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Book V of Mission Earth. The Countess Krak has arrived on Earth and the planet, not to mention Atlantic City, will never be the same again. She is the most deadly, beautiful and most feared woman in the 110-planet Voltarian Empire. Her only equal is her lover, Royal combat engineer Jettero Heller, whose mission is to keep the Earth from destroying itself long enough to be invaded by the Empire. Their mortal enemy is Soltan Gris, the Apparatus killer send to sabotage Heller's mission. The presence of Heller, Gris and the Countess is enough to threaten the future of any planet, but the sudden arrival from Voltar of over of $250 million in gold may be the death blow for Earth. Cover art by Greg Winters.
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Once we had entered the space age, we could have reasonably expected that the days of 'flying saucers' and 'little green men' would ave come to an end. Instead, the evidence for UFOs continues to grow. There are literally tens of thousands of sightings on record, most of them made by reliable witnesses and many of them still unexplained; close encounters of the fourth kind - abduction - are becoming more frequent, well documented and harder to ignore; evidence in the files of serious scientific and investigative bodies (including the United States Air Force) leaves little doubt that an 'intelligence' is operating - but what kind and from where? Do extra-terrestrials regularly visit the earth? Are we being watched, studied, contacted and even kidnapped by intergalactic explorers? This book presents forty years of evidence and facts for the sceptic and believer alike - case histories, expert assessments and possible explanations. Illustrated with black and white photographs
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Book III of Chanur. In Compact Space, where some seven species have staked out their oft-disputed interstellar frontiers, events move with speed, surprise and tendency to escalate into shattering violence. Confrontation is routine and treachery - to some - is a way of life. So when the kif seized a human and a hani from the crew of The Pride of Chanur, the gauntlet was down. Captain of the Pride, Pyanfar Chanur, was not one to ignore that challenge - a challenge that was to take Pyanfar and her shipmates to Mkks station and into a deadly confrontation between kif, hani, mahendo'sat and human. And what began as a simple rescue attempt soon blossomed into a dangerous game of interstellar politics, where today's ally could become tomorrow's executioner, and where methane breathers became volatile wild cards playing for stakes no oxy- breather could even begin to understand…
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Book I of The Gap Cycle. Crossing the Gap - faster-than-light travel - has become commonplace throughout explored space and all of it is controlled by a single monolithic corporation, the United Mining Companies. At the farthest reaches of UMC's fiefdoms is The Real Story. A simple case of ore piracy: Angus Thermopylae, a pirate and murderer who'll stop at nothing for gain; Morn Hyland, a brilliant young woman who has committed a horrifying act and who falls prey to Thermopylae; and Nick Succorso, legendary star captain who may be the key to Morn's salvation - or her worst nightmare. Through these three lives, an entire world unfolds - a world of politics and betrayal, extraoridnary events and a shadow alien presence that lies just on the other side of the Gap. Cover art by David O'Connor.
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Donal Graeme, Dorsai of the Dorsai, was the final link in a long genetic train, the ultimate soldier, whose breadth of vision made him a master of space war and strategy - and still greater, the focus of centuries of evolution, the culmination of planned development and through him a new force made itself felt. The Dorsai were renowned throughout the galaxy as the finest soldiers ever born, trained from birth to fight and win, no matter what the odds. With Donal at their head they embarked on the final, impossible venture: they set out to unify the splintered worlds of Mankind. Cover art by Tony Roberts.
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Book II of Lensman series. No human had ever landed on the hidden planet of Arisia. A mysterious barrier, hanging unseen in space, turned back all ships. Then the word came to Earth, inexplicably but compellingly: 'GO TO ARISIA!' Virgil Samms, founder of the Galactic Patrol went - and came back with the Lens, the strange device that gave the wearer powers that no man had ever possessed before. Samms knew that the price of this power would be high. But even he had no idea of the ultimate cost - nor of the strange destiny awaiting the First Lensman. Cover art by Chris Foss.
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A full length version of the classic short story on which the original film - starring Michael Rennie - was based. Out of the sky it comes - alien and mysterious and menacing. For more than two days the people of earth watch as it crisscrosses the globe. All over the world there are the same reactions: mystifiction - and fear. Then it lands. In an open park near the heart of Washington D.C. , it sits for a day and a night. After many hours, a panel in the ship opens. From it come two figures - a man and a robot. For a long moment they face the silent crowd..then the man speaks: "I am Klaatu and this is Gnut." He raises his right arm, palm outward, in the universal signal for peace. The gesture is rewarded with a burst of gunfire. Mortally wounded, the alien falls to the ground...and thus begins a classic story about invaders from outer space. The story that inspired a classic movie. With black and white stills from the original film.
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In a post-nuclear future, women rule the world. Having expelled men from their vast walled cities to a lower-class wilderness, the women in this futuristic universe dictate policy and chart the future through control of scientific and technological advances. Among their laws are the rules for reproductive engagement, an act now viewed as a means of procreation rather than an act of love. In this rigidly defined environment, a chance meeting between a woman exiled from the female world and a wilderness man triggers a series of feelings, actions, and events that ultimately threaten the fabric of the women's constricted society. Trying to evade the ever-threatening female forces and the savage wilderness men, the two lovers struggle to find a safe haven and reconcile the teachings of their upbringings with their newly awakened feelings. Cover art by Rallè.
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In this choice selection: The Push Of A Finger, Alfred Bester (1942); Clash By Night, Lawrence O'Donnell (1943); The Storm; A.E. van Vogt (1943); City, Clifford D. Simak (1944); First Contact, Murray Leinster (1945); Giant Killer, A. Bertram Chandler (1945); Vintage Season, Lawrence O'Donnell (1946);Placet Is A Crazy Place, Frederic Browb (1946) Cover art by Chris Foss.
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