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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A real rarity - the Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Quotations. Who said, "I'll meet you at the Frug-A-Go-Go when I've finished witht eh Cyclotron, baby"? Which mad scientist utrtered the immortal words: "You have a civil tongue in your head - I sewed it back in there myself"? And which film advert warned that: "The only people who will not be sterilised with fear are those among you who are already dead"? -
Divergent: In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue - Candour (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful) and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is - she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are -and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves….or it might destroy her. Insurgent: One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves - and herself - while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so. Allegiant: The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. Four: Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation's faction leader did the same. Tobias's transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents gave him. Here, he will not let fear turn him into a cowering child. Newly christened "Four," he discovers during initiation that he will succeed in Dauntless. Initiation is only the beginning, though; Four must claim his place in the Dauntless hierarchy. His decisions will affect future initiates as well as uncover secrets that could threaten his own future - and the future of the entire faction system. Two years later, Four is poised to take action, but the course is still unclear. The first new initiate who jumps into the net might change all that. With her, the way to righting their world might become clear. With her, it might become possible to be Tobias once again. -
In a remote part of the Mexican desert, just south of the US border, top scientists have been secretly studying reports of extraordinary occurrences that have terrified the locals and baffled the experts. Cattle herders, who know nothing of UFOs, speak in hushed tones of strange round flying machines that hover overhead, then suddenly shoot straight for the heavens; bizarre animals and foot-long insects roam among wildly coloured plant life; unexplained earthen platforms stretch over six miles across the desert; pilots flying over the area report navigational equipment gone haywire; an Air Force rocket bound for New Mexico with a radioactive payload suddenly veered off course and headed straight for this mysterious area. The investigation has been kept top secret - until the publication of this book in 1986. Contains black and white photographs. -
Way Station: Clifford D. Simak
$115.00Enoch Wallace fought in the Civil War and returned to the simple house where he was born in rural Wisconsin. He still resides there today, and he hasn't aged a day since the war ended in 1865 - nor has his home, impregnable to any known weapon. For years he has secretly manned a way station for a galactic federation's transit network, acting as Earth's unassuming diplomat to the stars. The world around him has gone about its business, slowly building towards another World War and a modern America on the brink of war keeps tabs on odd folks within its borders. When a Washington agency takes an interest in Enoch, it threatens to destroy everything he has built: the trust of the aliens, his studies of advanced sciences, his hopes that one day Earth will join the federation - and the very existence of the way station. Meanwhile, the galactic federation is in turmoil. Now, both his home and the galaxy need a miracle to survive - a miracle that falls to Enoch Wallace to provide. Cover art: Almost Home, Randy J. Lagana. -
Few knew of the discoveries referred to in secret code words by the astronauts in their description of the moon; or the strange moving lights they reported. The author allegedly fought through the official veil of secrecy to study thousands of NASA photographs, interviewed dozens of officials and listened to hours of astronauts tapes to present this stunning conclusion: NASA and many of the world's top scientists have known for years that there is intelligent life on the moon. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Ishmael: Barbara Hambly
$140.00Star Trek Original SXeries No. 23. The Enterprise is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12 and Spock is visiting aboard a Klingon vessel, when a mysterious phenomenon causes the Klingon ship to vanish. Spock's last message from the ship is cryptic, but frightening. It suggests that the Klingons are traveling into the past, hoping to kill one man who was decisive in the course of history, and thereby change it, destroying the Federation before it was born. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. Scarce edition by Firecrest. -
Eighth Doctor Who Adventures No. I: Recuperating after the trauma of his recent regeneration, the Eighth Doctor falls foul of a final booby trap set by his arch-enemy, the Master. When he recovers, the disorientated Doctor looks in a mirror and sees the face of a stranger. He knows only that he is called the Doctor - nothing more. But something deep inside tells him to trust the TARDIS, and his hands move over the controls of their own accord. The TARDIS takes him to a strangely familiar junkyard in late-nineties London, where he is flung into a confrontation between local drug-dealers and Samantha Jones, a rebellious teenager from Coal Hill School. But the Doctor soon finds the TARDIS transporting him to various other places in order to recover all his memories - and that involves seeing seven strangely-familiar faces...
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In 1973 Sidgwick and Jackson published The Best Of Arthur C. Clarke 1937 - 1972 as one volume. In 1977, they reprinted it as two volumes: The Best Of Arthur C. Clarke Volume 1 1937 - 1955 and The Best Of Arthur C. Clarke Volume 2 1956 - 1972. In this volume: Venture To The Moon: Six stories in one of the first crewed mission to the Moon as a joint American-Russian-British mission, narrated by the British team commander. Into The Comet: an expedition sets out to discover what the comet is like at its core - mission accomplished...but when the ship's computer goes haywire, it will need all the crew's ingenuity to make it home again. Summertime On Icarus: Lone scientist Colin Sherrard is stranded on Icarus - an asteroid too close to the sun. Death And The Senator: An ambitious senior US Senator, who has sacrificed everything and everyone - friends, his wife, his daughter and his grandchildren - in pursuit of a political career contracts a terminal illness. His only hope for a cure is to accept a innovative treatment which he campaigned against funding... a decision for which he will be branded a hypocrite. Hate: When a downed Sputnik lands near a mussel-collecting boat, a Hungarian crewman wants revenge for what the Russians did to his family. Sunjammer (Variant Title: The Wind From The Sun): A spaceship designer develops a lightweight spacecraft with a large area of solar sail to participate sun-yacht racing. A Meeting With Medusa: When an experimental helium airship crashes, captain Howard Falcon is severely injured and takes over a year to recover. He then proposes an expedition to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter... -
On a distant planet in the distant future...When all the galaxies are colonised... John Craig, a young space diplomat, is captured by interplanetary pirates and sold into slavery. On Kossr, where boredom and absolute power have driven the rulers to a special kind of madness, Craig is auctioned off to the exquisite Lady Morgan Sidney, a beautiful, sensual woman. He soon makes his way from the hellish slave mines into her bed in the tower of her castle. And it is here, under the strange castle, that he finds the secret that may bring about the end of man in the galaxy. Cover art by Larry Kresek. ADVISORY: The author was the father of the former U.S. Attorney General William Barr and was headmaster of Manhattan's Dalton School from 1964-74. It seemed he preferred to write rather than teach and just before his tenure ended, Jeffrey Epstein became a maths and science teacher there. The novel, first published in 1973, references a strange mineral called Weinsteinite...draw your own conclusions, Dear Reader. -
Fun fantasy and time stories: I Love Galesburg in the Springtime: A town does not want to forget its past and begins producing random - and physical - 'memories'. Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere: What happens when two work colleagues find a novelty shop - with a difference. Where the Cluetts Are: A couple find their perfect house in an old blueprint - and the house seems to have found the perfect owners. Hey, Look At Me! A shy young author dies, but still wants to leave his mark on the world...The Coin Collector: A man picks up an odd coin in his change - which allows him to visit a parallel universe and live two different lives. The Love Letter: When a young man buys an old desk and finds a young lady's letter to an unknown lover, he answers it - and gets a reply. Also in this volume: A Possible Candidate For The Presidency; The Prison Legend; Time Has No Boundaries and The Intrepid Aeronaut. A book for the serious collector - very hard to get. -
The Asthsheans are, literally, little green men, dwelling peacefully among the forests of their world. The culture places great emphasis on the importance of dreaming: their experiences while dreaming and awake are both considered to be real and valid. Their society is peaceful and gentle: murder and war are unknown. To most of the human colonists, the planet - which they know as 'New Tahiti' - is there to be plundered of its valuable timber. The Asthsheans are contemptuously known as 'creechies', to be exploited as slave labour, to be pushed out of their homes and slaughtered without thought when they protest. A few men, such as Raj Lyubov, try to stand up for the Asthsheans - but they are greatly outnumbered by the crazed Colonel Davidson, to whom the only good creechie is a dead creechie. Inevitably, despite the efforts of Raj Lyubov and those like him, the Asthsheanshave to learn to fight back against their oppressors. And they do - causing changes in their traditional way of life forever. -
An in-depth, comprehensive guide to the world of Pandora, written as a protest against exploitation of the planet. Between the calls to action, there's plenty of information on James Cameron's creation. Flora, fauna, food, the Navi and the things they create is here in meticulous details. There is also a great many details on the Earth technology that came to Pandora: ships, guns, survival equipment and more. There is also information on faster than light travel and what makes Unobtanium so valuable.With plenty of colour plates from the film and other illustrations. -
Doctor Who: Virgin New Adventures No. 56. "If you step into history," said the Doctor, "I won't be able to protect you." "This isn't history," said Roz. "This is family." The Earth Empire - the Imperium Humanum, upon which a thousand suns never set - is dying. The Great Houses of the Empire manoeuvre and scheme for advantage; alliances are made; and knives flash in the shadows. Out among the moons of Jupiter, another battle is just beginning, as an ancient brotherhood seeks limitless power and long-overdue revenge. The Doctor returns to the thirtieth century, searching for the source of a terrifying weapon. He fears a nightmare from his own past may be about to destroy the future. Nothing must be allowed to get in his way. But the Doctor has reckoned without the power of history - which has its own plans for the wayward daughter of the House of Forrester. Cover art by Jon Sullivan. -
In this volume: Marooned Off Vesta; Nightfall; C-Chute; The Martian Way; The Deep; The Fun They Had' The Last Question; The Dead Past; The Dying Night; Anniversary; The Billiard Ball; Mirror Image. Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe. This is a very scarce volume. The most recently sold copy, with a dust jacket rated as 'poor', sold for approximately 1230.00 AUD. Later issued in two paperback volumes.
