel between the stars. But then, the scanners are threatened by a new technology they believe will make them obsolete...Mars Is Heaven! Ray Bradbury: Astronauts finally land on an unexpected Mars - one that seems like their idyllic youth and what's more, their deceased relatives are waiting to welcome them. The Little Black Bag: C.M. Kornbluth: A doctor's bag from the future is sent backwards in time - and is found by a derelict alcoholic, a former doctor, who is inspired to begin healing again. Coming Attraction, Fritz Leiber: In a possible future, a woman's face is considered the ultimate in sexual attractiveness, and so - women must go around veiled. The Quest For Saint Aquin, Anthony Boucher : Can Science and God ever be reconciled? In a future where religion is considered irrational and is persecuted, a priest must find a relic to prove the existence of God. Surface Tension, James Blish: If mankind was in danger of dying out, how might we repopulate? Will we go back to the sea, and re-emerge...? The Nine Billion Names of God, Arthur C. Clarke: The monks are content to know that God has nine billion names, but there's always someone who wants to know everything - and there are some things we are not ready to know...It's A GOOD Life - Jerome Bixby: Anthony looks like any other little boy - but he has the ability to read the thoughts of everyone and create anything he likes out of his imagination - and the small town is terrified of him...This story was made into a Twilight Zone episode in 1961 starring Billy Mumy; The Cold Equations, Tom Godwin: A starship pilot is inexplicably too low on fuel to reach his destination - and the cause turns out to be a pretty stowaway. Fondly Farenheit, Alfred Bester: A psychotic android and its paranoid schizophrenic owner? Sounds like too much of a good thing...The Country of the Kind, Damon Knight: The story of a sociopath and a kind society's reactions to and treatment of him - is it ethical to medically interfere in behavioural aberrations? What about free will? Should anti-social behaviour of an individual be acceptable? Flowers For Algernon, Daniel Keyes: Charlie has a low I.Q. and longs to be intelligent, yet he studies and tries to learn and gets nowhere. When he is given the chance for a surgical procedure that will make him intelligent it looks like his dreams will come true. The surgery is a success, yet he finds that those he believed to be his friends are not and moreover, he knows more than the doctors do... -
Bunker Soldiers: Martin Day
$10.00Past Doctor Who Adventures No. XXXIX. A fireball crash lands in the forests of the Ukraine and when the locals investigate, they find what appears to be a metal coffin at the center of the devastation. They superstitiously conclude that the casket contains the body of an angel sent to Earth to give hope to the people. Centuries later the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in Kiev, 1240 - a city under attack by the Mongols. They are enforced guests of the governor, Dmitri, whose assistant Yehven believes that if the coffin is desecrated, then "all who threaten us will be destroyed". When the coffin is opened by a group of men, a terrifying, skull-faced creature is freed, and kills a member of the group before fleeing. A spate of violent deaths ensue - but this creature certainly isn't killing indiscriminately. How is this creature choosing its victims? Where has it come from - and most importantly, can the Doctor do anything to halt its murderous trail of destruction? Cover art by Black Sheep.
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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.
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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. -
Perseus Spur: Julian May
$9.00Book I of The Rampart Worlds. 'I was living in pleasant anonymity under the name of Helmut Icicle on Kedge-Lockaby, a freesoil planet out in the boondocks, taking sport-divers on holocam reef trips. Fourteen thousand light years from Rampart Starcorp, where I used to work - and my father. So one minute I'm watching the piscoids finning through the underwater forests, drinking a little rotgut whiskey now and then - and the next thing I know some giant sea toad has eaten my house and I'm caught up in a galactic conspiracy!' Cover art by Stephen Bradbury.
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Book II of The Darkworld Legends. Since time out of mind the Sky Fleet has been the faithful servant of Atlantis. Now the happy tranquility of their lives is threatened. They discover the truth of the grim rumours that surround the city - of how the True Lord of Atlantis rules from a darkened room in the Palace of the Templars. Inside Atlantis, the White Company prepares in secret for the moment of revelation. Taula is the instrument of that revelation and he is coming of age. Cover art by Rayment Kirby.
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