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Seven brilliant shorts by Hugo and Nebula award winner Larry Niven. Inconstant Moon; Bordered in Black; How the Heroes Die; At the Bottom of a Hole; One Face; Becalmed in Hell and Death by Ecstasy. N.B. The original edition of this book contained twelve stories; this edition has seven. Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
Book II of the John Wentley trilogy. After his splendid record with the Star and Planet Line, it was natural to John Wentley that became necessary to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several of the Company planes. How he responded, and how he quickly found himself pitted against a world-wide organisation of really terrifying power, is the story of this book. Quite a gem - 1930s sci-fi. -
Book II of Brainships. Nancia is her name, NX-928 is her designation. A new member of the elite Courier Service of the Central Worlds, she's the 'brains' within one of the most advanced interstellar ships around. But her services will not always be utilised by people of her own high moral integrity. Her innocent vision of human nature is shattered on her first voyage - the last thing she needed was a 'brawn' partner like Forister. But together, idealist Nancia and worldly-wise Forister just might save the galaxy. Cover art by Mark Harrison. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/ship-searched-anne-mccaffrey-mercedes-lackey/
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True mysteries of the sea, some famous and others not as well known. Chapters include: Over The Horizon; Vanishing Islands; Bottles, Casks and Caskets; The Watchers and The Avengers; The Jinxed and the Damned; The Haunts and the Horrors; Fiery Phantoms and Noisy Spectres; Floating Morgues; The Wanders and the Homers; The Classic Drifter; The Most Famous Derelict; O-U-T, Out! The Triangle of Death; Flames From the Sky; Is There An Answer? Invisible Horizons. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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Barney Boru is a professional assassin for the Galactic Confederacy,with broad power to determine the justice of any mission. He's been sent to Siegel's World to kill the King of Lokar but mysterious powers want to ensure that Barney doesn't invoke the Walkaway Clause - so they send their own man in. Now two assassins stalk the King and each other - and neither of them will walk away. Cover art by Tom Kidd.
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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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A lovely collection of the cream of classic sci-fi. This volume includes: Dear Devil, Eric Frank Russell; The Best Policy, Randall Garrett; Alaree, Robert Silverberg; Life Cycle, Poul Anderson; The Gentle Vultures, Isaac Asimov; Stranger Station, Damon Knight; Lower Than Angels, Algis Budrys; Blind Lightning, Harlan Ellison; Out Of The Sun, Arthur C. Clarke. -
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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The best short SF of 1987. This volume includes: Forever Yours, Anna, Kate Wilhelm; The Sun Spider, Lucius Shepard; Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye, Richard Kadrey; Friend's Best Man, Jonathan Carroll; The Wound, Lisa Tuttle; E-Ticket to Namland, Dan Simmons; Ménage Á Super-Trois, Felix C. Gotschalk; Rachel In Love, Pat Murphy; Agents, Paul D. Filippo; Lapidary Nights, Marta Randall; Murderers Walk, Garry Kilworth; Thirty Minutes Over Broadway and The Anointed Jetboy, Howard Waldrop. Introduction and Summation by David S. Garnett, Afterword by Brian Aldiss and Reviews by John Clute. Cover art by Brian Waugh.
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