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Book IV of World Of Tiers. Behind the walls of Terra lay a secret no man could be allowed to learn. But Kickaha - the Earth-born adventurer of the tiered worlds - had to uncover that secret or watch his home world destroyed. Kickaha was returning to Earth from the World of Tiers, the many-levelled universe of the god-like Lords, that he had entered many years ago as Paul Janus Finnegan. Now he had returned to a world he no longer knew, to find it ruled by Red Orc, a Lord jealous of his personal domain and hostile to intruders. Yet Kickaha had to stay alive in order to defeat the deadly enemy that threatened Earth and the other worlds of tiers - the 'Beller', the malignant creature that was the mind-essence of a rebel Lord. Cover art by Melvyn Grant. -
In a near future, strangely altered world, Tiffany is resurrected - twice. She can vaguely remember how she died and her shattered mind and body are proof of the trauma she suffered. Now in a rehab centre on the California coast she tries to put together the fleeting memories of her previous life. A chance meeting with two unlikely messengers will provide her with the missing piece - but it is a story that can have many possible endings. In another world, a mother is coming to terms with the loss of her daughter - a daughter who, unbeknown to her, is alive, somewhere...Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Book I of Harbinger. Gabriel Connor is up against it. Expelled from the Concord Marines and exiled in disgrace, he's offered one last chance by the Concord to redeem himself. All it involves is gambling his life in a vicious game of death. Cover art by rk Post. -
Book III of The Talent. Peter Reidinger was the most brilliant and powerful telepath and telekinetic yet discovered on earth.He was also barely fifteen years old and a paraplegic who 'moved' his body through kinesis.When the telepaths of earth suspected a plot to take over Padrugoi, the newly manned space station, they realised they needed his unique gifts to foil the insane plans of Barchenka, the space construction manager, but even they didn't realise how strong were his abilities to 'read' the minds of those about him and move heavy loads over vast distances. As his career progressed, so his talents increased beyond the dreams of those trying to reach out into space.Peter Reidinger was going to be the salvation of man's exploration of the stars. And even as he became the most important man on earth, so his friendship with the tiny orphan girl found in the floods of Bangladesh grew and flourished.For Amariyah too had psychic gifts which no-one, at first, could define.But these 'special' people were constantly at risk - hated and feared by the avaricious, the evil and the ignorant, whose constant ambition was to destroy Peter Reidinger and those like him. Cover art by Paul Young. -
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. -
In this volume: Bicentennial Man: Andrew was one of Earth's first house robot domestic servants—smoothly designed and functional. But when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by any other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame fortune - and danger. For a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... The Prime of Life; Waterclap; That Thou Art Mindful of Him; Stranger in Paradise; The Life and Times of Multivac; The Winnowing; Marching In; Old Fashioned; The Tercentenary Incident; Birth of a Notion. Cover shows the late Robin Williams in his role of Andrew in the film of the same name. -
Ruins: Kevin J. Anderson
$12.00X-Files. An American archeologist, Cassandra Rubicon, disappears while exploring the lost Mayan city of Xitaclan. X-File agents Fox Mulder and Dan Scully are sent to investigate.A mysterious jade artifact recovered from the ruins...ominous legends whispered by the natives...Mulder decides there's more to the case than a team of missing scientists - namely, ancient curses, blood sacrifices and deadly reptilian monsters lost in the jungles before history. But what the agents don't know is that Xitaclan is the scene of a three-way war between Central American drug lords, international smugglers of Mayan artifacts and a covert U.S. military team that has been sent to investigate and destroy a strange electronic signal received from beneath the ruins - a signal aimed upwards at the stars. Cover art by Chris Nielson. -
A Meeting With Medusa, Arthur C. Clarke; Shaffery Among the Immortals, Frederik Pohl: Shaffery, a well educated scientist, would love nothing more than to be famous. However, the problem is he can never seem to actually do any science. Patron Of The Arts, William Rotsler: Thorne, a billionaire, cares only about women and art. He pays the world's finest artist to make a work of art of the incomparable woman Madelon, in the new and extraordinary artform - the sensatron. Then Madelon and the artist disappear - through the sensatron...And Thorne must solve the secret of the sensatron alone. When It Changed, Joanna Russ: The inhabitants of an all-female human colony planet produce offspring by chemically combining ova after all their males died in a plague 30 generations earlier. On the Downhill Side, Harlan Ellison: A man who loved too much walks his unicorn through the night streets of New Orleans to meet Lisette, who loved too little. Both have incurred the wrath of the God of Love and have one last chance to escape eternal damnation. The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe: Far from Earth, sister planets Saint Anne and Saint Croix circle each other in an eternal dance. It is said a race of shapeshifters once lived here, only to perish when men came. But one man believes they can still be found, somewhere... When We Went to See the End of the World, Robert Silverberg: In which time travel allows Nick, Jane and their friends to witness the final apocalypse. Goat Song, Poul Anderson: In a future where the world is controlled by a giant super-computer which stores the personalities of the deceased for future resurrection, a balladeer is on a mission - the restoration of his dead lover. Cover art by Anthony Roberts. -
"We have come to your planet to remember it." So say the insectoid aliens who arrived one day in their pyramid-ship. Although they speak both English and Russian and the human team sent to communicate with them includes an expert on body-language, the meaning of their words remains tantalisingly obscure. And then things start to disappear. The Dome of St. Peter's is the first to go. Whole cities begin to follow. It's not long before a desperate band of pilgrims are forced to embark on a bizarre journey to Mars - in search of the city of Munich. Cover art by Mick Posen.
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Lewis Crane was a child when the devastating Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 ripped his life apart, leaving him the sole survivor of his family. Thirty years later, Crane is the world's leading seismologist, with a burning hatred for quakes. Determined to protect people from his parents' fate, he has developed a unique theory of earthquake prediction - but in a world run by Chinese-controlled corporations and an America radically split along religious and racist lines, there are plenty of people who don't want him to succeed. Then it happens - a massive rolling and shaking that registers 8.5 of the Richter scale. And only Crane knows a bigger 'big one' is coming...a Richter 10...
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The fifth book in the ever-increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It's very easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space/time and the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. But instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit and immediately all hell breaks loose. There is the usual Ford Prefect hell; a hellish new version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that behaves in a sinister, mysterious and airborne manner; and the unexpected hell of the arrival of a teenage girl who is Arthur's daughter - who he didn't know he had!
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The Starship Titanic receives a brief mention in Adams's famous Hitchhikers Guide trilogy as the wonderful ship that, upon launching, underwent an immediate and total Existence Failure. Here, Python Terry Jones tells the whole story...At the centre of the galaxy, a vast civilisation is preparing for an event of epic proportions - the launch of the greatest, most gorgeous, most technologically advanced spaceship ever built - the Starship Titanic. Before the launch, Leovinus, the designer, is having one last look a around and finds that things just aren't right: poor workmanship; cybersystems out of control; robots walking into doors...How can this happen? The Starship Titanic is the ship that cannot possibly go wrong! The following morning, the galaxy's media looks on as the fabulous ship eases magnificently away from the construction dock, picks up speed, wobbles a bit, sways a little and just before it can do untold damage to everything around it, appears to undergo a SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure). And this is where the story begins...Cover art by Oscar Chiconi.
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Spider Trilogy 1. The Directorate was run by the powerful few - genetically altered humans permanently linked with the Gi-net, the massive computer network which contained everything there was to know about the planets and space stations claimed by humankind. For centuries, the Directorate had ruled over countless star systems, its authority absolute and unquestioned. But now, stirrings of rebellion were being felt in this far-flung, commercial empire. Now the Directorate has discovered a planet out beyond its farthest reaches, a place known only as World, where the descendants of humans stranded long ago by a starship crash had survived by becoming a race of warriors led by its Prophets, men with the ability to see the many possible pathways of the future. Men who had already foreseen the coming of the Directorate’s Patrol ship Bullet - and were preparing their warriors of Spider for this first contact in which even one wrong choice could destroy both World and empire. Cover at by Sanjulian.
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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. -
Book I of The Crystal Singer. Killashandra thought her world had ended when she was told she would never become a concert singer.And then she met the stranger from off-world. He said he was a Crystal Singer - one of the unique ones of the Galaxy - and when Killashandra tried to find out what a Crystal Singer was the answers were vague, obscure. All she could discover was that they were special people, shrouded in mystery, and danger, and beauty - and something altogether incomprehensible. It was then that she decided that she too must try and become a Crystal Singer. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/killashandra-anne-mccaffrey-2/ -
A Martian Odyssey, Stanley G. Weinbaum: American scientist, Dick Jarvis, part of the first international expedition to the planet Mars sets out to explore the planet on his own when his flying vehicle malfunctions, leaving him stranded miles away from the landing site. Twilight, John W. Campbell, Jr. : Jim Bendell has an eerie experience with a strange and mysterious hitch-hiker, who introduces himself as Ares Sen Kenlin and who claims to be a time traveler from the year of 3059. Helen O'Loy,Lester Del Rey: Two young men - Dave, a mechanic and Phil, a medical student - collaborate on modifying a household robot, originally meant only to cook and clean. But complications arise when the robot begins to develop emotions. The Roads Must Roll, Robert A. Heinlein: In the near future, roadtowns (wide rapidly-moving passenger platforms that reach speeds of 100 mph) have replaced highways and railways as the dominant transportation method in the United States. Yet this story is about much, much more than that... Microcosmic God, Theodore Sturgeon: Kidder, a highly secretive and reclusive biochemist, gets impatient with the slow progress of innovation by humans, and develops a synthetic life form - Neoterics . They live at a greatly accelerated rate, have a very short lifespan, produce many generations over a short period of time - and are capable of producing fabulous technology - but men are greedy and want a share of the neoterics' genius... Nightfall, Isaac Asimov: On the planet Lagash there is no night; it is perpetually illuminated by at least one of the six suns of its multiple star system. Yet every two thousand years, civilisation undergoes a collapse on Lagash, and another such time is approaching. Scientists have discovered that the societal collapses are due to eclipses - but will this knowledge save civilisation this time? The Weapon Shop, A. E. van Vogt: Fara, a small business operator, faces professional and personal troubles when - despite his fierce devotion to the Empress who rules the solar system - a weapons shop, which sells fantastic technology but which is not controlled by the Empress, materialises in his town. Mimsy Were the Borogoves, Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore): In the distant future, a posthuman scientist attempts to build a time machine, testing it by sending a box of hastily gathered educational toys into the past. When the box fails to return, he constructs another and tests it the same way, but it also fails to return. He thinks he's failed - but he would be wrong... Huddling Place, Clifford D. Simak: In the distant future, humans live and easy life on Mars, supported by efficient and intelligent robots. Intelligent Martians co-exist with the humans on that planet...but is it really Utopia? Arena, Fredric Brown: Amid an escalating conflict between Earth and alien Outsiders, massive armadas from both sides are set to meet in what looks to be an evenly matched battle. Bob Carson, scout ship pilot, blacks out and awakens in an arena with an alien Outsider - both have been chosen to fight to death and the loser will doom his species to extinction. First Contact, Murray Leinster: Two space exploration ships meet - one is crewed by humans and the other by aliens. But even when communication is established, there is an impasse - neither ship can leave without ensuring that the other cannot track them to their home planet! -
Book III of Lord Valentine. Treachery and wizardry run rampant under the reign of the mighty Pontifex, as both the rightful and the unworthy heirs to the throne anxiously await his demise. Korsibar, son of the current Coronal, plots with his twin sister and ambitious companions to seize the power of the Coronal when his father ascends to the throne of the Pontifex. But the burdens of the crown and scepter exact more of a price than Korsibar is prepared to pay. His rival fights to take his appointed place as keeper of his beloved Majipoor...and to restore order to the utter chaos that has befallen their world. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Book I of Empyrion. Eight million dollars for a special assignment - to report on the new colony of Empyrion, ten light years from Earth. It was an offer that NO writer, just scraping by, could refuse. But why had Cynetics Chairman Neviss gone to such lengths to track him down? Orion Treet was puzzled, but there was little time to think. Within the hour he was on board the transport, hurtling through space with an oddly assorted handful of companions. What they saw, streaking through the atmosphere was a turquoise world, blue-green with vegetation, water and sky. Treet watched the holoscreen - he was seeing a world that no-one had ever seen before; a virginal world, rich and ripe, a free, unspoiled perfect world. Or so it seemed...Cover art by Richard Chetland. -
O-Zone: Paul Theroux
$9.00It's New Year in paranoid, computer-rich New York, and a group of Owners has jet-rotored out to party in O-Zone. New York is a sealed city. Visits to the eerie, radioactive wasteland of O-Zone are now rarer than moon landings. The people dumped there, 'aliens', officially do not exist. For Hooper Allbright and Fizzy, Theroux's futuristic Robinson Crusoes, the trip sets in motion an adventure of undreamed-of desire and terror. -
Book I of a super new series. There is a secret history of the world, in which an alien virus struck the earth in the aftermath of World War II. endowing a handful of survivors with superhuman powers. Some were called Aces - gifted with extraordinary mental and physical abilities. Others were Jokers - cursed with bizarre mental or physical deformities. Some used their talents in the service of mankind - and others used them for evil. Described as a mosaic novel, with contributions by Edward Bryant, Stephen Leigh, Roger Zelazny, Leanne C. Harper, George R.R. Martin, Victor Milan, John J. Miller, Lewis Shiner, Melinda M. Snodgrass. Howard Waldrop and Walter Jon Williams. Cover art by Stan Watts. -
Clarion: William Greenleaf
$12.00Clarion - a planet hidden from the rest of humanity, a lost colony. For 200 years it has survived, alone and unaided. Suddenly mysterious men are willing to kill for its coordinates and the people of Clarion are dying to find one man. Dorland Avery is a psi-player, a master storyteller without words. Now he is targeted for assassination and no one knows why. On Clarion, a fanatical cult religion is tightening its stranglehold on the colonists. Lord Tem, the mystical deity of this powerful cult, may be a 'gent' - a living member of an intelligent species - the first ever contacted by space-faring humanity. The First Speaker of Lord Tem possesses powers remarkably like those of master story-teller Dorland Avery - and Avery may be the only man who can save the lost colony... Cover art by Maelo Cintron. -
Book II of The Commonwealth Saga. After hundreds of years secretly manipulating the human race, the Starflyer alien has succeeded in engineering a war which should result in the destruction of the Intersolar Commonwealth. Now, thanks to Chief Investigator Paula Myo, the Commonwealth's political elite finally acknowledge the Starflyer's existence, and put together an unlikely partnership to track down this enegmatic and terrifying alien before it can cause any more damage. The invasion from Dyson Alpha continues with dozens of Commonwealth worlds falling to the enemy. The Commonwealth navy fights back with what it believes to be war-winning superweapons, only to find that the alien fleet has been given equally powerful weapons. How the aliens got them and why the weapons are so similar is the question which haunts Admiral Kime. Could it be that the Commonwealth's top-secret defence project has been compromised by the Starflyer's agents, or is the truth even worse? For Mark Vernon, mechanic and general repairman extraordinaire, it appears he's landed on his feet when he finds the perfect job on the most secure world in the Commonwealth. He and his family will never be in danger again now he's helping to build the starships that will evacuate the ultra-rich should the war be lost. Until one day when Nigel Sheldon arrives to ask him a small favour. You don't say no to the man who created the Commonwealth. But the problem with small favours is the way they tend to grow...With the war going badly and the Starflyer's treachery threatening the very heart of the Commonwealth, only the alien's destruction can turn the tide. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Danny Hawkins is a bright lad who wants to grow up to be a scientist like his father, who died in an accident in space. But Danny is a victim of polio and lives a restricted life with his mother in a remote corner on Earth. One day eminent scientist Samuel Gob;e arrives at Danny's home to recruit him to join a special scientific exploration on Triton, one of Neptune's moons. The team will be a small group of gifted children who will be transformed by matter transmission into creatures capable of surviving the crushing gravity and poisonous atmosphere of Neptune's surface. Transformed, Danny will never miss the use of his arms and legs - Goble says that he will be the same as all the others. And this top secret mission, in its early project stage, was the one that claimed Danny's father's life. They are to explore the planet Neptune and try and establish contact with an alien race that seems to be colonising the planet. Cover art by Bob Walters. -
Jack Of Eagles: James Blish
$10.00Danny Caiden thought of himself as a normal guy, no special talents - just leading an ordinary and uneventful life. Until he suddenly realises he can see into the future. Before he knows it, he's developed a dozen more alarming powers, lost his job, run afoul of the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department and the Mob... and found himself at the centre of a shattering, psychic struggle for the future of humanity. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
Book I of Lifewave. The Kren could not understand the aliens who came to their planet. The humans did not raise venom. Or give birth to their young in eggs. And they didn't molt. There was no way that a Kren would choose a human partner. But Arshel did. Her human Molt brother was Dennis Lakely, son of famous archeologists. One she joined their family, she became a part of their search for an ancient city. She did not know that Dennis had chosen her for her hidden abilities and for her memory of a time in which they had both lived millennia ago - in the long lost City of a Million Legends. Cover art by David Mattingly. -
Statesman: Piers Anthony
$6.00Book V of Bio Of A Space Tyrant. Child of flame and terror, born and bred to violence, Hope Hubris had ruled the solar system's most powerful empire with a fierce, uncompromising passion, His was a white-hot flame of justice that scarred friend and foe alike. Yet now he left Jupiter as an exile, his autocratic rule overthrown by the one person he could not oppose. Deposed, disgraced, but forever unbroken, the tyrant's greatest hour was still to come. For only he couldshoulder the burden of humanity's boldest dream: to leave behind the confines of the solar system and journey outward to the stars. Cover art by Alan Craddock. -
A collection spanning the realms of times, space and the human mind. The six tales contained herein are: Phoenix In The Ashes - a new hope rises from the ravaged earth; Voices from the Dust: Two scientists are gripped by an alien power and find themselves the helpless puppets of destruction; The Storm King: the potent forces of Earth magic do battle against a monster of the soul's dark night; The Peddler's Apprentice - a perilous quest for arcane knowledge; Psiren - a continuation of the story Psion, the telepath cat who lost the key to his own mind's power; Mother and Child - as human confronts alien, only one bond is strong enough to transcend all differences. Cover art by Susan Collins.
