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In the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the Roman centurion Vitellan set off for the 21st century as Imperial Rome's last human powered time machine. He killed an unfaithful lover just by letting her grow old - but her hate pursued him across seven centuries. In 1358 he stood with a few dozen knights against an army of nine thousand to defend a beautiful countess - and earned a love that would conquer death. Now Vitellan has awakened in the 21st century, bewildered, betrayed and hunted in a world where bodies and minds are swapped and memories are bought, sold and read like books. But worst of all, a deadly enemy from the 14th century is alive and closing in. Cover art by Julie Bell. -
Doctor Who: Gary Russell
$9.00Doctor Who Novelisations No 160; Doctor Who: Target Collection; film novelisation. He's back - and it's about time! December, 1999 - on the brink of a new millennium, an anachronistic British Police Box appears in San Francisco's Chinatown amid a hail of bullets which find an unintentional target - the strange man who walks out of the Police Box. Despite the best efforts of Dr. Grace Holloway, the unknown traveler dies and his body vanishes. And then another stranger appears, claiming to be the same inside a different body; a mysterious wanderer in time and space known only as the Doctor. But he's not the only time traveler in San Francisco - his oldest adversary, the Master, is there as well and trying desperately to steal the Doctor's newly-regenerated body. Soon the Doctor is faced with a choice - to save his own life, or the billions of people who have no future unless the Master is stopped. If only the Doctor could remember how...The volume contains eight pages of colour photographs from the BBC film starring Paul McGann. -
The Chems were the prisoners of eternity, gripped by the despair that immortality brought. They were strange dwellers in a timeless world, inflicting terror and suffering on the creatures they manipulated. These are super-beings who control men's destinies and derive pleasure from the pain and torture they inflict on these human underlings. Their world is one of infinite possibility and Time is their plaything. Cover art by Bruce Pennington. -
Book I of The Inconstant Moon trilogy. Erik Morrison doesn't want to be on the Moon. From the time he sets foot in Villanueva Base - the multilevel, underground city beneath the lunar surface - he feels out of place and out of touch. He just wants to do a good job as the Entek Coporation's new Site Co-ordinator and get back to terra firma as soon as possible. But there's more than business as usual going on here. There's a dangerous game of greed and power in which Morrison is just a pawn. But he's about to uncover a shocking revelation that some want exposed and that some will do anything to keep hidden. -
While much of the world scans the skies for signs of alien civilisation, there is a select group of men who know the truth - that aliens beings are here - now - walking among us in human form, These men are members of the agency dedicated to tracking and policing the movements of those aliens - a top secret organisation known as MEN IN BLACK. James Edwards, tenacious street-wise NYPD cop, is recruited by Agent Kay of the Men In Black. His identity will be erased and he will be in a world where nothing is what it seems to be on the surface. His first case will threaten to make Earth a battleground for two warring races and end humanity's rule in a fiery apocalypse. With colour photos from the film. -
On The Beach: Nevil Shute
$12.00The classic nuclear war story first published in 1958 and made into a major film less than a year after publication. Nuclear war erupts and lasts less than 30 days - and no-one even knows how it started. The last operating U.S. submarine Scorpion makes its way to Australia ahead of the fall-out creeping down the globe from the Northern hemisphere. The Australian Navy picks up Morse code signals coming from Seattle - could there be survivors? The Scorpion, with Australian officer Lieutenant-Commander Peter Holmes aboard is sent to investigate while Australians hope and prepare for the possible end of life on earth. -
On Alliance Central - formerly Earth - nothing breathes but man and wind, and the wind is tamed beneath great domes. From here, humanity rules a vast interstellar empire. When colonists in a remote frontier system are abruptly wiped out by an alien visitation, every team sent to investigate vanishes. At last, a young woman with her disabled son must travel into this devastating silence. For reasons which do become clear, they alone can reach beyond the shadow cast by human civilisation. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury. -
Star Trek No. 80. Timshel was once the vacation spot of the galaxy, full of culture, natural beauty, and friendly, hospitable inhabitants. But now Timshel has cut itself off from the universe. No one is allowed to enter or leave. Concerned, the Federation has sent agents to investigate, but none have returned. Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise are shocked to discover the truth: the people of Timshel have succumbed to an insidious new technology that guarantees every citizen total pleasure, a soul-destroying ecstasy that has enslaved their entire civilization. Kirk and Spock have faced many threats before, but now they must deal with the most seductive menace ever - perfect happiness. Based on a story by Theodore Sturgeon. -
A novel based on three previously published stories: Name Your Pleasure, The Naked Sky and The Unhappy Man. The advertisement read: Why Be Miserable? Let Us Solve Your Problems. A Modern Service for the Modern Age. Happiness Guaranteed. Dial P-L-E-A-S-U-R - Hedonics, Inc. This was the advertisement which caught the eye of unhappy mankind, offering the ultimate consumer product - bliss, here and now. But where do you go from Paradise? -
THE TIME MACHINE AND OTHER STORIES: The Time Machine ; The Empire of the Ants; A Vision of Judgment; The Land Ironclads; The Beautiful Suit; The Door in the Wall; The Pearl of Love; The Country of the Blind. THE STOLEN BACILLUS AND OTHER STORIES: The Stolen Bacillus; The Flowering of the Strange Orchid; In the Avu Observatory; The Triumphs of a Taxidermist; A Deal In Ostriches; Through a Window; The Temptation of Harringay; The Flying Man; The Diamond Maker; Aepyornis Island; The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes; The Lord of the Dynamos; The Hammerpond Park Burglary; The Moth; The Treasure in the Forest. THE PLATTNER STORY AND OTHERS: The Plattner Story; The Argonauts of the Air; The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham; In the Abyss; The Apple; Under the Knife; The Sea Raiders; Pollock and the Porroh Man; The Red Room; The Cone; The Purple Pileus; The Jilting of Jane; In The Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story; A Catastrophe; The Lost Inheritance; The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic; A Slip Under the Microscope; The Reconciliation; My First Aeroplane; Little Mother up the Morderberg; The Story of the Last Trump; The Grisly Folk. TALES OF TIME AND SPACE: The Crystal Egg; The Star; A Story of the Stone Age; A Story of the Days to Come; The Man who Could Work Miracles; TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAM: Filmer; The Magic Shop; The Valley of Spiders; The Truth About Pyecraft; Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland; The Inexperienced Ghost; Jimmy Goggles the God; The New Accelerator; Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation; The Stolen Body Mr. Brisher's Treasure; Miss Winchelsea's Heart; A Dream of Armageddon. -
The Collected Short Stories Volume 5. The featured stories are: To See the Invisible Man; The Pain Peddlers; Neighbour; The Sixth Palace; Flies; Halfway House; To The Dark Star; Passengers; Bride 91; Going Down Smooth; Fangs of the Trees; Ishmael in Love; Ringing The Changes; Sundance; How It Was When The Past Went Away; After the Myths Went Home; The Pleasure of Their Company; We Know Who We Are; Something Wild Is Loose; The Reality Trip. -
Book I of The Vang. For a thousand years and more, The Worlds of Man had been dominated by the Laowon Imperium. The aliens thought humans made good slaves and better pets, and they were fond of creating new breeds. And the Laowon made sure that their playthings never grew too powerful. Born one day, on the edge of Human Space, Jon Iehard was ordered to hunt Eblis Bey, a terrorist for Old Earth. And that was the beginning of the end for the Laowon. Because Iehard had been a Laowon slave. And Eblis Bey held half the key to a weapon that could destroy the Laowon tyranny and bring freedom once more to Mankind. Cover art by Tim White. -
Volume II of Mission Earth. Jettero Heller is on a secret mission to introduce advanced technology which can prevent Earth from destroying itself with pollution. When his partner betrays him, Heller becomes the target of every vested interest from drug smugglers to the CIA to the oil cartels - and they all want him dead. Cover art by Greg Winters. -
In this volume of extraterrestrial children...Doorstep, Keith Laumer: An alien visit where everything is misinterpreted by a general bucking for another star. In The Jaws Of Danger, Piers Anthony; The Witness, Eric Frank Russell: AN alien is charged with illegally entering Earth. The Mississippi Saucer, Frank Belknap Long: A family living on the Mississippi River has quite an adventure when a flying saucer lands around the bend. Primary Education Of The Camiroi, R.A. Lafferty: A PTA delegation from Dubuque, Iowa who visit another planet to investigate their educational methods. Tween, J.F. Bone; Zoo, Edward D. Hoch: Professor Hugo and his space-themed Zoo of creatures travels throughout the solar system via his space ship. Subcommittee, Zenna Henderson: All humanity is stumped by the mystery of why alien invaders demand complete access to all the world's oceans. Keyhole, Murray Leinster: Researchers try to communicate with a being living on the moon - and find it has learned more from them than they’ve learned from it. Kindergarten, James E. Gunn. The seven day journal of a child considered 'not so bright' who has been given a special task. Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
Soulfire: Charles Ingrid
$18.00Book IV of Patterns of Chaos. Boost - a synthetic drug for humans which seemed to be the answer to the fading powers of the Choyan tezars, the pilots who used their soulfire to guide starships at faster-than-light speed across the galaxy. Yet only humans could produce Boost and no one was certai of the long term effects. But with the Houses of Cho in conflict, the tezar training school at Blue Ridge destroyed, the emperor now extremely vulnerable, Palaton now a fugitive stripped of his heirdom and his human comrade Rand a prisoner on the planet Sorrow, there was no-one left to stand against those ready to use Boost to establish a brand new rule - that of the House of Tezars. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate. -
Humanity, facing extermination from all-but-omnipotent aliens, the Grand Galactics, must overcome differences of politics and religion and come together...or perish. In 1637, the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat scrawled a note in the margin of a book about an enigmatic “I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.” He also neglected to record his proof elsewhere. Thus began a search for the Holy Grail of mathematics–a search that didn’t end until 1994, when Andrew Wiles published a 150-page proof. But the proof was burdensome, overlong, and utilized mathematical techniques undreamed of in Fermat’s time, and so it left many critics unsatisfied – including young Ranjit Subramanian, a Sri Lankan with a special gift for mathematics and a passion for the famous “Last Theorem.” When Ranjit writes a three-page proof of the theorem that relies exclusively on knowledge available to Fermat, his achievement is hailed as a work of genius, bringing him fame and fortune. But it also brings him to the attention of the National Security Agency and a shadowy United Nations outfit Pax Per Fidem, or Peace Through Transparency, whose secretive workings belie its name. Suddenly Ranjit – together with his wife, Myra, an expert in artificial intelligence, and their burgeoning family – finds himself swept up in world-shaking events, his genius for abstract mathematical thought put to uses that are both concrete and potentially deadly. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to anyone on Earth, an alien fleet is approaching the planet at a significant percentage of the speed of light...Cover art by David Stevenson. -
On the planet Nightshade, anyone can buy or sell Flex, the death-dealing drug, to take offworld but no-one is supposed to use it. Nevertheless, Flex addicts are a common sight in Riotmark, the planet's largest city. No-one comes to Nightshade for anything but Flex - except Benedict and his traveling companions, who believe there may be something even more interesting in the jungle - something Benedict has been searching for all his life. Benedict is a First Order Empath who never knows when another crippling seizure will strike and immobilise him. Ryker is an adventurer who loves to give orders that Benedict might not like to take. Renata is a beautiful woman who likes to live dangerously. And Silky is a fourteen year old Flex addict and the most important person in Benedict's world. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Book II of Four Hundred Billion Stars. Like Earth before the Age of Waste, the planet Elysium has boundless oceans, clean skies, lush forests and fertile plains; its primitive aborigines seem harmless. Yet all is not well in Paradise. Citizens descended from the first colonists benefit from the new technologies brought from Earth but ruthlessly suppress the expansionist plans of the new settlers. Richard Florey knows firsthand of the prejudice against his people; so does Miguel Lucas, a settler 'gone dingo' - living wild and free despite the laws of the city. As the iron grip of the city tightens, so the two men find themselves at the heart of a revolution upon which hangs the the future of humans and aliens. Also published as Of The Fall.
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Baby, Doll and Lati are three spunky alien babes who are trapped on Nufon, the most boring planet ever. They steal a space ship and land in Sydney in search of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. After kidnapping Jake, a rock wannabe - and tossing him into the spaceship's sexual experimentation chamber - the global warming really kicks off! The babes form a band and rocket to stardom. But Jake and Baby are falling in love, a posse of Nufonians is headed for Earth and the US military is getting involved as well. Add Eros the talking asteroid to the mosh pit and now it's a Save the World! situation. A real fun read. -
Book VIII of Sword Of Truth. Time is running out. The Imperial Order has D'Hara under siege, Wizard's Keep is threatened, and Richard Rahl has been poisoned. There is an antidote, but it comes at a high price. Richard has been poisoned by an agent of the Bandakar, a people protected from the ravages of the Imperial Order by an ancient magical barrier... until the war Richard unleashed destroyed it. The price they demand is salvation from annihilation. With the shadow of death looming, his powers fading and Bandakar crumbling before the Imperial Order, Richard must lead a desperate people to victory. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Coyote Jones IV. Coyote Jones, secret agent for the Tri-Galactic Intelligence Service, had a strange handicap. In a universe where every normal being is telepathic, he suffered from almost total mind-deafness. He can project but he can't receive. When the social system of the planet Freeway began to reel under the force of an alleged female Messiah, Jones' handicap made him the perfect choice for the assignment - if Drussa Silver is projecting telepathic illusions instead of performing miracles, Jones will be immune to them. Since using religion to defraud is a criminal act, he could then bring her to trial. If she's the real thing, the situation will be utterly different! Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas.
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On the orders of Argo, the White Goddess, an itinerant poet and his three companions journey to the island of Aptor. Their mission: to seize a jewel from the dark god Hama and bring it back home. With this precious stone Argo may defeat the malign forces gathered against her and the land of Leptor. But, as the group presses deep into the enigmatic heart of Aptor, easy distinctions between good and evil blur, and somehow the task seems less straightforward. For Argo already owns two of the jewels, and possession of the third would give her unqualified power. And, as the four friends already know, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -
After a mining crew on a far-off planet makes a disastrous first contact with an alien civilisation, General Eron Ryle and the leaders of Earth's Alliance of Government debate if there can be peace between 'us' and 'them'. Notorious war hero General James Ford is called upon to lead a squad of elite soldiers to the alien infested Alliance Colony Ellora and find the co-ordinates of the invaders' home world in the hopes of launching a pre-emptive strike to end a war before it can begin. Together with ethnologist Dr. Lea Goss, bull-headed Specialist Braxton Ryle, demolition expert Dash Wick and quantum engineer Lt. Fiona Ardene, Ford's mission goes awry and the squad is forced to reckon with the idea that that Earth could be colonised by the invading army. Also stars Perrey Reeves, Brandom Thomas Lee and Adelaide Kane. -
Target Books Doctor Who (Numerical Order) 34; Adventures of the 4th Doctor 75. The ultra-modern technology of the Time Scanner combines with the ancient evil of Fetch Wood, and brings to life a terror that has lain hidden for twelve million years. The Doctor and Leela fight to destroy the Fendahl, a recreated menace that threatens to destroy all life in the galaxy. Cover art by John Geary.
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We'd all like to save the world but there seems to be a lot of it and the individual seems so puny. Surely it's sensible to make other arrangements. Hence the appeal of the very marketable Claustrosphere, invented by despotic media mogul Plastic Tolstoy: a domestic, self contained, stunningly tough eco-shelter for the average bloke. It is also the most irresponsible idea ever: the death of the Earth becomes survivable. When Nathan, a self-absorbed British script writer gets access to Tolstoy to pitch his end-of-the-world movie, he feels his time has come. But why is Nathan's script so dangerous? It's the perfect vehicle for Max, the ex-jeans model and multi media superstar. And should Max be falling for beautiful and utterly stroppy eco-terrorist Rosalie? And what is it about the Claustrosphere marketing campaign that requires the loss of innocence and the slaughter of the innocent?
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Star Wars. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away - a world is threatened...a young queen must save her people...a dark evil arises again...and a young Jedi is discovered. The Journey begins. Based on the screenplay and story by George Lucas. Features colour photographs from the film.
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