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Earth Winter: Richard Moran
$20.00The sequel to The Empire of Ice. Earth lies on the edge of a second ice age, triggered by an erupting volcano in the North Atlantic. A cloud of ash and steam has darkened the Northern Hemisphere, destroying crops, bringing commerce to a standstill and leaving millions dead. The United States faces the prospect of an endless winter. Yet the world leaders are paralysed by apathy, avarice and fear. Ben Meade, maverick geologist, recognises the scope of the problem. With his lover and fellow scientist Marjorie Glynn, he begins to supervise the construction of biospheres across the country to shelter refugees from the deathly cold and restore agricultural production. With time running out, Ben devises a brilliant scheme to divert the Gulf Stream and bring the Earth's weather back into balance. But the nations of the Southern Hemisphere have been reaping windfall profits from their harvests and there those among them who will stop at nothing to destroy the competition. Cover art by Tim Jacobus. -
The cream of sci-fi published before 1965. In this fabulous collection: That Only a Mother, Judith Merril: Radiation causes mutations in a large percentage of children - and how does a mother perceive her mutated child? Scanners Live In Vain, Cordwainer Smith: Scanners - once human, now more machine than man, creatures with the ability to travel between the stars. But then, the scanners are threatened by a new technology they believe will make them obsolete...Mars Is Heaven! Ray Bradbury: Astronauts finally land on an unexpected Mars - one that seems like their idyllic youth and what's more, their deceased relatives are waiting to welcome them. The Little Black Bag: C.M. Kornbluth: A doctor's bag from the future is sent backwards in time - and is found by a derelict alcoholic, a former doctor, who is inspired to begin healing again. Coming Attraction, Fritz Leiber: In a possible future, a woman's face is considered the ultimate in sexual attractiveness, and so - women must go around veiled. The Quest For Saint Aquin, Anthony Boucher : Can Science and God ever be reconciled? In a future where religion is considered irrational and is persecuted, a priest must find a relic to prove the existence of God. Surface Tension, James Blish: If mankind was in danger of dying out, how might we repopulate? Will we go back to the sea, and re-emerge...? The Nine Billion Names of God, Arthur C. Clarke: The monks are content to know that God has nine billion names, but there's always someone who wants to know everything - and there are some things we are not ready to know...It's A GOOD Life - Jerome Bixby: Anthony looks like any other little boy - but he has the ability to read the thoughts of everyone and create anything he likes out of his imagination - and the small town is terrified of him...This story was made into a Twilight Zone episode in 1961 starring Billy Mumy; The Cold Equations, Tom Godwin: A starship pilot is inexplicably too low on fuel to reach his destination - and the cause turns out to be a pretty stowaway. Fondly Farenheit, Alfred Bester: A psychotic android and its paranoid schizophrenic owner? Sounds like too much of a good thing...The Country of the Kind, Damon Knight: The story of a sociopath and a kind society's reactions to and treatment of him - is it ethical to medically interfere in behavioural aberrations? What about free will? Should anti-social behaviour of an individual be acceptable? Flowers For Algernon, Daniel Keyes: Charlie has a low I.Q. and longs to be intelligent, yet he studies and tries to learn and gets nowhere. When he is given the chance for a surgical procedure that will make him intelligent it looks like his dreams will come true. The surgery is a success, yet he finds that those he believed to be his friends are not and moreover, he knows more than the doctors do... -
Bunker Soldiers: Martin Day
$10.00Past Doctor Who Adventures No. XXXIX. A fireball crash lands in the forests of the Ukraine and when the locals investigate, they find what appears to be a metal coffin at the center of the devastation. They superstitiously conclude that the casket contains the body of an angel sent to Earth to give hope to the people. Centuries later the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in Kiev, 1240 - a city under attack by the Mongols. They are enforced guests of the governor, Dmitri, whose assistant Yehven believes that if the coffin is desecrated, then "all who threaten us will be destroyed". When the coffin is opened by a group of men, a terrifying, skull-faced creature is freed, and kills a member of the group before fleeing. A spate of violent deaths ensue - but this creature certainly isn't killing indiscriminately. How is this creature choosing its victims? Where has it come from - and most importantly, can the Doctor do anything to halt its murderous trail of destruction? Cover art by Black Sheep.
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Thirty years ago the Empire of humans found, investigated and decided to use a blockade of space ships to prevent the spread of an alien culture called the Moties, who inhabited a single star system and were only just discovering faster-than-light travel. Now, because of a change in the stellar neighbourhood, the Moties will be able to leave their home system and spread across the galaxy, which will be bad for mankind because they combine great ingenuity with rapid and unstoppable population increase. Horace Bury, a wealthy trader, and his pilot Kevin renner (who is actually a serving member of the Imperial Space Navy) have spent the last thirty years travelling the Empire checking that no Moties have escaped; now they return to the Motie system to try to prevent the expected breakout. Their only real weapon is a symbiotic worm which can stop the continuous cycle of population increase that has caused so many problems. As soon as they enter the Motie system they are taken prisoner. Their plans have to be revised to find a solution that will be acceptable to both the Empire and the Moties. Cover art by John Harris.
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The War of the Worlds: Regarded as one of the first and greatest sci-fi novels and written before men had begun to fly, H.G. Wells has the Martians arriving on Earth in huge metal cylinders. No-one knows what these white-hot cylinders mean, until one begins to open... A Dream Of Armageddon: A white-faced stranger on a train tells the narrator that his dreams are killing him. He goes on the describe that in the future, he will be a major political figure who gives up his position to live with a younger woman on Capri. He is then approached by an envoy who begs him to resume his old duties as his political successor is going to bring about a war. What will he chose, even in a dream? The Land Ironclads: Originally published in 1903, Well's imagination uncannily conjured a vision of a 100 ft. machine with remote controlled guns and accommodation for 42 soldiers and seven officers. The story is set in a war similar to World War I and gave Wells a reputation as a prophet as the 'Ironclads' seem to anticipate the tanks of WWI. Once again, as in The War of the Worlds he describes a battle between wildly technologically unmatched opponents - one side believes they will win with their horse-riding abilities, rifle skills and healthy outdoor lifestyle that makes better soldiers than the 'city men' with their science and engineering abilities. -
Perseus Spur: Julian May
$9.00Book I of The Rampart Worlds. 'I was living in pleasant anonymity under the name of Helmut Icicle on Kedge-Lockaby, a freesoil planet out in the boondocks, taking sport-divers on holocam reef trips. Fourteen thousand light years from Rampart Starcorp, where I used to work - and my father. So one minute I'm watching the piscoids finning through the underwater forests, drinking a little rotgut whiskey now and then - and the next thing I know some giant sea toad has eaten my house and I'm caught up in a galactic conspiracy!' Cover art by Stephen Bradbury.
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Book II of The Darkworld Legends. Since time out of mind the Sky Fleet has been the faithful servant of Atlantis. Now the happy tranquility of their lives is threatened. They discover the truth of the grim rumours that surround the city - of how the True Lord of Atlantis rules from a darkened room in the Palace of the Templars. Inside Atlantis, the White Company prepares in secret for the moment of revelation. Taula is the instrument of that revelation and he is coming of age. Cover art by Rayment Kirby.
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Book IV of Rhada. Orbiting the Delphinius Star 2380, the great black starship was unlike any seen before. Larger than a small planetoid, the product of a time and place unknown, it was a technological marvel. Kier, the Starkahn of Rhada, was the first to sight the ship and to discover its cargo - a silver-eyed alien girl locked in a time capsule, perhaps for centuries. When he freed the girl, the Delphinius star exploded. The starship vanished into space. And a dark danger was unleashed - for Kier had triggered a death machine. He had to stop the deadly starship before it completed its objective - annihilation of the planets. Cover art by Kevin Johnson. -
Twilight’s End: Jerry Oltion
$10.00Star Trek Original Series No. 77. Unlike most planets, Rimillia does not spin upon its axis, so the day and night sides are subjected to perpetual extremes of heat and col. Habitation has only been possible on a narrow strip of the planet's surface. Until now...Using gigantic impulse engines of unimaginable power, the alien Dumada intend to start Rimillia rotating, making the entire world fit for colonisation. Yet there are those who fear the enormous stresses involved may instead tear the planet apart. Assigned to assist the Dumada, Captain Kirk must rescue a kidnapped scientist vital to the rotation project. But once the giant engines are activated, can Scotty save Rimillia and the Enterprise from total destruction? -
Eleven short, sharp crisp stories. Call Me Dumbo: Dumbo is married to Carl, and has three sons - but who is she really? Repeat Performance: A cinema owner who shows old movies witnesses odd occurrences at his establishment ... And Isles Where Good Men Lie: An endless caravan of alien space craft are entering the solar system and disgorging a horde of fifteen-foot long insects that exude deadly bacteria. Scientists understand that these aliens are refugees, but how to stop them spreading a plague that will kill humanity? What Time Do You Call This? A scientist engaged in time-stream hopping appears in the apartment of a criminal. When the crook learns how the time-hop device operates, he steals it - but to what end? Communication: A bogus medium uses a computer to find out confidential information about his clients to convince them that the dead really can communicate - and then discovers the dead really CAN communicate. The Cosmic Cocktail Party: A super-computer housing the personalities of the dead to provide interaction with the living goes haywire when the dead start interacting with each other!The Happiest Day of Your Life: A future in which the cognitive and economic elite can, through hypnosis, drugs and surgery, get all their education in one day, resulting in eight-year-old attorneys and executives unable to converse with their parents because of their high IQs. The Weapons of Isher II: The most popular entertainment of the Space Empire is televised duelling - but a journalist discovers that the duels are nowhere near as 'deadly' as they look; Pilot Plant: A cybernetics expert hears a mysterious disembodied voice just before a test flight of a new aircraft crashes; Telemart Three: Holographic televisions of the future with a teleport means housewives can have their shopping instantly - and causes husbands to contemplate murder. Invasion of Privacy: Middle-class suburbanite George Ferguson's mother-in-law has been dead for two weeks, but his son Sammy claims to have seen her alive and well - in the old abandoned house down the street. -
Book II of Prelude To Dune. As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides - and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it is a time of momentous choice: between friendship and duty, safety and destiny. But for the survival of House Atreides, there is just one choice - strive for greatness or be crushed. Cover art by Stephen Youll. -
Brothers: Ben Bova
$12.00Arthur Marshak, a brilliant and driven scientist, dreams of the ultimate biomedical breakthrough - regenerating human organs within the patient's own body. If he succeeds he will be able to cure the incurable, restore sight to the blind, make the paralysed walk again. But before he can test his theories on human beings, he must convince others. Not just his fellow-scientists, both admirers and enemies; there is the corporation who sees Arthur Marshak as both an asset and an expensive luxury. And his brother Jesse, who once shared his dreams, And above all, Jesse's wife Julia - the one woman to whom Arthur ever gave his heart. The woman whose child is about to need Arthur's life-saving discovery. Cover art by Gerry Grace. -
As a young parish priest, Aelwyn Roberts tried to satisfy his curiosity about ghosts and before he knew it, found himself enjoying the company of these people from the world of yesterday, even acting as a counsellor/social worker to many – and he can’t understand anyone being afraid of ghosts! Here he recounts some of his most interesting encounters and the assistance he obtained from mediums. -
Star Trek No. 74. Captain Sulu of the U.S.S. Excelsior and his crew are kidnapped. When Federation-conducted negotiations come to a standstill, Captain James Kirk and the former officers of the U.S.S. Enterprise reunite to rescue their old comrade. The officers learn carrying out their mission could prove difficult when they encounter the kidnappers - a greedy little-known race called the Thraxians, who believe their way is the only way. Now the Thraxians are demanding super-powerful weapons in exchange for the hostages. With no other alternatives, Kirk is forced to consider giving in to the Thraxians to save the Excelsior crew - a decision that could save a few, but endanger the lives of an entire star system... Cover art by Dru Blair. -
Book I of Dinosaur Planet. On Earth they had died out 70 million years ago, but on Ireta the dinosaurs ruled in all their bizarre splendour. The expedition sent to explore this seemingly bland planet was trapped within its energy as quickly and mysteriously as their relief ship vanished. And half the expedition's personnel reverted to type and as predatory carnivores systematically hunted down their colleagues. Only the frozen sleep of cryogenics offered an escape. But for how long? -
True mysteries of the sea, some famous and others not as well known. Chapters include: Over The Horizon; Vanishing Islands; Bottles, Casks and Caskets; The Watchers and The Avengers; The Jinxed and the Damned; The Haunts and the Horrors; Fiery Phantoms and Noisy Spectres; Floating Morgues; The Wanders and the Homers; The Classic Drifter; The Most Famous Derelict; O-U-T, Out! The Triangle of Death; Flames From the Sky; Is There An Answer? Invisible Horizons. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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Barry Cowan woke up screaming in a hospital room with a nightmare where his memory should have been. There was also a curious brass figurine in his pocket that made the nightmare seem likely to be true. Yet for all the emptiness there was a familiarity about the stranger who appeared, claiming to be his father - a horrific familiarity, somehow linked to the dreams of another world that invaded his sleep. Where had he been? What had shocked his mind so deeply that it refused to remember? Cover art by Ken Barr. -
Book III - The Gap Into Power. After a terrifying encounter with the Amnion aliens, Nick Succorso made for the safety of Thanatos Minor, the infamous bootleg shipyard where illegals from all over the galaxy come to repair their ships and indulge in exotic entertainment. But the Amnion were waiting and for Nick, Morn Hyland and her son Davies, the safe haven became hell. They would not be alone. Angus Thermopyle had been captured by the UMCP and turned into a deadly cyborg. Now as Angus' controllers looked on, he was heading for Thanatos Minor, programmed to carry out a deadly mission with nightmarish consequences for them all. -
Book II of Riverworld. A world of resurrection where every soul who ever lived is brought back to indefinite life - where death is a momentary inconvenience. A world of peace and the end of all fear? By no mean. Among the billions clawing through warfare, slavery and violent aggression is Sam Clemens, alias Mark Twain. Sam's dream is to build a Mississippi-style paddle wheeler ad to find the source of the River, resurrected Man's focus and Riverworld's artery. But even with the aid of one of the mysterious beings responsible for Riverworld and of Sam's Neanderthal blood-brother, he is hard put to bring his dream to life. There are others - King John, for example - who will stop at nothing to steal the Fabulous Riverboat...Cover art by Peter Jones. -
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. -
Book III of Worlds Of Tiers. It was a world of tiers and layers - the Amerind level, the Garden of Eden level, the Talanac, the Atlantean - a universe of green skies and fabled beasts. It was the playground cosmos of Lord Jadawin, with trans-gravitational gates to the other worlds and levels. But now those gates are being sabotaged to permit the entry of an invading force of 'Bellers' - human bodies housing the transferred minds of rebel Lords and their minions, who were seeking two things - total domination of every Lord's private cosmos, now that they had achieved immortality, and the life of Kickaha the Trickster, who knew too much. Cover art by Peter Goodfellow. -
A thousand years and more into the future, the human race has spread all over the galaxy, settling on a host of bizarre and exotic worlds. The tenuous galactic empire humanity has cast across the skies depends for its very existence on hyperspace and the pilots who can ride its bizarre force-fields. And these pilots are the gypsies. The Romany have come into their own. But there is a price: the legendary Romany Star. All the leverage the gypsies can bring to bear is used in the search for their ancestral home. Intergalactic blackmail? Of course. But also a statement of intent - romantic but implacable. Who better to orchestrate a scam so colossal than Yakoub, one and future King of the Gyspies. Sulking in luxurious exile, he has been planning his return to power and reminiscing over his extraordinary life. But when the moment of truth arrives, nothing seems to go according to Yakoub's plan. All his ingenuity, every sacrifice - even his pride - may not be enough... Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Mech-Warrior Dark Age; Battletech Universe No. 83. The Raging Bears have begun their occupation of the planet Vega with the hope of restoring order after violence and civil war. But their move to stabilise Prefecture 1 for the Republic of the Sphere may be the chance their enemies have waited for. While the military takeover was no great challenge, setting up a new planetary government and restoring the infrastructure of civilisation have proven to be far more difficult for the peace-keeping forces of the Rasalhague Dominion. There remains an underground rebellion that refuses to cease fire and the Bears suspect that the Draconis Combine is secretly supporting the rebellion. As the Combine threatens them from without, the Bears also find themselves plagued by betrayal and deception from within. Uless they can find the rival elements in their clan, they may end up as fodder for destruction.
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One day the tough, dangerous, dirty jobs will be done by robots...invulnerable soldiers with superhuman strength and killer instinct; miners and sandhogs who can work on distant planets too deadly for humans; incorruptible judges, fearing neither political pressure or criminal vengeance; librarians with total knowledge instantly available...a chilling, yet piercingly prophetic picture of the Robot Age -when Man's 'slave' machines have learned their own strength - and the weaknesses of their masters. Cover art by Chris Moore.
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SideWall: David Graham
$30.00In Hamburg, the new Baader Meinhof operation exploded a government nuclear waste processing plant. In Hong Kong, gold hit a new high of $35,000 per ounce. In America, the war of black secession was in its second year. Throughout Europe, drinkers and smokers are barred from state medical aid. In this future world, the problems are so dangerous that the solutions are targets for anyone with the necessary quantities of high explosive. Don Savage is a security ma in this world. It's a job no-one would want, this side of sanity.... Cover art by Geoff Hunt.
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Book I of The Inner Planets. As the New Earth Organisation rebuilds and Earth shattered by the Martian Wars, NEO sympathiser Kemal Gavilan receives a corpse and a cryptic message from the asteroids. The Mercurian prince sends master pirate Black Barney to find out what he can, but the answer is hot: they've uncovered a weapon that can focus the sun's energy for global annihilation. The Martian and Venusian powers insist that they are innocent. Kemal is forced to rtejoi the royal family he once rejected in order to learn the awful truth. Cover art by Jerry Bingham.
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Timewarps: John Gribbin
$8.00Man's concept of time forms a fundamental part of modern life. From the everyday time experience of day and night, the seasons, the oddities of time zones and the International Date Line, to the deeper mysteries of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, the concept of parallel universes and physical timewarps, the paradoxes and the possibilities of our relationship with time are constantly expanding in the face of fresh discoveries. While our watches and calendars are witness to the fact that time flows inexorably forward, at the other extreme black holes negate time altogether, making it stand still. In a wider context, the latest scientific theories are strikingly reminiscent of older philosophical ideas embracing such phenomena as precognition, reincarnation and dream telepathy. In this examination of time, there are startling new insights into the nature of reality and the possibility that timewarps do exist. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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