Sci-Fi/UFO

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  • The true story of alien abduction in rural England...Jason Andrews was twelve years old when his parents first realised that he was being abducted. Suddenly, the strange happenings that had dogged their bright son all his life were explained: the weird marks on his body, the secret language he babbled, the terrible nights when they had found his bed empty. The family's farm, too, has been affected: animals mutilated, cattle dead in mysterious circumstances, pregnant cows suddenly becoming barren; strange lights appearing in the sky...and always, there have been the watchers in the wood - silent figures who keep the farm under observation. At the time of publication, this compelling story of a normal family caught up in terrifying abnormal events is the most detailed exploration of an alien abduction ever, bravely told by the Andrews family to independent investigator Jean Ritchie. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
  • Jenny Randles explores the phenomenon of alien abductions by looking into historical accounts and claims, investigating their links to science-fiction and imagination and looking at other literature in the genre.  An excellent starting point for those unfamiliar with the territory, with plenty for the seasoned reader on this topic. Chapters: Alien Abductions: The Official Version; The Abduction Myth; Abductions And Science Fiction; Rogue Cases; Alien Abductions: The British Catalogue; Those Who Were Abducted: Some Case Histories; Abductions Around The World; The Abduction Pattern; Discovering Abductions; The Search for Answers.  Also: an appendix entitled: Have You Been Abducted?
  • Dr. Fiore, a practising psychologist, has found that many of her patients who suffer from psychological and health problems have actually been traumatised by past close encounters of the third kind - visitations and abductions by extraterrestrials, the memory of which has been buried in the victim's subconcious. Beginning with a short history of UFO sightings fro prehistoric times to the present, the author explores some of the more famous abduction cases, followed by ten of Dr. Fiore's actual case histories showing the various forms these encounters take. Finally there is a checklist for the reader in order to recognise possible signs and symptoms.

  • Book III of Revelation Space. Humanity has endured centuries of horrific plague and a brutal interstellar war. It's time for a few decades of peace and quiet. No such luck - there's a new threat. Stirred from aeons of sleep, the Inhibitors - ancient alien killing machines designed to eliminate any emergent intelligence -  have targeted mankind. Fleeing the first wave of machines, a ragtag group of refugees headed by war veteran Clavain waits for the next phase of the cull. But with Clavain sunk deep in despondency, the leadership falls to Scorpio, the product of a flawed experiment in genetic engineering who has every reason to hate humanity. Then their little colony receives an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel, a girl born in ice, gifted with the power to lead humanity to safety and the ability to draw down mankind's darkest enemy. On Hela, where vast travelling cathedrals circle the world in endless processions, the witnessing of a miraculous event has created an apocalyptic new religion. And as the cathedrals crawl closer to to the treacherous fissure known as Absolution Gap, a dark and unsettling truth becomes apparent: to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much, much worse...Cover art by Chris Moore.
  • Erich von Daniken undertakes to prove that in prehistoric and early historic times the Earth was visited by unknown beings from the Cosmos; that these extra-terrestrials created human intelligence by a deliberate genetic mutation; that the extra-terrestrials ennobled hominids 'in their own image'; that these visitors to Earth were recorded and handed down in various religions, mythologies and popular legends; and that in some places, the extra-terrestrials left physical evidence of their presence on Earth.  He draws his evidence from all over the world: from the Turkish mountains where carved monoliths and giant stone heads mysteriously survive the centuries; to the secret caves of Ecuador, where treasured remnants of a bygone era remain hidden; to equatorial Africa, where the 'primitive' Dogon have been familiar for centuries with the complex movements of Sirius, a star only discovered by western astronomers since the invention of the radio telescope.  He searches the ancient documents of the Hindus, the Jews and the Christians;  examines religions, mythologies and legends and fins a recurring theme of 'human' gods, heavenly chariots, 'space suits', floods and disasters. The evidence is largely circumstantial - but he challenges all comers to produce an interpretation that better fits the facts. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
  • 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 I of Acorna: She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the centre of her forehead, odd-looking feet, beautiful silver hair and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow and heal scars and broken bones. A trio of grizzled prospectors found her drifting in an escape pod amid the asteroids, adopted her and took her home to sizzling controversy. Officious bureaucrats wanted to put Acorna in a home and cut off her 'deformity'. Ambitious scientists wanted to isolate and study the 'unicorn girl'. Which was worse? Acorna's 'uncles' weren't waiting around to find out - they took her back at knife-point and ran to the bandit planet Kezdet where no questions are asked and she might grow up free. But Kezdet has dark secrets -  an army of toiling, silent children in the mines and factories, unnamed, unloved and unseen, administered to by a mystery man known as 'The Piper'. And the Piper has plans for Acorna...Cover art by John Ennis.

  • Star Trek Original Series No. 88.  The Hawking left Earth during the 21st century on a one-way mission to colonise a distant world. Due to the relativistic effects of pre-warp travel, its crew has aged only 30 years while two centuries have passed outside the ship. When the Enterprise comes to the rescue of the malfunctioning Hawking, the colonists find themselves thrust into a universe and an era that has left them behind. Captain Kirk intends to help the colonists adjust as best he can - but it's not simple. The newcomers are survivors of a more violent, more paranoid time and they have brought old suspicions - and an ancient weapon of mass destruction - into a world of unexpected challenges and dangers.
  • Book II of The Disappearance. March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government headquartered in Seattle directs the reconstruction of an entire nation - and the battle for New York City has begun. Pirates and foreign militias are swarming the East Coast, taking everything they can. The president comes to the Declared Security Zone of New York and barely survives the visit. The enemy - whoever they are - controls Manhattan’s concrete canyons and the abandoned flatlands of Long Island. The U.S. military, struggling with sketchy communications and a lack of supplies, is mired in a nightmare of urban combat. Caught up in the violence is a Polish-born sergeant who watches the carnage through the eyes of an intellectual and with the heart of a warrior. Two smugglers, the highborn Lady Julianne Balwyn and her brawny partner Rhino, search for a treasure whose key lies inside an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Thousands of miles away, a rogue general leads the secession of Texas and a brutal campaign against immigrants, while Miguel Pieraro, a Mexican-born rancher, fights back. And in England, a U.S. special ops agent is called into a violent shadow war against an enemy that has come after her and her family. The president is a stranger to the military mindset, but now this mild-mannered city engineer from the Pacific Northwest needs to make a soldier’s choice. With New York clutched in the grip of thousands of heavily armed predators, is an all-out attack on the city the only way to save it?
  • History has seen many prophets driven by inner compulsion to reveal their often doom-laden visions of the future. Although the art of prophecy extends far into the past and well into the future, very few of the warnings have been heeded. Sceptics have laughed and critics have decried yet we are now in a position to judge for ourselves. This volume contains new interpretations for the prophecies of Nostradamus, analyses the Atlantis prophecies contained in the Great Pyramid, the long-secret details of the Fatima visions and much more.
  • Pilgrim is again at the centre of strange and mysterious affairs.  When last heard from, the Flying Dutchman of Spacetime was busy robbing the Pyramids so that he could fuel his spaceship/time-machine.  His latest scheme is to reach back in time and save President Abraham Lincoln from assassination...After the fact! Cover art by David Mattingly.
  • 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.
  • Star Wars. This volume comes between The Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The Emperor is dead, the remnants of his Empire are in retreat and a second Death Star has been destroyed. Many hope for new beginnings and new destinies - for Han Solo, it will mean settling his last outstanding debt, helping  Chewbacca free the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk. Norra Wexley and her band pursue Grand Admiral Rae Sloane and the Empire's remaining leadership across the galaxy. But as more and more officers of the Empire are brought to justice, Sloane manages to elude capture by the New Republic, and Norra fears that Sloane is searching for a means to save the crumbling Empire from oblivion. But the hunt is cut short when Norra receives an urgent summons fro Princess Leia Organa. The liberation of Kashyyyk has led Han, Chewbacca and a band of smugglers into an ambush - Chewbacca is captured, and Han has vanished. Norra and her crew race toward the Millennium Falcon's last known location...Cover art by Scott Biel.
  • With a crew of seven and a cargo of two billion tons of fossil fuel, the deep space tug Nostromo crawled across the outer reaches of the galaxy. Within, the computer guided the ship and the humans slept - until Nostromo's scanners picked up a garbled distress call from a remote and long-dead planet. And all the technology of the future cannot shield them from the nightmare of today...for on that planet something stirred...Contains 8 pages of colour stills from the film of the same name.
  • The summer of 1971 was unusually sunny for London. It was also scientifically fascinating: Sunspots emitting a new type of solar radiation suddenly appeared. Then, unaccountably, there began a sharp rise in the suicide rate, and over the next ten years, the radiation-triggered impulse to self-destruction gradually eliminated all but the Transnormals - creative artists, eccentrics, psychopaths - those who had always lived on the fringe of organised society. These survivors now found themselves in a depopulated world where civilization had dissolved and man had reverted to savagery...Cover art by Chris Foss.
  • Bing Walter, alien, has been given a human body (more or less) by his superiors and he’s an advance scout to prepare Earth for extra terrestrial contact. His mission: to get a job with TIME Magazine and once there, insert a cover story detailing the forthcoming arrival of an alien spaceship. His home planet has been sending out signals, but humans are not getting the message. Bing feels perhaps the UNIVAC computer at S.E.T.I. - which calls itself Rufus - would be more helpful...but the message code is so simple, that even Rufus needs help figuring it out and humans haven't got an earthly! Cover art by Bill Wenzel.
  • Book XI of Pern. When AIVAS - the Artificial Intelligence Voice Address System - was first discovered at Landing, the entire planet of Pern was awed at the knowledge it divulged. All the history of the people of Pern was there. Dragonholders, Lord Holders and Craftmasters crowded into the tiny inner room to learn the secrets of their beginnings. Ana AIVAS had other gifts to offer -- stored information of old crafts that had been forgotten, of medicine, music and technology. But the greatest promise AIVAS offered was the chance to rid Pern of Thread forever. All the great ones of Pern began the long and arduous task of learning just how to operate the incredible plan - a plan of such daring and epic proportions that both dragons and riders would be put at risk. Cover art by Steve Weston.
  • Book III of Divergent. 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.
  • Liaden Universe Publication Order 19. Beset by the angry remnants of the Department of the Interior, challenged at every turn by opportunists on their new homeworld of Surebleak, and somewhat low on funds, Clan Korval desperately needs to reestablish its position as one of the top trading clans in known space. To this end, Master Trader Shan yos'Galan, aboard Korval's premier trade ship, Dutiful Passage, is on a mission to establish new business associations and to build a strong primary route that links well with existing Loops and secondary routes. But re-establishing trade and preserving the lives of the few remaining members of the clan aren't all of Korval's problems. Matters come to a head as Dutiful Passage, accustomed to being welcomed and feted at those ports on its call-list, finds itself denied docking, and blacklisted, while agents of the DOI mount armed attacks on others of Korval's traders, under the very eyes of port security systems. Traveling with Dutiful Passage on this unsettling journey is Padi yos'Galan, the master trader's heir and his apprentice. Padi is eager to make up for time lost due to Korval's unpleasantness with the Department of the Interior. She is also keeping a secret so intense that her coming of age, and perhaps her very life, is threatened by it. Cover art by David Mattingly.
  • In this volume: Port Eternity: Lancelot, Elaine, Percival, Gawain, Mordred, Lynette and Vivien are made people - clone servants who work aboard The Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship. They had no idea they had originated from old storytapes of chivalry, romance, heroism and betrayal, until a ripple in the space-time continuum sucked the Maid and her crew into a no-man's-land from which there could be no return. They are left alone to face a crisis which their ancient prototypes were never designed to master...Wave Without A Shore: Freedom is an isolated planet - not because it's inhospitable, or off the main spaceways, but because outsiders - tourists and traders alike - claim that the streets are crowded with mysterious blue-robed aliens. Native-born humans deny these aliens exist - until a planetary crisis forces a confrontation between the question of reality and the reality of the question. Voyager In The Night: Rafe Murray, his sister Jillian and Jillian's husband Paul Gaines - like many other out-of-luck spacers - have come to try their luck at Endeavor Station. Their tiny ship has been salvaged from the junk heap and fitted to mine ore from the mineral rich rings that circle Endeavor. But a collision with a huge alien vessel provides them with the oddest first contact experience possible! Cover art by Don Maitz.

  • Book IV of Sector General. Becalmed forever in the spangled darkness of space, Sector General, the vast hospital comlex created to serve the known - and unknown - worlds, spreads its healing influence across half a galaxy. But for O'Mara the hospital chief and his dedicated crew, part human and part alien, that is not enough - so...Ambulance Ship, a craft in every way as extraordinary as the institution it serves, is designed to seek out and succour the physically or mentally distressed, wherever they are and whatever their species. The human doctor, Conway is the senior medical officer, the insect telepath Prilicla is on his staff, as are the glamorous Nurse Murchison and the Kelgian Naydrad.  Together they face ordeals literally out of this world. Cover art by John Harris. Part One of this book was published as Spacebird in new Writings In SF 22 edited by Kenneth Bulmer.
  • Volume IV of Mission Earth. Jettero Heller's revolutionary fuel system could keep Earth from killing itself with pollution - but the test car has been sabotaged before the first race. Soltan Gris, his faithless partner would've done worse than that - but he's the unwilling prisoner of an 'affair' that would make Profumo blush. Not to mention that Octopus Oil has hired the world's most deadly press agent to create a publicity campaign to destroy Heller and his threat to their energy monopoly. Can Man survive this two-man alien invasion - and can the aliens survive life on Earth? Cover art by Greg Winter.
  • Book I of The Sword Of Heaven. On the planet Rhui the jaran tribes, led by Ilya, are sweeping across the plains to conquer the settled lands, city by city. At Ilya's side, and his partner in victories, is his wife, Tess, a woman of whose true origins Ilya is unaware. Tess, born on Earth. is the sister and only heir of Charles Soerensen, leader of the failed rebellion against the alien Chapalii Empire and now a Duke of the Empire. Charles has continued his subversive activities against the alien overlords and is now caught in a deadly game of interstellar politics. He realises he must go to Rhui to reclaim both his heir and knowledge long hidden there of an ancient rebellion against the Empire. One there, Charles is  swept up in a battle of wills with Ilya, who is equally adamant about keeping Tess on Rhui.  But Tess has her own agenda for the future. Cover art by Jim Burns.

  • Book I of The Windhover Tapes. Gerard Manley, a representative of the Fed is undertaking a series of new assignments after having had his memory wiped from the previous one. But despite his new missions - being stuck in the middle of a violent revolutionary war, brokering a treaty for a Federation base on Quadra, a planet populated entirely by ghosts - he is still haunted by dreams of a woman he calls Fairy Peg. Who was she?What was his relationship to her? And to what disastrous end did it come that warranted having his memory wiped by the Federation? Cover art by Tony Roberts.  
  • To her fellow pilots, Gaelian is the Angel, the best of their elite fighting force. To the powerful ruling Board of Dinoreos, she is the Eldest of the Eldest of her household, scheming and plotting to claim her rightful place while she strives to overcome the handicap of a childhood spent on the primitive world of Cahaute. Gaelian is haunted by memories. Even in space she feels the Power Clans of Cahaute with her - though to surrender to the magic of her childhood would mean abandoning the privileges and honours she has worked so hard for on Dinoreos.  Before she can make her choice, Gaelian discovers a secret older than either of her worlds and suddenly she holds the future of both in her hands.
  • Orphans born in the depths of space, they were engineered to range the galaxy in search of fortune. Misfits and outlaws, they defied the huge interstellar cartels that ruled space.  Ubu Roy was the strong young bossrider of the starship Runaway, who held all of history in his remarkable memory.  Beautiful Maria was an ace star shooter and cybernetic witch, who could bend space time to find the perfect singularity.
  • X-Files. When a disease-ridden body is discovered in the smouldering ruins of the federally funded DyMar genetic research lab, agents Fox Mulder and  Dana Scully fear a deadly man-made plague may be on the loose. Racing to contain the lethal virus before it can spread, Mulder and Scully make a chilling discovery in the X-Files: The late Dr. David Kennessy, a hotshot cancer researcher at DyMar, had been experimenting with microscopic  bio-machines that can cure any disease, heal any wound. In theory, this could be a miracle cure - and the doorway to immortality. But when a second corpse turns up, savagely mutilated from within, it's anything but theoretical. Cover art by Tony Mauro.