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Book III of Legends of Dune. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronised Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of victory, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight. Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets. Once again, the tide of the titanic struggle shifts against the warriors of the human race. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin - human and machine face off one last time and on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Muad'Dib.Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Paul Muad'Dib - cheered as a hero, worshipped as a Messiah, loathed as a tyrant - has vanished into the endless deserts of the planet Dune, leaving his turbulent empire without guidance. It's up to his younger sister Alia and his formidable mother, Lady Jessica, aided by faithful Gurney Halleck, the Fremen leader Stilgar and the resurrected Duncan Idaho to keep the human race from tearing itself apart. Fuelling the flames of dissent is the outspoken rebel, Bronso of Ix, doing everything he can to destroy the myth of Paul Muad'Dib, the man responsible for more deaths than any other in history. Working with Princess Irulan, Jessica tries to uncover the truth about her son. As the winds of rebellion and treachery brew, she discovers that Muad'Dib may have knowingly planted the seeds for his own downfall. And that Bronso of Ix has a secret mission of his own, one that will force Jessica to choose between the memory of her son and the future of the human race. Cover art by Steve Stone. N.B.: This volume falls between Dune Messiah and Children of Dune in the chronological order: https://dunenovels.com/chronological-order-of-dune-books/ -
When brash young college students and would-be scientists Jerry Courtenay and Chuck van Chider develop a faster-than-light space drive in their homemade work-shed, they decide to sneak it aboard their football team's airplane as a prank. The boyish plan backfires, however, and the boys find themselves, along with their crush Sally and the seemingly loveable school caretaker, Old John, hurtling through the solar system towards Titan - an icy moon of Saturn inhabited by hideous ice creatures. Titan and the 20th century are only square one as the foursome becomes embroiled in a vast, intergalactic, century-jumping battle. A space yarn chock-ful of wild, galaxy-hopping adventures, iron-jawed heroes, damsels in distress, evil aliens, and epic scope and all written with Harrison's tongue firmly planted in his cheek, then this is your book. Cover art by Alan Craddock. -
Crystal Singer Universe o.4. Nimisha Boynton-Rondymense was the body-heir of Lady Rezalla and as such was the heiress of one of the First Families on Vega. But even as a child she disdained the formalities of her aristocratic background and was happiest in her father's shipyard. By the time she was in her twenties she was the designer of the most advanced space yacht in the galaxy and owner of the Rondymense shipyards. It was on a test of her Mark 5 prototype that things went wrong. In an empty space field she was suddenly confronted by a boiling white wormhole and was sucked in, only to be thrown out into an unknown dimension of time and space. She was not the first - as she explored this new and unfamiliar part of the Universe she found traces of many ships marooned there over the centuries. Not knowing if she would ever return to the world she new, Nimisha chose to land on 'Erehwon' - fascinating, terrifying and beautiful - and inhabited by not only three survivors of a previous Vegan ship - but something else...Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Book I of Lifewave. The Kren could not understand the aliens who came to their planet. The humans did not raise venom. Or give birth to their young in eggs. And they didn't molt. There was no way that a Kren would choose a human partner. But Arshel did. Her human Molt brother was Dennis Lakely, son of famous archeologists. One she joined their family, she became a part of their search for an ancient city. She did not know that Dennis had chosen her for her hidden abilities and for her memory of a time in which they had both lived millennia ago - in the long lost City of a Million Legends. Cover art by David Mattingly. -
Book II of The Catteni. The inhabitants of Botany - a mix of humans and extraterrestrials - have built a thriving, productive world from what had been a slave planet. Now they plan to overthrow the terrible Eosi who had existed for centuries by subsuming members of the Catteni race, living in their bodies and ruling pace through them. The Botanists had received unexpected help from the great beings they knew only as the farmers, who had thrown up a huge and impervious space bubble around Botany. Even the Eosi ships could not get through. But the Council knows they must go out and destroy the Eosi on their own ground and vanquish the monster life forms for ever. Cover art y Peter Elson (variation). -
The 22nd century, 150 years after the Dust Wars destroyed America's Mid-West, and much else besides. California is a last outpost for survival and reclamation during a long epidemic of all-purpose despair. The extraordinary cult of 'Tumbondé', a former taxi driver its prophet and leader, predicts the imminent arrival on earth of 'Gods' from the stars. The movement grows daily. Tom O'Bedlam, an apparent madman, prey since childhood to visions which seem to confirm 'Tumbondé', goes even further. He can, he will, help others to make the Crossing. If the world doesn't go too mad too soon. If well-meaning 'rationalists' don't lock him away...Cover art by Mark Salwowski -
Book III of The Damned. After millennia of useless war, the union of alien races was on the verge of winning a decisive victory - thanks to their new Earth allies. But then the birdlike Wais scholar, Lalelelang, found disturbing evidence that huamns might not adapt so easily to peace. When her field research revealed the existence of a secret group of powerfully telepathic humans called the Core, it looked as if Lalelelang would be the first victim in a new war between Humans and their allies. At the last moment, a lone Core commander took a chance on her intelligence and compassion, to gamble the fate of Humanity on the remote chance they could find an alternative to a galaxy-wide bloodbath. Cover art by Barclay Shaw. -
Book II of Star of the Guardians. By calling a temporary truce, Derek Sagan and the rebels thwarted the alien Corasian invasion. Enemies once again, the rebels have resumed their defiance and Sagan has returned to his campaign to topple the corrupt galactic government. He plans to set Dion up as king of the Starfire dynasty - and place himself as the ruling power behind the throne. On a remote planetary sinkhole of sin and corruption, a small weapon - barely ten centimetres a side - is hidden. If activated, this seemingly harmless crystal cube could tear a hole in the universe - and destroy the fabric of creation. Sagan wants it. Lady Maigrey wants it. And so does Abdiel, a cruel genius who commands a drugged army of mindless slaves. Now Dion is caught in this struggle as he faces his greatest trial in his battle for the interstellar throne. Cover art by Stephen Youll.
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Justice: David Drake
$7.00Book III of Northworld. A world of eight warring planes where gods and men battle for mastery of the Matrix, a high-tech bridge through space and time. A world where weaponry is the supreme art. Where peace can be crueler than combat. Where a single battle could puncture the Matrix and plunge the entire population - king android, lizard and serf - into the void. In a last titanic conflict, Security Forces Commissioner Nils Hansen faces the ultimate test - it is written that not all are fated to die on the final day of Northworld...but which few will survive? Cover art by Roger Loveless. -
Book II of The Hunters; the sequel to Hunters of the Red Moon. Dane, Rianna and the monster Aratak were the survivors of the terrible hunt of the Red Moon. They had lived to achieve fame and fortune untold. But life in the Starways was rather colourless - until they were asked to investigate a Closed World. What they had not counted on was this world was the only one known where two dominant ruling species lived in precarious harmony - with the dread ghosts which threatened to shatter that peace. Cover art by Peter Jones. -
Contains all three books of the Oswald Bastable Trilogy: The War Lord of the Air; The Land Leviathan and The Steel Tsar. In 1903, Captain Oswald Bastable, in charge of a military mission in the Himalayas, enters the Temple of the Future Buddha at Teku Benga. He is catapulted into a brave new world decades in the future - a world where the British Empire is stronger than ever and giant airships rule the air. Cover art by Melvyn Grant.
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Fearless: Jack Campbell
$7.00Book V of The Lost Fleet series. Outnumbered by the mighty forces and firepower of the Syndicate Worlds, the Alliance Fleet continues its retreat across the enemy star system, led by Captain John Geary who has returned to the fleet after a hundred year suspended animation. The Alliance must return home with its captured prize: the key to the Syndicate hypernet, the key to victory. Cover art by Pat Turner. -
Book II of The Dawning Shadow. The godlike rulers of the High Inquest had forsaken all that made them human. But one young Inquestor rediscovered the powers of compassion and hastened the end of their ancient, starflung empire. Cover art by Gary Cicarelli. -
Book II of the second Uplift trilogy. For two thousand years, Jijo's six exiled races have lived together. Their greatest wish - to be left alone. Their greatest fear - an inevitable Judgement Day, when godlike Galactic authorities will punish their illegal colony. Now they have been found. Starships darken the skies. Prey to criminals and fanatics, the inhabitants of Jijo face disaster. For the dolphin crew of an Earth Survey Ship, it is a time when the discovery of long-hidden secrets may unlock the destiny of all Five Galaxies. Cover art by Fred Gambino. -
Book I of Tomorrow. When Ellie and her friends go camping in a remote location the locals call Hell, they have no idea they're leaving their old lives behind forever. Despite a less-than-tragic food shortage and a secret crush or two, everything goes as planned. But when they return home, they find they are really in Hell - their homes are abandoned and their pets starving or dead. Something has gone wrong - horribly wrong. Before long, they realize the country has been invaded and the entire town has been captured - including their families and all their friends. Ellie and the other survivors face an impossible decision: They can flee for the mountains or surrender. Or they can fight... Cover art by Helen Halliday. -
Book 1: Prelude to Dune. 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. Cover art by Gerry Grace. -
Book I of Doona. Doona was a jewel of a planet - a pastoral paradise with rivers and lakes, mountains and seas. The Hrubbans needed it to revitalise their decadent race, to give them back something of the old pioneering spirit. The Terrans needed it as an overspill from the hysterical over-crowding of Earth. So they both sent a colonising party - and they both began to think of Doona as home. And then one day the smooth-skinned, two-legged mammal known as Man came face-to-face with the furry, four-pawed mammal known as Hrubban...
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Book II of Starcats. All is not well on Qsaprinel. The normally peaceful world, ruled by crustacean-like creatures blessed with a dry wit and the philosophical good sense of a Mahatma Gandhi, has suddenly turned up "Classified" on all Federation records. Duncan Kinnear isn't an important Federation investigator - but then Qsaprinel isn't an important planet. Besides, Kinnear has a modest record of success in odd jobs where even the problem is unclear, to say nothing of the solution. And he has some unlikely allies: the big red cats called Ungrukh - dangerous, telepathic and fiercely loyal to their friends. Kinnear saved their world; they will help him save this one - even though the natives do look more like crayfish than one normally expects of a race of philosophers, and are not good to eat. With the help of a psychic reader of Tarot cards and a chilling rumor about mutant humans (not inclined even slightly toward philosophy) on Qsaprinel, Kinnear and company are on their way. -
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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Book II of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades-in-arms as they hurtle across space in a ship powered by pure improbability - and desperately in search of a place to eat. The gang's all here: Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who's gone native and changed her name to Trillian; and Marvin, the moody android who suffers nothing and no one very gladly. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food literally speaks for itself. If you've done six impossible things this morning, then why not round it off with breakfast, lunch or dinner at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe? With your host, Max Quordlepleen! Cover art by Chris Moore. -
This volume contains: Flatlander, Larry Niven; The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal, Cordwainer Smith; Overproof, Jonathon Blake Mackenzie; Poor Planet, J. T. McIntosh;Shamar's War, Kris Neville; The Tactful Saboteur, Frank Herbert; Ministry of Disturbance, H. Beam Piper.
