Science Fiction: Aliens and UFOs

Simeon Krug's obsession is to see a tower built, on kilometre high, that will reach out to answer the voice from space.

Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people's pain.

It was a sultry summer day in 1981, and the 3 billion or so inhabitants of the world went about their daily routine unaware that, possibly, the fate of the human race lay in the shaking hands of one George Mercer, an insignificant and slightly neurotic employee of the New York City Department of Welfare.

Earth was a planet of incompetents, but Simmons was the greatest loser of all.

Science fiction writer Sanford Kvass has a problem.

The Outer limit.

First there was Della, the woman who wanted .

This collection contains 7 astounding journeys into tomorrow by 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.

A million light-years from Earth, one solitary spaceship floats through a vast swarm of enemies.

The alien spaceship was unthinkably huge, enormously powerful, apparently irresistible.

THREE AGAINST THE STARS!

ANNOUNCING THE TOURIST EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE TALK OF THE GALAXY!

Life had become too interesting on one world crawling across the rubble-strewn arm of a spiral galaxy.

War hero, jet-setter, gourmet - Godwin Harpinshield was all of those 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.

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?

A revised version of THE ASTRONAUTS MUST NOT LAND (1963).

When suddenly all the fissionable material on Earth was exploded, Earthmen had their first notice of the aliens' arrival.

A stardropper got its name from the belief that the user was eavesdropping on the stars.

The time is the future.

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.

Once the city of Carrig stood supreme on this planet that had been settled by space refugees in the distant, forgotten past.

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

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.

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?

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.

A cold war among the stars was growing hotter by the minute.

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

Originally published in 1955 Jack Finney's sinister SF tale has outgrown the initial debate about whether it satirized Communism or the conformity of US society at the time, to become a classic of paranoia; an examination of our fear of 'the other'.

Contains the story 'The Hedge Night' Dreamsongs Book Two is the second part of a massive collection, featuring the very best of George R.

A fantastic collection of short fiction spanning the career of the phenomenon George R.

The legendary space opera that kicked off the ground-breaking, universe-spanning series.

From a comic "e;genius,"e; a World Fantasy Award-winning novel about a ship captain employed to tow God to His final rest is "e;deliciously irreverent"e; (Booklist).

From Stan Lee, the pop culture legend behind Marvel's The Avengers(TM), Black Panther(TM), X-Men(TM), Spider-Man(TM), The Fantastic Four(TM), and Iron Man(TM), comes a major literary event featuring two heroic teenagers-one born with extraordinary gifts, one unwillingly transformed.

'Hilarious and heartwarming .

Space adventure at its finest - Prime Deceptions is the outrageously fun sequel to Valerie Valdes' debut Chilling Effect, featuring the further adventures of Captain Eva Innocente and her misfit crew.

Seamlessly blending space opera, hard science fiction and cyberpunk, Neal Asher's Shadow of the Scorpion is a gripping prequel to the compelling Agent Cormac series.

'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.

'Sheer delight' - The TimesThis 42nd Anniversary Edition includes exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and a new introduction.