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Albion: John Grant
$20.00Terman is shipwrecked on gentle seashore, and believes he has found a land of myth, but instead finds a people beset by the most basic of problems, problems it seems that he is uniquely equipped to solve. The peasants of Albion are in thrall to the ruling House of Ellon, against whose repression they have no redress. They have no long term memory and rely on instinct to get them through each day.Until Mina brings Terman home from the beach. He finds that naming the villagers gives them the ability to remember each day as it happens, to recall the position of their fields and what crops grow there, to recognise their friends and remember the dead. He hates the raids of the Ellonia and their taking of food and women, yet he is only one man against many. But Lian, child of Terman and Mina has inherited his father's gift of memory and uses it to begin freeing his people from Ellonian rule, beginning with half a dozen ill-equipped warriors. But as he travels to the Ellonian stronghold, more are drawn to him until the Despot is forced to respond. Cover art by Lee Gibbons. -
Alicia II: Robert Thurston
$15.00In the not so distant future the world hasn't changed that much - men and women still laugh, fall in love and sip wine - but some will live forever as retreads, old souls surgically implanted into the empty bodies of the young. Voss Geraghty is a retread, a retiring government researcher rewarded with a new body. In this new life he wants fun, sex and adventure - what he finds is disappointment. His 'shell' was donated by a young man who was not eager to die - the shell is damaged, Voss is impotent so he must settle for adventure this time out. In his unusual choice, Voss becomes a troubleshooter for the Space Service and an inadvertent hero. When he returns, the government, controlled by retreads, capitalises on his fame to support the immortality programme against an underground rebellion determined to overthrow the regime of death for the young so that the old may live eternally. The rebellion movement has the technology to cure Voss of his impotence in return for his help in destroying the retread centres. Still he hesitates - until he meets Alicia and falls in love. He will die in the destruction of the retread centres - but he wants to experience love as well. Cover art by Norm Walker.
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American Gods: Neil Gaiman
$12.00Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break. It’s a long hard look into the soul of America – and it’s surprising what – and who – can be found there… -
Since the days on antiquity people have been fascinated with angels: the ethereal beings who are said to hover between Heaven and Earth, watching over us to intercede in the age-old struggle between good and evil. Here is a collection of tales by well-known authors, who tell of winged messengers and their mysterious, magical and sometimes startling encounters on Earth. Some of these stories take place in contemporary settings, where the gritty realities of life would seem to negate the very existence of these heavenly creatures. There are tales of guardian angels, traditional angels, fallen angels and angels who seem to be very unlikely messengers of God. In this volume: Unworthy Of The Angel, Stephen Donaldson; The Penalty, Henry Slesar; The Box, Bruce Coville; Angel Levine, Bernard Malamud; Angelica, Jane Yolen; Your Soul Comes C.O.D., Mack Reynolds; A Plethora Of Angels, Robert Sampson; The General Zapped An Angel, Howard Fast; Alfred, Lisa Goldstein; And The Angels Sing, Kate Wilhelm; Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven, Mark Twain; What Men Live By, Leo Tolstoy; Basileus, Robert Silverberg; The Last Trump, Isaac Asimov; Angel's Egg, Edgar Pangborn; The Big Sky, Charles De Lint; The Angel Was A Yankee, Steohen Vincent Benét. -
Verse the Second in The Ballad of Wuntvor...Once upon a time, a brave young lad named Wuntvor, hapless apprentice to the mighty mage Ebenezum, journeyed from Vushta, City of Forbidden Delights, to the far distant Eastern Kingdoms in search of a cure for his master's malady of magicks (which had, unfortunately, spread to the entire College of Wizards). When he reached his destination, the luckless lad almost immediately ran afoul of the dread Mother Duck, a witch of awesome powers and great literary ambition. Soon he found himself in the witch's clutches… and her creations - cast as hero (or heroine) in a strange series of foundering fables. Seeing her storytelling efforts fall far short of perfection, the dread Mother Duck flew into a rage, and brought all of her terrible powers to bear against the lad named Wuntvor, to make certain that he… Lived happily ever after? Cover art by Josh Kirby. -
Book V of Avalon. The priests and priestesses of Atlantis have known for many years that the Sea Kingdoms were doomed. Even so, they are unprepared for the catastrophe when it occurs. Micail and Tiriki, prince and princess, priest and priestess of the last island to fall, are separated during the escape and land on different shores of the island of Britain. Micail's party is led by Prince Tjalan, who dreams of founding a glorious new empire in the tradition of Atlantis, whether the local tribes like it or not. Meanwhile Tiriki and the elderly priest Chedan lead their smaller group to form a new community in harmony with the existing population at the sacred Tor. Once the two factions become aware of each other, conflict is inevitable. Cover art by Dominic Harman. -
Book III of The Word And The Void. As a Knight of the Word, John Ross has struggled against the tireless dark forces of the Void for twenty-five years with the magic he wields. Now Ross has learned of the birth of a gypsy morph, a rare and dangerous creature formed of wild magics spontaneously knit together. If he can discover its secret, the morph could be an invaluable weapon against the Void. But the Void, too, knows the value of the morph, and will not rest until the creature has been corrupted - or destroyed. Desperate, Ross returns to Hopewell, Illinois, home of Nest Freemark, a young woman with magical abilities of her own. Twice before they have prevailed against the Void. Now they face an ancient evil beyond anything they have ever encountered, for a demon of ruthless intelligence and feral cunning awaits them in Hopewell... Cover art by Brom. -
Twenty-one year old Harriet shares her room at home with Grandma... and the dreaded chamber pot - what a life! She flies the respectable suburban nest to take a room in Mrs Delvecchio Schwarz's Bohemian boarding house. Mrs Schwarz tells fortunes, and she opens Harriet's eyes to a world of excitement, passion, adventure and men. But Harriet finds that following your heart is not easy and the future isn't as obvious as Mrs Schwarz's crystal ball would suggest. And there is Flo - Mrs Schwarz's beautiful, mute four year old daughter. Harriet loses her heart to little Flo and when tragedy strikes, she fights to ensure Flo's survival - and solves the mystery of a missing family member. Told in the form of a diary and set in Sydney's colourful King's Cross of the 1960s, this is an uputdownable read. -
All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others...When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr. Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. Orwell wrote in 1945: 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine.' He wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. This simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic. With an introduction by novelist, critic and Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of East Anglia Malcolm Bradbury. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-animal-farm/
