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Bloom: Wil McCarthy
$12.00In the late 21st century, man-made, self-replicating organisms called mycora - smaller than bacteria - mutate and sweep across the globe in a chain reaction so swift and deadly there is not time to do anything but flee from an Earth destroyed buy the science created to sustain it. Now the remnants of humanity, clinging to the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter are about to face their greatest test. Mycora are incorporating gene sequences to elude human defences, perhaps eve to thrive in the harsh environment of the outer system. The only way to counter this is for the few surviving members of mankind to go to the diseased heart of the Mycosystem - Earth. Cover art by Chris Moore. -
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. -
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 and DVD: Timeline: Michael Crichton
$5.00–$14.00An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. This mystery will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years War. Imagine the risks of such a journey - imagine the impossible! Cover art by Chip Kidd. DVD: Region 4; preloved.
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The facts behind the fiction are even more disturbing than the menace and mystery depicted in The X-Files episodes. Here are the actual accounts of UFO sightings, alien encounters, government cover-ups, psychic crime solving, faith healing, spontaneous combustion, reincarnation and hauntings from which the show's writers drew their material for storylines. This in-depth, illustrated guide - complete with interviews from the show's cast, crew, and writers, as well as astonishing revelations from the world's leading investigators, scientists and officials--tells the terrifying backstories of real-life encounters. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs. -
A feast for sci-fi fans of the 'Old Masters'. In this volume: Foundation (Foundation I): For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying, and only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary The Foundation. Foundation And Empire (Foundation II): Led by its founding father Hari Seldon, and utilising science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire - the mightiest force in the Galaxy - is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who - or what - is the Mule? And how is humanity to defend itself against this invulnerable avatar of annihilation? Second Foundation (Foundation III): The Foundation lies in ruins - destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity’s shining past - and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old girl burdened with a terrible secret. Is she the Foundation’s savior - or its deadliest enemy? The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire I): Biron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin. He soon discovers that, many light-years away, his father, the highly respected Rancher of Widemos, has been murdered. Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is determined to uncover the reasons behind his father’s death, and becomes entangled in an intricate saga of rebellion, political intrigue and espionage. The Naked Sun (Robot II): A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonisation of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots - unthinkable under the laws of Robotics - or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence... I, Robot (Robot I): A robot must not harm a human being; a robot must obey human orders; and a robot must protect its own existence - as long as that protection does not conflict with rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities - and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren't content that their creations should remain programmed helpers, companions, and semi-sentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves, aware of their own intelligence, power and humanity, aren't either. As humans and robots struggle to survive together - and sometimes against each other - in earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Here human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same question: What is human? And is humanity obsolete? DVD: Will Smith; Alan Tudyk: preloved; very good condition; region 4 -
Riverworld. To millions of readers it is as familiar as Earth - this awesome planet where all humanity that ever lived, all 36 billion of us, from Tom Mix to Joan of Arc, are simultaneously reincarnated along the banks of a million-mile river...Also in this volume: J.C. on the Dude Ranch; The Volcano; The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol; The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others; Brass And Gold (or Horse And Zeppelin In Beverly Hills); The Jungle Rot Kid On The Nod; The Voice Of The Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix ; Monolog; The Leaser Of Two Evils; The Phantom of the Sewers. N.B. This is the first appearance of J.C. On The Dude Ranch. DVD: Tahmoh Penikett, Laura Vandervoo: preloved; very good condition; all regions. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-fabulous-riverboat-philip-jose-farmer/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/gods-of-riverworld-philip-jos-farmer/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-dark-design-philip-jose-farmer/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/magic-labyrinth-philip-jose-farmer/ -
Book I of Tomorrow. On a long weekend in Australia, while Effie and her friends are camping in the bush, their town is invaded and taken over by an enemy - Australia is at war. They are suddenly in the toughest situations humans can confront, facing life and death decisions, in a world where they must find courage, spirit, initiative and wisdom - or die.
DVD: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood: good condition; Region 4; preloved.
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Book/DVDs: The Lost World: Michael Crichton
$3.00–$6.00Volume II of Jurassic Park. It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end - the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. But there are rumors that something has survived.... DVD: Jurassic Park:Laura Dern; Jeff Goldblum: preloved; very good condiition; regions 2 and 4. DVD: Jurassic World: Chris Pratt; Bryce Dallas Howard;Vincent D'Onofrio: preloved; very good condition; regions 2,4 and 5. -
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. -
Hodge Backmaker lives in a United States in which the South won the Civil War, and the Northern states are backward, poor and agrarian, exploited by the powerful and prosperous South. Hodge, a historian specialising in the War of Independence, has the chance to travel back in time. He chooses to visit the decisive Battle of Gettysburg, but despite his efforts to be merely a spectator, he is discovered - with devastating results.
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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. -
Bunker Soldiers: Martin Day
$10.00Past Doctor Who Adventures No. XXXIX. A fireball crash lands in the forests of the Ukraine and when the locals investigate, they find what appears to be a metal coffin at the center of the devastation. They superstitiously conclude that the casket contains the body of an angel sent to Earth to give hope to the people. Centuries later the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in Kiev, 1240 - a city under attack by the Mongols. They are enforced guests of the governor, Dmitri, whose assistant Yehven believes that if the coffin is desecrated, then "all who threaten us will be destroyed". When the coffin is opened by a group of men, a terrifying, skull-faced creature is freed, and kills a member of the group before fleeing. A spate of violent deaths ensue - but this creature certainly isn't killing indiscriminately. How is this creature choosing its victims? Where has it come from - and most importantly, can the Doctor do anything to halt its murderous trail of destruction? Cover art by Black Sheep.
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Burning Bright is a free-port planet, nexus of trade, politically balanced between the human and Hsai empires in space, and center of virtual-reality-gaming for all of civilisation. When spacepilot and ambitious young game designer Quinn Lioe gets shore leave on Burning Bright, determined to play the game at its brilliant center, she becomes enmeshed in the conflict between two great empires, a key figure upon whom the fates of fortune turn.Cover art by Joe Curcio. -
Book V of Tomorrow, When The War Began. When you're on your knees, there's only thing to do - stand up again. Ellie and her friends have stared defeat in the face. They've been bashed and battered by it, brought to breaking point. Now it's time to hit back, to come out fighting...now they really are Burning for Revenge...Cover photograph by Bill Willcox. -
Book V of Tomorrow, When The War Began. When you're on your knees, there's only thing to do - stand up again. Ellie and her friends have stared defeat in the face. They've been bashed and battered by it, brought to breaking point. Now it's time to hit back, to come out fighting...now they really are burning for revenge.
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Cadre One : Robert O’Riordan
$12.00Book I of Cadre. Since his childhood, Pol Tyrees was groomed for the Cadre, the intergalactic super-police force, As a Cadre officer, he carried out each task efficiently and emotionlessly, whether it was investigating shady deals, interrogating prisoners or killing traitors. But during an assignment on remote Tercet, one of that planet's Mystic Seers taught him a whole new way of thinking and Pol began to ask questions - that would bring him into direct conflict with the Cadre. Cover art by Barry Jackson. -
Carnival: Elizabeth Bear
$15.00In Old Earth's clandestine world of ambassador-spies, Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen were once a starring team. But ever since a disastrous mission, they have been living separate lives in a universe dominated by a ruthless Coalition - one that is about to reunite them. The pair are dispatched to New Amazonia as diplomatic agents. Allegedly, they are to return priceless art. Covertly, they seek to tap its energy supply. But in reality, one has his mind set on treason. And among the extraordinary women of New Amazonia, in a season of festival, betrayal and disguise, he will find a new ally - and a force beyond any that humans have known....Cover art by Steve Stone. -
Book I of Carve The Mark. In a galaxy powered by the current, everyone has a gift. Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. Cyra’s currentgift gives her pain and power — something her brother exploits, using her to torture his enemies. But Cyra is much more than just a blade in her brother’s hand: she is resilient, quick on her feet, and smarter than he knows. Akos is the son of a farmer and an oracle from the frozen nation-planet of Thuvhe. Protected by his unusual currentgift, Akos is generous in spirit, and his loyalty to his family is limitless. Once Akos and his brother are captured by enemy Shotet soldiers, Akos is desperate to get his brother out alive — no matter what the cost. Then Akos is thrust into Cyra's world, and the enmity between their countries and families seems insurmountable. Will they help each other to survive, or will they destroy one another? Cover art by Jeff Huang. -
The author of this books states: "There are times when I have been terrified out of my wits by some manifestation of evil obviously venomous in its intent..." This casebook includes: the knife that was thrown at its victim - from nowhere; the chair that brought death to all who used it; a chilling shadow that terrified a down-to-earth nurse so much that she spent time in a nursing home recovering from the fear; the hand of death that saved a life - and much more. A good collection of cases and incidents that have not been covered in similar volumes. -
Cat Karina: Michael Coney
$12.00Cat Karina is one stanza in the epic poem, The Song of Earth, composed or at least narrated in part by the enigmatic Alan-Blue-Cloud. Set in the future where humans co-exist uneasily with the products of ancient genetic experiments, it tells of the felino Karina, with jaguar genes in her ancestry, whose destiny it is to bear the child of a true human, with deeply significant results. Her world is one of sailcars, giant land whales, of manifold near-human species and of Starquin, the strange imprisoned alien whose cosmic schemes to effect his release involve all the myriad and colourful denizens of the future. Cover art by Richard Hopkinson. -
Catspaw: Joan D. Vinge
$8.00Book II of Cat. Cat. Street punk. Psion. Telepath. Kidnapped and dragged to Earth by an interstellar organisation and forced to protect those he most hates, those who most hate him...The taMings. A cyber-augmented DNA-incestuous clan of such wealth and power that their family arguments change the destiny of worlds. Now one taMing is a killer's target. But which? And who would dare? Seeking answers, Cat finds lies and savagery, passion and atrocity - trails that lead from crystal valleys to clubs for silver-skinned beauties. From the homicidal enclaves of drug kings to a fanatic's pulpit. From the halls of the Assembly to a cyberspace hell. Seeking assassins, Cat discovers a mystery that could cost him his future. His sanity. His life. Cat isn't a bodyguard - he's bait. Cover art by Michael Whelan.
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Cauldron: Jack McDevitt
$10.00Book VI of The Academy. By 2255, the age of starflight is over. The Academy of Science and Technology is long closed and the only efforts at space exploration are carried out by privately funded organisations. However, physicist Jon Silvestri insists that an abandoned prototype for a much more efficient stardrive is workable. Priscilla Hutchins, now a fundraiser for the Prometheus Foundation, persuades the group to back his research. Soon the Cauldron - the core of the galaxy - is only months away. At long last, the mystery of the deadly Omega clouds that have devastated the galaxy for centuries can be penetrated. And a handful of brave men and women, Priscilla Hutchins among them, will journey into the very heart of the Cauldron...Cover art by Larry Price. -
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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Part II of A Woman Of The Iron People. They are two creatures a civilisation apart: earthborn Lixia, a visitor from a damaged planet eighteen light years away, and Nia, a primitive outcast, exiled from her people for committing a transgression unheard of in her society. United by circumstance, they travel together across a perilous continent, guided by spirits known only to one and fleeing a possible civilisation-shattering future feared by the other. In the quest for peace and understanding between alien cultures, they discover the rewards of experience and dangers of knowledge as they create revolutionary change in a violent world. Cover art by Gary Ruddell.
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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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Book VI of the Dune Chronicles. The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest - the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power. Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonised a green world on the planet Chapterhouse and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they’ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy - the spice melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes - a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad’Dib...Frank Herbert's final Dune novel.Cover art by Peter Goodfellow.
