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Ares Express: Ian Mcdonald
$15.00Set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future - or futures - of Mars depends. Described as 'a wild and woolly magic-realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies , mind stretching ideas and trains as big as city blocks'. Cover art by Paul Youll. -
At a time in the future...Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world ... and kill him. This is the future of a world overpopulated by the billions, where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega-computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs and mundane uses of genetic engineering are the norm. -
Last Human: Doug Naylor
$9.00Red Dwarf IV. Somewhere along the line, Dave Lister - the Last Human - had made a major mistake. Why else would he find himself on a prison ship bound for Cyberia, the most inhospitable penal colony in Deep Space - and sentenced to eighteen years' Hard Thought? The future of the species is in the hands of one man. All he has to help him are his wits, his cunning, and a two page girdle section from a mail-order catalogue. -
As the sun sets on a lonely Connecticut farmhouse, the shadows come, gliding through windows, sliding up walls, enveloping Sarah Gilmour as she searches frantically for her lost child. Then the shadows, with their dark, inhuman eyes are everywhere, surrounding her as she sobs silently, realising they have taken her daughter again - and that now they have come back...for her. Based on the unnerving scenarios described by those who claim to have been abducted by UFOs. Cover art by Mick McGinty. -
First published in 1952, this one of the earliest examples of post-nuclear holocaust fiction. Fors was a mutant. He did not know what drove him to explore the empty lands to the north, where the great skeletal ruins of civilisation rusted away in the wreckage of mankind's hopes. But he could not resist the urging that led him through danger and adventure, to the place where he faced the menace of the Star Men...First published as Star Man's Son. -
Prey: Michael Crichton
$5.00In the Nevada desert, a handful of scientists are battling to retrieve a swarm of rogue micro-robots that has escaped from the lab. The swarm is self-sustaining, self-reproducing and capable of learning from experience. It is, to all intents and purposes, alive. And very, very deadly. It has been programmed as a ruthless predator, a predator that becomes more dangerous with every passing hour. And we are the Prey...
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Phantom: Terry Goodkind
$6.00Book X of Sword Of Truth. On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end. As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn't soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul. If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Doctor Who Original Adventures No 94. The young Venetian Marco Polo is on his way to the Emperor's Court in Peking when he meets the intrepid time-travellers, for the TARDIS has landed on earth in the year 1289. Marco Polo recognises the TARDIS as a means of winning favour with the Emperor. But in the end the Doctor has no-one but himself to blame when he gambles away his wondrous travelling machine to Kublai Khan. Cover art by David McAllister.
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Terraplane: Jack Womack
$10.00Twenty-first century Moscow. Luther and Jake have a mission: to steal the experimental transferral device from under the nose of the Dream Team. It is a bold and dangerous plan that goes fatally wrong. The New York they return to is not the one they left - it's a nightmare world of violence, paranoia and apartheid on the brink of a devastating war. Cover art by Fred Gambino.
