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Comrade Pyotr Shapirov has a secret of vital importance to world science but the only man with the skill to extract it from his comatose brain is American scientist Albert Morrison. Natalya Boranova, sent by Russian high command to get Morriosn's help will stop at nothing to ensure his co-operation. But there is one major problem -the necessity for human miniaturisation. Wrenched from a routine conference and transported to a vast underground Soviet City dedicated to scientific experiment, Morrison is shrunk to a microscopic fraction of normal size and p0laced in a specially designed 'submarine' to be injected into Shapirov's veins to travel deep into the uncharted regions of the brain - and with only twelve hours to complete his task, Morrison must find the origins of human thought. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
This volume contains Asimov's early works from the 1930s and 1940s: Homo Sol; Half-Breeds On Venus; The Imaginary; Heredity; History; Christmas on Ganymede; The Little Man on the Subway; The Hazing; Super Neutron; Not Final! Legal Rites; Time Pussy. Cover art by Christ Foss. -
In this volume: Bicentennial Man: Andrew was one of Earth's first house robot domestic servants—smoothly designed and functional. But when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by any other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame fortune - and danger. For a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... The Prime of Life; Waterclap; That Thou Art Mindful of Him; Stranger in Paradise; The Life and Times of Multivac; The Winnowing; Marching In; Old Fashioned; The Tercentenary Incident; Birth of a Notion. Cover shows the late Robin Williams in his role of Andrew in the film of the same name. -
Foundation: Isaac Asimov
$9.00Book I of Foundation. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun - or fight them and be destroyed. Cover art by Fred Gambino. -
The old First Empire lies shattered, swept away by the forces of First Foundation established by psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man to have foreseen the shifting patterns of the inhabited Cosmos. But not even Seldon could have predicted the mutant menace of the Mule - a being of terrifying supernomal powers who can precipitate a savage struggle that can lay waste to entire star systems. -
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. -
Robot 0.2. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have since been programmed into real computers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used as the outline for a legal robotic charter. The Rest of The Robots...are not simple unthinking machines victimised by frightened men: Robot Tony is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony's fault that the lady of the house where he's field tested falls in love with him? The Rest of the Robots...are positronic with brains of platinum-iridium. Independent. Precision eng8i9neered. Sensible. Rational... Robot Al was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon. Instead, he's loose in the mountains of Virginia...building from scraps of junk his very own, very dangerous disintegrator. Robot Lenny answers workaday questions in baby-talk. So why is Dr Susan Calvin, the world's top robopsychologist, fascinated by this messed up specimen of an industrial robot? The Rest of the Robots...Asimov's final, classic terrifying picture of robotic developments in the future...Cover art by Dennis Rolfe. -
A round dozen of Asimov's choice fantasy authors. In this volume: The Candidate, Henry Slesar: A man receives numerous persistent requests for a meeting from a group called the Society For United Action - what can they possibly want? The Christmas Shadrach, Frank R. Stockton: Can a chunk of iron ore make you fall in love? The Snow Women, Fritz Leiber: The magic of the Snow Women must be overcome if Fafhrd is to win the lovely Vlana; Invisible Boy, Ray Bradbury: an elderly lady, possibly a witch, claims she can make Charlie invisible...The Hero Who Returned, Gerald W. Page; Toads Of Grimmerdale, Andre Norton: From the Witch World...Hertha, a noblewoman who is cast out into drifts of ice-crusted snow by her brother, seeks revenge. A Literary Death, Martin H. Greenberg: A chronicle of a death foretold... Satan and Sam Shay, Robert Arthur: Satan challenges Sam Shay to a betting contest - who will win? Lot 249, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Abercrombie Smith, Oxford athlete, notices his Egyptologist friend's mummy keeps disappearing and reappearing and always coincidental with mysterious murders...The Witch Is Dead, Edward D. Hoch: Simon Ark, perhaps the original ghostbuster, takes an interest in a mysterious fortune-teller and some weird events at a girls’ college. I Know What You Need, Stephen King: Popular, pretty college-girl Elizabeth finds she is inexplicably attracted to Ed, a loner, who always knows just what she needs, anytime, anywhere - but Elizabeth's room mate is suspicious enough to do some research on Ed...The Miracle Workers, Jack Vance: The Jinxmen can help Lord Faide win his battles against humans, but the First Folk must be fought with different means. Cover art by Julek Heller
