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Glow: Amy Kathleen Ryan
$9.00Sky Chasers I. A ship headed for New Earth is halfway through its incredible journey across the galaxy. On board, 16 year olds Waverly and Kieran are part of the first generation born in space. They are in love. They believe their future is written in the stars. They have never before seen a stranger...until the day they are wrenched apart and find themselves fighting for their lives... -
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Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'.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. -
Erich von Däniken unveils new evidence of an intergalactic "battle of the gods" whose losers retreated to, and settled, Earth. He explores a vast, mysterious underworld of Ecuador - caves filled with gold and writings in solid gold that go back to the time of the Great Flood, bolstering von Däniken's theory of a prehistoric earthly "era of the gods." Interesting side-note: during his research for this book he was jailed for two years under mysterious circumstance. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs. -
Erich von Daniken undertakes to prove that in prehistoric and early historic times the Earth was visited by unknown beings from the Cosmos; that these extra-terrestrials created human intelligence by a deliberate genetic mutation; that the extra-terrestrials ennobled hominids 'in their own image'; that these visitors to Earth were recorded and handed down in various religions, mythologies and popular legends; and that in some places, the extra-terrestrials left physical evidence of their presence on Earth. He draws his evidence from all over the world: from the Turkish mountains where carved monoliths and giant stone heads mysteriously survive the centuries; to the secret caves of Ecuador, where treasured remnants of a bygone era remain hidden; to equatorial Africa, where the 'primitive' Dogon have been familiar for centuries with the complex movements of Sirius, a star only discovered by western astronomers since the invention of the radio telescope. He searches the ancient documents of the Hindus, the Jews and the Christians; examines religions, mythologies and legends and fins a recurring theme of 'human' gods, heavenly chariots, 'space suits', floods and disasters. The evidence is largely circumstantial - but he challenges all comers to produce an interpretation that better fits the facts. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Kris Longknife V. Tired of being the target for assassins, naval officer Kris Longknife takes leave for some well-earned R and R on the world of New Eden. But her military status requires her to be on hand at societal functions - where she discovers that new Eden isn't the paradise her superiors were led to believe it was. Kris finds herself caught in the cross-hairs of unknown enemies who want her dead. Factions, both legitimate and underground, vie for control of the planet. And one major political player is taking strategic advantage of the chaos to unleash a personal vendetta against Kris. Cover art by Scott Grimando. -
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. -
Odyssey: Jack McDevitt
$10.00Book V of The Academy. To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about 'moonriders' - the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems. But Academy pilot Valentina Kouros and the team of the starship Salvator will soon discover that their odyssey is no mere public relations ploy, for the moonriders are not a harmless phenomenon. They are very, very dangerous - in a way no-one could have ever imagined...Cover art by Larry Price. -
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. -
Two minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the world...Suddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases and cars plow into each other. But that’s the least of the survivors’ challenges. During the blackout, everyone experienced a glimpse of what his or her future holds—and the interlocking mosaic of these visions threatens to unravel the present... -
Mysterious and bizarre people...who were they? Where did they go? There's mysterious geniuses - a French Rabbi who had electric light in the 13th century, to the man who was caught on video walking through a solid door; author Jonathan Swift, who described the Martian moons and their orbits 150 years before they were discovered to the disappearance of Lord Lucan. And more...Hannah Brade, the mysterious maid who wasn't what she seemed; William Harrison - the bizarre case of the Campden murder; Bruce Lee - was the martial arts superstar murdered? The Man in the Iron Mask - who was the legendary prisoner who could not show his face? The Men In Black - shadowy visitors who stalk UFO witnesses; Adolf Hitler - black magician? The Atlanteans - did the legendary island of Atlantis really exist? The Green Children - a strange tale from the Middle Ages; Robin Hood - who was the legendary outlaw? The Lunarians - is there intelligent life on our moon? Nostradamus - the man who saw tomorrow; Richard Bingham - the case of the vanishing peer...and many more. -
THE TIME MACHINE AND OTHER STORIES: The Time Machine ; The Empire of the Ants; A Vision of Judgment; The Land Ironclads; The Beautiful Suit; The Door in the Wall; The Pearl of Love; The Country of the Blind. THE STOLEN BACILLUS AND OTHER STORIES: The Stolen Bacillus; The Flowering of the Strange Orchid; In the Avu Observatory; The Triumphs of a Taxidermist; A Deal In Ostriches; Through a Window; The Temptation of Harringay; The Flying Man; The Diamond Maker; Aepyornis Island; The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes; The Lord of the Dynamos; The Hammerpond Park Burglary; The Moth; The Treasure in the Forest. THE PLATTNER STORY AND OTHERS: The Plattner Story; The Argonauts of the Air; The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham; In the Abyss; The Apple; Under the Knife; The Sea Raiders; Pollock and the Porroh Man; The Red Room; The Cone; The Purple Pileus; The Jilting of Jane; In The Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story; A Catastrophe; The Lost Inheritance; The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic; A Slip Under the Microscope; The Reconciliation; My First Aeroplane; Little Mother up the Morderberg; The Story of the Last Trump; The Grisly Folk. TALES OF TIME AND SPACE: The Crystal Egg; The Star; A Story of the Stone Age; A Story of the Days to Come; The Man who Could Work Miracles; TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAM: Filmer; The Magic Shop; The Valley of Spiders; The Truth About Pyecraft; Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland; The Inexperienced Ghost; Jimmy Goggles the God; The New Accelerator; Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation; The Stolen Body Mr. Brisher's Treasure; Miss Winchelsea's Heart; A Dream of Armageddon. -
A fabulously interesting reference book for all things UFO: from Android, Ark of the Covenant and Ashtar to Close Encounter, Cyborg and Devil's Triangle; Foo Fighter to Lubbock Lights; Men in Black to Sons of God and onto Zeroid and Zodiac and all points in between. -
Book V of The Amtrak Wars. Having captured Clearwater, the Federation now plans to catch Cadilliac and Mr Snow and annihilate the Clan McCall, so Steve must continue his double role as loyal agent of the Federation and blood-brother to the Mutes. The First Family is hell-bent on exacting retribution for past defeats; the House of Yama-Shita is also seeking revenge. -
Fallen Angels: Mike Lee
$55.00Warhammer 40,000; Horus Heresy XI. Deceit and betrayal... With news of Horus’s treachery spreading across the galaxy, the Great Crusade grinds to a halt as the primarchs and their Legions decide where their loyalty lies – with the Emperor, or with the rebel Warmaster. The Dark Angels, too, face a time of testing, both among the stars and on their home world Caliban. Luther, once Lion El’Jonson’s trusted second-in-command, now languishes as an exile in all but name while his master struggles to thwart the traitors’ advance upon the forge world Diamat. But an ancient evil gathers its strength beneath the surface of Caliban, and the First Legion will soon be thrust into a deadly conflict where all that they know will be cast into doubt. Cover art by Neil Roberts. -
Way Station: Clifford D. Simak
$115.00Enoch Wallace fought in the Civil War and returned to the simple house where he was born in rural Wisconsin. He still resides there today, and he hasn't aged a day since the war ended in 1865 - nor has his home, impregnable to any known weapon. For years he has secretly manned a way station for a galactic federation's transit network, acting as Earth's unassuming diplomat to the stars. The world around him has gone about its business, slowly building towards another World War and a modern America on the brink of war keeps tabs on odd folks within its borders. When a Washington agency takes an interest in Enoch, it threatens to destroy everything he has built: the trust of the aliens, his studies of advanced sciences, his hopes that one day Earth will join the federation - and the very existence of the way station. Meanwhile, the galactic federation is in turmoil. Now, both his home and the galaxy need a miracle to survive - a miracle that falls to Enoch Wallace to provide. Cover art: Almost Home, Randy J. Lagana. -
Book III of The Talent. Peter Reidinger was the most brilliant and powerful telepath and telekinetic yet discovered on earth.He was also barely fifteen years old and a paraplegic who 'moved' his body through kinesis.When the telepaths of earth suspected a plot to take over Padrugoi, the newly manned space station, they realised they needed his unique gifts to foil the insane plans of Barchenka, the space construction manager, but even they didn't realise how strong were his abilities to 'read' the minds of those about him and move heavy loads over vast distances. As his career progressed, so his talents increased beyond the dreams of those trying to reach out into space.Peter Reidinger was going to be the salvation of man's exploration of the stars. And even as he became the most important man on earth, so his friendship with the tiny orphan girl found in the floods of Bangladesh grew and flourished.For Amariyah too had psychic gifts which no-one, at first, could define.But these 'special' people were constantly at risk - hated and feared by the avaricious, the evil and the ignorant, whose constant ambition was to destroy Peter Reidinger and those like him. Cover art by Paul Young. -
Cobra Strike: Timothy Zahn
$10.00Book II of Cobra. If anyone had told Jonny Moreau the Cobras would one day take orders from the alien Troft, he would've laughed humourlessly. He'd lost too many friends in the Troft war, though the Cobras triumphed in the end. Now the Troft were trading partners - and they feared what might be a mutual danger. A new, tenacious and ruthless race threatened human space as well as Troft. The offer was territory - five new planets for the overcrowded Cobra Worlds. Jonny's son Justin would carry the Moreau name to danger, and learn on Qasama that it takes more than a Cobra father to make a Cobra son. Cover art by Eddie Jones. -
Features such myths, mysteries and marvels as: the giant skulls; living dinosaurs; footage of an abominable snowman; frozen mammoths; animal ESP and space visitors. -
From Arkansas to Leningrad, UFOs have carved a path across the skies for centuries. The author breaks the barrier of official disinformation in this book...CIA involvement in the death of astrophysicist Morris Jessup; An attempt to teleport a US destroyer, laving the crew insane or dead; and Antonio Villas Boas' story, who experienced an erotic interplanetary encounter of the closest possible kind. -
Book II of Planet Pirates. When pirates attack the space liner on which she is a passenger, Lunzie doesn't panic. She makes it to a lifeboat and decides not to worry: She'll spend a month or two in cryogenic stasis while awaiting rescue, then proceed with her life...but...it might not be a month or two...https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/generation-warriors-anne-mccaffrey-and-elizabeth-moon-2/ -
Book II of Man From Atlantis. Male and female, positive and negative. With hands linked, they formed a deadly weapon capable of delivering a lethal high-voltage shock to anyone, anything they touched. Fear made them hostile - and dangerous. Recognising himself in them and fascinated by the lovely Lioa, Mark Harris was drawn into their charged current. They alone could tell him where he had come from, who he was. But he had not reckoned on the forces that would compel him, calling him to complete a desperate alien mission, threatening the fragile new bond he had forged with the earth - and with Men. Cover shows Patrick Duffy as Mark Harris in the TV series Man From Atlantis.
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Ishmael: Barbara Hambly
$140.00Star Trek Original SXeries No. 23. The Enterprise is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12 and Spock is visiting aboard a Klingon vessel, when a mysterious phenomenon causes the Klingon ship to vanish. Spock's last message from the ship is cryptic, but frightening. It suggests that the Klingons are traveling into the past, hoping to kill one man who was decisive in the course of history, and thereby change it, destroying the Federation before it was born. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. Scarce edition by Firecrest. -
A volume of short stories. In this volume: The Moment Of Eclipse; The Day We Embarked For Cythera...; Orgy Of The Living And The Dying; Super-Toys Last All Summer Long; The Village Swindler; Down The Up Escalation; That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life And Art...;Confluence; Heresies Of The Huge God; The Circulation Of The Blood...;...And The Stagnation Of The Heart; The Worm That Flies; Working In The Spaceship Yards; Swastika! Cover art by Jerome Gask. -
Book X of The Chronicles of Counter-Earth. The Others were on the move. The Priest Kings had received a message: Surrender Gor. The date had been set for conquest or destruction. Tarl Cabot could not linger in Port Kar - now he must act on behalf of the Priest King, on behalf of Gor and on behalf of Gor's unsuspecting, teeming twin: Earth. Evidence pointed to the great wasteland of the Tahari, known only to the clannish militant tribes of desert wanderers. There, Tarl Cabot must go. Among the feuds, along the salvers' tails, beyond the forbidding salt mines to a rendezvous with treachery, a woman warlord, a bandit chief and with the monster intelligences from the world of steel. Cover art by Fred Gambino.
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Lewis Crane was a child when the devastating Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 ripped his life apart, leaving him the sole survivor of his family. Thirty years later, Crane is the world's leading seismologist, with a burning hatred for quakes. Determined to protect people from his parents' fate, he has developed a unique theory of earthquake prediction - but in a world run by Chinese-controlled corporations and an America radically split along religious and racist lines, there are plenty of people who don't want him to succeed. Then it happens - a massive rolling and shaking that registers 8.5 of the Richter scale. And only Crane knows a bigger 'big one' is coming...a Richter 10...
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Terraplane: Jack Womack
$10.00Twenty-first century Moscow. Luther and Jake have a mission: to steal the experimental transferral device from under the nose of the Dream Team. It is a bold and dangerous plan that goes fatally wrong. The New York they return to is not the one they left - it's a nightmare world of violence, paranoia and apartheid on the brink of a devastating war. Cover art by Fred Gambino.
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An unmanned satellite returns to Earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated. Immediately, Project Wildfire, the crash mobilisation of America's highest scientific crash resources, begins at Wildfire's secret laboratory five storeys below the Nevada desert. There, surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated computer-assisted equipment and under conditions of total secrecy, four scientists work against the threat of a world-wide epidemic. They seek the antidote to a deadly micro-organism and their hunt leads to a terrifying climax.
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