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By Norman Spinrad. 1966
Pacifica was a monument to freedom and equality-until the off-worlders came. The Femocrats, a party of female separatists, and the…
Transcendental Scientists, an institute of technofascists dedicated to male supremacy. Carlotta Madigan, Pacifica's prime minister, and Royce Lindblad, her handsome young lover and media adviser, had to find a way to stop the Pink and Blue War-without becoming casualties themselves.By Ian Watson. 1977
The Mars Probe has crashed.A triumph of Soviet technology, the first two-way interplanetary probe performed brilliantly until the final stage…
of its return. Then something went wrong: rather than following its programmed course to a soft landing in its country of origin, the probe crashed in the Peruvian Andes.Now a weird infection beyond the understanding of medical science has wiped out an entire village - except for one man, who, alone and undiscovered by medics, survives. He has awakened to find himself become his own ancestor, and a god. Suddenly the flames of an Indian revolution are spreading South America; he is the Martian Inca.By Robert Silverberg. 1986
It is a thousand years from now.The tenuous galactic empire humanity has cast across the skies depends for its very…
existence on hyperspace and the pilots who can ride its bizarre force-fields. And these pilots are gypsies. The Romany have come into their own. But there is a price: the legendary Romany Star. All the leverage the gypsies can bring to bear is used in the search for their ancestral home. Intergalactic blackmail? Of course. But also a statement of intent, romantic but implacable.Who better to orchestrate a scam so colossal than Yakoub, once and future King of Gypsies? Sulking in luxurious exile, he has been planning his return to power and reminiscing over his extraordinary life. But when the moment of truth arrives, nothing seems to go according to (Yakoub's) plan. All his ingenuity, every sacrifice (even his pride) may not be enough . . .By Mack Reynolds. 1977
It is the far future. Earth is beautifully planned efficiently run and happily united. It is the world that dreamers…
have envisioned since the beginning of time - no slums, no crime, no poverty, no disease, no shortages. But still, it is a world with problems - people have become so lazy, so self-satisfied, that human progress has all but ceased. To make matters worse, addicts of the newly-developed "programmed dreams" are increasing at an enormous rate.Only a few individuals understand the far-reaching consequences of these problems; only a few realize that the human race is destroying itself.By James Blish. 1952
Danny Caiden is on the run - from the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department and the Mob. Only recently,…
Danny was an average New York copywriter, until he suddenly found he had ESP. His knowledge of the future is astonishing, and the rest of Danny's powers are just beginning. But someone has plans for Danny: a mysterious group of sinister men bent on world domination. They'll stop at nothing until they capture Danny . . . or destroy him. For only Danny Caiden has the power to sabotage their diabolical tyranny. Through no fault of his own, he has found himself at the centre of a shattering psychic struggle for the future of humanity. In the final battle, Danny must master all of his powers, or sacrifice himself - and all mankind - to satanic slavery forever.By E. C. Tubb. 1982
All the signals seemed set at "go." For Earl Dumarest had found people who believed in the legendary Earth. He…
had found the coordinates of the Sun and its attendant planets. And he would have the starship with a faithful crew of colonists for whom Earth was the paradise of their dreams.But before he could reach that ideal moment, Dumarest would have to fight his way out of a demonic Cyclan trap as well as unravel a very tricky web of planetary conspiracy.Only if he could achieve those desperate goals would he be able to set out on what he hoped would be the final lap of his long galactic trek . . .(First published 1982)By Robert Silverberg. 1969
Time travel spelled problems for the couriers of the Time Service. Shuttling backwards and forwards over the centuries they had…
to be wary of creating paradoxes - like meeting themselves watching the sack of Rome, or sleeping with their own ancestors.Of course, it also gave them the chance to amass wealth by the discreet use of their prior knowledge. The penalties were fierce and the Time Police implacable in their pursuit of lawbreakers. But it was still worth taking the risk.Jud Elliot took it when he met the marvellous transemporal paradox called the Pulcheria. He couldn't resist her charms - the effects spanned generations, and set the Time Police on his trail!By Poul Anderson. 1974
Somewhere, spinning through another universe is an Earth where a twist of fate, a revolution and a few early inventions…
have made a world quite unlike our own.It is a world where Cavaliers and Puritans battle with the aid of observation balloons and steam trains; where Oberon and Titania join forces with King Arthur to resist the Industrial Revolution; and where the future meshes with the past in the shape of Valeria, time traveller from New York.By Hal Clement. 1971
The return of BarlennanDhrawn was a giant rockball, more than 3,000 times the mass of Earth. Perhaps a planet, perhaps…
a nearly dead star, the 17 billion square miles of mystery cried out for investigation. But its corrosive atmosphere and crushing gravity assured that no human would ever set foot on its surface.Those hardy, caterpillar-like Mesklinites, on the other hand, were ideally suited to explore Dhrawn, and their leader certainly knew a good deal when he saw one. So Barlennan, a shrewd sea captain if ever there was one, struck a sharp bargain with the Earthmen for his services in leading the expedition.But the humans might not have been so pleased with their side of the bargain, if they had known that Barlennan had plans of his own for Dhrawn . . .The stunning sequel to the classic SF novel Mission of Gravity.By Kenneth Bulmer. 1957
Jeremy Dodge knew the Earth would face starvation if it were not for the new science of "aquaculture". With the…
world's population numbering many billions, only the extra food being cultivated on the bottom of the sea could feed everyone.But, like the rest of the surface-dwellers, Jeremy did not know what a vicious monopoly underwater cultivation had become. That is, until the dreadful moment when he himself was kidnapped and dragged beneath the depths.And there he was to learn that just making his own escape would not be enough - he would have to save mankind from the tyranny of a new race of water-breathing human monsters!By E. C. Tubb. 1974
THROUGH THE TERROR TOROIDIt could have been a black hole - one of those terrifying rips in space that defy…
all laws. That it was artificial in origin did not make it any less deadly. Worst of all, that strange extra-galactic torus was drifting into an intersect with Earth in its orbit. The result would be devastation beyond concept.Cap Kennedy and his three companions were considered expendable in such a cause. And Cap himself volunteered to dare the impossible - to turn that cosmic hole aside.What he fell into was an adventure utterly different than anything he had expected. The novel of EARTH ENSLAVED is a real surprise package for the legion of Cap Kennedy's followers.By E. C. Tubb. 1970
Scar: a harsh, inhospitable world with a vicious and shifting population of prospectors, drawn from every corner of the galaxy…
by rumours of a miraculous golden spore.To this violent planet come two more travellers, ready to try their luck among its lethal jungles: the cruel, mocking Lord of Jest - and Dumarest, driven by destiny on his endless search for Lost Earth . . . (First published 1970)By Robert Silverberg. 1967
Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people's pain. He feeds off it, and…
carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveller whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together again - differently. Burris' pain is constant. And so is that of Lona Kelvin, used by scientists to supply eggs for 100 children and then ruthlessly discarded. Only an emotional vampire like Chalk can see the huge audience eager to watch a relationship develop between these two damaged people. And only Chalk can make it happen.First published in 1967By Gordon R Dickson. 1956
Johnny Parent was driven by a furious anger - anger against the cocky aliens from outer space and anger against…
the company which had hired him to build the space drive which would lift the quarantine against Earth.It was a tough problem - made tougher by the company's double-dealing. And Johnny didn't relish the thought of cracking it with a whip on his back and a knife at his throat.Then he stumbled upon an eccentric young playboy, his pretty but ambitious secretary and weird little alien with colossal strength. Together they plotted the piratical flight into space which would earn Earth its due place in the Universe.But they had to hurry - because the company's strong men were right behind them - and the sola time clock was running out!By Harry Harrison. 1974
By David I. Masson. 1968
The Caltraps of Time is David I. Masson's only published book of fiction, a collection of short stories, most of…
which made their first appearance in New Worlds SF during the 1960s under the legendary editorship of Michael Moorcock. An apocalyptic battle at the edge of the unknown, the deadly fascination of voracious magma, a world where the weather expresses itself as mood.Theses are only some of the themes tackled with superb scientific speculation by David I. Masson.By Robert Silverberg. 1996
It will be the greatest voyage of exploration in human history. Fifty men and women are chosen to crew the…
Wotan. Their mission: to travel deep into the unknown galaxy in search of habitable worlds, to rekindle the dying human spirit. Their only contact with Earth is the telepathic link between one of the crew members and her sister back home. But when the mind-link with Earth is abruptly broken the Wotan is lost in the pearl-gray twilight of nospace. Then just as all seems lost, the Wotan encounters a massive alien presence. Suddenly the crew is forced to realise that their every assumption about life and death, humanity and the universe, may be dead wrong.By Poul Anderson. 1971
Steve Matuckek Book 2Ginny Greylock and Steve Matuckek are partners on an Earth quite unlike our own. Ginny is a…
licensed witch and Steve is an engineer and werewolf. He works on a spacecraft out in the Arizona desert and takes part in a project that soon discovers there is life on the moon.By Robert Silverberg. 1971
Manhattan 2012: Nat Hamlin's brilliant career as an artist came to an end the day he went insane and embarked…
on a murderous rampage ... his sentence: Total Personality Replacement. Lissa loved Nat for his passion, now she loves him again - but as Paul Macy - for his warmth and kindness. Now each personality wants her help in battling the other, for with her Power, the man she chooses can kill the other. Lissa is terrified. She has to send one of her loves to his destruction. If she chooses the wrong man, the horror will never end.By Harry Harrison. 1998
In 1861 the American Civil War was in its first lethal year. Britain favoured the Confederacy - and the United…
Kingdom's hostility to the North increased to a flashpoint when a Union warship stopped a British vessel at sea. At that moment, there was a very real risk of war between Britain and the Union.Would Britain have invaded the United States? And if she had - what would have happened? This brilliantly envisaged alternative history shows on a truly epic scale the terrible consequences of such an action. For by the middle of the last century, warfare was already industrialised. Steam-powered ironclad ships at sea and trench warfare, powerful cannon and rapid firing guns on land had revolutionised the business of mass slaughter. Men died in battle on a scale never before seen.