An unmanned satellite returns to Earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated. Immediately, Project Wildfire, the crash mobilisation of America's highest scientific crash resources, begins at Wildfire's secret laboratory five storeys below the Nevada desert. There, surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated computer-assisted equipment and under conditions of total secrecy, four scientists work against the threat of a world-wide epidemic. They seek the antidote to a deadly micro-organism and their hunt leads to a terrifying climax.
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Nothing much is going right for Fred Wagner. He's bored with writing advertising copy for loofah mitts, and Babe's left him. Pushed around at work, deserted by his wife, and admonished by his sister, doomed to a life of celibacy and tedium, Fred's feeling practically invisible and wills himself physically invisible whenever he feels like it - with results both pathetic and hilarious! -
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. -
Every year hundreds of people around the world report 'alien encounters'. Most tell of alien spacemen - bizarre UFO inhabitants who seem to be more intent on medically or sexually abusing individual humans than being taken to our leaders - yet there are many other types of encounters. Among them: The West Virginia Mothman, the Tibetian Yeti, the Canadian Bigfoot, the Australian Bunyip and the Caribbean Goatsucker - weird, humanoid creatures which are clearly NOT human. Do lost breeds of subhumans roam the Earth's wildernesses? Were our first civilisations created by beings from another planet and did they leave us a sign in the gigantic "Face on Mars"? Do records of Victorian-era sightings hint at ethereal beings who could transform themselves into whatever shape their audience expected? Is Mankind really alone?
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The Doctor lands the Tardis on the cold craggy planet of Vortis. He and his companions are soon captured by the Zarbi, huge ant-like creatures with metallic bodies and pincer claws; meanwhile, Barbara falls into the hands of the friendly Menoptera who have come to rid the planet of the malevolent Zarbi. Cover art by Chris Achilleos. Illustrated by John Wood. -
Volume II of Mission Earth. Jettero Heller is on a secret mission to introduce advanced technology which can prevent Earth from destroying itself with pollution. When his partner betrays him, Heller becomes the target of every vested interest from drug smugglers to the CIA to the oil cartels - and they all want him dead. Cover art by Greg Winters. -
Book and DVD: Timeline: Michael Crichton
$5.00–$14.00An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. This mystery will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years War. Imagine the risks of such a journey - imagine the impossible! Cover art by Chip Kidd. DVD: Region 4; preloved.
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Target Books Doctor Who (Numerical Order) No. 33; Doctor Who Novelisations No. 39; Adventures of the Second Doctor No. 26. The world is in the grip of a second Ice Age and faces total destruction from the rapidly advancing glaciers. The Doctor, with Victoria and Jamie, lands at a top scientific base in England where they've just unearthed an ancient, Martian Ice Warrior. Preserved in the ice for centuries and now revitalised, the Ice Warriors are ready to take over. Can the Doctor overcome these warrior Martians and halt the relentless approach of the glaciers? Cover art by Christ Achilleos. -
People of Earth, your attention please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. Plans for the development of the outlying regions of the galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system and regrettably your planet is scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you. For Arthur Dent, Earthling, this severe case of planning blight is the start of a remarkable set of travels guided by an equally remarkable book...Cover art by Ian Wright. -
Star Trek No. 47. A freak shuttlecraft accident - and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications - with nothing, in short but time on their hands. Time enough for each to tell the story of the Kobayashi Maru -- the Starfleet Academy test given to command cadets. Nominally a tactical exercise, the Kobayashi Maru is in fact a test of character revealed in the choices each man makes - and does not make. As Starfleet Cadets, Kirk, Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu each faced the Kobayashi Maru...and became, in turn, Starfleet officers. -
Book VIII of Sword Of Truth. Time is running out. The Imperial Order has D'Hara under siege, Wizard's Keep is threatened, and Richard Rahl has been poisoned. There is an antidote, but it comes at a high price. Richard has been poisoned by an agent of the Bandakar, a people protected from the ravages of the Imperial Order by an ancient magical barrier... until the war Richard unleashed destroyed it. The price they demand is salvation from annihilation. With the shadow of death looming, his powers fading and Bandakar crumbling before the Imperial Order, Richard must lead a desperate people to victory. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Target Books Doctor Who (Numerical Order) 34; Adventures of the 4th Doctor 75. The ultra-modern technology of the Time Scanner combines with the ancient evil of Fetch Wood, and brings to life a terror that has lain hidden for twelve million years. The Doctor and Leela fight to destroy the Fendahl, a recreated menace that threatens to destroy all life in the galaxy. Cover art by John Geary.
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Book II of Chronicles Of Amber. The road back to Amber was paved with unknown perils, malicious demons and dreadful forces created by the Circle of Evil. But it was a road that Corwin knew he had to tread if he was ever to regain the throne that was his birthright. Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe. -
Starspinner: Dale Aycock
$5.00The 'rim' is a punishing mistress -a fractional delay can send an interstellar ship hurtling to its destruction. In the 27th century, travel over vast distances takes only an instant - a terrifying, gut-churning instant. Pilot Christopher Marlow must navigate spacecraft through the dangerous space/time warp. Then Galactic Control's power-hungry Jorge Engleman visits Marlow's space station and a tug of war over the fragile 'rim' threatens the Empire's existence. Cover art by Attila Hejja . -
High above London, on the rooftops of the city lives a secret society of misfits governed by a bizarre code of honour. It is a world known only to a few people on the streets below - until the murderous battle for leadership erupts. As the Roofworld fights to keep the murderous Chymes and his occult worshipping followers at bay, Robert Linden and Rose Leonard, two innocent outsiders, are drawn into the dangerous twilight world, to face far greater terrors than they could have imagined. -
Star Trek 14. Beyond the realm of the Federation, beyond the edge of the galaxy, a lost colony of humans drifts inexorably through space toward the galactic whirlpool. Captain Kirk blazes a trail to these strange people, who have been isolated for centuries. He must convince them that the crew of the Enterprise are not demons before they will be sucked into the one-way churning funnel of doom. Cover art by Paul Lehr. -
Star Trek No. 56. A routine survey of the planet Alpha Octavius Four turns disastrous as Spock is attacked and poisoned by a huge creature and Kirk's landing party is trapped underground by a violent earthquake. As Spock fights for his life in sickbay, Scotty organizes a search for Kirk and his men. However, rescue efforts must cease when the U.S.S. Enterprise is called away to the Beta Cabrini system where a mining colony is under heavy attack. At Beta Cabrini, the U.S.S. Enterprise faces off against a Marauder named Dreen - a man that Spock had watched his former captain Christopher Pike defeat years before. Fighting the effects of the poison, Spock struggles to his feet and takes command of the ship. Spock and Dreen are locked into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, driven by revenge. There can be only one survivor... -
Book II of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades-in-arms as they hurtle across space in a ship powered by pure improbability - and desperately in search of a place to eat. The gang's all here: Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who's gone native and changed her name to Trillian; and Marvin, the moody android who suffers nothing and no one very gladly. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food literally speaks for itself. If you've done six impossible things this morning, then why not round it off with breakfast, lunch or dinner at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe? With your host, Max Quordlepleen! Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Prey: Michael Crichton
$5.00In the Nevada desert, a handful of scientists are battling to retrieve a swarm of rogue micro-robots that has escaped from the lab. The swarm is self-sustaining, self-reproducing and capable of learning from experience. It is, to all intents and purposes, alive. And very, very deadly. It has been programmed as a ruthless predator, a predator that becomes more dangerous with every passing hour. And we are the Prey...
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The sudden arrival of the K'Ronarin fleet saved Earth from enslavement to the insectoid biofabs and a new interstellar age has dawned on the planet. John Harrison, hero of the Biofab war, can relax - or can he? Unknown to the Alliance, a few renegade biofabs escaped through a dimensional portal into an alternate universe and they are rebuilding their forces for a counter-strike against humanity - in both universes. Harrison is catapulted into a strange world to discover the location of the biofab nests and burn it out before a new generation hatches. It won't be easy - in this version of Earth, Harrison is a revolutionary on the run from the secret police of the Fourth Reich! Cover art by Alan Gutierrez.
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Theoretical mathematicians are at the top of society, geneticists determine mate selection - and the Pope is a computer. Hell is a distant planet. Space travel has been conquered and abandoned. Haldane IV and Helix were a part of an ultra-rational society where mathematicians did not write poetry, where mathematicians did not fall in love with poets, and where most specifically, Haldane IV, young mathematician, couldn't possibly marry Helix, the attractive poet of his choice. It was in the best interests of the human race, said the State, that mates be selected for all professional people according to strict scientific principles. Their love is discovered and they must be put on trial. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
Book VIII of The Chronicles of Amber. Amber - the one real world, of which all others are shadows...Merlin, son of Prince Corwin, pursues his noble destiny against a shifting panorama of shadow worlds and deadly intrigue, powerful computers and magic gone out of control. A violent vendetta, renegade sorcery and whirlwind adventure lead Merlin to a confrontation at the Keep of the Four Worlds, where astonishing secrets and mysterious identities will at last be revealed. Cover art by Tim White. -
In 1897 a Victorian gentleman falls into a sleep from which he cannot be waked. During his two centuries of slumber he becomes the Sleeper, the most well known and powerful person in the world. All property is bequeathed to the Sleeper to be administered by a Council on his behalf. The common people, increasingly oppressed, view the Sleeper as a mythical liberator whose awakening will free them from misery. The Sleeper awakes in 2100 to a futuristic London adorned with wondrous technological trappings yet staggering under social injustice and escalating unrest. His awakening sends shock waves throughout London, from the highest meetings of the Council to the workers laboring in factories in the bowels of the city. Daring rescues and villainous treachery abound as workers and capitalists fight desperately for control of the Sleeper. Cover art by David Bergen.
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Intervention: Julian May
$5.00For 60 000 years the five races of the Galactic Milieu have watched and waited for the time when human mental development on Earth is ready for the Intervention ...As the twentieth century draws to its end, phenomenal mental powers are displayed by 'operants' all across our planet... They can 'farspeak' one another telepathically. They can build mental shields. They are capable of coercion by power of mind. One of there is Rogatien Remillard, a dealer in secondhand books, whose memories - written a century on - form the core of this chronicle. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury. -
Ten thousand years ago, something unworldly happened on earth, something long forgotten, something unearthed only in the 20th century. And now a crack team of scientists and soldiers has the power to beyond the last frontier of space on an ultra-secret mission to probe the greatest mystery in the universe. They have no idea what they will find or even if they can return. Only one thing is certain - the ultimate adventure is about to begin, when they enter the Stargate. -
Book I of The Torin. Scott Gale crashes into a lake - how will he survive in this harsh alien landscape? How will he escape the people with their strange powers? He is in jeopardy - until he finds a place with the family called Brin's Five. When Dorn saw Diver - as he calls Scott crash into the lake, he went to the rescue. After that, they became friends - although they were of two very different species. Dorn's family, Brin's Five adopt Diver as their Luck, giving him a place in their society. Diver must also learn their customs or he will endanger his new family. Dorn fears that no matter how well Diver camoflauges himself, his strange pale skin, short arms and round eyes will give them all away. Cover art by Tony Pyrzakowski.
