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The year: 2142 A.D. The place: Taprobane, a tropical island paradise. The project: A giant space elevator to transport men and materials to a point outside the the earth's atmosphere. The man: Ace engineer Vannevar Morgan. The problem: The only suitable site is a sacred mountain jealously guarded by monks...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Omnivore: Piers Anthony
$5.00Book I of Of Man And Manta. Herbivore: one who eats only vegetables; carnivore: one who lives by bloody and flesh; and omnivore: who feeds on all things to sustain life. And so there were three; all human, all held together in an indeterminate love triangle: the man of brawn, the cripple and the woman. They were scientists on a troubleshooting expedition to the planet Nacre, the silent, dusky planet of multiform mushrooms and spore-clouds, where eighteen had died or disappeared before them. They were there to explore, discover, record - not really afraid, but then... not really prepared for the awesome secret of Nacre's mystical third kingdom of fungi. Cover art by Peter Jones. -
An unmanned satellite returns to Earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated. Immediately, Project Wildfire, the crash mobilisation of America's highest scientific crash resources, begins at Wildfire's secret laboratory five storeys below the Nevada desert. There, surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated computer-assisted equipment and under conditions of total secrecy, four scientists work against the threat of a world-wide epidemic. They seek the antidote to a deadly micro-organism and their hunt leads to a terrifying climax.
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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! -
Book II of The Talent. Earth was at bursting point - desperately overcrowded in spite of the birth restrictions of one child per couple. Extra children existed in a sub-cultured world or were rounded up into slavery. The only hope was the space platform - the jumping off point for the colonisation of other worlds. And to build the space platforms more 'Talents' were needed - the special, gifted ones whose mental powers could perform prodigious tasks across space and time. Rhyssa Owen, Director for Parapsychic talents, was the one responsible both for finding 'Talents' and training them. And when she felt the first tentative, sad encroachment of a mind reaching out to her, she knew it was exceptional - a fourteen year old boy, his body crushed beyond repair, with the most powerful kinetic ability she had ever encountered. And at the same time, in the seamy world of forgotten, unwanted, near-criminal children, was another brilliant mind - young, street-wise but so Talented she was in danger from a ruthless gang of kidnappers. Rhyssa knew she had to find both children and train them for the survival of Earth. Cover art by Paul Damon. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/pegasus-space-anne-mccaffrey/ -
Pilgrim is again at the centre of strange and mysterious affairs. When last heard from, the Flying Dutchman of Spacetime was busy robbing the Pyramids so that he could fuel his spaceship/time-machine. His latest scheme is to reach back in time and save President Abraham Lincoln from assassination...After the fact! Cover art by David Mattingly. -
Every year hundreds of people around the world report 'alien encounters'. Most tell of alien spacemen - bizarre UFO inhabitants who seem to be more intent on medically or sexually abusing individual humans than being taken to our leaders - yet there are many other types of encounters. Among them: The West Virginia Mothman, the Tibetian Yeti, the Canadian Bigfoot, the Australian Bunyip and the Caribbean Goatsucker - weird, humanoid creatures which are clearly NOT human. Do lost breeds of subhumans roam the Earth's wildernesses? Were our first civilisations created by beings from another planet and did they leave us a sign in the gigantic "Face on Mars"? Do records of Victorian-era sightings hint at ethereal beings who could transform themselves into whatever shape their audience expected? Is Mankind really alone?
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The Doctor lands the Tardis on the cold craggy planet of Vortis. He and his companions are soon captured by the Zarbi, huge ant-like creatures with metallic bodies and pincer claws; meanwhile, Barbara falls into the hands of the friendly Menoptera who have come to rid the planet of the malevolent Zarbi. Cover art by Chris Achilleos. Illustrated by John Wood. -
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.
