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Vulcan! Kathleen Sky
$9.00Star Trek Adventures No. 11. Due to violent ion storms, the Neutral Zone is shifting and the planet Arachnae will move from Federation territory to Romulan space. The Enterprise is ordered to seek out intelligent life there and, if it exists, offer full Federation protection. Dr. Katalya Tremain, the Federation's foremost expert on the exobiology of this region is assigned to the Enterprise and Kirk finds that she has a fanatical hatred of any and all things Vulcan... including Spock. Why was a woman guaranteed to be a problem sent for such a delicate situation? Is the mission being sabotaged? Cover art by Alister Pearson. -
Fun fantasy and time stories: I Love Galesburg in the Springtime: A town does not want to forget its past and begins producing random - and physical - 'memories'. Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere: What happens when two work colleagues find a novelty shop - with a difference. Where the Cluetts Are: A couple find their perfect house in an old blueprint - and the house seems to have found the perfect owners. Hey, Look At Me! A shy young author dies, but still wants to leave his mark on the world...The Coin Collector: A man picks up an odd coin in his change - which allows him to visit a parallel universe and live two different lives. The Love Letter: When a young man buys an old desk and finds a young lady's letter to an unknown lover, he answers it - and gets a reply. Also in this volume: A Possible Candidate For The Presidency; The Prison Legend; Time Has No Boundaries and The Intrepid Aeronaut. A book for the serious collector - very hard to get. -
The late great Asimov challenged a talented group of sci-fi writers with: What would happen if the robots of Asimov's universe were to meet alien races? Would the Three Laws of Robotics that protect both humans and robots still apply when dealing with a species that is neither? In this volume: Maverick: Derec Avery should be able to control the network of robotic cities, but the cities are not working as they should and they are becoming dangerous. Someone else is tampering with them - Dr. Janet Anastasi, Derec's mother. Unwittingly, her intereference is about to start a war between humans and aliens, and Derec must find a way to prevent destruction. Humanity: Derec's quest for identity has led him across the galaxy to slowly rebuild the pieces of his life: first, Ariel Burgess, the woman whose love he had to win three times; then his father, Dr. Avery, the mad genius whose experiment Derec has become. Now he has become caught up in an experiment that threatens to undermine the Laws of Robotics. He must deal with three robots that have no fixed shape, no clear sense of what is a human and what is not. They are his mother's creations - but do they spell doom - or salvation? Cover art by Paul Rivoche. -
The 22nd century, 150 years after the Dust Wars destroyed America's Mid-West, and much else besides. California is a last outpost for survival and reclamation during a long epidemic of all-purpose despair. The extraordinary cult of 'Tumbondé', a former taxi driver its prophet and leader, predicts the imminent arrival on earth of 'Gods' from the stars. The movement grows daily. Tom O'Bedlam, an apparent madman, prey since childhood to visions which seem to confirm 'Tumbondé', goes even further. He can, he will, help others to make the Crossing. If the world doesn't go too mad too soon. If well-meaning 'rationalists' don't lock him away...Cover art by Mark Salwowski -
Prisoner of war, optometrist, time traveller...these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, the hero of this moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. One of the world's great anti-war books, this centres on the infamous bombing of Dresden during Word War II, Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing - the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit - that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. -
In this volume: The Streets Of Ashkelon: An alien race believes everything it is told - and when it hears the Christian message the consequences are truly horrific. Portrait Of The Artist; Rescue Operation; Captain Bedlam; Final Encounter;Unto My Manifold Dooms; The Pliable Animal; Captain Honario Harpplayer, R.N.; According To His Abilities; I always Do What Teddy Says: A frightening glimpse at the possibility of mass mind control from childhood. But why is one person spared? Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Majestic: Whitley Strieber
$15.00On July 2, 1947 something crashed in the desert outside of Roswell, New Mexico. An explosion of light and sound made the sheep wail, the chickens squawk, and the children scream. And then the ranchers heard a noise they thought could only have come from the devil himself. For forty years, Majestic Agency director Wilfred Stone helped the CIA pretend the landing never happened. Then his conscience got the better of him. This is the real story, told to reporter Nicholas A. Duke by the guilt-racked shell of the man who once worked tirelessly to cover it all up. It is a truth so terrifying that Whitley Strieber had to call it fiction. Cover art by Ted Seth Jacobs© -
Book III of The Damned. After millennia of useless war, the union of alien races was on the verge of winning a decisive victory - thanks to their new Earth allies. But then the birdlike Wais scholar, Lalelelang, found disturbing evidence that huamns might not adapt so easily to peace. When her field research revealed the existence of a secret group of powerfully telepathic humans called the Core, it looked as if Lalelelang would be the first victim in a new war between Humans and their allies. At the last moment, a lone Core commander took a chance on her intelligence and compassion, to gamble the fate of Humanity on the remote chance they could find an alternative to a galaxy-wide bloodbath. Cover art by Barclay Shaw. -
Mars Attacks! Jonathan Gems
$18.00Film novelisation by the original screenplay author. A huge invasion fleet from Mars is heading for Earth. On board are super intelligent creatures whose weapons make Earth's armaments as effective as bows and arrows. The U.S. President, the military, even the First Lady herself can't stop this awesome Armada. They say they come in peace...Unfortunately, that isn't exactly the truth! -
Contains all three books of the Oswald Bastable Trilogy: The War Lord of the Air; The Land Leviathan and The Steel Tsar. In 1903, Captain Oswald Bastable, in charge of a military mission in the Himalayas, enters the Temple of the Future Buddha at Teku Benga. He is catapulted into a brave new world decades in the future - a world where the British Empire is stronger than ever and giant airships rule the air. Cover art by Melvyn Grant.
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A research biochemist receives a package from a fellow scientist containing profiles on six people suffering from an unknown disease, plus tissue samples for study. Both scientists are found dead shortly thereafter and all trace of the file and samples have vanished. A space mission to study an unusual comet passing through our solar system brings back something far deadly that the usual samples of space debris - and Michael Raines, who had been involved in a government study about the use of telepathy in space research and communications, finds his powers becoming unreliable as he stumbles across traces of a massive conspiracy that reaches from the heart of a comet all the way to the Oval Office. Cover art by Romas Kukalis -
Book III of the completely mis-named Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The inhabitants of planet Krikkit are perfectly happy until they experience a space ship crashing on their idyllic planet. So, they dismantle the wreckage, while singing little space ship stripping ditties and boldly venture into space. They decide they don't like the Universe and really - it has to go... so they plan to destroy it. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; 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, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior and won an award for designing Norway; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows! Cover art by David Scutt. -
Doctor Who: Virgin New Adventures No. 56. "If you step into history," said the Doctor, "I won't be able to protect you." "This isn't history," said Roz. "This is family." The Earth Empire - the Imperium Humanum, upon which a thousand suns never set - is dying. The Great Houses of the Empire manoeuvre and scheme for advantage; alliances are made; and knives flash in the shadows. Out among the moons of Jupiter, another battle is just beginning, as an ancient brotherhood seeks limitless power and long-overdue revenge. The Doctor returns to the thirtieth century, searching for the source of a terrifying weapon. He fears a nightmare from his own past may be about to destroy the future. Nothing must be allowed to get in his way. But the Doctor has reckoned without the power of history - which has its own plans for the wayward daughter of the House of Forrester. Cover art by Jon Sullivan. -
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. -
Blood Moon: Sharman DiVono
$12.00In the early part of the 21st century, the U.S. renewed its commitment to the space programme, building a new base on the far side of the moon. The first four missions went off without a hitch. But on the fifth mission, disaster struck. First came an urgent message from Farside Base -then silence. The launch of FS-6 was moved up to mount a rescue mission but when they reached Farside, the situation they found was beyond all human comprehension. The station was a mess, with graffiti scrawled everywhere, including the mysterious phrase, 'food for the Moon.' Two members of FS-5 were dead, obviously murdered. A third died of fright not long after they found her. And the mission commander and two others were missing. The FS-6 team were now de facto detectives in a murder investigation and hanging over them all was the threat that whatever had claimed the sanity and lives of their colleagues migh , at any moment, strike again. Cover art by Bob Warner.
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Star Trek 1; No. XXXII. While mapping a series of gravitational anomalies, the U.S.S. Enterprise is suddenly hurled million of light years through space into another galaxy - with no way back home. A search of the surrounding star system reveals dozens of scorched and lifeless worlds, victims of beings possessed of unimaginable power, known only as the Destroyers. And when the aliens of this galaxy discover the Enterprise in their midst, they mistake the starship for a Destroyer vessel and target the ship and crew for immediate obliteration.
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Book V of Jerry Cornelius. Una and Catherine - lovers, revolutionaries and time travellers extraordinare - are now flashing through the dimensions in a dazzling kaleidoscope of real and imaginary twentieth centuries, a riotous extravaganza of alternative pasts, presents and futures in a madly unpredictable trip...filled with unruly, catastrophic and fantastic adventures. With Jerry Cornelius and a host of Moorcock creations close at hand, the action is immense! Cover art by Melvyn Grant. -
Doctor Who Adventures No. 93.The Doctor is enjoying the sun on a holiday island - but things are soon hotter than he expected. The young American Perpugilliam Brown brings to the TARDIS a mysterious object that her archeologist step-father has found in a sunken wreck. Kamelion, the Doctor's robot friend of a thousand disguises, reacts to the object totally unexpectedly, with bewildering consequences for the TARDIS crew. Kamelion sends the Doctor and his friends to Sarn, a terrifyingly beautiful planet of fire. This strange world provides the key to Turlough's secret past - and once again the Doctor is pitted against the wily Master. Cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Ark Of Doom: Richard Woodley
$20.00Book IV of Man From Atlantis. All the FBI had to go on were a few scraps of paper: one bore the word Felicitos and that rang a bell in Mark Harris's mind. On a perilous rescue mission, the Man From Atlantis sped to a mysterious island off the coast of Brazil. There, in a sophisticated underground laboratory. a deranged woman scientists had concocted a potion that would make the greatest minds on Earth serve her will. Mark Harris was uniquely armed to meet the bizarre adventure that awaited him - an adventure that threatened to take the Earth's intelligence out of the known world to a strange and overpowering new one. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate. -
Book IV of Foundation. The costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has finally come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation have proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon’s long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all - and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Two exiled citizens of the Foundation set out in search of the mythical planet Earth and and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile, someone - or something - outside both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a final, shocking destiny at the very end of the universe. Cover art by Tim White. -
Black Steel: Steve Perry
$15.00Book VII of Matador. She is a sensei - a teacher, a master of the martial arts. Her weapon is a 400 year old sword; her ambition is to find the perfect student. one worthy of her blade. He is a thief, a poet, a scholar, a soldier - and one of the best of the Matadors, the elite cadre of bodyguards who sparked a revolution. Now, stripped of his honour and forbidden the weapons that set him apart, he must begin again. Their enemy is hidden in the House of Black Steel, protected by power and money. He has stolen her secret and his honour and nearly claimed their lives. Their only hope of survival and vengeance lies in the strength of black steel. Cover art by Luis Royo. -
When Internet trolls start to drop dead, the Doctor thinks there might be more to it than just a sedentary lifestyle and high blood pressure. From the backstreets of South Korea to the jungles of Brazil, the Doctor and Donna follow the leads until they find the source of this online infection. But they aren't the only ones interested in these sudden deaths at the computer screens or what's causing them. Before long, Donna and the Doctor are fighting for their lives - and the lives of everyone else on planet Earth who uses the internet. In;lcuding some people very dear to Donna... -
Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark is hot property: the body she awakes in isn't her own; her mind is unique; the agency that owns her is deadly. If she stays in the Medial Centre, she has No Future. So she does what anyone sane would do - she escapes. And in the sprawling mad civilisations of the future - a future of plug-in personalities and colonised asteroids, where all human evils blossom in the vacuum of space - she's in for a very interesting time indeed. If she survives... Cover art by Mark Salwowski. -
In this volume: The Immortal, Olaf Ruhen; Siren Singers, Robyn Tracey; The Case of the Perjured Planet, John Baxter and Ron Smith (as Martin Loran); Space Poem, T. F. Kline; Robinson, David Rome; No Sale, John Williams; The Man of Slow Feeling, Michael Wilding; Vale, Pollini! George Johnston; From Rutherford, Douglas Stewart; Apple, John Baxter; A Happening, Frank Roberts; Dancing Gerontius, Lee Harding; Whatever Happened to Suderov? Steve Kaldor. -
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. -
Vol. 3, No. 2. This volume contains: Summertide, Charles Sheffield; Time Safari, David Drake; Sacrifice, David Langford; Slices, Gregory Benford; Where Thy Treasure Is, Fred Saberhagen; Speculative Facts: Looking About in Space, Drs Charles Sheffield and Yoji Kondo; Nuclear Survival IV, Dean Ing; Waste Not, Want Not, Karl Pflock; On Predicting the Future, Frederic Pohl; Ramblings, Poul Anderson; Last Words, James Baen. Illustrations by Broeck Steadman, Janet Aulisio and Steven Fabian.
