He's three million light years from home. He may be wise and as old as the stars but right now, he needs friends. The secrets of the universe can't help him. He's stranded on Earth: alone, homesick and afraid. Earth is hostile, the police are after him and it seems there's no-one who can help - until he meets the children. To them, he's a magical being from another world. To him, they are friends he will never forget.
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UFO Visitation: Alan Watts
$10.00The author is not only convinced that extra terrestrials are visiting Earth, but that the continued UFO presence over the last 100 years has produced a change in human awareness. In this, the sequel to UFO Quest, he explains how we have been receiving communications from deep space for over twenty years and how, through specific channels and key individuals, messages from a powerful group called the Council of Nine have been received. The messages allegedly contain a wealth of information on the past, present and possible future of the Earth.
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Time: early 27th century. Fifty years earlier, human intervention triggered an ancient alien system designed to warn of the emergence of intelligence. For aeons, the Inhibitors have waited and now the response is on the way. Four hundred years later, Clavain has defected to fight on the side of the Conjoiners, a feared and persecuted human faction dedicated to hive-mind consciousness. Now, in the terminal stages of a brutal interplanetary war, something has struck terror into the Conjoiner Inner Sanctum. As the nature of the threat becomes clear, Clavain wonders if he should defect again. He and a misfit band of allies race to Resurgam, where a long-lost cache of Doomsday weapons has been discovered; he wants the weapons for the good of humanity. But someone else already controls the lost weapons; and Triumvir Volyova has very definite plans of her own. And the weapons themselves aren't exactly lacking in free will....Cover art by Chris Moore.
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The Road To Mars: Eric Idle
$15.00Carlton is an android who works for Alex and Lewis, two twenty-second century comedians who travel the outer vaudeville circuit of the solar system, known ironically as the Road to Mars. His problem, although as a computer he can't understand irony, is that he is attempting to write a thesis about comedy, its place in evolution and whether or not it can be cured. And he's studying the comedians of the late twentieth century - including obscure and esoteric acts such as Monty Python's Flying Circus. Meanwhile, his two employers inadvertently offend the fab diva Brenda Woolley while auditoning for a gig aboard the Princess Di ( a solar cruise ship). This faux pas leads them into a terrorist plot against Mars, home of Showbiz. Can Carlton prevent Alex and Lewis from losing their gigs, help them with the love thingy and finally understand the meaning of comedy in the Universe? Will a robot ever be able to do stand-up? Yes, that is THE Eric Idle of Monty Python fame. A must for Python buffs.
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Ten thousand years ago, something unworldly happened on earth, something long forgotten, something unearthed only in the 20th century. And now a crack team of scientists and soldiers has the power to beyond the last frontier of space on an ultra-secret mission to probe the greatest mystery in the universe. They have no idea what they will find or even if they can return. Only one thing is certain - the ultimate adventure is about to begin, when they enter the Stargate. -
It had been five hundred years since the Terran colony of Corwin had communicated with Earth. But now Corwin is threatened by the warriors of Klodni and the desperate planet needs help. Baird Ewing is chosen as ambassador to get that help and save Corwin. But Earth had changed. Ewing finds a decadent world of worthless pleasure seekers devoid of hope and incapable of help. The only vestige of the old world on Earth is found in the College of Abstract Science. It's Ewing's last hope. If he fails, it's the end for him, for Corwin - and the galaxy. Cover art by Peter Elson. -
Sugar Rain: Paul Park
$15.00The sequel to Soldiers of Paradise. In the city-state of Charn the generation-long winter has given way at last to Spring and the lovers Thanakar and Charity are separated by war and social upheaval. Throughout the harsh winter, Charn's deterministic religion, based on astrology and the erotic love poems of an unwitting god, locks most of the population into unending, hopeless servitude of the Starbridge ruling class. The long-awaited spring - in accordance with prophecy and dim legends - is heralded by floods, the births of monsters and sweet, fertile rain which brings an intoxicating taste of chaos to the burdened poor whose minds are slowly turning to the bloody pleasures of revolution and riot. Thanakar Starbridge, fleeing a death sentence, escapes to distant Caladon and believes his lover to be dead. But Princess Charity journeys through a cavernous underworld to emerge into the sunshine, freedom and the freshness of a world renewed. Cover art by Don Maitz.
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This Other Eden: Ben Elton
$12.00We'd all like to save the world but there seems to be a lot of it and the individual seems so puny. Hence the appeal of the very marketable Claustrosphere, invented by despotic media mogul Plastic Tolstoy: a domestic, self-contained, stunningly tough eco-shelter for the average bloke. It is also the most irresponsible idea ever: the death of the Earth becomes survivable. When Nathan, a self-absorbed British script writer gets access to Tolstoy to pitch his end-of-the-world movie, he feels his time has come. But why is Nathan's script so dangerous? It's the perfect vehicle for Max, the ex-jeans model and multi-media superstar. And should Max be falling for beautiful and utterly stroppy eco-terrorist Rosalie? And what is it about the Claustrosphere marketing campaign that requires the loss of innocence and the slaughter of the innocent? -
Taronga: Victor Kelleher
$10.00An Australian post-nuclear war novel. Two years after the Last Day, Australia has become a dangerous place, a battleground for survival. Ben, who has the telepathic ability to control animals, is living in the bush of the Blue Mountains. Hoping for a kinder existence he makes for Sydney, only to be further disillusioned. Then he finds Taronga Zoo, strangely unaffected by the chaos. Or - has it?
