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Count Zero: William Gibson
$30.00Book II of Sprawl. A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D - and the biochip he’s perfected - out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human...Cover art by Steve Stone. -
Book III of Posleen War. After five years of battling invaders, human civilization prepares a strike to drive the aliens from the Earth. But the Clan-Lord of the Sten has learned from the defeats humans have dealt him, and has his own plan. When he squares off against Major O'Neal, the only winner will be Satan himself. Cover art by Patrick Turner. -
Thirty years after the Galactic Civil War, the First Order has risen from the fallen Galactic Empire and seeks to end the New Republic. The Resistance, backed by the Republic and led by General Leia Organa, opposes the First Order. Luke Skywalker has gone missing; a Resistance plot with a map to Luke's whereabouts crashes on a desert world and is captured by Stormtroopers under the command of Kylo Ren but his faithful droid BB-8 escapes with the map. Poe reveals BB-8's existence under torture and Stormtrooper FN-2187 proves an unexpected ally and helps him escape. Meanwhile BB-8 has found a scavenger named Rey and when Stormtrooper FN-2187 - now with the name of Finn - and Poe crash, Finn believes Poe dead and when he finds BB-8 and Rey, the First Order are right behind. But All three escape in none other but Han Solo's old ship, the Millennium Falcon. But where's Solo and Chewbacca? Who is Kylo Ren and where in the Galaxy is Luke Skywalker? With photographs from the film. -
Set before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, this is the sequel to Star Wars: Darth Plagueis. It's kill or be killed in the space penitentiary that houses the galaxy’s worst criminals, where convicts face off in gladiatorial combat while an underworld gambling empire reaps the profits of the illicit blood sport. But the newest contender in this savage arena, as demonic to behold as he is deadly to challenge, is fighting for more than just survival. His do-or-die mission, for the dark masters he serves, is to capture the ultimate weapon: an object capable of obliterating the Jedi and conquering the galaxy. Sith lords Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious are determined to possess the prize. And one of the power-hungry duo has his own treacherous plans for it. But first, their fearsome apprentice must take on a bloodthirsty prison warden, a cannibal gang, cutthroat crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and an unspeakable alien horror. No one else could brave such a gauntlet of death and live. But no one else is the dreaded dark-side disciple known as Darth Maul. Cover art by Scott Biel. -
Rendezvous With Rama told of the 2130 arrival of a mysterious, apparently untenanted spaceship, which during its visit, uncovered may wonders but answered few questions. One thing was clear - everything the enigmatic builders of Rama did, they did in threes. Now, in 2200, four years after a second approaching spacecraft has been detected, Earth knows what to expect and is ready to mount an expedition which may answer some of the questions posed by Rama. -
Book III of The Pearl. Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman is the mind and spirit of a unique Kundalan female who is joined in mystical partnership with the mind and spirit of Annon Ashera, a V'ornn male, the last survivor of a noble family. Together the two adolescents have matured and merged into a new joint identity. Now their common destiny, and Kundala's, is in their own hands. Other characters who will play their roles: Riane, the Dar-Sala-at; Eleana, the woman she loves twice over; Kurgan, the V'ornn usurper who raped Eleana and sired her child; Marethyn Stogggul, Kurgan's defiant sister, an artist who joins the Kundalan resistance; Marethyn's lover, chief trader Sornnn SaTrryn, who secretly helps the resistance as well; and the fabulous Krystren, the Sarakkon woman from the mysterious southern continent, who comes north on a secret mission and will change the lives of everyone she meets. All the while, the evil Sauromicians threaten the world as they seek to use banestones to bind a dragon. Cover art by John Howe. -
Book II of The Homecoming Saga. As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of an army using forbidden technology. now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plain.Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons are not strong enough to stop a army. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh take the city and all who are in it? Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Earthborn: Orson Scott Card
$10.00Book V of Homecoming. High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundred of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly--there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from those who followed Nafai or Elemak. But in all the long years of watching and searching, the Oversoul has not found the thing it sought. It has not found the Keeper of the Earth, the central intelligence that also can repair the Oversoul's damaged programming. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Book III of Prelude To Dune. From the royal planet Kaitain, the Padishad Emperor Shaddam IV strikes at planets which defy his merciless edicts. Soon he will grasp absolute power with a new, artificial spice substitute that he alone will control. On Dune, Liet Kynes leads the Fremen as they strike crippling blows against the planet's Harkonnen overlords. Prince Rhombur Vernius, exiled on Caladan, is ready to free his unhappy planet from the tyranny of the Tleilaxu Masters. But the final war - the one which will change the future of worlds - will be between two men: Leto Atriedes of Caladan and Vladimir Harkonnen of Geidi Prime. Cover art by Gerry Grace. -
Book III of Homecoming. The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai and all their family must brave the desert wastes and cross the wide continents to Harmony's hidden spaceport - silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar ships ready for flight. But of these sixteen people, only a few have chosen their exile. Rasa's spiteful daughters and their husbands and Wetchik's oldest son Elemak have been forced against their will. Their anger and hatreds make to difficult journey harder. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Book XII of Pern. Five episodes of early Pern - from the very first space survey recommending colonisation, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture undetected, is condemned to be isolated in space. There is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins; the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold; and one of the most fascinating dragon tales; when Fort Weyr was the only weyr and when dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to realize that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly formed Benden Weyr. Contents: The P.E.R.N. Survey; The Dolphins' Bell;The Fort of Red Hanrahan; The Second Weyr; The Rescue Run. Cover art by Steve Weston. -
When Internet trolls start to drop dead, the Doctor thinks there might be more to it than just a sedentary lifestyle and high blood pressure. From the backstreets of South Korea to the jungles of Brazil, the Doctor and Donna follow the leads until they find the source of this online infection. But they aren't the only ones interested in these sudden deaths at the computer screens or what's causing them. Before long, Donna and the Doctor are fighting for their lives - and the lives of everyone else on planet Earth who uses the internet. In;lcuding some people very dear to Donna... -
Warhammer 40,000. Book VIII of Gaunt's Ghosts. Book 1 of The Lost sequence. A high-ranking Imperial officer has been captured by the foul forces of Chaos. Gaunt must assemble a squad of his most trusted men and venture deep into enemy territory. Their mission: rescue the officer if they can. However - if he has been compromised their rescue mission may become an assassination. Cover art by Adrian Smith. -
Warrior Brood: C.S. Goto
$9.00Warhammer 40,000. Book I of Deathwatch. The world of Herodian IV is doomed when the nightmarish tyranid hive fleets descend from the depths of space intent on devouring every living thing there. In the vital hours before the planet is lost, Inquisitor Kalypsia and a team of Deathwatch Space Marines are sent on a mission to investigate a mysterious research outpost. The terrible secret they uncover could affect the fate of all humanity but can they escape to safety before they are torn apart by the ravenous alien hordes? Cover art by Phil Sibbering. -
Red Fury: James Swallow
$7.00Book III of Blood Angels. Following the tragic events that led the Blood Angels to the brink of civil war, the Chapter's strength has been badly depleted. The Blood Angels must act and act quickly, before their enemies learn of their weakness and attack. With tempers flaring and mutants running wild on their homeworld, can the Blood Angels and their successor Chapters put aside their rivalries and rebuild their forces before it's too late? Cover art by Adrian Smith. -
Book I of Blood Angels. On the remote world of Cybele, the superhuman warriors of the Blood Angels Chapter fight a losing battle against their most bitter enemies, the forces of Chaos. When Battle Brother Arkio leads a glorious counter-attack that has the enemy reeling, there is talk that this is a holy sign - is Arkio blessed? But events soon begin to spiral out of control as the forces of Chaos reveal a nightmarish plot. If Brother Rafen doesn't find out what;s really happening the entire Chapter may face damnation. Cover art by Philip Sibbering. -
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. -
Warhammer 40,000. Book I of Ultramarines. Newly promoted Ultramarines Captain Uriel Ventris is assigned to investigate Pavonis, an imperial planet plagued by civil disorder and renegade elder raiders. Nothing is as straightforward as it seems, and wheels are turning within wheels. Uriel and his allies are forced into a deadly race against time to destroy their shadowy enemy - or the whole planet must be sacrificed for the good of humanity. Cover art by Clint Langley. -
Past Doctor Adventures XLII. Oxford, 1278 - the Doctor is keen to put a stop to the pioneering scientific experiments of Roger Bacon. Bacon has developed ideas for submarines, explosives, telescopes and aeroplanes - history will be cast into chaos if any of these ideas see the light of day. Bacon is living among Franciscan friars who consider him to be a heretic embarrassment. When a friar is found dead in suspicious circumstances, they are keen to implicate Bacon and have him locked away for good. However, more and more murders are being committed and it's increasingly obvious that Bacon cannot be held responsible for them all. -
Technical writer and volunteer fireman Charles Forrester died at age 37 - burned to death. But his insurance covered freezing in liquid nitrogen against the possibility of someday being thawed, repaired, and returned to life. Which is how he woke up in 2527 - to find the world a delightful place. The people around him were bright and vivacious and his 'joymaker' did absolutely everything for him. However, the quarter of a million dollars from his insurance was no longer very much money (two mill being regarded as a bare subsistence income) and so - he had to find a job. While job -hunting, he unintentionally insulted one Heinzlichen Jura de Syrtis Major, who took out a hunting license on him - a license to kill - and suddenly 2527 did not seem quite so delightful after all...Cover art by Bruce Pennington. -
Omnibus edition featuring: The City And The Stars: Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rule the stars. But then, as legend has it, the invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, a Unique, to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders. The Deep Range: A hundred years into the future, humanity lives mostly on the oceans - tending vast whale herds and plankton farms. Walter Franklin works on a submarine patrol - and his adventures under the sea are told in this riveting tale, set against the backdrop of a world both futuristic and familiar...A Fall Of Moondust: For a million years the bubble had been growing, like a vast abscess, below the root of the mountains. Now the abscess was about to burst. Captain Harris had left the controls on autopilot and was talking to the front row of passengers as the first tremor shook the boat. For a fraction of a second he wondered if a fan blade had hit some submerged obstacle; then, quite literally, the bottom fell out of his world. It fell slowly, as all things must upon the Moon. The sea was alive and moving . . . Every stage of that nightmare transformation was pitilessly illuminated by the earth light, until the crater was so deep that its firewall was completely lost in shadow, and it seemed as if Selene were racing into a curving crescent of utter blackness – an arc of annihilation. In darkness and in silence, they were sinking into the Moon...Rendezvous With Rama: At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits — just behind a Raman airlock door... -
Orion Arm: Julian May
$10.00Book II of The Rampart Worlds. Two hundred years into the future, the great corporations of Earth dominate all life in our Galaxy. But their endless pursuit of wealth and power is about to open the door to a malevolent alien race, intent on engulfing the commonwealth of Human Worlds. Helly and his companions attempt to capture a crucial witness to the Galapharma conspiracy, who has taken refuge on a hostile planet. Its insanely ambitious boss, Alistair Drummond, will stop at nothing in his quest for power, and Helly is marked for death as the two corporations continue to do battle. Meanwhile, the Haluk follow their own appalling agenda, using human science to mutate their bodies, allowing them to infiltrate human society. Helly must find a way to alert the Human Commonwealth to the Haluk peril, while also saving his family from Drummond's increasingly desperate efforts to annhilate the Rampart worlds. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury. -
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke Volume II. In this volume: Rescue Party; Guardian Angel; Breaking Strain; The Sentinel; Jupiter V; Refugee; The Wind From The Sun; A Meeting With Medusa; The Songs Of Distant Earth. Cover art by Lebbeus Woods. -
In 1994, the Marines test a new missile. After launch it mysteriously disappears...and if it reaches civilian areas they'll be in big trouble. Carol Dawson, a journalist, is alerted by an unusual sight of whales in the Miami area and armed with quipment provided by her friend, Dr. Dale Michaels from the Miami Oceanographic Institute, she goes to investigate the rumors of a missing missile that could be behind the mysterious whale behavior. She hires the services of Nick Williams & Jefferson Troy, boat owners, so she can get to the Mexican Gulf to investigate. They find an unknown artifact and have doubts about its nature. They hope it's part of a lost treasure...but is it? Cover art by David Scutt. -
Bloom: Wil McCarthy
$12.00In the late 21st century, man-made, self-replicating organisms called mycora - smaller than bacteria - mutate and sweep across the globe in a chain reaction so swift and deadly there is not time to do anything but flee from an Earth destroyed buy the science created to sustain it. Now the remnants of humanity, clinging to the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter are about to face their greatest test. Mycora are incorporating gene sequences to elude human defences, perhaps eve to thrive in the harsh environment of the outer system. The only way to counter this is for the few surviving members of mankind to go to the diseased heart of the Mycosystem - Earth. Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Eighty years after the mysterious arrival of Rama in 2130, a second alien craft arrived. Earth had been waiting, but all the years of preparation were not enough to unlock the Rama Enigma. Rama II is now on its way out of the solar system, with three humans aboard - two men and a woman. Ahead of them lies the unknown, a voyage no human has ever experienced. And at the end of it may be the truth about Rama. Cover art by Paul Swendson. -
Originally published as two books, Worlds of the Golden Queen is a stellar tale of love, adventure, sacrifice, and war set in a fantastic future. The Golden Queen: The insectoid Dronons have slain the human queen Semarritte, throwing the ten thousand worlds over which she reigned into chaos. Desperate to save mankind, Lord Veriasse, her near-immortal consort, has created a new queen: Everynne, cloned from the dead original. Hotly pursued, Everynne falls in with cocky bodyguard Gallen O'Day; the pious Orick, an intelligent black bear; and the beautiful orphan Maggie Flynn. With Gallen and the others newly sworn to her service, the young queen begins the great struggle against the aliens. Leaping from world to world via an ancient system of instantaneous transport gates, the heroes face terrible dangers and great wonders as they seek the heart of the dronon worlds, carrying the battle straight to the enemy. Beyond the Gate: Maggie Flynn has become, by test of combat, the new Golden Queen. Gallen, Maggie, and Orick face an attack by Dronons on a planet where humans have achieved the pinnacle of genetic engineering. They must stop them while guarding the secret of Maggie's whereabouts, for she is only the Golden Queen until her champion, Gallen, is defeated by a Dronon challenger. Originally published as by Dave Wolverton. Cover art by Matthew Stawicki.
