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POPSSF Author: Todd McFarlane What do you do when you discover that a weapon you created years ago -- a weapon so devastating that you assumed it would never be used -- is being manufactured and stockpiled by the U.S. Government? An incredibly destructive bomb that was detonated only once before, and in that detonation, unleashed upon humanity one of the most formidable monsters ever created.A gray-skinned brute known as: The Incredible Hulk. Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero
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POPSSF Author: Thomas William Cronin
The story starts in 2038. There are two missions on Mars, a small Japanese Space Agency mission in Ares Valley, and a large NASA mission in Kasei Valley, 1700 miles to the west. Early on, the JSA mission suffers a crippling failure, and its sole survivor, an elderly scientist who is also a Zen master, faces certain death from starvation. As the story opens, the NASA landing site is devastated by a catastrophe, caused by a funding shortfall that forces the mission to run risks. There are only two survivors, an American and a Frenchwoman, who were away on a rover expedition. Two of the mission's three long-range, nuclear-powered rovers also survive, but the surviving food will run out in only two weeks. News of the catastrophe is received with shock on Earth. Next day, there is an emergency hearing on the disaster in Washington, attended by the world's space agency chiefs, and watched worldwide. The JSA chief drops the first bombshell, when she reveals that the Zen master in
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POPSSF Author: Thomas E Fuller Safe Harbor? Five months into their undercover search for the pirate Jack Steele, Captain Hunter and the Aurora head for the island of Tortuga to put in for repairs after a battle with a deadly Spanish ship. Davy Shea, now fifteen years old and accepted by the Aurora's crew, continues to help his uncle Patch in the ship's surgery, but Captain Hunter has a special mission for him. The Captain has learned that captured British officers are being held on the island for ransom from the Crown, and he is determined to rescue those officers, even risking the Aurora's cover. As a servant boy, Davy can easily pass among the various pirate groups thriving on Tortuga. But as Davy begins to uncover the many secrets and deceptions that shroud this beautiful island, he soon realizes that more is at stake than the lives of a few captured officers. A plan is in the works that will force the pirate hunters on the Aurora to make new alliances...and bring them face to face with former ene
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POPSSF Author: Thomas Berger Publisher's Weekly There is no greater danger to a novelist than the ``bright ideas,'' the seemingly hilarious notion that requires, if it is to come off, steady comic invention, freshness and originality, the sense of something new under the sun. Berger's wimpy protagonist Fred Wagner, a would-be novelist employed to write ad copy for schlocky novelty merchandise, proves unequal to his creator's admittedly intriguing premise. Equipped with the gift of making himself invisible, Fred encounters strange new worldsoffice sex, for example, as practiced by his boss, a woman who ministers to her boss when not more gainfully occupied. Fred himself has as much as he can handle with the blowsy redhead who is his neighbor and the featherbrained colleague who can't write her way out of a subordinate clause. These hijinks fall flat; the sex comedy does not induce laughter; even Berger's (The Feud generally energetic prose is trite. Early on we are assured that ``through being invisible Wag
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POPSSF Author: Suzette Haden Elgin Set in the not too distant future of 2205, and using fictional legislation implemented in 1991, Native Tongue is an intriguing depiction of a world where women are property, aliens are trading partners, and inherent ability to learn languages is a goldmine inherent only in certain families. What few realise is that a revolution is already underway, and the women deemed least essential are empowering all women to fight back against male dominance. Working through the hypothesis that 'science fiction is our best and most powerful resource for trying out social changes before we make them' Suzette Haden-Elgin has written a powerful exploration of society and gender relations. Native Tongue (The first book in the Native Tongue series)
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POPSSF Author: Shane Dix Two of Australia's hottest new science fiction writers make their American debut with a new trilogy. Morgan Roche, a commander in the Commonwealth of Empires, is assigned to escort an artificial intelligence unit known as "the box" to her superiors. But an attack on her ship forces her to escape to a prison planet, where she must protect the box at all costs. The Prodigal Sun (The first book in the Evergence series)
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POPSSF Author: Ronald Anthony Cross This gonzo journey takes a look behind the scenes of mankind's true history. Four prominent citizens of ancient Rome seize the Stones of Power, taking control of mankind's destiny, molding history to suit their own whims and fancy. But the balance of power among them can't last. The Fourth Guardian (The first book in the Eternal Guardians series)
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POPSSF Author: Rod Serling This is a collection of 14 short stories from the TV series. The book has no forward/introduction. The Mighty Casey (1960) Escape Clause (1960) Where is Everybody? (1960) The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (1960) Walking Distance (1960) The Whole Truth (1962) The Lonely (1961) Dust (1961) The Midnight Sun (1962) Mr. Dingle, the Strong (1961) The Odyssey of Flight 33 (1961) The Big, Tall Wish (1961) The Rip Van Winkle Caper (1962) The Shelter (1962) From the Twilight Zone
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POPSSF Author: Robin Cook When gynaecologist and biomolecular researcher Dr Victor Stein learns of his wife's infertility, he initiates a bold and dangerous experiment. Fusing his wife's egg and his own sperm, he sets in motion the production of a superior being, his child. Mutation
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POPSSF Author: Robert Thurston In the 31st century, the BattleMech is the ultimate war machine. Thirty meters tall, and vaguely, menacingly man-shaped, it is an unstoppable engine of destruction. In the 31 century, the Clans are ultimate warriors. The result of generations of controlled breeding, Clan Warriors pilot their BattleMechs like no others. Aidan aspires to be a Warrior of Clan Jade Falcon. To win the right to join his Clan in battle, he must succeed in trials that will forge him into one of the best warriors in the galaxy, or break him completely. Way of the Clans: Legend of the Jade Phoenix Vol 1 (A book in the BattleTech series
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POPSSF Author: Robert Shea The Illuminati: inside joke - or hellish conspiracy? Were they harmless cranks? Or a hellish conspiracy of psychotic lost souls hidden for centuries, unleashing a weird evil on an unsuspecting, defenceless world? It was Saul Goodman's lousy luck to pick up the trail from some underground memos in a bombed-out office. It was the heavy case he always dreaded. So it was that one tired cop set out on a wild, bizarre quest for a secret society that spanned centuries, crossed continents, drugged generations - and stooped to any depth of degradation to self-destruct a whole world.. In the far-out vein of Vonnegut's humour and Castaneda's mind-games, here is Illuminatus - part 1 - the closest thing to a cosmic kaleidoscope between soft covers. Or a bone-freezing blueprint of disaster to come? The Eye in the Pyramid (The first book in the Illuminatus! series)
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POPSSF Author: Robert Rankin This story uncovers suburbia's darkest secrets - mostly in The Flying Swan, a cosmic Rovers Return where Neville the barman and Archroy, owner of five magic beans, do battle with beasts of the occult and in particular the rather unpleasant Pope Alexander VI, the last of the Borgias. The Antipope (The first book in the Brentford series)
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POPSSF Author: Robert Nye Expansive, sprawling, unruly and oversized - like his stomach and everything about him, the memoirs of the most beloved comic figure in the history of literature take the unsuspecting reader into the world of a character so audacious that, apparently, even the Bard himself could not do him justice. Larger-than-life, irascible and still lecherous at the advanced age of eighty-one, Falstaff recounts these outrageously bawdy tales as an antidote to popular legend that are guaranteed to tell you some things you never thought you needed to know about his life and times. Who killed Hotspur? What really went on at the battle of Agincourt? And what was it that made the wives of Windsor so merry? As we romp through history with this most entertaining of guides, the Middle Ages come alive in a rich tapestry of sights and sounds in another stunning novel from the author of The Late Mr Shakespeare. Falstaff: Being the Acta Domini Johannis Fastolfe, or Life and Valiant Deeds of Sir Jo
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POPSSF Author: Robert L Skidmore Born on the frontier in the isolated foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Satterfield twins, John and James, follow different paths. John, a son of the forests, turns to the west where he joins a young George Washington on his early expeditions en route to fame and fortune. James, the bookish one, attends William and Mary and becomes a protege of Governor Dinwiddie. As the Governor's clerk, James soon finds himself caught between the protesting colonials and Dinwiddie, the King's man. John, an employee of the Ohio Company, becomes a leader in the struggle for survival against the onslaught of the Indians who resist the push of the English settlers westward. The French from their northern bastions arm their Indian allies and provoke them into attacking the advancing English. Red Eye, a bloodthirsty sub chief, becomes John's mortal enemy. After several clashes, John succeeds in killing Red Eye while returning home from a visit to Fort Le Boeuf on the shores of Lake Erie w
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POPSSF Author: Robert L Forward The first manned mission to another star brings the discovery of alien intelligences and a new world. The Flight of the Dragonfly (Rocheworld) (The first book in the Rocheworld series)
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POPSSF Author: Robert J Harris Odysseus believed the age of heroes was over. Then he and his friend, along with a spoiled princess named Helen and her cousin Penelope, are kidnapped by pirates! Their journey leads them to Crete, where Odysseus must face the secret at the heart of the Labyrinth. There was a time when the Minotaur devoured all who entered, but now an even deadlier monster roams the maze. There Odysseus discovers the hardest part of being a hero: living long enough to tell the tale. Odysseus in the Serpent Maze (The first book in the Young Heroes series)
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POPSSF Author: Robert Doherty In 1940s, the U.S. government had establishes Area 51 to study nine unidentified craft discovered in the Antarctic, but Dr. Hans Von Seeckt, the only member of the original secret research committee, begins to fear that the technology of the mothership poses a threat to our planet. Original. Area 51 (The first book in the Area 51 series)
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POPSSF Author: Robert Adams After two hundred years of searching for other immortals, the Undying High Lord Milo Morai has returned to the Horseclans to fulfill an ancient prophecy and lead them to their destined homeland by the sea. But in their path wait the armed might of the Ehleenee and an enemy even more treacherous--the Witchmen. The Witchmen--pre-Holocaust scientists who have survived the centuries by stealing other men's bodies to house their evil minds and who have in their hidden stronghold the means of destroying all who will not become their willing slaves. Can even Milo save the Horseclans from the bloodthirsty Ehleenee and the malevolent Witchmen who would rip him to shreds to discover his secret of immortality? The Coming of the Horseclans (The first book in the Horseclans series)
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POPSSF Author: R J Cantwell Late in the 20th Century, war sweeps the Globe. Millions are killed and millions more are left in desolation. Out of sheer exhaustion, the war ends. But the seeds of rebellion are sown - and from a most unexpected source. A theoretical geneticist, Ed Kinslow, is sent under mysterious circumstances by his employer, to a health spa in the Sierras. There, he and other scientists, businessmen and professionals discover they are prisoners instead of guests. An escape attempt fails, and Kinslow learns the sinister truth. A meeting of the International Organization of Women is held in Mexico City where speeches proclaiming feminine superiority are heard. A world-wide feminist revolution is planned. Kinslow becomes embroiled in an attempted counter-revolution which is brutally crushed by superior forces of the newly installed world order - PAX FEMINA. His life is spared because his experiments involving the genetic re-engineering of a new human subspecies are vital to the future plans o
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POPSSF Author: Peter Fleming In the summer of 1940 the Germans prepared to launch Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of England. The British, barely recovered from Dunkirk, rallied their defenses. Both sides operated in great secrecy and, because the invasion never took place, the dramatic preparations for what would have been one of the watershed battles of history faded from memory. Not, however, before Peter Fleming rescued this fascinating story from military archives and the recollections of survivors who were involved. Invasion 1940 (Operation Sea Lion)
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POPSSF Author: Peter Benchley Publisher's Weekly An alcoholic upper-middle-class WASP sent to a posh clinic to dry out witnesses the hypocritical behavior of the clinic's director. According to PW , Benchley's ``plot may be muddled, but his writing is vigorous and observant . '' Library Journal When New York editor Scott Preston needs two double vodkas to start the day, his wife and his boss (threatening loss of marriage and job) ship him off to a rehab center. At the Banner Clinic, rummies and junkies--among them a movie star, a professional athlete, and a mobster--face hard truths and rough treatment, with no expletives deleted. Successful WASP-stereotype Preston is first alienated, then joins in the camaraderie, becomes infatuated with aristocratic addict Priscilla Godfrey, and is drawn into subplots: the mysterious death of a glamorous film star and recent Banner graduate; the abrupt firing of two counselors; and the abuse of Priscilla by clinic-founder Stone Banner, a charismatic ex-cowboy movie st
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POPSSF Author: Paul Edwin Zimmer This long unavailable novel by Bradley, the bestselling author of The Mists of Avalon, and her brother, a well-known science fiction author in his own right, tells the story of the Hunters--fierce killers who promise fabulous wealth to any opponents who can survive being hunted by them for the time between two eclipses of the Red Moon. Hunters of the Red Moon (The first book in the Hunters series)
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POPSSF Author: Paul Collins Keiren is a bit of a dreamer. He longs for his own dog. When Jack Ellis arrives to stay at his mother's boarding house, Keiren bonds with him immediately, listening to Jack's tales of four stories centering around dogs. When Jack Ellis moves on, Keiren is thrilled to find in his place a dog he calls Tommy. Mystery develops when a teacher shows Keiren an old ten-dollar note. He recognises the face of Henry Lawson on the note to be that of his friend, Jack Ellis! The Dog King
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POPSSF Author: Patrick Whalen Now Seattle burst with the unholy presence of nocturnal predators, for whom the hot, salty liquid from their living victims means not only survival, but superhuman power, and indescribable ecstasy. Those they feed on rise again. They climb from beneath darkened streets, driven by a raging thirst that can never be sated... Night Thirst
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POPSSF Author: Patrick Nielsen Hayden Nielsen Hayden charts a new course for SF, beginning a new original anthology series filled with the vigor, invention, and sense of play that have always been the hallmarks of the best science fiction and fantasy. Starlight 1 (The second book in the Starlight series)
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