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The Earth has been invaded by an advanced alien species - giant, wasp-like beings who wiped out all who opposed them with fantastic brain-implosion powers, destroying all technology, and who view both the planet and its peoples as expendable pawns in a galaxy wide war. "The Protector" is the alien-appointed ruler, who keeps humankind in a feudal police state. It is a grim and sad world, where humans struggle to survive a collapsing economy, political rivalry, rebellious soldiers, and hostile aliens. But a new hero has arisen to overthrow the dictatorial Protector. Religion is his sword and the faith of the masses his shield. He also has some very powerful friends...Cover art by Dan La Mountain. -
'Space emergency! The hull of this ship has been holed. Follow space survival drill.' 'We are all dead men,' says First Engineer Holtz, when the spaceship Johannes Kepler is hit by a meteorite. But Lieutenant Donald Chase, a young doctor on his first flight, refuses to give in to despair. Soon he's in charge of the damaged ship, sailing off course without radio contact and heading for a solar storm. Can he get to Mars safely? Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
Star Trek III: Movie novelisation. No-one on the Enterprise can believe that Mr. Spock is gone. As the crew grieves for Mr. Spock, the awesome Genesis Device, now controlled by the Federation, has transformed an inert nebula into a new planet teeming with life. But Genesis can also destroy existing worlds. The creators of the device want it given freely to the Galaxy. But Starfleet Command fears that it will become a force for evil. And the enemies of the Federation will not rest until they seize it - as their most powerful weapon in the battle to conquer the Galaxy. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. -
Book III of Time Police. Jackson Dubchek was exiled by the notorious Time Police. A citizen of the Second Republic in 2249, Jackson is stranded in Mexico in 2074, unable to return to his own generation. But Jackson is not alone. He meets a Mexican historian and his beautiful daughter who have also been exiled to the past. With these fellow travelers, Jackson pieces together the truth about the Second Republic and their Time Police - they are changing the past in order to protect the future. Jackson must decide whether to try and set himself against all the resources of the Second Republic. But first he must determine how the events of 2074 differ from the way the Second Republic has recorded them and before the Time Police can catch him. Cover art by Paul Youll and Steve Youll. -
Twenty-six science fiction stories, complete in one volume, originally published before 1939 (when the Golden Age of SF began), with autobiographical remarks by Asimov before each story. Contents: Introduction; Part 1: 1920 to 1930 by Isaac Asimov. Part II - 1931: The Man Who Evolved, Edmond Hamilton: As man evolves what changes will he undergo in a thousand years? A million or more? The Jameson Satellite, Neil R. Jones: When a scientist knows he must die, he conceives a brilliant idea for the preservation of his body... the result of which even exceeded his expectations. Submicroscopic: A ray is invented that causes both miniturisation and enlargement; Awlo Of Ulm, Captain S. P. Meek: Could an atom be a miniature solar system - and if so, what of our own? Tetrahedra Of Space, P. Schuyler Miller: Three different civilisations meet in a struggle to the death. The World Of The Red Sun, Clifford D. Simak: A pair of adventurers leave Denver in their flying time machine, intending to travel five millennia... but they land five million years later in a desolate world ruled by the evil and cruel brain, Golan-Kirt. Part III - 1932: Tumithak of the Corridors, Charles R. Tanner: In the fifty-third century, two millennia after Earth has been invaded by the shelks from Venus, mankind has been driven underground into a maze of deep tunnels. Tumithak, a young man, determines to venture to the surface and kill a shelk and on his way, discovers other societies that have evolved. The Moon Era, Jack Williamson: An insufficiently tested space ship delivers its lone passenger to the Moon of the distant past, where he will play a role in the final episode of a ruthless, genocidal war. Part IV - 1933: The Man Who Awoke, Laurence Manning: Elderly banker Norman Winters puts himself into suspended animation for 5,000 years at a time - and has adventures through Time. Tumithak In Shawm, Charles R. Tanner: Tumithak leads a party of warriors back to the surface to defeat the shelks. Part V - 1934: Colossus, Donald Wandrei: As an apocalyptic atomic world war breaks out, a man leaves Earth in a experimental spaceship, hoping to reach the ends of the known universe. Born of the Sun, Jack Williamson: The Sun is a sentient being, and planets and moons are its eggs - and now the eggs are beginning to hatch, including the egg shell known as 'Earth...'. Sidewise in Time, Murray Leinster: As 'time-quakes' reveal parallel universes, a professor and a team of students attempt to establish themselves as masters of a time-fractured world. Old Faithful, Raymond Z. Gallun: Martian civilisation is slowly dying and Martian 774 is informed - as is the custom - that he has forty days left to live and his work of establishing communication with Earth is not relevant to saving the Martian race. So...Martian 774 hitches a ride on a passing comet...Part VI - 1935: Parasite Planet, Stanley G. Weinbaum: Tidal locking keeps one side of Venus perpetually facing the Sun, creating a barren desert. Towards the planet's twilight zone the temperature drops below the boiling point of water and the Hotlands begin: a place inhabited by parasitic native life forms. Proxima Centauri, Murray Leinster: The starship Adastra is in sight of its goal, Proxima Centauri with a crew that is half loyal officers and half mutineers. And when a young mutineer is promoted for picking up signals from Proxima, a loyal officer is enraged...and he doesn't seem to realise the communications are less than friendly. The Accursed Galaxy, Edmond Hamilton: The force field prison of an immortal Energy Being lands on Earth and the secret of why other galaxies flee the Milky Way is revealed. Part VII - 1936: He Who Shrank, Henry Hasse: The greatest scientist ever has invented a new means of exploring the world of the infinitely small - and sends his devoted assistant on a mind-boggling series of adventures exploring the infinite series of concentric universes. The Human Pets of Mars, Leslie F. Stone: The Martians land on a golf course and capture a small group of humans, transporting them back to Mars, where they are kept as pets. The Brain Stealers of Mars, John W. Campbell, Jr.: Two rogue inventors break the law to create an atomic powered space ship. On Mars, they find two life forms - one of which can become anything it likes...Devolution, Edmond Hamilton: A variant on the creation myth, where perfect beings devolve into lesser beings in all ways - including morally. Big Game, Isaac Asimov: A drunk man in a bar tries to convince his audience that ten years ago, he built a time machine and travelled back to before the extinction of the dinosaurs, where he met an intelligent race of humanoid dinosaurs with the ability to communicate telepathically. Part VIII - 1937: Other Eyes Watching, John W. Campbell, Jr: A non-fiction piece on the solar system, focusing on Jupiter. Minus Planet, John D. Clark, Ph.D.: Humanity is endangered by the approach of a world composed of pure antimatter. Past, Present and Future, Nat Schachner: Kleon, not content to be worshipped as a god by the Mayans, will sleep the centuries away...until a careless explorer succumbs to the sleeping gas. Together, explorer and Kleon awake to the even more distant future: the Age of the Olgarchs. Part IX - 1938: The Men and the Mirror, Ross Rocklynne: A cop and a crook become trapped in a frictionless, mirrored bowl. Escape depends on co-operation - and ingeniously applied physics. 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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. -
Diamond Mask: Julian May
$12.00Book II of the Galactic Milieu series. As the 21st century closes a growing group of rebels plot to declare the human planets independent from the Milieu and end a 30 year association. They are aided by the insane Fury who seeks to rule the Galaxy itself. A key figure in Fury's scheme is Dorothea Macdonald - possessed of metapsychic powers, she only wants a quiet life on the planet Caladonia. She rejects Fury's overtures and the monster vows to destroy her. When the Milieu become aware of her powers she is forced to leave her family and use her power for the benefit of all. At the Metapsychic Institute, she discovers that one day she will rule Caladonia. When she meets Jack the Bodiless she understands that his mind is the only one approaching hers in its power. Together they are the only hope of defeating the rebels.,,and all the while, Fury plots to kill them both. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury. -
Earthmen and Aleriona have met in space and neither can afford to let the other get too strong. The Aleriona claim that all the inhabitants of the captured human outpost, New Europe, were killed. The World Federation on Earth seems committed to peace at any price. But there are those - like ex-navy Captain Gunnar Helm - who know that further appeasement will only lead to more Aleriona aggression. He believes there must be a showdown NOW - before it's too late. Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
Book 1 of Time Odyssey. 1885...On the North-West frontier, Rudyard Kipling witnesses a bizarre encounter between the British Army and a mysteriously watchful, hovering sphere - and then, shockingly, a helicopter from 2037 comes over the hill. Meanwhile, elsewhere, scouts from the great horde of Genghis Khan find that familiar landmarks on the great steppe have vanished - as if they had never been. And elsewhere yet again - the courtiers of Alexander the Great wait anxiously for news of the Great King, who seems to have vanished. Nothing is as it was. The castaways in time must make an epic journey across a transformed world, a journey to a devastating truth. For if history is long, our future may be shorter than any of us dreamed...Mankind's odyssey in time has begin... Cover art by David Stevenson. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/sunstorm-arthur-c-clarke-stephen-baxter/
