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Book II of The Disappearance. March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government headquartered in Seattle directs the reconstruction of an entire nation - and the battle for New York City has begun. Pirates and foreign militias are swarming the East Coast, taking everything they can. The president comes to the Declared Security Zone of New York and barely survives the visit. The enemy - whoever they are - controls Manhattan’s concrete canyons and the abandoned flatlands of Long Island. The U.S. military, struggling with sketchy communications and a lack of supplies, is mired in a nightmare of urban combat. Caught up in the violence is a Polish-born sergeant who watches the carnage through the eyes of an intellectual and with the heart of a warrior. Two smugglers, the highborn Lady Julianne Balwyn and her brawny partner Rhino, search for a treasure whose key lies inside an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Thousands of miles away, a rogue general leads the secession of Texas and a brutal campaign against immigrants, while Miguel Pieraro, a Mexican-born rancher, fights back. And in England, a U.S. special ops agent is called into a violent shadow war against an enemy that has come after her and her family. The president is a stranger to the military mindset, but now this mild-mannered city engineer from the Pacific Northwest needs to make a soldier’s choice. With New York clutched in the grip of thousands of heavily armed predators, is an all-out attack on the city the only way to save it? -
After a mining crew on a far-off planet makes a disastrous first contact with an alien civilisation, General Eron Ryle and the leaders of Earth's Alliance of Government debate if there can be peace between 'us' and 'them'. Notorious war hero General James Ford is called upon to lead a squad of elite soldiers to the alien infested Alliance Colony Ellora and find the co-ordinates of the invaders' home world in the hopes of launching a pre-emptive strike to end a war before it can begin. Together with ethnologist Dr. Lea Goss, bull-headed Specialist Braxton Ryle, demolition expert Dash Wick and quantum engineer Lt. Fiona Ardene, Ford's mission goes awry and the squad is forced to reckon with the idea that that Earth could be colonised by the invading army. Also stars Perrey Reeves, Brandom Thomas Lee and Adelaide Kane. -
Death Watch: D.G. Compton
$30.00The future is dominated by television. Nothing is too gross or too sensational for the viewers. Katherine Mortenhoe is dying of an incurable disease, and NTV sign her up for the most spectacular show ever - her dying moments. She tries to escape but the sleepless eye of the camera follows her everywhere - implanted in the retina of a TV employee. Originally published as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe. -
Weather conditions on Earth are getting strange and deadly. 'Flash' Gordon, football star, and travel agent Dale Arden are the passengers on a small plane flight but when a meteorite hits the plane and the two pilots vanish, Flash must take over and they crash land in the greenhouse of Dr Zarkov, who has built a space capsule to discover the origin of the forces that are destroying the Earth. When his assistant refuses to go, he lures Flash and Dale aboard. All three fall asleep and are drawn through the vortex to the planet of Mongo, where its ruler, Ming the Merciless, has been playing with the Earth, heedless of its impending destruction. All resistance is futile - Zarkov is turned into a lowly Ming- drone; Flash has been executed; Dale is about to be forced into marriage to become the Empress of the Hour; the other races of Ming's universe seem to be too downtrodden to mount a rebellion - so who will save the Earth with only fourteen hours to go? With colour photos from the 1980 film. -
It was seen first in North Carolina - or something was.... smoking up from a mountain crater. With blinding speed, it roared past cars on a Pennsylvania road. It skimmed the Atlantic, then - the flick of its captain's will - dove beneath the waves... It was the Terror - ship, submarine, plane and land vehicle in one, and a letter from its inventor claimed that with it he would rule the world. Could he? Who was he and how did he plan to bring nations to their knees? John Strock had to find out - before it was too late. -
Book I of The Long Earth. 1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a... potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world forever. And that is an understatement if ever there was one...Cover art by Richard Shailer. -
At the end of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, the hero, Bill Masen, his wife, and four-year-old son leave the British mainland to join a new colony on the Isle of Wight. The Night of the Triffids takes up the story 25 years later. The survivors are safe, for the time being at least, on their island, where they have continued efforts to combat the triffids, while also striving in various ways to build a new civilisation. Elsewhere in the world, similar colonies cling to survival, while the triffids persist in their attempts to destroy humanity. One morning Bill Masen’s now-adult son, David, wakes to a world plunged into darkness. Now, the triffids have an advantage over even sighted humanity...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Book and DVD: Dune: Frank Herbert
$8.00–$20.00The book which started a legend. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream. DVD: (1984) Kyle MacLachlan; José Ferrer; Linda Hunt; Sting; Patrick Stewart; Max Von Sydow: preloved; ex-rental; very good condition; region 4 -
Book I of The Spin Trilogy. It is the aftermath of civil war in the vast pageant of planets and stars known as The Spin. Three years since he crushed the rebellion, Viklun Haas, industrialist and leader of the Hegemony, is eliminating all remnants of the opposition. Starting with his own daughter. But Fleare Haas, fighter for Society Otherwise has had a long time to plan her next move. Sprung from her remote monastery prison and reuniting with a team of loyal friends, Fleare’s journey will take her across The Spin to the cluster of fallen planets known as the The Catastrophe Curve - and from exile, to the very frontiers of war. Meanwhile, in the brutal and despotic empire of The Fortunate, word is reaching viceroy Alameche of a most unusual piece of plunder from their latest invasion. For hundreds of millions of years, the bizarre planets and stars of The Spin itself have been the only testament to the god-like engineers that created it. Now, buried in the earth of a ruined planet, one of their machines has been found... -
Book I of The Force Unleashed. The overthrow of the Republic is complete. Absolute power now rests in the iron fist of Darth Sidious–the cunning Sith Lord better known as Emperor Palpatine. But more remains to be done. Pockets of resistance in the galaxy must still be defeated and missing Jedi accounted for . . . and dealt with. These crucial tasks fall to the Emperor’s ruthless enforcer, Darth Vader, who in turn has groomed a lethal, nameless Sith apprentice to secretly dispatch the last of his masters’ enemies. This acolyte’s journey will take him across the far reaches of the galaxy and test him with shattering revelations that strike at the very heart of all he believes, stirring within him long-forgotten hopes of reclaiming his name . . . and changing his destiny. Based on a story by Haden Blackman. -
Book I of Fractalverse. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope... -
Book II of Gideon. An accident with an antigravity machine catapulted Peter Schock and Kate Dyer back to 1763. A bungled rescue attempt leaves Peter stranded in the eighteenth century while a terrifying villain, the Tar Man, takes his place and explodes onto twenty-first-century London. Concerned about the potentially catastrophic effects of time travel, the NASA scientists responsible for the situation question whether it is right to rescue Peter. Kate decides to take matters into her own hands, but things don't go as planned. Soon the physical effects of time travel begin to have a disturbing effect on her. Meanwhile, in our century, the Tar Man wreaks havoc in a city whose police force is powerless to stop him... -
Brothers: Ben Bova
$12.00Arthur Marshak, a brilliant and driven scientist, dreams of the ultimate biomedical breakthrough - regenerating human organs within the patient's own body. If he succeeds he will be able to cure the incurable, restore sight to the blind, make the paralysed walk again. But before he can test his theories on human beings, he must convince others. Not just his fellow-scientists, both admirers and enemies; there is the corporation who sees Arthur Marshak as both an asset and an expensive luxury. And his brother Jesse, who once shared his dreams, And above all, Jesse's wife Julia - the one woman to whom Arthur ever gave his heart. The woman whose child is about to need Arthur's life-saving discovery. Cover art by Gerry Grace. -
Humanity, facing extermination from all-but-omnipotent aliens, the Grand Galactics, must overcome differences of politics and religion and come together...or perish. In 1637, the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat scrawled a note in the margin of a book about an enigmatic “I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.” He also neglected to record his proof elsewhere. Thus began a search for the Holy Grail of mathematics–a search that didn’t end until 1994, when Andrew Wiles published a 150-page proof. But the proof was burdensome, overlong, and utilized mathematical techniques undreamed of in Fermat’s time, and so it left many critics unsatisfied – including young Ranjit Subramanian, a Sri Lankan with a special gift for mathematics and a passion for the famous “Last Theorem.” When Ranjit writes a three-page proof of the theorem that relies exclusively on knowledge available to Fermat, his achievement is hailed as a work of genius, bringing him fame and fortune. But it also brings him to the attention of the National Security Agency and a shadowy United Nations outfit Pax Per Fidem, or Peace Through Transparency, whose secretive workings belie its name. Suddenly Ranjit – together with his wife, Myra, an expert in artificial intelligence, and their burgeoning family – finds himself swept up in world-shaking events, his genius for abstract mathematical thought put to uses that are both concrete and potentially deadly. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to anyone on Earth, an alien fleet is approaching the planet at a significant percentage of the speed of light...Cover art by David Stevenson. -
Book II of Pandora. Despite malevolent lifeforms and the implacable hostility of Ship, the self-styled god demanding WorShip, Mankind's struggle to colonise the bleak ocean planet of Pandora has been at least partially successful. But at what cost?! Genetic mutation has evolved two separate societies, human subspecies: The technologically advanced Mermen, who live in sophisticated undersea habitats and dream of plundering Ship itslef; and the Islanders, who inhabit huge organic raft cities and whose way of life depends on biological engineering. Their uneasy co-existence is always imperilled but the results of one Merman project threatens to precipitate open conflict and human extinction. Cover art by Fred Gambino. -
The Twelve: Justin Cronin
$45.00Book I of The Passage. It seemed like a good idea at the time...infecting twelve death-row prisoners with an ancient virus in order to create human weapons. Instead the virus turned them into ravening unstoppable monsters - and when the Twelve broke out of the underground facility where they had been born, all hell broke loose. In a world now ravaged by a viral plague, humanity is reduced to stubborn pockets of resistance. But if the human race is to have a future, survival is not enough. Against terrifying odds, they must hunt down and destroy the Twelve in their lairs. But the virals' behaviour is inexplicably changing - and all the clues point towards the Homeland, a sinister dictatorship where an unlikely trio are re-imagining humanity's destiny : Horace Guilder, a veteran of the original experiment with a blood-curdling vision of immortality; a mysterious woman whose tragic past has driven her into a world of fantasy; and Lawrence Grey, a man whose hunger for intimacy has been fulfilled in the most gruesome ways imaginable. And then there is Amy - the Girl from Nowhere. Once the thirteenth test subject and now the only human who can fathom the Homeland's secret and truly enter the hive-mind of the Twelve. But what she finds there may spell the end of everything... -
Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world. -
Quantico: Greg Bear
$9.00Book I of Quantum Logic. It’s the second decade of the twenty-first century, and terrorism has escalated almost beyond control. New weapons are being spawned in remote basement labs, and no one feels safe. In North America, the FBI uses cutting-edge technology to thwart domestic terrorists. The War on Terror has reached a deadly stalemate. The FBI has been dispatched to deal with a new menace. Like the Anthrax threat of 2001, a plague targeted to ethnic groups has the potential to wipe out entire populations. But the FBI itself is under political assault. There’s a good chance that agents William Griffin, Fouad Al-Husam, and Jane Rowland will be part of the last class at Quantico. As the young agents hunt a brilliant homegrown terrorist, they join forces with veteran bio-terror expert Rebecca Rose. But the plot they uncover - and the man they chase - prove far more complex than anyone expects.
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