Sci-Fi/UFO

//Sci-Fi/UFO
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  • The best English sci-fi romp since Douglas Adams' classic  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  When Lister got drunk, he really got drunk. After celebrating his birthday with a Monopoly board pub crawl around London, he came to in a burger bar on one of Saturn's moons, wearing a lady's pink crimplene hat, yellow waders, no money and a passport in the name of Emily Berkenstein. Joining the Space Corps seemed like a good idea.  Red Dwarf, a clapped out mining ship, was bound for Earth. But it never made it, leaving Lister as the last member of the human race, three million miles from home and if that weren't enough, for company he has a computer-generated hologram of his now-deceased anal crew-mate Arnold Rimmer, a space-senile computer, a deranged sanitation mechanoid with an overactive guilt-chip and the best-dressed entity in six universes - a creature descended from his pet cat Frankenstein. On the epic journey home, they'll break the light barrier, meet Einstein, God and Elvis, have a game of pool using planets for balls, a battle with emotion-thieving mutant parasites  - and discover an alternate plane of Reality.
  • Duncan Makenzie is traveling from Titan, a moon of Saturn, to Earth, as a diplomatic guest of the United States for the celebration of its Quincentennial in the year 2276. Titan, an independent republic, was originally colonized from Earth three generations earlier. Duncan's initial challenge is to prepare, physically and intellectually, for the 500-million-mile trip to Earth. Once there, he is caught up in a sweep of new experiences, including the social and political whirl in Washington, a strange visit to a carefully preserved ancient city once prominent in the 20th century, and a search for and meeting with a woman he loved since she visited Titan years before.
  • An invasion of Earth was imminent  - and only one man could stop it. A team of saboteurs had infiltrated the enemy territories, attempting to bring back to Earth a warning of the impending attack. Death had reduced their number to two and fear of treachery had divided them. Finally, only one man could save Earth.  The secret of the hordes of death must be brought back. But he could trust no-one - not even himself. Cover art by Bruce Pennington.
  • The old First Empire lies shattered, swept away by the forces of First Foundation established by psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man to have foreseen the shifting patterns of the inhabited Cosmos.  But not even Seldon could have predicted the mutant menace of the Mule - a being of terrifying supernomal powers who can precipitate a savage struggle that can lay waste to entire star systems. 
  • Book I of Alex Benedict. Everyone knew the legend of Christopher Sim.  Fighter.  Leader. An interstellar hero with a rare talent for war.  Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a ragtag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the back of the alien Ashiyyur.  But now, Alex Benedict has found  a startling bit of information, long buried in an ancient computer file.  If it's true, then Christopher Sim was a fraud. For his own sake and that of history, Alex Benedict must follow the dark track of a legend, into the very heart of the alien galaxy where he will confront a truth far stranger than any imaginable fiction. Cover art by Darrell Sweet.

  • Book V of The Amtrak Wars. Having captured Clearwater, the Federation now plans to catch Cadilliac and Mr Snow and annihilate the Clan McCall, so Steve must continue his double role as loyal agent of the Federation and blood-brother to the Mutes.  The First Family is hell-bent on exacting retribution for past defeats; the House of Yama-Shita is also seeking revenge.
  • While recovering from the holocaust of war, Earth suffers chaotic breakdowns in the fabric of time and space.  Survivors are stranded in the past, present or future. Or in Mars, which is worse - and a band of heroes still battle in the alternate world of sword and sorcery....
  • The day Gabriel Chrome, a failed book sculptor contemplating suicide on the Thames Embankment, stumbled on the suicide bid of the naked Camilla Greylaw, was a great day of hopeful redemption for a corrupt and violent world. For the lovely form he chanced to preserve was the sole carrier of a contagious venereal disease - a bug which could inhibit the aggressive instinct, creating total placidity in all humans. At once, Gabriel's life has new meaning and purpose To save mankind via P 939, the greatest venereal disease in the history of mankind, becomes his hardened ambition - but mankind seems far from hope. Cover art by Chris Foss.
  • Professional gambler Jason DinAlt accepts an invitation to visit Pyrrus, the most lethal world in the known galaxy. For outsiders, Pyrrus usually means a quick and painful death, but DinAlt is fleeing the crooked casino masters of Cassylia - where he just broke the bank. But DinAlt is not prepared for the hellish Pyrrus, where every living thing seems bent on exterminating mankind.  Pyrrus is a hostile, barbaric planet where technology and civilization have almost disappeared. Using his skills, DinAlt literally reinvents the wheel in his quest to escape. Cover art by Peter Elson. Originally published as The Ethical Engineer.