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Bolo: Keith Laumer
$45.00Book I. The Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade. The great artillery machines developed by the Bolo Division of General Motors took on awareness in later designs and gradually began to replace man in that most human of endeavours - WAR! Here, in the first of this landmark series, the ultimate fighting machines tell their own fascinating, far-ranging and ultimately tragic story. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate. -
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. -
Longest Day: Michael Collier
$45.00Eighth Doctor Adventures IX. The planet Hirath, its surface ravaged by colliding time fields, is a patchwork of habitable areas separated by impenetrable zones of wild temporal fluctuation. The planet's unique biosphere is being exploited by an uncaring company happy to rent out temporarily isolated chunks of the the planet to the highest bidder - no questions asked. But the controlling computer seems to be malfunctioning and the viability of the whole planet hangs in the balance, together with countless thousands of lives. Arriving at Hirath's control base, the Doctor and Sam are soon separated and trapped on the dying planet. Sam becomes the focus of attention in a barren penal settlement and the Doctor discovers the secret of Hirath's unique condition - just as a race of hideous bloodthirsty aliens arrive in force to reclaim it! Cover art by Colin Howard.
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The Burning: Justin Richards
$45.00Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventure XXXVII. The late nineteenth century - the age of reason, enlightenment, industrialisation. Britain is the workshop of the world, the center of the Empire. Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself. But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the Society for Physical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artifacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: A man with no name, no history. The only man who can stop The Burning...Cover art by Black Sheep -
Book IV of the Dune Chronicles. Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's savior, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity's future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years. Leto's rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot's rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto's vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted--or could possibly conceive... Cover art by Bruce Pennington. -
Book III of The Orphans trilogy. The mysterious aliens called the Spinners brought great gifts to humanity - gifts that brought destruction in their wake. Now the Spinners are gone and the genocidal Starfish who came after them continue their reign of destruction. Time is running out for the handful of surviving humans, their engram brethren and the newfound alien species that has allied itself with them. Faced with almost certain annihilation, Caryl, Peter and a desperate crew decide to take one small ship and attempt to penetrate to the very heart of the Starfish fleet. Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Book III of The Pearl. Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman is the mind and spirit of a unique Kundalan female who is joined in mystical partnership with the mind and spirit of Annon Ashera, a V'ornn male, the last survivor of a noble family. Together the two adolescents have matured and merged into a new joint identity. Now their common destiny, and Kundala's, is in their own hands. Other characters who will play their roles: Riane, the Dar-Sala-at; Eleana, the woman she loves twice over; Kurgan, the V'ornn usurper who raped Eleana and sired her child; Marethyn Stogggul, Kurgan's defiant sister, an artist who joins the Kundalan resistance; Marethyn's lover, chief trader Sornnn SaTrryn, who secretly helps the resistance as well; and the fabulous Krystren, the Sarakkon woman from the mysterious southern continent, who comes north on a secret mission and will change the lives of everyone she meets. All the while, the evil Sauromicians threaten the world as they seek to use banestones to bind a dragon. Cover art by John Howe. -
Book I of The Vang. For a thousand years and more, The Worlds of Man had been dominated by the Laowon Imperium. The aliens thought humans made good slaves and better pets, and they were fond of creating new breeds. And the Laowon made sure that their playthings never grew too powerful. Born one day, on the edge of Human Space, Jon Iehard was ordered to hunt Eblis Bey, a terrorist for Old Earth. And that was the beginning of the end for the Laowon. Because Iehard had been a Laowon slave. And Eblis Bey held half the key to a weapon that could destroy the Laowon tyranny and bring freedom once more to Mankind. Cover art by Tim White. -
Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
$40.00It was simple. Everyone knew it. Books were for burning - together with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag knew it. He had been a fireman for ten years and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen year old girl who told him of a past where people were not afraid. Then he met a professor who told him of a future where people could think - and Guy Montag suddenly realised what he had to do. And he became a fugitive in a flaming hell to do it! Cover art by Whistl'n Dixie. -
Contains: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Seconds before the Earth is demolished by a Vogon Constructor Fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent, clad in a dressing gown and pyjamas, is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor from Guildford.Together this dynamic pair begin a trek through space on the starship Heart Of Gold a ship powered by the Improbability Drive and which has been stolen by Zaphod Beeblebrox - the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch President of the galaxy (and Ford's cousin); Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formerly Tricia McMillan from Earth, whom Arthur had once tried to pick up at a cocktail party); Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and characters such as Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: If you've done six impossible things this morning, then why not round it off with breakfast, lunch or dinner at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe? With your host, Max Quordlepleen! And - of course - Arthur, Ford, Zaphod and Marin the Paranoid Android as they have further intoxicating and intoxicated adventures around the galaxy, having found out what the Earth was actually for in the first place. Life, The Universe and Everything: Still on the trail of the Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything (or rather...we know what the answer is, but not the question...) The inhabitants of Krikkit, after a space ship crash on their idyllic planet, suddenly find they are NOT alone in the Universe and after having a quick look at it, they decide it's got to go. The universe, that is. Now all that stands between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation of everything except Krikket are Arthur Dent, still in his dressing gown and pjs; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice-president of the Campaign for Real Time and designer of Norway (with an award to prove it); Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed and now ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy Earth-girl space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a chronically depressed Zaphod. How will it all end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert cosmic Armageddon and save life as we know it –and don’t know it! So Long and Thanks For All The Fish: Having learnt to fly (by throwing himself at the ground and missing it) Arthur Dent wins a raffle and finds love in the last place he would have expected to find it - but which 3,976,000,000 people find very familiar...and we discover God's Final Message to Mankind. With a guest appearance by Marvin the Paranoid Android. -
Baby, Doll and Lati are three spunky alien babes who are trapped on Nufon, the most boring planet ever. They steal a space ship and land in Sydney in search of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. After kidnapping Jake, a rock wannabe - and tossing him into the spaceship's sexual experimentation chamber - the global warming really kicks off! The babes form a band and rocket to stardom. But Jake and Baby are falling in love, a posse of Nufonians is headed for Earth and the US military is getting involved as well. Add Eros the talking asteroid to the mosh pit and now it's a Save the World! situation. A real fun read. -
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Once we had entered the space age, we could have reasonably expected that the days of 'flying saucers' and 'little green men' would ave come to an end. Instead, the evidence for UFOs continues to grow. There are literally tens of thousands of sightings on record, most of them made by reliable witnesses and many of them still unexplained; close encounters of the fourth kind - abduction - are becoming more frequent, well documented and harder to ignore; evidence in the files of serious scientific and investigative bodies (including the United States Air Force) leaves little doubt that an 'intelligence' is operating - but what kind and from where? Do extra-terrestrials regularly visit the earth? Are we being watched, studied, contacted and even kidnapped by intergalactic explorers? This book presents forty years of evidence and facts for the sceptic and believer alike - case histories, expert assessments and possible explanations. Illustrated with black and white photographs -
The War of the Worlds: Regarded as one of the first and greatest sci-fi novels and written before men had begun to fly, H.G. Wells has the Martians arriving on Earth in huge metal cylinders. No-one knows what these white-hot cylinders mean, until one begins to open... A Dream Of Armageddon: A white-faced stranger on a train tells the narrator that his dreams are killing him. He goes on the describe that in the future, he will be a major political figure who gives up his position to live with a younger woman on Capri. He is then approached by an envoy who begs him to resume his old duties as his political successor is going to bring about a war. What will he chose, even in a dream? The Land Ironclads: Originally published in 1903, Well's imagination uncannily conjured a vision of a 100 ft. machine with remote controlled guns and accommodation for 42 soldiers and seven officers. The story is set in a war similar to World War I and gave Wells a reputation as a prophet as the 'Ironclads' seem to anticipate the tanks of WWI. Once again, as in The War of the Worlds he describes a battle between wildly technologically unmatched opponents - one side believes they will win with their horse-riding abilities, rifle skills and healthy outdoor lifestyle that makes better soldiers than the 'city men' with their science and engineering abilities. -
Book II of Prelude To Dune. As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides - and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it is a time of momentous choice: between friendship and duty, safety and destiny. But for the survival of House Atreides, there is just one choice - strive for greatness or be crushed. Cover art by Stephen Youll. -
Mech-Warrior Dark Age; Battletech Universe No. 83. The Raging Bears have begun their occupation of the planet Vega with the hope of restoring order after violence and civil war. But their move to stabilise Prefecture 1 for the Republic of the Sphere may be the chance their enemies have waited for. While the military takeover was no great challenge, setting up a new planetary government and restoring the infrastructure of civilisation have proven to be far more difficult for the peace-keeping forces of the Rasalhague Dominion. There remains an underground rebellion that refuses to cease fire and the Bears suspect that the Draconis Combine is secretly supporting the rebellion. As the Combine threatens them from without, the Bears also find themselves plagued by betrayal and deception from within. Uless they can find the rival elements in their clan, they may end up as fodder for destruction.
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Volume XI of the Complete Stories. Contains: Ride In, Ride Out (with Don Ward - a rare Western tale); Assault and Little Sister; When You Care, When You Love; Hold-Up A La Carte; How to Forget Baseball; The Nail and the Oracle; If All Man Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sster? Runesmith (with Harlan Ellison); Jorry's Gap; Brownshoes; It Was Nothing - Really! Take Care of Joey. -
Sphere: Michael Crichton
$40.00In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface, a huge vessel is unearthed. Rushed to the scene is a team of American scientists who descend together into the depths to investigate the astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship, but apparently it is undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old...Has the ship come from an alien culture? From a different universe? From the future? Why, initially, are there no creatures on the sea floor, and then suddenly, swarms of impossible animals of whole new species? Who - or what - is transmitting messages onto the scientists' computer screen...messages that grow increasingly hostile? What is the giant, perfect, metallic sphere, clearly not made by man and seemingly impenetrable by him - that they find in the spaceship? And what - most crucially - is the erxtraordinary, terrifying power that threatens their undersea habitat, and then their very lives... -
Starquake: Robert L. Forward
$40.00The sequel to Dragon's Egg. Turns ago, humans reached the Dragon's Egg where they discovered a thriving, savage race of intelligent cheela who live a million times faster than their human friends. In the first few hours, the cheela learned from Man and soon surpassed him in knowledge. Now the humans are about to leave. Suddenly a monstrous starquake destroys all but a few cheela on the surface and another group of cheela in orbit around Dragon's Egg, with no way to return to the surface. The fate of their civilisation rests with the tiny group below who must survive, breed and rebuild. The humans can return to earth and abandon this friendly race to extinction or stay and offer assistance - and certainly die in the attempt. Cover art by Ralph McQuarrie. -
Here are the first two Solar Queen instalments: Sargasso Of Space and Plague Ship. Sargasso Of Space: The Solar Queen free-traders win exclusive rights to trade with the planet Limbo, but the crew arrives to find most of its surface charred, with little sign of life. They find a valley with life, but others may still lurk. Worse yet, a strange force threatens to cripple the Queen. They must solve the planet's mysteries if they hope to escape with not only tradable goods, but their lives. Plague Ship: The Queen travels to Sargol, which promises a wealth of exquisite gems to trade - if the crew can overcome the native feline Salarikis' mistrust. But their troubles have just begun. When a mysterious illness soon overtakes all the crew except the four youngest, the Galactic Patrol labels the Queen plagued and orders it destroyed on sight. With every ship in the galaxy searching for them, the crew have one chance to save the Solar Queen. But if their bold plan is foiled it would mean the end of the Solar Queen and its crew. Cover art by Julie Bell. -
A galaxy of stars - literally! A must for all Trek fans, this all-star collection celebrates the guest-list of TV's most enduring and influential science fiction series. Here are the fascinating inside stories from such stars as Ricardo Montalban, Whoopie Goldberg, Christopher Lloyd, Teri Garr, Kirstie Alley and many more. Filled with candid interviews, articles, and actor profiles, this is a unique collection. The Star Trek phenomenon continues with top-rated TV series including Voyager and Deep Space Nine as well as numerous Star Trek films. There's alien guest appearances, monster star stories, backstage encounters of all kinds and much more. -
This volume includes: Mistress of the Mind, Lee Harding; Frontier Incident, Robert Wells: A macabre tale of a man's mind is used for alien purposes; The Big Day, Donald Malcolm; Major Operation, James White: The final instalment of the staff of Sector General Hospital, diagnosing, treating and curing a patient over 50,000 miles in diameter...The Cyclops Patrol, William Spencer: A new and ingenious form of industrial espionage is devised. Some Dreams Come In Packages, David Kyle: A future where it's not always easy to tell the real people from the ...other...people; Django Maverick: 2051, Grahame Leman. Cover art by Eric Ayers. -
Book I of Hover Car Racer. In the world of the near future, the most popular sport in the world is hover car racing. Superfast and dangerous, it's heroes are the racers: part fighter pilot, part race car driver, all superstar. But to get to the Pro Circuit, you must first pass through the International Race School, a brutal cauldron of wild races on even wilder courses, where only the best of the best will survive...This is the story of Jason Chaser, a talented young racer selected to attend the Race School. He's younger than the other students. He's smaller. His trusty car, the Argonaut is older. But Jason Chaser is no ordinary racer. And as he races against the best drivers in the world he will learn that at Race School winning is everything, that not everyone in this world fights fair, and that you never ever have any friends on the track. Cover: Crash Course by Pablo Raimondi. -
NOT a film novelisation...The original story. In the future Era of Youth, there will be too many people and not enough food. So in an orderly and systematic fashion the old ones - those over the age of twenty one - must be got rid of. It was easily done - in the palm of everyone's right hand was embedded a crystal flower. In adults - those over the age of fourteen - the crystal shone crimson. And when the crystal turned black it was time to report to a Sleepshop. Those who didn't report for annihilation - those who tried to escape - were hunted down by the Deep Sleep men - and exterminated. Logan was a DS man - efficient, fast and cruel. But one day the crystal in his hand began to flicker - black, red, black...and Logan discovered he did not want to die!
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Bing Walter, alien, has been given a human body (more or less) by his superiors and he’s an advance scout to prepare Earth for extra terrestrial contact. His mission: to get a job with TIME Magazine and once there, insert a cover story detailing the forthcoming arrival of an alien spaceship. His home planet has been sending out signals, but humans are not getting the message. Bing feels perhaps the UNIVAC computer at S.E.T.I. - which calls itself Rufus - would be more helpful...but the message code is so simple, that even Rufus needs help figuring it out and humans haven't got an earthly! Cover art by Bill Wenzel. -
Is it possible than flying saucer are being manned by an ancient Earth race? Do members of an underground civilisation walk among us, monitoring scientific advances, sabotaging strategic techo-development and silencing successful investigators? Has the US Navy really succeeded in teleporting a warship from Philadelphia to Norfolk? And did some of the crewmen on that ill-fated ship burst into flames while others lapsed into invisibility in front of their families and before patrons in a crowded bar, and are there men still confined to psychiatric wards as a result of that experiment? Before scoffing or pooh-poohing, consider this: the Allende Letters have been the subject of an investigation by the Office of Naval Research, and it was believed the letters were destroyed in a freak fire - but it seems only copies were destroyed, not the letters themselves. -
Book I of In Conquest Born. Braxi and Azea, are two civilisations fighting an endless campaign over a long-forgotten cause. Both are born of the ancient human species, they follow opposite roads to power. The Braxana are brutal ultimate warriors. The Azeans use telepathy to penetrate where mere weapons fail. Now the final phase of the war approaches. Zatar and Anzha, the master generals who have made this war a personal vendetta will use every power of mind and body to claim the vengeance of total conquest. Cover art by Tim White.
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