Classic science fiction

John W.

Three Mind-Jarring Space OperasMarooned:Four giant ships made of the wonder element synthium crash the asteroid belt and brave the cold of Jupiter's moons in mans last reckless dash to adventure.

Here are five adventures in planetary exploration capable of orbit the most Earthbound reader.

The Incredible Planet is John W.

When the sleepy town of Weyharrow is enveloped by a mysterious fog, the inhabitants find themselves behaving in strange and dangerous ways.

The interstellar Bridge System was the greatest invention in the long history of cosmic humanity.

CODE NAME POSTERThe first practical matter transmitter was a success, or so everyone thought.

He was the most dangerous fugitive alive, but he didn't exist!

He was 'The Visitor' .

Nineteen light years from Earth, on Sigma Draconis, an international space team stumbles upon the first evidence of another highly advanced civilization in the universe.

Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth.

Are there aliens among us?

The far-flung fingers of Earth's civilisation touched many corners of the galaxy, and among them was the beautiful planet Yan.

The time is the future.

A Pandora's box of evilFreitas had commanded the engineers of his vast, world-wide empire to build him a device that could ransack the past.

Matthew Flamen, the last of the networks' spoolpigeons, is desperate for a big story.

Inkosi - the magnificent RidgebackBruno and Hermetic Tradition - a pop-rock-mod group consisting in part of Bruno Twentyman, Cressida Beggarstaff, Gideon Hard, Liz, Nancy, Glenn and others.

It was carnival time on Earth.

She appeared in our world naked, defenceless, unable to say a word anyone could understand.

Ciudad de Vados was the pride of Latin America - a gleaming city of the future where only ten years before there had been barren rock and wasteland.

The Corps Galactica, the Galaxy's police force, had pledged itself to a policy of non-interference with the backward Zarathustra Refugee Planets.

By the twenty-first century the world was drowning in its own population.

When racial hatred turns to murderous menace .

'We won't be landing anywhere just yet', Waters said to the other passengers on the spaceship Fulmar.

Whether or not he had wanted to turn back at the last minute, he couldn't have - the wave of dirty, hungry people carried him helplessly along in their fervour reach the temple.

Howson was a runt.

The barrenland lay on the face of the world like a sore, nearly round, more than three hundred miles in circumference.

In the long twilight if a galactic empire, the old king is dying.

'How short a time a century really is .

MUST THE UNIVERSE DIE WITH THEM?

A daring novel of mankind's strange and startling destiny.

The man in black picked up something which had been leaning beside him.

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 senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.

'One citizen of your planet shall go to the capital of the Federation of Worlds.

When Ivan Wright stepped out of his mountain cabin, rifle in hand, to investigate the sound of a strange helicopter, he stepped right into the middle of a galactic crisis.

The inhabited galaxy was caught in the crushing vice of a struggle for power.

Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day - and winning, every day.

'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction' Sunday TimesImagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them.

A classic science fiction tale of artifical worlds by one of the great American writers of the 20th centuryGlen Runciter is dead.

World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated.

'Greybeard is a potent elegy for the human condition .

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that has arrived in the galaxy and has been dubbed Rama by the astronomers observing it.

The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligence'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance .

The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all timeRama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System.

Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons.

Mr Bensington and Professor Redwood were amongst that new breed of men - or 'scientists' as they had become known.

Revenge was all Leadford could think of as he set out to find the unfaithful Nettie and her adulterous lover.

Illus.

'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today.

'One of the world's sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices' - Independent on SundayThis 42nd Anniversary Edition includes exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Dirk Maggs, co-producer of BBC Radio 4's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases.