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This lavishly illustrated title examines and presents some of the mysterious geographic locations and phenomenon often related to ancient history and offers various theories and facts aimed at making him ponder about these pieces of puzzles in archaeology. Lost cities, soaring temples, mysterious megaliths...all still mysteries in a day and age when we think we can find out practically anything with technology! In this volume: In Search Of Fabled Lands; Age Of The Megaliths; Cities Of Mystery; Secrets of The Pyramids; Vanished Peoples, Forgotten Places. -
An unauthorised companion book to the cult television series, featuring an annotated synopsis of every episode, an insider's guide to the creation of the series, complete bios of every major character, real-life filming sites and much more - even a nitpick file of inconsistencies. -
1975. Stories in this volume: A Scraping at the Bones, Algis Budrys; Changelings, Lisa Tuttle; The Santa Claus Compromise, Thomas M. Disch; A Galaxy Called Rome, Barry N. Malzberg; A Twelvemonth, Peter Redgrove; The Custodians, Richard Cowper; The Linguist, Richard Cowper; Settling the World, M. John Harrison; The Chaste Planet, John Updike; End Game, Joe Haldeman; The Lo-Eared Cat That Devoured Philadelphia, Louis Phillips; A Dead Singer, Michael Moorcock; Science Fiction on the Titanic, Brian Aldiss. -
In a remote part of the Mexican desert, just south of the US border, top scientists have been secretly studying reports of extraordinary occurrences that have terrified the locals and baffled the experts. Cattle herders, who know nothing of UFOs, speak in hushed tones of strange round flying machines that hover overhead, then suddenly shoot straight for the heavens; bizarre animals and foot-long insects roam among wildly coloured plant life; unexplained earthen platforms stretch over six miles across the desert; pilots flying over the area report navigational equipment gone haywire; an Air Force rocket bound for New Mexico with a radioactive payload suddenly veered off course and headed straight for this mysterious area. The investigation has been kept top secret - until the publication of this book in 1986. Contains black and white photographs. -
Two time-travellers from the 27th century go missing in Ancient Egypt. Edward Davis, a promising rookie in the Time Service is sent back to find them...back much further than he has ever been before. Reeling from the time-jump, he arrives in Thebes only to find his survival training is no protection against the intoxicating magic of Egypt: Pyramids and obelisks; snakes with legs; winking sphinxes; birds with the heads of women and women with the heads of birds; forests of huge stone columns; lapis lazuli and gold and a plump Pharaoh on his throne. Davis has thirty days in which to get a grip and find the missing time travellers. Instead, he's taken in by a temple priestess, befriended by a beautiful slave girl and tricked into crossing the Nile to to the City of the Dead. As the scheduled hour of his rendezvous with the time field approaches, Davis is faced with the truth behind the fate of his former colleagues and the prospect of sharing that fate. Cover art by Fred Gambino. -
Carl Bok is a citizen of Springworld, the heavy-gravity planet with monstrous and dangerous flora and fauna. Carl is well over two metres tall and weighs-in at 180 kilograms. Now he has won a scholarship to Starschool. He'll spend a year on this touring school, visiting sixteen of the colonised planets. This will be the experience of a lifetime. It's tough enough for Carl as the poor scholarship student among the rich kids. His problems get worse when they arrive at Earth. Carl finds himself in urgent need of big money and, since he's a pretty tough guy, becomes a paid fighter. He has to fight dangerous and deadly human and animal opponents. His fellow students - B'oosa, Miko, Alegria and Francisco "Pancho" Bolivar - get caught up in his exploits... And then there are the aliens...Cover art by Peter Elson.
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2018 AD: The Cold Peace, worse than the Cold War. The regimes which rule from Washington and Moscow are the same in their passion for total repression. But in the West, a few dedicated individuals still struggle to find a way out of the trap of human history. Behind the screen of official research, their desperate project is nearing completion. Then Colonel Paige Russell, back from deep space with some soil samples to deliver, talks his way past the receptionist and into the laboratory...Cover art by Chris Foss -
ThiGMOO: Eugene Byrne
$9.00What an idea - the Museum of the Mind. Sir John Westgate and Dr Katherine Beckford have spent ten years using computer power and AIs to recreate over 200 fictional characters from all periods of history, known as erams, who can interact with their questioners. Soldiers, dockers, parsons...even a Victorian tart with a heart. For Dr Beckford, it's a superb learning tool. For Sir John, it's a wonderful use of University funds and a great way to make money. Something was bound to go wrong. A number of erams escape into the world computer net and become self aware. It seemed at first that the outbreak could be contained - but the university authorities should never have attempted to destroy them... -
Things To Come: H.G. Wells
$20.00Wells' own novelisation of the 1935 film inspired by The Shape of Things To Come. When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the future: a history of humanity from the date of his death up to 2105. The Shape Of Things To Come provides this history of the future, an account that was in some ways remarkably prescient - predicting climatic disaster and sweeping cultural changes, the Second World War, the rise of chemical warfare and political instabilities in the Middle East. -
Book X of Acorna. Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, has followed in Acorna's footsteps leading their people from danger, but the pressure to succeed and fulfill a legacy is tremendous. For the deadly foe that has ravaged the known worlds and weakened even her famous parents has launched its final assault, and only Khorii and her newly discovered sister, Ariin, are able to stop the brutal attack. But success is elusive, and fragile, and even time itself may not be enough to help their desperate quest to save their family - much less the universe. Cover art by Chris McGrath. -
Gap Into Ruin. The fifth and final instalment in the GAP series. As the conflict between humankind and the Amnion heads for crisis, Morn Hyland, the cyborg Angus Thermopyle and the survivors on board the crippled starship Trumpet must return from deep space to Earth. Their mission is to prevent all-out war with the aliens, which would leave humanity to pay a terrible price. But the Amnion react with swift fury, and suddenly Earth is threatened with fiery destruction ...Cover art by David O'Connor.
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From the holiday planet of Paradiso one could go on so many exciting excursions - Mars, Venus, the Moon, even the most distant and alien worlds were accessible to the inquisitive holiday maker, courtesy of Starways, Inc. - the giant combine which owned Paradiso and half the galaxy. But there was only one trip which interested Ram Burrell and it was the one that Starways seemed to be actively discouraging trippers from taking - the trip to Earth, the birthplace of Man. And once Burrell had got a ticket for the journey, he began to discover why Earth had been the least visited planet and why Starways and worked so hard to keep it that way. Cover art by Vincent Segrelles. -
This Other Eden: Ben Elton
$12.00We'd all like to save the world but there seems to be a lot of it and the individual seems so puny. Hence the appeal of the very marketable Claustrosphere, invented by despotic media mogul Plastic Tolstoy: a domestic, self-contained, stunningly tough eco-shelter for the average bloke. It is also the most irresponsible idea ever: the death of the Earth becomes survivable. When Nathan, a self-absorbed British script writer gets access to Tolstoy to pitch his end-of-the-world movie, he feels his time has come. But why is Nathan's script so dangerous? It's the perfect vehicle for Max, the ex-jeans model and multi-media superstar. And should Max be falling for beautiful and utterly stroppy eco-terrorist Rosalie? And what is it about the Claustrosphere marketing campaign that requires the loss of innocence and the slaughter of the innocent? -
We'd all like to save the world but there seems to be a lot of it and the individual seems so puny. Surely it's sensible to make other arrangements. Hence the appeal of the very marketable Claustrosphere, invented by despotic media mogul Plastic Tolstoy: a domestic, self contained, stunningly tough eco-shelter for the average bloke. It is also the most irresponsible idea ever: the death of the Earth becomes survivable. When Nathan, a self-absorbed British script writer gets access to Tolstoy to pitch his end-of-the-world movie, he feels his time has come. But why is Nathan's script so dangerous? It's the perfect vehicle for Max, the ex-jeans model and multi media superstar. And should Max be falling for beautiful and utterly stroppy eco-terrorist Rosalie? And what is it about the Claustrosphere marketing campaign that requires the loss of innocence and the slaughter of the innocent?
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Lost in space for fifteen years, doomed to an interminable existence aboard a mechanical city floating through a black void. Unable to return to an Earth they could hardly remember and a system of politics they could not understand. Yet Crowley, the learned professor and Betty, the mysterious clairvoyant's daughter whose uncanny abilities had threatened the stability of the Earth will find love across the miles of nothingness. Cover art credited to Sam Peffer. -
Thunderworld: Zach Hughes
$15.00When the crew of the four-person scout ship Santa Maria first sighted the new life-zone planet, they called it "Worthless". A little too far from the mother sun for comfort, caught in the grip of conflicting gravitational pulls, it was a planet in constant uproar and not at all fit for human colonisation. Still, time was running short for the people of Earth to find a new home and this was the first place that approached even remotely livable conditions. Don and Zees decide to do close up study of the surface while Breed and Ellen stay in orbit overhead. But just after they landed there came a cataclysmic upheaval that killed many of the primitive life forms and left Don and Zees stranded. Forced to go native and live off the land until their crew mates could rescue them. they had no idea that the next meal they ate would change the future of the planet. Cover art by Paul Alexander. -
Tide: Zach Hughes
$15.00An experiment in radiation treatment of fish produces mutations in the dinoflagellates that feed the fish. The result is aggressive fish - toward other fish and toward Man. But there's a bigger problem - the aggressiveness is transferred to men who eat the fish and violence explodes in the quiet laboratories. This is ugly - but then the mutation reaches an Air Force general with access to codes for nuclear bombs. The destruction of all life could be only a countdown away.... -
In 1893, H.G. Wells invites his friends to the unveiling of his time machine. One of his friends, Dr. Leslie Stephenson, has an alter ego - Jack the Ripper. When he is discovered he escapes in H.G. Well's machine to modern-day America...and Wells must follow him to put an end to his bloody career. The film stars Malcolm McDowell, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen. Trivia: the Time Machine on the cover is not the one in the film. -
Time And Again: Jack Finney
$25.00Science fiction, mystery, a love story and a detailed history of Old New York blend together in this story of a young man enlisted in a secret government experiment. Transported from the mid-twentieth century to New York City in the year 1882, Si Morley walks the fashionable "Ladies' Mile" of Broadway, is enchanted by the jingling sleigh bells in Central Park, and solves a 20th-century mystery by discovering its 19th-century roots. Falling in love with a beautiful young woman, he ultimately finds himself forced to choose between his lives in the present and the past. -
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. -
It’s the 1st of June, 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history. Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century? And, if so - could another single bullet save it? -
This volume contains: Ernie; Raison D'Etre; The Price Of Survival; Between A Rock And A High Place; Houseguest; Time Bomb; The President's Doll; Banshee. Cover art by Steve Youll. -
When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time—or worse—Shel enlists the aid of Dave Dryden, a linguist, to accompany him on the rescue mission. Their journey through history takes them from the enlightenment of Renaissance Italy through the American Wild West to the civil-rights upheavals of the 20th century. Along the way, they encounter a diverse cast of historical greats, sometimes in unexpected situations. Yet the elder Shelborne remains elusive. And then Shel violates his agreement with Dave not to visit the future. There he makes a devastating discovery that sends him fleeing back through the ages - a discovery that changes his life forever. Cover art by Tony Mauro. -
Book 1 of Time Odyssey. 1885...On the North-West frontier, Rudyard Kipling witnesses a bizarre encounter between the British Army and a mysteriously watchful, hovering sphere - and then, shockingly, a helicopter from 2037 comes over the hill. Meanwhile, elsewhere, scouts from the great horde of Genghis Khan find that familiar landmarks on the great steppe have vanished - as if they had never been. And elsewhere yet again - the courtiers of Alexander the Great wait anxiously for news of the Great King, who seems to have vanished. Nothing is as it was. The castaways in time must make an epic journey across a transformed world, a journey to a devastating truth. For if history is long, our future may be shorter than any of us dreamed...Mankind's odyssey in time has begin... Cover art by David Stevenson. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/sunstorm-arthur-c-clarke-stephen-baxter/ -
Time Odyssey Book I. 1885...On the North-West frontier, Rudyard Kipling witnesses a bizarre encounter between the British Army and a mysteriously watchful, hovering sphere - and then, shockingly, a helicopter from 2037 comes over the hill. Meanwhile, elsewhere, scouts from the great horde of Genghis Khan find that familiar landmarks on the great steppe have vanished - as if they had never been. And elsewhere yet again - the courtiers of Alexander the Great wait anxiously for news of the Great King, who seems to have vanished. Nothing is as it was. The castaways in time must make an epic journey across a transformed world, a journey to a devastating truth. For if history is long, our future may be shorter than any of us dreamed...Mankind's odyssey in time has begin...https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/sunstorm-arthur-c-clarke-stephen-baxter/ -
An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. This mystery will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years War. Imagine the risks of such a journey - imagine the impossible! https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-timeline-paul-walker-billy-connolly/
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