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The Rings of Hesaurun by Peter Harrett
8 ratingsFleeing an alien menace of galactic proportions, a starship named The Dreamer crash-lands on Earth in the year 2436 BCE. Responding to the crash, the primitive earthlings discover the ship's commander Valerie Dunne is a 5,000-year-old woman from the future, forced to escape her nemesis, the Boecki, by hiding in the past... -
Shaved Ape Key by Jerry Boyd
10 ratingsWhat do you do when you can’t give away a space carrier? Learn to be the best captain you can. If one of your most loyal bots has unfinished business, you have to send him out to finish it up, don’t you? Come along as Bob faces his new responsibilities as captain of the B. S. Gene Cernan. And don’t forget to sing along...“There’s room for you, and there’s room for me... -
The '86 Fix by Keith A. Pearson
17 ratingsImagine if you could travel back in time to when you were sixteen.Imagine if you could spend one weekend reliving your past — would you change anything? Everything wrong with Craig Pelling’s life can be traced back to 1986 and the moment he popped in to a newsagent for a can of Coke... -
Back To You by Steve Bates
18 ratingsSearching for history’s greatest pastrami on rye, Chris arrives from 1,000 years in the future and hides his time machine in an alley. But Eddie sees through the disguise, takes an unexpected ride, and demonstrates it to his boss at a failing cable TV network... -
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Alice: The Girl From Earth by Kir Bulychev
10 ratingsA translation of Девочка с Земли into English... -
Jason Apsley's Second Chance by Adrian Cousins
10 ratingsIf you were catapulted back to 1976, what would you do?Meet Jason Apsley, a forty-two-year-old divorcee, who's an opinionated miserable bugger. Struggling with life which is exacerbated by his negative attitude.A random event shifts time, causing Jason to continue life in 1976, six months before he's due to be born... -
Whammo Ranch by Jerry Boyd
12 ratingsA saucer comes in damaged, with sick people aboard. A deadly plague threatens Earth. Can Bob and his crew save the day? Will Bob's good nature cost him his life? Julie's boss wants to retire. Can she handle running the restaurant? Can Bob find her the help she needs? Dee has come down with a terrible case of pedestrianism... -
System Restored by Adam Eccles
6 ratingsDerek Cooper is a retro gamer.His small flat is crammed with old consoles, controllers, accessories and shelves brimming full of old games. Quite an amazing collection, but there's always room for one more, isn't there?1981. The world of arcade games is just coming into its own... -
Leah's Hero by Miranda Martin
6 ratingsMy nightmares haven't stopped since the crash. I'm paralyzed with fear, barely able to function, and the other survivors are looking at me like I'm *that* girl.The broken one. The one who doesn't help. The one who's in the way.Then Urukol shows up. A seven-foot tall, muscular alien dragon-man who's damaged just like me. He wears his scars for all the world to see... -
Niir by Ella Blake
6 ratingsThe job seemed simple: Rescue fourteen abducted females and return them to their settlement.Communications officer Niir Gosk is the picture of diplomacy and skillful negotiation, but few know the brutal mercenary's life he once led. He constantly fights to keep his deadly primal form--lurking in the soul of all Virilians--from permanently transforming him into a monster... -
Joseph Bridgeman and the Silver Hunter by Nick Jones
8 ratingsJoseph Bridgeman is back and dreaming of a quiet life. All he wants is to re-kindle his relationship with Alexia Finch, get to know his estranged family and catch up on the last twenty years.Sounds simple enough.But when a mysterious time-traveller arrives in his shop, Joe learns his first trip was only the beginning, and this time the stabilisers are coming off... -
Corsairs: Mathiras by Ruby Dixon
8 ratingsSomeone is illegally stealing humans from their home world and cloning them.For months, we’ve been hunting this ring of criminals and the end is in sight. I’m separating from my brothers and taking my ship to track down the bad guys.One small problem — Helen insists upon joining me on this dangerous mission.Helen herself is a clone, created to be an object of beauty... -
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase by Douglas Adams
10 ratingsWhen the Earth is unexpectedly demolished, Arthur Dent finds The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy an essential companion... -
Callahan's Secret by Spider Robinson
14 ratingsCallahan's Place is open for business, and all of the "regulars" are here--a talking dog, an alcoholic vampire, and two telepaths--enhancing their joys by drowning their sorrows. Everyone, that is, but Mickey Finn, a seven-foot tall alien in danger of enslavement at the hands of a traveller from across the galaxy... -
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Time Travellers Strictly Cash by Spider Robinson
16 ratingsHuman or otherwise, regardless of race, creed or dimension of origin, if you're looking for a good time in a place where the beer is always flowing, and the stories always out of this world, step up to the bar at Callahan's... -
Callahan's Lady by Spider Robinson
16 ratingsA HOUSE OF "HEALTHY" REPUTE...Welcome to Lady Sally's, the House that "is" a home -- the internationally (hell, interplanetarily) notorious bordello. At Lady Sally's House, the customer doesn't necessarily come first: even the staff are genuinely enjoying themselves... -
Quantum Time by Douglas Phillips, Graham Halstead
16 ratingsEveryone knew time travel was impossible. Then reality intruded. A dying man stumbles into a police station and collapses. In his fist is a mysterious coin with strange markings. He tells the police he’s from the future, and when they uncover the coin’s hidden message they’re inclined to believe him... -
Shakedowners by Justin Woolley
6 ratingsSome starship captains explore strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilisations. Some lead missions of discovery through wormholes to the other side of the galaxy. Then there's Captain Iridius B. Franklin, someone who spent too long seeking out strange new bars and new alien cocktails... -
A Green Christmas! by Ray O'Ryan, Colin Jack
6 ratingsLet it snow! Christmas is just a couple days away, and Zack can't wait to go back to Earth and have a white Christmas in Vermont. But with a cosmic storm in the forecast, the Nelsons have to cancel their travel plans and spend Christmas on their new home planet. Zack is really upset ... until the storm hits and green flakes start falling from the sky. Could they be .. -
Chasing Daisy by Scott Baron
6 ratingsThrown for the biggest loop she would likely ever be forced to experience, Daisy found herself at a complete loss for once. While a course of action normally made itself clear to her, her new predicament made following her instincts impossibly dangerous. One misstep and she not only might harm those she cared for, but could even fracture the universe itself... -
Prison Princess by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss
6 ratingsTHE BOYS OF HAREM STATION ARE KEEPING LOTS OF SECRETS! Valor joined up with Tray after Beauty’s sacrifice because he knew Luck was destined to be with Princess Nyleena. There was no room in that relationship for a third wheel. But when he teamed up with Tray he had no idea that he’d be the third wheel in that partnership too... -
Jarmen's Jane Doe by S.E. Smith
6 ratingsHe is a monster who discovers he had a heart; she is a woman who wants to remain unknown…Jarmen D’ju has no memories of his previous life. They were stolen in the lab that changed him into a monster. Though he was rescued, he knows he will never truly have the life he wants. As a being of half organic material and half cybernetic engineering, Jarmen will always need to hide... -
Artificial Evolution by Joseph R. Lallo
8 ratingsArtificial Evolution is the third book in the Big Sigma series, building upon the story and characters introduced by Bypass Gemini and Unstable Prototypes. Lex, Michella and Squee are once again joined by the mercenaries Silo and Garotte. Along the way they'll need plenty of help from mad engineer Karter Dee and his AI Ma... -
Back to the Future by Kim Smith
8 ratingsGreat Scott!! The latest in Quirk's series of Pop Classic Picture Books (following HOME ALONE, THE X-FILES, and E.T... -
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Dragon King Charlie by Scott Baron, Gary Bennett
8 ratingsCharlie thought building a spaceship had been tough, so being king should be a piece of cake. Unfortunately, it was like a cake made of cement. Hard to swallow, and just might kill him.It was good being king, or so Charlie had believed. After an abrupt crash arrival, people had finally stopped trying to kill him - for the most part, anyway - and his new subjects respected him. Or feared him... -
The Quotable Doctor Who: Wise Words from Across Space and Time by Cavan Scott, Mark Wright
10 ratingsThe first-ever collection of the most intelligent, strangest, mysterious, and wonderful quotes from all fifty years of the BBC America hit television series Doctor Who.Over the years, Doctor Who has become one of the most popular science fiction series to date, with an ever growing and extremely dedicated fan base... -
Callahan's Legacy by Spider Robinson
14 ratingsVintage Spider Robinson, this is a heart-tugging, foot-stomping work of science fiction by the reigning master of seriocomic SF. Set "somewhere in Suffolk County", New York, there is a bar that is the haunt of time travelers, aliens, robots, and other extremely different kinds of people. And by the time the night is over, the bar's population will be increased by one. Targeted media... -
Lady Slings the Booze by Spider Robinson
16 ratingsDespite his employer's doubts that he is an authentic detective, Quigley is called in to investigate Lady Sally's establishment, a reputable place that caters to adults of all species and tastes. Lady Sally was the wife of the proprietor of Callahan's Place, the bar where human and other beings from all space and time come to cajole, drink, and occasionally save the world... -
A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt
16 ratingsWhen Micajah Fenton discovers a crater in his front yard with a broken time glider in the bottom and a naked, virtual woman on his lawn, he delays his plans to kill himself. While helping repair the marooned time traveler’s glider, Cager realizes it can return him to his past to correct a mistake that had haunted him his entire life... -
Doctor Who: The Also People by Ben Aaronovitch
6 ratings'Just how technologically advanced are they?' The Doctor frowned. 'Let me put it this way: they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords.'The Doctor has taken his companions to paradise, or at least the closest thing he can find. A sun enclosed by an artificial sphere where there is no want, poverty or violence... -
Man Out Of Time by Jason Ayres
6 ratingsWhat would you do if you found yourself cast 22 years into the future? Into a world where your home is no longer yours and you've been declared legally dead?This is the situation that Daniel Fisher finds himself as the latest Time Bubble story begins. Stranded in the future, in a place where his outdated currency is worthless, things go from bad to worse very quickly...Categorized as:
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Splinters In Time by Jason Ayres
6 ratingsGetting lost in the wrong time was bad enough. But things get far worse for Josh Gardner when he can't even find his way back to his own universe. When his ex-girlfriend, Lauren, starts having recurring nightmares about a strange alternate reality in which she was murdered, Josh becomes interested in proving the existence of other universes...Categorized as:
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Scharlette Doesn't Matter and Goes Time Travelling by Sam Bowring
8 ratingsEver since Scharlette’s parents gave her a name no one can really pronounce, she’s been stuck in a bit of a rut. She hates her job in airport security, making people take their belts off before they fly away to exotic locations she can only dream about... -
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet by James Goss
10 ratingsThe hugely powerful Key to Time has been split into six segments, all of which have been disguised and hidden throughout time and space. Now the even more powerful White Guardian wants the Doctor to find the pieces.With the first segment successfully retrieved, the Doctor, Romana and K-9 trace the second segment of the Key to the planet Calufrax... -
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Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks by Trevor Baxendale
14 ratingsThe Daleks are advancing, their empire constantly expanding into Earth's space. The Earth forces are resisting the Daleks in every way they can. But the battles rage on across countless solar systems. And now the future of our galaxy hangs in the balance...The Doctor finds himself stranded on board a starship near the frontline with a group of ruthless bounty hunters... -
Callahan's Key by Spider Robinson
14 ratingsNobody blends good science with bad puns as brilliantly as Spider Robinson, as his legion of devoted fans will attest. Now he's back with the latest chapter of the Callahan saga -- an improbable tale of impending doom, a road trip, space, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.The universe is in desperate peril... -
Doctor Who: City of Death by James Goss
12 ratingsBased on the beloved Doctor Who episode of the same name by Douglas Adams, the hilarious and brilliant author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, comes City of Death… “A nasty, savage race, the universe was glad to see the back of them…” 4 billion BCE: The Jagaroth, the most powerful, vicious, and visually unappealing race in the universe disappears from existence... -
Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse by Jonathan Stutzman, Heather Fox
10 ratingsIn the hilarious follow-up to Llama Destroys the World, author/illustrator team Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox give Llama another shot at saving the world…from himself, in Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse. Llama’s back and ready to destroy the world AGAIN… this time with his best camelid, Alpaca!Llama loves cooking. And baking. And, above all, eating... -
Doctor Who: The Infinity Doctors by Lance Parkin
8 ratings"Sing about the past again, and sing that same old song. Tell me what you know, so I can tell you that you're wrong." Gallifrey. The Doctor's home planet. For twenty thousand centuries the Gallifreyans have been the most powerful race in the cosmos. They have circumnavigated infinity and eternity, harnessed science and conquered death... -
Secrets by Ernestine Tito Jones
6 ratingsDon't go in the attic. Out of the 100 rules their grandparents gave them to follow, that one was the most important, so of course, it was also the first one Hazel's six-year-old sister, Bess, decides to break. Hazel cannot believe she has to be in charge of her crazy little sister this entire summer... -
A Problematic Paradox by Eliot Sappingfield
6 ratingsNikola Kross has given up on living in harmony with classmates and exasperated teachers: she prefers dabbling in experimental chemistry to fitting in... -
Arnesto Modesto: The World's Most Ineffectual Time Traveler by Darren Johnson
6 ratings"There's going to be an attack." By sending his memories back in time, Arnesto Modesto gets to live his life over again. Of course, his much younger self may not be prepared to handle all that foreknowledge... Encouraged by his friend Pete, Arnesto attempts to use his limited recall to do some good — and winds up stumbling through some of the biggest events of the past quarter-century... -
Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russell
16 ratingsThe Doctor and Donna battle an ancient force from the Dark Times - the latest in the bestselling Doctor Who fiction range from BBC Books. Donna Noble is back home in London, catching up with her family and generally giving them all the gossip about her journeys. Her grandfather is especially overjoyed - he's discovered a new star and had it named after him... -
Doctor Who: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage: Tenth Doctor: 50th Anniversary by Derek Landy
12 ratingsEleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord. When the TARDIS lands on a planet that looks identical to Earth, the Tenth Doctor and Martha are amazed to find it packed with fictional characters from her childhood... -
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By Any Other Name by Spider Robinson
8 ratingsFROM THE CRIME TO THE RIDICULOUSFrom the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rock stars; blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; tomorrows formed by today's trends -- this Spider weaves a web of wonder.Sound profound? Nah... -
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors by Terrance Dicks
8 ratingsA twentieth anniversary special featuring the Doctor in all five of his regenerations.Why are all five Doctors being removed from their separate time-streams? Who is the enemy they will have to unite against? What will become of the Doctors when the battle is over?We have travelled a long way with Doctor Who... -
Aliens in Underpants Save the World by Claire Freedman, Ben Cort
8 ratingsA zany picture book adventure featuring aliens in (what else?) underpants! Aliens love underpants, It’s lucky that they do,For undies helped save our universe,Sounds crazy but it’s true!The beloved aliens from Aliens Love Panta Claus are back—and this time they are on a mission to save the world! Get ready for another pants-tastic adventure in this wacky picture book from winning author and... -
Doctor Who: Grand Theft Cosmos by Eddie Robson
6 ratings'Here's to crime, Doctor!'The Doctor and Lucie visit nineteenth-century Sweden and become embroiled in an attempt to steal the infamous Black Diamond.But the stone is guarded by forces not of this world.. -
Doctor Who: The Vengeance of Morbius by Nicholas Briggs, Paul McGann
6 ratingsThe richest man in the galaxy has just bought a backwards planet with no obvious mineral wealth in the outer reaches of the universe. An obscure mystical sect has been revived after centuries of neglect. A new race of aliens are hunting for prey... -
Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown by John Peel
6 ratingsStranded in the jungles of Kembel, the most hostile planet in the Galaxy, Space Security agent Marc Cory has stumbled across the most deadly plot ever hatched-the Daleks are about to invade and destroy the Universe. Cory has to get a warning back to Earth before it’s too late-but the Daleks find him first.Months later the First Doctor and his companions arrive on Kembel and find Cory’s message...
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