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Book V of Tomorrow, When The War Began. When you're on your knees, there's only thing to do - stand up again. Ellie and her friends have stared defeat in the face. They've been bashed and battered by it, brought to breaking point. Now it's time to hit back, to come out fighting...now they really are Burning for Revenge...Cover photograph by Bill Willcox. -
Few knew of the discoveries referred to in secret code words by the astronauts in their description of the moon; or the strange moving lights they reported. The author allegedly fought through the official veil of secrecy to study thousands of NASA photographs, interviewed dozens of officials and listened to hours of astronauts tapes to present this stunning conclusion: NASA and many of the world's top scientists have known for years that there is intelligent life on the moon. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Gridlock: Ben Elton
$12.00The world is driving itself to its own funeral. The car, so long the symbol of freedom and liberation, has become society's ball and chain. In environmental terms it wreaks more destruction than decent-sized wars and in return it carries us around our cities rather more slowly than a bicycle. How did it get to this? Everyone wants to unblock the jams - or perhaps they don't. Everyone wants cleaner, more efficient engines - maybe. We all long for the day that filthy, poisonous expensive oil will no longer be the blood in the veins of our way of life. Isn't that the bottom line? It depends on what we are prepared to lose: like, the wasted hours of gnawing the steering wheel and just wishing everyone else on earth would get out of the sodding way; the billions of tons of pollution; the endless death and destruction; the wholesale ruin of our environment. But there are those who would lose something much more important: Money - and power...Cover art by David Scutt. -
Book III of The Cineverse Cycle. Roger Gordon, lately of Earth - his passion for old movies matched only by his passion for the delectable Delores - has been appointed to lead the forces of good in a last ditch effort to rid the many cinematic worlds of the Cineverse of the evil of Doctor Dread. The change is happening - war movies intertwine with drawing room comedies, art films with westerns, film noir mysteries with Italian sword and sandal epics. The arch fiend Doctor Dread - whose desire for total destruction is matched only by his lack of good taste - is hastening the process with the help of Big Bertha, Menge the Merciless and Mother Antoinette, Mistress of Evil (and Roger's mother.) Can Roger polish his aphorisms in time to control the changing environment and confront the Plotmaster? Cover art by Josh Kirby. -
Jef Robini was heading for Everon with a highly controversial cargo. For eight years on Earth Jef had tried to rear the maolot cub which was the final legacy from his brother. But the maolot had failed to grow into the giant cat that was Everon's largest, most dangerous life-form. And now Jef was returning the creature to its natural home, the colonised planet of Everon. He knew the planet was barren and he would have to fight to survive. But nothing prepared him for the incomprehensible strangeness, the mind-blasting wonder of the true Masters of Everon. Cover art by Michael Embden. -
Ole Doc Methuselah was the name he was known on a myriad scattered planets, for he was the most famous member of the most elite organisation of the cosmos, the Soldiers of Light. Not a military soldier - the enemies he fought were disease, corruption and the warped psychology that spread in the isolation of mankind's lost planetary colonies. Encountering double dealing,mutations and the unexpected, Ole Doc and his many armed companion Hippocrates share a series of astonishing adventures in their endless journey through the galaxies. Cover art by Gerry Grace.
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The colonists were chosen by lottery: when your number came up, you were herded into a spacer and shipped out. Guarding the unwilling settlers were the Outposters: soldiers, diplomats, traders...men as hard and deadly as the star-wastes themselves. They needed to be - the alien Meda V'Dan raided the colonies at will. But between the savage attacks of the alien race and the helpless colonists stood the Outposters. Mark Ten Roos was one, and from the scattered rabble of his lonely outpost he fashioned a space army that could destroy the Meda V'Dan. o -
Earth, 2200: East and West had merged, at last, so there were no more wars, no more political differences. Citizens everyehwere could concentrate on working off their tax debts. If you were capable and industrious, you might make freeman status for the last few years of your life. No-one questioned. No-one spoke out. No-one rebelled until one bright morning, Citizen TRH-247 decided not to go to work - and worse than that, became desirous of a girl below his own classification. Thus he made himself an outcast, with the whole world against him. Survival depended on his wits, daring and strength. Cover art by Josh Kirby. -
Star Trek Adventures, No. 1. The Enterprise comes across a huge, antiquated vessel floating aimlessly and carrying a colony of primitive human beings who have been lost in space. While the colonists are in perfect health, they must deal with the culture shock of learning that a world exists outside of their spaceship. Their initial reaction is fear, as they believe the crew of the Enterprise to be demons. And their fears are heightened with the belief that Captain Kirk and his crew are unaware of an outside force pulling them into a whirlpool of death. Cover art by Alister Pearson. -
A salute to the late Terry Carr with contributory tales: At The Double Solstice,Gregory Benford; Le Hot Sport, R.A. Lafferty; Kore 87, Ursula K. LeGuin; Slack Lankhmar Afternoon Featuring Hisvet, Fritz Leiber; The Lunatics, Kim Stanley Robinson; Transients, Carter Scholz; House of Bones, Robert Silverberg; The Dragon Line, Michael Swanwick; Isosceles, Kate Wilhelm; Lukora, Gene Wolfe; Deadboy Donner and the Filstone Cup, Roger Zelazny. Last, but by no means least, two from Terry Carr: The Dance Of The Changer and The Three. Cover art by M. Presley. -
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. -
In this classic anthology: Sole Solution, Eric Frank Russell: Solipsism finds a solution. Lot, Ward Moore: David Jimmon, a Los Angeles suburbanite is one of thousands fleeing the atomic blasts raining on American cities. He prides himself on his preparations, while silently chiding his narrow-minded family; for he, alone, knows this is the end of civilisation...The Short-Short Story of Mankind, John Steinbeck: An Mark Twain-type allegory, Steinbeck’s account of human progress from savagery to civilisation has an element of humour yet is sobering...Skirmish, Clifford Simak: a newsman faces a very different kind of alien invasion than that expected in the 1950s! Poor Little Warrior! Brian Aldiss: A time-travelling hunter meets a smarter prey then himself...Grandpa, James H. Schmitz: Cord, 15 year old member of a planet colonisation team is an adventurer and not very good at following the rules...The Half Pair, Bertram Chandler: The flight was evidently marked for disaster. But after all, a man can't be well dressed in space with only one cuff! Command Performance, Walter M. Miller: A woman able to read minds feels very solitary in her ability, then she finds she is not alone...Nightfall, Isaac Asimov: Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one your suns start to set, gradually leading you into Darkness for the first time ever...The Snowball Effect, Kathleen Maclean: A sociology professor conducts the perfect social experiment to prove the worth of his ideals. But can he control his creation? The End Of Summer, Algis Budrys: The invention of a radiation generator endows the world with super-healing ability but also ensures they never change - ever...Track 12, J.G. Ballard: A has-been athlete conducting a torrid affair with a professor's wife is invited by the cuckolded husband for a drink - does he know of the affair? Cover art by Brian Keogh. -
Book I of Carve The Mark. In a galaxy powered by the current, everyone has a gift. Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. Cyra’s currentgift gives her pain and power — something her brother exploits, using her to torture his enemies. But Cyra is much more than just a blade in her brother’s hand: she is resilient, quick on her feet, and smarter than he knows. Akos is the son of a farmer and an oracle from the frozen nation-planet of Thuvhe. Protected by his unusual currentgift, Akos is generous in spirit, and his loyalty to his family is limitless. Once Akos and his brother are captured by enemy Shotet soldiers, Akos is desperate to get his brother out alive — no matter what the cost. Then Akos is thrust into Cyra's world, and the enmity between their countries and families seems insurmountable. Will they help each other to survive, or will they destroy one another? Cover art by Jeff Huang. -
What if money became worthless? The coming English winter was going to be a hard one and not because of the weather. As the nation descends into economic chaos, sixteen-year-old Barry Mortimer's life turns upside down when his father moves the family from their cosy home in the city to a grim, brick mansion on the outskirts of town. Why isn't anyone allowed to visit the Mortimers' new home? What is Father doing in the cellar and why is he keeping it a secret? As prices and unemployment skyrocket and food shortages become reality, Barry's world begins to crumble. Can his family hold together as a nation collapses around them? Could this happen...tomorrow? Young adult readers. Cover photo from the 1979 television series of the same name. -
Book I of Patterns Of Chaos. Palaton was among the elite of the Choyan race, a tezar, gifted with the power to navigate the Patterns of Chaos, able to pilot a starship from one planetary system another faster than light speeds. No other member race of the Compact had this ability and none had ever been able to learn the secrets of the tezars. Yet there were those ready to use any means to break the Choyan monopoly on FTL transport; those who, if they learnt of it, might take advantage of the fact that the world of Cho hovered on the brink of civil war, with the three ruling Houses - Star, Sky and Earth - watching Emperor Panshinea's slow decline, making their own plans to gain ascendancy in the coming power struggle. Palaton his fighting his own personal struggle - the knowledge that his tezar powers may be burning out - a fate which eventually befell all Choyan pilots. Yet he would soon be drawn into the Houses' political conflict, forced to pursue rumours of a planet where forbidden experimentation was being carried out - experimentation which could renew a tezar's unique abilities with the aid of a race that had not yet won Compact membership, a race that called itself human...Cover art by Vincent Di Fate. -
Book I of Homecoming. The planet Harmony had been settled by humans almost 40 million years ago. The colony had been placed under the care of an artificial intelligence, the Oversoul, high in orbit. This master computer had one overriding command - guard the people of Harmony. But now the oversoul is in danger. Its systems are failing. Soon, within a thousand years, war will break out on Harmony unless the Oversoul can be repaired. The master computer has determined that it must be taken back to lost Earth; someone on Harmony must be given back the knowledge of space travel in order to save the planet from disaster. For one family, about to be caught up in an approaching civil war, life will change forever. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Book IV of The Long Earth. It is the middle of the twenty-first century. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption, humanity is spreading farther into the Long Earth. Society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. And new challenges emerge. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang is living with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He's determined to lead a normal life in New Springfield - they even adopt a child. But there are rumors, strange sightings in the sky. On this world, something isn't right...Millions of steps away - learning about a hidden family history and the father he never knew - Joshua receives an urgent summons from New Springfield. Lobsang has come to understand that what has blighted his Earth is also a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth. Countering this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind, machine, and the super-intelligent Next. And some must make the ultimate sacrifice... -
Nicholas Bennington Flair is brilliant, damned and determined to make sense out of a senseless world he never made - a world where babies are born in test-tubes and those who are born naturally are known as obsos (obsoletes)...Almost all drugs are legal...the government sells marijuana...sex is called using and good sex is profitable. But Nicholas has one fatal flaw - he wants life to have charm as well as make sense - an archaic concept in the mechanised world of the Tomorrow File. Described as 'a nightmare ride into the future'. -
A whisperjewel has summoned Dirk t’Larien to Worlorn, and a love he thinks he lost. But Worlorn isn’t the world Dirk imagined, and Gwen Delvano is no longer the woman he once knew. She is bound to another man, and to a dying planet that is trapped in twilight. Gwen needs Dirk’s protection, and he will do anything to keep her safe, even if it means challenging the barbaric man who has claimed her. But an impenetrable veil of secrecy surrounds them all, and it’s becoming impossible for Dirk to distinguish between his allies and his enemies. In this dangerous triangle, one is hurtling toward escape, another toward revenge, and the last toward a brutal, untimely demise. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Book I of Nidorian. The people of Nidor lived by the Law and the Scripture, remembering always the Great Cataclysm has nearly destroyed their world only five thousand years before. They gave thanks daily to the Great Light that had spared their ancestors and knew that only respect for tradition would keep their children safe. Then the strangers arrived - falling from clouds and clothes in light. They called themselves Earthmen...Cover art by Walter Velez. -
Book I of Star Rigger. Panglor Balef was in trouble. A black-listed freighter pilot with nothing to his name but a battered craft and an inseparable alien companion, Panglor has to take whatever work comes his way - even when it comes to murder on an interstellar space route. But that's just the beginning. Panglor finds himself a part of what might be an hallucination or what might be the discovery that will revolutionise space flight. Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
Bloom: Wil McCarthy
$12.00In the late 21st century, man-made, self-replicating organisms called mycora - smaller than bacteria - mutate and sweep across the globe in a chain reaction so swift and deadly there is not time to do anything but flee from an Earth destroyed buy the science created to sustain it. Now the remnants of humanity, clinging to the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter are about to face their greatest test. Mycora are incorporating gene sequences to elude human defences, perhaps eve to thrive in the harsh environment of the outer system. The only way to counter this is for the few surviving members of mankind to go to the diseased heart of the Mycosystem - Earth. Cover art by Chris Moore. -
The Borg, Starfleet's most feared enemy, has set a direct course for Earth. Their mission: to assimilate humanity. Only one man can stop them. Only one man knows their weakness. Captain Jean-Luc Picard. In the new Starship Enterprise, fully upgraded and even more powerful than before, Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Lieutenant Commander Data and the rest of the crew are about to embark on the greatest battle of their lives. The very existence of humankind depends on their success. If they fail, life on Earth will never be the same. This is a fantastic item of film memorabilia for the die-hard Trekkie, full of great colour photos from the iconic film with the story line. -
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.
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Barney Boru is a professional assassin for the Galactic Confederacy,with broad power to determine the justice of any mission. He's been sent to Siegel's World to kill the King of Lokar but mysterious powers want to ensure that Barney doesn't invoke the Walkaway Clause - so they send their own man in. Now two assassins stalk the King and each other - and neither of them will walk away. Cover art by Tom Kidd.
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A volume of Christian science fiction. The Streets of Ashkelon, Harry Harrison: A tyrannical God demands a dreadful sacrifice before permitting a future race to serve Him. Balaam, Anthony Boucher: A treacherous God lays death traps for the faithful. Unhuman Sacrifice, Katherine MacLean: A foolish God plays thoughtless games with human lives. The Shrine of Temptation, Judith Merril: Humans try to understand the strange rituals of the inhabitants of another planet. The Army Comes To Venus, Eric Frank Russell: A frontier town on Venus, populated solely by rough male miners and a few prostitutes, is invaded - by the Salvation Army! Apostle to Alpha, Betty T. Balke: A preacher is sent to evangelise the aliens - but do they need it? God Of The Playback, Stephen Dentinger: The ultimate machine age God, a robot incapable of feelings, begins creating Man in his image... Robot Son, Robert F. Young: A Tech-God performs magical, chilling miracles...That Evening Sun Go Down, Arthur Sellings: In a possible future, humans believe they are descended from aliens who came to Earth after the fall of civilisation. ; The Wolfram Hunters, Edward H. Hoch: A vengeful deity painfully and slowly begins to kill off the pitiful handful of survivors of a nuclear war. Cover art by Virgil Finlay. -
The Immortals: Tracy Hickman
$12.00The United States is ravaged by disease and stifled by martial law. With whole cities falling to a lethal virus known as V-CIDS, the panicked authorities take the precaution of herding the infected into huge specially designed internment camps. Into one of these prisons stumbles Michael Barris, a wealthy interactive television mogul with a controversial past. He is searching for his sick son, spending a fortune and his future for the answers. What he finds is a carefully guarded nightmare - one that he helped to create. As he battles to survive he comes to understand that the camps have a far more sinister agenda than the military is willing to admit...
