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Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
$25.00Guy Montag is a fireman. In a world where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen don't extinguish fires. They start them. Their job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 'family'. But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people did not live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. -
Here are the first two Solar Queen instalments: Sargasso Of Space and Plague Ship. Sargasso Of Space: The Solar Queen free-traders win exclusive rights to trade with the planet Limbo, but the crew arrives to find most of its surface charred, with little sign of life. They find a valley with life, but others may still lurk. Worse yet, a strange force threatens to cripple the Queen. They must solve the planet's mysteries if they hope to escape with not only tradable goods, but their lives. Plague Ship: The Queen travels to Sargol, which promises a wealth of exquisite gems to trade - if the crew can overcome the native feline Salarikis' mistrust. But their troubles have just begun. When a mysterious illness soon overtakes all the crew except the four youngest, the Galactic Patrol labels the Queen plagued and orders it destroyed on sight. With every ship in the galaxy searching for them, the crew have one chance to save the Solar Queen. But if their bold plan is foiled it would mean the end of the Solar Queen and its crew. Cover art by Julie Bell. -
Book III of The Quintara Marathon. Three galactic empires existed in uneasy proximity. Each was led by completely different life forms with only one thing in common - demons. Each had a legend of humanoid creatures with hooves and horns, representing supernatural power and unspeakable evil. The similarity of the legends across the galaxy had led some to theorise that they had some basis in fact. Unfortunately, they were right; an expedition exploring an uncharted planet discovered, sealed in transparent cells, two horned creatures, gigantic in stature, perfectly preserved and very much alive. The three empires sent rescue missions which arrived too late to help the expedition members, slaughtered by the demons - but not too late to pursue the demons through a gate into another space-time continuum. The three missions have fought each other all the way but now they must help each other against the menace of the re-awakened demons - not just for their survival, but the survival of the 90 trillion Fausts, 90 trillion beings in danger of losing their souls. Fortunately - although the demons have proven themselves invulnerable to any weapon known in the three empires - the beings of the mission are about to discover that they have very unusual allies. After all, if demons - why not angels? Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet. -
Book I of The Vang. For a thousand years and more, The Worlds of Man had been dominated by the Laowon Imperium. The aliens thought humans made good slaves and better pets, and they were fond of creating new breeds. And the Laowon made sure that their playthings never grew too powerful. Born one day, on the edge of Human Space, Jon Iehard was ordered to hunt Eblis Bey, a terrorist for Old Earth. And that was the beginning of the end for the Laowon. Because Iehard had been a Laowon slave. And Eblis Bey held half the key to a weapon that could destroy the Laowon tyranny and bring freedom once more to Mankind. Cover art by Tim White. -
Book I of Homecoming. The planet Harmony had been settled by humans almost 40 million years ago. The colony had been placed under the care of an artificial intelligence, the Oversoul, high in orbit. This master computer had one overriding command - guard the people of Harmony. But now the oversoul is in danger. Its systems are failing. Soon, within a thousand years, war will break out on Harmony unless the Oversoul can be repaired. The master computer has determined that it must be taken back to lost Earth; someone on Harmony must be given back the knowledge of space travel in order to save the planet from disaster. For one family, about to be caught up in an approaching civil war, life will change forever. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Will Edgar Cayce (1877 - 1945) return to Earth? When will the millennium occur? What will end America's unrest? What lost civilisation will be found in the Gobi Desert? Is everything we say and do recorded on a supernatural etheric 'TV' screen? What will the secret of the "Pyramid Prophecies" reveal.... -
The year: 2047. Years earlier the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace on its maiden voyage. Now a signal from it has been detected and the United States Aerospace Command responds. The rescue vessel Lewis and Clark is dispatched. Its crew – Captain Miller, second-in-command Lieutenant Starck, pilot Smith, medical technician Peters, engineer Ensign Justin, Doctor D.J. and rescue technician Cooper – is joined by Dr. William Weir, who designed the Event Horizon. Their mission: find and salvage the state-of-the-art spacecraft. But what they find is state-of-the-art interstellar terror. Their mission becomes one to salvage their own souls and lives - because someone or something is prepared to ensnare them in a new dimension of utter and unimaginable horror. -
Book III of Legends of Dune. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronised Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of victory, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight. Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets. Once again, the tide of the titanic struggle shifts against the warriors of the human race. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin - human and machine face off one last time and on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Muad'Dib.Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Destroyermen No XI. Transported into an alternative reality of Earth where WWII no longer rages, Matt Reddy and the crew of Asiatic Fleet Destroyer USS Walker have been drawn into an entirely other cataclysmic war. They have given their all to protect the oppressed Lemurians, but with Walker in dire need of repairs just as the Grik's First General is poised to strike, Reddy is desperate. With more enemies than ever before arrayed against them, the crew needs more allies - and that means combing the lethal wilds of Madagascar to find the Lemurians' fabled ancestors, as well as the enigmatic dwellers east of the Pass of Fire. But what Reddy's crew unearths are discovers so shattering they could tilt the balance of the war in either direction. But Reddy's greatest adversary is from his past: a madman named Kurukawa whose single-minded mission of revenge will shake the Alliance to its core and raise the stakes to terrifying levels...
