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Stories in this volume: Seven Day Terror, R.A. Lafferty; Coming Attraction, Fritz Leiber; Politics, Murray Leinster; Memento Homo, Walter M. Miller; The Bright Illusion, C.L. Moore; And Now The News, Theodore Sturgeon; The Custodian, William Tenn; The New Accelerator, H.G. Wells. Cover art by Panos. -
When the maverick star passes between Earth and its sun, humankind's final calamity will have arrived. Everything and everyone will be drawn toward the Dwarf. There would be tidal waves, earthquakes, volcanoes, the earth will fragment and among the people - anarchy and death. They can try to prepare, survive and then if any did survive, cope with living - but survival could be the worst alternative. -
Way Station: Clifford D. Simak
$115.00Enoch Wallace fought in the Civil War and returned to the simple house where he was born in rural Wisconsin. He still resides there today, and he hasn't aged a day since the war ended in 1865 - nor has his home, impregnable to any known weapon. For years he has secretly manned a way station for a galactic federation's transit network, acting as Earth's unassuming diplomat to the stars. The world around him has gone about its business, slowly building towards another World War and a modern America on the brink of war keeps tabs on odd folks within its borders. When a Washington agency takes an interest in Enoch, it threatens to destroy everything he has built: the trust of the aliens, his studies of advanced sciences, his hopes that one day Earth will join the federation - and the very existence of the way station. Meanwhile, the galactic federation is in turmoil. Now, both his home and the galaxy need a miracle to survive - a miracle that falls to Enoch Wallace to provide. Cover art: Almost Home, Randy J. Lagana. -
Book I of Catteni. Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the spaceships floated into view above the University of Denver. As human slaves were herded into the maw of a massive vessel that made the QE II look like a bath-tub toy, Kristin let her mind go blank, realising her normal life was over. The alien Catteni value strength and intelligence in their slaves - and Kristin has managed to survive her enslavement while hundreds of other humans have not. But her trial has just begun, for now she finds herself part of a massive experiment. The aliens have discovered a new world, and they have a simple way of finding out if it’s habitable: drop hundreds of slaves on the surface and see what happens. If they survive, colonisation can begin. If not, there are always more slaves...Cover art by Romas Kukalis. -
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water. Stubbornly independent Myra and her precocious seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, fish from their small boat, the Bird, visiting dry land only to trade for supplies and information in the few remaining outposts of civilization. For seven years, Myra has grieved the loss of her oldest daughter, Row, who was stolen by her father after a monstrous deluge overtook their home in Nebraska. Then, in a violent confrontation with a stranger, Myra suddenly discovers that Row was last seen in a far-off encampment near the Arctic Circle. Throwing aside her usual caution, Myra and Pearl embark on a perilous voyage into the icy northern seas, hoping against hope that Row will still be there. On their journey, Myra and Pearl join forces with a larger ship and Myra finds herself bonding with her fellow seekers who hope to build a safe haven together in this dangerous new world. But secrets, lust, and betrayals threaten their dream, and after their fortunes take a shocking—and bloody—turn, Myra can no longer ignore the question of whether saving Row is worth endangering Pearl and her fellow travelers. -
Nemesis: Isaac Asimov
$12.00In the twenty-third century, pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that Nemesis poses to Earth's people - but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she will realize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be up to her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as--drawn inexorably by Nemesis, the death star - they hurtle toward certain disaster. Cover art by Don Dixon -
Mars Prime: William C. Dietz
$55.00Outward Bound was the second colony ship being sent to Mars by an Earth in dire need of more living space and raw materials. It was only natural for Rex Corvan, Earth's top reporter, and his wife Kim - a whiz at computers and news editing - to be included on this one-way expedition to a new life. The reports they would send back would fuel Earth's excitement and ensure that more expeditions to the Red Planet. But no-one - including Rex - counted on the scoop he was about to uncover. Somewhere about the Outward Bound was a serial killer, a split personality driven by the urge to slay again and again. And when Rex and Kim stumble on the clues that will lead to the killer's unmasking, the killer knew they would be the next to die... -
Privateer: Simon Brown
$85.00Captain Aruzel Kidron and his ship Magpie are the most feared combination in known space, raiding alien vessels an planets with virtual impunity. Then from the Calethar, the strongest of the alien races, comes a hero to be reckoned with - Nomelet of the Uzdar. Nomelet's ambition and intelligence threaten to plunge humans and aliens into an interstellar wart of unimaginable ferocity. Only Kidron and Magpie stand in Nomelet's way - which is exactly where the Calethar warlord wants them...Brown's debut novel.
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Penumbra: Eric Brown
$7.00The 22nd century: The massive starliners that depart from the orbital transit terminals have taken humankind to hundreds of colony planets. For Bennett, jaded tug pilot, a life beyond Earth is just a dream - until the Mackendrick Foundation hires him to pilot a lightship to the Rim world of Penumbra - and a fateful meeting with an alien race. On the teeming streets of Calcutta, police Lieutenant Rana Rao has no time to consider the stars. She's just been promoted from working with the street-children to the Homicide Division - and into the pat of a serial killer. Cover art by Chris Moore.
