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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. -
The Borg, Starfleet's most feared enemy, has set a direct course for Earth. Their mission: to assimilate humanity. Only one man can stop them. Only one man knows their weakness. Captain Jean-Luc Picard. In the new Starship Enterprise, fully upgraded and even more powerful than before, Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Lieutenant Commander Data and the rest of the crew are about to embark on the greatest battle of their lives. The very existence of humankind depends on their success. If they fail, life on Earth will never be the same. This is a fantastic item of film memorabilia for the die-hard Trekkie, full of great colour photos from the iconic film with the story line. -
Book I of Harvest Of Stars. Earth is in the grip of the Avantists, an oppressive regime that has crushed dissent and now threatens the last bastion of liberty, a maverick interplanetary corporation known as Fireball. Kyra Davis, beautiful young space pilot, is on a mission to rescue an electronic ghost - Fireball's founder, Anson Guthrie, whose mind was stored in a computer after his death - and rally the resistance to strike a blow against tyranny. Pursued by Avantist forces, she and Guthrie engage in a desperate battle of wits against a brilliant adversary - a computer copy of Guthrie that has been reprogrammed to serve the enemy. On an interstellar odyssey that takes Kyra from Earth's rebel enclaves to the decadent court of a lunar colony and the endangered frontier world of Demeter until under the light of Alpha Centauri, she undergoes an awesome transformation to ensure humankind's survival among the stars. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate.
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Barney Boru is a professional assassin for the Galactic Confederacy,with broad power to determine the justice of any mission. He's been sent to Siegel's World to kill the King of Lokar but mysterious powers want to ensure that Barney doesn't invoke the Walkaway Clause - so they send their own man in. Now two assassins stalk the King and each other - and neither of them will walk away. Cover art by Tom Kidd.
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A volume of Christian science fiction. The Streets of Ashkelon, Harry Harrison: A tyrannical God demands a dreadful sacrifice before permitting a future race to serve Him. Balaam, Anthony Boucher: A treacherous God lays death traps for the faithful. Unhuman Sacrifice, Katherine MacLean: A foolish God plays thoughtless games with human lives. The Shrine of Temptation, Judith Merril: Humans try to understand the strange rituals of the inhabitants of another planet. The Army Comes To Venus, Eric Frank Russell: A frontier town on Venus, populated solely by rough male miners and a few prostitutes, is invaded - by the Salvation Army! Apostle to Alpha, Betty T. Balke: A preacher is sent to evangelise the aliens - but do they need it? God Of The Playback, Stephen Dentinger: The ultimate machine age God, a robot incapable of feelings, begins creating Man in his image... Robot Son, Robert F. Young: A Tech-God performs magical, chilling miracles...That Evening Sun Go Down, Arthur Sellings: In a possible future, humans believe they are descended from aliens who came to Earth after the fall of civilisation. ; The Wolfram Hunters, Edward H. Hoch: A vengeful deity painfully and slowly begins to kill off the pitiful handful of survivors of a nuclear war. Cover art by Virgil Finlay. -
The Immortals: Tracy Hickman
$12.00The United States is ravaged by disease and stifled by martial law. With whole cities falling to a lethal virus known as V-CIDS, the panicked authorities take the precaution of herding the infected into huge specially designed internment camps. Into one of these prisons stumbles Michael Barris, a wealthy interactive television mogul with a controversial past. He is searching for his sick son, spending a fortune and his future for the answers. What he finds is a carefully guarded nightmare - one that he helped to create. As he battles to survive he comes to understand that the camps have a far more sinister agenda than the military is willing to admit...
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A selection of shorts from the author of the epic Dune series. Old Rambling House: Ted and Martha Graham are proud of their mobile home but feel they'd like something more permanent. Ted, an accountant, can work anywhere...Then their advertisement is answered - very rapidly - with an offer that seems a little too good to be true... Murder Will In: William Bailey is dying...except he's not William Bailey. For the last 200 years Tegas, a psychic, personality-hijacking parasite has been running William's consciousness and body. Because Tegas loves the emotions experienced by a murderer. He's been hopping from murdered to murderer. But what happens when there's no murderer to hop to? The Priests Of Psi: Lewis Orne, operator for the Investigation and Adjustment Agency, is a hard, logical man who has prevented countless wars from happening. So why does the religious Priest Planet, Amel, recruit him to be one of their disciples? Try to Remember! Earth must interpret a message from an alien visit - or be eradicated. Mindfield: Priests and priestesses run a future world populated exclusively by adults. Using a psi-machine that cleanses adults of 'adultness' and which effectively returns them as children, things begin to go awry when a couple rebel and an elderly man returns remembering with far too much. Cover art by Tim White. -
A graphic work from the author of Chariots Of The Gods? that he feels gives credence to his belief of an 'Era of the Gods' on earth - extra terrestrial visitors and astronauts who imparted information to man that enabled him to develop from a primitive into a civilised being. Through wide-ranging travels and indefatigable research, von Daniken speculates on the quality of this ancient life and attempts to unravel the age-old mystery of man's origins and presents open-ended and bizarrely imaginative theories that never fail to fascinate. Lavishly illustrated with black and white photographs. -
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind - a human saved from a terrible crash and cyber enhanced to be the perfect soldier devoted top stopping the world's criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that allows the perpetrators to hack into human minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop them. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major learns that she's been lied to - her life was not saved, it wa stolen. She will stop at nothing to recover her past,find out who did this to her and stop them before they do it to others. -
Book III of the Overseer series. Wilson Dowling is the Overseer - a man transported from the year 2081 to carry out a series of vital missions encoded in the Dead Sea Scrolls. His latest assignment had seemed simple enough – to lead the American explorer Hiram Bingham to Maccu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas. However, he discovers that history has gone dramatically off course. The Golden Cube of the Sun God – safely hidden at Machu Piccu for hundreds of years – has been stolen. Whoever possesses it could potentially unleash a dangerous power that is beyond their comprehension – and their control. Not only that, but without it Wilson can never gain transport home. Pursued by a tribe of fierce female warriors, the ancient guardians of the Lost City, Wilson races to find the deadly treasure before he is stranded forever in the past...And before the entire world is thrown into chaos. -
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. -
The sequel to The Warlord Of The Air. The world is governed by plague, anarchy and superstition. Bands of diseased mutant brigands despoil the continents while pirate U-boats prowl the oceans. But from this chaos emerges the Black Attila - commander of the African Hordes and wielder of the most terrible weapon ever. It is the Land Leviathan, a ziggurat on wheels, a moving mountain of armoured artillery which enables the realisation, after centuries of oppression, of Black Power on an unimaginable scale. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
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! -
Cocoon....Who can forget the boatload of senior citizens who dared to find a new life in the stars, whisked away by the kindly aliens five years earlier? Now they are returning to Earth for a visit. They are looking forward to catching up with friends and family, and to assist in the retrieval of the Antarean cocoons that sill remain on the ocean floor. But when they return to Earth, time starts running again... -
In the year 2450, humanity is scattered among the stars, which teem with intelligent life. Earth has been destroyed 200 years before and all Earthmen are exiles. The world of Hydros has practically no landmass, only a great globe-encompassing ocean with occasional tiny islands. One life form there, a bi-pedal humanoid, has created floating islands from sea-borne material. An assortment of Earthmen have come to Hydros - for them it is a world of no return, having no outward bound space transportation. They travel the planet's endless oceans in search of the mysterious area from which no human has ever returned - the Face of the Waters. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
A fabulously interesting reference book for all things UFO: from Android, Ark of the Covenant and Ashtar to Close Encounter, Cyborg and Devil's Triangle; Foo Fighter to Lubbock Lights; Men in Black to Sons of God and onto Zeroid and Zodiac and all points in between. -
1975. Stories in this volume: A Scraping at the Bones, Algis Budrys; Changelings, Lisa Tuttle; The Santa Claus Compromise, Thomas M. Disch; A Galaxy Called Rome, Barry N. Malzberg; A Twelvemonth, Peter Redgrove; The Custodians, Richard Cowper; The Linguist, Richard Cowper; Settling the World, M. John Harrison; The Chaste Planet, John Updike; End Game, Joe Haldeman; The Lo-Eared Cat That Devoured Philadelphia, Louis Phillips; A Dead Singer, Michael Moorcock; Science Fiction on the Titanic, Brian Aldiss. -
Star Wars. Book I of The Callista Trilogy. Leia, Han and Chewbacca are searching for the long-lost children of the Jedi, a mission which takes them to the frozen planet of Belsavis. There are tales of a Jedi exodus from the dark crypts beneath the planet's surface - and a rumour that since the exodus, no-one who enters the crypts returns alive. Luke, haunted by ominous dreams, journeys to a remote asteroid field over the planet Pzob and discovers the automated Dreadnought Eye of Palpatine from the days of all-out war. The ship is governed by the Will, a super-sophisticated artificial intelligence and occupied by the spirit of Callista, a Jedi knight who gave her life to stop the ship once before. She counsels Luke on how to destroy it once and for all - for the Will has awakened and its mission is the total annihilation of Belsavis. Cover art by Drew Struzan. -
To win the right to a name, he fought without weapons in the deadly arena of Nggongga only to be cheated of his prize. Branded a criminal, he sought refuge with the Benefactors, a mysterious interplanetary fellowship and from them he would at last learn the truth of his heritage. As Blacklantern, he was born again - and the Galaxy became his arena for vengeance. His purpose took him to the end of the Cosmos, to seek out and finally face a terrifying and relentless evil that threatened countless worlds. Cover art by Peter Elson. -
Somewhere in deep space, someone was experimenting with Matter Transmission. The last time it had been tried, millions of suns had gone nova and whole chunks of space had been twisted into black holes. Somehow, it had to be stopped. Jacklin was picked for the mission because he was used to dying: Rossa because she could transmit messages faster than the speed of light. But in their desperate attempts to save the Earth, Jacklin and Rossa unleash the deadliest menace - the Space Eater. -
Star Trek Next Generation No. 24. After two hundred years of civil war the planet Oriana is dying. Most of the surface vegetation is gone, the air is nearly unbreatheable, and the people themselves are dying. Now, the two warring factions have finally sat down to talk peace, and Captian Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are sent to help them negotiate a settlement. Picard, Lt. Worf, and Counsellor Troi beam down to Oriana, just as the Starship Enterprise is called away on another urgent mission. Alone on the planet, the U.S.S. Enterprise team learns that there are people that would rather finish the devastating conflict than talk peace. Suddenly, Picard is accused of murder and the delicate negotiations have fallen into the hands of Lt. Worf. Now, Worf and Troi must unravel the truth and prevent planet-wide disaster, before time runs out for the people of Oriana and the crew of the Starship Enterprise. Cover art by Keith Birdsong. -
Book I of Starcats. Four novellas in one volume: Son Of The Morning; The King's Dogs; Nebuchadnezzar; A Judgment Of Dragons. Meet Prandra & Krengh - giant telepathic red starcats from Ungruwarhkh. They are bad tempered; they hold grudges and they are uninterested in anything that is not good to eat. They are the most unusual agents of the Galactic Federation. They eat from the same bowl, couple, then preen - then travel across Time, down through Space, to the most bizarre and dangerous worlds - and times! - in the Galactic Federation. A Starcat and rabbi tale - with dragons. Cover art by Tom Kidd. -
This volume contains: 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. Cover art by Josh Kirby. -
Book I of Doona. Doona was a pastoral planet, a paradise of rivers, lakes, mountains and seas. The Hrubbans need Doona to revitalise their decadent race, to give them some of the pioneer spirit...But the Terrans also need Doona as an overspill from the crowded Earth. So both races send a colonising party and both begin to think of Doona at home. It's inevitable - one day the smooth skinned bi-ped mammal known as Man will come face to face with the furry, four-pawed mammal known as Hrubban... -
Frederick Plowright, a well-known scientific photographer, is recruited by Professor Clark Ashton Scarsdale to accompany his research team in search of “The Great White Space,” described in ancient and arcane texts as a portal leading to the extremities of the universe. Plowright, Scarsdale, and the rest of their crew embark on the Great Northern Expedition, traversing a terrifying and desolate landscape to the Black Mountains, where a passageway hundreds of feet high leads to a lost city miles below the surface of the earth. But the unsettling discoveries they make there are only a precursor of the true horror to follow. For the doorway of the Great White Space opens both ways, and something unspeakably evil has crossed over - a horrifying abomination that does not intend to let any of them return to the surface alive...Cover art by Terry Oakes. -
Far out in space, an elite unit of soldiers is on a training mission. But deep in the heart of the hollow planetoid that forms the battleground, there is a chilling secret: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of violent, bloody death. The bodies are those of the empire's most wanted terrorists and their discovery could end a war of attrition devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that slaughtered them still lurking in the dark tunnels of the training ground? And what are its plans for the people of Earth? When the Doctor arrives on the planetoid with Ben and Polly, he soon scents a net tightening about them. And as the soldiers begin to disappear one by one, paranoia spreads; is the real enemy hiding in the dark, or is it among them?
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