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Featured stories and writers include: Vertigo, James White; Visions of Monad, M. John Harrison; Worm in the Bud, John Rankine; They Shall Reap, David Rome; The Last Time Around, Arthur Sellings; The Cloudbuilders, Colin Kapp. -
Featured stories and writers: Hell-Planet, John Rackham; The Night-Flame, Colin Kapp; The Creators, Joseph Green; Rogue Leonardo, G.L. Lack; Maiden Voyage, John Rankine, Odd Boy Out, Dennis Etchison; The Eternal Machines, William Spencer; A Round Billiard Table, Steve Hall. -
Volume 10 contains: The Engine At Heartspring's Centre, Roger Zelazny - A tale of an immortal cyborg whose sole purpose is euthanasia and his relationship with a woman who no longer wants to die. If The Stars Are Gods, Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford - Earthman Bradley Reynolds, 52, officially retired, is sent to greet visiting aliens who want to speak to a man who knows the stars. But the aliens also want to know whether the sun loves us. Twilla, Tom Reamy - A thirteen year old girl unleashes a murderous nightmare on a small Kansas town. After King Kong Fell, Philip Jose Farmer - The story of the classic monster movie is given a new twist by a man who lived through it. The Day Before The Revolution, Ursula K. Le Guin - The bittersweet ruminations of an old woman who began a social movement in her youth, and the culmination of her life as a public figure on the day before the Revolution begins. The Rest Is Silence, C.L. Grant - After the fact, events have a diabolical way of falling into place that makes a curse of hindsight and hell for the present...Born With The Dead, Robert Silverberg - A man learns that his wife is among the rekindled dead, on a plane to Zanzibar with five other rekindled dead. As a "warm" he's not really allowed to make contact with her. The dead liked to stay in their cold-cities. But he loves her so much, he has to try. -
Imagine a world with cities of blackened air, countrysides with no trees, endless droughts, dust storms, raging forest fires. A world of astonishing scientific achievements but which is so overpopulated and ravaged by its excesses that it hangs on the brink of collapse. The horrifying proposals of Dr. Gupta Singh are gathering momentum. He has dared to voice the unthinkable - the voluntary suicide of one third of the world's population and nation after nation has joined the Depopulationist International. Only a handful of people led by American journalist John Sinclair can stop Singh and expose the dangers of his Manifesto before it becomes law and millions die - and they are being hunted, with their lives and all of humanity in the balance. Cover art by Jackie Merri Mayer. -
Twenty three tales from Bradbury's fertile mind, featuring: The Toynbee Convector; Trapdoor; On the Orient, North; West of October; The Last Circus; The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair; I Suppose You Are Wondering Why We Are Here? Lafayette, Farwell; Banshee; Promises, Promises; The Love Affair; One for His Lordship and One for the Road! At Midnight, In The Month of June; Bless Me Father, For I Have Sinned; By The Numbers! A Touch of Petulance; Long Division; Come, and Bring Constance! Junior; The Tombstone; The Thing At the Top of the Stairs; Colonel Stonesteel's Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy. Cover art by Steve Crisp. -
In 1973 Sidgwick and Jackson published The Best Of Arthur C. Clarke 1937 - 1972 as one volume. In 1977, they reprinted it as two volumes: The Best Of Arthur C. Clarke Volume 1 1937 - 1955 and The Best Of Arthur C. Clarke Volume 2 1956 - 1972. In this volume: Venture To The Moon: Six stories in one of the first crewed mission to the Moon as a joint American-Russian-British mission, narrated by the British team commander. Into The Comet: an expedition sets out to discover what the comet is like at its core - mission accomplished...but when the ship's computer goes haywire, it will need all the crew's ingenuity to make it home again. Summertime On Icarus: Lone scientist Colin Sherrard is stranded on Icarus - an asteroid too close to the sun. Death And The Senator: An ambitious senior US Senator, who has sacrificed everything and everyone - friends, his wife, his daughter and his grandchildren - in pursuit of a political career contracts a terminal illness. His only hope for a cure is to accept a innovative treatment which he campaigned against funding... a decision for which he will be branded a hypocrite. Hate: When a downed Sputnik lands near a mussel-collecting boat, a Hungarian crewman wants revenge for what the Russians did to his family. Sunjammer (Variant Title: The Wind From The Sun): A spaceship designer develops a lightweight spacecraft with a large area of solar sail to participate sun-yacht racing. A Meeting With Medusa: When an experimental helium airship crashes, captain Howard Falcon is severely injured and takes over a year to recover. He then proposes an expedition to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter... -
Professor Pierre Aronnax is part of a team sent to investigate reports of a sea monster, suspected to be a narwhal, off the coast of New York. They soon discover that the monster is in fact a submarine called the Nautilus, captained by the mysterious and enigmatic Captain Nemo, who has withdrawn from the world. When Arronnax and his team are taken prisoner by Nemo, the Nautilus heads into the deepest fathoms of the seas where the wonders of Atlantis, the maelstrom and fantastic worlds await beneath the pack ice. First published in 1870, this is one of the first sci fi classics. Cover art of this edition by Henry Austin from the 1917 edition. -
Book I of Taken. Marcus Walker was just another young commodities trader in Chicago - until he was attacked and tossed aboard a starship bound for deep space. Instead of being a rich hotshot at the top of the food chain, Walker discovers he’s just another amusing novelty, part of a cargo of “cute” aliens from primitive planets - destined to be sold as pets to highly advanced populations in “civilised” regions of the galaxy. Another man might resign himself to the inevitable and hope to be sold to a kindly owner, but not Walker. This former college football star has plenty of American ingenuity and no intention of admitting defeat, now or ever. In fact, he’s only just begun to fight. Cover art by David Stevenson. -
The summer of 1971 was unusually sunny for London. It was also scientifically fascinating: Sunspots emitting a new type of solar radiation suddenly appeared. Then, unaccountably, there began a sharp rise in the suicide rate, and over the next ten years, the radiation-triggered impulse to self-destruction gradually eliminated all but the Transnormals - creative artists, eccentrics, psychopaths - those who had always lived on the fringe of organised society. These survivors now found themselves in a depopulated world where civilization had dissolved and man had reverted to savagery...Cover art by Chris Foss.
