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The Asthsheans are, literally, little green men, dwelling peacefully among the forests of their world. The culture places great emphasis on the importance of dreaming: their experiences while dreaming and awake are both considered to be real and valid. Their society is peaceful and gentle: murder and war are unknown. To most of the human colonists, the planet - which they know as 'New Tahiti' - is there to be plundered of its valuable timber. The Asthsheans are contemptuously known as 'creechies', to be exploited as slave labour, to be pushed out of their homes and slaughtered without thought when they protest. A few men, such as Raj Lyubov, try to stand up for the Asthsheans - but they are greatly outnumbered by the crazed Colonel Davidson, to whom the only good creechie is a dead creechie. Inevitably, despite the efforts of Raj Lyubov and those like him, the Asthsheanshave to learn to fight back against their oppressors. And they do - causing changes in their traditional way of life forever. -
Halo 2. As the fortress of Reach was bombarded to rubble, a single cruiser fled the ruin with the battle's only human survivors - Captain Keyes, his crew of a few hundred Marines and the last SPARTAN super-soldier, the Master Chief. With the cruiser's artificial intelligence, Cortana, concealed in his battle armour, the Master Chief crash lands on Halo in the midst of a massive Covenant occupation. Curiously, the alien soldiers seem to be searching for something hidden on the ring. Built by a long-dead race, Halo harbours many deadly secrets but one over-shadows them all...and there is a brutal race to unravel the darkest mystery and unleash its greatest source of power. -
When the Ring aliens first thought to contact other worlds, they didn't think other species might be constructed differently to them. They were deep space dwellers - more like large complex bundles of genetic information that physical entities. They sent their probes into the night hoping to build a bridge between them and others. Most probes vanished into the infinity of space for all time. But one found Earth, and one was all it took to utterly disrupt life as Earth knew it for all time. Because the Ring dwellers sent their information coded in the form of a virus - a virus that would prove deadly to 90% of humanity. The society that rose from the rubble was unlike any that had come before...Earth's survivors experienced visions, deep, dark, disturbing visions - some of building a vast, superphysical bridge between universes, others of navigational instructions. But no-one had all of the Ring dwellers' information. And so the new, fragmented, half-mad society had to build the bridge of co-operation before they could embark on humanity's greatest enterprise...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Stories in this volume include: Home Grown, William Brown; Like Iron Unicorns, Paul D. Batteiger; Atlantis, Ohio, Mark Siegel; Search for Research, L. Ron Hubbard; A Conversation with Schliegelman, Dan Barlow; In Orbite Medievali, Toby Buckell; Guildmaster, Dan Dysan; An Essay on Art, Judith Holman; Skin Song, Melissa J. Yuan-Innes; As the Crow Flies, Leslie Claire Walker; Mud and Salt, Michael J, Jasper; The Basic Basics of Writing, Algis Budrys; The Quality of Wetness, Ilsa J. Bick; Your Own Hope, Paul E. Martens; Pulling Up Roots, Gary Murphy; Fame? Fortune? Chocolate? Michael H. Payne; Daimon! Daimon! Jeff Rutherford. With thirteen illustrations. -
Griffin, a brilliant chemistry student, discovers how to make himself invisible. The consequences are terrifying and his desperate attempts to make contact with his fellow human beings lead to mounting scenes of violence and horror. In the end he can only survive by terrorising everyone who he does manage to come into contact with. Wells, known more for his futuristic visions, took an outing into horror with the book. -
A fine collection of sci-fi from the Fifties and Sixties. In this volume: Windsong, Kate Wilhelm; The Intruder, Ted Thomas; An Honourable Death, Gordon R. Dickson; The Burning, Theodore R. Cogswell; Harry The Tailor, Sonya Dorman; Fifteen Miles, Ben Bova; I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison; The Winter Flies, Fritz Leiber; Sun, Burt Filer; The Horars Of War, Gene Wolfe; Hop-Friend, Terry Carr; A Few Last Words, James Sallis; This Night, At My Fire, Joanna Russ; Look, You Think You've Got Troubles, Carol Carr; Unclear Call For Lee, Richard McKenna; The Last Command, Keith Laumer; Pelt, Carol Emshwiller; Masks, Damon Knight; The Sources Of The Nile, Avram Davidson. Cover art by Eddie Jones. -
Fifth annual edition, 1976. In this volume: The Bitter Bread, Poul Anderson: After the Armageddon War, a puritanical form of Christianity becomes the state-sponsored ideology. Mail Supremacy, Hayford Peirce: A light-hearted story in which Chap Foey Rider begins to wonder about the mail system and how it works. Child Of all Ages, P.J. Plauger: A child who is granted immortality before attaining puberty finds that being a child who never grows up is far removed from an idyllic Peter Pan-like existence. Tree Of Life, Phyllis Eisenstein: A mulberry tree in a new housing development attracts an alien visitor. Helbent Four, Stephen Robinett: A warrior sent to fight aliens returns to Earth 300 years later - but it isn't the Earth he left. Pop Goes The Weasel, Robert Hoskins: Growing up is hard enough - and when the entire world seems to conspire to prevent maturation, it's impossible! The Book Learners, Liz Hufford: An astronaut carrying a bible crashes on a planet - with very odd annual results... High Yield Bondage, Hayford Peirce: A damaged alien spacecraft lands secretly on Earth. Senior Citizen, Clifford D. Simak: Theoretically, a senior citizen might live longer in space...much longer...The Peddler's Apprentice, Joan D. Vinge and Verner Vinge: A peddler, Jagit Katchetooriantz, travels into the future to sell his wares, depending on civilisation's changes for fresh wares. But then the Government takes an interest in his activities. Cover art by Alex Ebel. -
Humanity, facing extermination from all-but-omnipotent aliens, the Grand Galactics, must overcome differences of politics and religion and come together...or perish. In 1637, the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat scrawled a note in the margin of a book about an enigmatic “I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.” He also neglected to record his proof elsewhere. Thus began a search for the Holy Grail of mathematics–a search that didn’t end until 1994, when Andrew Wiles published a 150-page proof. But the proof was burdensome, overlong, and utilized mathematical techniques undreamed of in Fermat’s time, and so it left many critics unsatisfied – including young Ranjit Subramanian, a Sri Lankan with a special gift for mathematics and a passion for the famous “Last Theorem.” When Ranjit writes a three-page proof of the theorem that relies exclusively on knowledge available to Fermat, his achievement is hailed as a work of genius, bringing him fame and fortune. But it also brings him to the attention of the National Security Agency and a shadowy United Nations outfit Pax Per Fidem, or Peace Through Transparency, whose secretive workings belie its name. Suddenly Ranjit – together with his wife, Myra, an expert in artificial intelligence, and their burgeoning family – finds himself swept up in world-shaking events, his genius for abstract mathematical thought put to uses that are both concrete and potentially deadly. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to anyone on Earth, an alien fleet is approaching the planet at a significant percentage of the speed of light...Cover art by David Stevenson. -
On the planet Nightshade, anyone can buy or sell Flex, the death-dealing drug, to take offworld but no-one is supposed to use it. Nevertheless, Flex addicts are a common sight in Riotmark, the planet's largest city. No-one comes to Nightshade for anything but Flex - except Benedict and his traveling companions, who believe there may be something even more interesting in the jungle - something Benedict has been searching for all his life. Benedict is a First Order Empath who never knows when another crippling seizure will strike and immobilise him. Ryker is an adventurer who loves to give orders that Benedict might not like to take. Renata is a beautiful woman who likes to live dangerously. And Silky is a fourteen year old Flex addict and the most important person in Benedict's world. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Book II of Four Hundred Billion Stars. Like Earth before the Age of Waste, the planet Elysium has boundless oceans, clean skies, lush forests and fertile plains; its primitive aborigines seem harmless. Yet all is not well in Paradise. Citizens descended from the first colonists benefit from the new technologies brought from Earth but ruthlessly suppress the expansionist plans of the new settlers. Richard Florey knows firsthand of the prejudice against his people; so does Miguel Lucas, a settler 'gone dingo' - living wild and free despite the laws of the city. As the iron grip of the city tightens, so the two men find themselves at the heart of a revolution upon which hangs the the future of humans and aliens. Also published as Of The Fall.
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Baby, Doll and Lati are three spunky alien babes who are trapped on Nufon, the most boring planet ever. They steal a space ship and land in Sydney in search of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. After kidnapping Jake, a rock wannabe - and tossing him into the spaceship's sexual experimentation chamber - the global warming really kicks off! The babes form a band and rocket to stardom. But Jake and Baby are falling in love, a posse of Nufonians is headed for Earth and the US military is getting involved as well. Add Eros the talking asteroid to the mosh pit and now it's a Save the World! situation. A real fun read. -
Book VIII of Sword Of Truth. Time is running out. The Imperial Order has D'Hara under siege, Wizard's Keep is threatened, and Richard Rahl has been poisoned. There is an antidote, but it comes at a high price. Richard has been poisoned by an agent of the Bandakar, a people protected from the ravages of the Imperial Order by an ancient magical barrier... until the war Richard unleashed destroyed it. The price they demand is salvation from annihilation. With the shadow of death looming, his powers fading and Bandakar crumbling before the Imperial Order, Richard must lead a desperate people to victory. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Coyote Jones IV. Coyote Jones, secret agent for the Tri-Galactic Intelligence Service, had a strange handicap. In a universe where every normal being is telepathic, he suffered from almost total mind-deafness. He can project but he can't receive. When the social system of the planet Freeway began to reel under the force of an alleged female Messiah, Jones' handicap made him the perfect choice for the assignment - if Drussa Silver is projecting telepathic illusions instead of performing miracles, Jones will be immune to them. Since using religion to defraud is a criminal act, he could then bring her to trial. If she's the real thing, the situation will be utterly different! Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas.
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On the orders of Argo, the White Goddess, an itinerant poet and his three companions journey to the island of Aptor. Their mission: to seize a jewel from the dark god Hama and bring it back home. With this precious stone Argo may defeat the malign forces gathered against her and the land of Leptor. But, as the group presses deep into the enigmatic heart of Aptor, easy distinctions between good and evil blur, and somehow the task seems less straightforward. For Argo already owns two of the jewels, and possession of the third would give her unqualified power. And, as the four friends already know, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -
After a mining crew on a far-off planet makes a disastrous first contact with an alien civilisation, General Eron Ryle and the leaders of Earth's Alliance of Government debate if there can be peace between 'us' and 'them'. Notorious war hero General James Ford is called upon to lead a squad of elite soldiers to the alien infested Alliance Colony Ellora and find the co-ordinates of the invaders' home world in the hopes of launching a pre-emptive strike to end a war before it can begin. Together with ethnologist Dr. Lea Goss, bull-headed Specialist Braxton Ryle, demolition expert Dash Wick and quantum engineer Lt. Fiona Ardene, Ford's mission goes awry and the squad is forced to reckon with the idea that that Earth could be colonised by the invading army. Also stars Perrey Reeves, Brandom Thomas Lee and Adelaide Kane. -
Target Books Doctor Who (Numerical Order) 34; Adventures of the 4th Doctor 75. The ultra-modern technology of the Time Scanner combines with the ancient evil of Fetch Wood, and brings to life a terror that has lain hidden for twelve million years. The Doctor and Leela fight to destroy the Fendahl, a recreated menace that threatens to destroy all life in the galaxy. Cover art by John Geary.
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We'd all like to save the world but there seems to be a lot of it and the individual seems so puny. Surely it's sensible to make other arrangements. 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?
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Star Wars. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away - a world is threatened...a young queen must save her people...a dark evil arises again...and a young Jedi is discovered. The Journey begins. Based on the screenplay and story by George Lucas. Features colour photographs from the film.
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