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Seven brilliant shorts by Hugo and Nebula award winner Larry Niven. Inconstant Moon; Bordered in Black; How the Heroes Die; At the Bottom of a Hole; One Face; Becalmed in Hell and Death by Ecstasy. N.B. The original edition of this book contained twelve stories; this edition has seven. Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
Book II of the John Wentley trilogy. After his splendid record with the Star and Planet Line, it was natural to John Wentley that became necessary to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several of the Company planes. How he responded, and how he quickly found himself pitted against a world-wide organisation of really terrifying power, is the story of this book. Quite a gem - 1930s sci-fi. -
Book II of Brainships. Nancia is her name, NX-928 is her designation. A new member of the elite Courier Service of the Central Worlds, she's the 'brains' within one of the most advanced interstellar ships around. But her services will not always be utilised by people of her own high moral integrity. Her innocent vision of human nature is shattered on her first voyage - the last thing she needed was a 'brawn' partner like Forister. But together, idealist Nancia and worldly-wise Forister just might save the galaxy. Cover art by Mark Harrison. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/ship-searched-anne-mccaffrey-mercedes-lackey/
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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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Barney Boru is a professional assassin for the Galactic Confederacy,with broad power to determine the justice of any mission. He's been sent to Siegel's World to kill the King of Lokar but mysterious powers want to ensure that Barney doesn't invoke the Walkaway Clause - so they send their own man in. Now two assassins stalk the King and each other - and neither of them will walk away. Cover art by Tom Kidd.
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Part II of A Woman Of The Iron People. They are two creatures a civilisation apart: earthborn Lixia, a visitor from a damaged planet eighteen light years away, and Nia, a primitive outcast, exiled from her people for committing a transgression unheard of in her society. United by circumstance, they travel together across a perilous continent, guided by spirits known only to one and fleeing a possible civilisation-shattering future feared by the other. In the quest for peace and understanding between alien cultures, they discover the rewards of experience and dangers of knowledge as they create revolutionary change in a violent world. Cover art by Gary Ruddell.
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A lovely collection of the cream of classic sci-fi. This volume includes: Dear Devil, Eric Frank Russell; The Best Policy, Randall Garrett; Alaree, Robert Silverberg; Life Cycle, Poul Anderson; The Gentle Vultures, Isaac Asimov; Stranger Station, Damon Knight; Lower Than Angels, Algis Budrys; Blind Lightning, Harlan Ellison; Out Of The Sun, Arthur C. Clarke. -
Gap Into Ruin. The fifth and final instalment in the GAP series. As the conflict between humankind and the Amnion heads for crisis, Morn Hyland, the cyborg Angus Thermopyle and the survivors on board the crippled starship Trumpet must return from deep space to Earth. Their mission is to prevent all-out war with the aliens, which would leave humanity to pay a terrible price. But the Amnion react with swift fury, and suddenly Earth is threatened with fiery destruction ...Cover art by David O'Connor.
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The best short SF of 1987. This volume includes: Forever Yours, Anna, Kate Wilhelm; The Sun Spider, Lucius Shepard; Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye, Richard Kadrey; Friend's Best Man, Jonathan Carroll; The Wound, Lisa Tuttle; E-Ticket to Namland, Dan Simmons; Ménage Á Super-Trois, Felix C. Gotschalk; Rachel In Love, Pat Murphy; Agents, Paul D. Filippo; Lapidary Nights, Marta Randall; Murderers Walk, Garry Kilworth; Thirty Minutes Over Broadway and The Anointed Jetboy, Howard Waldrop. Introduction and Summation by David S. Garnett, Afterword by Brian Aldiss and Reviews by John Clute. Cover art by Brian Waugh. -
Star Wars. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away - a world is threatened...a young queen must save her people...a dark evil arises again...and a young Jedi is discovered. The Journey begins. Based on the screenplay and story by George Lucas. Features colour photographs from the film. -
Go back to where it all began! Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, young Obi-Wan Kenobi, are charged with the protection of Amidala, young queen of Naboo as she seeks to end the siege of her planet by Trade Federation warships. This brings all three to Tatooine and the shop where the slave boy Anakin Akywalker toils and dreams of freedom for himself and his beloved mother. His only hope lies in his extraordinary instincts and his gift for understanding the 'rightness' of things. It is this meeting that marks the beginning of the legend. -
Graphic Novel. Station 7 is where the Earth Forces send all the equipment captured in their unceasing war against the Daleks. It's where Dalek technology is analysed and examined. It's where the Doctor and Amy have just arrived. But somehow the Daleks have found out about Station 7 - and there's something there that they want back With the Doctor increasingly worried about the direction the Station's research is taking, the commander of Station 7 knows he has only one possible, desperate defense. Because the last terrible secret of Station 7 is that they don't only store captured Dalek technology - it's also a prison. And the only thing that might stop a Dalek is another Dalek... -
Starquake: Robert L. Forward
$40.00The sequel to Dragon's Egg. Turns ago, humans reached the Dragon's Egg where they discovered a thriving, savage race of intelligent cheela who live a million times faster than their human friends. In the first few hours, the cheela learned from Man and soon surpassed him in knowledge. Now the humans are about to leave. Suddenly a monstrous starquake destroys all but a few cheela on the surface and another group of cheela in orbit around Dragon's Egg, with no way to return to the surface. The fate of their civilisation rests with the tiny group below who must survive, breed and rebuild. The humans can return to earth and abandon this friendly race to extinction or stay and offer assistance - and certainly die in the attempt. Cover art by Ralph McQuarrie. -
An unauthorised companion book to the cult television series, featuring an annotated synopsis of every episode, an insider's guide to the creation of the series, complete bios of every major character, real-life filming sites and much more - even a nitpick file of inconsistencies. -
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In the near future, Major is the first of her kind - a human saved from a terrible crash and cyber enhanced to be the perfect soldier devoted top stopping the world's criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that allows the perpetrators to hack into human minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop them. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major learns that she's been lied to - her life was not saved, it wa stolen. She will stop at nothing to recover her past,find out who did this to her and stop them before they do it to others. -
Destroyermen No XI. Transported into an alternative reality of Earth where WWII no longer rages, Matt Reddy and the crew of Asiatic Fleet Destroyer USS Walker have been drawn into an entirely other cataclysmic war. They have given their all to protect the oppressed Lemurians, but with Walker in dire need of repairs just as the Grik's First General is poised to strike, Reddy is desperate. With more enemies than ever before arrayed against them, the crew needs more allies - and that means combing the lethal wilds of Madagascar to find the Lemurians' fabled ancestors, as well as the enigmatic dwellers east of the Pass of Fire. But what Reddy's crew unearths are discovers so shattering they could tilt the balance of the war in either direction. But Reddy's greatest adversary is from his past: a madman named Kurukawa whose single-minded mission of revenge will shake the Alliance to its core and raise the stakes to terrifying levels... -
Book III of Legends of Dune. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronised Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of victory, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight. Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets. Once again, the tide of the titanic struggle shifts against the warriors of the human race. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin - human and machine face off one last time and on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Muad'Dib.Cover art by Chris Moore. -
The year: 2047. Years earlier the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace on its maiden voyage. Now a signal from it has been detected and the United States Aerospace Command responds. The rescue vessel Lewis and Clark is dispatched. Its crew – Captain Miller, second-in-command Lieutenant Starck, pilot Smith, medical technician Peters, engineer Ensign Justin, Doctor D.J. and rescue technician Cooper – is joined by Dr. William Weir, who designed the Event Horizon. Their mission: find and salvage the state-of-the-art spacecraft. But what they find is state-of-the-art interstellar terror. Their mission becomes one to salvage their own souls and lives - because someone or something is prepared to ensnare them in a new dimension of utter and unimaginable horror. -
Will Edgar Cayce (1877 - 1945) return to Earth? When will the millennium occur? What will end America's unrest? What lost civilisation will be found in the Gobi Desert? Is everything we say and do recorded on a supernatural etheric 'TV' screen? What will the secret of the "Pyramid Prophecies" reveal.... -
Book I of Homecoming. The planet Harmony had been settled by humans almost 40 million years ago. The colony had been placed under the care of an artificial intelligence, the Oversoul, high in orbit. This master computer had one overriding command - guard the people of Harmony. But now the oversoul is in danger. Its systems are failing. Soon, within a thousand years, war will break out on Harmony unless the Oversoul can be repaired. The master computer has determined that it must be taken back to lost Earth; someone on Harmony must be given back the knowledge of space travel in order to save the planet from disaster. For one family, about to be caught up in an approaching civil war, life will change forever. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Book I of The Vang. For a thousand years and more, The Worlds of Man had been dominated by the Laowon Imperium. The aliens thought humans made good slaves and better pets, and they were fond of creating new breeds. And the Laowon made sure that their playthings never grew too powerful. Born one day, on the edge of Human Space, Jon Iehard was ordered to hunt Eblis Bey, a terrorist for Old Earth. And that was the beginning of the end for the Laowon. Because Iehard had been a Laowon slave. And Eblis Bey held half the key to a weapon that could destroy the Laowon tyranny and bring freedom once more to Mankind. Cover art by Tim White. -
Book III of The Quintara Marathon. Three galactic empires existed in uneasy proximity. Each was led by completely different life forms with only one thing in common - demons. Each had a legend of humanoid creatures with hooves and horns, representing supernatural power and unspeakable evil. The similarity of the legends across the galaxy had led some to theorise that they had some basis in fact. Unfortunately, they were right; an expedition exploring an uncharted planet discovered, sealed in transparent cells, two horned creatures, gigantic in stature, perfectly preserved and very much alive. The three empires sent rescue missions which arrived too late to help the expedition members, slaughtered by the demons - but not too late to pursue the demons through a gate into another space-time continuum. The three missions have fought each other all the way but now they must help each other against the menace of the re-awakened demons - not just for their survival, but the survival of the 90 trillion Fausts, 90 trillion beings in danger of losing their souls. Fortunately - although the demons have proven themselves invulnerable to any weapon known in the three empires - the beings of the mission are about to discover that they have very unusual allies. After all, if demons - why not angels? Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet. -
Here are the first two Solar Queen instalments: Sargasso Of Space and Plague Ship. Sargasso Of Space: The Solar Queen free-traders win exclusive rights to trade with the planet Limbo, but the crew arrives to find most of its surface charred, with little sign of life. They find a valley with life, but others may still lurk. Worse yet, a strange force threatens to cripple the Queen. They must solve the planet's mysteries if they hope to escape with not only tradable goods, but their lives. Plague Ship: The Queen travels to Sargol, which promises a wealth of exquisite gems to trade - if the crew can overcome the native feline Salarikis' mistrust. But their troubles have just begun. When a mysterious illness soon overtakes all the crew except the four youngest, the Galactic Patrol labels the Queen plagued and orders it destroyed on sight. With every ship in the galaxy searching for them, the crew have one chance to save the Solar Queen. But if their bold plan is foiled it would mean the end of the Solar Queen and its crew. Cover art by Julie Bell. -
Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
$25.00Guy Montag is a fireman. In a world where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen don't extinguish fires. They start them. Their job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 'family'. But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people did not live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. -
Book X of Acorna. Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, has followed in Acorna's footsteps leading their people from danger, but the pressure to succeed and fulfill a legacy is tremendous. For the deadly foe that has ravaged the known worlds and weakened even her famous parents has launched its final assault, and only Khorii and her newly discovered sister, Ariin, are able to stop the brutal attack. But success is elusive, and fragile, and even time itself may not be enough to help their desperate quest to save their family - much less the universe. Cover art by Chris McGrath. -
Clone: Richard Cowper
$8.00Can four clones, saint-like, with perfect eidetic memories and rather plain features, find happiness in the brutish world of 2072? Or will they instead learn to accept the nasty conditions of life aboard a packed and harrassed Earth? Sprung illegally from Dr. Poynter's fertile imagination and sterile test tubes, nurtured separately by the current working class of intelligent apes, Alvin, Bruce, Colin & Desmond - alike as podded peas - are blissfully unaware of each other's existence till some very weird events begin to occur. Such as - Alvin claims to have remembrances of things yet to come. One of those things is a gorgeous green-eyed girl. Not to mention the psychic and teleportational talents the four develop when together, which understandably threaten and alarm the Omniscient Authorities. And there's the havoc they play on this tightly tuned society when they decide to give the bureaucracy just a taste of their awesome powers. Cover art by John Higgins.
