Sci-Fi/UFO

//Sci-Fi/UFO
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  • Melody wanted more than anything to be on Marz - but when she got there, there wasn't much to do except dig for ether ore.  The only interesting place was the top-secret laboratory where the essence of pure idea was refined.  She got her pert little nose too close to the idea-essence and literally faded away.  She became a ghost, only to arrive stark naked on a new and different Marz, where primitive farmers greeted her as a witch and gleefully made preparations for burning her at the stake - and then things got complicated! Cover art by Boris Vallejo.
  • Area 7: America's most secret Air Force installation, hidden deep in the Utah desert. The President has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he's going to get more than he bargained for - hostile forces are waiting inside...Among the President's helicopter crew is a young Marine: quiet, enigmatic, hiding behind silver sunglasses.  His name is Schofield, code name Scarecrow. Rumour has it he's a good ma in a storm. And judging by what the President's just walked into, he'd better be...

  • The sudden arrival of the K'Ronarin fleet saved Earth from enslavement to the insectoid biofabs and a new interstellar age has dawned on the planet.  John Harrison, hero of the Biofab war, can relax - or can he? Unknown to the Alliance, a few renegade biofabs escaped through a dimensional portal into an alternate universe and they are rebuilding their forces for a counter-strike against humanity - in both universes.  Harrison is catapulted into a strange world to discover the location of the biofab nests and burn it out before a new generation hatches.  It won't be easy - in this version of Earth, Harrison is  a revolutionary on the run from the secret police of the Fourth Reich! Cover art by Alan Gutierrez.

  • The world is held in the grip of a second Ice Age, and faces total destruction from rapidly advancing glaciers. Doctor Who, with Victoria and Jamie, lands at a top scientific base in England, where they have just unearthed an ancient Ice Warrior. Can the Doctor overcome these warlike Martians and halt the relentless approach of the ice glaciers? Cover art by Chris Achilleos.
  • The Lavalite World is a world of slow and constant change. The very landscape moves. Here, mountains rise from plains or sink into seas.  New oceans form as vast hollows collapse and seas rush in. There is only one escape from this bizarre planet: a single gateway to other universes which is in the palace of Lord Urthona. Paul Janus Finnegan - also known as Kickaha - must reach it if he is going to survive. And he must do it despite the Lords Urthona and Red Orc, the hired thug McKay, flesh eating vegetation on the run, assorted strange beasts of prey AND planetary pseudopods. Cover art by Fred Gambino.
  • Watson's first short story collection. The title story introduces a time machine which moves backwards through time but only at the same rate as normal time reversed - to travel twenty years into the past takes twenty years. Attempts are made to to communicate with its mad occupant as he grows younger and more sane. Why has he embarked on this journey? Other tales in this volume: Thy Blood Like Milk; Sitting On A Starwood Stool; Agoraphobia AD 2000; Programmed Love Story; The Girl Who Was Art; Our Loves So Truly Meridional; Immune Dreams; My Soul Swims In A Goldfish Bowl; The Roentgen Refugees; A Time-Span To Conjure With; On Cooking The First Hero In pring; The Event Horizon. 

  • In the hours before dawn, a small Michigan town vanishes from the face of the earth. The people of Two Rivers wake up in a world strangely different from their own: a world of curfews, food rationing and secret police. Something has gone terribly wrong, and it's something to do with the mysterious government facility on the outskirts of town. Schoolteacher Dexter Graham has lost his family and has nothing left that he values; twelve year old Clifford Stockton is driven by a child's curiosity and courage; Evelyn Woodward is torn between obedience to the state and loyalty to her friends; and for physicist Howard Poole, haunted by the memory of his brilliant enigmatic uncle, the only way to escape the nightmare is to journey deeper into fear. Cover art by Ron Wood.

  • Book XXIV of Dumarest. The planet had two unique elements:  it produced the galaxy's most hallucinatory drug and it was a stockbroker's paradise.  Every hour, every minute, rich men's holdings traded on a continuous stock-market. Up and down went values as men conspired to seize each others' properties.  The money game controlled everything - the common people, workers, farmers, lives, poverty and luxury.  Earl Dumarest went there to find his next stake - the drug-gem, or manipulate the market - but the advisors of the inhuman Cyclan were determined to fix the odds against Dumarest. Cover art by Blas Gallego.
  • Featured stories and writers are: The Death of Doctor Island, Gene Wolfe:  A mentally disturbed teenage boy is sent to a very high tech rehabilitation center. Part of his therapy is to spend time on a beautiful, almost-deserted, talking island.  Shark, Edward Bryant; With Morning Comes Mistfall, George R.R. Martin: Wraithworld, a beautiful planet inhabited by only a few, experiences the daily beauty of of Mistfall. But the beauty of the mist-filled valleys is damaged by the belief in the Wraiths who claim they have killed...The Future of Science - Prometheus, Apollo, Athena, Ben Bova; Of Mist and Grass and Sand, Vonda N. McIntyre: In a post nuclear holocaust world,   a young healer whose use of snakes in creating healing venom is misunderstood by those she tries to help. The Deathbird, Harland Ellison: Millions of years ago, 'The Mad One' took possession of the earth. The original creators left behind one member of their race, Dira, to tell humans the truth about their 'God'. As the world now comes to an end, there is only one descendant of Dira left to make the journey to the mountain of 'God' and ask that the Earth be put out of its misery. A Thing of Beauty, Norman Spinrad: In a future depressed and bankrupt America, an antique dealer is approached by a Japanese billionaire who wants to buy the Brooklyn Bridge. Love Is The Plan The Plan Is Death, James Tiptree, Jr: Moggadeet, an intelligent, spider-like creature, decides to resist the violent life-cycle of his species...the lifecycle they call 'The Plan'.  The Childhood of the Human Hero,  Carol Emshwiller.