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In this volume from 1956: Imagine: A Proem: Fredric Brown; You're Another, Damon Knight; This Earth Of Majesty, Arthur C. Clarke; Birds Can't Count, Mildred Clingerman; The Golem, Avram Davidson; Pottage, Zenna Henderson; The Vanishing American, Charles Beaumont; Created He Them, Alice Eleanor Jones; Too Far, Fredric Brown; A Matter of Energy, James Blish; Nellthu, Anthony Boucher; Dreamworld, Isaac Asimov; One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts, Shirley Jackson; The Short Ones, Raymond E. Banks; The Last Prophet, Mildred Clingerman; Botany Bay, P. M. Hubbard; A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.; Lament by a Maker, L. Sprague de Camp; The Doctrine of Original Design, Winona McClintic; Pattern For Survival, Richard Matheson; The Singing Bell, Isaac Asimov; The Last Word, Chad Oliver and Charles Beaumont; Survival, Carlyn Coffin. -
Area 7: Matthew Reilly
$7.00Area 7: America's most secret Air Force installation, hidden deep in the Utah desert. The President has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he's going to get more than he bargained for - hostile forces are waiting inside...Among the President's helicopter crew is a young Marine: quiet, enigmatic, hiding behind silver sunglasses. His name is Schofield, code name Scarecrow. Rumour has it he's a good ma in a storm. And judging by what the President's just walked into, he'd better be...
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Death Watch: D.G. Compton
$30.00The future is dominated by television. Nothing is too gross or too sensational for the viewers. Katherine Mortenhoe is dying of an incurable disease, and NTV sign her up for the most spectacular show ever - her dying moments. She tries to escape but the sleepless eye of the camera follows her everywhere - implanted in the retina of a TV employee. Originally published as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe. -
If the Black Death of 1948 had killed three-quarters of the population of Europe instead of one-quarter - what would have happened to the world? Europe, weakened by such a catastrophe, would probably have been conquered by the Turks and the Americas would have remained in the hands of the Aztecs, Incas and other tribes. In this alternate world, 18 year-old Dan Beauchamp of New Istanbul (London) sets off the make his fortune in Mexico where the mighty Aztecs rule. When he arrives he hears that the nephew of King Moctezuma XII will reward followers who help him build a new empire and he joins the expedition to the Upper Hesperides, travelling in coal-powered Aztec automobiles. When this mad venture turns out badly, Dan becomes involved in other glittering schemes for winning golden empires, bringing him many marvellous and funny adventures on the way. Cover art by Terry Oakes. -
Avalon - the Forbidden World - was the only Terra-type planet ever to be discovered. But when the scattered remnants of Earth's people sought to migrate there, superstition and politics blocked them. After two thousand years, the domed colonies of a hundred barren worlds became convinced that Avalon was the one real enemy of their existence - and the cry went up to destroy the mystery planet. Jarn Tybalt, Warlord of the Drusus Colony, dared to make the first trip to Avalon in centuries. He found a world of wonders and enigmas - mutants, monsters, medieval knights, science-working dwarves and a lost city in the Far North where all the answers could be found. Cover art by Ken W. Kelly. -
Book III of Star Hounds. The Federated Empire is on the decline. The alien Jaxdron are on the offensive, their superior mind control more than a match for the Federation's advanced technology. Caught in the middle is Laura Shemzak. She hates the Federation for enslaving her brother, and using and betraying her. She's dangerous - a spy turned rogue.With a crew of interstellar outlaws aboard the Starbow she continues a lonely crusade for justice. And it's her hatred for both sides that gives Starbow a fighting chance. Cover art by John Harris. -
Featured stories and writers include: Vertigo, James White; Visions of Monad, M. John Harrison; Worm in the Bud, John Rankine; They Shall Reap, David Rome; The Last Time Around, Arthur Sellings; The Cloudbuilders, Colin Kapp. -
In this truly bizarre collection, Damon Wilson investigates the full stories behind some of the most incredible phenomena that have baffled scientists and fascinated the rest of the world for millennia. What causes frogs, periwinkles and even jelly to fall from the sky? How can people just disappear? Why do some objects seem to bring misfortune on the people who come into contact with them? Do people really combust spontaneously? Who or what caused everyone on board the Mary Celeste to abandon ship? Why have so many vessels and aircraft disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle? How much of the legend of the vampire is based on truth? Are there such things as miracles? These questions and many more are waiting to be explored... -
It is nearly three decades since the discovery of the sub-spacial alternates - twenty-four lumps of matter hanging in a limbo outside space and time, each sharing the name of Earth. Now there are only fifteen of them - the rest blown to extinction by the ruthless attacks of the D-squads. Even the surviving plants are doomed to a cruel, mutilated existence. Professor Faustaff's life is dedicated to fighting the merciless demolition teams, trying to correct the Unstable Natter Situations they create. But he feels it is a battle he cannot win.
