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Teenage sisters Nell and Eva live alone in the forest, recently orphaned and completely isolated. They struggle for normality in a post-holocaust world, in the silence of nature. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. As they blaze a path into the forest, the discover their hidden power, to become pioneers - not just creatures of a new world, but the creators of it. Made into a film in 2015. -
Jillian Shomer had won the right to compete in the Olympiads that tested the mind as well as the body. Athletes use The Boost - an operation that conveyed brilliant intellect and superhuman strength - at a terrible price. Once Boosted, rapid burnout followed. The only way to halt the effects was connection to The Link, the global information network that sustained the world. Only those who won received the Link. None who dared question the workings of the system had ever survived. But Jillian Shomer dared. Cover art and interior illustrations by Boris Vallejo. -
Book V in the Worldwar series. A sci-fi of an alternate universe, in which, in the 1960s, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States cannot stop fighting among themselves in order to ward off a massive wave of extraterrestrials. It may mean the conquest of the earth and the extinction of humanity. -
The Time Machine: H.G. Wells
$20.00Regarded as the first science fiction thriller, it is the classic tale of the wanderings of the Time Traveller, his excursion in the fantastic machine of his creation into a future of nuclear war's aftermath; he encounters the Eloi - portrayed as the pampered, spiritless descendants of the upper class of his own time; and the Morlocks; the lower class who dwell below ground but who, in this future, control the cossetted Eloi in order to farm them for sustenance. Wells intentionally reflected his views of the class system, working conditions and politics of the late Victorian age in these fictional races, having experienced the unhealthy living and working below ground conditions for himself as a draper's assistant. Many film versions of this multi-layered story only go so far; Wells took his Time Traveller much further than the time of the Morlocks, to see...No, we won't spoil it for you... -
Prelude to the Dune series, Volume I. Year 10,154 of the Imperial Calendar. For four decades the planet Arrakis - or Dune - has been ruled by the Harkonnen family. Iron-fisted Baron Vladimir dreams of ever-larger harvest of the precious 'spice', the chemical that prolongs life and increases mental powers. But things are changing. An idealistic young planetologist goes to live among the desert Fremen, who hold the secret to 'spice' and the giant sandworms who guard it. On the world of Caladan, Leo Atreides, the Duke's heir, prepares for his birthright. -
Book XII of Starfist. The Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) is up against a full-fledged rebellion on Ravenette and a lethally loose cannon of a commanding officer. Desperate to thwart unrelenting aliens and their quest to obliterate humankind, the Confederation has beefed up its defences, but to the citizens on the outer edges of Human Space around Ravenette - unaware that a deadly enemy even exists - the government's move seems oppressive and ten planets respond with a war of secession. -
Taronga: Victor Kelleher
$10.00An Australian post-nuclear war novel. Two years after the Last Day, Australia has become a dangerous place, a battleground for survival. Ben, who has the telepathic ability to control animals, is living in the bush of the Blue Mountains. Hoping for a kinder existence he makes for Sydney, only to be further disillusioned. Then he finds Taronga Zoo, strangely unaffected by the chaos. Or - has it? -
This Other Eden: Ben Elton
$12.00We'd all like to save the world but there seems to be a lot of it and the individual seems so puny. Hence the appeal of the very marketable Claustrosphere, invented by despotic media mogul Plastic Tolstoy: a domestic, self-contained, stunningly tough eco-shelter for the average bloke. It is also the most irresponsible idea ever: the death of the Earth becomes survivable. When Nathan, a self-absorbed British script writer gets access to Tolstoy to pitch his end-of-the-world movie, he feels his time has come. But why is Nathan's script so dangerous? It's the perfect vehicle for Max, the ex-jeans model and multi-media superstar. And should Max be falling for beautiful and utterly stroppy eco-terrorist Rosalie? And what is it about the Claustrosphere marketing campaign that requires the loss of innocence and the slaughter of the innocent? -
Sugar Rain: Paul Park
$15.00The sequel to Soldiers of Paradise. In the city-state of Charn the generation-long winter has given way at last to Spring and the lovers Thanakar and Charity are separated by war and social upheaval. Throughout the harsh winter, Charn's deterministic religion, based on astrology and the erotic love poems of an unwitting god, locks most of the population into unending, hopeless servitude of the Starbridge ruling class. The long-awaited spring - in accordance with prophecy and dim legends - is heralded by floods, the births of monsters and sweet, fertile rain which brings an intoxicating taste of chaos to the burdened poor whose minds are slowly turning to the bloody pleasures of revolution and riot. Thanakar Starbridge, fleeing a death sentence, escapes to distant Caladon and believes his lover to be dead. But Princess Charity journeys through a cavernous underworld to emerge into the sunshine, freedom and the freshness of a world renewed. Cover art by Don Maitz.
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