Sci-Fi/UFO

//Sci-Fi/UFO
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  • Book I of Empyrion. Eight million dollars for a special assignment - to report on the new colony of Empyrion, ten light years from Earth. It was an offer that NO writer, just scraping by, could refuse. But why had Cynetics Chairman Neviss gone to such lengths to track him down?  Orion Treet was puzzled, but there was little time to think.  Within the hour he was on board the transport, hurtling through space with an oddly assorted handful of companions. What they saw, streaking through the atmosphere was a turquoise world, blue-green with vegetation, water and sky. Treet watched the holoscreen - he was seeing a world that no-one had ever seen before; a virginal world, rich and ripe, a free, unspoiled perfect world. Or so it seemed...Cover art by Richard Chetland.
  • 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.  
  • 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.
  • In this volume:  The Immortal, Olaf Ruhen; Siren Singers, Robyn Tracey; The Case of the Perjured Planet, John Baxter and Ron Smith (as Martin Loran);  Space Poem, T. F. Kline; Robinson, David Rome; No Sale, John Williams; The Man of Slow Feeling, Michael Wilding; Vale, Pollini! George Johnston; From Rutherford, Douglas Stewart; Apple, John Baxter;  A Happening, Frank Roberts; Dancing Gerontius, Lee Harding; Whatever Happened to Suderov? Steve Kaldor.
  • Earth, 2200:  East and West had merged, at last, so there were no more wars, no more political differences.  Citizens everyehwere could concentrate on working  off their tax debts.  If you were capable and industrious, you might make freeman status for the last few years of your life.  No-one questioned. No-one spoke out. No-one rebelled until one bright morning, Citizen TRH-247 decided not to go to work - and worse than that, became desirous of a girl below his own classification.  Thus he made himself an outcast, with the whole world against him.  Survival depended on his wits, daring and strength. Cover art by Josh Kirby.
  • The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke Volume II.  In this volume: Rescue Party; Guardian Angel; Breaking Strain; The Sentinel; Jupiter V; Refugee; The Wind From The Sun; A Meeting With Medusa; The Songs Of Distant Earth. Cover art by Lebbeus Woods.
  • G.O.D. Inc II. Brandy and Sam Horowitz are private eyes who handle cases for G.O.D. Inc, who run the Labyrinth, the inter-world railway that connects the infinite, alternative Earths.  G.O.D. is worried - there's a new drug in town, coming from off-Earth.  It's instantly addictive and it takes over the brain - and what it wants, the user does. Brandy and Sam have to stop the drug reaching the client's home world.  But the opposition got fake Sams and Brandys already set up on the two worlds that might hold any leads: one a world that's never heard of civil rights, and one ruled by Nazis. Which is really bad news for a black, Jewish couple!
  • In biblical lore, Jehovah halted the building of Babel, a tower meant to reach the heavens. But in the 2oth century, who will stop Project Babel...developed in the Soviet Union,  new smart weapon of devastating psychology, destined to ensure that sound will never die. One man foresees the danger and knows what must be done.  With luck, John Cornell, President of the United States, may avert the coming catastrophe.  To eliminate Babel will mean rewriting history!  Cover art by Fred Gambino.
  • Book I of Brainship. The brain was perfect, but the tiny body was crippled; Technology rescued the brain to be schooled, programmed, and implanted into the sleek titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. The human mind - more subtle, more complex than any computer ever devised, could be linked to the massive and delicate strengths, the total recall and the incredible speeds of space.  But the brain was entirely feminine - a complex, loving, strong, weak gentle savage - a personality all-woman - called Helva.   Cover art by Angus McKie. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/get-off-the-unicorn-anne-mccaffrey-2/  https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/partnership-anne-mccaffrey-and-margaret-ball/