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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. -
Starquake: Robert L. Forward
$40.00The sequel to Dragon's Egg. Turns ago, humans reached the Dragon's Egg where they discovered a thriving, savage race of intelligent cheela who live a million times faster than their human friends. In the first few hours, the cheela learned from Man and soon surpassed him in knowledge. Now the humans are about to leave. Suddenly a monstrous starquake destroys all but a few cheela on the surface and another group of cheela in orbit around Dragon's Egg, with no way to return to the surface. The fate of their civilisation rests with the tiny group below who must survive, breed and rebuild. The humans can return to earth and abandon this friendly race to extinction or stay and offer assistance - and certainly die in the attempt. Cover art by Ralph McQuarrie. -
Graphic Novel. Station 7 is where the Earth Forces send all the equipment captured in their unceasing war against the Daleks. It's where Dalek technology is analysed and examined. It's where the Doctor and Amy have just arrived. But somehow the Daleks have found out about Station 7 - and there's something there that they want back With the Doctor increasingly worried about the direction the Station's research is taking, the commander of Station 7 knows he has only one possible, desperate defense. Because the last terrible secret of Station 7 is that they don't only store captured Dalek technology - it's also a prison. And the only thing that might stop a Dalek is another Dalek... -
Go back to where it all began! Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, young Obi-Wan Kenobi, are charged with the protection of Amidala, young queen of Naboo as she seeks to end the siege of her planet by Trade Federation warships. This brings all three to Tatooine and the shop where the slave boy Anakin Akywalker toils and dreams of freedom for himself and his beloved mother. His only hope lies in his extraordinary instincts and his gift for understanding the 'rightness' of things. It is this meeting that marks the beginning of the legend. -
Star Wars. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away - a world is threatened...a young queen must save her people...a dark evil arises again...and a young Jedi is discovered. The Journey begins. Based on the screenplay and story by George Lucas. Features colour photographs from the film. -
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. -
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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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. -
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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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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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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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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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. -
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 Void. The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the Living Dream's deadline for launching its Pilgrimage into the Void draws closer. Not only is the Ocisen Empire fleet fast approaching on a mission of genocide, but also an internecine war has broken out between the post-human factions over the destiny of humanity. Countering the various and increasingly desperate agents and factions is Paula Myo, a ruthlessly single-minded investigator, beset by foes from her distant past and colleagues of dubious allegiance...but she is fast losing a race against time. At the heart of all this is Edeard the Waterwalker, who once lived a long time ago deep inside the Void. He is the messiah of Living Dream, and visions of his life are shared by, and inspire billions of humans. It is his glorious, captivating story that is the driving force behind Living Dream's Pilgrimage, a force that is too strong to be thwarted. As Edeard nears his final victory the true nature of the Void is finally revealed. Cover art by David Marchal and Paul Youll. -
This volume contains: The Time Machine; The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Invisible Man; The War of the Worlds; The First Men in the Moon; The Food of the Gods; In the Days of the Comet. A banquet of classic science fiction from the man who seemed to be able to 'see ahead'. -
Queen Of Angels: Greg Bear
$10.00Set in 2047 on the eve of the Binary Millennium. In the early years of the Information Age, the number has almost mystical significance: in binary notation, 2047 is 11111111111, while 2048 is 100000000000. The next change will not be for another two thousand years. Here is a world of highly advanced, cybernetically enhanced personalities, complex city arcologies and reports from the robot exploration of a long dead world - and a murder mystery as well. -
Teenage sisters Nell and Eva live alone in the forest, recently orphaned and completely isolated. They struggle for normality in a post-holocaust world, in the silence of nature. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. As they blaze a path into the forest, the discover their hidden power, to become pioneers - not just creatures of a new world, but the creators of it. Made into a film in 2015. -
Jillian Shomer had won the right to compete in the Olympiads that tested the mind as well as the body. Athletes use The Boost - an operation that conveyed brilliant intellect and superhuman strength - at a terrible price. Once Boosted, rapid burnout followed. The only way to halt the effects was connection to The Link, the global information network that sustained the world. Only those who won received the Link. None who dared question the workings of the system had ever survived. But Jillian Shomer dared. Cover art and interior illustrations by Boris Vallejo. -
Book V in the Worldwar series. A sci-fi of an alternate universe, in which, in the 1960s, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States cannot stop fighting among themselves in order to ward off a massive wave of extraterrestrials. It may mean the conquest of the earth and the extinction of humanity. -
The Time Machine: H.G. Wells
$20.00Regarded as the first science fiction thriller, it is the classic tale of the wanderings of the Time Traveller, his excursion in the fantastic machine of his creation into a future of nuclear war's aftermath; he encounters the Eloi - portrayed as the pampered, spiritless descendants of the upper class of his own time; and the Morlocks; the lower class who dwell below ground but who, in this future, control the cossetted Eloi in order to farm them for sustenance. Wells intentionally reflected his views of the class system, working conditions and politics of the late Victorian age in these fictional races, having experienced the unhealthy living and working below ground conditions for himself as a draper's assistant. Many film versions of this multi-layered story only go so far; Wells took his Time Traveller much further than the time of the Morlocks, to see...No, we won't spoil it for you... -
Prelude to the Dune series, Volume I. Year 10,154 of the Imperial Calendar. For four decades the planet Arrakis - or Dune - has been ruled by the Harkonnen family. Iron-fisted Baron Vladimir dreams of ever-larger harvest of the precious 'spice', the chemical that prolongs life and increases mental powers. But things are changing. An idealistic young planetologist goes to live among the desert Fremen, who hold the secret to 'spice' and the giant sandworms who guard it. On the world of Caladan, Leo Atreides, the Duke's heir, prepares for his birthright. -
Book XII of Starfist. The Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) is up against a full-fledged rebellion on Ravenette and a lethally loose cannon of a commanding officer. Desperate to thwart unrelenting aliens and their quest to obliterate humankind, the Confederation has beefed up its defences, but to the citizens on the outer edges of Human Space around Ravenette - unaware that a deadly enemy even exists - the government's move seems oppressive and ten planets respond with a war of secession. -
Taronga: Victor Kelleher
$10.00An Australian post-nuclear war novel. Two years after the Last Day, Australia has become a dangerous place, a battleground for survival. Ben, who has the telepathic ability to control animals, is living in the bush of the Blue Mountains. Hoping for a kinder existence he makes for Sydney, only to be further disillusioned. Then he finds Taronga Zoo, strangely unaffected by the chaos. Or - has it? -
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? -
Sugar Rain: Paul Park
$15.00The sequel to Soldiers of Paradise. In the city-state of Charn the generation-long winter has given way at last to Spring and the lovers Thanakar and Charity are separated by war and social upheaval. Throughout the harsh winter, Charn's deterministic religion, based on astrology and the erotic love poems of an unwitting god, locks most of the population into unending, hopeless servitude of the Starbridge ruling class. The long-awaited spring - in accordance with prophecy and dim legends - is heralded by floods, the births of monsters and sweet, fertile rain which brings an intoxicating taste of chaos to the burdened poor whose minds are slowly turning to the bloody pleasures of revolution and riot. Thanakar Starbridge, fleeing a death sentence, escapes to distant Caladon and believes his lover to be dead. But Princess Charity journeys through a cavernous underworld to emerge into the sunshine, freedom and the freshness of a world renewed. Cover art by Don Maitz.
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