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Book VI of the Dune Chronicles. The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest - the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power. Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonised a green world on the planet Chapterhouse and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they’ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy - the spice melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes - a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad’Dib...Frank Herbert's final Dune novel. -
All over the world there are fantastic ruins and objects that cannot be explained by conventional history, archaeology or religion. In the ground-breaking Chariots of the Gods, Erich von Daniken provides answers to these questions...why do religious texts often refer to Gods who descend from fiery chariots? Why do modern space launch sites look like constructions on the plains of Nazca in Peru? Was God an astronaut? By looking at human history and the ruins of ancient civilisations with an open mind, Erich von Daniken offers a new solution to these eternal mysteries in Chariots of the Gods. Why do the world's sacred books describe Gods who came down from the sky in fiery chariots and always promised to return? How could an ancient Sanskrit text contain an account which could only be of a journey in an alien craft? In order to understand the mysteries which von Daniken has catalogued, we must go back to these ancient relics with an open mind. We must call in the resources and experience of sciences other than archaeology. Chariots of the Gods is a provocative attempt to explain some of the universe's most interesting mysteries. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
All over the world there are fantastic ruins and improbable objects which cannot be explained by any conventional means or theories. The sacred books of many faiths have descriptions of Gods who came down from the sky in fiery chariots and who always promised to return - and an ancient Sanskrit text contains what could only be a description of a journey in a space-ship complete with a graphic description of the force of gravity. What explanation can be offered for a huge block of stone weighing 20,000 tons the size of a four storey house complete with steps, ramps and decorations - and what force turned it upside down? Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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In this volume: Chessboard Planet: Robert Cameron is going mad...As head of US Psychometrics he has to defeat the European Falangists' assault on the sanity of Western scientists before society collapses. The Falange have attacked with weapons which are scientifically impossible - but which work. And just examining their basic principles drives scientists mad. For the principles change..and change...and change again - as though an unseen Grandmaster is continually changing the rules of a chess game where freedom is at stake. Only someone capable of thinking clearly in his nightmares can help - and help must come soon...Camouflage: A group of criminals seek escape by hiding in the Asteroid Belt. Needing nuclear power, they hi-jack a space freighter. What they don't know is that a Transplant - Bart Quentin, a man without a body, a living brain - is integrated into the electronic circuits and is in command of the ship. The criminals don't know where he is - but he knows where they are... Android: Androids were obviously not human - so they claimed. Bradley, having murdered his boss, the Director of New Products Inc, had left the man's body in one corner of the room and his head in another. But here is his boss - obviously in one piece and obviously alive. Could he be - a - robot? Or worse - is there a conspiracy of robots who plot to take over the human race? Or Else: Two men, fighting over a small water hole in a desert and ready to fight to the death, experience a visitation from an alien. They are to cease hostilities - or else... -
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city - intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify the Earth, eliminate poverty and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilisation approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind...or the beginning? Cover art by W. F. Phillipps. -
Star Wars. Book I of The Callista Trilogy. Leia, Han and Chewbacca are searching for the long-lost children of the Jedi, a mission which takes them to the frozen planet of Belsavis. There are tales of a Jedi exodus from the dark crypts beneath the planet's surface - and a rumour that since the exodus, no-one who enters the crypts returns alive. Luke, haunted by ominous dreams, journeys to a remote asteroid field over the planet Pzob and discovers the automated Dreadnought Eye of Palpatine from the days of all-out war. The ship is governed by the Will, a super-sophisticated artificial intelligence and occupied by the spirit of Callista, a Jedi knight who gave her life to stop the ship once before. She counsels Luke on how to destroy it once and for all - for the Will has awakened and its mission is the total annihilation of Belsavis. Cover art by Drew Struzan. -
Book IV of Ender's Saga. The planet Lusitania is home to three species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once again the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world. Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves. Cover art by John Harris.
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Chimera’s Cradle: Brian Stableford
$6.00–$20.00Book III of Genesys. Andris Myrasol, Princess Lucrezia and their companions are now spread widely across the face of the world. Yet they all struggle to reach the area known as Chimera's Cradle, facing ridiculous odds in order to solve the mysteries that led to their journeys so many months ago. The amazing Chimeras will be the least of the wonders that will be encountered on this final journey that leads to death, knowledge and transformation. Cover art by Mark Salwowski. -
Chthon: Piers Anthony
$12.00Aton's crime was simple. He loved a Minionette. All worlds despised and feared this almost mythical siren but no creature anywhere could tell him why. In the brutally hot, subterranean garnet caves of chthon to which he had been condemned, Aton sought an answer. And when he could not find it - he determined to seek it elsewhere. No man had ever escaped Chthon and lived. But the Minionette called. Aton had to have his answer. Anthony's first published book, written over seven years, some during his Army service. -
Clarion: William Greenleaf
$12.00Clarion - a planet hidden from the rest of humanity, a lost colony. For 200 years it has survived, alone and unaided. Suddenly mysterious men are willing to kill for its coordinates and the people of Clarion are dying to find one man. Dorland Avery is a psi-player, a master storyteller without words. Now he is targeted for assassination and no one knows why. On Clarion, a fanatical cult religion is tightening its stranglehold on the colonists. Lord Tem, the mystical deity of this powerful cult, may be a 'gent' - a living member of an intelligent species - the first ever contacted by space-faring humanity. The First Speaker of Lord Tem possesses powers remarkably like those of master story-teller Dorland Avery - and Avery may be the only man who can save the lost colony... Cover art by Maelo Cintron. -
Trouble has come to Clarke County in the shape of Macy Westmoreland, gangster's moll on the run from the Mafia. She's followed by the Golem, the ultimate killing machine, and Macy's his latest contract. More than enough problems for John Bigthorn - sheriff by day and shaman by night. He knew better than to mess with Jenny Schorr, wife of the leader of the 'New Ark' cult. So why did he? Add to that a ghost in the machine that thinks it's Bob Dylan, and a reincarnation of Elvis Presley, and you could be in New York on a typical day. Except that Clarke County is 200,000 miles from Earth, and someone's just launched a nuclear missile at it. Cover art by Julian Baum. -
They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now they are Dr. Rachel Dycek's adin - surgically transformed beings who can survive new lives on the surface of Mars. But they are still exiles from Earth forever and they are still pawns. For the adin exist to terraform Mars for human colonists - not for themselves. Creating a new Earth, they will destroy their world, killed by their own success. Desperate adin leader Boris launches a suicide campaign to sabotage the Mars Project, knowing his people will die in a glorious, doomed orgy of mayhem - unless the bitter Rachel Dycek can find a miracle to save the project and the race she created. Cover art by Bob Warner. -
Clone: Richard Cowper
$8.00Can four clones, saint-like, with perfect eidetic memories and rather plain features, find happiness in the brutish world of 2072? Or will they instead learn to accept the nasty conditions of life aboard a packed and harrassed Earth? Sprung illegally from Dr. Poynter's fertile imagination and sterile test tubes, nurtured separately by the current working class of intelligent apes, Alvin, Bruce, Colin & Desmond - alike as podded peas - are blissfully unaware of each other's existence till some very weird events begin to occur. Such as - Alvin claims to have remembrances of things yet to come. One of those things is a gorgeous green-eyed girl. Not to mention the psychic and teleportational talents the four develop when together, which understandably threaten and alarm the Omniscient Authorities. And there's the havoc they play on this tightly tuned society when they decide to give the bureaucracy just a taste of their awesome powers. Cover art by John Higgins. -
Close Encounter of the First Kind: Sighting of a UFO....Close Encounter of the Second Kind: Physical evidence...Close Encounter of the Third Kind: Contact... In the Sonoran Desert, a flight of Grumman TBM Avengers that went missing shortly after World War II are found in perfectly preserved condition. The SS Cotopaxi is discovered in the middle of the Gobi Desert, intact - and completely empty. In the American countryside, three-year-old Barry Guiler wakes to find his toys operating on their own...and when electrician Roy Neary investigates a mysterious power outage, he sees a UFO which passes over his vehicle, leaving him with a light burn on one side of his face. When little Barry Guiler is taken by the UFO, his mother Jillian and Roy become obsessed with images of a mountain and know this is where they must go to get Barry back. Cover art by Dan Perri. -
Close encounters of the first, second and third kinds are on the increase - why are world governments determined to conceal the truth? In 1947, a pilot saw nine bright flashing objects in brilliant sunlight, and estimated they were travelling at 1700 miles per hour...In 1961, a New Hampshire couple walking in the White Mountains noticed a bright light coming from a strange craft - they then lost consciousness for two hours...In 1976, the passengers, crew and pilots of a Trident jet all saw a dazzling light int he sky with two dark objects beneath it and on their return flight, a massive object showed up on radar in the same position - so what's going on? -
Is the movie Close Encounters fact - or science fiction? Is there really life in outer space? Are aliens trying to bring us messages from other galaxies? What about those abduction stories? What do the experts say about psychics and UFOs? It's all here...and by Clifford Wilson, author of Crash Go The Chariots and John Weldon, author of UFOs: What On Earth Is Happening? -
Closed System: Zack Hughes
$15.00Pat Howe, skipper and sole crew member of the space tug Skimmer, sensed trouble as soon as he accepted the commission from the Zede businessmen. Why were they willing to pay so much for him to transport medicine to Taratwo? And why did they insist on having Skimmer, a fully armed and notoriously fast tug, bring an unnamed passenger back for Taratwo? But Pat never dreamed when he blasted off that he'd taken the first step on a journey that would bring him to an unknown corner of the universe, where the flames of a millennium-old rebellion were about to be fanned into a threat to the entire civilized universe. Cover art by John Harris and Dean Morrissey. -
Book I of The Amtrak Wars. Ten centuries ago the Old Time ended when Earth's cities melted in The War Of A Thousand Suns. Now the lethal high technology of the Amtrak Federation's underground stronghold is unleashed on Earth's other survivors - the surface-dwelling Mutes. But the primitive Mutes possess ancient powers greater than any other machine. Jacket art by Nigel Hill.
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Book I of The Amtrak Wars. Ten centuries ago the Old Time ended when Earth's cities melted in The War Of A Thousand Suns. Now the lethal high technology of the Amtrak Federation's underground stronghold is unleashed on Earth's other survivors - the surface-dwelling Mutes. But the primitive Mutes possess ancient powers greater than any other machine. Cover art by Jim Burns.
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Book I of Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway. Imagine Clypsis - an entire solar system designed as the most awesome racetrack in the history of the sport...Imagine personality-implanted robots, whose knowledge and influence can make or break a racer's career, and fusion-fueled ships that move at extraordinary speeds...Now, imagine a young hero from Earth, braving the unknown to reach Clypsis, where his dream of being a faster-than-light racer can come true...Mike Murray's dream is to make his way from the racing pit to the cockpit of the universe's most dangerous and exhilarating challenge. Cover art by Bob Eggleton. -
Cobra Strike: Timothy Zahn
$10.00Book II of Cobra. If anyone had told Jonny Moreau the Cobras would one day take orders from the alien Troft, he would've laughed humourlessly. He'd lost too many friends in the Troft war, though the Cobras triumphed in the end. Now the Troft were trading partners - and they feared what might be a mutual danger. A new, tenacious and ruthless race threatened human space as well as Troft. The offer was territory - five new planets for the overcrowded Cobra Worlds. Jonny's son Justin would carry the Moreau name to danger, and learn on Qasama that it takes more than a Cobra father to make a Cobra son. Cover art by Eddie Jones. -
Cobra: Timothy Zahn
$7.00Book I of Cobra. The colony worlds of Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision - it would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground - with forces the Trofts would never suspect...And so the cobras were created - a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye yet undeniably deadly. But power brings temptation - not all the Cobras could be trusted to fight for Earth alone...Cover art by Eddie Jones.
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Cocoon....Who can forget the boatload of senior citizens who dared to find a new life in the stars, whisked away by the kindly aliens five years earlier? Now they are returning to Earth for a visit. They are looking forward to catching up with friends and family, and to assist in the retrieval of the Antarean cocoons that sill remain on the ocean floor. But when they return to Earth, time starts running again... -
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. -
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. -
Congo: An expedition sent by Earth Resources Technology is attacked and killed by unknown creatures. The team had stumbled on the legendary lost city of Zinj while searching for diamond deposits and a video image from a camera transmitted by satellite to the base in Houston show the killers to be grey haired gorillas. The second expeditionary team locate the demolished camp and encounter the gorillas, several of which are killed. An autopsy reveals they are gorilla-chimpanzee-human hybrids and closer to humans than gorillas. But who bred them? And why? https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-congo-dylan-walsh-laura-linney-ernie-hudson-tim-curry/ The Terminal Man: Covering four days in 1971, Harry Benson suffers from epileptic seizures and blackouts since a car accident in 1969. He has no memory of what happens during the blackouts; but when he attacks a man and is arrested, he is deemed a candidate for the experimental procedure of having a 'brain pacemaker' implanted to see if it will stop the seizures. But the seizures become more frequent, and the monitoring shows that Benson has learnt to initiate seizures involuntarily because the result is a shock of pleasure - leading to more seizures. He escapes from the hospital - and when his identity is found at a murder scene, the hunt is on. -
Count Zero: William Gibson
$30.00Book II of Sprawl. A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D - and the biochip he’s perfected - out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human...Cover art by Steve Stone.
