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Book IV of After Such Knowledge. The four-man team of scientists investigating Lithia are about to make their report. Two are in favour of exploiting the planet's enormous mineral wealth - if necessary, enslaving its gentle industrious inhabitants in the process. One recommends non-interference. The fourth is Father Ruiz-Sanchez, biologist and Jesuit priest. For him, Lithia is a Paradise among the stars - a Paradise created by the Devil. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
Book IV of Cities In Flight. Earth is finished as a galactic power. From the heart of the Milky Way come the first tentative strands of the Web of Hercules: the strange culture that is destined to be the next great civilisation of the galaxy. All of this was of little concern to the contented citizens of New Earth, secure in their corner of the Great Magellanic Cloud. Only Amalfi dreams restlessly of the old nomadic days. But then an old friend returns, bringing some unimaginably bad news...Cover art by Chris Foss. -
Book III of Cities In Flight. When the cities left Earth, they exchanged a simple environment for one of constant, sometimes shattering change. The Universe was littered with cultures in every conceivable stage of development. Only the iron hand of the germamium-backed economy and occasional interventions by the Earth police imposed some kind of order on the space-ways. Even John Amalfi never got used to the constant crisis of life on board 'Okie' city - and he'd been mayor of New York for nearly five hundred years now...Cover art by Chris Foss. -
Jack Of Eagles: James Blish
$10.00Danny Caiden thought of himself as a normal guy, no special talents - just leading an ordinary and uneventful life. Until he suddenly realises he can see into the future. Before he knows it, he's developed a dozen more alarming powers, lost his job, run afoul of the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department and the Mob... and found himself at the centre of a shattering, psychic struggle for the future of humanity. Cover art by Chris Foss. -
This volume contains classic Star Trek episodes presented in novelette form by Hugo and Nebula Award winner James Blish: The Last Gunfight; Elaan of Troyius; The Paradise Syndrome;The Enterprise Incident; And The Children Shall Lead ; Spock's Brain; Is There In Truth No Beauty? The Empath; The Tholian Web; For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched the Sky; Day Of The Dove; Plato's Stepchildren ; Wink Of An Eye ; That Which Survives;Let That Be Your Last Battlefield;Whom Gods Destroy; The Mark Of Gideon; The Lights Of Zetar; The Cloud Minders; The Way To Eden; Requiem For Methuselah; The Savage Curtain; All Our Yesterdays ; Turnabout Intruder ; and Star Trek in the Real World - an essay by Prix Utopia Award winner Norman Spinrad. -
2018 AD: The Cold Peace, worse than the Cold War. The regimes which rule from Washington and Moscow are the same in their passion for total repression. But in the West, a few dedicated individuals still struggle to find a way out of the trap of human history. Behind the screen of official research, their desperate project is nearing completion. Then Colonel Paige Russell, back from deep space with some soil samples to deliver, talks his way past the receptionist and into the laboratory...Cover art by Chris Foss
