It'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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Wildside: Steven Gould
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10 November, 2996...The ship Parkinson was transporting famous entertainer Chelsie Bradford on a tour of the galaxy, to raise funds for a very unpopular interstellar war. Then the deaths began. Captain Inspector Nate Blackburn knew the killer would strike again. But he didn't know why. Were the murders acts of sabotage - or acts of twisted love? Cover art by Ron Miller. -
The volume contains: Time Enough, Lewis Padgett; The Soul-Empty Ones, Walter Miller Jr; Defender of the Faith, Alfred Coppel; All of You, James V. McConnell; The Holes and Beast in the House, Michael Shaara; Little Boy, Jerome Bixby; Unwillingly to School, Pauline Ashwell; Brother Robot and The Stuff, Henry Slesar; The Risk Profession, Donald E. Westlake; Arcturus Times Three, Jack Sharkey; They Are Not Robbed, Richard McKenna; The Creatures of Man, Verge Foray; Only Yesterday, Ted White; An Agent In Place, Laurence M. Janifer. -
Three by Connie Willis: Uncharted Territory: Explorers Findriddy and Carson are sent to Boohte to survey the ridges and scrub-covered hills of the planet. Back home, their adventures are followed by countless breathless fans, but the reality is far less romantic as they deal with dust, nitpicking regulations, and uncooperative aliens. Teamed with a young intern whose specialty is mating customs and a native guide of indeterminate gender, the group sets out for a previously unexplored sector of the planet. As they survey canyons and cataracts, battle dangers, and discover alien treasures, they will soon find themselves in alien territory of another kind: exploring the paths and precipices of sex. And love. Fire Watch: A time-traveling graduate student from a future Oxford University is sent to the London Blitz due to a clerical error. He was supposed to travel with St Paul for his practical exam, but instead ends up assigned to the Fire Watch for St Paul’s Cathedral - and he hasn't the least idea what's going on. Even The Queen: Virtually every new technology spawns those who insist that whatever-it-is is a bad thing. But in this case, an entire cult is involved. Cover art by Mick Van Houten. -
Highlights include: sightings from Russia, China and Africa, including never before published sightings from airline crews; the family who were 'attacked' by a UFO in the Australian desert; detailed accounts of a wave of sightings in Britain during 1988; new reveletions about cases involving the actual recovery of UFOs and their alien occupants. -
Radiation from the stellar explosion less than 150 light years away smashed Earth into a new ice age. Tornadoes devastated the world, leaving destruction, death and desolation in their wake. Worst of all, the human race found itself sterile. The Zetas, strange people with suddenly-acquired psychic powers were made the scapegoats, but even during the hounding and extermination that followed, few could grasp what had really happened - an alien intelligence, riding on the shock waves of that supernova, had broken through the atmosphere to take up residence in the human brain. Who would inherit the Earth? Cover art by Chris Achilleos. -
Earth has become an ecological nightmare. On a vast metallic island in space, the scientists of the Trikon project undertake research too risky to be conducted anywhere else - research that could save the planet. The Commander Dan Tighe discovers the truth. Trikon's priority is espionage - the scientists, consumed by greed, lust and drugs - are running the lab for their own gain. And one of his crew is trying to destroy the Trikon Station. Only Commander Tighe can save Trikon - and only Trikon can save the Earth. Cover art by Gerry Grace. s -
Book III of Doona. The huge black spaceship in orbit around Doonarrala is apparently unarmed and poses no immediate threat, but a classified military tape reveals that it bears a striking resemblance to one found derelict and looming over a planet devastated by war. For Todd Reeve, leader of the Human colony on Doonarrala, and for his Hrruban friend Hrriss, the ship represents a chance for both their species to extend the hand of friendship to another. For others, both from Earth and Hrruba, the ship and its inhabitants are a threat of such magnitude they will stop at nothing to to sabotage Todd's efforts at communication. Cover art by Mark Harrison. -
What if there were an Afterworld? Not Heaven or Hell, per se, but a place where everyone who has ever lived reawakens when they die, to live again and die again and live again, for ever. Warrior-King Gilgamesh has been in such an Afterworld longer that almost anyone else save the Hairy Men from Before the Flood, and in recent centuries he's seen it change beyond recognition as the newly dead import their machinery, weaponry and Industrial Age attitudes. Gilgamesh's dissatisfaction with this behaviour sends him on a quest through the Afterworld realms of such luminaries as Prester John, Simon Magus, Walter Raleigh and Pablo Picasso in search of a gateway that is rumored to exist - a gateway that leads back to the land of the living. Cover art by Steve Crisp.
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Book IV of The World As Myth. Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to readers of The Cat Who Walks through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead... Cover art by Boris Vallejo. -
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. -
Eleven short, sharp crisp stories. Call Me Dumbo: Dumbo is married to Carl, and has three sons - but who is she really? Repeat Performance: A cinema owner who shows old movies witnesses odd occurrences at his establishment ... And Isles Where Good Men Lie: An endless caravan of alien space craft are entering the solar system and disgorging a horde of fifteen-foot long insects that exude deadly bacteria. Scientists understand that these aliens are refugees, but how to stop them spreading a plague that will kill humanity? What Time Do You Call This? A scientist engaged in time-stream hopping appears in the apartment of a criminal. When the crook learns how the time-hop device operates, he steals it - but to what end? Communication: A bogus medium uses a computer to find out confidential information about his clients to convince them that the dead really can communicate - and then discovers the dead really CAN communicate. The Cosmic Cocktail Party: A super-computer housing the personalities of the dead to provide interaction with the living goes haywire when the dead start interacting with each other!The Happiest Day of Your Life: A future in which the cognitive and economic elite can, through hypnosis, drugs and surgery, get all their education in one day, resulting in eight-year-old attorneys and executives unable to converse with their parents because of their high IQs. The Weapons of Isher II: The most popular entertainment of the Space Empire is televised duelling - but a journalist discovers that the duels are nowhere near as 'deadly' as they look; Pilot Plant: A cybernetics expert hears a mysterious disembodied voice just before a test flight of a new aircraft crashes; Telemart Three: Holographic televisions of the future with a teleport means housewives can have their shopping instantly - and causes husbands to contemplate murder. Invasion of Privacy: Middle-class suburbanite George Ferguson's mother-in-law has been dead for two weeks, but his son Sammy claims to have seen her alive and well - in the old abandoned house down the street. -
Ross Murdock 1. Murdock, convicted criminal, 'volunteers' for a secret government project: Operation Retrograde. Unwillingly at first, but with increasing fervor, Murdock becomes a member of the team fighting the strangest battle of the Cold War. The Russians have infiltrated an unknown era of the past and developed powerful new weapons by utilising lost technology. American scientists also have the means to transport men into the past and it becomes imperative that Operation Retrograde succeed in finding and tapping the source of the Russian's secret weapons. Murdock and his team embark on a dangerous and frantic search of an almost-forgotten time in a Cold War where the past has become the battleground of the future. Cover art by Walter Velez. -
Book III of Time Police. Jackson Dubchek was exiled by the notorious Time Police. A citizen of the Second Republic in 2249, Jackson is stranded in Mexico in 2074, unable to return to his own generation. But Jackson is not alone. He meets a Mexican historian and his beautiful daughter who have also been exiled to the past. With these fellow travelers, Jackson pieces together the truth about the Second Republic and their Time Police - they are changing the past in order to protect the future. Jackson must decide whether to try and set himself against all the resources of the Second Republic. But first he must determine how the events of 2074 differ from the way the Second Republic has recorded them and before the Time Police can catch him. Cover art by Paul Youll and Steve Youll. -
Book and DVD: Timeline: Michael Crichton
$5.00–$14.00An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. This mystery will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years War. Imagine the risks of such a journey - imagine the impossible! Cover art by Chip Kidd. DVD: Region 4; preloved.
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This volume contains: Ernie; Raison D'Etre; The Price Of Survival; Between A Rock And A High Place; Houseguest; Time Bomb; The President's Doll; Banshee. Cover art by Steve Youll. -
In 1893, H.G. Wells invites his friends to the unveiling of his time machine. One of his friends, Dr. Leslie Stephenson, has an alter ego - Jack the Ripper. When he is discovered he escapes in H.G. Well's machine to modern-day America...and Wells must follow him to put an end to his bloody career. The film stars Malcolm McDowell, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen. Trivia: the Time Machine on the cover is not the one in the film. -
Tide: Zach Hughes
$15.00An experiment in radiation treatment of fish produces mutations in the dinoflagellates that feed the fish. The result is aggressive fish - toward other fish and toward Man. But there's a bigger problem - the aggressiveness is transferred to men who eat the fish and violence explodes in the quiet laboratories. This is ugly - but then the mutation reaches an Air Force general with access to codes for nuclear bombs. The destruction of all life could be only a countdown away.... -
Lost in space for fifteen years, doomed to an interminable existence aboard a mechanical city floating through a black void. Unable to return to an Earth they could hardly remember and a system of politics they could not understand. Yet Crowley, the learned professor and Betty, the mysterious clairvoyant's daughter whose uncanny abilities had threatened the stability of the Earth will find love across the miles of nothingness. Cover art credited to Sam Peffer. -
From the holiday planet of Paradiso one could go on so many exciting excursions - Mars, Venus, the Moon, even the most distant and alien worlds were accessible to the inquisitive holiday maker, courtesy of Starways, Inc. - the giant combine which owned Paradiso and half the galaxy. But there was only one trip which interested Ram Burrell and it was the one that Starways seemed to be actively discouraging trippers from taking - the trip to Earth, the birthplace of Man. And once Burrell had got a ticket for the journey, he began to discover why Earth had been the least visited planet and why Starways and worked so hard to keep it that way. Cover art by Vincent Segrelles. -
In this volume of sci-fi blended with horror: Barnacle Bill The Spacer: John is a technician on the space station Solitaire on which ships with solar sails are built. Tensions between the crew members are aggravated by subversive agents of a subversive group...and the inevitable showdown must happen without endangering the lives of all. A Little Light Music: an art critic writes an article about a quartet of resurrected corpses, but there is a more sinister revelation...Human History: On a largely deserted planet with a technically backward human population a man goes through a marriage break-up, a mid-life crisis, the maturing of his son and the domination of those who live in the orbiting space stations. Sports in America: Gangsters, the Irish mafia against the Sicilian mafia, paid assassins, revenge and spectacular upheavals. The Sun Spider: A husband and wife on the space station Helios each have a tale to tell of infidelities, tension and the attempts to discover life on the sun. All the Perfumes of Araby: In Egypt, Danny Shields and his Gulf War veteran friend become involved in drug trafficking and extremist groups. Beast of the Heartland: Mears, a boxer whos sports career is on the decline is about to go blind and suffers from hallucinations in which opponents in the ring have monstrous faces. -
A novel based on three previously published stories: Name Your Pleasure, The Naked Sky and The Unhappy Man. The advertisement read: Why Be Miserable? Let Us Solve Your Problems. A Modern Service for the Modern Age. Happiness Guaranteed. Dial P-L-E-A-S-U-R - Hedonics, Inc. This was the advertisement which caught the eye of unhappy mankind, offering the ultimate consumer product - bliss, here and now. But where do you go from Paradise? -
Book II of The Guardians. They are the enemies of promise and man's only hope. They are outsiders, a world wide secret cabal, walking in the shadows and dedicated to the cause of stability, dedicated to preserving science from the world, and the world from science. In a rotting decommissioned nuclear power station on the English south coast, a sinister experiment is taking place. In Japan, a hacker genius called the Emperor Dragon is threatening to tear down the cyber empire of Kawai Kim, the Guardians' intelligence co-ordinator. The Guardians little suspect the danger that is building withing their number. -
A salute to the late Terry Carr with contributory tales: At The Double Solstice,Gregory Benford; Le Hot Sport, R.A. Lafferty; Kore 87, Ursula K. LeGuin; Slack Lankhmar Afternoon Featuring Hisvet, Fritz Leiber; The Lunatics, Kim Stanley Robinson; Transients, Carter Scholz; House of Bones, Robert Silverberg; The Dragon Line, Michael Swanwick; Isosceles, Kate Wilhelm; Lukora, Gene Wolfe; Deadboy Donner and the Filstone Cup, Roger Zelazny. Last, but by no means least, two from Terry Carr: The Dance Of The Changer and The Three. Cover art by M. Presley. -
Telempath: Spider Robinson
$10.00The Muskies - spawned in Earth's long childhood of fire and stone, they flourish in the stinking hell Man calls 'civilisation'. They ride the wind: gaseous beings, perceptible to Man only now that a monstrous experiment has heightened his sense of smell and destroyed civilisation in the process. And so a slow, destructive war erupts between the Muskies and the scattered settlements of human survivors, a war which will threaten humanity's existence. Only the Telempath can stop it, but he's missing an arm - and is wanted for the murder of his father. Cover art by Peter Jones. -
Tek Secret: William Shatner
$12.00Book V of TekWar. Investigator Jake Cardigan is on the trail of a powerful industrialist's daughter - a woman prone to reckless excursions with handsome playboys. But this routine missing-person case leads Cardigan into a chilling American Heartland of the future. A world of super-industry growing more corrupt - and more lethal - each day that Cardigan manages to stay alive...Cover art by Boris Vallejo.
