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Supernatural: Phil Hirsch
$25.00Features: A literary collaboration from beyond the grave; the metal coffin from which even Houdini couldn't escape; a mysterious lone survivor from a clipper ship that was sunk by a German submarine; the man who died four times; the man who rode a flying saucer and many more super supernatural tales. -
TekWar: William Shatner
$12.00TekWar 1: Not satisfied with the thrills of being one of Greater Los Angeles’ toughest cops, Jake Cardigan turns to Tek, a computerised brain stimulant which transports the user to any reality he can imagine. He’s soon addicted to this fantasy-enabler - and it isn’t long before Cardigan is accused of dealing. When he fails to convince the mechanised jury of his innocence, the state strips his badge and sentences him to fifteen years in suspended animation. Four years later he’s awakened. His sentence has been changed - but no one will tell him why. Cardigan’s search for answers takes him to Mexico, where a rogue scientist is attempting to rid the world of Tek. But these efforts have roused powerful enemies...Aiding this quest is the right thing to do, but for an ex-con, doing good can be the most dangerous decision of all. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/tek-secret-william-shatner/ -
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. -
Psion: Joan D. Vinge
$9.00Book I of Cat. Telhassium was the key to the stardrive; the stardrive was the key to the Federation; the Federation controlled the Galaxy. But telhassium was found only on Cinder. And there was a plot afoot to hijack that godforsaken planet. Only team of dedicated psions could prevent a truly cosmic disaster. That team would not be complete without Cat, and Cat wanted no part of it! A new breed of humanity will be pitted against the age-old vices of hatred, greed and lust for power, with one added extra - the enigmatic, telepathic Hydrans, the only race among the stars to challenge mankind, whose defeat has left them with one last chance of revenge - PSION. Cover art by Ian Craig. -
Book I of Doona. Doona was a jewel of a planet - a pastoral paradise with rivers and lakes, mountains and seas. The Hrubbans needed it to revitalise their decadent race, to give them back something of the old pioneering spirit. The Terrans needed it as an overspill from the hysterical over-crowding of Earth. So they both sent a colonising party - and they both began to think of Doona as home. And then one day the smooth-skinned, two-legged mammal known as Man came face-to-face with the furry, four-pawed mammal known as Hrubban...
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An excellent novelisation of the film by established and respected sci-fi author Whitley Strieber, based on the screenplay by Roland Emmerich. The planet is warming up and as the ice caps melt, the great currents of the oceans shift and the northern hemisphere is plunged into a new ice age. But as western society succumbs to blizzards and tidal waves, and the population of the northern hemisphere begins a a mass exodus southwards, mankind's only saviour is making a lonely, terror-filled trip north - to New York, disappearing under massive snow drifts - where his son was last heard of....
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In the aftermath of their ordeal through the Umbrella Corporation's genetic research facility, the surviving members of the Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (STARS) attempt to warn the world about the conspiracy to create terrifying biological weapons. But the conspiracy is far from dead - the STARS are declared outlaws by the very people who trained them. Forced underground, the STARS resolve to battle the conspiracy on their own, determined to seek out and stop Umbrella's experiments wherever they may be. Combat medic and biochemist Rebecca Chambers, the sole survivor of Bravo Team, joins a new STARS strike force when rumour comes of another Umbrella experiment: hidden beneath the rocky cliffs of Caliban Cove, someone is building an army of the undead. Within a sinister lighthouse, through a complex maze of sea caves, inside the shell of a sunken shipwreck, the STARS must battle unspeakable horrors and stop a madman from unleashing the biohazard upon the world. But the aggressive DNA-altering virus Umbrella has engineered to create its living weapons begins to infect them...
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Book II of the Kerrion Empire saga. The Kerrions, rulers of the most far-reaching empire in the known universe, attempt to reclaim control of their empire while their renegade second son, Chaeron, retrieves Shebat, his wife, from Earth. As a qualified cruiser pilot, Shebat returns to claim her sentient cruiser and her place in the Kerrion dynasty against danger and numerous obstacles. The relationship of Shebat and Chaeron becomes more complex as they adapt to each other and the circumstances they face as Shebat becomes a staunch defender of the right of the space cruisers to develop their own intelligence, which threatens the control of the Kerrion Empire. Cover art by Don Punchatz.
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Book II of Starcats. All is not well on Qsaprinel. The normally peaceful world, ruled by crustacean-like creatures blessed with a dry wit and the philosophical good sense of a Mahatma Gandhi, has suddenly turned up "Classified" on all Federation records. Duncan Kinnear isn't an important Federation investigator - but then Qsaprinel isn't an important planet. Besides, Kinnear has a modest record of success in odd jobs where even the problem is unclear, to say nothing of the solution. And he has some unlikely allies: the big red cats called Ungrukh - dangerous, telepathic and fiercely loyal to their friends. Kinnear saved their world; they will help him save this one - even though the natives do look more like crayfish than one normally expects of a race of philosophers, and are not good to eat. With the help of a psychic reader of Tarot cards and a chilling rumor about mutant humans (not inclined even slightly toward philosophy) on Qsaprinel, Kinnear and company are on their way. -
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. -
Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
$25.00Guy Montag is a fireman. In a world where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen don't extinguish fires. They start them. Their job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 'family'. But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people did not live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. -
A rising tide of panic swept the city - everything just stopped. Something about a nuclear reactor and the unions. For Nick and his sister Binkie, alone in their high rise flat, it was the start of a terrifying nightmare. What had happened to their mother? Who can they find to help them get away? For readers 10 - 14; originally published as Keep Calm. -
Eva Fairdeath: Tanith Lee
$10.00In a future world polluted to the point of anarchy and dissolution, the trees are dead, the sky is yellow and no birds sing. Everything and everyone is tinged with madness. For Eva, in such a debased society, there seems no role but that of some man's object and possession ... But then, one day, arrives the stranger with the gun - the man with blue eyes and hair as white as her own. Roaming the tortured landscape with his wagon, Steel is a seller of death ... but for Eva he provides hope of escape from Foulmarsh. Urged on by a power of love and hate impossible to fathom, Eva's travels take her to distant towns and villages full of danger and surprises - and arouse in her strong passions and dark emotions she cannot harness ... Cover art by Mark Salwowski. -
In this volume: Chessboard Planet: Robert Cameron is going mad...As head of US Psychometrics he has to defeat the European Falangists' assault on the sanity of Western scientists before society collapses. The Falange have attacked with weapons which are scientifically impossible - but which work. And just examining their basic principles drives scientists mad. For the principles change..and change...and change again - as though an unseen Grandmaster is continually changing the rules of a chess game where freedom is at stake. Only someone capable of thinking clearly in his nightmares can help - and help must come soon...Camouflage: A group of criminals seek escape by hiding in the Asteroid Belt. Needing nuclear power, they hi-jack a space freighter. What they don't know is that a Transplant - Bart Quentin, a man without a body, a living brain - is integrated into the electronic circuits and is in command of the ship. The criminals don't know where he is - but he knows where they are... Android: Androids were obviously not human - so they claimed. Bradley, having murdered his boss, the Director of New Products Inc, had left the man's body in one corner of the room and his head in another. But here is his boss - obviously in one piece and obviously alive. Could he be - a - robot? Or worse - is there a conspiracy of robots who plot to take over the human race? Or Else: Two men, fighting over a small water hole in a desert and ready to fight to the death, experience a visitation from an alien. They are to cease hostilities - or else... -
Two minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the world...Suddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases and cars plow into each other. But that’s the least of the survivors’ challenges. During the blackout, everyone experienced a glimpse of what his or her future holds—and the interlocking mosaic of these visions threatens to unravel the present... -
Double Blind: Sara Stamey
$10.00Book III of Wild Card Run. The electronic phantom incorporeals have infiltrated the computer matrix on the ocean world Cyvrus. Central Interlock must send a human agent to decipher the aliens' signal - an investigation that erupts in a deadly, desperate race. The agent assigned has cyborgs and mechmen on her tail; allies have betrayed her and her last chance is her allies' clones. Cover art by Joe DeVito. -
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. -
Book IV of Terrilian. In this barbaric land ruled by men, women are meant only to serve. But Terry, an empath-agent from an advanced interstellar society, owes her first allegiance to her masters from the stars and can never be ruled by any man - not even Tammad, the barbarian lord she has come to love. When she joins Tammad on a rescue mission to the distant female-dominated city of Vediaster, they do not foresee they are heading straight into trap that may claim both their lives. Can Terry's skills meet the challenge of the tyrant of Vediaster? Cover art by Ken Kelly. -
Book I of Marathon: D. Alexander Smith. The Open Palm and her crew are the finest Earth has to offer in 2058. The mission: serve as ambassadors of the human race to the aliens called Cygnans. The eleven people on board must live together for seven years. They were handpicked for the mission but their success hangs on factors that no psychologist could have foreseen. And there is a twelfth personality to contend with: the ship's computer, programmed to complete the mission successfully and to monitor the crew. What level of awareness can such a machine develop? How refined can its decision-making be after years of human input? And when the mission starts to deteriorate, what will it choose to do? -
Out among the moons of Jupiter, the empty spacecraft Discovery and the enigmatic alien monolith still float it the silence of space, mute witnesses to the mysterious disappearance of astronaut David Bowman through the 'Star Gate' nine years before. The Leonov is on its way, carrying a joint Soviet American scientific team on a mission of investigation and recovery, but the outcome will be beyond the wildest imaginings of any mere humans involved. Cover art by Michael Whelan. -
Out of their minds and the force of their imagination, men have created countless beings: from demons and dragons and monsters of legend to story-book heroes and comic strip characters. What if their world was real - if vampires, devils and Don Quixote hobnobbed with Dagwood Bumstead and Charlie Brown? It would be fascinating and perilous - if it existed. Horton Smith found out that it did exist - and he was in the middle of it! Wicked cover art by Frank Kelly Freas. -
The First National Blood Bank stores its reserves in an impregnable bank in the moon's Descarte's Crater. With 80% of humankind infected by P2, the price of a healthy litre of blood has reached 1.84 million. Dallas knows exactly how secure the vaults are - he designed them. But he needs that blood, for without it his daughter will die. There's only one way to get it: he knows it, his employers know he knows it and Dallas must attempt the impossible. If he succeeds, mankind might just have a future. -
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. -
Telempath: Spider Robinson
$10.00The Muskies - spawned in Earth's long childhood of fire and stone, they flourish in the stinking hell Man calls 'civilisation'. They ride the wind: gaseous beings, perceptible to Man only now that a monstrous experiment has heightened his sense of smell and destroyed civilisation in the process. And so a slow, destructive war erupts between the Muskies and the scattered settlements of human survivors, a war which will threaten humanity's existence. Only the Telempath can stop it, but he's missing an arm - and is wanted for the murder of his father. Cover art by Peter Jones. -
Three by Connie Willis: Uncharted Territory: Explorers Findriddy and Carson are sent to Boohte to survey the ridges and scrub-covered hills of the planet. Back home, their adventures are followed by countless breathless fans, but the reality is far less romantic as they deal with dust, nitpicking regulations, and uncooperative aliens. Teamed with a young intern whose specialty is mating customs and a native guide of indeterminate gender, the group sets out for a previously unexplored sector of the planet. As they survey canyons and cataracts, battle dangers, and discover alien treasures, they will soon find themselves in alien territory of another kind: exploring the paths and precipices of sex. And love. Fire Watch: A time-traveling graduate student from a future Oxford University is sent to the London Blitz due to a clerical error. He was supposed to travel with St Paul for his practical exam, but instead ends up assigned to the Fire Watch for St Paul’s Cathedral - and he hasn't the least idea what's going on. Even The Queen: Virtually every new technology spawns those who insist that whatever-it-is is a bad thing. But in this case, an entire cult is involved. Cover art by Mick Van Houten. -
Nova: Samuel R. Delany
$45.00The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq van Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation. But they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather illyrion at the source by flying through the very heart of an imploding star. Cover art by Bob Haberfield. -
Doctor Who Adventure No. LXXI. The Doctor and his companions are trapped in an E-Space universe, struggling to find the co-ordinates which will break the deadlock and take them back into Normal Space. When all else fails, the Doctor suggests programming the TARDIS on the toss of a coin. Before he realises what is happening, this is just what Adric has done... And when the TARDIS arrives at its destination, according to the console read-outs the craft is nowhere - and nowhere is exactly what it looks like...Cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
