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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. -
Doctor Who: Virgin New Adventures No. 56. "If you step into history," said the Doctor, "I won't be able to protect you." "This isn't history," said Roz. "This is family." The Earth Empire - the Imperium Humanum, upon which a thousand suns never set - is dying. The Great Houses of the Empire manoeuvre and scheme for advantage; alliances are made; and knives flash in the shadows. Out among the moons of Jupiter, another battle is just beginning, as an ancient brotherhood seeks limitless power and long-overdue revenge. The Doctor returns to the thirtieth century, searching for the source of a terrifying weapon. He fears a nightmare from his own past may be about to destroy the future. Nothing must be allowed to get in his way. But the Doctor has reckoned without the power of history - which has its own plans for the wayward daughter of the House of Forrester. Cover art by Jon Sullivan. -
An in-depth, comprehensive guide to the world of Pandora, written as a protest against exploitation of the planet. Between the calls to action, there's plenty of information on James Cameron's creation. Flora, fauna, food, the Navi and the things they create is here in meticulous details. There is also a great many details on the Earth technology that came to Pandora: ships, guns, survival equipment and more. There is also information on faster than light travel and what makes Unobtanium so valuable.With plenty of colour plates from the film and other illustrations. -
Fun fantasy and time stories: I Love Galesburg in the Springtime: A town does not want to forget its past and begins producing random - and physical - 'memories'. Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere: What happens when two work colleagues find a novelty shop - with a difference. Where the Cluetts Are: A couple find their perfect house in an old blueprint - and the house seems to have found the perfect owners. Hey, Look At Me! A shy young author dies, but still wants to leave his mark on the world...The Coin Collector: A man picks up an odd coin in his change - which allows him to visit a parallel universe and live two different lives. The Love Letter: When a young man buys an old desk and finds a young lady's letter to an unknown lover, he answers it - and gets a reply. Also in this volume: A Possible Candidate For The Presidency; The Prison Legend; Time Has No Boundaries and The Intrepid Aeronaut. A book for the serious collector - very hard to get. -
The Asthsheans are, literally, little green men, dwelling peacefully among the forests of their world. The culture places great emphasis on the importance of dreaming: their experiences while dreaming and awake are both considered to be real and valid. Their society is peaceful and gentle: murder and war are unknown. To most of the human colonists, the planet - which they know as 'New Tahiti' - is there to be plundered of its valuable timber. The Asthsheans are contemptuously known as 'creechies', to be exploited as slave labour, to be pushed out of their homes and slaughtered without thought when they protest. A few men, such as Raj Lyubov, try to stand up for the Asthsheans - but they are greatly outnumbered by the crazed Colonel Davidson, to whom the only good creechie is a dead creechie. Inevitably, despite the efforts of Raj Lyubov and those like him, the Asthsheanshave to learn to fight back against their oppressors. And they do - causing changes in their traditional way of life forever. -
On a distant planet in the distant future...When all the galaxies are colonised... John Craig, a young space diplomat, is captured by interplanetary pirates and sold into slavery. On Kossr, where boredom and absolute power have driven the rulers to a special kind of madness, Craig is auctioned off to the exquisite Lady Morgan Sidney, a beautiful, sensual woman. He soon makes his way from the hellish slave mines into her bed in the tower of her castle. And it is here, under the strange castle, that he finds the secret that may bring about the end of man in the galaxy. Cover art by Larry Kresek. ADVISORY: The author was the father of the former U.S. Attorney General William Barr and was headmaster of Manhattan's Dalton School from 1964-74. It seemed he preferred to write rather than teach and just before his tenure ended, Jeffrey Epstein became a maths and science teacher there. The novel, first published in 1973, references a strange mineral called Weinsteinite...draw your own conclusions, Dear Reader. -
In 1973 Sidgwick and Jackson published The Best Of Arthur C. Clarke 1937 - 1972 as one volume. In 1977, they reprinted it as two volumes: The Best Of Arthur C. Clarke Volume 1 1937 - 1955 and The Best Of Arthur C. Clarke Volume 2 1956 - 1972. In this volume: Venture To The Moon: Six stories in one of the first crewed mission to the Moon as a joint American-Russian-British mission, narrated by the British team commander. Into The Comet: an expedition sets out to discover what the comet is like at its core - mission accomplished...but when the ship's computer goes haywire, it will need all the crew's ingenuity to make it home again. Summertime On Icarus: Lone scientist Colin Sherrard is stranded on Icarus - an asteroid too close to the sun. Death And The Senator: An ambitious senior US Senator, who has sacrificed everything and everyone - friends, his wife, his daughter and his grandchildren - in pursuit of a political career contracts a terminal illness. His only hope for a cure is to accept a innovative treatment which he campaigned against funding... a decision for which he will be branded a hypocrite. Hate: When a downed Sputnik lands near a mussel-collecting boat, a Hungarian crewman wants revenge for what the Russians did to his family. Sunjammer (Variant Title: The Wind From The Sun): A spaceship designer develops a lightweight spacecraft with a large area of solar sail to participate sun-yacht racing. A Meeting With Medusa: When an experimental helium airship crashes, captain Howard Falcon is severely injured and takes over a year to recover. He then proposes an expedition to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter... -
Ishmael: Barbara Hambly
$140.00Star Trek Original SXeries No. 23. The Enterprise is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12 and Spock is visiting aboard a Klingon vessel, when a mysterious phenomenon causes the Klingon ship to vanish. Spock's last message from the ship is cryptic, but frightening. It suggests that the Klingons are traveling into the past, hoping to kill one man who was decisive in the course of history, and thereby change it, destroying the Federation before it was born. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. Scarce edition by Firecrest. -
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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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. -
Way Station: Clifford D. Simak
$115.00Enoch Wallace fought in the Civil War and returned to the simple house where he was born in rural Wisconsin. He still resides there today, and he hasn't aged a day since the war ended in 1865 - nor has his home, impregnable to any known weapon. For years he has secretly manned a way station for a galactic federation's transit network, acting as Earth's unassuming diplomat to the stars. The world around him has gone about its business, slowly building towards another World War and a modern America on the brink of war keeps tabs on odd folks within its borders. When a Washington agency takes an interest in Enoch, it threatens to destroy everything he has built: the trust of the aliens, his studies of advanced sciences, his hopes that one day Earth will join the federation - and the very existence of the way station. Meanwhile, the galactic federation is in turmoil. Now, both his home and the galaxy need a miracle to survive - a miracle that falls to Enoch Wallace to provide. Cover art: Almost Home, Randy J. Lagana. -
In a remote part of the Mexican desert, just south of the US border, top scientists have been secretly studying reports of extraordinary occurrences that have terrified the locals and baffled the experts. Cattle herders, who know nothing of UFOs, speak in hushed tones of strange round flying machines that hover overhead, then suddenly shoot straight for the heavens; bizarre animals and foot-long insects roam among wildly coloured plant life; unexplained earthen platforms stretch over six miles across the desert; pilots flying over the area report navigational equipment gone haywire; an Air Force rocket bound for New Mexico with a radioactive payload suddenly veered off course and headed straight for this mysterious area. The investigation has been kept top secret - until the publication of this book in 1986. Contains black and white photographs. -
A real rarity - the Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Quotations. Who said, "I'll meet you at the Frug-A-Go-Go when I've finished witht eh Cyclotron, baby"? Which mad scientist utrtered the immortal words: "You have a civil tongue in your head - I sewed it back in there myself"? And which film advert warned that: "The only people who will not be sterilised with fear are those among you who are already dead"? -
Divergent: In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue - Candour (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful) and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is - she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are -and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves….or it might destroy her. Insurgent: One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves - and herself - while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so. Allegiant: The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. Four: Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation's faction leader did the same. Tobias's transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents gave him. Here, he will not let fear turn him into a cowering child. Newly christened "Four," he discovers during initiation that he will succeed in Dauntless. Initiation is only the beginning, though; Four must claim his place in the Dauntless hierarchy. His decisions will affect future initiates as well as uncover secrets that could threaten his own future - and the future of the entire faction system. Two years later, Four is poised to take action, but the course is still unclear. The first new initiate who jumps into the net might change all that. With her, the way to righting their world might become clear. With her, it might become possible to be Tobias once again. -
Book I of The Amtrak Wars. Ten centuries ago the Old Time ended when Earth's cities melted in The War Of A Thousand Suns. Now the lethal high technology of the Amtrak Federation's underground stronghold is unleashed on Earth's other survivors - the surface-dwelling Mutes. But the primitive Mutes possess ancient powers greater than any other machine. Jacket art by Nigel Hill.
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In the fare future...Mankind knows contentment until the Earth is besieged by a wave of unexplained phenomena. First come the mass phobias. Then, the creatures. Finally, the transformations. Is this the work of the mysterious Wanderers? Could they be manipulating humanity - and to what end? When agent Toivo Glumov is sent to investigate, he's in for some superhuman surprises... -
Privateer: Simon Brown
$85.00Captain Aruzel Kidron and his ship Magpie are the most feared combination in known space, raiding alien vessels an planets with virtual impunity. Then from the Calethar, the strongest of the alien races, comes a hero to be reckoned with - Nomelet of the Uzdar. Nomelet's ambition and intelligence threaten to plunge humans and aliens into an interstellar wart of unimaginable ferocity. Only Kidron and Magpie stand in Nomelet's way - which is exactly where the Calethar warlord wants them...Brown's debut novel.
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Book I of The Force Unleashed. The overthrow of the Republic is complete. Absolute power now rests in the iron fist of Darth Sidious–the cunning Sith Lord better known as Emperor Palpatine. But more remains to be done. Pockets of resistance in the galaxy must still be defeated and missing Jedi accounted for . . . and dealt with. These crucial tasks fall to the Emperor’s ruthless enforcer, Darth Vader, who in turn has groomed a lethal, nameless Sith apprentice to secretly dispatch the last of his masters’ enemies. This acolyte’s journey will take him across the far reaches of the galaxy and test him with shattering revelations that strike at the very heart of all he believes, stirring within him long-forgotten hopes of reclaiming his name . . . and changing his destiny. Based on a story by Haden Blackman. -
Twenty stories with Henderson's usual mixture of perception, simplicity and insight into the workings of the human mind...especially the minds of children and of souls in fear...From the author of The People. The Indelible Kind: A son of the Cougar Canyon Group, Vince Kroginold, sees his immediate family detached for research purposes...J-Line To Nowhere: Everybody is impressed by the massive skeletons, but what about the tiny organic beings who created them? You Know What, Teacher? Teachers become repositories of family secrets. The Effectives: Could prayer be subject to analysis? Loo Ree: The imaginary friend of a first grader tuns out to be real - too real...The Closest School: Vannie may not be old enough for school--after all, she's not yet 600...Three-Cornered And Secure: An angel's work is never done... The Taste Of Aunt Sophronia: An amazing cure - for the living dead. The Believing Child: Dismey doesn't necessarily have greater powers than other children. It's just that it never occurs to her to doubt that she has such powers. Through A Glass - Darkly: What if your peripheral vision allowed you to see into the past? As Simple As That: Who CARES what caused the Holocaust? When we live in a world of moldy bread, roofless classrooms and all...Swept And Garnished: Which is worse - a multitude of phobias and the rituals to deal with them - or complete meaninglessness? One of Them: One is the murderer and one is the victim - but who is telling the story? Sharing Time: The spheres that are sent for the human children break down their barriers to telepathy. The teachers have to ensure that the children can rebuild some of the barriers, so that the children can go on learning...Ad Astra: How very useful it would be to have people who breathe CO2 and exhale O2. But how to replicate the accident that created the first one? Incident After: Adapting after a cataclysm is not always about the big things. The Walls: Like any other sort of travel, time travel is not always under the control of the traveller. Crowning Glory: When short hair is all the fashion, how can hair be obtained for technological advancement? Boona On Scancia : Is it possible to breed Earth dogs with - flying dogs? Love Every Third Stir: Ant Comfort is not a witch - of course she isn't! But her potions seem to work wonders... -
Socorro Saucer: Ray Stanford
$75.00A UFO landing was reported at Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. This was witnessed by police officer Lonnie Zamora and an unidentified tourist. It was also later reported and documented as having been witnessed (in flight) by 5 tourists traveling through Socorro at the time. Three physical items of evidence were retrieved, but this information was censored; Zamora was instructed not to reveal the red insignia he saw on the UFO; an FBI agent told him to deny seeing two humanoid figures beside the UFO; and the U.S. Air Force tried to hide the fact that the soil at the site was highly radioactive at the landing site. Various 'explanations' were rushed out to the media: the testing of a lunar landing device by personnel from the White Sands Missile Range; a prank perpetrated by students from the nearby New Mexico Tech - an explanation supported by the then-president Stirling Colgate. UFO skeptic Steuart Campbell suggested that what Zamora observed was "almost certainly" a mirage of the star Canopus...except star mirages don't normally sound like an explosion, nor do they produce flames as Zamora consistently claimed. So what really happened at Socorro that had to be covered up? Illustrated with photographs. -
In this volume: Running: Martin Livings; Matricide: Lucy Sussex; The Passing of the Minotaurs (Caeli-Amur); Rjurik Davidson; (variant of Passing Of The Minotaurs); Dreaming With the Angels: Jack Dann; Johnny Cash: Ben Peek; The Red Priest's Homecoming: Dirk Flinthart; Once Giants Roamed the Earth: Rosaleen Love; Fresh Young Widow: Kaaron Warren; Watch: Stephen Dedman; Riding the Crocodile: Greg Egan; Skein Dogs: Leanne Frahm; Leviathan: Simon Brown. Cover art by Shaun Tan. -
Three million years B.C., a mysterious black monolith of alien origin influences a group of prehistoric human ancestors to develop tools and establish dominance over other tribes. Fast-forward to 1999 - and a black monolith with magnetic properties is detected by scientists working on a moon base. When the rays of the sun activate it, the monolith sends a signal toward one of the moons of Saturn. In 2001, the Discovery Mission to Saturn - five men and an artificially intelligent computer named HAL 9000 - is launched. Three of the crew are in suspended animation; and all proceeds smoothly until communications with Earth break down...and HAL begins to act independently and take over...Cover art by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. -
Watson's first short story collection. The title story introduces a time machine which moves backwards through time but only at the same rate as normal time reversed - to travel twenty years into the past takes twenty years. Attempts are made to to communicate with its mad occupant as he grows younger and more sane. Why has he embarked on this journey? Other tales in this volume: Thy Blood Like Milk; Sitting On A Starwood Stool; Agoraphobia AD 2000; Programmed Love Story; The Girl Who Was Art; Our Loves So Truly Meridional; Immune Dreams; My Soul Swims In A Goldfish Bowl; The Roentgen Refugees; A Time-Span To Conjure With; On Cooking The First Hero In pring; The Event Horizon.
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Book III of the Torin Trilogy. Torin is turning into a war zone. The unscrupulous diviner Orath Veer intends to seize power and it seems nothing can stand in his way. But Orath Veer hasn't counted on the intervention of his student, Rovan Wentroy. But Rovan's mind powers are new and unharnessed and a confrontation with Orath Veer will put them to the ultimate test - how can a student defeat his master? Will he have to call on the help of Lisa Child? Cover art by Tony Pyrzakowski.
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Book IV of The Horus Heresy. Having witnessed the events on Istvaan III, Deathguard Captain Garro seizes a ship and heads to Terra to warn the Emperor of Horus's treachery. But the fleeing Eisenstein is damaged by enemy fire, and becomes stranded in the warp. Can Garro and his men survive the depradations of Chaos and get his warning to Terra in time? Cover art by Neil Roberts. -
The classic sci-fi adventure...When the Earth is demolished by the Vogons to make way for a hyperspace bypass, earthling and homeowner Arthur Dent embarks unwillingly on a wild trip, accompanied by his friend Ford Prefect (who turned out NOT to be from Guildford after all, but who was in fact from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse) and with the whole of infinite space to choose from, he can't even get a decent cup of tea! -
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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