The Threshold of Eternity
All time and space was their
battlefield.
The Brink
Fifties'
present day/very-near future (now alternate) novel of Cold War paranoia
and nuclear arms rivalry.
Echo in the Skull/Give Warning to the World
"Are there aliens among us? Are
the chariots of the gods returning?"
The Hundredth Millennium/Catch a Falling Star
There
was a new star in the sky—another sun heading directly for the Solar System
on a collision orbit. It meant the end fo the world!
Creohan, who made the discovery,
realized that in a few short years the oceans would boil, the forests and
cities would be engulfed in flame, and life would be scorched from the surface
of the world. But Creohan also knew that somewhere among the accumulated
lore of 100,000 years of civilization ther would be the scientific knowledge
that would even turn a star aside.
But finding that knowledge turned
out to be a nightmare. For none of the decadent people of the 100th Millennium
would listen to him; thus, one man alone sets forth on a quest to rescue
a world.
The World Swappers
Two
powerful titans were making their bid for the supremacy of mankind's planets,
and an entire galaxy was caught in the crushing vise of their struggle for
ultimate power. The contestants: Bassett, financial wizard, backed by all
the forces that money could buy; and Counce, master in the spheres of intellect,
man of strange powers. Yet, despite all their talents, neither could foresee
the Others hovering among the stars, looking for new worlds to conquer.
The Atlantic Abomination
When the firest expedition
to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean descended, no one really knew what wonders
would be encountered in that unknown new world. But the wildest dreams could
never have prepared the world for what was found---the stones of an ancient
civilization.and the monstrous body of an inhuman creasture sealed beneath
the waters for countless eons.
Sanctuary in the Sky/A Maze of Stars
The ship's millenia-long mission was to preserve humanity.
But humanity was becoming more alien, and the ship--impossibly--more human...
The Skynappers
"Human fuses for a galactic
explosion."
Slavers of Space/Into the Slave Nebula
It
was carnival time on Earth. Prosperity was at its peak; science had triumphed
over environment: all human needs were taken care of by computers, robots
and androids. There was nothing left for humans to do but enjoy themselves
... to seek pleasure where they found it, without inhibitions and without
thinking the price.
Then an android died -- in a senseless,
brutal murder. And young Derry Horn was shocked out of his boredom and alienation.
His life of flabby ease had not prepared him for a fantastically dangerous
mission to outlying, primitive stars -- but now, at last, he had a reason
for living. And even when he found himself a prisoner of ruthless slavers,
even when he learned the shocking truth about what the androids really
were and where they came from ... even when he saw all the laws of the orderly,
civilized universe he knew turned upside-down and inside-out ... he fought
on. For that universe had to be shattered and reborn -- even if Derry Horn
and the Earth he had irrevocably left behind died in the process!
Meeting at Infinity
Where
world lines crosss... Allyn Vage was once a beautiful woman, but due to
an accident—which may have been a murder attempt—she was now a hopeless cripple,
burned and disfigured, and without the sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste,
and touch. When they brought her to Jome Knard, that noted physician had
no choice but to employ a certain apparently miraculous device, incomprehensible
even to him, to keep her immobile body alive and to restore and regulate
her sensory perception.
This strange machine had been
imported from a seemingly primitive people on the world of Akkilmar. They
had allowed it to be exported, but there was something about it they couldn't—or
wouldn't—explain.
Little did either the doctor or
his patient realize that between them they now become the lever that could
topple a world!
I Speak for Earth (as Keith Woodcott)
The Man with the seven faces.
The Ladder in the Sky (as Keith Woodcott)
"Black magic---or unimaginable
super-science?"
The Super Barbarians
The
Acre was the only part of an entire world where Earthmen were allowed to
live as they pleased and as they were accustomed. For elsewhere on Qualavarra,
humanity was forced into servitude by the Vorra, THE SUPER BARBARIANS who
had somehow managed to conquer space.
But within the Acre, the underling
Terrestrials had cooked up a neat method of keeping their conquerors from
stamping them out altogether. They had uncovered a diabolical Earth secret
that the Vorra couldn't abide -- and yet couldn't do without.
Times Without Number
Traveling
backward in time, Don Miguel had to undo the errors and interruptions on
other time-interlopers; he had to preserve the present. Even the most insignificant
nudging of the past could entirely alter the present! And he suspected that
this had already happened: that a maniacal genius crazed with a desire for
nationalist vindication had plotted to alter the victorious Spanish Armada
of 1588 - thus changing recorded history and perhaps even imperiling the
Imperial Spanish Empire of 1988! If Don Miguel did not successfully intercede,
when he came back to the present he might find a different world... a different
time... a time in which he probably didn't even exist!
The Astronauts Must Not Land/More Things in Heaven
"The crew of the starship were
still in space---but at the same time they were on Earth!"
The Dreaming Earth
A desperately
stricken earth--wracked by overpopulation and plagued by famine and despair.
It tells, too, of a new breed of men and women--twenty-first century lotus
eaters caught in a mysterious euphoria which will ultimately threaten all
life on this planet: the drug-induced world of "happy dreams." Do these "happy
dreamers" herald the end of the human race--or the next extraordinary step
in the evolution of Man?
The Psionic Menace (as Keith Woodcott)
"The S.O.S. from beyond the galactic
frontier"
The Rites of Ohe
Listen! The
Stars /The Stardroppers
Special
Agent Dan Cross was called upon to investigate the "Stardropper problem"
- which was that users of this mysterious instrument, which seemed to listen
in on the stars, were beginning to disappear!
Endless Shadow/Manshape
Enigma from Tantalus
To Conquer Chaos
On
the face of the Earth only the Barrenland remained an impenetrable mystery
-- a blasted radioactive area the size of a small state where no man dared
to venture. But Jervis Yanderman was one of the more courageous souls of
that future day when men at least were starting to reconstruct the vanquished
civilization of the dim past.
Jervis knew that the secret of
the Barrenland had to be solved. For things from out of this world still emerged from
it to terrorize neighboring lands and strange weird visitations haunted those
who even approached it.
Day of the Star Cities/
Age of Miracles
The
first hint that Earthman had that aliens had come to their planet was a
catastrophic one. Suddenly, without warning, all the atomic weapons and fissionable
material on Earth were blown up. Panic, death and chaos reigned for months
before things began to get back under control.
By that time reports were already
coming in of five mysterious star-shaped cities scattered over the globe
- huge area of flickering light and awesome free energy, disorganizing to
human senses, and impregnable to attack. The aliens had built their bases
on Earth.
But were they only bases, or -
something else?
The Long Result
Roald
Vincent, is a senior official of the Bureau of Cultural Relations, which
handles contacts not just with aliens but also with human colony worlds.
He has to handle a rapidly escalating crisis when a ship from Starhome, the
first interstellar ship not to be built on Earth, announces when about to
land that it carries a diplomatic mission from a newly discovered alien species.
This makes them the focus of attacks by the League, and the crisis is also
being used in political manoeuvring between Earth and Starhome, a colony
beginning to press for independence.
The Martian Sphinx (as Keith Woodcott)
The Squares of the City
Ciudad
de Vados is a "perfect" city, but its brilliant white plazas are running
red with the blood of brutally murdered people. At the center of the trouble
is a power struggle in which the Minister of Information is using mind-control
and mass-hypnosis to manipulate and control major players in the battle.
Enter Boyd Hakluyt, a traffic consultant who has arrived just in time to see
another murder, and to realize that his presences has nothing to do with traffic.
For he is yet another pawn in the deadly chess game of power that threatens
to destroy the very city in whose squares this game is being played out.
Born Under Mars
Ray
Mallin returned from the stars to find that his home planet Mars had fallen
into shocking decay and apathy. Once Mars had been the great hope of the
Solar System. Once men came from Earth to test their strength and adaptiveness
on a harsh new world--now the progress of mankind had passed Mars by, and
she had become a second-class planet, her Mars-born humans only dead-end mutations.
But Ray Mallin had little time
to worry about the problems of his home planet, for as soon as he landed
he was abducted by agents of Earth's newer and more advanced colony planets,
agents who would stop at nothing to gain information they thought he had.
Though brutally tortured, and surrounded by treachery, intrigue and danger,
he managed to escape.
How long would it be before he
realized that he was the key to a secret that would change the future of
the human race!
A Planet of Your Own
A young,
beautiful, intelligent, and highly trained woman who leaves Earth to seek
her fortune in the human interstellar settlements. The further she gets from
the earth, the fearcer the competition is from the hardened settlers and
she reaches her final destination totally broke. She gets a job offer though
as Planetary Supervisor for a wealthy world noted for its exotic furs. The
salary offer is huge and includes free transport back to Earth when her contract.
This causes her to suspect a catch and there is one.
The Productions of Time
A sadistic
playwright's avant-garde theater thrusts a troupe of actors into an experiment
in programmed perversion.
Quicksand
The
girl walked naked out of nowhere on a winter night and to psychiatrist
Paul Fidler it was as if one of his own obsessive visions of disaster took
human form, bringing nightmares to life. Tiny, appearing harmless, she had
half killed a man who tried to assault her. Piquantly lovely, she belonged
to no known racial type. Of high intelligence, she spoke a language no one
could be found to understand. Most remarkable of all, commonplace objects
like clothing and cars were a mystery to her. They called her "Urchin."
Bedlam Planet
Everything
about the planet revoling around Sigma Draconis seemed to indicate that
it was an uninhabited paradise. But what then was so troubling to the pioneer
colony? Was it really possible to simply duplicate Earth on any vacant world?
Or was there a lot more to planetary ecology than humanity realized.
Stand on Zanzibar
There are seven billion-plus
of our species, crowding the surface of twenty-first century Earth in an
age of acceleratubes, Moonbase Zero, intelligent Computers, mass marketed
psychedelics, politics by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease
volcanoes - hive-living hysteria that is reaching its bursting point all over
the world. But a hive seldom knows its own madness until its too late.
Employing a dazzling range of literary techniques, John Brunner has created
a future world as real as this morning's newspaper - moving, sensory, impressionistic,
as jagged as the times it portrays, this book is a real mind-stretcher -
and yet beautifully orchestrated to give a vivid picture of the whole.
Double, Double
It
was deadlier than anything man could imagine. and now it was human too! It
staggered ashore in the lifeless body of an unlucky pilot and put a real
damper on a psychedelic rock show. It unceremoniously introduced itself to
nice, reclusive old Miss Beeding and turned her into something much too bizarre
for words. It slowly but surely was eating its way into the hearts and minds
and bodies of a quiet, seacoast town and before long there would be no one
left to stop it.
The Jagged Orbit
Matthew
Flamen, the last of the networks' spoolpigeons, is desperate for a big
story. There's no shortage of possibilities, but then into his lap falls
the story that the respected director of the New York State Mental Hospital
is a charlatan. (another
review)
Timescoop
Harold
Freitas III is merely looking for a publicity triumph, and the "monsters"
are his own ancestors, brought forward to 2066 by a newly invented magic
device. The ancestors have some difficulties, amusingly described, in adjusting
to 21st-century mores. Freitas and his sentient computer SPARCI save the day.
The Gaudy Shadows
A quest into the dirtiest
corners of "swinging London" and the secret lives of three very different
women.
The Dramaturges of Yan
The
far-flung fingers of Earth's civilisation touched many corners of the galaxy,
and among them was the beautiful planet Yan. Here the colonists lived a peaceful,
almost idylilic life, amid ancient and secret relics, co-existing with their
strange and compatible neighbours. A dramaturge is an artist in dramatic
presentation.and whoever had built the prehistoric artifacts on Yan had
known the art of dramaturgy well. Studying these astonishing objects was
the sole reason for the tiny human colony there. The humanoid natives did
not seem to care.
The Wrong End of Time
The
time is the future. The place, an America so isolated by fear that it is
cut off from the rest of the world by a massive defense system. Into this
armed, barricaded state comes a young Russian scientist bearing a strange
--- and almost unbelievable story: Superior, intelligent life - or a far
higher order than any on earth - has been detected near the planet Pluto.
Immune themselves by virtue of their far greater intelligence, these aliens
are about to destroy the planet Earth.
The Sheep Look Up
In
this nightmare society, air pollution is so bad that gas masks are commonplace.
Infant mortality is up, and everyone seems to suffer from some form of ailment.
The water is polluted, and only the poor drink from the tap. The government
is ineffectual, and corporate interests scramble to make a profit from water
purifiers, gas masks, and organic foods. Environmentalist Austin Train is
on the run. The Trainites, environmental activists and sometime terrorists,
want him to lead their movement. The government wants him in jail, or preferably,
executed. The media wants a circus. Everyone has a plan for Train, but Train
has a plan of his own.
The Stone That Never Came Down
There
was a cure for depression and unemployment.There was a cure for war, madness
and national hatreds..But there were those that wanted the cure suppressed
until the world collapsed.
Total Eclipse
In
the year 2020, an international space team, exploring Sigma Draconis, 19
light years from Earth, discovers the remains of a highly advanced society
that has left behind as its most spectacular artifact the largest telescope
imaginable, carved and polished from a natural moon crater. Successive space
crews determined that the native culture evolved and disappeared mysteriously
after a mere 3000 years of existence. It is now 2028, and another mission
reaches the planet with just one goal-to discover why the civilization disappeared.
And with just one hope-that this knowledge will prevent the same thing from
happening on earth.
The
Shockwave Rider
He Was The Most Dangerous
Fugitive Alive, But He Didn't Exist!
Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes...but technically he
didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government
think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code
— then he escaped.Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal
freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world tottering on the brink
of disaster.He didn't care how he did it...but the government did. That's
when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs...and Nickie Haflinger
was set up for a whole new education!
The Infinitive of Go
Dr.
Justin Williams had discovered an amazing new method of transport. Using
an advanced computerized device, an obscure scientific principle could be
applied to move macroscopic objects through space.
As part of a classified project,
multiple "posting" experiments have proved successful—first inanimate objects,
graduating to transporting volunteers across short distances.
However, when a first long-distance
experiment resulted in an apparently psychotic episode culminating in a suicide,
Dr. Williams and his theories came under crushing doubt. Stung and afraid,
the scientist volunteers to repeat the experiment. The "posting" appears
to be successful at first. However, Justin begins to notice small but significant
changes in people he knows. The question: is Justin's memory uneliable,
or has the "posting" delivered him to another universe?
Players at the Game of People
War
hero, jet-setter, gourmet - Godwin Harpinshield was all of these things
and more; his life was a game played among the Beautiful People whose fame,
wealth and power set them above the law, and beyond the laws of nature. Because
of a simple bargain that all the Beautiful People made, Godwin's every desire
was his for the asking. Seduced by luxury, Godwin never doubted his fortune,
never wondered about his mysterious patrons. Then the game turned ugly. Suddenly,
the ante was raised and the game was real. The stakes were his future, his
sanity and, possibly, his very soul. All Godwin Harpinshield had to discover
was: What were the rules of the game? And who - or what - were the other
players?
The Crucible of Time
Life
had become too interesting on one world crawling across the rubble-strewn
arm of a spiral galaxy, for as the system moved it swept up cosmic dust and
debris. Ice ages and periods of atropical warmth followed one another very
quickly. Yesterday's fabled culture might be tomorrow's interesting hole
in the ground. But society had always endured. Many thought it always would.
Only the brightest scientists admitted that to survive, the race would have
to abandon the planet. And to do that they'd have to invent spacecraft...
The Great Steamboat Race
Historical novel based on
a real 19th century Steamboat race.
The Tides of Time
First
there was the end. After weeks of running from pursuers, Gene and Stacy
finally found refuge on an isolated island. But around them the island changed
- and so did they. Each time they awoke from sleep, they lived a different
life in a different time. And the farther back in time they went, the more
they lost their anchor to their own world. When at last they were found,
the people they had become no longer recognized their pursuers. And that was
the beginning.
The Shift Key
Children of the Thunder
Peter
Levin is a freelance science reporter watching England (and the rest of
the world) going nowhere fast (and in a handbasket). His hope that humanity
may redeem itself turns into fear as old acquaintances send him information
on the Children of the Thunder, a random mix of adolescents who seem capable
of almost any crime- and of getting away with it. Are they the final straw
for a doomed civilization, or will they save humanity from itself?
Muddle Earth
Travel
to Muddle Earth, the most unlikely place in the known and unknown universe,
and witness the weirdest future imaginable, from one of the great imaginations
of science fiction - Hugo Award-winning author John Brunner.
