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Ares Express: Ian Mcdonald
$15.00Set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future - or futures - of Mars depends. Described as 'a wild and woolly magic-realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies , mind stretching ideas and trains as big as city blocks'. Cover art by Paul Youll. -
Ark Of Doom: Richard Woodley
$20.00Book IV of Man From Atlantis. All the FBI had to go on were a few scraps of paper: one bore the word Felicitos and that rang a bell in Mark Harris's mind. On a perilous rescue mission, the Man From Atlantis sped to a mysterious island off the coast of Brazil. There, in a sophisticated underground laboratory. a deranged woman scientists had concocted a potion that would make the greatest minds on Earth serve her will. Mark Harris was uniquely armed to meet the bizarre adventure that awaited him - an adventure that threatened to take the Earth's intelligence out of the known world to a strange and overpowering new one. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate. -
Buck Rogers. Book III of The Martian Wars. A fierce war of revolution and imperial conquest has thrown the inner planets of the solar system into chaos. Fighters, Battlers and Transports scream across space, cutting swathes of destruction from Mercury to the Asteroid Belt. RAM's space fleet, intent on destroying the NEO freedom fighters - led by Buck Rogers - thunders Earthwards. Meanwhile, Venusian warriors, race to Earth's aid unaware of treachery from an unexpected part of the solar system. Cover by Don Landwehrle. -
Book I of Genesis of Shannara. Fifty years from now, our world is unrecognisable. Pollution and warfare have poisoned the skies, the water and the earth. Pockets of society still exist in fortified strongholds, while those outside the walls roam the landscape - either prey or predator. But even these compounds are not safe; armies of demons and once-men assault the defences and inevitably, one by one, they fall - anarchy is the only law. Logan Tom and Angel Perez are the last two Knights to stand against the forces of chaos; they have the ability to resist the dark tide and to them will fall twin tasks: to find and protect and very old and a very new magic. They are humanity's last hope. They have the power to halt the destruction of the old world...Cover art by Steve Stone.
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A short story volume, including: The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things; The Poplar Street Study - a blackly comedic account of an alien invasion; Face Value; The Dragon's Head; The War of the Roses; Contention; Recalling Cinderella; Other Planes; The Bog People; Wild Boys (Variations on a Theme); The View From Venus; Praxis - a story about a theatre wherein the real and the unreal collide. The Gate of Ghosts - a child journeys to a strange and deadly world. Cover art by Tito Salomini. -
Star Trek Original Series No. 84. Captain Kirk first encountered Gary Seven on 20th century Earth. Now Seven, a time travelling operative for unknown alien forces, makes a surprise visit to the U.S.S. Enterprise. Kirk is on an urgent mission to bring relief to a disaster ravaged planet, but Seven has an agenda of his own - and he's not above hijacking the Starship Enterprise and sending it on a perilous journey deep into the heat of the Romulan Empire. Kirk must dare to trust Gary Seven again, as he confronts the possibility that the enigmatic stranger may bring death and destruyction to Kirk's own era. Cover art by Dru Blair. -
Atlan In Danger: Kurt Brand
$20.00Book 82 of Perry Rhodan. The Reign of the Robot Regent is over and the power to rule has come to the Crystal Prince, the Immortal Arkonide. But a dangerous rebellion against Atlan is fomenting as a smokescreen for Thomas Cardiff, son of Rhodan, and avowed enemy of the Administrator of the Solar System. The hatred of son for father knows no bounds. Cover art by Gray Morrow. -
In this volume of sci-fi blended with horror: Barnacle Bill The Spacer: John is a technician on the space station Solitaire on which ships with solar sails are built. Tensions between the crew members are aggravated by subversive agents of a subversive group...and the inevitable showdown must happen without endangering the lives of all. A Little Light Music: an art critic writes an article about a quartet of resurrected corpses, but there is a more sinister revelation...Human History: On a largely deserted planet with a technically backward human population a man goes through a marriage break-up, a mid-life crisis, the maturing of his son and the domination of those who live in the orbiting space stations. Sports in America: Gangsters, the Irish mafia against the Sicilian mafia, paid assassins, revenge and spectacular upheavals. The Sun Spider: A husband and wife on the space station Helios each have a tale to tell of infidelities, tension and the attempts to discover life on the sun. All the Perfumes of Araby: In Egypt, Danny Shields and his Gulf War veteran friend become involved in drug trafficking and extremist groups. Beast of the Heartland: Mears, a boxer whos sports career is on the decline is about to go blind and suffers from hallucinations in which opponents in the ring have monstrous faces. -
Twenty-six science fiction stories, complete in one volume, originally published before 1939 (when the Golden Age of SF began), with autobiographical remarks by Asimov before each story. Contents: Introduction; Part 1: 1920 to 1930 by Isaac Asimov. Part II - 1931: The Man Who Evolved, Edmond Hamilton: As man evolves what changes will he undergo in a thousand years? A million or more? The Jameson Satellite, Neil R. Jones: When a scientist knows he must die, he conceives a brilliant idea for the preservation of his body... the result of which even exceeded his expectations. Submicroscopic: A ray is invented that causes both miniturisation and enlargement; Awlo Of Ulm, Captain S. P. Meek: Could an atom be a miniature solar system - and if so, what of our own? Tetrahedra Of Space, P. Schuyler Miller: Three different civilisations meet in a struggle to the death. The World Of The Red Sun, Clifford D. Simak: A pair of adventurers leave Denver in their flying time machine, intending to travel five millennia... but they land five million years later in a desolate world ruled by the evil and cruel brain, Golan-Kirt. Part III - 1932: Tumithak of the Corridors, Charles R. Tanner: In the fifty-third century, two millennia after Earth has been invaded by the shelks from Venus, mankind has been driven underground into a maze of deep tunnels. Tumithak, a young man, determines to venture to the surface and kill a shelk and on his way, discovers other societies that have evolved. The Moon Era, Jack Williamson: An insufficiently tested space ship delivers its lone passenger to the Moon of the distant past, where he will play a role in the final episode of a ruthless, genocidal war. Part IV - 1933: The Man Who Awoke, Laurence Manning: Elderly banker Norman Winters puts himself into suspended animation for 5,000 years at a time - and has adventures through Time. Tumithak In Shawm, Charles R. Tanner: Tumithak leads a party of warriors back to the surface to defeat the shelks. Part V - 1934: Colossus, Donald Wandrei: As an apocalyptic atomic world war breaks out, a man leaves Earth in a experimental spaceship, hoping to reach the ends of the known universe. Born of the Sun, Jack Williamson: The Sun is a sentient being, and planets and moons are its eggs - and now the eggs are beginning to hatch, including the egg shell known as 'Earth...'. Sidewise in Time, Murray Leinster: As 'time-quakes' reveal parallel universes, a professor and a team of students attempt to establish themselves as masters of a time-fractured world. Old Faithful, Raymond Z. Gallun: Martian civilisation is slowly dying and Martian 774 is informed - as is the custom - that he has forty days left to live and his work of establishing communication with Earth is not relevant to saving the Martian race. So...Martian 774 hitches a ride on a passing comet...Part VI - 1935: Parasite Planet, Stanley G. Weinbaum: Tidal locking keeps one side of Venus perpetually facing the Sun, creating a barren desert. Towards the planet's twilight zone the temperature drops below the boiling point of water and the Hotlands begin: a place inhabited by parasitic native life forms. Proxima Centauri, Murray Leinster: The starship Adastra is in sight of its goal, Proxima Centauri with a crew that is half loyal officers and half mutineers. And when a young mutineer is promoted for picking up signals from Proxima, a loyal officer is enraged...and he doesn't seem to realise the communications are less than friendly. The Accursed Galaxy, Edmond Hamilton: The force field prison of an immortal Energy Being lands on Earth and the secret of why other galaxies flee the Milky Way is revealed. Part VII - 1936: He Who Shrank, Henry Hasse: The greatest scientist ever has invented a new means of exploring the world of the infinitely small - and sends his devoted assistant on a mind-boggling series of adventures exploring the infinite series of concentric universes. The Human Pets of Mars, Leslie F. Stone: The Martians land on a golf course and capture a small group of humans, transporting them back to Mars, where they are kept as pets. The Brain Stealers of Mars, John W. Campbell, Jr.: Two rogue inventors break the law to create an atomic powered space ship. On Mars, they find two life forms - one of which can become anything it likes...Devolution, Edmond Hamilton: A variant on the creation myth, where perfect beings devolve into lesser beings in all ways - including morally. Big Game, Isaac Asimov: A drunk man in a bar tries to convince his audience that ten years ago, he built a time machine and travelled back to before the extinction of the dinosaurs, where he met an intelligent race of humanoid dinosaurs with the ability to communicate telepathically. Part VIII - 1937: Other Eyes Watching, John W. Campbell, Jr: A non-fiction piece on the solar system, focusing on Jupiter. Minus Planet, John D. Clark, Ph.D.: Humanity is endangered by the approach of a world composed of pure antimatter. Past, Present and Future, Nat Schachner: Kleon, not content to be worshipped as a god by the Mayans, will sleep the centuries away...until a careless explorer succumbs to the sleeping gas. Together, explorer and Kleon awake to the even more distant future: the Age of the Olgarchs. Part IX - 1938: The Men and the Mirror, Ross Rocklynne: A cop and a crook become trapped in a frictionless, mirrored bowl. Escape depends on co-operation - and ingeniously applied physics. 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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. -
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! -
Sandra Foster studies fads - from Barbie dolls to the grunge look - how they start and what they mean. Bennett O'Reilly is a chaos theorist studying monkey group behaviour. They both work for the HiTek Coporation, strangers until a misdelivered package brings them together. A moment of synchronicity - if not serendipity - which leads them into a chaotic system of their own, complete with a million dollar research grant, cafe latte, tattoos and a series of unlucky coincidences that leaves Bennett monkeyless, fundless and nearly jobless. Sandra intercedes with a flock of sheep and an idea for a joint project - after all, what better animal to study both chaos theory and herd mentality? But scientific study is rarely straightforward...Cover art by Bruce Jensen. -
Book V of Chung Kuo. On Mars, Chung Kuo's largest colony is engulfed by civil war. In America, a ruthless leader precipitates a disaster greater than Chung Kuo has ever known, while the Seven Han Lords dissipate their power fighting the shadows of their own great Ministry - The Thousand Eyes - in a struggle for ultimate political control. And in the heart of the City, in the final hours before the darkness falls, an old man - once the most powerful soldier in Chung Kuo - paces his rooms, surrounded by the ghosts of the dead. At last, the magnificent edifice built by the Chinese conquerors has begun to crumble. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Book II of The Guardians. They are the enemies of promise and man's only hope. They are outsiders, a world wide secret cabal, walking in the shadows and dedicated to the cause of stability, dedicated to preserving science from the world, and the world from science. In a rotting decommissioned nuclear power station on the English south coast, a sinister experiment is taking place. In Japan, a hacker genius called the Emperor Dragon is threatening to tear down the cyber empire of Kawai Kim, the Guardians' intelligence co-ordinator. The Guardians little suspect the danger that is building withing their number. -
Berserker III. It is said they came five centuries ago, wreaking destruction upon the galaxy, sterilising planets and laying waste to solar systems. They were the unliving aliens who programme was to expunge the universe of all living matter - they were the berserkers, death-bringers from deep space...Then Karlsen, the demi-god, turned back the onslaught, forcing them out of the known universe - all except one shell-less brain, which lay festering in a small corner of the galaxy, awaiting the rebirth of civilisation which it would then enslave...Cover art by Peter Jones. -
Fifth annual edition, 1976. In this volume: The Bitter Bread, Poul Anderson: After the Armageddon War, a puritanical form of Christianity becomes the state-sponsored ideology. Mail Supremacy, Hayford Peirce: A light-hearted story in which Chap Foey Rider begins to wonder about the mail system and how it works. Child Of all Ages, P.J. Plauger: A child who is granted immortality before attaining puberty finds that being a child who never grows up is far removed from an idyllic Peter Pan-like existence. Tree Of Life, Phyllis Eisenstein: A mulberry tree in a new housing development attracts an alien visitor. Helbent Four, Stephen Robinett: A warrior sent to fight aliens returns to Earth 300 years later - but it isn't the Earth he left. Pop Goes The Weasel, Robert Hoskins: Growing up is hard enough - and when the entire world seems to conspire to prevent maturation, it's impossible! The Book Learners, Liz Hufford: An astronaut carrying a bible crashes on a planet - with very odd annual results... High Yield Bondage, Hayford Peirce: A damaged alien spacecraft lands secretly on Earth. Senior Citizen, Clifford D. Simak: Theoretically, a senior citizen might live longer in space...much longer...The Peddler's Apprentice, Joan D. Vinge and Verner Vinge: A peddler, Jagit Katchetooriantz, travels into the future to sell his wares, depending on civilisation's changes for fresh wares. But then the Government takes an interest in his activities. Cover art by Alex Ebel. -
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. -
The army's made Bill what he is today - the perfect Starship Trooper, proud of his two right arms and a lockerful of feet suitable for any occasion. But this time he's really put his foot in it - the Swiss-Army one with the special attachments, secret compartments, collapsible mess kit and condom dispenser. He's been volunteered to join a suicide squad run by Captain Cadaver to the well-known hell-hole planet of Eyerack. The orders are death or glory - and glory made a point of never returning the invitation to the war. So - can this really be IT? The Long Goodbye? Zero Hour? Harmonicas at dawn? The end of a brilliantly undistinguished career of military mishaps? It is - BILL'S FINAL INCOHERENT ADVENTURE! Cover art by Mark Pacella and Steve Fastner.
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Black Fire: Sonni Cooper
$5.00Star Trek Original Series No. 8. When sabotage strikes the Enterprise, Spock's investigation leads him into an alliance with the Romulan and Klingon empires against the Tomarii, a bloodthirsty race for whom war is life itself. Spock is declared a traitor and sentenced to the Federation's highest-security prison, and Kirk must choose between friendship and duty, with dire consequences for himself, Spock, and the entire Federation if he's wrong. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. -
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. -
Black Steel: Steve Perry
$15.00Book VII of Matador. She is a sensei - a teacher, a master of the martial arts. Her weapon is a 400 year old sword; her ambition is to find the perfect student. one worthy of her blade. He is a thief, a poet, a scholar, a soldier - and one of the best of the Matadors, the elite cadre of bodyguards who sparked a revolution. Now, stripped of his honour and forbidden the weapons that set him apart, he must begin again. Their enemy is hidden in the House of Black Steel, protected by power and money. He has stolen her secret and his honour and nearly claimed their lives. Their only hope of survival and vengeance lies in the strength of black steel. Cover art by Luis Royo. -
Book 21 of Richard Blade. Blade lands in a new dimension of a bleak desert with a city of black jade rising from the horizon. Mistaken for a desert tribesman he is attacked and captured by the defending warriors of the city. Sentenced to death - to be burned alive...In prison he befriends a beautiful woman prisoner who is trusted because she is the mistress of the warden. The inevitable happens and they escape - but Blade's rapid jumping of dimensions causes confusion back at Home Dimension - especially when a Russian spy is sent into Dimension X. Cover art by Ken Kelly. -
Blade Dancer: S.L. Viehl
$28.00Jory Rask is a professional shockball player. The fastest runback in the game, she is loved across Terra. But Jory Rask has a secret that she’s lived with for twenty-four years…In a xenophobic world that despises aliens, she is not quite human. When her mother dies - and that secret is revealed - Jory must honor her last wishes and set out on a journey to find others like herself. And once they meet, none of their lives will ever be the same again. For in order to take the vengeance denied their mothers, they must undergo training at the Tana, the school for assassins known as Blade Dancers - the most lethal killers in the galaxy. And in the heart of that school lies a deadly secret...Cover art by Allen Douglas. -
Destroyermen No XI. Transported into an alternative reality of Earth where WWII no longer rages, Matt Reddy and the crew of Asiatic Fleet Destroyer USS Walker have been drawn into an entirely other cataclysmic war. They have given their all to protect the oppressed Lemurians, but with Walker in dire need of repairs just as the Grik's First General is poised to strike, Reddy is desperate. With more enemies than ever before arrayed against them, the crew needs more allies - and that means combing the lethal wilds of Madagascar to find the Lemurians' fabled ancestors, as well as the enigmatic dwellers east of the Pass of Fire. But what Reddy's crew unearths are discovers so shattering they could tilt the balance of the war in either direction. But Reddy's greatest adversary is from his past: a madman named Kurukawa whose single-minded mission of revenge will shake the Alliance to its core and raise the stakes to terrifying levels... -
Blood Moon: Sharman DiVono
$12.00In the early part of the 21st century, the U.S. renewed its commitment to the space programme, building a new base on the far side of the moon. The first four missions went off without a hitch. But on the fifth mission, disaster struck. First came an urgent message from Farside Base -then silence. The launch of FS-6 was moved up to mount a rescue mission but when they reached Farside, the situation they found was beyond all human comprehension. The station was a mess, with graffiti scrawled everywhere, including the mysterious phrase, 'food for the Moon.' Two members of FS-5 were dead, obviously murdered. A third died of fright not long after they found her. And the mission commander and two others were missing. The FS-6 team were now de facto detectives in a murder investigation and hanging over them all was the threat that whatever had claimed the sanity and lives of their colleagues migh , at any moment, strike again. Cover art by Bob Warner.
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Battletech Universe 21. Melissa Steiner's assassination ignited the fire of civil war and now secessionist factions clamour for rebellion against the Federal Governments. The rebels' plans hinge on gaining control of the Skye March, thus controlling the crucial Terran corridor. The final piece of the plan requires the rebels to gain access to the planet Glengarry and the mercenary Gray Death Legion. When Prince Davion summons Grayson Death Carlyle and his wife Lori to the Federated Government capital, the rebel force seize the chance to establish a garrison on Glengarry - but the rebels didn't expect the legion's newest members to take matters into their own hands. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. Illustrations by Rick Harris and FASA. -
Book IV of Amtrak Wars. On the snow swept overground, Steve, Cadillac and Clearwater meet with triumph and disaster as they try to evade the clutches of the Iron Masters and the First Family.The samurai of Ne-Issan are tenacious adversaries and the rulers of the Federation have no intention of releasing their grip on Steve Brickman. He and his friends are valuable pawns in a game which, if lost, cold mean the end of the First Family's dream on conquering the blue-sky world. Cover art by Jordi Penalva.
