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After three years of precarious peace between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, an act of wholesale destruction at Beta XIIA fans a spark of hatred that threatens to erupt into an all out full scale interplanetary war. The USS Enterprise becomes a bloody battleground as Captain Kirk and his crew deal with Kang, the Klingon, in an epic struggle fro control of the ship. And something else rides the Enterprise - something evil, impelling all on board toward an eternal night of hatred, carnage and anguish - a night that can only end with the dawning of the Day of the Dove. Complete episode told with 300 colour photographs. -
The debate between religion and science; the Vatican's darkest secrets; the little-known historical mysteries of Rome; the symbolism of Bernini's architecture and sculpture...The authors have drawn together world-class historians , theologians, philosophers, scientist, occultists, technologists, symbologists and linguists to penetrate and explore the labyrinth of conspiracies, cover-ups, messages hidden in famous artworks, secret societies and mystical knowledge for those who want to separate fact from fiction in Dan Brown's best-seller. -
A feast for sci-fi fans of the 'Old Masters'. In this volume: Foundation (Foundation I): For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying, and only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary The Foundation. Foundation And Empire (Foundation II): Led by its founding father Hari Seldon, and utilising science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire - the mightiest force in the Galaxy - is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who - or what - is the Mule? And how is humanity to defend itself against this invulnerable avatar of annihilation? Second Foundation (Foundation III): The Foundation lies in ruins - destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity’s shining past - and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old girl burdened with a terrible secret. Is she the Foundation’s savior - or its deadliest enemy? The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire I): Biron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin. He soon discovers that, many light-years away, his father, the highly respected Rancher of Widemos, has been murdered. Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is determined to uncover the reasons behind his father’s death, and becomes entangled in an intricate saga of rebellion, political intrigue and espionage. The Naked Sun (Robot II): A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonisation of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots - unthinkable under the laws of Robotics - or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence... I, Robot (Robot I): A robot must not harm a human being; a robot must obey human orders; and a robot must protect its own existence - as long as that protection does not conflict with rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities - and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren't content that their creations should remain programmed helpers, companions, and semi-sentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves, aware of their own intelligence, power and humanity, aren't either. As humans and robots struggle to survive together - and sometimes against each other - in earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Here human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same question: What is human? And is humanity obsolete? DVD: Will Smith; Alan Tudyk: preloved; very good condition; region 4 -
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. -
Book II of Solar Queen. Lured by exotic gems and valuable oils, the crew of the space trader Solar Queen landed on the newly discovered planet Sargol, only to find their most ruthless competitor there ahead of them. Still they tried for fair trade, even according to the sly rules of the feline natives - whose beauty and grace were equalled only by their determination to drive a hard bargain. But after satisfactory trading and uneventful take-off, the Solar Queen discovered a plague on board, the treacherous work of someone who'd been on Sargol. Now they are forbidden by Federation rules from landing on any inhabited planet - and their supplies are running dangerously low...Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
In this volume: The Double Minds: A prison break and carjacking on another planet in order to raise a rebellion against the Shaloor... by first vanquishing the shleath. Forgetfulness: An interstellar expedition explores, deserted except for a handful of the city-builders' descendants. There are plans of colonisation but the inhabitants have other ideas...Who Goes There? This was made into the classic sci-fi film The Thing From Another World. Out of Night: Long ago the matriarchal Sarn conquered Earth and enslaved the few survivors. Now, finally, there is a chance of rebellion and redress. Cloak of Aesir: The battle against the Sarn continues. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
In the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the Roman centurion Vitellan set off for the 21st century as Imperial Rome's last human powered time machine. He killed an unfaithful lover just by letting her grow old - but her hate pursued him across seven centuries. In 1358 he stood with a few dozen knights against an army of nine thousand to defend a beautiful countess - and earned a love that would conquer death. Now Vitellan has awakened in the 21st century, bewildered, betrayed and hunted in a world where bodies and minds are swapped and memories are bought, sold and read like books. But worst of all, a deadly enemy from the 14th century is alive and closing in. Cover art by Julie Bell. -
Doctor Who: Gary Russell
$9.00Doctor Who Novelisations No 160; Doctor Who: Target Collection; film novelisation. He's back - and it's about time! December, 1999 - on the brink of a new millennium, an anachronistic British Police Box appears in San Francisco's Chinatown amid a hail of bullets which find an unintentional target - the strange man who walks out of the Police Box. Despite the best efforts of Dr. Grace Holloway, the unknown traveler dies and his body vanishes. And then another stranger appears, claiming to be the same inside a different body; a mysterious wanderer in time and space known only as the Doctor. But he's not the only time traveler in San Francisco - his oldest adversary, the Master, is there as well and trying desperately to steal the Doctor's newly-regenerated body. Soon the Doctor is faced with a choice - to save his own life, or the billions of people who have no future unless the Master is stopped. If only the Doctor could remember how...The volume contains eight pages of colour photographs from the BBC film starring Paul McGann. -
The Chems were the prisoners of eternity, gripped by the despair that immortality brought. They were strange dwellers in a timeless world, inflicting terror and suffering on the creatures they manipulated. These are super-beings who control men's destinies and derive pleasure from the pain and torture they inflict on these human underlings. Their world is one of infinite possibility and Time is their plaything. Cover art by Bruce Pennington. -
Book I of The Inconstant Moon trilogy. Erik Morrison doesn't want to be on the Moon. From the time he sets foot in Villanueva Base - the multilevel, underground city beneath the lunar surface - he feels out of place and out of touch. He just wants to do a good job as the Entek Coporation's new Site Co-ordinator and get back to terra firma as soon as possible. But there's more than business as usual going on here. There's a dangerous game of greed and power in which Morrison is just a pawn. But he's about to uncover a shocking revelation that some want exposed and that some will do anything to keep hidden. -
While much of the world scans the skies for signs of alien civilisation, there is a select group of men who know the truth - that aliens beings are here - now - walking among us in human form, These men are members of the agency dedicated to tracking and policing the movements of those aliens - a top secret organisation known as MEN IN BLACK. James Edwards, tenacious street-wise NYPD cop, is recruited by Agent Kay of the Men In Black. His identity will be erased and he will be in a world where nothing is what it seems to be on the surface. His first case will threaten to make Earth a battleground for two warring races and end humanity's rule in a fiery apocalypse. With colour photos from the film. -
On The Beach: Nevil Shute
$12.00The classic nuclear war story first published in 1958 and made into a major film less than a year after publication. Nuclear war erupts and lasts less than 30 days - and no-one even knows how it started. The last operating U.S. submarine Scorpion makes its way to Australia ahead of the fall-out creeping down the globe from the Northern hemisphere. The Australian Navy picks up Morse code signals coming from Seattle - could there be survivors? The Scorpion, with Australian officer Lieutenant-Commander Peter Holmes aboard is sent to investigate while Australians hope and prepare for the possible end of life on earth. -
This volume contains: The Pen and the Dark, Colin Kapp; Spacemen Live Forever, Gerald W. Page; The Final Solution, R.W. Mackelworth; Computer's Mate, John Rackham; Tryst, John Baxter; Synth, Keith Roberts. -
Ishmael: Barbara Hambly
$9.00Star Trek Original Series No. 23. The Enterprise is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12 and Spock is visiting aboard a Klingon vessel, when a mysterious phenomenon causes the Klingon ship to vanish. Spock's last message from the ship is cryptic, but frightening. It suggests that the Klingons are traveling into the past, hoping to kill one man who was decisive in the course of history, and thereby change it, destroying the Federation before it was born. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. -
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. -
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. -
A collection spanning the realms of times, space and the human mind. The six tales contained herein are: Phoenix In The Ashes: a new hope rises from the ravaged earth; Voices from the Dust: Two scientists are gripped by an alien power and find themselves the helpless puppets of destruction; The Storm King: the potent forces of Earth magic do battle against a monster of the soul's dark night; The Peddler's Apprentice: a perilous quest for arcane knowledge; Psiren: a continuation of the story Psion, the telepath cat who lost the key to his own mind's power (Cat 1.5); Mother and Child: as human confronts alien, only one bond is strong enough to transcend all differences. -
Missing Adventures III. Venus is dying. When the Doctor, Barbara and Ian arrive they find an ancient and utterly alien civilization on the verge of oblivion. War is brewing between those who are determined to accept death, and those desperate for salvation whatever the cost. Then a space-faring race arrives, offering to rescue the Venusians by moving them all to Earth - three billion years before mankind is due to evolve. Are the newcomers’ motives as pure as they appear? And will the Doctor allow them to save his oldest friends by sacrificing the future of humanity? Cover art by Alister Pearson.
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