Book II of Brainships. Nancia is her name, NX-928 is her designation. A new member of the elite Courier Service of the Central Worlds, she's the 'brains' within one of the most advanced interstellar ships around. But her services will not always be utilised by people of her own high moral integrity. Her innocent vision of human nature is shattered on her first voyage - the last thing she needed was a 'brawn' partner like Forister. But together, idealist Nancia and worldly-wise Forister just might save the galaxy. Cover art by Mark Harrison. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/ship-searched-anne-mccaffrey-mercedes-lackey/
- Sorry, this product is unavailable.
-
-
Book IV of Harvest Of Stars. The staid and sombre people of Earth are not only dependent on technology, they are all but ruled by machine intelligence. Suspecting a conspiracy to suppress the last vestiges of freedom known to mankind, Guthrie sets out on a dangerous journey, encountering the brave and beautiful Kinna Ronay and her courageous friend Fenn, who will join Guthrie in his attempt to stop the Terrans. Guthrie and his friends are determined that humankind will travel to the stars and roam the galaxies, or die trying. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate.
-
Twenty subtugs have been lost attempting to bring back oil from the undersea fields on the enemy's borders. A brilliant psychologist-electronics expert is planted amid the crew of the subtug Ram to discover the reason. And the reason becomes horrifyingly real when, miles deep in the ocean, the minds of the crew begin to crack...Cover art by Bruce Pennington.
-
The X-Files. Renowned nuclear weapons researcher, Dr. Gregory, is not only dead - he's charred to a radioactive cinder in his lab at the Edward Teller Nuclear Research Facility near Oakland, California. Scully and Mulder are called in as it's a death on Federal property and they confront a tight-lipped Federal bureaucracy whose job it is to stop questions before they're asked. Scully and Mulder hit dead ends, closed security clearances and classified documents no-one wants them to see. But that doesn't stop them ripping the lid of Dr. Gregory's illegal project - a destructive nuclear explosive that leaves virtually no radioactive fall-out.
-
Book IV of Ender's Saga. The planet Lusitania is home to three species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once again the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world. Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves. Cover art by John Harris.
-
Book II of Gideon. An accident with an antigravity machine catapulted Peter Schock and Kate Dyer back to 1763. A bungled rescue attempt leaves Peter stranded in the eighteenth century while a terrifying villain, the Tar Man, takes his place and explodes onto twenty-first-century London. Concerned about the potentially catastrophic effects of time travel, the NASA scientists responsible for the situation question whether it is right to rescue Peter. Kate decides to take matters into her own hands, but things don't go as planned. Soon the physical effects of time travel begin to have a disturbing effect on her. Meanwhile, in our century, the Tar Man wreaks havoc in a city whose police force is powerless to stop him... -
Book III of The War Against The Chtorr. Still reeling from the alien plagues that killed two-thirds of the planet's population, humanity now confronts the most deadly enemy Earth has ever known - the giant man-eating Chtorr. Lieutenant James McCarthy has grown to manhood under the shadow of the terrifying invasion of the Chtorr. As a student, he learned all he could to understand their alien behavior. As a Special Forces commando, he made violent first contact. Now this battle-hardened warrior faces a profound challenge. Captured by an anarchistic band of men and women known as renegades, McCarthy must secretly gather vital information while fighting indoctrination into their cult - which serves and worships the Chtorr. Cover art by Carla Sormanti. -
Gold Star: Zach Hughes
$10.00Stationed on one of the least-frequented Blink routes of the known spaceways, Pete and Jan Jaynes never expected to find themselves closer than anyone else to the last known location of the U.P.S. Rimfire, the newest, sleekest, most expensive Explorer-class ship to prowl the star systems. As far as anyone knew, Rimfire has suddenly disappeared without trace while heading out on its maiden voyage. But Pete and Jan knew better, for they has stumbled across the one clue that could take them where no space-tug had ever been before - on a galaxy-spanning journey with a salvager's pot of gold - the Rimfire - hopefully waiting at the end. Yet getting there, it turned out, was only a small fraction of the battle. Before they could even think about rescuing the Explorer ship, they would have to overturn some laws of physics, out run or outgun some totally unexpected enemies - and conquer an entire planet. Cover art by David B. Mattingly. -
What if...the Cuban Missile Crisis had become a full-blown atomic war...? Boston, 1972. Ten years have passed since bombs fell on major U.S. cities and the Soviet Union. Russia is decimated; California is virtually destroyed. Washington D.C. lies beneath a giant crater lake. President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson and their families have disappeared, believed dead. The best and brightest of their administration are disgraced or in hiding. America is a shell of her former glory, a second-rate power dependent on the kindness of Britain. Martial law rules. Carl Landry, a young reporter with The Boston Globe arrives at the scene of a murder. A friendless man, a veteran of the '62 war, has been shot, but Landry doubts that he's the victim of a robbery gone wrong. and suspects the man has taken secrets to his grave. What was this man doing int he War Room of the White House in October 1962? Who pushed the button that started the war? What is the legend and what is the lie? Who was the betrayer and who was the betrayed...and could John F. Kennedy, by some miracle, still be alive? -
Warhammer 40,000. Book VIII of Gaunt's Ghosts. Book 1 of The Lost sequence. A high-ranking Imperial officer has been captured by the foul forces of Chaos. Gaunt must assemble a squad of his most trusted men and venture deep into enemy territory. Their mission: rescue the officer if they can. However - if he has been compromised their rescue mission may become an assassination. Cover art by Adrian Smith. -
In this issue: The White Isle, Darrell Schweitzer; Part 4 of Daemon, by Fabian; Encounter With The Universe, Thea Carvel; A Message From The Medium, Israel O'Rourke; Lay Of The Line-Boat Lovers, Frank C. Gunderloy, Jr; Blood Money, Edward Uschno; Damned Funny, Marvin Kaye; Creator Of Tomorrow, Dave Stover. Cover art (front) by the Brothers Hildebrandt; Cover art (back) by Gary Freeman. -
Earth's invincible space fleet has occupied the monsters' worlds! Earth's mighty space force has seized the aliens' home planet! Earth's triumphant space warriors have captured the enemy system! But then...why is Earth suffering so beneath the tread of those heartless conquerors from the stars? Earth and Kazo have created a unique peace. Kazo administers Earth, and Earth controls Kazo. Nothing is really complicated until both humans and Kazos discover the existence of a third intelligent race in the galaxy and try to bring them into the newly developing peace. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Two minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the world...Suddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases and cars plow into each other. But that’s the least of the survivors’ challenges. During the blackout, everyone experienced a glimpse of what his or her future holds—and the interlocking mosaic of these visions threatens to unravel the present... -
Double Blind: Sara Stamey
$10.00Book III of Wild Card Run. The electronic phantom incorporeals have infiltrated the computer matrix on the ocean world Cyvrus. Central Interlock must send a human agent to decipher the aliens' signal - an investigation that erupts in a deadly, desperate race. The agent assigned has cyborgs and mechmen on her tail; allies have betrayed her and her last chance is her allies' clones. Cover art by Joe DeVito. -
2010 - almost the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. The remains of the great ocean liner lie 4 kilometres down on the Grand Banks of the Atlantic Ocean, an endless reminder of man's technological frailty in the face of natural perils. But now, the urge to raise the wreck is irrestistible. From the West comes one solution; from the East another. Both are marvels of technological imagination; both can succeed. But there are other powers at work and the wreck may yet hold a surprise or two for those who would return her to the eyes of the world. -
Book IV of Terrilian. In this barbaric land ruled by men, women are meant only to serve. But Terry, an empath-agent from an advanced interstellar society, owes her first allegiance to her masters from the stars and can never be ruled by any man - not even Tammad, the barbarian lord she has come to love. When she joins Tammad on a rescue mission to the distant female-dominated city of Vediaster, they do not foresee they are heading straight into trap that may claim both their lives. Can Terry's skills meet the challenge of the tyrant of Vediaster? Cover art by Ken Kelly. -
Book I of Marathon: D. Alexander Smith. The Open Palm and her crew are the finest Earth has to offer in 2058. The mission: serve as ambassadors of the human race to the aliens called Cygnans. The eleven people on board must live together for seven years. They were handpicked for the mission but their success hangs on factors that no psychologist could have foreseen. And there is a twelfth personality to contend with: the ship's computer, programmed to complete the mission successfully and to monitor the crew. What level of awareness can such a machine develop? How refined can its decision-making be after years of human input? And when the mission starts to deteriorate, what will it choose to do? -
Out among the moons of Jupiter, the empty spacecraft Discovery and the enigmatic alien monolith still float it the silence of space, mute witnesses to the mysterious disappearance of astronaut David Bowman through the 'Star Gate' nine years before. The Leonov is on its way, carrying a joint Soviet American scientific team on a mission of investigation and recovery, but the outcome will be beyond the wildest imaginings of any mere humans involved. Cover art by Michael Whelan. -
Out of their minds and the force of their imagination, men have created countless beings: from demons and dragons and monsters of legend to story-book heroes and comic strip characters. What if their world was real - if vampires, devils and Don Quixote hobnobbed with Dagwood Bumstead and Charlie Brown? It would be fascinating and perilous - if it existed. Horton Smith found out that it did exist - and he was in the middle of it! Wicked cover art by Frank Kelly Freas. -
The First National Blood Bank stores its reserves in an impregnable bank in the moon's Descarte's Crater. With 80% of humankind infected by P2, the price of a healthy litre of blood has reached 1.84 million. Dallas knows exactly how secure the vaults are - he designed them. But he needs that blood, for without it his daughter will die. There's only one way to get it: he knows it, his employers know he knows it and Dallas must attempt the impossible. If he succeeds, mankind might just have a future. -
Star Trek Original Series No 16. Klingon Captain Krenn is a ruthless war strategist. But on a mission to Earth, Krenn learns a lesson in peace. Suddenly, he must fight a secret personal battle. His Empire has a covert plan to shatter the Federation. Only Krenn can prevent a war - at the risk of his own life. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. -
Telempath: Spider Robinson
$10.00The Muskies - spawned in Earth's long childhood of fire and stone, they flourish in the stinking hell Man calls 'civilisation'. They ride the wind: gaseous beings, perceptible to Man only now that a monstrous experiment has heightened his sense of smell and destroyed civilisation in the process. And so a slow, destructive war erupts between the Muskies and the scattered settlements of human survivors, a war which will threaten humanity's existence. Only the Telempath can stop it, but he's missing an arm - and is wanted for the murder of his father. Cover art by Peter Jones. -
Three by Connie Willis: Uncharted Territory: Explorers Findriddy and Carson are sent to Boohte to survey the ridges and scrub-covered hills of the planet. Back home, their adventures are followed by countless breathless fans, but the reality is far less romantic as they deal with dust, nitpicking regulations, and uncooperative aliens. Teamed with a young intern whose specialty is mating customs and a native guide of indeterminate gender, the group sets out for a previously unexplored sector of the planet. As they survey canyons and cataracts, battle dangers, and discover alien treasures, they will soon find themselves in alien territory of another kind: exploring the paths and precipices of sex. And love. Fire Watch: A time-traveling graduate student from a future Oxford University is sent to the London Blitz due to a clerical error. He was supposed to travel with St Paul for his practical exam, but instead ends up assigned to the Fire Watch for St Paul’s Cathedral - and he hasn't the least idea what's going on. Even The Queen: Virtually every new technology spawns those who insist that whatever-it-is is a bad thing. But in this case, an entire cult is involved. Cover art by Mick Van Houten. -
Nova: Samuel R. Delany
$45.00The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq van Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation. But they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather illyrion at the source by flying through the very heart of an imploding star. Cover art by Bob Haberfield. -
Doctor Who Adventure No. LXXI. The Doctor and his companions are trapped in an E-Space universe, struggling to find the co-ordinates which will break the deadlock and take them back into Normal Space. When all else fails, the Doctor suggests programming the TARDIS on the toss of a coin. Before he realises what is happening, this is just what Adric has done... And when the TARDIS arrives at its destination, according to the console read-outs the craft is nowhere - and nowhere is exactly what it looks like...Cover art by Andrew Skilleter. -
Singing My Sister Down: Margo Lanagan; Dreaming Dragons: Lynette Aspey; No 3 Raw Place: Deborah Biancotti; Flashmen: Terry Dowling; Tripping Over The Light Fantastic: Kim Westwood; Bones: Rjurik Davidson; Occam’s Razing: Brendan D. Carson; Birds Of The Bushes And The Scrubs: Geoffrey Maloney; Home By The Sea: Cat Sparks; The Meek: Damien Broderick; The Tale Of Enis Cash, Smallgoods Smokehand: Brendan Duffy; The Dreaming City: Ben Peek
-
WARDAY: the deployment of an American anti-missile system causes a desperate Russian response: Soviet nuclear weapons explode over North America and within minutes the American counter-strike is launched. No second strike occurs; no-one is left with authority in either power to authorise it. Thirty-six minutes after it began, the first nuclear war in history is over. Six million Americans are dead. It was merely a flicker of hell - what remains are the consequences...Five years after Warday: 70 million have died of radiation, starvation and war-related diuseases; the cities of New York, Washington D.C. and San Antonio are dead. Their own country spared, British relief officials fight a desperate battle to restore American medical facilities. Two survivors set off on a voyage of discovery across America to find out what has happened. Who has survived? How do the survivors feel? What really took place on Warday, and why? Cover art by George Smith.
