Book IV of Family d'Alembert. When Helena, daughter and second in command to the Head of the Empire of Earth's security forces disappears - the future safety of the entire galactic network is threatened. Especially the lives of SOTE's two most highly trained operators, Jules and Yvette d'Alembert. For Helena was one of the very few who knew their real identities and who understood the vital significance of the d'Alembert Circus as SOTE's ultimate weapon for dealing with treason. So Jules and Yvette are sent on a top priority mission - to save Helena and save SOTE from destruction. Cover art by Angus McKie.
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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. Cover art by Peter Goodfellow. -
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. -
Book III of Lord Valentine. Treachery and wizardry run rampant under the reign of the mighty Pontifex, as both the rightful and the unworthy heirs to the throne anxiously await his demise. Korsibar, son of the current Coronal, plots with his twin sister and ambitious companions to seize the power of the Coronal when his father ascends to the throne of the Pontifex. But the burdens of the crown and scepter exact more of a price than Korsibar is prepared to pay. His rival fights to take his appointed place as keeper of his beloved Majipoor...and to restore order to the utter chaos that has befallen their world. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Book I of Finisterre. The planet could have been a paradise for humans,with its fertile farmland and towering ore-rich mountains. But its riches lie beyond their reach. For here, all animals, from tiny willy-wisps to fierce goblin-cats, survive by telepathy, projecting images that drive humans mad. Only the Riders, a handful chosen by the native Nighthorses, have any kind of protection. Whilst townsfolk cower behind a religion based on fear and ignorance, Riders and their Nighthorses, bonded telepathically, challenge the Wild. Then comes a time of killing and chaos that climaxes in a blinding day of secrets and blood, terror and truth, with the fates of the Riders, the Nighthorses and an entire world at stake. Cover art by Mick Posen. -
If there weren't so many of the world's new visitors, nobody would believe their outrageous claim. That they come from the future. But they arrive in their millions - a constant stream of people escaping into the past to flee an invasion of murderously savage aliens; people to whom the world now has a responsibility, for they are our children's children. The refugees' time tunnels, the one-way passages that conduct them to a temporary haven on earth, are supposedly secure and adequately guarded by contemporary weapons. But when the alien monsters breach their defences the world is in for an orgy of indiscriminate warfare and slaughter... -
In this choice selection: The Push Of A Finger, Alfred Bester (1942); Clash By Night, Lawrence O'Donnell (1943); The Storm; A.E. van Vogt (1943); City, Clifford D. Simak (1944); First Contact, Murray Leinster (1945); Giant Killer, A. Bertram Chandler (1945); Vintage Season, Lawrence O'Donnell (1946);Placet Is A Crazy Place, Frederic Browb (1946) Cover art by Chris Foss. -
In a post-nuclear future, women rule the world. Having expelled men from their vast walled cities to a lower-class wilderness, the women in this futuristic universe dictate policy and chart the future through control of scientific and technological advances. Among their laws are the rules for reproductive engagement, an act now viewed as a means of procreation rather than an act of love. In this rigidly defined environment, a chance meeting between a woman exiled from the female world and a wilderness man triggers a series of feelings, actions, and events that ultimately threaten the fabric of the women's constricted society. Trying to evade the ever-threatening female forces and the savage wilderness men, the two lovers struggle to find a safe haven and reconcile the teachings of their upbringings with their newly awakened feelings. Cover art by Rallè. -
A full length version of the classic short story on which the original film - starring Michael Rennie - was based. Out of the sky it comes - alien and mysterious and menacing. For more than two days the people of earth watch as it crisscrosses the globe. All over the world there are the same reactions: mystifiction - and fear. Then it lands. In an open park near the heart of Washington D.C. , it sits for a day and a night. After many hours, a panel in the ship opens. From it come two figures - a man and a robot. For a long moment they face the silent crowd..then the man speaks: "I am Klaatu and this is Gnut." He raises his right arm, palm outward, in the universal signal for peace. The gesture is rewarded with a burst of gunfire. Mortally wounded, the alien falls to the ground...and thus begins a classic story about invaders from outer space. The story that inspired a classic movie. With black and white stills from the original film. -
Book II of Lensman series. No human had ever landed on the hidden planet of Arisia. A mysterious barrier, hanging unseen in space, turned back all ships. Then the word came to Earth, inexplicably but compellingly: 'GO TO ARISIA!' Virgil Samms, founder of the Galactic Patrol went - and came back with the Lens, the strange device that gave the wearer powers that no man had ever possessed before. Samms knew that the price of this power would be high. But even he had no idea of the ultimate cost - nor of the strange destiny awaiting the First Lensman. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
Dorsai! Gordon R. Dickson
$10.00Donal Graeme, Dorsai of the Dorsai, was the final link in a long genetic train, the ultimate soldier, whose breadth of vision made him a master of space war and strategy - and still greater, the focus of centuries of evolution, the culmination of planned development and through him a new force made itself felt. The Dorsai were renowned throughout the galaxy as the finest soldiers ever born, trained from birth to fight and win, no matter what the odds. With Donal at their head they embarked on the final, impossible venture: they set out to unify the splintered worlds of Mankind. Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
Book I of The Gap Cycle. Crossing the Gap - faster-than-light travel - has become commonplace throughout explored space and all of it is controlled by a single monolithic corporation, the United Mining Companies. At the farthest reaches of UMC's fiefdoms is The Real Story. A simple case of ore piracy: Angus Thermopylae, a pirate and murderer who'll stop at nothing for gain; Morn Hyland, a brilliant young woman who has committed a horrifying act and who falls prey to Thermopylae; and Nick Succorso, legendary star captain who may be the key to Morn's salvation - or her worst nightmare. Through these three lives, an entire world unfolds - a world of politics and betrayal, extraoridnary events and a shadow alien presence that lies just on the other side of the Gap. Cover art by David O'Connor. -
Book III of Chanur. In Compact Space, where some seven species have staked out their oft-disputed interstellar frontiers, events move with speed, surprise and tendency to escalate into shattering violence. Confrontation is routine and treachery - to some - is a way of life. So when the kif seized a human and a hani from the crew of The Pride of Chanur, the gauntlet was down. Captain of the Pride, Pyanfar Chanur, was not one to ignore that challenge - a challenge that was to take Pyanfar and her shipmates to Mkks station and into a deadly confrontation between kif, hani, mahendo'sat and human. And what began as a simple rescue attempt soon blossomed into a dangerous game of interstellar politics, where today's ally could become tomorrow's executioner, and where methane breathers became volatile wild cards playing for stakes no oxy- breather could even begin to understand… -
Once we had entered the space age, we could have reasonably expected that the days of 'flying saucers' and 'little green men' would ave come to an end. Instead, the evidence for UFOs continues to grow. There are literally tens of thousands of sightings on record, most of them made by reliable witnesses and many of them still unexplained; close encounters of the fourth kind - abduction - are becoming more frequent, well documented and harder to ignore; evidence in the files of serious scientific and investigative bodies (including the United States Air Force) leaves little doubt that an 'intelligence' is operating - but what kind and from where? Do extra-terrestrials regularly visit the earth? Are we being watched, studied, contacted and even kidnapped by intergalactic explorers? This book presents forty years of evidence and facts for the sceptic and believer alike - case histories, expert assessments and possible explanations. Illustrated with black and white photographs -
Book V of Mission Earth. The Countess Krak has arrived on Earth and the planet, not to mention Atlantic City, will never be the same again. She is the most deadly, beautiful and most feared woman in the 110-planet Voltarian Empire. Her only equal is her lover, Royal combat engineer Jettero Heller, whose mission is to keep the Earth from destroying itself long enough to be invaded by the Empire. Their mortal enemy is Soltan Gris, the Apparatus killer send to sabotage Heller's mission. The presence of Heller, Gris and the Countess is enough to threaten the future of any planet, but the sudden arrival from Voltar of over of $250 million in gold may be the death blow for Earth. Cover art by Greg Winters. -
After eleven years in space, the Argo landed... West of the Sun ...on the dangerous, unknown planet Lucifer. The crew faced an untamed world of huge, carnivorous birds with wolverine heads and flashing black teeth; furred, ten-foot-tall men; & red-skinned, man-eating pygmies. They fought for mere survival, but - heir duty was to colonise and populate the planet - with four men and only two women. And what effect will Man have on their unconsenting hosts? Cover art by Colin Hay. -
In five short centuries, the mighty Empire of the Mèxica, descendants of the ancient Aztecs, spread out to conquer the Earth. Now they have left their homeworld and set their sights on the stars. But the Universe it finds is a dangerous place filled with hidden powers. Humanity is only a minor space-faring species on the fringe of ferociously political arena where ancient and enormous alien empires are engaged in millennia-old battles for supremacy. Now, on a desolate barren world far from the heart of civilisation, Gretchen Anderson, a young human xeno-archaeologist, is about to discover an awesome long-buried secret that could alter the galactic balance of power forever. Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Based on the screenplay by Harold Livingstone and the story by Alan Dean Foster. It came from an unexplored quarter of the galaxy. It ignored all attempts to communicate with it. And it annihilated all opposition with energy bolts of unimaginable ferocity. Computer projections showed that it would enter the solar system in precisely three days. The U.S.S. Enterprise, refitting in dry dock was the only craft that Starfleet Command could send to intercept the Cloud in time...Cover art by Jean Mascii. With colour photographs from the film. -
Statesman: Piers Anthony
$6.00Book V of Bio Of A Space Tyrant. Child of flame and terror, born and bred to violence, Hope Hubris had ruled the solar system's most powerful empire with a fierce, uncompromising passion, His was a white-hot flame of justice that scarred friend and foe alike. Yet now he left Jupiter as an exile, his autocratic rule overthrown by the one person he could not oppose. Deposed, disgraced, but forever unbroken, the tyrant's greatest hour was still to come. For only he couldshoulder the burden of humanity's boldest dream: to leave behind the confines of the solar system and journey outward to the stars. Cover art by Alan Craddock. -
A thousand years from now...The tenuous galactic empire humanity has cast across the skies depends for its very existence on hyperspace and the pilots who can ride its bizarre force-fields. And these pilots are the gypsies. The Romany have come into their own. But there is a price: the legendary Romany Star. All the leverage the gypsies can bring to bear is used in the search for their ancestral home. Intergalactic blackmail? Of course. But also a statement of intent - romantic but implacable. Who better to orchestrate a scam so colossal than Yakoub, one and future King of the Gyspies. Sulking in luxurious exile, he has been planning his return to power and reminiscing over his extraordinary life. But when the moment of truth arrives, nothing seems to go according to (Yakoub's) plan. All his ingenuity, every sacrifice (even his pride) may not be enough... Cover art by Fred Gambino -
Book I of Battle Circle. They were the first who dared to enter the badlands: Sol, many of many weapons; Sola, his wife; and Sos who loved them both. The kill-spirits of the blast were retreating taking with them the evil that the old books called radiation. But still the badlands held their secrets - terrible secrets that lay in wait for those who dared to return. And yet there was no other way, for Sos was pledged to follow Sol - and Sol had been chosen to build a dream, the same dream which had been built so many times, eons before...Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe. -
Star Wars: Book III of The Thrawn Trilogy. The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor's secret fortress: clone soldiers. As Thrawn mounts his final siege, Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the empire, while Leia holds the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. Overwhelmed by the ships and clones at Thrawn's command, the Republic has one last hope - sending a small force, led by Luke Skywalker, into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn's terrible cloning machines. There a final danger awaits, as the Dark Jedi C'baoth directs the battle against the Rebels and builds his strength to finish what he had already started: the destruction of Luke Skywalker. Cover art by Tom Jung. -
Book I of Mag Force 7. They are the finest mercenary squad in the known universe, agents who carry out missions too hot for anyone else to handle. No one can stand against them and nothing can divide them--except their leader, Xris, who is on a mission of vengeance against the comrade who betrayed him years before and left him to be transformed into a cyborg. Now at last the traitor is within his reach. Yet before Xris can claim his revenge, he and his men are recruited for a job they cannot turn down. For the Knights of the Black Earth have obtained the one weapon which can strike at the very heart of the galactic government. And Xris's only hope of stopping them lies in joining forces with an old enemy....Cover art by Steve Youll. -
In this volume: And When I Die, Peter Linnett; Three Enigmas: III. All in God's Mind, Brian Aldiss; A Strange and Terrible Sea, Donald Malcolm: Ten year old Sammy was partially paralysed by a blow struck by his drunken father in a rage. He reads a lot of books on astronomy, and sci-fi - but could this account for the weird, repetitive dream he has nightly? No Certain Armour, John Kippax: When something kills two pirates on Kindros V and a military survey ship suffers a further casualty, the search for an inimical life form begins. Now Hear the Word, David Garnett: The resort of Sunville - a place of sanctuary for the rich and old is horribly alive while the rest of the world goes to hell. Howard Felix, the Sunville reporter, tampered with his newcasts out of boredom. But the events he foretold have a disturbing way of coming true...New Canute, Martin I. Ricketts: Bamfield-Taylor was no tourist, visiting the Time-currents of Cirene just to have a taste of 'Time-terror'; his request to be taken back to a specific minute in time has the skipper of the Time-boat worried... The Ark of James Carlyle, Cherry Wilder: An island is populated by quogs - small creatures, not unlike baboons, who wept when their mee-haw tree was cut down. But Carlyle evacuated them before their island was submerged by a flood..and between Carlyle and the quogs there grows a strange affinity...Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
Sequel to Deucalion. The planet Deucalion's existence is threatened by a plague of immense proportions. Politicians, individuals and the Elokoi are faced with a threat of such magnitude that moral and ethical decisions are almost impossible. In this desperate race against time social justice could easily become the first casualty and civilization the second. Cover art by Peter Evans. -
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 issue: The White Isle, Darrell Schweitzer; Part 4 of Daemon, by Fabian; Encounter With The Universe, Thea Carvel; A Message From The Medium, Israel O'Rourke; Lay Of The Line-Boat Lovers, Frank C. Gunderloy, Jr; Blood Money, Edward Uschno; Damned Funny, Marvin Kaye; Creator Of Tomorrow, Dave Stover. Cover art (front) by the Brothers Hildebrandt; Cover art (back) by Gary Freeman.
