- Sorry, this product is unavailable.
-
There were eight of them isolated on the island, waiting for the launching of the first rocket intended to travel up and beyond the speed of light - it was a long countdown...seventy two hours of mounting tension... and as the minutes ticked by, the frail network of human relationships was suddenly ripped apart - by MURDER. Cover art by John Richards. -
It's 1942, the Titanic is still cruising and the world is at peace. Suddenly, there's a distress call from Counter-Earth, our twin planet on the other side of the sun. A ship is launched with Albert Einstein and the first woman pro baseball player - Babe Didriksen - on the crew. But at the same time, Juan Peron and his lovely Evita launch a faster ship from Argentina, armed for war in space. Who will reach Counter-Earth first? A brains-and-baseball alliance of American heroes? Or an Argentinian temptress and her fascist husband? Reviewed as 'audaciously inventive...a wild romp through a very strange universe.' Cover art by George Barr. -
In 1994, the Marines test a new missile. After launch it mysteriously disappears...and if it reaches civilian areas they'll be in big trouble. Carol Dawson, a journalist, is alerted by an unusual sight of whales in the Miami area and armed with quipment provided by her friend, Dr. Dale Michaels from the Miami Oceanographic Institute, she goes to investigate the rumors of a missing missile that could be behind the mysterious whale behavior. She hires the services of Nick Williams & Jefferson Troy, boat owners, so she can get to the Mexican Gulf to investigate. They find an unknown artifact and have doubts about its nature. They hope it's part of a lost treasure...but is it? Cover art by David Scutt. -
Book I of The Spin Trilogy. It is the aftermath of civil war in the vast pageant of planets and stars known as The Spin. Three years since he crushed the rebellion, Viklun Haas, industrialist and leader of the Hegemony, is eliminating all remnants of the opposition. Starting with his own daughter. But Fleare Haas, fighter for Society Otherwise has had a long time to plan her next move. Sprung from her remote monastery prison and reuniting with a team of loyal friends, Fleare’s journey will take her across The Spin to the cluster of fallen planets known as the The Catastrophe Curve - and from exile, to the very frontiers of war. Meanwhile, in the brutal and despotic empire of The Fortunate, word is reaching viceroy Alameche of a most unusual piece of plunder from their latest invasion. For hundreds of millions of years, the bizarre planets and stars of The Spin itself have been the only testament to the god-like engineers that created it. Now, buried in the earth of a ruined planet, one of their machines has been found... -
Flash Gordon III. Stranded in deep space, Colonel Flash Gordon, Dale and Dr. Hans Zarkov are in the middle of a centuries-old battle for supremacy over the the Universe. Manipulated by a war-crazed android and unsure of who is friend and who is foe, they must stop the bloodshed before all life, including that on Earth, is annihilated. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. -
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. -
Star Trek No. 71. The crew of the Nautilus, a battered Starship of mysterious origin, is beamed about the Starship Enterprise. The group claims they are freedom fighters from the future, working to save the Federation from the Consilium - a gang of corrupt power-seekers. But when the Nautilus crew members suddenly seize control of the Enterprise and a Starship from the future arrives to arrest the renegades, Kirk must separate his true allies from those out to destroy the Federation. Cover art by Keith Birdsong -
Book II of the Kerrion Empire saga. The Kerrions, rulers of the most far-reaching empire in the known universe, attempt to reclaim control of their empire while their renegade second son, Chaeron, retrieves Shebat, his wife, from Earth. As a qualified cruiser pilot, Shebat returns to claim her sentient cruiser and her place in the Kerrion dynasty against danger and numerous obstacles. The relationship of Shebat and Chaeron becomes more complex as they adapt to each other and the circumstances they face as Shebat becomes a staunch defender of the right of the space cruisers to develop their own intelligence, which threatens the control of the Kerrion Empire. Cover art by Don Punchatz.
-
Book II of Starfire. Neither side having proved capable of pressing their conflict to a successful conclusion, the Human-Orion war to end all interstellar wars has collapsed into an uneasy peace. But it is a peace filled with fear, hatred and mistrust on both sides. Then from out of a warp point notorious for devouring space ships, appears a ship from the dim mists of half-forgotten history. It responds to hails from patroling Orion sentry using ancient human codes from a long lost colony. And it opens fire on the Orions, igniting the fires of interstellar war anew, in a quest to free Holy Mother Terra...Cover art by Paul Alexander. -
CV: Damon Knight
$8.00Sea Venture - CV for short - is the largest ocean-going vessel ever built by Man - a huge sea habitat housing a scientific research station, an entire city. For some, CV is the vacation dream of a lifetime; for others, it is man's conquest of the oceans; and for two men it becomes an arena for a deadly game of cat and mouse. But for one, CV is the place to stalk its next victim. It's not human - it's not even of Earthly origin - and to be touched by it is deadly...Cover art by Tony Roberts. -
Detective Vernon Moody is a modern cop who likes to catch killers the modern way - with computer webs, databases and common sense. So he's not happy when his latest case revolves around the supposedly mystical properties of a lost Navajo sand painting. Or when the painting leads him to suspect an alien presence in his modern world. Now Moody's getting scared and what started out as a routine murder investigation may uncover the core of reality - or destroy it forever. -
Cyberbooks: Ben Bova
$15.00Written in the 1980s, Bova predicted the coming of the Kindle: an electronic device that brings the written word to the masses instantly and inexpensively. Carl Lewis, the inventor of the first ever E-reader, finds himself embroiled in the machinations of two rival traditional publishers, a handful of suitably Machiavellian characters and a court case brought on by various interest groups who cannot see beyond their own self interested noses. His gadget will revolutionise the publishing industry - but not everyone wants it revolutionised! -
BattleTech Universe No. 47. Edwin Amis, new commander of the Eridani Light Horse faces a tough decision: Should he openly defy the First Lord of the Star League? Sun-Tzu Liao, First Lord, has sent Star League troops as 'peace-keepers' to the St. Ives Compact to prevent open rebellion by angry citizens - but the troops aren't seeking peace. Amis knows the mission is actually for reclaiming territory for the Capellan Confideration and he's ready to station counter-forces on Milos, close to the heart of the Capellan capital. But on Milos, events are already escalating - Death Commando Chen Shao and his ruthless partner, Nessa Ament have secretly murdered a rebel's family in cold blood. Full scale war is about to erupt. Cover art by Peter Peebles. Illustrations by Duane Loose and FASA.
-
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. -
Book I of The Sentients Of Orion. While drifting lost in space due to a navigational failure, a mineral scout discovers an Entity so powerful and alien it can only be described in one word: God. On the arid mining planet of Araldis, Baroness Mira Fedor is on the run from the authorities, her life in tatters and her future stolen. Araldis itself buckles under the onslaught of a ruthless invasion. None of this is coincidence. The more Mira discovers about her planet's elite and the forces arrayed against them, the more things seem to point to a simple guiding intelligence: nothing that has happened to her or her world is an accident. She's stumbled into a galaxy-sized intrigue - but will she live long enough to tell anyone?
-
Book IV of Tomorrow, When the War Began. When you're thrown into the wilderness of war, you don't get too many choices. You can give up - or you can fight. Ellie and her friends choose to fight. They spend a lot of time being terrified and they make mistakes. Sometime it's a victory just to stay alive. Cover photograph by David Stoecklein. -
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. -
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....
-
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.... -
There Will Be War, Volume IV. In this volume: Macdonough's Song, Rudyard Kipling: Whether the State can loose and bind in Heaven as well as on Earth... The Cloak And The Staff, Gordon R. Dickson: A skilled human translator tries to balance his desire to stay alive with his need to lash out at Earth's monstrous overlords, who treat humans as cattle, or at best, pets. Winter Snow, Eric Vinicoff and Marcia Martin: From the President Nivling series. A Way Out Maybe… or A Dead End For Sure, John Brunner: A Disarmer's Assessment of Western 'Defence' Policy. A Letter from the Soviet Union, Alexander Shatravka: The author was arrested in 1982 for his activities in the Unofficial Group To Establish Trust Between The USSR and the US. Emergency Ration , Theodore R. Cogswell: Cannibalistic aliens come up with what they think is afoolproof method of dining on humans... The Proud Foot of the Conqueror, Reginald Bretnor: Will there be a time when rule with honour will succeed? Lepanto, Gilbert Keith Chesterton: The epic poem which tells of the defeat of the Ottoman fleet of Ali Pasha by the Christian crusader, Don John of Austria. A Cure for Croup, Edward P. Hughes: Despite the fall of civilisation, the villagers of Barley Cross are determined to live normal lives. Battle At Kahlkhopolis, Robert Adams: Centuries after World War III, the Horseclans roam the vast emptiness of the Americas. Conqueror of Vectis, Keith Taylor: A fantastic tale of betrayal and revenge. Pretty Baby, Ray Peekner: A day and age of engineered, perfect babies...The Man in the Gray Weapons Suit, Paul J. Nahin: Will A.I and 'fifth generation' computers be the future weapons of warfare? Reagan Vs. The Scientists, Robert Jastrow: Jastrow, the head of NASA's theoretical division, discusses the Reagan administration response to the USSR. Joined the Space Force To Wear My Blues, John Maddox Roberts: Boredom can be just as deadly as an enemy attack... PsyOps, Stefan T. Possony: On psychological Warfare. Three Soldiers, D.C. Poyer: A German WW2 officer, a Zulu warrior and a Roman centurion all wake to find they have been abducted and pitted in gladiatorial combat against alien beings. Interim Justice, William F. Wu: A futuristic tale in which lawyers are obsolete and disputes are settled with war games. No Truce With Kings, Poul Anderson: In a post-apocalyptic United States, the Pacific States of America are racked by wars backed on one side by the "Espers", a movement claiming their followers achieve great psychic powers.Cover art by Bob Layzell. -
First published in 1952, this one of the earliest examples of post-nuclear holocaust fiction. Fors was a mutant. He did not know what drove him to explore the empty lands to the north, where the great skeletal ruins of civilisation rusted away in the wreckage of mankind's hopes. But he could not resist the urging that led him through danger and adventure, to the place where he faced the menace of the Star Men...First published as Star Man's Son. -
Solitaire: a unique ring of heavy-metal moons. For decades after its discovery an unexplained 'effect sphere' kept all hyperships away from a metal-hungry galaxy's most tantalising prize. Until a research ship penetrated the Cloud entirely by accident - when the man at the helm died of a heart attack just before entering the sphere. For the first time a ship's hyperdrive did not fail as it approached Solitaire. For the researchers, the difficulty came when it was time to leave...Now every ship heading for the Ring Mines carries two death-row felons - one for entry, the other for exit. It's as a bizarre a method as the effect it counters, but it works...until the hero of Deadman Switch discovers that oneof his condemned criminals isn't guilty...Cover art by David Mattingly. -
The year is 2114 - and someone has stolen a dangerous, potentially violent humanoid clone capable of unimaginable telepathic powers. And that someone accomplished the impossible - transportation of the clone's physical body beyond inter-dimensional boundaries. The clone is hidden in the dark recesses of a previously unexplored dimension. Alan Fletcher, class A telepath, is the only human capable of locating the clone and his life and his soul depends on it. As he digs deeper, he will see the lives of those he loves threatened, discover that his friends are his enemies and how important this clone is, not only to his life but to his universe. But how to find it - and how to use it? Cover art by Bruce Pennington.
-
Death Quest: L. Ron Hubbard
$25.00Book VI of Mission Earth. Hitman Torpedo Fiaccola has finally struck. A killer so loathsome that he has been blacklisted by the Mafia, Torpedo has been hired By Soltan Gris to target the beautiful and deadly Countess Krak, whose lover Jettero's mission to Earth threatens a plot to overthrow the 110-planet Empire. Meanwhile, a bigamous marriage, a bubblegum-chewing teenager and a pig farm may sabotage every scheme. Cover art by Gerry Grace.
-
Book II of Man From Atlantis. Male and female, positive and negative. With hands linked, they formed a deadly weapon capable of delivering a lethal high-voltage shock to anyone, anything they touched. Fear made them hostile - and dangerous. Recognising himself in them and fascinated by the lovely Lioa, Mark Harris was drawn into their charged current. They alone could tell him where he had come from, who he was. But he had not reckoned on the forces that would compel him, calling him to complete a desperate alien mission, threatening the fragile new bond he had forged with the earth - and with Men. Cover shows Patrick Duffy as Mark Harris in the TV series Man From Atlantis.
-
Death Watch: D.G. Compton
$30.00The future is dominated by television. Nothing is too gross or too sensational for the viewers. Katherine Mortenhoe is dying of an incurable disease, and NTV sign her up for the most spectacular show ever - her dying moments. She tries to escape but the sleepless eye of the camera follows her everywhere - implanted in the retina of a TV employee. Originally published as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe. -
Book V of The Amtrak Wars. Having captured Clearwater, the Federation now plans to catch Cadilliac and Mr Snow and annihilate the Clan McCall, so Steve must continue his double role as loyal agent of the Federation and blood-brother to the Mutes. The First Family is hell-bent on exacting retribution for past defeats; the House of Yama-Shita is also seeking revenge.
