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It had been five hundred years since the Terran colony of Corwin had communicated with Earth. But now Corwin is threatened by the warriors of Klodni and the desperate planet needs help. Baird Ewing is chosen as ambassador to get that help and save Corwin. But Earth had changed. Ewing finds a decadent world of worthless pleasure seekers devoid of hope and incapable of help. The only vestige of the old world on Earth is found in the College of Abstract Science. It's Ewing's last hope. If he fails, it's the end for him, for Corwin - and the galaxy. Cover art by Peter Elson. -
This volume contains: The Pen and the Dark, Colin Kapp; Spacemen Live Forever, Gerald W. Page; The Final Solution, R.W. Mackelworth; Computer's Mate, John Rackham; Tryst, John Baxter; Synth, Keith Roberts. -
July 2. Atmospheric phenomena begin to appear all over the world; the skies seem to be on fire. Satellite communications are interrupted without explanation and fear grips the world's cities. When the sky fires die down it's clear a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Their mission - exterminate all human life. The countdown to the end of the world has begun... -
Book XI of Sword Of Truth. Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
A volume of short stories: No Truce with Kings: In a future post-apocalyptical American Pacific coast, rival factions vie for power with the decaying central government. Turning Point: That morning they invented the wheel; in the afternoon, the sailing ship; now night was falling and they looked up to the beckoning stars... Escape from Orbit: A group of astronauts are stranded in space. An ingenious plan using a satellite may be the solution...Epilogue: Mankind and Earth meet again, at the Billion-year Reunion... The Critique of Impure Reason: A sentient robot designed to work harvesting minerals from Mercury has other ideas after the inventor’s girlfriend shows him her literary quarterly before his indoctrination period is over. As a result the robot wants to read and ponder. Eve Times Four: An astronaut conspires to strand himself and multiple attractive women on a habitable planet. But this attracts the attention of two apparently alien males. Cover art by Jack Faragasso. -
Vanished: Warren Norwood
$6.00Time Police Volume I. 2183: The Second Republic is mercilessly efficient. It controls the press, the state, the rights of the citizens. Then it captures the secrets of time travel. Now the Second Republic can control the past, piece by piece, slowly changing it to make sure that they would never lose their grasp on history. The Time Police are the agents of oppression of the Second Republic, dedicated to protecting its version of the past. Jackson Dubchek is a researcher, an ordinary citizen too insignificant to warrant the attention of the Time Police until he stumbled onto the truth behind their work. He is determined to undo what they have done. Now the Time Police are after him. He has to go on the run - and there's nowhere to go except the past. Cover art by Paul Youll and Steve Youll.
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Book I of Blood Angels. On the remote world of Cybele, the superhuman warriors of the Blood Angels Chapter fight a losing battle against their most bitter enemies, the forces of Chaos. When Battle Brother Arkio leads a glorious counter-attack that has the enemy reeling, there is talk that this is a holy sign - is Arkio blessed? But events soon begin to spiral out of control as the forces of Chaos reveal a nightmarish plot. If Brother Rafen doesn't find out what;s really happening the entire Chapter may face damnation. Cover art by Philip Sibbering. -
Qua is a quantum computer with immense power capabilities that tunes into pathways in parallel universes to operate at lightning speed. But with such power comes the threat of catastrophe, and as government agents, cult disciples, and computer criminals learn what this computer is capable of, Cambridge researcher Clare Conway makes every attempt to safeguard herself and society from the realities she discovers about Qua. For all of the power this computer offers, it threatens to spark a civil war in America, a danger unlike any other that history has ever known. Cover art by Splash. -
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. -
Book IV of Riverworld. After 33 years on the River, Clemens and his crew are finally near the end of their journey in the great iron riverboat Not For Hire, and only one obstacle remains: the evil Earthly king, John Lackland. John is waiting just upriver in the Rex Grandissimus the first riverboat constructed by Sam and stolen by John Lackland. Each are hell-bent on sinking the other and complicating the probable battle is that both boats carry Ethicals, members of the group of advanced beings who created Riverworld for reasons unknown. The battle is set to take place along the shores populated by members of the Church of the Second Chance, a group that believes they must attain ethical perfection in order to proceed to the next phase of existence. The Second Chancers are not violent, but their charismatic leader, La Viro, may attempt to sink one or both of the iron ships in order to prevent the battle. Among the Second Chancers is former Nazi officer Hermann Goring, who has already been more than a nuisance to those on the Quest to find the source of the River...Cover art by Melvyn Grant. -
Book IV of Tomorrow, When The War Began. Five months into World War III, Ellie and her four remaining friends have barely escaped the Australian town of Wirrawee with their lives and their sanity intact. But as the next step becomes clear, they realize they must once again sacrifice their hard-won comfort and safety. A group of soldiers has recruited the kids to guide the way to the Wirrawee air base. What could possibly motivate Ellie and her friends to return? This risky sabotage mission may be their only hope of rescuing their families, too. -
Macroscope: the greatest scientific breakthrough in the history of man, a vast space-borne device that brought the entire universe within man's range of vision, revealing levels of technology vastly beyond anything dreamed of on Earth. But the discovery brought danger - in a place so unthinkably distant in space and time that it might be at the other end of the continuum. A place where ancient symbols come to life to battle for the souls of men. Cover art by Eddie Jones.
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On Alliance Central - formerly Earth - nothing breathes but man and wind, and the wind is tamed beneath great domes. From here, humanity rules a vast interstellar empire. When colonists in a remote frontier system are abruptly wiped out by an alien visitation, every team sent to investigate vanishes. At last, a young woman with her disabled son must travel into this devastating silence. For reasons which do become clear, they alone can reach beyond the shadow cast by human civilisation. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury. -
Warhammer 40,000. Book VI of Space Wolf. In the continuing saga of Ragnar Blackmane, the Space Wolves come under attack from an ancient enemy: The Thousand Sons. In a last-ditch attempt to stop them, Ragnar and his brothers launch a lightning strike counterattack on the Thousand Sons' base. Will the Space Wolves triumph, and can Ragnar retrieve the Spear of Russ from his nemesis, the Chaos Space Marine Madox? Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Thirty years ago the Empire of humans found, investigated and decided to use a blockade of space ships to prevent the spread of an alien culture called the Moties, who inhabited a single star system and were only just discovering faster-than-light travel. Now, because of a change in the stellar neighbourhood, the Moties will be able to leave their home system and spread across the galaxy, which will be bad for mankind because they combine great ingenuity with rapid and unstoppable population increase. Horace Bury, a wealthy trader, and his pilot Kevin renner (who is actually a serving member of the Imperial Space Navy) have spent the last thirty years travelling the Empire checking that no Moties have escaped; now they return to the Motie system to try to prevent the expected breakout. Their only real weapon is a symbiotic worm which can stop the continuous cycle of population increase that has caused so many problems. As soon as they enter the Motie system they are taken prisoner. Their plans have to be revised to find a solution that will be acceptable to both the Empire and the Moties. Cover art by John Harris.
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Book VI of The Childe Cycle. The men of Dorsai, the finest soldiers in the Galaxy, had been hired by El Conde, sovereign of Gebel Nahar, to transform his raggle-taggle army into a fighting force to be reckoned with. Now revolution had erupted and the men once trained by the Dorsai bore arms against him. Bound by their rigid code of honour, the mercenaries' first duty was to protect El Conde from the rebels. But what chance had a handful of warriors against the Naharese? Cover Art by Les Edwards. -
When the Ring aliens first thought to contact other worlds, they didn't think other species might be constructed differently to them. They were deep space dwellers - more like large complex bundles of genetic information that physical entities. They sent their probes into the night hoping to build a bridge between them and others. Most probes vanished into the infinity of space for all time. But one found Earth, and one was all it took to utterly disrupt life as Earth knew it for all time. Because the Ring dwellers sent their information coded in the form of a virus - a virus that would prove deadly to 90% of humanity. The society that rose from the rubble was unlike any that had come before...Earth's survivors experienced visions, deep, dark, disturbing visions - some of building a vast, superphysical bridge between universes, others of navigational instructions. But no-one had all of the Ring dwellers' information. And so the new, fragmented, half-mad society had to build the bridge of co-operation before they could embark on humanity's greatest enterprise...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
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. -
Damia: Anne McCaffrey
$6.00Book II of The Tower And The Hive. Of all the Rowan's children, Damia was the most brilliant, the most difficult, the loneliest and the one who inherited the greatest Talent. It was obvious she would be a Prime with all the honours and burdens of that elite class. Her one friend was Afra - older, wiser, Talented in his own way but belonging almost exclusively to the Rowan and the workings of Callisto Station. As Damia grew her Talent became almost too strong to control and the solution was separation - from her parents, from Callisto and from her beloved Afra. Sent to distant Deneb, to her strange and gifted grandmother, Damia began the necessary training to turn her into a Prime of extraordinary gifts - one ho could contact the minds of approaching aliens through space, some of whom threatened to destroy the worlds of the Nine Star League. Cover art by Romas Kukalis. -
The world is held in the grip of a second Ice Age, and faces total destruction from rapidly advancing glaciers. Doctor Who, with Victoria and Jamie, lands at a top scientific base in England, where they have just unearthed an ancient Ice Warrior. Can the Doctor overcome these warlike Martians and halt the relentless approach of the ice glaciers? Cover art by Chris Achilleos. -
The year: 2047. Years earlier the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace on its maiden voyage. Now a signal from it has been detected and the United States Aerospace Command responds. The rescue vessel Lewis and Clark is dispatched. Its crew – Captain Miller, second-in-command Lieutenant Starck, pilot Smith, medical technician Peters, engineer Ensign Justin, Doctor D.J. and rescue technician Cooper – is joined by Dr. William Weir, who designed the Event Horizon. Their mission: find and salvage the state-of-the-art spacecraft. But what they find is state-of-the-art interstellar terror. Their mission becomes one to salvage their own souls and lives - because someone or something is prepared to ensnare them in a new dimension of utter and unimaginable horror. -
Book I of Planet Pirates. Sassinak was twelve when the raiders same. Old enough to be used, young enough to be broken - so they thought. But they reckoned without the girl's steel will of revenge on the pirates who had killed her parents and friends. When the chance comes to escape, Sassinak grabs it, thanks to the help of a captured Fleet crewman. Returned to the Federation of Sentient Planets, she initiates her revenge by joining the Fleet as a recruit, surprising all with her rise to senior rank. Then vengeance begins in earnest. Cover art by Mark Harrison. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-death-of-sleep-anne-mccaffrey-and-jody-lynn-nye-2/ -
Book III of Star of the Guardians. Dion Starfire is King. He is the hope of the galaxy, an end to corrupt government and the terror of the alien Corasians - or is he? Protected by the Warlord Derek Sagan, Lady Maigrey and the ominous space-rotation bomb, Dion is untried. when Sagan is ambushed, Lady Maigrey knows that she alone has a chance to rescue him - and to do so she must abandon Dion and leave the galaxy open to Corasian attack. Now Dion must find the legendary inner strength of the royal Starfires - or rule a dead galaxy. Cover art by Stephen Youll.
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Star Wars: Book III of The Thrawn Trilogy. The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor's secret fortress: clone soldiers. As Thrawn mounts his final siege, Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the empire, while Leia holds the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. Overwhelmed by the ships and clones at Thrawn's command, the Republic has one last hope - sending a small force, led by Luke Skywalker, into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn's terrible cloning machines. There a final danger awaits, as the Dark Jedi C'baoth directs the battle against the Rebels and builds his strength to finish what he had already started: the destruction of Luke Skywalker. Cover art by Tom Jung. -
Doctor Who Original Adventures No 94. The young Venetian Marco Polo is on his way to the Emperor's Court in Peking when he meets the intrepid time-travellers, for the TARDIS has landed on earth in the year 1289. Marco Polo recognises the TARDIS as a means of winning favour with the Emperor. But in the end the Doctor has no-one but himself to blame when he gambles away his wondrous travelling machine to Kublai Khan. Cover art by David McAllister.
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In the next century, an underground chemist meets and becomes obsessed with Milena, a child genius who is the ultimate product of gene-splicing technology. Milena is an advocate of the dolls - artificial constructs that have replaced extinct companion animals. Milena wishes to free the dolls from bondage - but in doing so, she creates an autonomous race that may be a threat to mankind. Cover art by Paul Young.
