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What if...the Cuban Missile Crisis had become a full-blown atomic war...? Boston, 1972. Ten years have passed since bombs fell on major U.S. cities and the Soviet Union. Russia is decimated; California is virtually destroyed. Washington D.C. lies beneath a giant crater lake. President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson and their families have disappeared, believed dead. The best and brightest of their administration are disgraced or in hiding. America is a shell of her former glory, a second-rate power dependent on the kindness of Britain. Martial law rules. Carl Landry, a young reporter with The Boston Globe arrives at the scene of a murder. A friendless man, a veteran of the '62 war, has been shot, but Landry doubts that he's the victim of a robbery gone wrong. and suspects the man has taken secrets to his grave. What was this man doing int he War Room of the White House in October 1962? Who pushed the button that started the war? What is the legend and what is the lie? Who was the betrayer and who was the betrayed...and could John F. Kennedy, by some miracle, still be alive? -
An epic adventure that spans time and space. Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 are faced with their most challenging mission yet—rescuing renowned scientist Zefram Cochrane from captors who want to use his skills to conquer the galaxy. Meanwhile, ninety-nine years in the future on the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, Picard must rescue an important and mysterious person whose safety is vital to the survival of the Federation. As the two crews struggle to fulfill their missions, destiny draws them closer together until past and future merge—and the fate of each of the two legendary starships rests in the hands of the other vessel...Cover art by Keith Birdsong. -
When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time—or worse—Shel enlists the aid of Dave Dryden, a linguist, to accompany him on the rescue mission. Their journey through history takes them from the enlightenment of Renaissance Italy through the American Wild West to the civil-rights upheavals of the 20th century. Along the way, they encounter a diverse cast of historical greats, sometimes in unexpected situations. Yet the elder Shelborne remains elusive. And then Shel violates his agreement with Dave not to visit the future. There he makes a devastating discovery that sends him fleeing back through the ages - a discovery that changes his life forever. Cover art by Tony Mauro. -
A dark mystery has been buried beneath the sands of the Sahara desert since the beginning of time. In a basement in New Mexico, four amateur adventurers find reason to believe that a startling secret is out there...and they are about to uncover the key that could unlock the vast reaches of the universe. A radar has detected huge assembled stones hidden beneath the desert. There, the friends stumble on an ancient artifact that will change their lives and the world forever...a gateway between planets, linking Earth to distant worlds, where they will encounter wonders and terror beyond imagining...Cover art by John Harris. -
Nova: Samuel R. Delany
$45.00The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq van Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation. But they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather illyrion at the source by flying through the very heart of an imploding star. Cover art by Bob Haberfield. -
Red Dwarf III. Somewhere along the line he'd made a major mistake. Why else would he be on a prison ship bound for Cyberia, the most inhospitable penal colony in Deep Space - sentenced to 18 years Hard Thought? The future of the species is in the hands of Dave Lister, the Last Human. And all he has to help him are his wits, his cunning and a two-page girdle section from a mail order catalogue.... -
Book III of Brainships. Tia, a bright and precocious seven year old, becomes afflicted by a paralysing alien virus while accompanying her archeologist parents on a dig. Too broud to let them know, she hides the progressing symptoms until it is too late - until she can be given no life at all outside a mechanical support system. But Tia refuses to glide through life like a ghost in a glorified wheelchair - she'd rather strap on a spaceship. her mission - to seek out whatever it was that laid her low, to understand it and then eliminate it. Cover art by Mark Harrison. -
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. -
Glow: Amy Kathleen Ryan
$9.00Sky Chasers I. A ship headed for New Earth is halfway through its incredible journey across the galaxy. On board, 16 year olds Waverly and Kieran are part of the first generation born in space. They are in love. They believe their future is written in the stars. They have never before seen a stranger...until the day they are wrenched apart and find themselves fighting for their lives...
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