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The Steam-Driven Boy is John Sladek's first collection of brilliant, eccentric, darkly satirical and downright weird science fiction stories. As a bonus, it includes his parodies of SF authors, uproariously spoofing Asimov (and the Laws of Robotics), Ballard, Bradbury, Dick, Poe, Cordwainer Smith, and more.

Morgan le Fay is the neglected daughter of the Duke of Cornwall and his beautiful wife Ygerne. Her childhood is tragically altered when King Uther Pendragon sets eyes on her mother. He kills her adored father. By Merlyn's magic, he enters the convent of Tintagel and tricks Ygerne into giving him a child. Morgan's upbringing, and that of her sisters, is in the hands of their nurse. Gwennol is a wise woman, who teaches them her craft. But she soon realises that Morgan will become far more powerful in magic than herself.How will Morgan react when the baby Arthur is born?

The young bard Taliesin comes to the court of King Urien and Queen Morgan. His dream is to make an immortal song about the deeds of King Arthur. His fear is that he was born too late. Arthur is ageing.He uncovers the dark secret of the birth of Morgan's foster-son, Modred. He aches for both, as Morgan tries to bring Arthur and Modred together. But treachery has already been done. The song Taliesin sings may be of Arthur's last battle.

The teenage Luned left her farm with the dream of becoming a scholar-nun on Tintagel. Her hard-won success is now thrown into danger by the arrival of a bitter nine-year-old. Accused of trying to kill her baby brother Arthur, Morgan is imprisoned on this island nunnery. Luned is appointed her guardian.The Abbess Bryvyth battles for Morgan's soul. But Tintagel is visited secretly by Morgan's nurse Gwennol, a wise woman of the Old Religion. Luned herself is endangered as she is caught up in the struggle between them. She is coming ever more surely under Morgan's power.As she grows towards womanhood, Morgan must decide how to use that power.

DEATH WILL NOT RELEASE YOUKen Jacklin is a soldier who has died many times. Rossa Corman has a communications talent that depends on pain. Together they must make an excruciating journey via makeshift matter transmitter and persuade a distrustful, war-torn planetary colony to halt research into Anomalous Physics -- the maverick science whose side effects include continent-busting nullbombs, exploding suns, and a mysterious final weapon called the Devourer. Gradually Jacklin and Corman realize that what Earth has told them about their own mission is a labyrinth of bluff and lies.... A high-tension hard SF thriller.

CLIMATE INCORPORATED tells an engrossing story of the worldwide repercussions when the secret of climatic control is misused by ruthless men. JOHN RUSSELL FEARN'S powerful science fiction novel is supported by another sparkling selection of brand new stories of fantasy and the supernatural by favourite authors, including:BRIAN BALL, SYDNEY J. BOUNDS, JOHN GLASBYPlus other classic stories by FREDERICK H. CHRISTIAN and E. C. TUBBAnother not-to-be-missed Cosmos Books paperback original!

Philip E. High's latest new story THE PRISONER is a mind-stretching story of cosmic transcendence, and leads off another hand-picked collection of science fiction, fantasy and the supernatural, including:OTHER EYES WATCHINGA full-length novel of human origins and the fourth dimensionby JOHN RUSSELL FEARNJACKPOTA classic short story of interstellar ironyby E. C. TUBBPLUS OTHER ENTIRELY NEW STORIES bySYDNEY J. BOUNDSJOHN GLASBYTONY GLYNNAnother not-to-be-missed Cosmos Books paperback original collection!FANTASY ADVENTURES 8

Through realms of oriental splender and superhuman conflict, a beautiful woman warrior and a fierce man-god journey to challenge a being more awesome than the gods for a magical sword that holds the power of death . . . and the key to enlightenment."A sensuous, exotic odyssey through demon-haunted seas of swordplay, sorcery, conflict, and passion . . . "-Robert Silverberg"One of the most beautiful things I've ever read."-Theodore Sturgeon

A major fiction collection from multiple Hugo Award winner David Langford, Different Kinds of Darkness complements his parody assortment He Do the Time Police in Different Voices. Besides the acclaimed, Hugo-winning title piece and its influential prequels, the 36 stories include the British SF Association Award winner "Cube Root", and eight "Year's Best" and "Best Of" anthology choices. SF, fantasy, horror, and unclassifiable Langford weirdness ranging from 1975 to 2003.

Maria Sanders was wealthy, exquisitely dressed, expensively groomed and beautiful. When her jazz musician husband begins to receive threatening letters her doting father employs the Banks Detective Agency to discover their author. Almost before he can begin his investigation the agency's star . . . and only . . . operative, Alan Chance, is drawn into a murder enquiry and a tangled web of lies and half-truths that involves him in crooked book-keeping and international smuggling. Set against the authentic background of a Southeast Asia not often seen by the tourist, Singapore Swing is a fast paced mystery thriller that will keep the reader guessing until the very end.