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Book I of Fractalverse. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope... -
Shockwave: Paul Ruditis
$12.00Star Trek: Enterprise III. The Paraagan deep space colony was just another first contact, unusual in only two respects - it was a matriarchal society and the planet's upper atmosphere was filled with a highly volatile gas. But the officers of the Enterprise know how to handle their shuttlepod and they understood the Paraagan landing protocols. As the shuttlepod descended, they closed the plasma vents, certain that noting could escape that would ignite the gas. Thirty-six hundred colonists were vapourised in the blast. Every building, every living thing, everything on the surface of the planet was destroyed. Could the Enterprise have caused the destruction? Recalled, Captain Archer knows that the Vulcan High Command has convinced Starfleet that humans are not ready for deep-space exploration. But these are not the events as history recorded them. No-one died. Archer was never recalled. This is the startling information offered by the mysterious Crewman Daniels - who claims to be from the 31st century. Cover art by John Blackford.
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Book III of The Amtrak Wars. It is 2990 A.D. The centuries-old conflict between the hi-tech underground world of the Trackers and the primitive, surface-dwelling Mutes continues with unabated ferocity. Federation pilot Steve Brickman embarks on the most dangerous mission of his life: to spy out the growing threat of the Iron Masters, descendants of today's Japanese and the rescue of Cadillac and Clearwater, two gifted Mutes held captive by the mysterious Iron Masters.. His mission is a nightmare journey into the unknown. The Iron Masters guard their lands with samurai ferocity, but they may hold the key to victory for the Federation. Cover art by Tony Roberts.
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Macroscope: the greatest scientific breakthrough in the history of man, a vast space-borne device that brought the entire universe within man's range of vision, revealing levels of technology vastly beyond anything dreamed of on Earth. But the discovery brought danger - in a place so unthinkably distant in space and time that it might be at the other end of the continuum. A place where ancient symbols come to life to battle for the souls of men. Cover art by Eddie Jones.
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Toyman: E.C. Tubb
$12.00Book III of The Dumarest Saga. Wanted by Dumarest: information on the whereabouts of the planet Earth. On the world Toy was the giant computer that might have the information. But the world of Toy gave nothing for free. The information would be costly. Dumarest would have to take part in the Toy games. Fight like a tin soldier in a giant nursery. Yet there was nothing childish about being a plaything on Toy. The pain was real - as were the wounds, the blood and death. Cover art by Chris Yates.
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Contemporary theories on the origin of the phenomenon, with chapters on man-made UFOs; UFO psychology and abductions; UFO cover-ups and crop circles; unidentified submarine objects; psychic UFOs; demonic UFOs; extra-terrestrial intelligence and humanoids. Contributors: W.A. Harbinson; Alvin Lawson; William H. Spaulding; Peter Brookesmith; Janet and Colin Bord; Jenny Randles; Hilary Evans; Ron Hyams; Charles Bowen. With colour and black and white photographs and artwork. -
Multitudes of visitors flock to Donov to see the mushroom church, the philpp trees and to buy paintings of the planet's extraordinary light effects. Donov is a multi-million pound interplanetary tourist centre, a planet devoted to art and artists. On the outer worlds of the galaxy disorder is spreading. Animaloids - non-human life forms - are demanding equal status with humans. Art critics are notoriously inhuman - and on Donov, many of them were physically inhuman as well. Then one of Donov's leading art critics receives a brilliant painting from a mysterious source. Is it possible that this is the work of an animaloid, a superb creation of a gifted non-human intelligence? Cover art by Colin Andrew. -
In The Wet: Nevil Shute
$9.00This extraordinary story opens in the wilds of Queensland. The year is 1953. Roger Hargreaves, an Anglican priest in the Bush Brotherhood, is called to minister to the dying Stevie - an aged, alcoholic, opium-smoking, diseased ex-pilot and ex-ringer. Caught in Stevie's squalid cabin in a heavy rainy season, Hargreaves struggles with recurring malaria whilst on deathwatch for Stevie. As both men are in altered mental states the story shifts and Stevie becomes David Anderson, a decorated member of the Royal Australian Air Force, telling his story to Hargreaves. But 'David Anderson', a man of mixed European and Aboriginal ancestry, is a first rate pilot chosen by his country to be a member of an elite test pilot team in the UK. - in 1983. Not only that, 'David' is involved in an astonishing constitutional crisis in this strange future. -
Book III of The Pearl. Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman is the mind and spirit of a unique Kundalan female who is joined in mystical partnership with the mind and spirit of Annon Ashera, a V'ornn male, the last survivor of a noble family. Together the two adolescents have matured and merged into a new joint identity. Now their common destiny, and Kundala's, is in their own hands. Other characters who will play their roles: Riane, the Dar-Sala-at; Eleana, the woman she loves twice over; Kurgan, the V'ornn usurper who raped Eleana and sired her child; Marethyn Stogggul, Kurgan's defiant sister, an artist who joins the Kundalan resistance; Marethyn's lover, chief trader Sornnn SaTrryn, who secretly helps the resistance as well; and the fabulous Krystren, the Sarakkon woman from the mysterious southern continent, who comes north on a secret mission and will change the lives of everyone she meets. All the while, the evil Sauromicians threaten the world as they seek to use banestones to bind a dragon. Cover art by John Howe. -
Book I of Battle Circle. They were the first who dared to enter the badlands: Sol, many of many weapons; Sola, his wife; and Sos who loved them both. The kill-spirits of the blast were retreating taking with them the evil that the old books called radiation. But still the badlands held their secrets - terrible secrets that lay in wait for those who dared to return. And yet there was no other way, for Sos was pledged to follow Sol - and Sol had been chosen to build a dream, the same dream which had been built so many times, eons before...Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe. -
A double helping of Heinlein. Waldo: North Power-Air was in trouble. Their aircraft had begun to crash at an alarming rate and no one could figure out what was going wrong. Desperate for an answer, they turned to Waldo, the crippled genius who lived in a zero-g home in orbit around Earth. But Waldo had little reason to want to help the rest of humanity - until he learned that the solution to their problems also held the key to his own... Magic, Inc: Under the guise of an agency for magicians, Magic, Inc. was systematically squeezing out the small independent magicians. Then one businessman stood firm. With the help of an Oxford-educated African shaman and a little old lady adept at black magic, he went straight to the demons of Hell to resolve the problem - once and for all! Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe. -
In the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the Roman centurion Vitellan set off for the 21st century as Imperial Rome's last human powered time machine. He killed an unfaithful lover just by letting her grow old - but her hate pursued him across seven centuries. In 1358 he stood with a few dozen knights against an army of nine thousand to defend a beautiful countess - and earned a love that would conquer death. Now Vitellan has awakened in the 21st century, bewildered, betrayed and hunted in a world where bodies and minds are swapped and memories are bought, sold and read like books. But worst of all, a deadly enemy from the 14th century is alive and closing in. Cover art by Julie Bell. -
Doctor Who: Gary Russell
$9.00Doctor Who Novelisations No 160; Doctor Who: Target Collection; film novelisation. He's back - and it's about time! December, 1999 - on the brink of a new millennium, an anachronistic British Police Box appears in San Francisco's Chinatown amid a hail of bullets which find an unintentional target - the strange man who walks out of the Police Box. Despite the best efforts of Dr. Grace Holloway, the unknown traveler dies and his body vanishes. And then another stranger appears, claiming to be the same inside a different body; a mysterious wanderer in time and space known only as the Doctor. But he's not the only time traveler in San Francisco - his oldest adversary, the Master, is there as well and trying desperately to steal the Doctor's newly-regenerated body. Soon the Doctor is faced with a choice - to save his own life, or the billions of people who have no future unless the Master is stopped. If only the Doctor could remember how...The volume contains eight pages of colour photographs from the BBC film starring Paul McGann. -
The Chems were the prisoners of eternity, gripped by the despair that immortality brought. They were strange dwellers in a timeless world, inflicting terror and suffering on the creatures they manipulated. These are super-beings who control men's destinies and derive pleasure from the pain and torture they inflict on these human underlings. Their world is one of infinite possibility and Time is their plaything. Cover art by Bruce Pennington. -
Book I of The Inconstant Moon trilogy. Erik Morrison doesn't want to be on the Moon. From the time he sets foot in Villanueva Base - the multilevel, underground city beneath the lunar surface - he feels out of place and out of touch. He just wants to do a good job as the Entek Coporation's new Site Co-ordinator and get back to terra firma as soon as possible. But there's more than business as usual going on here. There's a dangerous game of greed and power in which Morrison is just a pawn. But he's about to uncover a shocking revelation that some want exposed and that some will do anything to keep hidden. -
While much of the world scans the skies for signs of alien civilisation, there is a select group of men who know the truth - that aliens beings are here - now - walking among us in human form, These men are members of the agency dedicated to tracking and policing the movements of those aliens - a top secret organisation known as MEN IN BLACK. James Edwards, tenacious street-wise NYPD cop, is recruited by Agent Kay of the Men In Black. His identity will be erased and he will be in a world where nothing is what it seems to be on the surface. His first case will threaten to make Earth a battleground for two warring races and end humanity's rule in a fiery apocalypse. With colour photos from the film. -
On The Beach: Nevil Shute
$12.00The classic nuclear war story first published in 1958 and made into a major film less than a year after publication. Nuclear war erupts and lasts less than 30 days - and no-one even knows how it started. The last operating U.S. submarine Scorpion makes its way to Australia ahead of the fall-out creeping down the globe from the Northern hemisphere. The Australian Navy picks up Morse code signals coming from Seattle - could there be survivors? The Scorpion, with Australian officer Lieutenant-Commander Peter Holmes aboard is sent to investigate while Australians hope and prepare for the possible end of life on earth. -
On Alliance Central - formerly Earth - nothing breathes but man and wind, and the wind is tamed beneath great domes. From here, humanity rules a vast interstellar empire. When colonists in a remote frontier system are abruptly wiped out by an alien visitation, every team sent to investigate vanishes. At last, a young woman with her disabled son must travel into this devastating silence. For reasons which do become clear, they alone can reach beyond the shadow cast by human civilisation. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury.
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