This volume contains: Slaves to the Star Giants: Lloyd Harkins is transported to a far future when civilization has collapsed. Small mutated humans live underground in isolation. Ancient robots left over from the Time of Cities still roam the jungles but no longer serve any useful function. Small human tribes aboveground are used for social experiments by a race of aliens known as Star Giants. Harkins hatches a deadly plan to find the Brain that can reprogram the robots in order to wage war against the alien interlopers. The Songs Of Summer: A time traveler from New York, 1956, accidentally winds up in the 35th century, where he tries to bring back modern civilization to an agrarian society. Hopper: Earth is overcrowded and suffering from widespread air pollution. Time travel is being used illegally to send poor people back to the 20th century. Corrupt police officer Quellen is in a quandary - if he apprehends the criminal, he may alter the past (and who knows what the consequence will be?), but if he lets the criminal go free, the inevitable tide of history will result in the unsustainable reality in which he is living. Blaze of Glory: A hot-headed communications officer sacrifices himself to save his ship. Heroism - or murder? Warm Man: In this smart, socially satirical piece, an empath comes to a small New York suburb. Cover art by Tom Kidd.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine No. 13. What began as a sticky political problem soon evolves into full-scale chaos for Commander Sisko when a tomb of Cardassian soldiers is discovered on Deep Space Nine. While Sisko searches for a way to return the soldiers to Cardassia, the "bodies" begin to pulsate with life, determined to seek revenge on the enemies now occupying the former Cardassian stronghold. But as the soldiers launch their attack to cripple the station, and Sisko struggles to regain control, another old enemy plots to destroy the soldiers at any cost – even if it means destroying Deep Space Nine as well. -
Book III - The Gap Into Power. After a terrifying encounter with the Amnion aliens, Nick Succorso made for the safety of Thanatos Minor, the infamous bootleg shipyard where illegals from all over the galaxy come to repair their ships and indulge in exotic entertainment. But the Amnion were waiting and for Nick, Morn Hyland and her son Davies, the safe haven became hell. They would not be alone. Angus Thermopyle had been captured by the UMCP and turned into a deadly cyborg. Now as Angus' controllers looked on, he was heading for Thanatos Minor, programmed to carry out a deadly mission with nightmarish consequences for them all. -
Book VI of TekWar. Androids are becoming more realistic every day and humans aren't noticing. Replacing humans with surrogates has been possible for a long time in a crude way - android simulations have become an assassination tool of choice, as investigator Jake Cardigan well knows. But now there's a really deadly and sinister plot afoot. The President of the United States returns unusually rested and healthy - and with a whole new set of policies. It'll be up to Cardigan to unravel the TekLord's audacious plan. -
The starship Alpha Cross is launched to Alpha Crucis. Centuries pass, civilisations rise and fall, the races of Mankind change and still the ship fell on her headlong journey to the distant star. Ten generations later, the ship is farthest from Earth than any human work - but she is not halfway to her goal. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Star Wars. Darth Maul, merciless apprentice of evil and one of the legendary Sith, champion of the Sith Lord, Darth Sidious - a legend come to life from nightmares and about to be unleashed...After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking his first step in the master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. Meanwhile, a young Jedi Padawan named Darsha Assant is on the verge of ascension to Jedi knighthood. A single mission will be her test, but a greater test awaits....
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Statesman: Piers Anthony
$6.00Book V of Bio Of A Space Tyrant. Child of flame and terror, born and bred to violence, Hope Hubris had ruled the solar system's most powerful empire with a fierce, uncompromising passion, His was a white-hot flame of justice that scarred friend and foe alike. Yet now he left Jupiter as an exile, his autocratic rule overthrown by the one person he could not oppose. Deposed, disgraced, but forever unbroken, the tyrant's greatest hour was still to come. For only he couldshoulder the burden of humanity's boldest dream: to leave behind the confines of the solar system and journey outward to the stars. Cover art by Alan Craddock. -
"We have come to your planet to remember it." So say the insectoid aliens who arrived one day in their pyramid-ship. Although they speak both English and Russian and the human team sent to communicate with them includes an expert on body-language, the meaning of their words remains tantalisingly obscure. And then things start to disappear. The Dome of St. Peter's is the first to go. Whole cities begin to follow. It's not long before a desperate band of pilgrims are forced to embark on a bizarre journey to Mars - in search of the city of Munich. Cover art by Mick Posen.
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The fifth book in the ever-increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It's very easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space/time and the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. But instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit and immediately all hell breaks loose. There is the usual Ford Prefect hell; a hellish new version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that behaves in a sinister, mysterious and airborne manner; and the unexpected hell of the arrival of a teenage girl who is Arthur's daughter - who he didn't know he had!
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Book I of Empyrion. Eight million dollars for a special assignment - to report on the new colony of Empyrion, ten light years from Earth. It was an offer that NO writer, just scraping by, could refuse. But why had Cynetics Chairman Neviss gone to such lengths to track him down? Orion Treet was puzzled, but there was little time to think. Within the hour he was on board the transport, hurtling through space with an oddly assorted handful of companions. What they saw, streaking through the atmosphere was a turquoise world, blue-green with vegetation, water and sky. Treet watched the holoscreen - he was seeing a world that no-one had ever seen before; a virginal world, rich and ripe, a free, unspoiled perfect world. Or so it seemed...Cover art by Richard Chetland. -
Stark: Ben Elton
$6.00STARK has more money than God and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, they know the world is dying. Deep in Western Australia, a planet sized plot takes shape. Some green freaks pick up the scent. Colin, a Pommie poseur, Rachel the rebel, Zimmerman, a brain-fried Vietnam Vet, Walter the Hippie, who sees nothing wrong in lying on the carpet, giggling and eating Mars Bars, Mr and Mrs Culboon, an Aboriginal couple who have been cheated out of their land by STARK...not much against a conspiracy that controls society. If you're up against the richest and most disgusting conspiracy in history, you have to do more than stick up two fingers and say, "Peace." The Earth has been done to death by big business - and the murderers are planning to abandon ship...Cover art by David Scutt.
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Star Trek Adventures Series, No. 3. While investigating rumours of renewed activity by the Klingo Empire within the Galactic Core, the U.S.S. Enterprise makes contact with a shuttle craft from the U.S.S. Rickover - a Starship presumed lost with all hands over twenty years earlier. The lone occupant of the shuttle craft is Thomas Clayton, once Kirk's room mate at the Starfleet Academy, now the self-proclaimed Chosen Son and favoured prophet of a deity he calls Ay-nab. Kirk disregards this until his engines are taken control of by an unexplained outside force - a force which Clayton insists is now taking Krk and company to meet his god. Cover art by Alister Pearson. -
In 2061, when two Suns share the skies of Earth, Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System. Soon the fates of two spacefaring expeditions are entwined by human necessity and the immutable laws of astrophysics. Centenarian Heywood Floyd must again confront Dave Bowman, a newly independent HAL and the limitless power of an alien race that has decided humanity must play a part in the evolution of the galaxy - whether it wants to or not...Cover at by Michael Whelan. -
Book III of the completely mis-named Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The inhabitants of planet Krikkit are perfectly happy until they experience a space ship crashing on their idyllic planet. So, they dismantle the wreckage, while singing little space ship stripping ditties and boldly venture into space. They decide they don't like the Universe and really - it has to go... so they plan to destroy it. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior and won an award for designing Norway; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows! Cover art by David Scutt. -
Book IV of Foundation. The costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has finally come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation have proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon’s long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all - and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Two exiled citizens of the Foundation set out in search of the mythical planet Earth and and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile, someone - or something - outside both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a final, shocking destiny at the very end of the universe. Cover art by Tim White. -
An 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! https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-timeline-paul-walker-billy-connolly/ -
Star Trek: The Next Generation. Ambassador Spock continues his mission to unify the Romulan and Vulcan peoples, but is captured by a Romulan spy. Starfleet dispatches its best ship, the U.S.S. Enterprise and its most respected captain, Jean-Luc Picard, to secure the release of the ambassador. Ambassador McCoy, now over 140 years old, is also sent to assist in the negotiations. But the situation becomes further complicated when another of Spock's former shipmates, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott confiscates an out-of-service starship and effects his own daring rescue of his friend. -
An American archeologist, Cassandra Rubicon, disappears while exploring the lost Mayan city of Xitaclan. X-File agents Fox Mulder and Dan Scully are sent to investigate. A mysterious jade artifact recovered from the ruins...ominous legends whispered by the natives...Mulder decides there's more to the case than a team of missing scientists - namely, ancient curses, blood sacrifices and deadly reptilian monsters lost in the jungles before history. But what the agents don't know is that Xitaclan is the scene of a three-way war between Central American drug lords, international smugglers of Mayan artifacts and a covert U.S. military team that has been sent to investigate and destroy a strange electronic signal received from beneath the ruins - a signal aimed upwards at the stars.
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Book I of Finisterre. The planet could have been a paradise for humans,with its fertile farmland and towering ore-rich mountains. But its riches lie beyond their reach. For here, all animals, from tiny willy-wisps to fierce goblin-cats, survive by telepathy, projecting images that drive humans mad. Only the Riders, a handful chosen by the native Nighthorses, have any kind of protection. Whilst townsfolk cower behind a religion based on fear and ignorance, Riders and their Nighthorses, bonded telepathically, challenge the Wild. Then comes a time of killing and chaos that climaxes in a blinding day of secrets and blood, terror and truth, with the fates of the Riders, the Nighthorses and an entire world at stake. Cover art by Mick Posen. -
Book XVIII of Darkover. For Jeff Kerwin, Darkover meant home, the home he had left as a child, the home he had longed for through the many years. When he finally returned, it was to mystery. There were no records of any kind of either his birth or childhood.Then after he renounced his Terran allegiance and joined the natives attempting to free Darkover from Earth's control, the Darkovans accused him of being a spy. Had Jeff been conditioned on Earth to betray Darkover? He was no longer sure of who - or what - he really was. Cover art by Melvyn Grant. -
2010 - almost the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. The remains of the great ocean liner lie 4 kilometres down on the Grand Banks of the Atlantic Ocean, an endless reminder of man's technological frailty in the face of natural perils. But now, the urge to raise the wreck is irrestistible. From the West comes one solution; from the East another. Both are marvels of technological imagination; both can succeed. But there are other powers at work and the wreck may yet hold a surprise or two for those who would return her to the eyes of the world. -
Star Trek Original Series No 16. Klingon Captain Krenn is a ruthless war strategist. But on a mission to Earth, Krenn learns a lesson in peace. Suddenly, he must fight a secret personal battle. His Empire has a covert plan to shatter the Federation. Only Krenn can prevent a war - at the risk of his own life. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. -
The X-Files. Renowned nuclear weapons researcher, Dr. Gregory, is not only dead - he's charred to a radioactive cinder in his lab at the Edward Teller Nuclear Research Facility near Oakland, California. Scully and Mulder are called in as it's a death on Federal property and they confront a tight-lipped Federal bureaucracy whose job it is to stop questions before they're asked. Scully and Mulder hit dead ends, closed security clearances and classified documents no-one wants them to see. But that doesn't stop them ripping the lid of Dr. Gregory's illegal project - a destructive nuclear explosive that leaves virtually no radioactive fall-out.
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Book IV of Ender's Saga. The planet Lusitania is home to three species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once again the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world. Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves. Cover art by John Harris.
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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. -
Volume XVII of The Chronicles of Counter Earth. The Kur came to Port Kar... Two of the terrible space beasts came to make Tarl Cabot an offer. They, a death-squad, sought the renegade Kur commander, the great Half-Ear, whom Tarl had once battled in the Far North. But Tarl refused their offer, for Half-Ear was more valuable to the Priest-Kings alive than to the Kur dead. And now he knew it was imperative for him to save that monster from the doom that would fast overtake him. This meant venturing the forbidden Barrens of Gor - a vast land of plains and prairies whose cruel Masters were tribes of savage red riders and where civilized men were always prey and their women mere trophies of the hunt. -
2012: a hundred years after the sinking of the Titanic. Two of the world's most powerful corporations, each headed by an eccentric and brilliant man, race to find a way to raise and preserve the doomed luxury ocean liner. Two multi-billion-dollar technologies are tested in a plan to raise the ship that will stun the world and create a media feeding frenzy. The rival CEOs gather and together the twenty-first century's most brilliant minds, including Roy Emerson, technical problem solver and the prodigy behind the glass microsphere; computer geniuses Donald and Edith Craig, darkly fixated by the enigmatic mathematical "Mandelbrot-Set"; and the grand old man of deep-water operations, Jason Bradley, pilot of a state-of-the-art high-pressure heliox suit named "Jim". Two adversary technologies under four hundred atmospheres of pressure at the bottom of the ocean. To each of the undersea explorers, the quest to uncover the secrets of the wreck and to reclaim her for all time becomes an obsession...and for some, a fatal one. Cover art by Paul Swendsen.
