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Book III of Tarot. On far Tarot dreams come true--and fanged nightmares stalk the land. Sent to pierce the dread curtain of the Animation that turns fantasy into hideous reality, the wanderer-monk Paul finds himself on a trip to the ultimate and most terrifying fantasy of them all...Hell. Cover art by Rowena Morrill. -
Kronk: Edmund Cooper
$20.00The day Gabriel Chrome, a failed book sculptor contemplating suicide on the Thames Embankment, stumbled on the suicide bid of the naked Camilla Greylaw, was a great day of hopeful redemption for a corrupt and violent world. For the lovely form he chanced to preserve was the sole carrier of a contagious venereal disease - a bug which could inhibit the aggressive instinct, creating total placidity in all humans. At once, Gabriel's life has new meaning and purpose To save mankind via P 939, the greatest venereal disease in the history of mankind, becomes his hardened ambition - but mankind seems far from hope. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
Earth's invincible space fleet has occupied the monsters' worlds! Earth's mighty space force has seized the aliens' home planet! Earth's triumphant space warriors have captured the enemy system! But then...why is Earth suffering so beneath the tread of those heartless conquerors from the stars? Earth and Kazo have created a unique peace. Kazo administers Earth, and Earth controls Kazo. Nothing is really complicated until both humans and Kazos discover the existence of a third intelligent race in the galaxy and try to bring them into the newly developing peace. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Book I of Tarot. On the planet Tarot, the new religions flourish. But all who dwell in that occult world, still worship the timeless Tree of Life as the one supreme god. Now this primitive culture is being haunted by apparitions from the mystery-ridden deck of Tarot - by Animations who destroy minds and take human life. Can this horror be their Deity's ultimate challenge to his people? A young Earthling adventurer is sent to find the answer. Alone he dares to conjure a Tarot Animation, penetrate its awesome domain -- and risk being trapped through all eternity - within the mystic borders of the ancient cards. -
A rare collection of shorts by the masters of classic sci-fi: The Man Who Lost The Sea, Theodore Sturgeon; March Hare Mission, Ford McCormack; The Earth Men, Ray Bradbury; Who Goes There? Don A. Stuart; In Hiding, Wilmar H. Shiras; Not Final! Isaac Asimov; And Be Merry...Katherine Maclean; The Witches Of Karres, James H. Schmitz; Resurrection, A.E. van Vogt. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
A fine collection of sci-fi from the Fifties and Sixties. In this volume: Windsong, Kate Wilhelm; The Intruder, Ted Thomas; An Honourable Death, Gordon R. Dickson; The Burning, Theodore R. Cogswell; Harry The Tailor, Sonya Dorman; Fifteen Miles, Ben Bova; I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison; The Winter Flies, Fritz Leiber; Sun, Burt Filer; The Horars Of War, Gene Wolfe; Hop-Friend, Terry Carr; A Few Last Words, James Sallis; This Night, At My Fire, Joanna Russ; Look, You Think You've Got Troubles, Carol Carr; Unclear Call For Lee, Richard McKenna; The Last Command, Keith Laumer; Pelt, Carol Emshwiller; Masks, Damon Knight; The Sources Of The Nile, Avram Davidson. Cover art by Eddie Jones. -
The cream of sci-fi published before 1965. In this fabulous collection: That Only a Mother, Judith Merril: Radiation causes mutations in a large percentage of children - and how does a mother perceive her mutated child? Scanners Live In Vain, Cordwainer Smith: Scanners - once human, now more machine than man, creatures with the ability to travel between the stars. But then, the scanners are threatened by a new technology they believe will make them obsolete...Mars Is Heaven! Ray Bradbury: Astronauts finally land on an unexpected Mars - one that seems like their idyllic youth and what's more, their deceased relatives are waiting to welcome them. The Little Black Bag: C.M. Kornbluth: A doctor's bag from the future is sent backwards in time - and is found by a derelict alcoholic, a former doctor, who is inspired to begin healing again. Coming Attraction, Fritz Leiber: In a possible future, a woman's face is considered the ultimate in sexual attractiveness, and so - women must go around veiled. The Quest For Saint Aquin, Anthony Boucher : Can Science and God ever be reconciled? In a future where religion is considered irrational and is persecuted, a priest must find a relic to prove the existence of God. Surface Tension, James Blish: If mankind was in danger of dying out, how might we repopulate? Will we go back to the sea, and re-emerge...? The Nine Billion Names of God, Arthur C. Clarke: The monks are content to know that God has nine billion names, but there's always someone who wants to know everything - and there are some things we are not ready to know...It's A GOOD Life - Jerome Bixby: Anthony looks like any other little boy - but he has the ability to read the thoughts of everyone and create anything he likes out of his imagination - and the small town is terrified of him...This story was made into a Twilight Zone episode in 1961 starring Billy Mumy; The Cold Equations, Tom Godwin: A starship pilot is inexplicably too low on fuel to reach his destination - and the cause turns out to be a pretty stowaway. Fondly Farenheit, Alfred Bester: A psychotic android and its paranoid schizophrenic owner? Sounds like too much of a good thing...The Country of the Kind, Damon Knight: The story of a sociopath and a kind society's reactions to and treatment of him - is it ethical to medically interfere in behavioural aberrations? What about free will? Should anti-social behaviour of an individual be acceptable? Flowers For Algernon, Daniel Keyes: Charlie has a low I.Q. and longs to be intelligent, yet he studies and tries to learn and gets nowhere. When he is given the chance for a surgical procedure that will make him intelligent it looks like his dreams will come true. The surgery is a success, yet he finds that those he believed to be his friends are not and moreover, he knows more than the doctors do... -
Book IV of Cities In Flight. Earth is finished as a galactic power. From the heart of the Milky Way come the first tentative strands of the Web of Hercules: the strange culture that is destined to be the next great civilisation of the galaxy. All of this was of little concern to the contented citizens of New Earth, secure in their corner of the Great Magellanic Cloud. Only Amalfi dreams restlessly of the old nomadic days. But then an old friend returns, bringing some unimaginably bad news...Cover art by Chris Foss. -
In this volume: The Double Minds: A prison break and carjacking on another planet in order to raise a rebellion against the Shaloor... by first vanquishing the shleath. Forgetfulness: An interstellar expedition explores, deserted except for a handful of the city-builders' descendants. There are plans of colonisation but the inhabitants have other ideas...Who Goes There? This was made into the classic sci-fi film The Thing From Another World. Out of Night: Long ago the matriarchal Sarn conquered Earth and enslaved the few survivors. Now, finally, there is a chance of rebellion and redress. Cloak of Aesir: The battle against the Sarn continues. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
Black Steel: Steve Perry
$15.00Book VII of Matador. She is a sensei - a teacher, a master of the martial arts. Her weapon is a 400 year old sword; her ambition is to find the perfect student. one worthy of her blade. He is a thief, a poet, a scholar, a soldier - and one of the best of the Matadors, the elite cadre of bodyguards who sparked a revolution. Now, stripped of his honour and forbidden the weapons that set him apart, he must begin again. Their enemy is hidden in the House of Black Steel, protected by power and money. He has stolen her secret and his honour and nearly claimed their lives. Their only hope of survival and vengeance lies in the strength of black steel. Cover art by Luis Royo. -
Narabedla...where the Rainbow Cities gleam in every colour imaginable under the light of twin suns; where lush flowers croon a song of death in the gardens of Karamy the Golden, where their victims are never found; where falcons with human intelligence hunt in the forests, but seek no ordinary prey; where the mutant Dreamers sleep fitfully in their dark keep, dreaming of power lost long ago, and soon to be reclaimed...Cover art by Melvyn Grant. -
In the cold corrupt system of the colony mining worlds, one man's life and liberty aren't worth much; the vital spacelanes are rigidly controlled and it's as much as your life's worth to go against the system. But there is one man with both the unbroken spirit and the technological mastery to open the lanes and free his fellow men from tyranny. And on grim Stellamira, Gallagher builds the first resistance, with down trodden colonists who have nothing left to lose (but worlds to gain); a clever, rebellious madame and her 'entourage'; a naive starship captain with a lot to learn and a battlefield to learn it on...and a great ice-asteroid that engineering genius has transformed into a ship called Gallagher's Glacier...Cover art by John Rush. -
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. -
Doctor Who Adventure No. LXXI. The Doctor and his companions are trapped in an E-Space universe, struggling to find the co-ordinates which will break the deadlock and take them back into Normal Space. When all else fails, the Doctor suggests programming the TARDIS on the toss of a coin. Before he realises what is happening, this is just what Adric has done... And when the TARDIS arrives at its destination, according to the console read-outs the craft is nowhere - and nowhere is exactly what it looks like...Cover art by Andrew Skilleter. -
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. -
After a terrifying nightmare in outer space, Walter Franklin had to discover a reason for living. He found it in the ocean depths, where strangers defied death to give life back to him. Freedom to roam above and below the great waters would have been enough for any man - but Franklin is haunted by the memory of an echo - an echo that could solve the oldest mystery of the sea...Cover art by W. F. Phillipps. -
In this volume: The Streets Of Ashkelon: An alien race believes everything it is told - and when it hears the Christian message the consequences are truly horrific. Portrait Of The Artist; Rescue Operation; Captain Bedlam; Final Encounter;Unto My Manifold Dooms; The Pliable Animal; Captain Honario Harpplayer, R.N.; According To His Abilities; I always Do What Teddy Says: A frightening glimpse at the possibility of mass mind control from childhood. But why is one person spared? Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Mercenary: Piers Anthony
$8.00Book II of Bio Of A Space Tyrant. He was driven by violent injustice from his home moon of Callisto - and set forth to claim the epic destiny that would blaze across worlds and time. He saw his family destroyed, his sister carried off into sexual slavery, his beautiful lover killed - and he swore revenge against the murderous pirates who held the Jupiter planetoids in a stranglehold of terror. Fired by raw courage, steeled by young might, he rose in the Navy of Jupiter to command a personal squadron loyal to the death. And it was death they faced - against piratical warlords of the Jupiter Ecliptic who laughed at the young commander's challenge. Until they met the merciless fury of the warrior who would annihilate all obstacles in his path to immortal renown as the Tyrant of Jupiter.Cover art by Alan Craddock. -
Book I of Harbinger. Gabriel Connor is up against it. Expelled from the Concord Marines and exiled in disgrace, he's offered one last chance by the Concord to redeem himself. All it involves is gambling his life in a vicious game of death. Cover art by rk Post. -
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. -
Book II of Deathstalker. Owen Deathstalker - outlawed, with a price on his head and the blood of a mighty warrior lineage in his veins - had no choice but to embrace a dangerous destiny. With nothing to lose, only he had the courage to take up arms against Queen Lionstone XIV. Now as he gathers his unlikely allies - the legendary washed-up hero Jack Random, the beautiful pirate Hazel d'Arc, the original Deathstalker long since presumed dead, and the alien Hadenmen whose purposes no human can discern--the eyes of the downtrodden are upon him while the freedom of a galaxy hangs in the balance...Cover art by Steve Crisp. -
The crew of the Enterprise have been summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from Starbase Prison to a rehabilitation centre. Dr. Mordreaux is accused of promising to send people back in time, then killing them instead. When Mordreaux escapes and kills Kirk, Spock must travel back in time to avert the disaster. Mordreaux's experiements have thrown the entire universe into a deadly time warp, so Spock must not only rescue Kirk, but fight Time itself before the universe closes in on itself - the Entropy Effect. Cover art by Wayne Barlowe. -
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an evil legacy long believed dead is stirring. Now the dark side of the Force threatens to overwhelm the light, and only an ancient Jedi prophecy stands between hope and doom for the entire galaxy. On the green, unspoiled world of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, arrive to protect the realm’s young queen as she seeks a diplomatic solution to end the siege of her planet by Trade Federation warships. At the same time, on desert-swept Tatooine, a slave boy named Anakin Skywalker, who possesses a strange ability for understanding the “rightness” of things, toils by day and dreams by night—of becoming a Jedi Knight and finding a way to win freedom for himself and his beloved mother. It will be the unexpected meeting of Jedi, Queen, and a gifted boy that will mark the start of a drama that will become legend. Based on the screenplay and story by George Lucas. -
Book III of The Gap Cycle. After a terrifying encounter with the Amnonian aliens, Nick Succorso makes for the safety of Thanatos Minor, the infamous bootleg shipyard where galaxial illegals come for ship repair and exotic indulgence. But the Amnonians are waiting for Nick, Morn Hyland and her force-grown son Davies, making the haven into a hell. Cover art by Fred Gambino. -
Book III of The Elysium Cycle. The planet Prokaryon is harsh and alien, uninhabitable for normal humans - accessible only to those willing to be genetically altered, a long and painful process. This marks it as the perfect site for a colony of orphans. Founded by Brother Rod and his fellow Spirit Brethren, the colony offers them a chance to forge a new home in relative peace. But all is not seems on Prokaryon - sudden fortitous rainstorms quench forest fires and then rapidly dissipate. The entire planet's eco-system is highly structured - too structured to have been formed by the randomness of nature. But decades of research have turned up no evidence of any 'hidden masters' of Prokaryon. So when Proteus Unlimited, a greedy interstellar corporation plans to terraform Prokaryon - first mining it then making it habitable for humans and netting big profits - the search for native intelligent life becames a frantic race against time and in the shuffle of bureaucracy and greed, the simple colony of orphans could be wiped out. Cover art by Bob Eggleton.
