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On the planet Nightshade, anyone can buy or sell Flex, the death-dealing drug, to take offworld but no-one is supposed to use it. Nevertheless, Flex addicts are a common sight in Riotmark, the planet's largest city. No-one comes to Nightshade for anything but Flex - except Benedict and his traveling companions, who believe there may be something even more interesting in the jungle - something Benedict has been searching for all his life. Benedict is a First Order Empath who never knows when another crippling seizure will strike and immobilise him. Ryker is an adventurer who loves to give orders that Benedict might not like to take. Renata is a beautiful woman who likes to live dangerously. And Silky is a fourteen year old Flex addict and the most important person in Benedict's world. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
When the maverick star passes between Earth and its sun, humankind's final calamity will have arrived. Everything and everyone will be drawn toward the Dwarf. There would be tidal waves, earthquakes, volcanoes, the earth will fragment and among the people - anarchy and death. They can try to prepare, survive and then if any did survive, cope with living - but survival could be the worst alternative. -
Pindharee: Joel Richards
$7.00As a young officer in Earth's Federation Fleet, Damon Hart is faced with a terrible decision. On a routine exploration for worlds to colonise, Damon discovers a once-great civilisation, with only magnificent cities remaining as a monument to the inhabitants' former glory. But he soon learns that the creators of these wonders are not extinct; they have harnessed their world's resources, using a technology that surpasses anything man has ever dreamed of. They are willing to share it - for a price. Damon must choose to desert the Service and enter a dangerous alliance - or to follow the edicts of his superiors and eradicate the very people who might save his civilisation. Cover art by David Mattingly. -
Book I of Nidorian. The people of Nidor lived by the Law and the Scripture, remembering always the Great Cataclysm has nearly destroyed their world only five thousand years before. They gave thanks daily to the Great Light that had spared their ancestors and knew that only respect for tradition would keep their children safe. Then the strangers arrived - falling from clouds and clothes in light. They called themselves Earthmen...Cover art by Walter Velez. -
Book II of First Contact. Time: 3246. Shari, Kristas and Cruse have escaped from the System and crash-landed on Earth. Now they're trapped on Home Planet, sitting targets of the ruthless Donovan Trueheart and his vicious Stormtroopers. When they learn of a secret refuge known as the Honeywell run by the legendary Momma Mercy, it seems their troubles are over. But why does the Honeywell make you forget your previous existence? And what is the purpose of Momma Mercy's sinister experiments? Cover art by Steinar Lund. -
A research biochemist receives a package from a fellow scientist containing profiles on six people suffering from an unknown disease, plus tissue samples for study. Both scientists are found dead shortly thereafter and all trace of the file and samples have vanished. A space mission to study an unusual comet passing through our solar system brings back something far deadly that the usual samples of space debris - and Michael Raines, who had been involved in a government study about the use of telepathy in space research and communications, finds his powers becoming unreliable as he stumbles across traces of a massive conspiracy that reaches from the heart of a comet all the way to the Oval Office. Cover art by Romas Kukalis -
In the deserts of God-Does-Battle, the Cities stand alone, a beleaguered as the aspirations of Mankind. Those still alive are silent, like stars in a dying universe, they await dust and decay. Yet within the living plasm of the fragmented structures an ancient programme works still, implanted by the human creators they cast out a thousand years ago. It is clear that before long, some of the Cities will fight extinction, and many of them will do battle in a quite unexpected way. Cover art by John Harris.
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Book I of Tomorrow. On a long weekend in Australia, while Effie and her friends are camping in the bush, their town is invaded and taken over by an enemy - Australia is at war. They are suddenly in the toughest situations humans can confront, facing life and death decisions, in a world where they must find courage, spirit, initiative and wisdom - or die.
DVD: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood: good condition; Region 4; preloved.
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Volume I of Mission Earth. An epic story told by the aliens that already walk among us. Earth is to be invaded and a Royal combat engineer must cross 22 light years to secretly infiltrate the planet. He is also crossing a scheme to use the resources of Earth's most powerful figure to overthrow the confederacy. Characters include a convicted murderess who trains giant cat-like animals, a doctor who creates human biological freaks and a madman who controls Voltar's secret police - not to mention a clandestine Earth base in Turkey. Cover art by Gerry Grace. -
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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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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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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To her fellow pilots, Gaelian is the Angel, the best of their elite fighting force. To the powerful ruling Board of Dinoreos, she is the Eldest of the Eldest of her household, scheming and plotting to claim her rightful place while she strives to overcome the handicap of a childhood spent on the primitive world of Cahaute. Gaelian is haunted by memories. Even in space she feels the Power Clans of Cahaute with her - though to surrender to the magic of her childhood would mean abandoning the privileges and honours she has worked so hard for on Dinoreos. Before she can make her choice, Gaelian discovers a secret older than either of her worlds and suddenly she holds the future of both in her hands. -
Laurie Jo Hansen Book II. Kevin Senecal was nobody's hero. All he wanted was a professional career, a strong union to protect him and comfortable company-owned housing well away from his Welfare Slum origins. As a senior engineering student at U.C.L.A. he seemed on the verge of realising his ambitions - then one night he was attacked by a murderous 'youth gang' - and accidentally killed one of them while escaping. That's when it all changed. 'You don't kill juvies in this town,' the Homicide Detective told him - and suddenly Kevin was on the run and on all Earth there was nowhere to hide... Cover art by David Plourde.
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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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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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Book I of Harvest Of Stars. Earth is in the grip of the Avantists, an oppressive regime that has crushed dissent and now threatens the last bastion of liberty, a maverick interplanetary corporation known as Fireball. Kyra Davis, beautiful young space pilot, is on a mission to rescue an electronic ghost - Fireball's founder, Anson Guthrie, whose mind was stored in a computer after his death - and rally the resistance to strike a blow against tyranny. Pursued by Avantist forces, she and Guthrie engage in a desperate battle of wits against a brilliant adversary - a computer copy of Guthrie that has been reprogrammed to serve the enemy. On an interstellar odyssey that takes Kyra from Earth's rebel enclaves to the decadent court of a lunar colony and the endangered frontier world of Demeter until under the light of Alpha Centauri, she undergoes an awesome transformation to ensure humankind's survival among the stars. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate.
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Book IV of Harvest Of Stars. The staid and sombre people of Earth are not only dependent on technology, they are all but ruled by machine intelligence. Suspecting a conspiracy to suppress the last vestiges of freedom known to mankind, Guthrie sets out on a dangerous journey, encountering the brave and beautiful Kinna Ronay and her courageous friend Fenn, who will join Guthrie in his attempt to stop the Terrans. Guthrie and his friends are determined that humankind will travel to the stars and roam the galaxies, or die trying. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate.
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Book II of The Baroque Cycle. In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves - including one Jack Shaftoe, A.K.A. King of the Vagabonds, A.K.A. Half-Cocked Jack - devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues - a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold. In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession. Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, dastardly plots are set in motion ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.
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In this issue: Blind Windows, Garry Kilworth; Healer, P.E. Cunningham; The Man With The Little Red Wagon, Ross Appel; Superbiometalemon, Christopher Anvil; Sule Skerry, Jane Yolen; Die And Follow Me, Gary Jennings; The Last Run, Alan Dean Foster; The Buck, Reid Collins; The Lion In His Attic, Larry Niven. With book, film and a science review by Isaac Asimov. Cover art by David Hardy. -
Borderline: Vercors
$10.00The discovery made by an anthropological expedition to New Guinea had implications which threatened to disrupt modern society - for they discovered the missing link between humans and animals, the Paranthropus; in some respects human, in others, ape-like. A creature on the borderline between man and animal which raised doubts as to the nature of Man and his place in the Universe....Cover art by Tim White. -
An excellent novelisation of the film by established and respected sci-fi author Whitley Strieber, based on the screenplay by Roland Emmerich. The planet is warming up and as the ice caps melt, the great currents of the oceans shift and the northern hemisphere is plunged into a new ice age. But as western society succumbs to blizzards and tidal waves, and the population of the northern hemisphere begins a a mass exodus southwards, mankind's only saviour is making a lonely, terror-filled trip north - to New York, disappearing under massive snow drifts - where his son was last heard of....
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TekWar: William Shatner
$12.00TekWar 1: Not satisfied with the thrills of being one of Greater Los Angeles’ toughest cops, Jake Cardigan turns to Tek, a computerised brain stimulant which transports the user to any reality he can imagine. He’s soon addicted to this fantasy-enabler - and it isn’t long before Cardigan is accused of dealing. When he fails to convince the mechanised jury of his innocence, the state strips his badge and sentences him to fifteen years in suspended animation. Four years later he’s awakened. His sentence has been changed - but no one will tell him why. Cardigan’s search for answers takes him to Mexico, where a rogue scientist is attempting to rid the world of Tek. But these efforts have roused powerful enemies...Aiding this quest is the right thing to do, but for an ex-con, doing good can be the most dangerous decision of all. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/tek-secret-william-shatner/ -
STARK: Ben Elton
$8.00Stark has more money than God and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. And they know the Earth is dying. A conspiracy is formed, and a planet-sized plot is hatched; the money-men who have destroyed the Earth are preparing to live in outer space - just until the Earth renews itself, ready for fresh exploitation. Some green freaks pick up the scent: CD, a Pommie poseur; Rachel, a rebel with a cause; Zimmerman, a brain-fried Vietnam Vet who got his balls shot off in the conflict; Walter, his peaceable mate; the Culboons, an aboriginal couple who have lost their land to the STARK conspiracy -and Chrissy, a determined American journo. Together they'll bring the rich enviro-vandals to justice - but they'll have to do more than stick up two fingers and say, "Peace." This novel contains one of Elton's finest quotes: To be able to own a swimming pool is a reality - to be able to own seventeen is a meaningless abstract. Cover shows Derrick O'Connor as Zimmerman and Ben Elton as CD in a scene from the TV mini-series of STARK.
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Wildside: Steven Gould
$20.00It's another world: a pristine earth where mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers still roam. There are no laws, no cities, no highways, no pollution - no people. It lies just beyond the heavy wooden door, hidden at the back of the barn, through a tunnel that enters a hillside in South Texas, but doesn't come out the other side. It belongs to Charlie, a whole world accessible only through the doorway on the ranch his uncle left him free and clear. But to explore a planet, you need money. And equipment. And the money to buy the equipment. Money to live on while you explore; money for taxes on the ranch and to pay for the training needed to survive in a completely wild world. So Charlie captures some extinct birds - passenger pigeons - and sells them on the tame side to finance his venture. He sells more than a dozen, and Wildside Investments is born. That is the beginning of the end - for how can you keep a secret like that one anyone gets wind of it? Charlie and his trusted friends will have to fight for the preservation of the Wildside - and their own lives. Cover art by Nicholas Jainschigg.
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