Sci-Fi/UFO

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  • While recovering from the holocaust of war, Earth suffers chaotic breakdowns in the fabric of time and space.  Survivors are stranded in the past, present or future. Or in Mars, which is worse - and a band of heroes still battle in the alternate world of sword and sorcery....
  • Professional gambler Jason DinAlt accepts an invitation to visit Pyrrus, the most lethal world in the known galaxy. For outsiders, Pyrrus usually means a quick and painful death, but DinAlt is fleeing the crooked casino masters of Cassylia - where he just broke the bank. But DinAlt is not prepared for the hellish Pyrrus, where every living thing seems bent on exterminating mankind.  Pyrrus is a hostile, barbaric planet where technology and civilization have almost disappeared. Using his skills, DinAlt literally reinvents the wheel in his quest to escape. Cover art by Peter Elson. Originally published as The Ethical Engineer.
  • A collection of fabulous horror/sci-fi shorts from Aldiss. The Saliva Tree: When the meteor landed on the Grendon farm, strange and unnatural things began to happen.  The farm suddenly flourished with bumper crops, a record number of livestock births - and babies. It was being turned into a superfarm, and they were being fattened up for the kill... Other stories in this volume: Danger: Religion! The Source; The Lonely Habit; A Pleasure Shared; One Role With Relish; Legends of Smith's Burst; The Day of the Doomed King; Paternal Care; The Girl and the Robot with Flowers. A Nebula Award Winner for Best Short Novel. Cover art possibly by Bob Fowkes.
  • It was forbidden to enter the tower. The law had been handed down from a time beyond man's memory, and none who broke it had ever survived. From the tower flowed the energy and intelligence that kept alive the city of Noi Lantis, the sole vestige of civilization left on Earth. The Earthling, Kymri, and the beautiful invader-girl, Mirlana, already had violated a great and terrible taboo by daring to fall in love. Now they were about to commit the most fearful transgression of all. But there was no turning back as they slid open the glittering tower doors. Within was the secret that could spell man's last hope for survival - or his final sentence of doom....Cover art by Chris Foss.
  • Book I of A Requiem for Homo Sapiens. Into the maze of colour-coded streets of ice a wild boy stumbles, frost-bitten and grieving, clutching a spear: Danlo the Wild, a messenger from the past of Man. Brought up far from Neverness by the Alaloi people, neanderthal cave-dwellers, Danlo alone of his tribe has survived a plague - because he is not, as he thought, a misshapen neanderthal - but because he is human, with immunity engineered into his genes. He learns the disease was created and the creators possess a cure which can save other Alaloi tribes. But the creators have migrated to the region of space known as the Vild and there they are killing stars. All of civilisation has converged on Neverness through the manifold of space travel. Beyond science, beyond decadence,  sects and disciplines multiply there. Danlo, his mind shaped by primitive man, brings to Neverness a single long-lost memory that will challenge them all. Cover art by Mick Van Houten.
  • Originally published as Planet Plane  in 1936. An international prize of £1,000,000 was being offered to the first man to complete an interplanetary journey.  Dale Curtance, millionaire adventurer, characteristically emerges as the British entrant.  With a  hand-picked crew he blasted off from Salisbury Plain in the spaceship Gloria Mundi. Destination: Mars. Once free of Earth's atmosphere, they discover  a woman stowaway. Her extraordinary story helps them to prepare for the dangers they encounter on the Red Planet and the fantastic world that exists there. Cover art by Chris Foss.

  • An invasion of Earth was imminent  - and only one man could stop it. A team of saboteurs had infiltrated the enemy territories, attempting to bring back to Earth a warning of the impending attack. Death had reduced their number to two and fear of treachery had divided them. Finally, only one man could save Earth.  The secret of the hordes of death must be brought back. But he could trust no-one - not even himself. Cover art by Bruce Pennington.
  • In the mountain retreat of a gifted Internet billionaire, a young man takes part in a strange experiment: testing an artificial intelligence housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl. But the experiment spirals into a dark psychological battle - a lover triangle of loyalties, man and machine.
  • The Doctor is delighted when his quest for the Key to Time leads him to his favourite planet Earth. But his friends are less enchanted: Romana is nearly lured to her death by a sinister apparition and K9 is all but destroyed by a belligerent boulder with the power to move and a thirst for blood. An ancient stone circle becomes a battleground as the Doctor must outwit  the deadliest alien criminal this side of hyperspace - and her bloodthirsty silicon servants...Cover art variant of original by Andrew Skilleter.