Book IV and the conclusion of the Chanur series. Alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching them into the center of a galactic maelstrom which could cause interstellar war. Cover art by Mick Posen.
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Graphic Novel. Station 7 is where the Earth Forces send all the equipment captured in their unceasing war against the Daleks. It's where Dalek technology is analysed and examined. It's where the Doctor and Amy have just arrived. But somehow the Daleks have found out about Station 7 - and there's something there that they want back With the Doctor increasingly worried about the direction the Station's research is taking, the commander of Station 7 knows he has only one possible, desperate defense. Because the last terrible secret of Station 7 is that they don't only store captured Dalek technology - it's also a prison. And the only thing that might stop a Dalek is another Dalek... -
Book II of World Of Tiers. Imagine a whole series of separate universes, made to suit the whims of a race of super-beings. Imagine these universes with their own laws, cultures, creatures, and ecologies - all existing solely to please the fancies of their individual master. Then imagine one such universe constructed as a diabolical trap to destroy a single person - the man called Robert Wolff, one of the race of universe-makers, and once of Earth. When the satanic Master-Lord, Urizen, kidnap's Wolff's wife, he forces Wolff to enter the deadly universe of ambushes, filled with every kind of tortuous snare that the evil mind of the Master-Lord can devise. Wolff has only his courage and his wits with which to combat this cosmic maze - unless he can perform a miracle, he and Chryseis are doomed. -
Book III of Legends of Dune. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronised Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of victory, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight. Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets. Once again, the tide of the titanic struggle shifts against the warriors of the human race. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin - human and machine face off one last time and on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Muad'Dib.Cover art by Chris Moore. -
In this volume: The Passing of the Dragons, Keith Roberts; Algora One Six, Douglas R. Mason; Commuter, James White; The Possessed, Sydney J. Bounds; What the Thunder Said, Colin Kapp; Tangled Web, H. A. Hargreaves; The Tertiary Justification, Michael G. Coney. -
Paul Muad'Dib - cheered as a hero, worshipped as a Messiah, loathed as a tyrant - has vanished into the endless deserts of the planet Dune, leaving his turbulent empire without guidance. It's up to his younger sister Alia and his formidable mother, Lady Jessica, aided by faithful Gurney Halleck, the Fremen leader Stilgar and the resurrected Duncan Idaho to keep the human race from tearing itself apart. Fuelling the flames of dissent is the outspoken rebel, Bronso of Ix, doing everything he can to destroy the myth of Paul Muad'Dib, the man responsible for more deaths than any other in history. Working with Princess Irulan, Jessica tries to uncover the truth about her son. As the winds of rebellion and treachery brew, she discovers that Muad'Dib may have knowingly planted the seeds for his own downfall. And that Bronso of Ix has a secret mission of his own, one that will force Jessica to choose between the memory of her son and the future of the human race. Cover art by Steve Stone. N.B.: This volume falls between Dune Messiah and Children of Dune in the chronological order: https://dunenovels.com/chronological-order-of-dune-books/ -
The Chase for the Ghost Particle and the Secrets of the Universe. Before the Higgs boson, there was a maddening search for another particle – the ghostly neutrino. First detected in 1956, its fleeting appearances have teased answers to many mysteries: How did the Big Bang happen? Why is antimatter so rare? What might dark matter be made of? And could faster-than-light travel be possible, overturning Einstein’s theory of special relativity? But the quest for the neutrino also encompasses adventure, from Cold War defections and extra dimensions to mile-deep holes in the Antarctic ice and a troubled genius who disappeared without a trace...Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this adventure into neutrinos and the scientists who pursue them.
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Buck Rogers. Book III of The Martian Wars. A fierce war of revolution and imperial conquest has thrown the inner planets of the solar system into chaos. Fighters, Battlers and Transports scream across space, cutting swathes of destruction from Mercury to the Asteroid Belt. RAM's space fleet, intent on destroying the NEO freedom fighters - led by Buck Rogers - thunders Earthwards. Meanwhile, Venusian warriors, race to Earth's aid unaware of treachery from an unexpected part of the solar system. Cover by Don Landwehrle. -
Book I of The Dancing Shadow. For countless millennia the godlike Inquestors ruled a million worlds with unimaginable power, waging unending war on false Utopias. Ton Davaryush has destroyed a dozen worlds in the service of that dark crusade. But on the thirteenth world, he glimpsed a dazzling truth that would sow the seeds of the Inquest's destruction. Cover art by Gary Ciccarelli.
