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Medium is a heart-warming machine, designed to provide a connection with the dead. Now all the world could reach their loved ones - at a price. Anything so emotionally loaded and carrying that kind of price tag could be a powerful political weapon. But no-one, not even the inventor, could guess at how terrible that price might become. Cover art by Peter Jones. -
It was forbidden to enter the tower. The law had been handed down from a time beyond man's memory, and none who broke it had ever survived. From the tower flowed the energy and intelligence that kept alive the city of Noi Lantis, the sole vestige of civilization left on Earth. The Earthling, Kymri, and the beautiful invader-girl, Mirlana, already had violated a great and terrible taboo by daring to fall in love. Now they were about to commit the most fearful transgression of all. But there was no turning back as they slid open the glittering tower doors. Within was the secret that could spell man's last hope for survival - or his final sentence of doom....Cover art by Chris Foss. -
On a planet at the edge of a galaxy long torn by devastating wars, a man is assigned to monitoring duties - to detect any sign of aggressiveness that might trigger another conflict. In fulfilling this task, Lewis Orne, interplanetary troubleshooter, discovers within himself extrasensory powers of awesome potential. His new powers get him an invitation to join the company of 'gods' and he must face complex and perilous rites of passage in deep space. Cover art by Bruce Pennington. -
Book II of Saga Of The Exiles. Exiled beyond the time portal into a world of six million years before, the misfits of the 22nd century are enmeshed in the age-old war of two alien races. In this strange world, each year brings the ritual Grand Combat between the Firvulag and the Tanu, possessors of the invincible mind-armouring necklet - The Golden Torc. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury. -
The old First Empire lies shattered, swept away by the forces of First Foundation established by psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man to have foreseen the shifting patterns of the inhabited Cosmos. But not even Seldon could have predicted the mutant menace of the Mule - a being of terrifying supernomal powers who can precipitate a savage struggle that can lay waste to entire star systems. -
You can't keep a good rat down, of course nor out of trouble. Jim and the lethal, lovely Angelina owe themselves a honeymoon and Paraiso-Aqui looks like the place. Settled long ago by voyagers from the southern continent of Earth (or Dirt as it was also known) Paraiso is warm and easy. But all is NOT well in paradise. The serpentine General Julio Zapilote is about to sail back into office in another rigged election and the chance to scupper him is too good for Jim to pass up. Corruption, bribery, graft and chicanery...as usual. Cover art by Peter Elson. -
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonisation of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City Detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Baley and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot - and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim. Cover art by Dennis Rolfe. -
Book V of the Dune Chronicles. Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying. Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders-fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor...Cover art by Gerry Grace -
Book I of Alex Benedict. Everyone knew the legend of Christopher Sim. Fighter. Leader. An interstellar hero with a rare talent for war. Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a ragtag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the back of the alien Ashiyyur. But now, Alex Benedict has found a startling bit of information, long buried in an ancient computer file. If it's true, then Christopher Sim was a fraud. For his own sake and that of history, Alex Benedict must follow the dark track of a legend, into the very heart of the alien galaxy where he will confront a truth far stranger than any imaginable fiction. Cover art by Darrell Sweet.
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Foundation: Isaac Asimov
$9.00Book I of Foundation. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun - or fight them and be destroyed. Cover art by Fred Gambino. -
Star Wars: Book III of Callista: Nam Chorios is a barren backwater world - once a dreaded prison colony, now home to a fanatic religious cult. It is here that Princess Leia has been taken captive by a ruthless and charismatic warlord bent on destroying the New Republic. Meanwhile, Luke lands on a mysterious planet in search of his lost love, Callista, only to discover the Force is his own worst enemy. But worst of all, as Han, Chewie, and Lando leave Coruscant on a desperate rescue mission, a strange life-form, unlike any the galaxy has ever seen, awakens...a life-form so malevolent it will destroy everything - both Empire and New Republic - on its path to domination. Cover art by Drew Struzan. -
Bing Walter, alien, has been given a human body (more or less) by his superiors and he’s an advance scout to prepare Earth for extra terrestrial contact. His mission: to get a job with TIME Magazine and once there, insert a cover story detailing the forthcoming arrival of an alien spaceship. His home planet has been sending out signals, but humans are not getting the message. Bing feels perhaps the UNIVAC computer at S.E.T.I. - which calls itself Rufus - would be more helpful...but the message code is so simple, that even Rufus needs help figuring it out and humans haven't got an earthly! Cover art by Bill Wenzel. -
Equator: Brian Aldiss
$9.00An invasion of Earth was imminent - and only one man could stop it. A team of saboteurs had infiltrated the enemy territories, attempting to bring back to Earth a warning of the impending attack. Death had reduced their number to two and fear of treachery had divided them. Finally, only one man could save Earth. The secret of the hordes of death must be brought back. But he could trust no-one - not even himself. Cover art by Bruce Pennington. -
Red Dwarf III. Somewhere along the line he'd made a major mistake. Why else would he be on a prison ship bound for Cyberia, the most inhospitable penal colony in Deep Space - sentenced to 18 years Hard Thought? The future of the species is in the hands of Dave Lister, the Last Human. And all he has to help him are his wits, his cunning and a two-page girdle section from a mail order catalogue.... -
While recovering from the holocaust of war, Earth suffers chaotic breakdowns in the fabric of time and space. Survivors are stranded in the past, present or future. Or in Mars, which is worse - and a band of heroes still battle in the alternate world of sword and sorcery.... -
Kronk: Edmund Cooper
$20.00The day Gabriel Chrome, a failed book sculptor contemplating suicide on the Thames Embankment, stumbled on the suicide bid of the naked Camilla Greylaw, was a great day of hopeful redemption for a corrupt and violent world. For the lovely form he chanced to preserve was the sole carrier of a contagious venereal disease - a bug which could inhibit the aggressive instinct, creating total placidity in all humans. At once, Gabriel's life has new meaning and purpose To save mankind via P 939, the greatest venereal disease in the history of mankind, becomes his hardened ambition - but mankind seems far from hope. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
The Galaxy delivers an ultimatum: "Earthmen, Go Back!" Earth faces a choice between eventual colonisation at the hands of a ruthless aggressor or immediate action against the whole Galaxy. Stephen Brady, Commander of the Terran Forces, is the man to make this decision of cosmic importance. The odds are deadly, but Brady knows if he does not speak now for conquest, all Earth might remain silent in defeat for eternity. Cover art credited to Norman Adams.
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Book I of A Requiem for Homo Sapiens. Into the maze of colour-coded streets of ice a wild boy stumbles, frost-bitten and grieving, clutching a spear: Danlo the Wild, a messenger from the past of Man. Brought up far from Neverness by the Alaloi people, neanderthal cave-dwellers, Danlo alone of his tribe has survived a plague - because he is not, as he thought, a misshapen neanderthal - but because he is human, with immunity engineered into his genes. He learns the disease was created and the creators possess a cure which can save other Alaloi tribes. But the creators have migrated to the region of space known as the Vild and there they are killing stars. All of civilisation has converged on Neverness through the manifold of space travel. Beyond science, beyond decadence, sects and disciplines multiply there. Danlo, his mind shaped by primitive man, brings to Neverness a single long-lost memory that will challenge them all. Cover art by Mick Van Houten. -
Duncan Makenzie is traveling from Titan, a moon of Saturn, to Earth, as a diplomatic guest of the United States for the celebration of its Quincentennial in the year 2276. Titan, an independent republic, was originally colonized from Earth three generations earlier. Duncan's initial challenge is to prepare, physically and intellectually, for the 500-million-mile trip to Earth. Once there, he is caught up in a sweep of new experiences, including the social and political whirl in Washington, a strange visit to a carefully preserved ancient city once prominent in the 20th century, and a search for and meeting with a woman he loved since she visited Titan years before. -
Book VI of the Dune Chronicles. The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest - the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power. Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonised a green world on the planet Chapterhouse and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they’ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy - the spice melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes - a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad’Dib...Frank Herbert's final Dune novel.Cover art by Peter Goodfellow. -
Book III of the Helliconia trilogy. Helliconia is a world at the end of a reign that has lasted nearly 2000 years. The glorious civilisation that blossomed during spring and summer has faded, and the dismal wasteland of winter is rapidly destroying the human race. It is the chill at the end of the Great Year, the 2,500 year cycle in which each season gives way to a new oppressor. As winter approaches and the numbers of mankind dwindle, the barbaric phagors prepare to seize their chance and rule again. They will succeed - unless mankind can unite and stop them. Cover art by Tim Gill.
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A collection of Clarke's finest shorts including : I Remember Babylon; Summertime On Icarus; Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting...; Who's There? Hate; Into the Comet; An Ape About the House; Saturn Rising; Let There Be Light; Death and the Senator; Trouble With Time; Before Eden; A Slight Case of Sunstroke; Dog Star; The Road to the Sea. Cover art by Terry Pastor. -
Book V of The Amtrak Wars. Having captured Clearwater, the Federation now plans to catch Cadilliac and Mr Snow and annihilate the Clan McCall, so Steve must continue his double role as loyal agent of the Federation and blood-brother to the Mutes. The First Family is hell-bent on exacting retribution for past defeats; the House of Yama-Shita is also seeking revenge. -
A lunar cruise ends in disaster after a moonquake sinks the cruiser Selene beneath a sea of liquid-fine lunar dust on the Moon's Sea of Thirst. Facing enormous environmental barriers, the rescue team finds their courage, ingenuity, and resources tested to the breaking point - as trapped passengers and crew slowly run out of time... -
Originally published as Planet Plane in 1936. An international prize of £1,000,000 was being offered to the first man to complete an interplanetary journey. Dale Curtance, millionaire adventurer, characteristically emerges as the British entrant. With a hand-picked crew he blasted off from Salisbury Plain in the spaceship Gloria Mundi. Destination: Mars. Once free of Earth's atmosphere, they discover a woman stowaway. Her extraordinary story helps them to prepare for the dangers they encounter on the Red Planet and the fantastic world that exists there. Cover art by Chris Foss.
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Professional gambler Jason DinAlt accepts an invitation to visit Pyrrus, the most lethal world in the known galaxy. For outsiders, Pyrrus usually means a quick and painful death, but DinAlt is fleeing the crooked casino masters of Cassylia - where he just broke the bank. But DinAlt is not prepared for the hellish Pyrrus, where every living thing seems bent on exterminating mankind. Pyrrus is a hostile, barbaric planet where technology and civilization have almost disappeared. Using his skills, DinAlt literally reinvents the wheel in his quest to escape. Cover art by Peter Elson. Originally published as The Ethical Engineer. -
The Threat: David M. Jacobs
$12.00In direct challenge to those who claim that the alien abduction phenomenon is essentially benevolent, The Threat offers evidence to the contrary - it reveals why aliens have come and exposes their frightening plans for planet Earth. It is a disturbing picture of aliens integrating themselves into our society and relegating humans to an inferior status.The result of three decades of research, this book answers some of the most important questions researchers have been asking since the beginning of the UFO controversy. Professor Jacobs provides, for the first time, new details about the aliens' "breeding program" - a bold plan to create a breed of alien-human "hybrids" who will eventually colonise, and ultimately control the Earth. The Threat adds complexity and depth to common knowledge of this fascinating subject. The secret alien agenda revealed in this book is ominous and Professor Jacobs warns that it must be confronted.
