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The year: 2142 A.D. The place: Taprobane, a tropical island paradise. The project: A giant space elevator to transport men and materials to a point outside the the earth's atmosphere. The man: Ace engineer Vannevar Morgan. The problem: The only suitable site is a sacred mountain jealously guarded by monks...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Omnivore: Piers Anthony
$5.00Book I of Of Man And Manta. Herbivore: one who eats only vegetables; carnivore: one who lives by bloody and flesh; and omnivore: who feeds on all things to sustain life. And so there were three; all human, all held together in an indeterminate love triangle: the man of brawn, the cripple and the woman. They were scientists on a troubleshooting expedition to the planet Nacre, the silent, dusky planet of multiform mushrooms and spore-clouds, where eighteen had died or disappeared before them. They were there to explore, discover, record - not really afraid, but then... not really prepared for the awesome secret of Nacre's mystical third kingdom of fungi. Cover art by Peter Jones. -
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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Mysterious and bizarre people...who were they? Where did they go? There's mysterious geniuses - a French Rabbi who had electric light in the 13th century, to the man who was caught on video walking through a solid door; author Jonathan Swift, who described the Martian moons and their orbits 150 years before they were discovered to the disappearance of Lord Lucan. And more...Hannah Brade, the mysterious maid who wasn't what she seemed; William Harrison - the bizarre case of the Campden murder; Bruce Lee - was the martial arts superstar murdered? The Man in the Iron Mask - who was the legendary prisoner who could not show his face? The Men In Black - shadowy visitors who stalk UFO witnesses; Adolf Hitler - black magician? The Atlanteans - did the legendary island of Atlantis really exist? The Green Children - a strange tale from the Middle Ages; Robin Hood - who was the legendary outlaw? The Lunarians - is there intelligent life on our moon? Nostradamus - the man who saw tomorrow; Richard Bingham - the case of the vanishing peer...and many more. -
Book IV of Riverworld. After 33 years on the River, Clemens and his crew are finally near the end of their journey in the great iron riverboat Not For Hire, and only one obstacle remains: the evil Earthly king, John Lackland. John is waiting just upriver in the Rex Grandissimus the first riverboat constructed by Sam and stolen by John Lackland. Each are hell-bent on sinking the other and complicating the probable battle is that both boats carry Ethicals, members of the group of advanced beings who created Riverworld for reasons unknown. The battle is set to take place along the shores populated by members of the Church of the Second Chance, a group that believes they must attain ethical perfection in order to proceed to the next phase of existence. The Second Chancers are not violent, but their charismatic leader, La Viro, may attempt to sink one or both of the iron ships in order to prevent the battle. Among the Second Chancers is former Nazi officer Hermann Goring, who has already been more than a nuisance to those on the Quest to find the source of the River...Cover art by Melvyn Grant. -
Book IV of Tomorrow, When The War Began. Five months into World War III, Ellie and her four remaining friends have barely escaped the Australian town of Wirrawee with their lives and their sanity intact. But as the next step becomes clear, they realize they must once again sacrifice their hard-won comfort and safety. A group of soldiers has recruited the kids to guide the way to the Wirrawee air base. What could possibly motivate Ellie and her friends to return? This risky sabotage mission may be their only hope of rescuing their families, too. -
Macroscope: the greatest scientific breakthrough in the history of man, a vast space-borne device that brought the entire universe within man's range of vision, revealing levels of technology vastly beyond anything dreamed of on Earth. But the discovery brought danger - in a place so unthinkably distant in space and time that it might be at the other end of the continuum. A place where ancient symbols come to life to battle for the souls of men. Cover art by Eddie Jones.
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On Alliance Central - formerly Earth - nothing breathes but man and wind, and the wind is tamed beneath great domes. From here, humanity rules a vast interstellar empire. When colonists in a remote frontier system are abruptly wiped out by an alien visitation, every team sent to investigate vanishes. At last, a young woman with her disabled son must travel into this devastating silence. For reasons which do become clear, they alone can reach beyond the shadow cast by human civilisation. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury. -
Warhammer 40,000. Book VI of Space Wolf. In the continuing saga of Ragnar Blackmane, the Space Wolves come under attack from an ancient enemy: The Thousand Sons. In a last-ditch attempt to stop them, Ragnar and his brothers launch a lightning strike counterattack on the Thousand Sons' base. Will the Space Wolves triumph, and can Ragnar retrieve the Spear of Russ from his nemesis, the Chaos Space Marine Madox? Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Book VI of The Childe Cycle. The men of Dorsai, the finest soldiers in the Galaxy, had been hired by El Conde, sovereign of Gebel Nahar, to transform his raggle-taggle army into a fighting force to be reckoned with. Now revolution had erupted and the men once trained by the Dorsai bore arms against him. Bound by their rigid code of honour, the mercenaries' first duty was to protect El Conde from the rebels. But what chance had a handful of warriors against the Naharese? Cover Art by Les Edwards. -
Thirty years ago the Empire of humans found, investigated and decided to use a blockade of space ships to prevent the spread of an alien culture called the Moties, who inhabited a single star system and were only just discovering faster-than-light travel. Now, because of a change in the stellar neighbourhood, the Moties will be able to leave their home system and spread across the galaxy, which will be bad for mankind because they combine great ingenuity with rapid and unstoppable population increase. Horace Bury, a wealthy trader, and his pilot Kevin renner (who is actually a serving member of the Imperial Space Navy) have spent the last thirty years travelling the Empire checking that no Moties have escaped; now they return to the Motie system to try to prevent the expected breakout. Their only real weapon is a symbiotic worm which can stop the continuous cycle of population increase that has caused so many problems. As soon as they enter the Motie system they are taken prisoner. Their plans have to be revised to find a solution that will be acceptable to both the Empire and the Moties. Cover art by John Harris.
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The world is held in the grip of a second Ice Age, and faces total destruction from rapidly advancing glaciers. Doctor Who, with Victoria and Jamie, lands at a top scientific base in England, where they have just unearthed an ancient Ice Warrior. Can the Doctor overcome these warlike Martians and halt the relentless approach of the ice glaciers? Cover art by Chris Achilleos. -
When the Ring aliens first thought to contact other worlds, they didn't think other species might be constructed differently to them. They were deep space dwellers - more like large complex bundles of genetic information that physical entities. They sent their probes into the night hoping to build a bridge between them and others. Most probes vanished into the infinity of space for all time. But one found Earth, and one was all it took to utterly disrupt life as Earth knew it for all time. Because the Ring dwellers sent their information coded in the form of a virus - a virus that would prove deadly to 90% of humanity. The society that rose from the rubble was unlike any that had come before...Earth's survivors experienced visions, deep, dark, disturbing visions - some of building a vast, superphysical bridge between universes, others of navigational instructions. But no-one had all of the Ring dwellers' information. And so the new, fragmented, half-mad society had to build the bridge of co-operation before they could embark on humanity's greatest enterprise...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
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. -
Damia: Anne McCaffrey
$6.00Book II of The Tower And The Hive. Of all the Rowan's children, Damia was the most brilliant, the most difficult, the loneliest and the one who inherited the greatest Talent. It was obvious she would be a Prime with all the honours and burdens of that elite class. Her one friend was Afra - older, wiser, Talented in his own way but belonging almost exclusively to the Rowan and the workings of Callisto Station. As Damia grew her Talent became almost too strong to control and the solution was separation - from her parents, from Callisto and from her beloved Afra. Sent to distant Deneb, to her strange and gifted grandmother, Damia began the necessary training to turn her into a Prime of extraordinary gifts - one ho could contact the minds of approaching aliens through space, some of whom threatened to destroy the worlds of the Nine Star League. Cover art by Romas Kukalis. -
New Year's Eve, 2021. The one night of the year when the guards are less vigilant, and the perfect time for murder. Welcome to 21st century Edinburgh! Rogue detective Quintilian Dalrymple, a former bureaucrat who left his high-ranking job to work for the parks service and solve mysteries on the side, sets about catching a serial killer with a peculiar signature. The killer bites out the victim's throat, cuts out the tongue, removes the genitals, and leaves in the cavity a cassette of the electric blues of Clapton, Hendrix and others. In the allegedly crime-free Edinburgh city-state, blues music is contraband. So are casual sex, monogamy, fattening foods, all drugs, and more-than-weekly showers. So why does the killer leave cryptic messages via electric blues? -
For those of you who are worried about what the neighbors will think, there is what is purported to be an old Martian document which tells us what our nearest neighbor has to say about life on Earth. Clarke explains the proper etiquette for contacting and dealing with aliens from outer space, or what to do if they get here first...Ranging from the light fantastic to the extremely possible, this collection is divided into five sections: Talking of Space; Outward from Earth; The Technological Future; Frontiers of Science; and Son of Dr. Strangelove, Etc. From Martians to Magi, here is Arthur C. Clarke's unforgettable tour of the Universe - known, unknown and yet to come. -
Chimera’s Cradle: Brian Stableford
$6.00–$20.00Book III of Genesys. Andris Myrasol, Princess Lucrezia and their companions are now spread widely across the face of the world. Yet they all struggle to reach the area known as Chimera's Cradle, facing ridiculous odds in order to solve the mysteries that led to their journeys so many months ago. The amazing Chimeras will be the least of the wonders that will be encountered on this final journey that leads to death, knowledge and transformation. Cover art by Mark Salwowski. -
Phantom: Terry Goodkind
$6.00Book X of Sword Of Truth. On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end. As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn't soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul. If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Earthmen and Aleriona have met in space and neither can afford to let the other get too strong. The Aleriona claim that all the inhabitants of the captured human outpost, New Europe, were killed. The World Federation on Earth seems committed to peace at any price. But there are those - like ex-navy Captain Gunnar Helm - who know that further appeasement will only lead to more Aleriona aggression. He believes there must be a showdown NOW - before it's too late. Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
Alex Rider IV. Relaxing in the South of France with his friend Sabina Pleasure and her family, reluctant MI6 agent Alex Rider is finally able to feel like any ordinary fourteen-year-old. Until a sudden ruthless attack on his hosts plunges him back into a world of violence and mystery - and this time, MI6 don't want to know. Especially when Alex tells them that Damian Cray - celebrity, human rights campaigner and the power behind Gameslayer, a new state-of-the-art games console - could be involved. Alex is determined to track down his friends' attackers, even if he must do it alone. But it's a path that leads to a long-buried secret and a discovery more terrible than anything he could have imagined. For younger/teen readers. Cover art by Phil Schramm. -
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. -
Earth in the year 2092 is covered with a grey blight of skyscrapers. Riots and anarchy threaten the breakdown of world order. Far distant, on the colonized planet Refuge, live the Loafers, a race of remarkable telepaths. Their affinity with the breshwahr or tree-the-lives provides an unexpected answer to Earth's problem. A solution that carries ominous implications for the future. -
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an evil legacy long believed dead is stirring. Now the dark side of the Force threatens to overwhelm the light, and only an ancient Jedi prophecy stands between hope and doom for the entire galaxy. On the green, unspoiled world of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, arrive to protect the realm’s young queen as she seeks a diplomatic solution to end the siege of her planet by Trade Federation warships. At the same time, on desert-swept Tatooine, a slave boy named Anakin Skywalker, who possesses a strange ability for understanding the “rightness” of things, toils by day and dreams by night—of becoming a Jedi Knight and finding a way to win freedom for himself and his beloved mother. It will be the unexpected meeting of Jedi, Queen, and a gifted boy that will mark the start of a drama that will become legend. Based on the screenplay and story by George Lucas. -
Book II of Dinosaur Planet. Having been in cryogenic sleep for at least two generations, Kai, Varian and their companions find the Dinosaur Planet much changed. There has been a regression to primitive barbarity and much necessary life support equipment has malfunctioned or has disappeared. A rescue ship is on the way but new problems have arisen. What are the motives of the mysterious Theks? Why are the intelligent Giffs acting so strangely? And what is causing the mindless hostility? -
When brilliant, driven and idealistic scientist Jeffrey Horton discovers the Trigger effect, he knows at once that he's changed the world. He is in possession of the ultimate weapon: a device that can disarm an enemy's entire arsenal, from rifle bullets to nuclear warheads. But the Trigger is not just a weapon - it can be used to end forever the power of the gun. Except that, in a world where violence is epidemic, anyone proposing en end to the use of weapons is a target for killers. Cover art by Bob Warner.
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