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A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: cultures are born in spring, flourish in summer, then die with the onset of the generations-long winter. Helliconia is emerging from its centuries-long winter. Yuli is a child of a hunter-gatherer family living under the light of two suns on the northern plains. When his father is enslaved by the vicious phagors, Yuli is left alone. He finds his way to the subterranean city of Pannoval, where he prospers as a member of the priesthood. Fifty years later, his descendants are prospering. Game is becoming more plentiful, the river is thawing and warmer winds are rising, even as the smaller sun, Freyr, grows larger in the sky. But with peace and plenty comes indolence and corruption...Life on Helliconia is observed from an orbiting Earth space station, the Avernus, the crew of which watch as Helliconia and its sun, Batalix, draw closer to the great white supergiant about which they revolve and the centuries-long winter comes to a violent end. Cover art by Tim Gill. -
Book III of Timothy 'Tiger' Clinton. Taking a break from Biggles...An encounter with an amazing scientists named Professor Brane has led Tiger Clinton and his young son Rex to join the first group of humans to penetrate the unknown vastness of space. Their journey now takes them beyond the inner plants of the solar system to confront the mystery, adventure and deadly danger that awaits on the alien worlds beyond the stars. Cover art by Bob Fowke. -
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. -
Book II of The Talent. Earth was at bursting point - desperately overcrowded in spite of the birth restrictions of one child per couple. Extra children existed in a sub-cultured world or were rounded up into slavery. The only hope was the space platform - the jumping off point for the colonisation of other worlds. And to build the space platforms more 'Talents' were needed - the special, gifted ones whose mental powers could perform prodigious tasks across space and time. Rhyssa Owen, Director for Parapsychic talents, was the one responsible both for finding 'Talents' and training them. And when she felt the first tentative, sad encroachment of a mind reaching out to her, she knew it was exceptional - a fourteen year old boy, his body crushed beyond repair, with the most powerful kinetic ability she had ever encountered. And at the same time, in the seamy world of forgotten, unwanted, near-criminal children, was another brilliant mind - young, street-wise but so Talented she was in danger from a ruthless gang of kidnappers. Rhyssa knew she had to find both children and train them for the survival of Earth. Cover art by Paul Damon. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/pegasus-space-anne-mccaffrey/ -
Book V of Chung Kuo. On Mars, Chung Kuo's largest colony is engulfed by civil war. In America, a ruthless leader precipitates a disaster greater than Chung Kuo has ever known, while the Seven Han Lords dissipate their power fighting the shadows of their own great Ministry - The Thousand Eyes - in a struggle for ultimate political control. And in the heart of the City, in the final hours before the darkness falls, an old man - once the most powerful soldier in Chung Kuo - paces his rooms, surrounded by the ghosts of the dead. At last, the magnificent edifice built by the Chinese conquerors has begun to crumble. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Twelve thousand feet above the desert planet Calferon floats an aerial world of rugged landscapes created by a unique symbiosis of rock and plant - world whose people have known strife, but not war...until now. A ruling duke disappears. A medallion believed to possess strange powers falls into evil hands. Paul Benjarth, heir to the throne of Fief Karcan, embarks on a terrifying journey of enlightenment that brings him to the doorstep of Creation - or doom. With revelation comes choices, and Paul must make all the right ones now or his people will face centuries of enslavement. Cover art by Brom. -
Exile: Al Sarrantonio
$15.00Book I of Five Worlds. It is the end of the 25th century and human civilisation has expanded into the Four Worlds of Earth, Mars, Titan and Pluto. Recent progress in terraforming promises to turn Venus into the Fifth. But for Prime Cornelian, usurper of Martian Rule, there will be no rest until all the planets bow before him. With the blood of treason and treachery on his hands, he is rekindling the ancient savagery for which Martians were once feared - and he's supplementing it with a new secret weapon of awesome power. Dalin Shar, King of Earth, must flee his besieged palace as his government falls to Martian intrigue. Exiled far from home, at the mercy of strangers he barely trusts, the king struggles to stay alive long enough to gather rebel forces. Cover art by Donato Giancola.
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Borderline: Vercors
$10.00The discovery made by an anthropological expedition to New Guinea had implications which threatened to disrupt modern society - for they discovered the missing link between humans and animals, the Paranthropus; in some respects human, in others, ape-like. A creature on the borderline between man and animal which raised doubts as to the nature of Man and his place in the Universe....Cover art by Tim White. -
Mutant Star: Karen Haber
$7.00Book III of Fire In Winter. For hundreds of years the mutants concealed their dazzling psychic abilities. Then they took their rightful place in normal human society in a storm of political uproar. The long struggle for equality nears its end. But the mutants' awesome talents - and their belief in the coming of a mutant messiah - still isolate them. Strange currents are flowing and the entire world will change with the unleashing of unthinkable and unspeakable powers. Cover art by Jim Burns.
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