Book III of The Planet Pirates series. These people will save the galaxy: Lunzie, who's discovered that the one good heavyworlder she has ever met isn't so good after all; Fordeliton, who is investigating the connection between the super-rich and the planet pirates, and who is dying from a mysterious slow poison; Dupaynil, who has made the mistake of pushing Sassinak too far and has been exiled; and Aygar, who is out to prove he has brains as well as heavyworlder brawn. And of course, there's Sassinak...ordered to report to FedCentral for the trial of the mutineer Tanegli. She'd been told to disarm her ship when it enters restricted space; she'd been told her crew can't have liberty or leave; and she'd been told to follow all the rules. But the only person who might be able to stop the disaster ahead has never been one to follow the rules...
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A super collection from this celebrated author: The Coldest Place: Two scientists on Mercury search for native life forms N.B. Niven's first published story. Becalmed in Hell: Howie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic... Wait it Out: He was trapped on Pluto...and all his assets were frozen! Eye of an Octopus: Human explorers on Mars discover a strange well made of diamond bricks and the corpse of a Martian. How are the two connected? How the Heroes Die: A murder occurs in the human "Bubbletown" settlement on Mars, leading to a dangerous chase across the red planet. The Jigsaw Man: The organ banks want YOU - now! At the Bottom of a Hole: A smuggler chased by a Government ship is forced to land on Mars, where he discovers what became of an expedition that landed there 70 years earlier. Intent To Deceive: At the Red Planet restaurant on Mars, robot waiters run riot. Is there such a thing as too much shrimp cocktail? Cloak of Anarchy: In San Diego's parks, anything goes except violence - strictly punished by the all-seeing copseyes that patrol the parks, but what happens to law and order when every copseye malfunctions at the same time? The Warriors: Circa 2366 the Angel's Pencil, a Human colony ship propelled at sublight speed by a light-pressure drive, travels 11 years toward WeMadeIt from Sol System. It's overtaken by a starship full of the aggressive, militaristic Kzinti, whom humans had never before encountered. The Borderland of Sol: Shaeffer is stranded on the deep space colony of Jinx, until he comes across old friend Carlos Wu. Carlos offers him passage back to Earth aboard the Hobo Kelly, a starship belonging to wealthy trader Sigmund Ausfaller. But it's a bit risky - starships have been vanishing in alarming numbers just beyond Earth's solar system... There is a Tide: 180 year old Wu, on a pleasure space-jaunt on the fringes of Known space, is looking for vaults of valuables left behind by vanished alien races. Safe at Any Speed: A test car is swallowed whole by a giant bird - with the driver still inside! Cover art by Rick Sternbach; Kzinti art by Bonnie Dalzell. -
Doctor Who No. LXII. The Sergeant saw three lights moving toward him through the murk of the blizzard and as he looked, the lights became three tall, straight figures, clad in silver armoured suits, advancing across the ice with a slow, deliberate step. Horror-struck, the Sergeant reached for his gun and a stream of bullets sprayed across the marching figures - but they continued marching. The Cyberman have arrived. (First invasion by the Cyberman; the final adventure of the first Doctor.) Cover art by Chris Achilleos.
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Book IV and the conclusion of the Chanur series. Alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching them into the center of a galactic maelstrom which could cause interstellar war. Cover art by Mick Posen.
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Graphic Novel. Station 7 is where the Earth Forces send all the equipment captured in their unceasing war against the Daleks. It's where Dalek technology is analysed and examined. It's where the Doctor and Amy have just arrived. But somehow the Daleks have found out about Station 7 - and there's something there that they want back With the Doctor increasingly worried about the direction the Station's research is taking, the commander of Station 7 knows he has only one possible, desperate defense. Because the last terrible secret of Station 7 is that they don't only store captured Dalek technology - it's also a prison. And the only thing that might stop a Dalek is another Dalek... -
Book II of World Of Tiers. Imagine a whole series of separate universes, made to suit the whims of a race of super-beings. Imagine these universes with their own laws, cultures, creatures, and ecologies - all existing solely to please the fancies of their individual master. Then imagine one such universe constructed as a diabolical trap to destroy a single person - the man called Robert Wolff, one of the race of universe-makers, and once of Earth. When the satanic Master-Lord, Urizen, kidnap's Wolff's wife, he forces Wolff to enter the deadly universe of ambushes, filled with every kind of tortuous snare that the evil mind of the Master-Lord can devise. Wolff has only his courage and his wits with which to combat this cosmic maze - unless he can perform a miracle, he and Chryseis are doomed. -
Book III of Legends of Dune. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronised Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of victory, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight. Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets. Once again, the tide of the titanic struggle shifts against the warriors of the human race. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin - human and machine face off one last time and on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Muad'Dib.Cover art by Chris Moore. -
In this volume: The Passing of the Dragons, Keith Roberts; Algora One Six, Douglas R. Mason; Commuter, James White; The Possessed, Sydney J. Bounds; What the Thunder Said, Colin Kapp; Tangled Web, H. A. Hargreaves; The Tertiary Justification, Michael G. Coney. -
Paul Muad'Dib - cheered as a hero, worshipped as a Messiah, loathed as a tyrant - has vanished into the endless deserts of the planet Dune, leaving his turbulent empire without guidance. It's up to his younger sister Alia and his formidable mother, Lady Jessica, aided by faithful Gurney Halleck, the Fremen leader Stilgar and the resurrected Duncan Idaho to keep the human race from tearing itself apart. Fuelling the flames of dissent is the outspoken rebel, Bronso of Ix, doing everything he can to destroy the myth of Paul Muad'Dib, the man responsible for more deaths than any other in history. Working with Princess Irulan, Jessica tries to uncover the truth about her son. As the winds of rebellion and treachery brew, she discovers that Muad'Dib may have knowingly planted the seeds for his own downfall. And that Bronso of Ix has a secret mission of his own, one that will force Jessica to choose between the memory of her son and the future of the human race. Cover art by Steve Stone. N.B.: This volume falls between Dune Messiah and Children of Dune in the chronological order: https://dunenovels.com/chronological-order-of-dune-books/
