The U.S. Government, bankrupt and desperate, has auctioned off its agencies to private enterprise. NASA is now a Disney subsidiary; The Nixon Orbital Space Station is a family theme park. Space still hides some secrets and one of them is about to be launched on an unsuspecting public: the Mars ship, Mary Poppins, built before the market crash and secreted in high orbit. Movie mogul Markson uses fast talk, creative accounting and out-and-out blackmail to persuade two of the Mars team to pilot the spacecraft on her maiden voyage to Mars. With two bona fide certified Hollywood Stars and a brilliant - if eccentric - midget cinematographer, Markson plans to shoot The Movie Of All Time...Cover art by Gerry Grace.
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In this volume: Universe, Robert A. Heinlein - Imagine a group of human beings...and the only world they know is a gigantic spaceship - so large and so ingeniously constructed that it has supported thousands of people for centuries. Yet they live subject to all the old emotions - victims of conflict and suspense arising from rebellions and killings in their midst. Vintage Season, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore - Time travel is a perennial favourite in sci-fi...this story examines the morals of knowing what will happen and is it right to interfere and change history? The Ballad of Lost C'mell, Cordwainer Smith - Jestocost, a lord of the Instrumentality of Mankind wants to help the oppressed underpeople (animals given human speech and form but no rights) but can this be done without upsetting the established social order? With Folded Hands, Jack Williamson - Seemingly perfect robotic humanoids appear in the town of Two Rivers and offer residents a life free of work, stress and danger. But at what cost? Mr. Underhill fins his households threatened and his android business destroyed as the humanoids take control of the town in order to serve and obey and guard men from harm...Cover art by Eddie Jones. -
Hunting. Being hunted. Life seems to offer nothing except a chase to the death. The fight to survive has never been fiercer. But as Ellie and her friends wage war, they find time for other things: friendship, loyalty and even Christmas. If only they can withstand another night...
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Continuing right where the Jericho Season 2 television cliffhanger ended...Jake Green and Robert Hawkins are in the safe haven of Texas with the last remaining bomb from the first attack. From amidst the chaos, theyre contacted by John Smith, the mastermind behind the first strike, seeking aid. As the Cheyenne army bears down on them, they must decide whether to side with their former enemy to fight a greater one... Graphic novel with art by Matt Merhoff and Alejandro F. Giraldo. -
A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: cultures are born in spring, flourish in summer, then die with the onset of the generations-long winter. Helliconia is emerging from its centuries-long winter. Yuli is a child of a hunter-gatherer family living under the light of two suns on the northern plains. When his father is enslaved by the vicious phagors, Yuli is left alone. He finds his way to the subterranean city of Pannoval, where he prospers as a member of the priesthood. Fifty years later, his descendants are prospering. Game is becoming more plentiful, the river is thawing and warmer winds are rising, even as the smaller sun, Freyr, grows larger in the sky. But with peace and plenty comes indolence and corruption...Life on Helliconia is observed from an orbiting Earth space station, the Avernus, the crew of which watch as Helliconia and its sun, Batalix, draw closer to the great white supergiant about which they revolve and the centuries-long winter comes to a violent end. Cover art by Tim Gill. -
The Burning: Justin Richards
$45.00Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventure XXXVII. The late nineteenth century - the age of reason, enlightenment, industrialisation. Britain is the workshop of the world, the center of the Empire. Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself. But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the Society for Physical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artifacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: A man with no name, no history. The only man who can stop The Burning...Cover art by Black Sheep -
Foundation: Isaac Asimov
$9.00Book I of Foundation. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun - or fight them and be destroyed. Cover art by Fred Gambino. -
Star Wars: Book III of Callista: Nam Chorios is a barren backwater world - once a dreaded prison colony, now home to a fanatic religious cult. It is here that Princess Leia has been taken captive by a ruthless and charismatic warlord bent on destroying the New Republic. Meanwhile, Luke lands on a mysterious planet in search of his lost love, Callista, only to discover the Force is his own worst enemy. But worst of all, as Han, Chewie, and Lando leave Coruscant on a desperate rescue mission, a strange life-form, unlike any the galaxy has ever seen, awakens...a life-form so malevolent it will destroy everything - both Empire and New Republic - on its path to domination. Cover art by Drew Struzan. -
Bing Walter, alien, has been given a human body (more or less) by his superiors and he’s an advance scout to prepare Earth for extra terrestrial contact. His mission: to get a job with TIME Magazine and once there, insert a cover story detailing the forthcoming arrival of an alien spaceship. His home planet has been sending out signals, but humans are not getting the message. Bing feels perhaps the UNIVAC computer at S.E.T.I. - which calls itself Rufus - would be more helpful...but the message code is so simple, that even Rufus needs help figuring it out and humans haven't got an earthly! Cover art by Bill Wenzel.
