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The year: 2047. Years earlier the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace on its maiden voyage. Now a signal from it has been detected and the United States Aerospace Command responds. The rescue vessel Lewis and Clark is dispatched. Its crew – Captain Miller, second-in-command Lieutenant Starck, pilot Smith, medical technician Peters, engineer Ensign Justin, Doctor D.J. and rescue technician Cooper – is joined by Dr. William Weir, who designed the Event Horizon. Their mission: find and salvage the state-of-the-art spacecraft. But what they find is state-of-the-art interstellar terror. Their mission becomes one to salvage their own souls and lives - because someone or something is prepared to ensnare them in a new dimension of utter and unimaginable horror. -
Book VI of the Dune Chronicles. The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest - the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power. Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonised a green world on the planet Chapterhouse and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they’ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy - the spice melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes - a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad’Dib...Frank Herbert's final Dune novel. -
Book IV of Tarl Cabot. Gor, also known as Counter-Earth, teems with fabulous beasts, peoples and exotic lifestyles. Tarl Cabot, chosen out of millions to be trained and disciplined by the best teachers, swordsmen and bowmen on Gor, has dedicated his life to ensuring that the Priest-Kings survive the harsh lands of Gor and must find that last precious link to survival. But a savage tribe - strange, private band of nomads called the Wagon People - closely guards this secret and all Tarl knows is that it is hidden somewhere among the teeming hordes of the Wagon People. Tarl must be accepted by the tribe to learn the secret - or die trying. Cover art by Chris Achilleos. -
Based on the screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. A group of primates is singled out to receive information from a superior outside force which will speed up their development into mankind. Later, men excavate a huge monolith from the Moon's surface - a monolith which emits a strange and, to them, incomprehensible signal. Upon its discovery the monolith launches into deep space, its task of watching over Man, now that he has reached the level of sophistication necessary to find it, being over. This theme continues building into a a massive climax. -
Deathsport: William Hughes
$15.00It is the year 3000. The world has been devastated by neutron war and the survivors practice peaceful co-existence in a federation of domed cities, where war is outlawed for all time. But Helix City has remained outside the Federation and its political system is a totalitarian nightmare. Lord Zirpola, the sadistic hereditary ruler of Helix, holds despotic sway, punishing all opponents by sentencing them to the Deathsport - a bloody gladiatorial combat where the odds are loaded and to lose is to suffer an ingeniously cruel death. The newest contestant in the area is Ranger Guide Kaz Oshay, the only man with the spirit to question and defy the repressive regime. He and his beautiful co-guide Deneer challenge the system, but can anything human succeed against the sophisticated technology of slaughter? Novelisation of the 1978 film starring David Carradine. Cover is taken from the theatrical release poster. -
Star Trek 14. Beyond the realm of the Federation, beyond the edge of the galaxy, a lost colony of humans drifts inexorably through space toward the galactic whirlpool. Captain Kirk blazes a trail to these strange people, who have been isolated for centuries. He must convince them that the crew of the Enterprise are not demons before they will be sucked into the one-way churning funnel of doom. Cover art by Paul Lehr. -
Twenty stories with Henderson's usual mixture of perception, simplicity and insight into the workings of the human mind...especially the minds of children and of souls in fear...From the author of The People. The Indelible Kind: A son of the Cougar Canyon Group, Vince Kroginold, sees his immediate family detached for research purposes...J-Line To Nowhere: Everybody is impressed by the massive skeletons, but what about the tiny organic beings who created them? You Know What, Teacher? Teachers become repositories of family secrets. The Effectives: Could prayer be subject to analysis? Loo Ree: The imaginary friend of a first grader tuns out to be real - too real...The Closest School: Vannie may not be old enough for school--after all, she's not yet 600...Three-Cornered And Secure: An angel's work is never done... The Taste Of Aunt Sophronia: An amazing cure - for the living dead. The Believing Child: Dismey doesn't necessarily have greater powers than other children. It's just that it never occurs to her to doubt that she has such powers. Through A Glass - Darkly: What if your peripheral vision allowed you to see into the past? As Simple As That: Who CARES what caused the Holocaust? When we live in a world of moldy bread, roofless classrooms and all...Swept And Garnished: Which is worse - a multitude of phobias and the rituals to deal with them - or complete meaninglessness? One of Them: One is the murderer and one is the victim - but who is telling the story? Sharing Time: The spheres that are sent for the human children break down their barriers to telepathy. The teachers have to ensure that the children can rebuild some of the barriers, so that the children can go on learning...Ad Astra: How very useful it would be to have people who breathe CO2 and exhale O2. But how to replicate the accident that created the first one? Incident After: Adapting after a cataclysm is not always about the big things. The Walls: Like any other sort of travel, time travel is not always under the control of the traveller. Crowning Glory: When short hair is all the fashion, how can hair be obtained for technological advancement? Boona On Scancia : Is it possible to breed Earth dogs with - flying dogs? Love Every Third Stir: Ant Comfort is not a witch - of course she isn't! But her potions seem to work wonders... -
1998 Film edition. The Robinsons find themselves lost in space again, crash landing on a planet breaking up from tectonic storms, threatened by a horde of spider-like aliens and finding an alternative time stream link to Earth's distant future. Novelisation based on the screenplay by Akiva Goldsman. -
Featured stories and writers: Hell-Planet, John Rackham; The Night-Flame, Colin Kapp; The Creators, Joseph Green; Rogue Leonardo, G.L. Lack; Maiden Voyage, John Rankine, Odd Boy Out, Dennis Etchison; The Eternal Machines, William Spencer; A Round Billiard Table, Steve Hall. -
Book I of Rosinante. Being Project Manager of Mundito Rosinante was never easy. To Charles Cantrell, it meant gaining the Union's co-operation, placating the financial backers, and solving a host of engineering crises that arise when building an agricultural and industrial complex in space. To make matters worse, economic and political decay reached from Earth clear out to the asteroids, leaving Cantrell in charge of a bankrupt, man-made world - and 10,000 unexpected exiles. Without warning, he and his staff - sophisticated robot Shaskash and management wizard Marian Yashon - had to turn necessity to invention and ingenuity to genius in a desperate effort to obtain food, weapons and political independence. Cantrell's new goal was no longer profits - simply survival! Cover art by Chris Barbieri. -
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... -
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 -
Sundrinker: Zach Hughes
$12.00Duwan had been foremost of the Drinker warriors in training, destined in time to become leader of all the valley's warriors. Then an accident had claimed his arm, leaving him unfit to lead. With no other choice, Duwan turned to Drinker legends for hope, legends of a lost homeland to the south, where the sun was so strong, the soil so rich, that a Sundrinker could regenerate a lost limb. And so Duwan left the valley, seeking this fabled paradise. But what he found was the Enemy, the dominant, less evolved form of his species called Devourers, who lived by preying upon other life forms. The Devourers, who, ages ago, had driven the Drinkers from their homeland, intent on their total destruction. Yet to Duwan's horror, he found Drinkers too, Drinkers enslaved by cruel Devourer overlords - and Duwan understands why his destiny had brought him here - to lead his people to freedom. Cover art by Jill Bauman Versandi. -
Destiny’s Road: Larry Niven
$18.00Almost 250 years ago, the starcruiser Argos reached the planet Destiny, carrying the first settlers. Those first hard years on the planet were marked by two life and future-changing events: First, the Argos deserted them, dashing all hopes of returning to Earth. The the landing craft, the Cavorite, disappeared. But the Cavorite's final voyage left an awesome impression: it seared the wide, smooth Road into the planet's surface. It's said the Road crosses the entire planet but no-one knows - because no settler who has travelled down the Road has ever returned...Cover art by Michael Whelan. -
Doctor Who No. LVII. A small black spaceship, about a mile away, was approaching rapidly. It had no lights, no markings. But the tiny craft meant danger. The year is 2540 and two powers loom large in the Galaxy -Earth and Draconia. After years of peace, their spaceships are now being attacked and cargoes rifled. Each suspects the other and full scale war seems unavoidable. The Doctor, accused of being a Draconian spy, is thro9wn into prison. And only when the MASTER appears on the scene do things really begin to move...Cover art by Chris Achilleos.
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Riverworld. To millions of readers it is as familiar as Earth - this awesome planet where all humanity that ever lived, all 36 billion of us, from Tom Mix to Joan of Arc, are simultaneously reincarnated along the banks of a million-mile river...Also in this volume: J.C. on the Dude Ranch; The Volcano; The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol; The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others; Brass And Gold (or Horse And Zeppelin In Beverly Hills); The Jungle Rot Kid On The Nod; The Voice Of The Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix ; Monolog; The Leaser Of Two Evils; The Phantom of the Sewers. N.B. This is the first appearance of J.C. On The Dude Ranch. DVD: Tahmoh Penikett, Laura Vandervoo: preloved; very good condition; all regions. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-fabulous-riverboat-philip-jose-farmer/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/gods-of-riverworld-philip-jos-farmer/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-dark-design-philip-jose-farmer/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/magic-labyrinth-philip-jose-farmer/ -
Freedom was an isolated planet, off the spaceways track and rarely visited by commercial spacers. The trouble was, tourists and traders claimed the streets were crowded with mysterious sorts in blue robes and members of an alien species. The native born humans claim it isn't so. Such was the belief of Herrin the artist and Waden the autocrat - until a crisis of planetary identity forced a life and depth confrontation between the question of reality and the reality of the question. Cover art by Don Maitz. -
Prelude to the Dune series, Volume I. 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. -
New Year's Eve, 2021. The one night of the year when the guards are less vigilant, and the perfect time for murder. Welcome to 21st century Edinburgh! Rogue detective Quintilian Dalrymple, a former bureaucrat who left his high-ranking job to work for the parks service and solve mysteries on the side, sets about catching a serial killer with a peculiar signature. The killer bites out the victim's throat, cuts out the tongue, removes the genitals, and leaves in the cavity a cassette of the electric blues of Clapton, Hendrix and others. In the allegedly crime-free Edinburgh city-state, blues music is contraband. So are casual sex, monogamy, fattening foods, all drugs, and more-than-weekly showers. So why does the killer leave cryptic messages via electric blues? -
After a terrifying nightmare in outer space, Walter Franklin needs to discover a reason for living. He found it in the ocean depths when strangers defied life to give it back to him. Freedom to roam above and below the great waters should have been enough for any man - but Franklin was haunted by an echo - an echo that could solve the oldest mystery of the sea. Cover art by W. F. Phillipps. -
Book I of Planet Pirates. Sassinak was twelve when the raiders same. Old enough to be used, young enough to be broken - so they thought. But they reckoned without the girl's steel will of revenge on the pirates who had killed her parents and friends. When the chance comes to escape, Sassinak grabs it, thanks to the help of a captured Fleet crewman. Returned to the Federation of Sentient Planets, she initiates her revenge by joining the Fleet as a recruit, surprising all with her rise to senior rank. Then vengeance begins in earnest. Cover art by Mark Harrison. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-death-of-sleep-anne-mccaffrey-and-jody-lynn-nye-2/ -
Book III of Destroyermen. After being swept from the World War II Pacific into an alternate world, Lt. Commander Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker have allied with the peaceful Lemurians in their struggle against the warlike, reptilian Grik, but they are already outgunned and outmanned. The Japanese juggernaut Amagi, also trapped in this strange world, is under Grik control and soon they will have amassed a force that no amount of firepower and technology will be able to stop. As the raging conflict approaches, Reddy, his crew, his allies and his loved ones face annihilation. Bu hope may be just over the horizon. -
Book II of Skylark series. Momentous danger again stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seaton’s allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous Fenachrones are threatening to conquer the galaxy and wipe out all who oppose them. And there's the dastardly machinations of Seaton’s arch-nemesis, DuQuesne, who embarks on a nefarious mission of his own. Against such vile foes and impossible odds, how is victory possible? Cover art by Chris Foss. -
This volume includes: Mistress of the Mind, Lee Harding; Frontier Incident, Robert Wells: A macabre tale of a man's mind is used for alien purposes; The Big Day, Donald Malcolm; Major Operation, James White: The final instalment of the staff of Sector General Hospital, diagnosing, treating and curing a patient over 50,000 miles in diameter...The Cyclops Patrol, William Spencer: A new and ingenious form of industrial espionage is devised. Some Dreams Come In Packages, David Kyle: A future where it's not always easy to tell the real people from the ...other...people; Django Maverick: 2051, Grahame Leman. -
The true story of alien abduction in rural England...Jason Andrews was twelve years old when his parents first realised that he was being abducted. Suddenly, the strange happenings that had dogged their bright son all his life were explained: the weird marks on his body, the secret language he babbled, the terrible nights when they had found his bed empty. The family's farm, too, has been affected: animals mutilated, cattle dead in mysterious circumstances, pregnant cows suddenly becoming barren; strange lights appearing in the sky...and always, there have been the watchers in the wood - silent figures who keep the farm under observation. At the time of publication, this compelling story of a normal family caught up in terrifying abnormal events is the most detailed exploration of an alien abduction ever, bravely told by the Andrews family to independent investigator Jean Ritchie. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Omnibus volume: Santiago and The Return Of Santiago. Bandit, outlaw, known to all, seen by none, has he killed a thousand men? Murderer, madman, myth...Hiis legend as as great as the Galactic Rim itself, his trail as elusive as starlight in the great empty realms of space. Rewards have been posted on half a million worlds. His name is...Santiago. They hunt for him on the Galactic Rim, at the very edge of the Outer Frontier, where traders, miners, outlaws and misfits touch down on outpost worlds. They chase him at the Inner Frontier, towards the core of the galaxy where the stars press so close together that night is as bright as day. They are bounty hunters, like Giles Sans Pitié, of the hard heart and steel fist; Sebastian Nightingale Cain, a disillusioned revolutionary turned professional killer; and the deadliest of the them all, the Angel. They are journalists, like Virtie MacKenzie, who will stoop to any means, including blackmail and murder, to get her story. They are connoisseurs of fine art, like the Jolly Swagman, who wants a few pieces said to be held by Santiago. They are poets and preachers, bandits and pundits, magnates and madmen, aliens and cyborgs - and they all want a piece of Santiago. And a merry chase it is. But just wait till they catch him! For Santiago is much more - and less - than they think. And a hundred years on, when a cunning burglar named Danny Briggs finds a long lost manuscript, Santiago will ride again... Cover art by Allan Pollack
