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Three million years B.C., a mysterious black monolith of alien origin influences a group of prehistoric human ancestors to develop tools and establish dominance over other tribes. Fast-forward to 1999 - and a black monolith with magnetic properties is detected by scientists working on a moon base. When the rays of the sun activate it, the monolith sends a signal toward one of the moons of Saturn. In 2001, the Discovery Mission to Saturn - five men and an artificially intelligent computer named HAL 9000 - is launched. Three of the crew are in suspended animation; and all proceeds smoothly until communications with Earth break down...and HAL begins to act independently and take over...Cover art by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. -
Watson's first short story collection. The title story introduces a time machine which moves backwards through time but only at the same rate as normal time reversed - to travel twenty years into the past takes twenty years. Attempts are made to to communicate with its mad occupant as he grows younger and more sane. Why has he embarked on this journey? Other tales in this volume: Thy Blood Like Milk; Sitting On A Starwood Stool; Agoraphobia AD 2000; Programmed Love Story; The Girl Who Was Art; Our Loves So Truly Meridional; Immune Dreams; My Soul Swims In A Goldfish Bowl; The Roentgen Refugees; A Time-Span To Conjure With; On Cooking The First Hero In pring; The Event Horizon.
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Socorro Saucer: Ray Stanford
$75.00A UFO landing was reported at Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. This was witnessed by police officer Lonnie Zamora and an unidentified tourist. It was also later reported and documented as having been witnessed (in flight) by 5 tourists traveling through Socorro at the time. Three physical items of evidence were retrieved, but this information was censored; Zamora was instructed not to reveal the red insignia he saw on the UFO; an FBI agent told him to deny seeing two humanoid figures beside the UFO; and the U.S. Air Force tried to hide the fact that the soil at the site was highly radioactive at the landing site. Various 'explanations' were rushed out to the media: the testing of a lunar landing device by personnel from the White Sands Missile Range; a prank perpetrated by students from the nearby New Mexico Tech - an explanation supported by the then-president Stirling Colgate. UFO skeptic Steuart Campbell suggested that what Zamora observed was "almost certainly" a mirage of the star Canopus...except star mirages don't normally sound like an explosion, nor do they produce flames as Zamora consistently claimed. So what really happened at Socorro that had to be covered up? Illustrated with photographs. -
Twenty stories with Henderson's usual mixture of perception, simplicity and insight into the workings of the human mind...especially the minds of children and of souls in fear...From the author of The People. The Indelible Kind: A son of the Cougar Canyon Group, Vince Kroginold, sees his immediate family detached for research purposes...J-Line To Nowhere: Everybody is impressed by the massive skeletons, but what about the tiny organic beings who created them? You Know What, Teacher? Teachers become repositories of family secrets. The Effectives: Could prayer be subject to analysis? Loo Ree: The imaginary friend of a first grader tuns out to be real - too real...The Closest School: Vannie may not be old enough for school--after all, she's not yet 600...Three-Cornered And Secure: An angel's work is never done... The Taste Of Aunt Sophronia: An amazing cure - for the living dead. The Believing Child: Dismey doesn't necessarily have greater powers than other children. It's just that it never occurs to her to doubt that she has such powers. Through A Glass - Darkly: What if your peripheral vision allowed you to see into the past? As Simple As That: Who CARES what caused the Holocaust? When we live in a world of moldy bread, roofless classrooms and all...Swept And Garnished: Which is worse - a multitude of phobias and the rituals to deal with them - or complete meaninglessness? One of Them: One is the murderer and one is the victim - but who is telling the story? Sharing Time: The spheres that are sent for the human children break down their barriers to telepathy. The teachers have to ensure that the children can rebuild some of the barriers, so that the children can go on learning...Ad Astra: How very useful it would be to have people who breathe CO2 and exhale O2. But how to replicate the accident that created the first one? Incident After: Adapting after a cataclysm is not always about the big things. The Walls: Like any other sort of travel, time travel is not always under the control of the traveller. Crowning Glory: When short hair is all the fashion, how can hair be obtained for technological advancement? Boona On Scancia : Is it possible to breed Earth dogs with - flying dogs? Love Every Third Stir: Ant Comfort is not a witch - of course she isn't! But her potions seem to work wonders... -
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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Book I of The Force Unleashed. The overthrow of the Republic is complete. Absolute power now rests in the iron fist of Darth Sidious–the cunning Sith Lord better known as Emperor Palpatine. But more remains to be done. Pockets of resistance in the galaxy must still be defeated and missing Jedi accounted for . . . and dealt with. These crucial tasks fall to the Emperor’s ruthless enforcer, Darth Vader, who in turn has groomed a lethal, nameless Sith apprentice to secretly dispatch the last of his masters’ enemies. This acolyte’s journey will take him across the far reaches of the galaxy and test him with shattering revelations that strike at the very heart of all he believes, stirring within him long-forgotten hopes of reclaiming his name . . . and changing his destiny. Based on a story by Haden Blackman. -
In the fare future...Mankind knows contentment until the Earth is besieged by a wave of unexplained phenomena. First come the mass phobias. Then, the creatures. Finally, the transformations. Is this the work of the mysterious Wanderers? Could they be manipulating humanity - and to what end? When agent Toivo Glumov is sent to investigate, he's in for some superhuman surprises... -
Divergent: In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue - Candour (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful) and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is - she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are -and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves….or it might destroy her. Insurgent: One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves - and herself - while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so. Allegiant: The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. Four: Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation's faction leader did the same. Tobias's transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents gave him. Here, he will not let fear turn him into a cowering child. Newly christened "Four," he discovers during initiation that he will succeed in Dauntless. Initiation is only the beginning, though; Four must claim his place in the Dauntless hierarchy. His decisions will affect future initiates as well as uncover secrets that could threaten his own future - and the future of the entire faction system. Two years later, Four is poised to take action, but the course is still unclear. The first new initiate who jumps into the net might change all that. With her, the way to righting their world might become clear. With her, it might become possible to be Tobias once again. -
Book I of The Amtrak Wars. Ten centuries ago the Old Time ended when Earth's cities melted in The War Of A Thousand Suns. Now the lethal high technology of the Amtrak Federation's underground stronghold is unleashed on Earth's other survivors - the surface-dwelling Mutes. But the primitive Mutes possess ancient powers greater than any other machine. Jacket art by Nigel Hill.
