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Lost in space for fifteen years, doomed to an interminable existence aboard a mechanical city floating through a black void. Unable to return to an Earth they could hardly remember and a system of politics they could not understand. Yet Crowley, the learned professor and Betty, the mysterious clairvoyant's daughter whose uncanny abilities had threatened the stability of the Earth will find love across the miles of nothingness. Cover art credited to Sam Peffer. -
We'd all like to save the world but there seems to be a lot of it and the individual seems so puny. Surely it's sensible to make other arrangements. Hence the appeal of the very marketable Claustrosphere, invented by despotic media mogul Plastic Tolstoy: a domestic, self contained, stunningly tough eco-shelter for the average bloke. It is also the most irresponsible idea ever: the death of the Earth becomes survivable. When Nathan, a self-absorbed British script writer gets access to Tolstoy to pitch his end-of-the-world movie, he feels his time has come. But why is Nathan's script so dangerous? It's the perfect vehicle for Max, the ex-jeans model and multi media superstar. And should Max be falling for beautiful and utterly stroppy eco-terrorist Rosalie? And what is it about the Claustrosphere marketing campaign that requires the loss of innocence and the slaughter of the innocent?
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This Other Eden: Ben Elton
$12.00We'd all like to save the world but there seems to be a lot of it and the individual seems so puny. Hence the appeal of the very marketable Claustrosphere, invented by despotic media mogul Plastic Tolstoy: a domestic, self-contained, stunningly tough eco-shelter for the average bloke. It is also the most irresponsible idea ever: the death of the Earth becomes survivable. When Nathan, a self-absorbed British script writer gets access to Tolstoy to pitch his end-of-the-world movie, he feels his time has come. But why is Nathan's script so dangerous? It's the perfect vehicle for Max, the ex-jeans model and multi-media superstar. And should Max be falling for beautiful and utterly stroppy eco-terrorist Rosalie? And what is it about the Claustrosphere marketing campaign that requires the loss of innocence and the slaughter of the innocent? -
From the holiday planet of Paradiso one could go on so many exciting excursions - Mars, Venus, the Moon, even the most distant and alien worlds were accessible to the inquisitive holiday maker, courtesy of Starways, Inc. - the giant combine which owned Paradiso and half the galaxy. But there was only one trip which interested Ram Burrell and it was the one that Starways seemed to be actively discouraging trippers from taking - the trip to Earth, the birthplace of Man. And once Burrell had got a ticket for the journey, he began to discover why Earth had been the least visited planet and why Starways and worked so hard to keep it that way. Cover art by Vincent Segrelles. -
Gap Into Ruin. The fifth and final instalment in the GAP series. As the conflict between humankind and the Amnion heads for crisis, Morn Hyland, the cyborg Angus Thermopyle and the survivors on board the crippled starship Trumpet must return from deep space to Earth. Their mission is to prevent all-out war with the aliens, which would leave humanity to pay a terrible price. But the Amnion react with swift fury, and suddenly Earth is threatened with fiery destruction ...Cover art by David O'Connor.
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Book X of Acorna. Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, has followed in Acorna's footsteps leading their people from danger, but the pressure to succeed and fulfill a legacy is tremendous. For the deadly foe that has ravaged the known worlds and weakened even her famous parents has launched its final assault, and only Khorii and her newly discovered sister, Ariin, are able to stop the brutal attack. But success is elusive, and fragile, and even time itself may not be enough to help their desperate quest to save their family - much less the universe. Cover art by Chris McGrath. -
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. -
ThiGMOO: Eugene Byrne
$9.00What an idea - the Museum of the Mind. Sir John Westgate and Dr Katherine Beckford have spent ten years using computer power and AIs to recreate over 200 fictional characters from all periods of history, known as erams, who can interact with their questioners. Soldiers, dockers, parsons...even a Victorian tart with a heart. For Dr Beckford, it's a superb learning tool. For Sir John, it's a wonderful use of University funds and a great way to make money. Something was bound to go wrong. A number of erams escape into the world computer net and become self aware. It seemed at first that the outbreak could be contained - but the university authorities should never have attempted to destroy them... -
2018 AD: The Cold Peace, worse than the Cold War. The regimes which rule from Washington and Moscow are the same in their passion for total repression. But in the West, a few dedicated individuals still struggle to find a way out of the trap of human history. Behind the screen of official research, their desperate project is nearing completion. Then Colonel Paige Russell, back from deep space with some soil samples to deliver, talks his way past the receptionist and into the laboratory...Cover art by Chris Foss -
Carl Bok is a citizen of Springworld, the heavy-gravity planet with monstrous and dangerous flora and fauna. Carl is well over two metres tall and weighs-in at 180 kilograms. Now he has won a scholarship to Starschool. He'll spend a year on this touring school, visiting sixteen of the colonised planets. This will be the experience of a lifetime. It's tough enough for Carl as the poor scholarship student among the rich kids. His problems get worse when they arrive at Earth. Carl finds himself in urgent need of big money and, since he's a pretty tough guy, becomes a paid fighter. He has to fight dangerous and deadly human and animal opponents. His fellow students - B'oosa, Miko, Alegria and Francisco "Pancho" Bolivar - get caught up in his exploits... And then there are the aliens...Cover art by Peter Elson.
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Two time-travellers from the 27th century go missing in Ancient Egypt. Edward Davis, a promising rookie in the Time Service is sent back to find them...back much further than he has ever been before. Reeling from the time-jump, he arrives in Thebes only to find his survival training is no protection against the intoxicating magic of Egypt: Pyramids and obelisks; snakes with legs; winking sphinxes; birds with the heads of women and women with the heads of birds; forests of huge stone columns; lapis lazuli and gold and a plump Pharaoh on his throne. Davis has thirty days in which to get a grip and find the missing time travellers. Instead, he's taken in by a temple priestess, befriended by a beautiful slave girl and tricked into crossing the Nile to to the City of the Dead. As the scheduled hour of his rendezvous with the time field approaches, Davis is faced with the truth behind the fate of his former colleagues and the prospect of sharing that fate. Cover art by Fred Gambino. -
In a remote part of the Mexican desert, just south of the US border, top scientists have been secretly studying reports of extraordinary occurrences that have terrified the locals and baffled the experts. Cattle herders, who know nothing of UFOs, speak in hushed tones of strange round flying machines that hover overhead, then suddenly shoot straight for the heavens; bizarre animals and foot-long insects roam among wildly coloured plant life; unexplained earthen platforms stretch over six miles across the desert; pilots flying over the area report navigational equipment gone haywire; an Air Force rocket bound for New Mexico with a radioactive payload suddenly veered off course and headed straight for this mysterious area. The investigation has been kept top secret - until the publication of this book in 1986. Contains black and white photographs. -
1975. Stories in this volume: A Scraping at the Bones, Algis Budrys; Changelings, Lisa Tuttle; The Santa Claus Compromise, Thomas M. Disch; A Galaxy Called Rome, Barry N. Malzberg; A Twelvemonth, Peter Redgrove; The Custodians, Richard Cowper; The Linguist, Richard Cowper; Settling the World, M. John Harrison; The Chaste Planet, John Updike; End Game, Joe Haldeman; The Lo-Eared Cat That Devoured Philadelphia, Louis Phillips; A Dead Singer, Michael Moorcock; Science Fiction on the Titanic, Brian Aldiss. -
An unauthorised companion book to the cult television series, featuring an annotated synopsis of every episode, an insider's guide to the creation of the series, complete bios of every major character, real-life filming sites and much more - even a nitpick file of inconsistencies. -
This lavishly illustrated title examines and presents some of the mysterious geographic locations and phenomenon often related to ancient history and offers various theories and facts aimed at making him ponder about these pieces of puzzles in archaeology. Lost cities, soaring temples, mysterious megaliths...all still mysteries in a day and age when we think we can find out practically anything with technology! In this volume: In Search Of Fabled Lands; Age Of The Megaliths; Cities Of Mystery; Secrets of The Pyramids; Vanished Peoples, Forgotten Places. -
In this truly bizarre collection, Damon Wilson investigates the full stories behind some of the most incredible phenomena that have baffled scientists and fascinated the rest of the world for millennia. What causes frogs, periwinkles and even jelly to fall from the sky? How can people just disappear? Why do some objects seem to bring misfortune on the people who come into contact with them? Do people really combust spontaneously? Who or what caused everyone on board the Mary Celeste to abandon ship? Why have so many vessels and aircraft disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle? How much of the legend of the vampire is based on truth? Are there such things as miracles? These questions and many more are waiting to be explored... -
The Asthsheans are, literally, little green men, dwelling peacefully among the forests of their world. The culture places great emphasis on the importance of dreaming: their experiences while dreaming and awake are both considered to be real and valid. Their society is peaceful and gentle: murder and war are unknown. To most of the human colonists, the planet - which they know as 'New Tahiti' - is there to be plundered of its valuable timber. The Asthsheans are contemptuously known as 'creechies', to be exploited as slave labour, to be pushed out of their homes and slaughtered without thought when they protest. A few men, such as Raj Lyubov, try to stand up for the Asthsheans - but they are greatly outnumbered by the crazed Colonel Davidson, to whom the only good creechie is a dead creechie. Inevitably, despite the efforts of Raj Lyubov and those like him, the Asthsheanshave to learn to fight back against their oppressors. And they do - causing changes in their traditional way of life forever. -
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/ -
Spider Trilogy 1. The Directorate was run by the powerful few - genetically altered humans permanently linked with the Gi-net, the massive computer network which contained everything there was to know about the planets and space stations claimed by humankind. For centuries, the Directorate had ruled over countless star systems, its authority absolute and unquestioned. But now, stirrings of rebellion were being felt in this far-flung, commercial empire. Now the Directorate has discovered a planet out beyond its farthest reaches, a place known only as World, where the descendants of humans stranded long ago by a starship crash had survived by becoming a race of warriors led by its Prophets, men with the ability to see the many possible pathways of the future. Men who had already foreseen the coming of the Directorate’s Patrol ship Bullet - and were preparing their warriors of Spider for this first contact in which even one wrong choice could destroy both World and empire. Cover at by Sanjulian.
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Book V of Terrilian. The world of New Dawn was a pleasure planet for some, but for Terrilian it was a prison, a world where the Primes - the empaths who acted as agents for the interstellar Amalgamation government known as Central - had been gathered together for the specific purpose of creating the next generation of their own uniquely talented kind. With the Primes chemically conditioned to obey, Terrilian alone questioned the forced mating system and began to seek escape from New Dawn as other forces began to focus attention on this secret, government-controlled enclave. For Terrilian and the other Primes, could prove the most powerful weapon the universes had ever known - for peace under the right leadership - or conquest under the wrong masters. Cover art by Ken Kelly. -
Book III of Terrilian. Interplanetary agent Terrilian's ability to project her mind empathically enabled her to control wild animals, but when it came to the human beast, she was in trouble. Being a desirable object for male lusty counterbalanced her her skills as an interplanetary agent - and created an interplanetary crisis. Tammad, the barbarian who had banded Terry as his was furious at her efforts to control his mind. Terry, torn between conflicting loyalties, escapes. But her flight across a savage world leads to an interplanetary crisis when, rearmed, she would fight it out with everything and everyone that opposed her. Cover art by Ken W. Kelly. -
Book IV of Terrilian. In this barbaric land ruled by men, women are meant only to serve. But Terry, an empath-agent from an advanced interstellar society, owes her first allegiance to her masters from the stars and can never be ruled by any man - not even Tammad, the barbarian lord she has come to love. When she joins Tammad on a rescue mission to the distant female-dominated city of Vediaster, they do not foresee they are heading straight into trap that may claim both their lives. Can Terry's skills meet the challenge of the tyrant of Vediaster? Cover art by Ken Kelly. -
Book I of Warlock. The lost planet of Gramarye wasn't so much evidence of galactic advances as a phoney shrine to the forgotten traditions, rites and graces of renaissance Europe. Aeons ago disenchanted Earthers established a feudal Utopia there. But now it's evil Medieval, with treacherous cosmic couriers, plots, intrigue and very uncivil war. Observing this human conflict are the enemies of the knight - witches, arlocks, elves and goblins. Pomp and unforeseen circumstances brought Earther agent Rod Gallowglass to Gramarye. With his epileptic, computer brained robot horse, Fess, to help him, he wanted to save the cast of thousands from themselves. But things became tough when he fell in love with a child queen and tougher when he fell in the hay with a witch. Dangerous, too...as the Gramarians had very imaginative torture methods...Cover art by Gino D'Achille.
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