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A volume of Christian science fiction. The Streets of Ashkelon, Harry Harrison: A tyrannical God demands a dreadful sacrifice before permitting a future race to serve Him. Balaam, Anthony Boucher: A treacherous God lays death traps for the faithful. Unhuman Sacrifice, Katherine MacLean: A foolish God plays thoughtless games with human lives. The Shrine of Temptation, Judith Merril: Humans try to understand the strange rituals of the inhabitants of another planet. The Army Comes To Venus, Eric Frank Russell: A frontier town on Venus, populated solely by rough male miners and a few prostitutes, is invaded - by the Salvation Army! Apostle to Alpha, Betty T. Balke: A preacher is sent to evangelise the aliens - but do they need it? God Of The Playback, Stephen Dentinger: The ultimate machine age God, a robot incapable of feelings, begins creating Man in his image... Robot Son, Robert F. Young: A Tech-God performs magical, chilling miracles...That Evening Sun Go Down, Arthur Sellings: In a possible future, humans believe they are descended from aliens who came to Earth after the fall of civilisation. ; The Wolfram Hunters, Edward H. Hoch: A vengeful deity painfully and slowly begins to kill off the pitiful handful of survivors of a nuclear war. Cover art by Virgil Finlay. -
The Immortals: Tracy Hickman
$12.00The United States is ravaged by disease and stifled by martial law. With whole cities falling to a lethal virus known as V-CIDS, the panicked authorities take the precaution of herding the infected into huge specially designed internment camps. Into one of these prisons stumbles Michael Barris, a wealthy interactive television mogul with a controversial past. He is searching for his sick son, spending a fortune and his future for the answers. What he finds is a carefully guarded nightmare - one that he helped to create. As he battles to survive he comes to understand that the camps have a far more sinister agenda than the military is willing to admit...
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Time Odyssey II; the sequel to Time's Eye. 2037. The sun flares. Thousands die. Suddenly, our high-tech civilisation seems terribly vulnerable. We recover. We rebuild. But this is just the precursor. In April 2042 - in just five years - the sun will flare out again. But this time, the sun will hurl out in one day the energy it would normally spend in a year. This time, nothing on Earth will survive. As plans are drawn up to save Mankind, as all Earth's resources are mobilised for one unimaginable engineering effort, one question remains unanswered: why now? https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/times-eye-arthur-c-clarke-and-stephen-baxter/ -
Volume III of The Book Of The Short Sun. Horn has embarked on a quest in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Horn has travelled from his home planet Blue to the mysterious planet Green, visited the great starship Whorl and even, somehow, reached the distant planet Urth. But Horn's identity has only become more ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex; shifting from place to place, present to past. Perhaps Horn and Silk are one being... Cover art by Jim Burns. -
In this volume: Dead Sea Fruit: Kaaron Warren; The Cup Of Nestor: Simon Brown; Hero Vale: Margo Lanagan; When The World Was Flat: Geoffrey Maloney; La Frofonde: Terry Dowling; The Dying Light: Deborah Biancotti; Father Muerte And The Flesh: Lee Battersby; The Souls Of Dead Soldiers Are For Blackbirds, Not Little Boys: Ben Peek; Heironymus Boche: Chris Lawson; Terning Tha Weel: Kim Westwood; The Legend Of Grandmother June: Alistair Ong. Cover art by Tomislav Tikulin. -
Book III of the Overseer series. Wilson Dowling is the Overseer - a man transported from the year 2081 to carry out a series of vital missions encoded in the Dead Sea Scrolls. His latest assignment had seemed simple enough – to lead the American explorer Hiram Bingham to Maccu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas. However, he discovers that history has gone dramatically off course. The Golden Cube of the Sun God – safely hidden at Machu Piccu for hundreds of years – has been stolen. Whoever possesses it could potentially unleash a dangerous power that is beyond their comprehension – and their control. Not only that, but without it Wilson can never gain transport home. Pursued by a tribe of fierce female warriors, the ancient guardians of the Lost City, Wilson races to find the deadly treasure before he is stranded forever in the past...And before the entire world is thrown into chaos. -
Red Fury: James Swallow
$7.00Book III of Blood Angels. Following the tragic events that led the Blood Angels to the brink of civil war, the Chapter's strength has been badly depleted. The Blood Angels must act and act quickly, before their enemies learn of their weakness and attack. With tempers flaring and mutants running wild on their homeworld, can the Blood Angels and their successor Chapters put aside their rivalries and rebuild their forces before it's too late? Cover art by Adrian Smith. -
The sequel to The Warlord Of The Air. The world is governed by plague, anarchy and superstition. Bands of diseased mutant brigands despoil the continents while pirate U-boats prowl the oceans. But from this chaos emerges the Black Attila - commander of the African Hordes and wielder of the most terrible weapon ever. It is the Land Leviathan, a ziggurat on wheels, a moving mountain of armoured artillery which enables the realisation, after centuries of oppression, of Black Power on an unimaginable scale. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
Book V of Chung Kuo. On Mars, Chung Kuo's largest colony is engulfed by civil war. In America, a ruthless leader precipitates a disaster greater than Chung Kuo has ever known, while the Seven Han Lords dissipate their power fighting the shadows of their own great Ministry - The Thousand Eyes - in a struggle for ultimate political control. And in the heart of the City, in the final hours before the darkness falls, an old man - once the most powerful soldier in Chung Kuo - paces his rooms, surrounded by the ghosts of the dead. At last, the magnificent edifice built by the Chinese conquerors has begun to crumble. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Twelve thousand feet above the desert planet Calferon floats an aerial world of rugged landscapes created by a unique symbiosis of rock and plant - world whose people have known strife, but not war...until now. A ruling duke disappears. A medallion believed to possess strange powers falls into evil hands. Paul Benjarth, heir to the throne of Fief Karcan, embarks on a terrifying journey of enlightenment that brings him to the doorstep of Creation - or doom. With revelation comes choices, and Paul must make all the right ones now or his people will face centuries of enslavement. Cover art by Brom. -
Exile: Al Sarrantonio
$15.00Book I of Five Worlds. It is the end of the 25th century and human civilisation has expanded into the Four Worlds of Earth, Mars, Titan and Pluto. Recent progress in terraforming promises to turn Venus into the Fifth. But for Prime Cornelian, usurper of Martian Rule, there will be no rest until all the planets bow before him. With the blood of treason and treachery on his hands, he is rekindling the ancient savagery for which Martians were once feared - and he's supplementing it with a new secret weapon of awesome power. Dalin Shar, King of Earth, must flee his besieged palace as his government falls to Martian intrigue. Exiled far from home, at the mercy of strangers he barely trusts, the king struggles to stay alive long enough to gather rebel forces. Cover art by Donato Giancola.
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Borderline: Vercors
$10.00The discovery made by an anthropological expedition to New Guinea had implications which threatened to disrupt modern society - for they discovered the missing link between humans and animals, the Paranthropus; in some respects human, in others, ape-like. A creature on the borderline between man and animal which raised doubts as to the nature of Man and his place in the Universe....Cover art by Tim White. -
Mutant Star: Karen Haber
$7.00Book III of Fire In Winter. For hundreds of years the mutants concealed their dazzling psychic abilities. Then they took their rightful place in normal human society in a storm of political uproar. The long struggle for equality nears its end. But the mutants' awesome talents - and their belief in the coming of a mutant messiah - still isolate them. Strange currents are flowing and the entire world will change with the unleashing of unthinkable and unspeakable powers. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
This volume contains: Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons; A 21-faceted moon is home to Mother Hitton, weapons mistress in charge of the care and feeding of the Littul Kittons - mink that have been selectively bred for psychotic madness. They are only allowed to wake for mating or when needed for defence...Minks with deadly, defensive brains...The Dead Lady of Clown Town: On the planet Fomalhaut III, Ellen - a therapist - becomes involved with a group of fugitive underpeople who live in a maze of drab service corridors jokingly dubbed "Clown Town", who are helped by a personality recording of the late Lady Panc Ashash and a telepath - The Hunter. Elaine and the Hunter, with D'joan, the leader who has been foretold, lead the fugitives on a fatal march into a city. The underpeople go knowingly to die - but will a lasting change come from their martyrdom? Drunkboat: In a universe policed by the Instrumentality of Mankind, Lord Crudelta needs a human for an experiment in space ³ travel. The Ballad of Lost C'Mell; Jestocost, a Lord of the Instrumentality of Mankind and C'mell, a beautiful cat-derived underperson, join forces to try and gain rights for the underpeople without upsetting the social order; A Planet Named Shayol: Mercer, who lives within the Empire, has been convicted of "a crime that has no name". He is condemned by the Empire to the planet Shayol, in which he lives in a penal colony where the prisoners must undergo grotesque physical mutations and grow extra organs which are harvested by the Empire. But are the Lords of Instrumentality aware of the horrors taking place on Shayol? Cover art by Jack Gaughan. -
To win the right to a name, he fought without weapons in the deadly arena of Nggongga only to be cheated of his prize. Branded a criminal, he sought refuge with the Benefactors, a mysterious interplanetary fellowship and from them he would at last learn the truth of his heritage. As Blacklantern, he was born again - and the Galaxy became his arena for vengeance. His purpose took him to the end of the Cosmos, to seek out and finally face a terrifying and relentless evil that threatened countless worlds. Cover art by Peter Elson. -
Star Trek Next Generation No. 19. On a routine mission to survey Domarus IV - a class M world with no intelligent life - an Enterprise shuttle crewed by Data, Troi and Wesley Crusher is captured by a race called the Tenirans who claim the world for themselves. As Captain Picard tries to negotiate with the captain of the Teniran ship, the shuttle suddenly disappears in a blaze of color and light. Picard demands to know what's happened to the shuttle and its crew, but the Tenarins deny any part in their disappearance. Suddenly, Captain Picard vanishes from the bridge and finds himself alone on the planet's surface with the Tenarin captain. As the two captains begin to work together, they realize that they are not alone on Domarus IV as they confront an incredible alien force with the power to transform a world - or to destroy it. -
Moonwar: Ben Bova
$8.00Book VI of The Grand Tour; Book II of Moonbase Saga. Seven years after the indomitable Doug Stavenger has realized his cherished dream of establishing a colony on the inhospitable lunar surface, Moonbase is a thriving community, a marvel of scientific achievement created and supported by nanotechnology: virus-sized machines that can build, cure, and destroy. But nanotechnology has been declared illegal by the home planet's leaders, and a powerful despot is determined to lay claim to Stavenger's peaceful city--or obliterate it, if necessary. The people of Moonbase, a colony with no arms or military, must now defend themselves from earthborn aggression with the only weapon at their disposal: the astonishing technology that sustains their endangered home. Cover art by Mark Harrison. -
This volume contains: More Things In Heaven and Earth, H.A.Hargreaves; Aspect of Environment, L. Davison; Soul Survivors, Lee Harding; Death and the Sensperience Poet, Joseph Green; Two Rivers, R.A. Mackelworth; The Hero, Ernest Hill; The True Worth of Ruth Villiers, Michael G. Coney. Cover art by Coppola Ragazzini. -
Volume IV of The Tower and the Hive. The survival technique of the Hivers was terrifying and brilliant. Their huge Sphere Ships controlled by the Many Mind of ten to sixteen queens, surged out into space. When an appropriate planet was found, the Hivers destroyed all indigenous life, the queens propagated and when the new world was full, the ships were sent out again and again until no planet or species was safe. But the furry and brave Mrdini race had fought the Hivers for centuries and they now combined with Man to form the Alliance. Man brought the power and might of the Talents and the four children of Damia, Primes among the Talents, are desperately needed. Cover art by Romas Kukalis. -
Panic 7: Eugene Carl Shaffer
$25.00It starts with incredible events...A pregnant cancer-rat begins a journey to infect civilization. Wars erupt as nations battle for water. The president of the United States collapses and approaches insanity. A strange cloud over Lake Superior distorts world communications. Thus begins mankind's battle to survive...Cover art by Steven Pyryezstov. -
Far out in space, an elite unit of soldiers is on a training mission. But deep in the heart of the hollow planetoid that forms the battleground, there is a chilling secret: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of violent, bloody death. The bodies are those of the empire's most wanted terrorists and their discovery could end a war of attrition devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that slaughtered them still lurking in the dark tunnels of the training ground? And what are its plans for the people of Earth? When the Doctor arrives on the planetoid with Ben and Polly, he soon scents a net tightening about them. And as the soldiers begin to disappear one by one, paranoia spreads; is the real enemy hiding in the dark, or is it among them? -
Book I of The Orphans trilogy. In the 22nd century, human have shed their bodies to travel through space. Their electronic reproductions, known as engrams, are sent on fact-finding missions through the known universe. As the engram crew of a survey ship watches, ten orbital towers are constructed around an uninhabited planet's equator by unidentified spindle shaped entities. Then without attempting communication, the entities withdraw. The engram crew cautiously explore the towers and find what seems to be gifts from a technologically advanced race, including a faster-than-light ship. But these may be gifts humanity cannot afford to accept...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Omnibus edition featuring: The City And The Stars: Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rule the stars. But then, as legend has it, the invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, a Unique, to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders. The Deep Range: A hundred years into the future, humanity lives mostly on the oceans - tending vast whale herds and plankton farms. Walter Franklin works on a submarine patrol - and his adventures under the sea are told in this riveting tale, set against the backdrop of a world both futuristic and familiar...A Fall Of Moondust: For a million years the bubble had been growing, like a vast abscess, below the root of the mountains. Now the abscess was about to burst. Captain Harris had left the controls on autopilot and was talking to the front row of passengers as the first tremor shook the boat. For a fraction of a second he wondered if a fan blade had hit some submerged obstacle; then, quite literally, the bottom fell out of his world. It fell slowly, as all things must upon the Moon. The sea was alive and moving . . . Every stage of that nightmare transformation was pitilessly illuminated by the earth light, until the crater was so deep that its firewall was completely lost in shadow, and it seemed as if Selene were racing into a curving crescent of utter blackness – an arc of annihilation. In darkness and in silence, they were sinking into the Moon...Rendezvous With Rama: At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits — just behind a Raman airlock door... -
This volume contains: The Time Machine; The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Invisible Man; The War of the Worlds; The First Men in the Moon; The Food of the Gods; In the Days of the Comet. A banquet of classic science fiction from the man who seemed to be able to 'see ahead'.
