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The VERY best from New Writings in SF Volumes 1 - 4. This volume contains: Man On Bridge, Brian Aldiss; The Night Flame, Colin Knapp; The Eternal Machines, William Spencer; The Creators, Joseph Green; Testament, John Baxter; The Fiend, Frederik Pohl; The Subways Of Tazoo, Colin Kapp; Night Watch, James Inglis; Bernie The Faust, William Tenn; Starlight, Isaac Asimov; High Eight, David Stringer. -
Is the movie Close Encounters fact - or science fiction? Is there really life in outer space? Are aliens trying to bring us messages from other galaxies? What about those abduction stories? What do the experts say about psychics and UFOs? It's all here...and by Clifford Wilson, author of Crash Go The Chariots and John Weldon, author of UFOs: What On Earth Is Happening? -
Ether Ore: H.C. Turk
$8.00Melody wanted more than anything to be on Marz - but when she got there, there wasn't much to do except dig for ether ore. The only interesting place was the top-secret laboratory where the essence of pure idea was refined. She got her pert little nose too close to the idea-essence and literally faded away. She became a ghost, only to arrive stark naked on a new and different Marz, where primitive farmers greeted her as a witch and gleefully made preparations for burning her at the stake - and then things got complicated! Cover art by Boris Vallejo. -
Book II of Blake Walker: The universe had opened up for Blake Walker when he discovered that his world - our own Earth - was just one of hundreds ranked side by side on alternate timelines, each more strange and wondrous than the other, all coexisting at once, and all available to Blake Walker and the few natives of those other-Earths who could break the barriers between timelines. But Blake's new existence is threatened now - his time-traveling patron's daughter has been kidnapped. The engineers who could control the time-travel process are in open rebellion. And Blake himself has stumbled across a plot by a powerful and dangerous band of conspirators to ravage all the Earths in their reach. Blake must stop them. He knows that somewhere in the infinity of time there lies the key to solving this crisis. If he only knew when to look...Cover art by Victor Kalin. -
Killashandra: Anne McCaffrey
$20.00Book II of Crystal Singer. She was one of the Crystal singers, the elite, mysterious ones who cut the crystals from the planet Ballybran - precious, glittering crystals without which the Universe could not function. Sent to the planet Optheria to repair the famous crystal organ, she was - at first - accorded all the honour and pomp due to her rank. Then her life was threatened. She was wounded, then kidnapped, isolated at the very heart of the planet, knowing that she alone had the power to confront and destroy the evil that had permeated the world of Optheria. Cover art by Michael Whelan.
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Intervention: Julian May
$65.00For 60,000 years the five races of the Galactic Milieu have watched and waited for the time when human mental development on Earth is ready for the Intervention. As the 20th century draws to an end, phenomenal mental powers are displayed by operants all over the Earth - they can 'farspeak' to one another telepathically. They can build mind-shields and they are capable of coercion by the power of mind. One of these is Rogatien Remillard, a dealer in second hand books, whose memoirs - written a century on - are the basis of this chronicle. Here is a world where the mind is a weapon; here are two brothers, each possessed of extraordinary powers. One is a peace-bringer and the other is an advocate of evil. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury.
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Book I of Hover Car Racer. In the world of the near future, the most popular sport in the world is hover car racing. Superfast and dangerous, it's heroes are the racers: part fighter pilot, part race car driver, all superstar. But to get to the Pro Circuit, you must first pass through the International Race School, a brutal cauldron of wild races on even wilder courses, where only the best of the best will survive...This is the story of Jason Chaser, a talented young racer selected to attend the Race School. He's younger than the other students. He's smaller. His trusty car, the Argonaut is older. But Jason Chaser is no ordinary racer. And as he races against the best drivers in the world he will learn that at Race School winning is everything, that not everyone in this world fights fair, and that you never ever have any friends on the track. Cover: Crash Course by Pablo Raimondi. -
Polar City - capital of Hagar, one of a handful of worlds on which the tiny, human- dominated Republic sits, uneasily squeezed between the powerful Interstellar Confederation and the enormous Coreward Alliance. When a suspected alien spy from the Confederation Embassy is found murdered, a potentially explosive situation is brewing for Police Chief Bates. And when talented psychic Mulligan is brought to the scene to pick up echoes of the murder, what he experiences sends him into amnesiac shock. Meanwhile, the murders continue unabated and a major crisis threatens to destabilise the Republic...Cover art by Mick Van Houten. -
Somewhere in deep space, someone was experimenting with Matter Transmission. The last time it had been tried, millions of suns had gone nova and whole chunks of space had been twisted into black holes. Somehow, it had to be stopped. Jacklin was picked for the mission because he was used to dying: Rossa because she could transmit messages faster than the speed of light. But in their desperate attempts to save the Earth, Jacklin and Rossa unleash the deadliest menace - the Space Eater. -
Star Trek Next Generation No. 24. After two hundred years of civil war the planet Oriana is dying. Most of the surface vegetation is gone, the air is nearly unbreatheable, and the people themselves are dying. Now, the two warring factions have finally sat down to talk peace, and Captian Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are sent to help them negotiate a settlement. Picard, Lt. Worf, and Counsellor Troi beam down to Oriana, just as the Starship Enterprise is called away on another urgent mission. Alone on the planet, the U.S.S. Enterprise team learns that there are people that would rather finish the devastating conflict than talk peace. Suddenly, Picard is accused of murder and the delicate negotiations have fallen into the hands of Lt. Worf. Now, Worf and Troi must unravel the truth and prevent planet-wide disaster, before time runs out for the people of Oriana and the crew of the Starship Enterprise. Cover art by Keith Birdsong. -
Book I of Starcats. Four novellas in one volume: Son Of The Morning; The King's Dogs; Nebuchadnezzar; A Judgment Of Dragons. Meet Prandra & Krengh - giant telepathic red starcats from Ungruwarhkh. They are bad tempered; they hold grudges and they are uninterested in anything that is not good to eat. They are the most unusual agents of the Galactic Federation. They eat from the same bowl, couple, then preen - then travel across Time, down through Space, to the most bizarre and dangerous worlds - and times! - in the Galactic Federation. A Starcat and rabbi tale - with dragons. Cover art by Tom Kidd. -
This volume contains: 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. Cover art by Josh Kirby. -
Book I of Doona. Doona was a pastoral planet, a paradise of rivers, lakes, mountains and seas. The Hrubbans need Doona to revitalise their decadent race, to give them some of the pioneer spirit...But the Terrans also need Doona as an overspill from the crowded Earth. So both races send a colonising party and both begin to think of Doona at home. It's inevitable - one day the smooth skinned bi-ped mammal known as Man will come face to face with the furry, four-pawed mammal known as Hrubban... -
Frederick Plowright, a well-known scientific photographer, is recruited by Professor Clark Ashton Scarsdale to accompany his research team in search of “The Great White Space,” described in ancient and arcane texts as a portal leading to the extremities of the universe. Plowright, Scarsdale, and the rest of their crew embark on the Great Northern Expedition, traversing a terrifying and desolate landscape to the Black Mountains, where a passageway hundreds of feet high leads to a lost city miles below the surface of the earth. But the unsettling discoveries they make there are only a precursor of the true horror to follow. For the doorway of the Great White Space opens both ways, and something unspeakably evil has crossed over - a horrifying abomination that does not intend to let any of them return to the surface alive...Cover art by Terry Oakes. -
Mankind has taken one step too far in exploring the Galaxy - and run smack up against the Khalia. Vicious carnivores whose culture is vastly different to our own, they take no prisoners. Ever. Just the occasional slave who will never see his home world again. It's up to the brave men and women of The Fleet to keep the home planets safe. This is their story... The Collaborator, Janet Morris; The Two That It Took, John Brunner; Tradition, Bill Fawcett; Bolthole, Jody Lynn Nye; The Thirty Nine Buttons, Margaret Weis; Klaxon, Robert Sheckley; Contrapuntal, Steve Perry; Pay Tribute To The Fleet, Gary Gygax ; The Only Bed To Lie In, Poul Anderson; Duty Calls, Anne McCaffrey; Rescue Mission, David Drake. Cover art by Jim Gurney. -
Book III of Bio Of A Space Tyrant. He awoke in a tiny lightless cell, groping for memory - memory that had been erased. Hope Hubris, Jupiter governor, progressive populist, warrior hero, and presidential candidate - was a 'mem-washed' tool of the enemy. And if his captors’ plan worked, Hope would destroy his own political career, leaving the fate of his planet in the hands of its corrupt presidential incumbent—Tocsin. But Hope Hubris had a destiny to fulfill. He had the cunning to discover code words that could reactivate his mind; the strength to resist addiction to their drugs; the power to win the support of his countrymen - and he had the courage to make an agonising sacrifice that would ensure his planet's future and his own destiny as the …Tyrant of Jupiter. Cover art by Alan Craddock. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/refugee-piers-anthony/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/mercenary-piers-anthony/ -
Jillian Shomer had won the right to compete in the Olympiads that tested the mind as well as the body. Athletes use The Boost - an operation that conveyed brilliant intellect and superhuman strength - at a terrible price. Once Boosted, rapid burnout followed. The only way to halt the effects was connection to The Link, the global information network that sustained the world. Only those who won received the Link. None who dared question the workings of the system had ever survived. But Jillian Shomer dared. Cover art and interior illustrations by Boris Vallejo. -
A collection of Silverberg classics: Sunrise On Mercury: A team of astronauts on man’s second mission to Mercury encounter a creature that can intensify wishes and try to make them come true. Why? Intelligent alien plants are envious of Man's ability to be mobile. There Was An Old Woman... A biochemist creates 31 zygotes from the egg of her pregnancy and gets 31 sons in an experiment to prove nuture over nature. Alaree: Alien Alaree is a component of an eco-system group mind -but after meeting Man, becomes an individual. Going Down Smooth: An intelligent computer that serves as a psychologist starts having its own nightmarish problems. The Man Who Never Forgot: Superior powers - such as never forgetting anything - can have their drawbacks. World Of A Thousand Colors: A man impulsively commits murder to take the place of the one selected to be a part of an experiment - the Test of a Thousand Colours. The Day The Founder Died; The Artifact Business: An alien culture produces wonderful artwork — that no one wants. The Silent Colony: Aliens from the outer solar system detect what they think are members of their species on Earth - but why are they so unintelligent? The Four; Precedent: After The Myths Went Home: A future society with the ability to call up great people from history gets slightly bored, and tries calling up myths, legends, gods and goddesses...Cover art by Peter Goodfellow. -
Eighth Doctor Who Adventures No. I: Recuperating after the trauma of his recent regeneration, the Eighth Doctor falls foul of a final booby trap set by his arch-enemy, the Master. When he recovers, the disorientated Doctor looks in a mirror and sees the face of a stranger. He knows only that he is called the Doctor - nothing more. But something deep inside tells him to trust the TARDIS, and his hands move over the controls of their own accord. The TARDIS takes him to a strangely familiar junkyard in late-nineties London, where he is flung into a confrontation between local drug-dealers and Samantha Jones, a rebellious teenager from Coal Hill School. But the Doctor soon finds the TARDIS transporting him to various other places in order to recover all his memories - and that involves seeing seven strangely-familiar faces...
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In this volume: Marooned Off Vesta; Nightfall; C-Chute; The Martian Way; The Deep; The Fun They Had' The Last Question; The Dead Past; The Dying Night; Anniversary; The Billiard Ball; Mirror Image. Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe. This is a very scarce volume. The most recently sold copy, with a dust jacket rated as 'poor', sold for approximately 1230.00 AUD. Later issued in two paperback volumes. -
Book III of The Elysium Cycle. The planet Prokaryon is harsh and alien, uninhabitable for normal humans - accessible only to those willing to be genetically altered, a long and painful process. This marks it as the perfect site for a colony of orphans. Founded by Brother Rod and his fellow Spirit Brethren, the colony offers them a chance to forge a new home in relative peace. But all is not seems on Prokaryon - sudden fortitous rainstorms quench forest fires and then rapidly dissipate. The entire planet's eco-system is highly structured - too structured to have been formed by the randomness of nature. But decades of research have turned up no evidence of any 'hidden masters' of Prokaryon. So when Proteus Unlimited, a greedy interstellar corporation plans to terraform Prokaryon - first mining it then making it habitable for humans and netting big profits - the search for native intelligent life becames a frantic race against time and in the shuffle of bureaucracy and greed, the simple colony of orphans could be wiped out. Cover art by Bob Eggleton. -
Somewhere in a far galaxy, a being inconceivably alien is surging tumultuously from an unimaginable womb. In a solitary cell on the Underworld, the vast prison satellite in perpetual Earth-orbit, Terra Viridian is tormented by a vision, an imperative which has already driven her to an insane blood-letting. On an Earth embalmed in peace by a ubiquitous bureaucracy, the Magician weaves his musical spells and tries to close his mind to the thoughts of others...Just three links in a chain stretching across space and time towards a testing as awesome as it is unpredictable. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Rebuilding the American West after it was destroyed in a series of biological disasters isn’t easy, especially for a “control natural” - a cowboy who doesn’t have any mechanical implants. In a world where even the cattle are mechanical hybrids, most folks look down on a man who doesn’t have at least one bionic hand. But Louie Hong is determined to make his way in the new Wild West. All he has to do is explain to the bounty hunters who are after him for robbing a bank, and the outlaw gang that’s after him for stealing their loot, that he didn’t do any of it. With a little bit of luck, and the help of Chuck, his mechanical steed, Hong hopes to find a home on the range that nobody can take away - not outlaws, not bounty hunters, not cyborgs, not even talking, singing mechanical horses! Cover art by Paul Damon. -
Battletech; Book I of The Warrior trilogy. Stripped of his rank, exiled Justin Allard is given one last chance to save his honour - by risking his life in the gladiatorial arenas of Solaris VII. But his newest Game World opponent - more skilled at Mech-to-Mech combat than any other rival - raises the stakes even higher. It's Justin's own half brother Daniel, lance commander in the dread Kell Hounds mercenary battalion. But Daniel has more serious worries than dealing with his embittered half brother. Princess Melissa Steiner, heir apparent of the Lyran Commonwealth, has been hijacked and the future of the Inner Sphere depends on her fate. Both Daniel and Justin face fierce battles, but in the Inner Sphere, where nobles have schemed for centuries to win the ultimate power, those who interfere with the Successor Lords are sometimes called heroes - and sometimes called victims. Interior artwork by Duane Loose.
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Longest Day: Michael Collier
$45.00Eighth Doctor Adventures IX. The planet Hirath, its surface ravaged by colliding time fields, is a patchwork of habitable areas separated by impenetrable zones of wild temporal fluctuation. The planet's unique biosphere is being exploited by an uncaring company happy to rent out temporarily isolated chunks of the the planet to the highest bidder - no questions asked. But the controlling computer seems to be malfunctioning and the viability of the whole planet hangs in the balance, together with countless thousands of lives. Arriving at Hirath's control base, the Doctor and Sam are soon separated and trapped on the dying planet. Sam becomes the focus of attention in a barren penal settlement and the Doctor discovers the secret of Hirath's unique condition - just as a race of hideous bloodthirsty aliens arrive in force to reclaim it! Cover art by Colin Howard.
