Sci-Fi/UFO

//Sci-Fi/UFO
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  • Eleven short, sharp crisp stories.  Call Me Dumbo: Dumbo is married to Carl, and has three sons - but who is she really? Repeat Performance: A cinema owner who shows old movies witnesses odd occurrences at his establishment ... And Isles Where Good Men Lie: An endless caravan of alien space craft are entering the solar system and disgorging a horde of fifteen-foot long insects that exude deadly bacteria. Scientists understand that these aliens are refugees, but how to stop them spreading a plague that will kill humanity? What Time Do You Call This? A scientist engaged in time-stream hopping appears in the apartment of a criminal. When the crook learns how the time-hop device operates, he steals it - but to what end? Communication: A bogus medium uses a computer to find out confidential information about his clients to convince them that the dead really can communicate - and then discovers the dead really CAN communicate. The Cosmic Cocktail Party: A super-computer housing the personalities of the dead to provide interaction with the living goes haywire when the dead start interacting with each other!The Happiest Day of Your Life: A future in which the cognitive and economic elite can, through hypnosis, drugs and surgery, get all their education in one day, resulting in eight-year-old attorneys and executives unable to converse with their parents because of their high IQs.  The Weapons of Isher II:  The most popular entertainment of the Space Empire is televised duelling - but a journalist discovers that the duels are nowhere near as 'deadly' as they  look; Pilot Plant: A cybernetics expert hears a mysterious disembodied voice just before a test flight of a new aircraft crashes; Telemart Three:  Holographic televisions of the future with a teleport means housewives can have their shopping instantly - and causes husbands to contemplate murder. Invasion of Privacy: Middle-class suburbanite George Ferguson's mother-in-law has been dead for two weeks, but his son Sammy claims to have seen her alive and well - in the old abandoned house down the street.  
  • Book I of Tomorrow.   When Ellie and her friends go camping in a remote location the locals call Hell, they have no idea they're leaving their old lives behind forever. Despite a less-than-tragic food shortage and a secret crush or two, everything goes as planned. But when they return home, they find they are really in Hell -  their homes are abandoned and their pets starving or dead. Something has gone wrong - horribly wrong. Before long, they realize the country has been invaded and the entire town has been captured - including their families and all their friends. Ellie and the other survivors face an impossible decision: They can flee for the mountains or surrender. Or they can fight... Cover art by Helen Halliday.
  • Book IV of The World As Myth. Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to readers of The Cat Who Walks through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead... Cover art by Boris Vallejo.
  • What if there were an Afterworld?  Not Heaven or Hell, per se, but a place where everyone who has ever lived reawakens when they die, to live again and die again and live again, for ever. Warrior-King Gilgamesh has been in such an Afterworld longer that almost anyone else save the Hairy Men from Before the Flood, and in recent centuries he's seen it change beyond recognition as the newly dead import their machinery, weaponry and Industrial Age attitudes.  Gilgamesh's dissatisfaction with this behaviour sends him on a quest through the Afterworld realms of such luminaries as Prester John, Simon Magus, Walter Raleigh and Pablo Picasso in search of a gateway that is rumored to exist - a gateway that leads back to the land of the living. Cover art by Steve Crisp.

  • Earth's colony on Ganymede is under attack.  The people of Earth demand reprisal and the United Nations must take action.  But Ted Kennedy is worried - he has been to Ganymede, he has seen the 'people' and he knows a truth too terrifying to reveal.  Only he can convince the leaders of Earth that they are the victim of a hoax. Cover art by Tom Kidd.
  • Book III of Doona. The huge black spaceship in orbit around Doonarrala is apparently unarmed and poses no immediate threat, but a classified military tape reveals that it bears a striking resemblance to one found derelict and looming over a planet devastated by war.  For Todd Reeve, leader of the Human colony on Doonarrala, and for his Hrruban friend Hrriss, the ship represents a chance for both their species to extend the hand of friendship to another. For others, both from Earth and Hrruba, the ship and its inhabitants are a threat of such magnitude they will stop at nothing to to sabotage Todd's efforts at communication. Cover art by Mark Harrison.
  • Book VIII of Witch World. The fate of Witch World hangs in the balance. Can Yonan the Warrior, aided by the spirit of Tolar, an ancient Witch World hero, combat Targi and defeat the Forces of Darkness? Only in the past can Targi's defences be penetrated.  While Yonan/Tolar journey backwards in time, Crytha, an untrained witch, must thwart the Forces of Darkness until his return. Cover art by Rodney Matthews.
  • Earth has become an ecological nightmare. On a vast metallic island in space, the scientists of the Trikon project undertake research too risky to be conducted anywhere else - research that could save the planet. The Commander Dan Tighe discovers the truth.  Trikon's priority is espionage - the scientists, consumed by greed, lust and drugs -  are running the lab for their own gain.  And one of his crew is trying to destroy the Trikon Station.  Only Commander Tighe can save Trikon - and only Trikon can save the Earth. Cover art by Gerry Grace. s
  • Radiation from the stellar explosion less than 150 light years away smashed Earth into a new ice age.  Tornadoes devastated the world, leaving destruction, death and desolation in their wake.  Worst of all, the human race found itself sterile. The Zetas, strange people with  suddenly-acquired psychic powers were made the scapegoats, but even during the hounding and extermination that followed, few could grasp what had really happened - an alien intelligence, riding on the shock waves of that supernova, had broken through the atmosphere to take up residence in the human brain.   Who would inherit the Earth? Cover art by Chris Achilleos.
  • Highlights include: sightings from Russia, China and Africa, including never before published sightings from airline crews; the family who were 'attacked' by a UFO in the Australian desert; detailed accounts of a wave of sightings in Britain during 1988; new reveletions about cases involving the actual recovery of UFOs and their alien occupants.
  • Three by Connie Willis: Uncharted Territory: Explorers Findriddy and Carson are sent to Boohte to survey the ridges and scrub-covered hills of the planet. Back home, their adventures are followed by countless breathless fans, but the reality is far less romantic as they deal with dust, nitpicking regulations, and uncooperative aliens. Teamed with a young intern whose specialty is mating customs and a native guide of indeterminate gender, the group sets out for a previously unexplored sector of the planet. As they survey canyons and cataracts, battle dangers, and discover alien treasures, they will soon find themselves in alien territory of another kind: exploring the paths and precipices of sex. And love. Fire Watch: A time-traveling graduate student from a future Oxford University is sent to the London Blitz due to a clerical error. He was supposed to travel with St Paul for his practical exam, but instead ends up assigned to the Fire Watch for St Paul’s Cathedral - and he hasn't the least idea what's going on. Even The Queen: Virtually every new technology spawns those who insist that whatever-it-is is a bad thing. But in this case, an entire cult is involved. Cover art by Mick Van Houten.
  • The volume contains: Time Enough, Lewis Padgett; The Soul-Empty Ones, Walter Miller Jr; Defender of the Faith, Alfred Coppel; All of You, James V. McConnell; The Holes and Beast in the House, Michael Shaara; Little Boy, Jerome Bixby; Unwillingly to School, Pauline Ashwell; Brother Robot and The Stuff, Henry Slesar; The Risk Profession, Donald E. Westlake; Arcturus Times Three, Jack Sharkey; They Are Not Robbed, Richard McKenna; The Creatures of Man, Verge Foray; Only Yesterday, Ted White; An Agent In Place, Laurence M. Janifer.
  • 10 November, 2996...The ship Parkinson was transporting famous entertainer Chelsie Bradford on a tour of the galaxy, to raise funds for a very unpopular interstellar war.  Then the deaths began.  Captain Inspector Nate Blackburn knew the killer would strike again.  But he didn't know why.  Were the murders acts of sabotage - or acts of twisted love? Cover art by Ron Miller.
  • It's another world: a pristine earth where mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers still roam. There are no laws, no cities, no highways, no pollution - no people. It lies just beyond the heavy wooden door, hidden at the back of the barn, through a tunnel that enters a hillside in South Texas, but doesn't come out the other side. It belongs to Charlie, a whole world accessible only through the doorway on the ranch his uncle left him free and clear. But to explore a planet, you need money. And equipment. And the money to buy the equipment. Money to live on while you explore; money for taxes on the ranch and to pay for the training needed to survive in a completely wild world. So Charlie captures some extinct birds - passenger pigeons - and sells them on the tame side to finance his venture.  He sells more than a dozen, and Wildside  Investments is born. That is the beginning of the end - for how can you keep a secret like that one anyone gets wind of it? Charlie and his trusted friends will have to fight for the preservation of the Wildside - and their own lives. Cover art by Nicholas Jainschigg.

  • The UK suffers a terribly harsh winter: rivers freeze solid, food and fuel run low, the whole of Europe lies under snow. Months pass and the arctic weather remains. It gradually becomes clear that the world's climate has changed permanently and humanity must adapt to survive in the brutal new conditions. As the northern hemisphere nations fall into chaos and barbarism, with packs of men roaming like wolves through the frozen wastelands, citizens flee south to Africa and South America. Journalist Andrew Leedon is one of the lucky ones who escaped in time - swapping London for the white refugee slums of habitable Nigeria. Horrified by conditions and determined to act, Leedon makes a desperate plan to return and reclaim the dangerous wilderness of his abandoned country...  Originally published in 1962, this literally makes  chilling reading today.
  • An infinity of universes, each with their own strange stories...a future where space suits come with chastity belts; a planet where they have a new thrill, but will it ever replace sex? A good government must work, but what if it works too well? An alien culture who didn't want to change Earth...they just wanted to use it; The phobias of today translated into the fears of tomorrow...Eight of the best from the author of Dune. In this volume:  The Tactful Saboteur; Committee of the Whole; Old Rambling House; Mating Call; A-W-F Unlimited; The Featherbedders; The GM Effect; Escape Felicity.   Cover art by Steve Crisp.
  • Stark has more money than God and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn.  And they know the Earth is dying.  A conspiracy is formed, and a planet-sized plot is hatched; the money-men who have destroyed the Earth are preparing to live in outer space - just until the Earth renews itself, ready for fresh exploitation.  Some green freaks pick up the scent: CD, a Pommie poseur; Rachel, a rebel with a cause; Zimmerman, a brain-fried Vietnam Vet who got his balls shot off in the conflict; Walter, his peaceable mate; the Culboons, an aboriginal couple who have lost their land to the STARK conspiracy -and Chrissy, a determined American journo.  Together they'll bring the rich enviro-vandals to justice - but they'll have to do more than stick up two fingers and say, "Peace." This novel contains one of Elton's finest quotes: To be able to own a swimming pool is a reality - to be able to own seventeen is a meaningless abstract.  Cover shows Derrick O'Connor as Zimmerman and Ben Elton as CD in a scene from the TV mini-series of STARK.

  • TekWar 1: Not satisfied with the thrills of being one of Greater Los Angeles’ toughest cops, Jake Cardigan turns to Tek, a computerised brain stimulant which transports the user to any reality he can imagine. He’s soon addicted to this fantasy-enabler - and it isn’t long before Cardigan is accused of dealing. When he fails to convince the mechanised jury of his innocence, the state strips his badge and sentences him to fifteen years in suspended animation. Four years later he’s awakened. His sentence has been changed - but no one will tell him why. Cardigan’s search for answers takes him to Mexico, where a rogue scientist is attempting to rid the world of Tek. But these efforts have roused powerful enemies...Aiding this quest is the right thing to do, but for an ex-con, doing good can be the most dangerous decision of all. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/tek-secret-william-shatner/
  • An excellent novelisation of the film by established and respected sci-fi author Whitley Strieber, based on the screenplay by Roland Emmerich. The planet is warming up and as the ice caps melt, the great currents of the oceans shift and the northern hemisphere is plunged into a new ice age. But as western society succumbs to blizzards and tidal waves, and the population of the northern hemisphere begins a a mass exodus southwards, mankind's only saviour is making a lonely, terror-filled trip north - to New York, disappearing under massive snow drifts - where his son was last heard of....

  • The discovery made by an anthropological expedition to New Guinea had implications which threatened to disrupt modern society - for they discovered the missing link between humans and animals, the Paranthropus; in some respects human, in others, ape-like. A creature on the borderline between man and animal which raised doubts as to the nature of Man and his place in the Universe....Cover art by Tim White.
  • In this issue:  Blind Windows, Garry Kilworth; Healer, P.E. Cunningham; The Man With The Little Red Wagon, Ross Appel; Superbiometalemon, Christopher Anvil; Sule Skerry, Jane Yolen; Die And Follow Me, Gary Jennings; The Last Run, Alan Dean Foster; The Buck, Reid Collins; The Lion In His Attic, Larry Niven. With book, film and a science review by Isaac Asimov.  Cover art by David Hardy.
  • Book II of The Baroque Cycle. In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves - including one Jack Shaftoe, A.K.A. King of the Vagabonds, A.K.A. Half-Cocked Jack - devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues - a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold. In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession. Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, dastardly plots are set in motion ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.

  • Book IV of Harvest Of Stars. The staid and sombre people of Earth are not only dependent on technology, they are all but ruled by machine intelligence. Suspecting a conspiracy to suppress the last vestiges of freedom known to mankind, Guthrie sets out on a dangerous journey, encountering the brave and beautiful Kinna Ronay and her courageous friend Fenn, who will join Guthrie in his attempt to stop the Terrans. Guthrie and his friends are determined that humankind will travel to the stars and roam the galaxies, or die trying. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate.

  • Book I of Harvest Of Stars. Earth is in the grip of the Avantists, an oppressive regime that has crushed dissent and now threatens the last bastion of liberty, a maverick interplanetary corporation known as Fireball. Kyra Davis, beautiful young space pilot, is on a mission to rescue an electronic ghost - Fireball's founder, Anson Guthrie, whose mind was stored in a computer after his death - and rally the resistance to strike a blow against tyranny. Pursued by Avantist forces, she and Guthrie engage in a desperate battle of wits against a brilliant adversary -  a computer copy of Guthrie that has been reprogrammed to serve the enemy. On an interstellar odyssey that takes Kyra from Earth's rebel enclaves to the decadent court of a lunar colony and the endangered frontier world of Demeter until under the light of Alpha Centauri, she undergoes an awesome transformation to ensure humankind's survival among the stars. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate.

  • These are the Broken Worlds: Mars: centre of the fractured universe, planet of immortal warlords and cloned warriors, fallen now to alien invaders; Parmenio: fog-shrouded pleasure planet, playground of the decadent, where anything and anybody could be bought or stolen; Loei: world of towering peaks, rife with intrigue and danger, rumoured hiding place of the fabled fleet of Old Earth; Ynenga: desert planet, home of the bird-like Tu'u, with shifting sands that hide ancient secrets; Vihaarn: A world divided, where cloud dwellers turn traitor and those who dwell on the land may hold the key to survival. Attanio Hwin, reluctant messenger. Chance and a beautiful woman have brought him from the steamy streets of Paarmenio to the vaulting corridors of a Martian veilship and the scattered settlements of the Galactic Arm. He carries a warning to the hostile inhabitants: THE ALIENS ARE COMING...Cover art by Ron Miller.

  • Doctor Who Original Adventures No 94. The young Venetian Marco Polo is on his way to the Emperor's Court in Peking when he meets the intrepid time-travellers, for the TARDIS has landed on earth in the year 1289. Marco Polo recognises the TARDIS as a means of winning favour with the Emperor. But in the end the Doctor has no-one but himself to blame when he gambles away his wondrous travelling machine to Kublai Khan. Cover art by David McAllister.

  • An American archeologist, Cassandra Rubicon, disappears while exploring the lost Mayan city of Xitaclan. X-File agents Fox Mulder and Dan Scully are sent to investigate. A mysterious jade artifact recovered from the ruins...ominous legends whispered by the natives...Mulder decides there's more to the case than a team of missing scientists - namely, ancient curses, blood sacrifices and deadly reptilian monsters lost in the jungles before history. But what the agents don't know is that Xitaclan is the scene of a three-way war between Central American drug lords, international smugglers of Mayan artifacts and a covert U.S. military team that has been sent to investigate and destroy a strange electronic signal received from beneath the ruins - a signal aimed upwards at the stars.