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Book I of Dinosaur Planet. On Earth they had died out 70 million years ago, but on Ireta the dinosaurs ruled in all their bizarre splendour. The expedition sent to explore this seemingly bland planet was trapped within its energy as quickly and mysteriously as their relief ship vanished. And half the expedition's personnel reverted to type and as predatory carnivores systematically hunted down their colleagues. Only the frozen sleep of cryogenics offered an escape. But for how long? -
Barry Cowan woke up screaming in a hospital room with a nightmare where his memory should have been. There was also a curious brass figurine in his pocket that made the nightmare seem likely to be true. Yet for all the emptiness there was a familiarity about the stranger who appeared, claiming to be his father - a horrific familiarity, somehow linked to the dreams of another world that invaded his sleep. Where had he been? What had shocked his mind so deeply that it refused to remember? Cover art by Ken Barr. -
Book I of The Inner Planets. As the New Earth Organisation rebuilds and Earth shattered by the Martian Wars, NEO sympathiser Kemal Gavilan receives a corpse and a cryptic message from the asteroids. The Mercurian prince sends master pirate Black Barney to find out what he can, but the answer is hot: they've uncovered a weapon that can focus the sun's energy for global annihilation. The Martian and Venusian powers insist that they are innocent. Kemal is forced to rtejoi the royal family he once rejected in order to learn the awful truth. Cover art by Jerry Bingham.
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Doctor Who's first adventure with the Daleks. Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright travel with the mysterious Doctor Who and his granddaughter, Susan, to the planet of Skaro in the space-time machine, the TARDIS. There they strive to save the peace-loving Thals from the evil intentions of the hideous Daleks. Can they succeed? And, what is more important, will they ever see their native Earth again? Cover art by Chris Achilleos. -
Book VI of TekWar. Androids are becoming more realistic every day and humans aren't noticing. Replacing humans with surrogates has been possible for a long time in a crude way - android simulations have become an assassination tool of choice, as investigator Jake Cardigan well knows. But now there's a really deadly and sinister plot afoot. The President of the United States returns unusually rested and healthy - and with a whole new set of policies. It'll be up to Cardigan to unravel the TekLord's audacious plan. -
The starship Alpha Cross is launched to Alpha Crucis. Centuries pass, civilisations rise and fall, the races of Mankind change and still the ship fell on her headlong journey to the distant star. Ten generations later, the ship is farthest from Earth than any human work - but she is not halfway to her goal. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Star Wars. Darth Maul, merciless apprentice of evil and one of the legendary Sith, champion of the Sith Lord, Darth Sidious - a legend come to life from nightmares and about to be unleashed...After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking his first step in the master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. Meanwhile, a young Jedi Padawan named Darsha Assant is on the verge of ascension to Jedi knighthood. A single mission will be her test, but a greater test awaits....
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Book I of Empyrion. Eight million dollars for a special assignment - to report on the new colony of Empyrion, ten light years from Earth. It was an offer that NO writer, just scraping by, could refuse. But why had Cynetics Chairman Neviss gone to such lengths to track him down? Orion Treet was puzzled, but there was little time to think. Within the hour he was on board the transport, hurtling through space with an oddly assorted handful of companions. What they saw, streaking through the atmosphere was a turquoise world, blue-green with vegetation, water and sky. Treet watched the holoscreen - he was seeing a world that no-one had ever seen before; a virginal world, rich and ripe, a free, unspoiled perfect world. Or so it seemed...Cover art by Richard Chetland. -
Statesman: Piers Anthony
$6.00Book V of Bio Of A Space Tyrant. Child of flame and terror, born and bred to violence, Hope Hubris had ruled the solar system's most powerful empire with a fierce, uncompromising passion, His was a white-hot flame of justice that scarred friend and foe alike. Yet now he left Jupiter as an exile, his autocratic rule overthrown by the one person he could not oppose. Deposed, disgraced, but forever unbroken, the tyrant's greatest hour was still to come. For only he couldshoulder the burden of humanity's boldest dream: to leave behind the confines of the solar system and journey outward to the stars. Cover art by Alan Craddock. -
"We have come to your planet to remember it." So say the insectoid aliens who arrived one day in their pyramid-ship. Although they speak both English and Russian and the human team sent to communicate with them includes an expert on body-language, the meaning of their words remains tantalisingly obscure. And then things start to disappear. The Dome of St. Peter's is the first to go. Whole cities begin to follow. It's not long before a desperate band of pilgrims are forced to embark on a bizarre journey to Mars - in search of the city of Munich. Cover art by Mick Posen.
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The fifth book in the ever-increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It's very easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space/time and the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. But instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit and immediately all hell breaks loose. There is the usual Ford Prefect hell; a hellish new version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that behaves in a sinister, mysterious and airborne manner; and the unexpected hell of the arrival of a teenage girl who is Arthur's daughter - who he didn't know he had!
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Stark: Ben Elton
$6.00STARK has more money than God and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, they know the world is dying. Deep in Western Australia, a planet sized plot takes shape. Some green freaks pick up the scent. Colin, a Pommie poseur, Rachel the rebel, Zimmerman, a brain-fried Vietnam Vet, Walter the Hippie, who sees nothing wrong in lying on the carpet, giggling and eating Mars Bars, Mr and Mrs Culboon, an Aboriginal couple who have been cheated out of their land by STARK...not much against a conspiracy that controls society. If you're up against the richest and most disgusting conspiracy in history, you have to do more than stick up two fingers and say, "Peace." The Earth has been done to death by big business - and the murderers are planning to abandon ship...Cover art by David Scutt.
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Star Trek Adventures Series, No. 3. While investigating rumours of renewed activity by the Klingo Empire within the Galactic Core, the U.S.S. Enterprise makes contact with a shuttle craft from the U.S.S. Rickover - a Starship presumed lost with all hands over twenty years earlier. The lone occupant of the shuttle craft is Thomas Clayton, once Kirk's room mate at the Starfleet Academy, now the self-proclaimed Chosen Son and favoured prophet of a deity he calls Ay-nab. Kirk disregards this until his engines are taken control of by an unexplained outside force - a force which Clayton insists is now taking Krk and company to meet his god. Cover art by Alister Pearson. -
In 2061, when two Suns share the skies of Earth, Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System. Soon the fates of two spacefaring expeditions are entwined by human necessity and the immutable laws of astrophysics. Centenarian Heywood Floyd must again confront Dave Bowman, a newly independent HAL and the limitless power of an alien race that has decided humanity must play a part in the evolution of the galaxy - whether it wants to or not...Cover at by Michael Whelan. -
Book III of the completely mis-named Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The inhabitants of planet Krikkit are perfectly happy until they experience a space ship crashing on their idyllic planet. So, they dismantle the wreckage, while singing little space ship stripping ditties and boldly venture into space. They decide they don't like the Universe and really - it has to go... so they plan to destroy it. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior and won an award for designing Norway; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows! Cover art by David Scutt. -
Book IV of Foundation. The costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has finally come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation have proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon’s long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all - and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Two exiled citizens of the Foundation set out in search of the mythical planet Earth and and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile, someone - or something - outside both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a final, shocking destiny at the very end of the universe. Cover art by Tim White. -
An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. This mystery will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years War. Imagine the risks of such a journey - imagine the impossible! https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-timeline-paul-walker-billy-connolly/ -
Star Trek: The Next Generation. Ambassador Spock continues his mission to unify the Romulan and Vulcan peoples, but is captured by a Romulan spy. Starfleet dispatches its best ship, the U.S.S. Enterprise and its most respected captain, Jean-Luc Picard, to secure the release of the ambassador. Ambassador McCoy, now over 140 years old, is also sent to assist in the negotiations. But the situation becomes further complicated when another of Spock's former shipmates, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott confiscates an out-of-service starship and effects his own daring rescue of his friend. -
An American archeologist, Cassandra Rubicon, disappears while exploring the lost Mayan city of Xitaclan. X-File agents Fox Mulder and Dan Scully are sent to investigate. A mysterious jade artifact recovered from the ruins...ominous legends whispered by the natives...Mulder decides there's more to the case than a team of missing scientists - namely, ancient curses, blood sacrifices and deadly reptilian monsters lost in the jungles before history. But what the agents don't know is that Xitaclan is the scene of a three-way war between Central American drug lords, international smugglers of Mayan artifacts and a covert U.S. military team that has been sent to investigate and destroy a strange electronic signal received from beneath the ruins - a signal aimed upwards at the stars.
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Book I of Finisterre. The planet could have been a paradise for humans,with its fertile farmland and towering ore-rich mountains. But its riches lie beyond their reach. For here, all animals, from tiny willy-wisps to fierce goblin-cats, survive by telepathy, projecting images that drive humans mad. Only the Riders, a handful chosen by the native Nighthorses, have any kind of protection. Whilst townsfolk cower behind a religion based on fear and ignorance, Riders and their Nighthorses, bonded telepathically, challenge the Wild. Then comes a time of killing and chaos that climaxes in a blinding day of secrets and blood, terror and truth, with the fates of the Riders, the Nighthorses and an entire world at stake. Cover art by Mick Posen. -
Book XVIII of Darkover. For Jeff Kerwin, Darkover meant home, the home he had left as a child, the home he had longed for through the many years. When he finally returned, it was to mystery. There were no records of any kind of either his birth or childhood.Then after he renounced his Terran allegiance and joined the natives attempting to free Darkover from Earth's control, the Darkovans accused him of being a spy. Had Jeff been conditioned on Earth to betray Darkover? He was no longer sure of who - or what - he really was. Cover art by Melvyn Grant. -
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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Twenty subtugs have been lost attempting to bring back oil from the undersea fields on the enemy's borders. A brilliant psychologist-electronics expert is planted amid the crew of the subtug Ram to discover the reason. And the reason becomes horrifyingly real when, miles deep in the ocean, the minds of the crew begin to crack...Cover art by Bruce Pennington.
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Book II of Carl Crader. The year is 2050. Earl Jazine, a computer specialist, is called to the investigate irregularities in the wiring of an election computer. He finds evidence that the machine has been used to record the results of an unknown election between candidates whose very existence seems doubtful. Believing the computer's anomalies may be linked with a plot by a revolutionary group called HAND (Humans Against Neuter Domination), Jazine launches an investigation that leads him to a vast underground city in Utah and near death in a radioactive salt mine. Then he gets too close to the horrible truth when he uncovers a super government that threatens the nations very existence. Cover art by Romas Kukalis.
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In the future, mankind's Japanese-dominated empire comes into conflict with the mysterious alien Quarn. The Quarn will attack without provocation and will destroy themselves rather than be captured. Suddenly, the invasion stops and a lone Earth ship finds a remote space colony in the throes of a strange contagious mass psychosis - evidently of Quarn origin. The ships captain realises the danger if the plague victims reach Earth. Then his command is suddenly overruled and the fate of mankind seems sealed with inevitable doom. Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
Captain Jani Kilian has hidden from her bloody past. Now she must face trial for what she once did, what she knows now and what she has become. Eighteen years ago, she was saved y a radical and illegal medical procedure that added alien genetic material to her own. But her hybrid body is breaking down - as are the relations between humans and alien Idomeni races. Jani's re-emergence has caused old wounds to re-open and new ones to form. Is it time for her to stop fighting? Perhaps not. -
Book I of Catteni. When the Catteni ships descended on Earth it was the most terrifying experience humankind had ever known. Kris Bjornsen, along with thousands of others, was herded by forcewhips into the holds of giant spaceships to be transported to the slave compounds of an alien planet. After a partially successful escape attempt, Kris was once more shipped across space - to an apparently untamed and empty planet. The Catteni just dumped an assorted load of humans and aliens on the strange world and left them to see what would happen. The refugees began to organise themselves for survival. The planet was eerie - and not quite abandoned. Someone - or something - had built huge storage barns. The planet was being used as a huge larder, for an entity they could not comprehend. As Kris and her patrol set out to explore the enigmatic world, she had yet another problem - Zainal, the high-ranking patrician Catteni who had been abandoned with the rest of them. He was strong, brilliant and kind. Kris is puzzled by his presence, his personality - and the tenuous tie she feels towards this man - who was not a man but one of the hated Catteni. Cover art by Romas Kukalis. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/freedoms-choice-anne-mccaffrey/
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