-
Solis: A.A. Attanasio
$5.00A thousand years in the future, Charles Outis (who had his head cryonically frozen when he died in the 21st century) wakes to find his brain enslaved by a brutal technocracy. He manages to broadcast a distress signal that is picked up by the androne Munk - whose artificial intelligence is programmed with an empathy for homo sapiens culture. Munk, aided by the tough troubleshooter Mei Nili, rescues Charles' brain and the group set off on a dangerous journey for the elite Martian community of Solis, where lies the only hope of bodily reincarnation and sanctuary for Charles. Cover art by Mike Van Houten. -
Flash Gordon III. Stranded in deep space, Colonel Flash Gordon, Dale and Dr. Hans Zarkov are in the middle of a centuries-old battle for supremacy over the the Universe. Manipulated by a war-crazed android and unsure of who is friend and who is foe, they must stop the bloodshed before all life, including that on Earth, is annihilated. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. -
Book I of Orthe. The distant world of Orthe is littered with the spectacular remnants of its once-great civilisation. Now the Ortheans have deliberately turned away from the technology that nearly destroyed them. To Orthe comes Lynne de Lisle Christie, envoy from Earth. Her assignment: win the confidence of the planet's leaders. But she quickly finds herself at the centre of a conflict which threatens to explode into war. Cover art by Chris Brown. -
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.
-
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.
-
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. -
Book I of Tarot. On the planet Tarot, the new religions flourish. But all who dwell in that occult world, still worship the timeless Tree of Life as the one supreme god. Now this primitive culture is being haunted by apparitions from the mystery-ridden deck of Tarot - by Animations who destroy minds and take human life. Can this horror be their Deity's ultimate challenge to his people? A young Earthling adventurer is sent to find the answer. Alone he dares to conjure a Tarot Animation, penetrate its awesome domain -- and risk being trapped through all eternity - within the mystic borders of the ancient cards. -
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 II of Family d'Alembert. Every year, millions of space voyages from all corners of the Universe travel to Vesa to make or break their fortunes in the exotic gambling palaces. But a startling discovery has shaken Earth's galactic Empire: more than two hundred and fifty thousand people have vanished from the resort moon without a trace. Called to duty, SOTE's most daring secret agents, Jules and Yvette D'Alembert - the former aerialists from the triple-gravity planet Des Plaines, possessed of lightning-reflexes and super-strength - are faced with a lethal and baffling conspiracy. Together the D'Alemberts have conquered many of the Empire's most dangerous foes, but now they must divide forces - each to challenge a deadly evil terror alone. Cover art by Peter Jones. -
Book I of The Saga Of Seven Suns. In the far future humanity began to search the stars, sending out vast spaceships that would take generations to reach their goals. They encountered the Ildiran empire - apparently the galaxy's only other intelligent civilisation. The Ildrians came to earth and passed on the knowledge of their stardrive, allowing humanity to expand to the stars. Two hundred years after that first contact, human colonies proliferate throughout the galaxy. But as Mankind prepares to seize the future, danger comes from the past, as two human archeologists glean forbidden knowledge from the ruins of a dead world. Once, the insect-like Klikiss ruled the stars. Now, only their robot servants remain, guardians of a terrible technology - the Klikiss Torch, which has the power to create suns. Humanity prepares the flex its new-found muscle and activate the Torch for the first time in millennia - but there are reasons the Klikiss empire fell and a train of events is about to set in motion that will change the universe for ever...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
When Earth's sun went nova, the Magellan barely escaped in time, with its precious cargo of one million sleepers and gene banks of plants and animals. Five hundred years into the voyage they stopped for repairs on the idyllic planet of Thalassa. But whilst the awakened Earth people envied them their stable, harmonious world, the hospitable Thalassans were drawn to the long quest of the interstellar voyagers. And when Lt Commander Loren Lorenson met beautiful Thalassan Mirissa, their destinies became inextricably and tragically entwined. Cover art by Michael Whelan. -
Book II of The Saga Of The Seven Suns. Five years have passed since humans set fire to the gas-giant planets, unwittingly committing genocide of the Hydrogues--an infinitely powerful species of aliens--and igniting a war of epic proportions. Meanwhile, as humans struggle to fight against increasing hostilities from the Hydrogues, they learn from the Worldforest that they have awakened an ancient, fearsome, and merciless enemy in the Hydrogues. And when the water-based Wentals and the sun-dwelling Faeros are found, will humans finally have the allies they need? Or will they be caught in the middle of a war that could break apart the galaxy....Cover art by Chris Moore. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/hidden-empire-kevin-j-anderson/ -
Technos: E.C. Tubb
$6.00Book VII in The Dumarest Saga. Dumarest has traced the lost planet of Earth to a remote corner of the galaxy - but he still lacks its precise co-ordinates. Somewhere on the cyber-dominated police-world of Technos lives the mysterious woman who can help him. And the only way to find her is to become a slave...
-
The colonists were chosen by lottery: when your number came up, you were herded into a spacer and shipped out. Guarding the unwilling settlers were the Outposters: soldiers, diplomats, traders...men as hard and deadly as the star-wastes themselves. They needed to be - the alien Meda V'Dan raided the colonies at will. But between the savage attacks of the alien race and the helpless colonists stood the Outposters. Mark Ten Roos was one, and from the scattered rabble of his lonely outpost he fashioned a space army that could destroy the Meda V'Dan. o -
It had been five hundred years since the Terran colony of Corwin had communicated with Earth. But now Corwin is threatened by the warriors of Klodni and the desperate planet needs help. Baird Ewing is chosen as ambassador to get that help and save Corwin. But Earth had changed. Ewing finds a decadent world of worthless pleasure seekers devoid of hope and incapable of help. The only vestige of the old world on Earth is found in the College of Abstract Science. It's Ewing's last hope. If he fails, it's the end for him, for Corwin - and the galaxy. Cover art by Peter Elson. -
Qua is a quantum computer with immense power capabilities that tunes into pathways in parallel universes to operate at lightning speed. But with such power comes the threat of catastrophe, and as government agents, cult disciples, and computer criminals learn what this computer is capable of, Cambridge researcher Clare Conway makes every attempt to safeguard herself and society from the realities she discovers about Qua. For all of the power this computer offers, it threatens to spark a civil war in America, a danger unlike any other that history has ever known. Cover art by Splash. -
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. -
July 2. Atmospheric phenomena begin to appear all over the world; the skies seem to be on fire. Satellite communications are interrupted without explanation and fear grips the world's cities. When the sky fires die down it's clear a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Their mission - exterminate all human life. The countdown to the end of the world has begun... -
Book XI of Sword Of Truth. Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
A volume of short stories: No Truce with Kings: In a future post-apocalyptical American Pacific coast, rival factions vie for power with the decaying central government. Turning Point: That morning they invented the wheel; in the afternoon, the sailing ship; now night was falling and they looked up to the beckoning stars... Escape from Orbit: A group of astronauts are stranded in space. An ingenious plan using a satellite may be the solution...Epilogue: Mankind and Earth meet again, at the Billion-year Reunion... The Critique of Impure Reason: A sentient robot designed to work harvesting minerals from Mercury has other ideas after the inventor’s girlfriend shows him her literary quarterly before his indoctrination period is over. As a result the robot wants to read and ponder. Eve Times Four: An astronaut conspires to strand himself and multiple attractive women on a habitable planet. But this attracts the attention of two apparently alien males. Cover art by Jack Faragasso. -
Vanished: Warren Norwood
$6.00Time Police Volume I. 2183: The Second Republic is mercilessly efficient. It controls the press, the state, the rights of the citizens. Then it captures the secrets of time travel. Now the Second Republic can control the past, piece by piece, slowly changing it to make sure that they would never lose their grasp on history. The Time Police are the agents of oppression of the Second Republic, dedicated to protecting its version of the past. Jackson Dubchek is a researcher, an ordinary citizen too insignificant to warrant the attention of the Time Police until he stumbled onto the truth behind their work. He is determined to undo what they have done. Now the Time Police are after him. He has to go on the run - and there's nowhere to go except the past. Cover art by Paul Youll and Steve Youll.
-
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. -
Mysterious and bizarre people...who were they? Where did they go? There's mysterious geniuses - a French Rabbi who had electric light in the 13th century, to the man who was caught on video walking through a solid door; author Jonathan Swift, who described the Martian moons and their orbits 150 years before they were discovered to the disappearance of Lord Lucan. And more...Hannah Brade, the mysterious maid who wasn't what she seemed; William Harrison - the bizarre case of the Campden murder; Bruce Lee - was the martial arts superstar murdered? The Man in the Iron Mask - who was the legendary prisoner who could not show his face? The Men In Black - shadowy visitors who stalk UFO witnesses; Adolf Hitler - black magician? The Atlanteans - did the legendary island of Atlantis really exist? The Green Children - a strange tale from the Middle Ages; Robin Hood - who was the legendary outlaw? The Lunarians - is there intelligent life on our moon? Nostradamus - the man who saw tomorrow; Richard Bingham - the case of the vanishing peer...and many more.
Featured Book
-
DVD SALE! All These Titles $1.00 EACH
$2.00$1.00