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Book II of Earth Legions. A collection of five stories set in the same universe as David Drake's novel Ranks of Bronze, as well as the original short story from which that novel grew. Ranks Of Bronze: Lots of soldiers work for civilians they don't like, but these millennia old Romans had it worse than most - their commanders were blue-skinned aliens. The guilds of star traveling merchants had strict instructions to prevent their technology from falling into the hands of the natives of the primitive worlds they exploited - military operations had to be carried out with weaponry no more complex than the natives already possessed. So the merchant princes came to Earth for soldiers and returned to the stars with the best the planet had to offer and for over two thousand years the aliens thought they had succeeded brilliantly - but then things changed...Other stories in this volume: Sir George And The Dragon, David Weber; Lambs To The Slaughter, David Drake; A Clear Signal, Mark L.Van Name; The Three Walls - 32nd Campaign, S.M. Stirling; Carthago Delenda Est, Eric Flint. Cover art by Dru Blair.
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Book III of Revelation Space. Humanity has endured centuries of horrific plague and a brutal interstellar war. It's time for a few decades of peace and quiet. No such luck - there's a new threat. Stirred from aeons of sleep, the Inhibitors - ancient alien killing machines designed to eliminate any emergent intelligence - have targeted mankind. Fleeing the first wave of machines, a ragtag group of refugees headed by war veteran Clavain waits for the next phase of the cull. But with Clavain sunk deep in despondency, the leadership falls to Scorpio, the product of a flawed experiment in genetic engineering who has every reason to hate humanity. Then their little colony receives an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel, a girl born in ice, gifted with the power to lead humanity to safety and the ability to draw down mankind's darkest enemy. On Hela, where vast travelling cathedrals circle the world in endless processions, the witnessing of a miraculous event has created an apocalyptic new religion. And as the cathedrals crawl closer to to the treacherous fissure known as Absolution Gap, a dark and unsettling truth becomes apparent: to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much, much worse...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Insurrection: J.M. Dillard
$12.00Star Trek. On an unnamed planet in a distant sector, Starfleet, in an uneasy alliance with a new alien species, has discovered a secret that could transform the future of the entire Federation. The secret first turns Data against Starfleet, then draws Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise into a dangerous situation that affects every member of the crew and presents them with an agonising moral dilemma. Picard finds himself torn between his conscience and his uniform as he is faced with orders he cannot obey and a crisis he cannot ignore. -
Simeon Krug's obsession is to see a tower built - one kilometre high, a tower that will reach out to answer the voice from space. The Androids are his tools; superb man-like creations of Man. The Androids take Krug for their God and seek to become one with flesh-and-blood mankind through his wisdom. But Krug is not God - and it takes a God to control the terrible emotions that Krug has stirred...Cover art by Colin Hay. -
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. -
The New Jedi Order XI; Enemy Lines I. Scattering after the Yuuzhan Vong's invasion of Coruscant, the panic-stricken members of the New Republic Advisory Council pause just long enough to set up a mock defence on nearby Borleias in an attempt to buy time that fools no-one, least of all the Jedi. Leia and Han Solo travel from world to world, fomenting rebellion against the New Republic's disastrous appeasement policies. But Luke Skywalker has chosen the most dangerous assignment of all - to sneak into the Yuuzhan Vong's fortress on Coruscant. His outrageous scheme is either brilliant or suicidal - depending on the outcome. Bearing down on Borleias is Yuuzhan Vong invasion fleet, determined to destroy the galaxy's remaining defenders. Cover art by Dave Seeley.
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Dirk Gently's Holisitic Detective Agency: What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a 200-year-old Chronologist, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) and pizza have in common? Apparently not much - until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery and eating a lot of pizza - not to mention saving the human race from extinction along the way - at no extra charge. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul: When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, suddenly explodes through the roof engulfed in flame, the usual people tried to claim responsibility - the IRA, the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was under control, it was a one in a million chance, there was hardly any radioactive leakage and the explosion site would make a nice day out with the kids and a picnic - before finally admitting that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. There was no rational cause for the explosion - so it was designated an act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why ? What God would be hanging around Heathrow's Terminal Two trying to catch the 15.37 to Oslo? Cover art by Chris Moore.
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Book VIII of Acorna's Children. Young Khorii, daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate Aari, has an overwhelming legacy to contend with as she forges her own path. A simple journey to visit her relatives turns into a race against time when Khorii comes across a derelict space craft drifting in space, its crew dead in their seats. But this gruesome discovery is only a dread harbinger - a deadly plague is spreading across the universe and not even the healing powers of the Linyaari can slow its horrific advance. Khorii, one of the very few unaffected by the outbreak, must find a cure before the disease consumes all in its path - including her beloved parents. Cover art by Fred Gambino. -
Doctor Who Original Adventures No. 88. The TARDIS materialises in Mexico during the Aztec civilisation. The Doctor and his companions step outside to find they are in a tomb - the tomb of Yetaxa, once a High Priest of the Aztecs. Barbara is hailed as Yetaxa's reincarnation by Autloc, High Priest of Knowledge, and Tlotoxl, High Priest of Sacrifice, when they find her in the precincts of the tomb wearing the bracelet of the deceased Priest, now revered as a god. And she takes advantage of her position and unaccustomed power to try and dissuade the Aztecs from practicing human sacrifice...Cover art by Nick Spender.
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The natives of Darkover were human but hostile to the Earth colonists who had come to their planet. Larry Montray, however, was able to become friendly with the Altons, an important clan, and was one of the few Terrans ever to observe Darkovan life and customs at first hand. But Larry would get much more than he bargained for - he found himself in the middle of a feud older than memory; a feud fought by unknown beings, deadly beasts and alien intelligences - and his actions would determine the fate of every Terran on the planet of the blood-red sun. Cover art by Michael Whelan. -
Book I of The Saga Of Shadows. The human race has expanded out among the stars, establishing colonies on numerous planets while independent gypsy clans, the Roamers, operate giant floating skymines in the clouds. On the planet Theroc, the capital of the human Confederation, humans live in a gigantic forest whose towering trees are all interconnected into a single mind. The Ildrians, a grand and ancient race of aliens, former rulers of the Spiral Arm, are connected by their own mental network called thism, but are unprepared for human ambitions. As part of increasing collaboration between the Ildrian Empire and the human Confederation, a large ship leaves to explore what lies beyond the Spiral Arm. There it encounters a mysterious and ominous nebula, one so opaque that even starlight cannot penetrate - one that, to the explorers' horror, begins to expand and terrorise the races of the Spiral Arm, an evil so ancient that it has been forgotten - an entity so powerful that the existence of all living things is threatened...Cover art by Stephen Youll. -
DVD: The Red Planet Mars
$7.00An interactive exploration of the beauty, power and mystery of Mars. Features the music from Gustav Holst's The Planets. -
Book III of Homecoming. The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai and all their family must brave the desert wastes and cross the wide continents to Harmony's hidden spaceport - silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar ships ready for flight. But of these sixteen people, only a few have chosen their exile. Rasa's spiteful daughters and their husbands and Wetchik's oldest son Elemak have been forced against their will. Their anger and hatreds make to difficult journey harder. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
In this volume: And When I Die, Peter Linnett; Three Enigmas: III. All in God's Mind, Brian Aldiss; A Strange and Terrible Sea, Donald Malcolm: Ten year old Sammy was partially paralysed by a blow struck by his drunken father in a rage. He reads a lot of books on astronomy, and sci-fi - but could this account for the weird, repetitive dream he has nightly? No Certain Armour, John Kippax: When something kills two pirates on Kindros V and a military survey ship suffers a further casualty, the search for an inimical life form begins. Now Hear the Word, David Garnett: The resort of Sunville - a place of sanctuary for the rich and old is horribly alive while the rest of the world goes to hell. Howard Felix, the Sunville reporter, tampered with his newcasts out of boredom. But the events he foretold have a disturbing way of coming true...New Canute, Martin I. Ricketts: Bamfield-Taylor was no tourist, visiting the Time-currents of Cirene just to have a taste of 'Time-terror'; his request to be taken back to a specific minute in time has the skipper of the Time-boat worried... The Ark of James Carlyle, Cherry Wilder: An island is populated by quogs - small creatures, not unlike baboons, who wept when their mee-haw tree was cut down. But Carlyle evacuated them before their island was submerged by a flood..and between Carlyle and the quogs there grows a strange affinity...Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
In this edition: The Cosmic Expense Account, C. M. Kornbluth; Mr Sakrison's Halt, Mildred Clingerman; The Asa Rule, Jay Williams; King's Evil, Avram Davidson; The Census Takers, Frederik Pohl; The Man Who Came Early, Poul Anderson; Final Clearance, Rachel Maddux; The Silk and the Song, Charles L. Fontenay; The Shoddy Lands, C. S. Lewis; The Last Present, Will Stanton; No Man Pursueth, Ward Moore; I Don't Mind, Ron Smith; And Now the News, Theodore Sturgeon; Icarus Montgolfier Wright, Ray Bradbury. Poems by: Leah Bodine Drake; Winona McClintic; Randall Garrett; P. M. Hubbard; and Bird Ferguson. Cover art by Ed Valigursky. -
The Threat: David M. Jacobs
$12.00In direct challenge to those who claim that the alien abduction phenomenon is essentially benevolent, The Threat offers evidence to the contrary - it reveals why aliens have come and exposes their frightening plans for planet Earth. It is a disturbing picture of aliens integrating themselves into our society and relegating humans to an inferior status.The result of three decades of research, this book answers some of the most important questions researchers have been asking since the beginning of the UFO controversy. Professor Jacobs provides, for the first time, new details about the aliens' "breeding program" - a bold plan to create a breed of alien-human "hybrids" who will eventually colonise, and ultimately control the Earth. The Threat adds complexity and depth to common knowledge of this fascinating subject. The secret alien agenda revealed in this book is ominous and Professor Jacobs warns that it must be confronted. -
The planet was called Pyrrus...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man. The settlers there were supermen...twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder...It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation...Cover art by Peter Elson -
Medium is a heart-warming machine, designed to provide a connection with the dead. Now all the world could reach their loved ones - at a price. Anything so emotionally loaded and carrying that kind of price tag could be a powerful political weapon. But no-one, not even the inventor, could guess at how terrible that price might become. Cover art by Peter Jones. -
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. -
On a planet at the edge of a galaxy long torn by devastating wars, a man is assigned to monitoring duties - to detect any sign of aggressiveness that might trigger another conflict. In fulfilling this task, Lewis Orne, interplanetary troubleshooter, discovers within himself extrasensory powers of awesome potential. His new powers get him an invitation to join the company of 'gods' and he must face complex and perilous rites of passage in deep space. Cover art by Bruce Pennington. -
Book II of Saga Of The Exiles. Exiled beyond the time portal into a world of six million years before, the misfits of the 22nd century are enmeshed in the age-old war of two alien races. In this strange world, each year brings the ritual Grand Combat between the Firvulag and the Tanu, possessors of the invincible mind-armouring necklet - The Golden Torc. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury. -
The old First Empire lies shattered, swept away by the forces of First Foundation established by psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man to have foreseen the shifting patterns of the inhabited Cosmos. But not even Seldon could have predicted the mutant menace of the Mule - a being of terrifying supernomal powers who can precipitate a savage struggle that can lay waste to entire star systems. -
You can't keep a good rat down, of course nor out of trouble. Jim and the lethal, lovely Angelina owe themselves a honeymoon and Paraiso-Aqui looks like the place. Settled long ago by voyagers from the southern continent of Earth (or Dirt as it was also known) Paraiso is warm and easy. But all is NOT well in paradise. The serpentine General Julio Zapilote is about to sail back into office in another rigged election and the chance to scupper him is too good for Jim to pass up. Corruption, bribery, graft and chicanery...as usual. Cover art by Peter Elson. -
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. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City Detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Baley and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot - and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim. Cover art by Dennis Rolfe. -
Book V of the Dune Chronicles. Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying. Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders-fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor...Cover art by Gerry Grace -
Book I of Alex Benedict. Everyone knew the legend of Christopher Sim. Fighter. Leader. An interstellar hero with a rare talent for war. Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a ragtag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the back of the alien Ashiyyur. But now, Alex Benedict has found a startling bit of information, long buried in an ancient computer file. If it's true, then Christopher Sim was a fraud. For his own sake and that of history, Alex Benedict must follow the dark track of a legend, into the very heart of the alien galaxy where he will confront a truth far stranger than any imaginable fiction. Cover art by Darrell Sweet.
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Foundation: Isaac Asimov
$9.00Book I of Foundation. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But 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 - both scientists and scholars - 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. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun - or fight them and be destroyed. Cover art by Fred Gambino.
