Sci-Fi/UFO

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  • An unauthorised companion book to the cult television series, featuring an annotated synopsis of every episode, an insider's guide to the creation of the series, complete bios of every major character, real-life filming sites and much more - even a nitpick file of inconsistencies.
  • 1975.   Stories in this volume: A Scraping at the Bones, Algis Budrys; Changelings, Lisa Tuttle; The Santa Claus Compromise, Thomas M. Disch; A Galaxy Called Rome, Barry N. Malzberg; A Twelvemonth, Peter Redgrove; The Custodians, Richard Cowper; The Linguist, Richard Cowper; Settling the World, M. John Harrison; The Chaste Planet, John Updike; End Game, Joe Haldeman; The Lo-Eared Cat That Devoured Philadelphia, Louis Phillips; A Dead Singer, Michael Moorcock; Science Fiction on the Titanic, Brian Aldiss.
  • 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.
  • Two time-travellers from the 27th century go missing in Ancient Egypt. Edward Davis, a promising rookie in the Time Service is sent back to find them...back much further than he has ever been before. Reeling from the time-jump, he arrives in Thebes only to find his survival training  is no protection against the intoxicating magic of Egypt: Pyramids and obelisks; snakes with legs; winking sphinxes; birds with the heads of women and women with the heads of birds; forests of huge stone columns; lapis lazuli and gold and a plump Pharaoh on his throne. Davis has thirty days in which to get a grip and find the missing time travellers. Instead, he's taken in by a temple priestess, befriended by a beautiful slave girl and tricked into crossing the Nile to to the City of the Dead. As the scheduled hour of his rendezvous with the time field approaches, Davis is faced with the truth behind the fate of his former colleagues and the prospect of sharing that fate. Cover art by Fred Gambino.
  • Carl Bok is a citizen of Springworld, the heavy-gravity planet with monstrous and dangerous flora and fauna. Carl is well over two metres tall and weighs-in at 180 kilograms. Now he has won a scholarship to Starschool. He'll spend a year on this touring school, visiting sixteen of the colonised planets. This will be the experience of a lifetime. It's tough enough for Carl as the poor scholarship student among the rich kids. His problems get worse when they arrive at Earth. Carl finds himself in urgent need of big money and, since he's a pretty tough guy, becomes a paid fighter. He has to fight dangerous and deadly human and animal opponents. His fellow students - B'oosa, Miko, Alegria and Francisco "Pancho" Bolivar -  get caught up in his exploits... And then there are the aliens...Cover art by Peter Elson.

  • 2018 AD: The Cold Peace, worse than the Cold War.  The regimes which rule from Washington and Moscow are the same in their passion for total repression. But in the West, a few dedicated individuals still struggle to find a way out of the trap of human history.  Behind the screen of official research, their desperate project is nearing completion.  Then Colonel Paige Russell, back from deep space with some soil samples to deliver, talks his way past the receptionist and into the laboratory...Cover art by Chris Foss
  • What an idea - the Museum of the Mind.  Sir John Westgate and Dr Katherine Beckford have spent ten years using computer power and AIs to recreate over 200 fictional characters from all periods of history, known as erams, who can interact with their questioners. Soldiers, dockers, parsons...even a Victorian tart with a heart.  For Dr Beckford, it's a superb learning tool. For Sir John, it's a wonderful use of University funds and a great way to make money.  Something was bound to go wrong.  A number of erams escape into the world computer net and become self aware. It seemed at first that the outbreak could be contained - but the university authorities should never have attempted to destroy them...
  • Wells' own novelisation of the 1935 film inspired by The Shape of Things To Come.  When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the future: a history of humanity from the date of his death up to 2105. The Shape Of Things To Come provides this history of the future, an account that was in some ways remarkably prescient - predicting climatic disaster and sweeping cultural changes, the Second World War, the rise of chemical warfare and political instabilities in the Middle East.
  • Book X of Acorna. Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, has followed in Acorna's footsteps leading their people from danger, but the pressure to succeed and fulfill a legacy is tremendous. For the deadly foe that has ravaged the known worlds and weakened even her famous parents has launched its final assault, and only Khorii and her newly discovered sister, Ariin, are able to stop the brutal attack. But success is elusive, and fragile, and even time itself may not be enough to help their desperate quest to save their family - much less the universe. Cover art by Chris McGrath.