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Book Cover: The Map of Time
By Felix J Palma
Published: 26/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844751
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Genesis
By Bernard Beckett

What is it to be human? What is consciousness? What makes a soul?

2075. Change brought fear and fear brought destruction. The island-state of the Republic had risen up from the destroyed world: isolated, ordered and repressive. Its citizens are alive, but not free. What remains of the outside world is kept at bay. Planes are gunned down; refugees shot on sight. Until a man named Adam Forde rescues...

What is it to be human? What is consciousness? What makes a soul?

2075. Change brought fear and fear brought destruction. The island-state of the Republic had risen up from the destroyed world: isolated...

Published: 31/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758034
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
By K A Bedford

It's 2027, suburban Malaga, Western Australia.  Ex-cop Aloysius 'Spider' Webb is working as a time-machine repairman - and people are crazy about time travel.  Spider is getting on okay (if you put to one side his failed marriage and dead-end career) until he discovers the mutilated body of a woman in a second-hand time machine.  What starts out as just another repair job on a faulty...

It's 2027, suburban Malaga, Western Australia.  Ex-cop Aloysius 'Spider' Webb is working as a time-machine repairman - and people are crazy about time travel.  Spider is getting on okay (if you...

Published: 28/09/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921361739
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  No Free Lunch: Hal Spacejock
By Simon Haynes
In this, the fourth instalment in the ongoing adventures of Hal Spacejock, Hal and his sidekick are looking for a job to earn some cash to settle their bills, and they find just the thing on Planet D. And when Hal ducks out for a quick coffee and an attractive young woman asks him out on a date, he thinks his luck has finally changed. Yeah, right!

The Hal Spacejock series is gradually building a dedicated...

In this, the fourth instalment in the ongoing adventures of Hal Spacejock, Hal and his sidekick are looking for a job to earn some cash to settle their bills, and they find just the thing on Planet D...
Published: 02/06/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921361081
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Hal Spacejock: Just desserts
By Simon Haynes
JUST DESSERTS: A mysterious sealed crate, a pair of shady mercenaries with more guns than brain cells and the amnesiac robot which may or may not be on a secret mission . . . Only interstellar ignoramus Hal Spacejock and the unflappable Clunk could turn a straightforward cargo delivery into space opera with clowns. Three simmering planets, two cocky spacemen and one huge mess: Just Desserts, for your...
JUST DESSERTS: A mysterious sealed crate, a pair of shady mercenaries with more guns than brain cells and the amnesiac robot which may or may not be on a secret mission . . . Only interstellar ignoramus...
Published: 08/01/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921064395
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Hal Spacejock: Second Course
By Simon Haynes
A beautiful and mysterious female passenger, a loony inventor with a basement full of deadly weapons, and a dangerous run-down teleporter built by a long-lost alien civilisation . . . these are just some of the challenges facing Hal Spacejock and his metal sidekick Clunk as they fight for survival in the cut-throat interstellar cargo business.

Featuring the incompetent Hal and the longsuffering Clunk...

A beautiful and mysterious female passenger, a loony inventor with a basement full of deadly weapons, and a dangerous run-down teleporter built by a long-lost alien civilisation . . . these are just some...
Published: 06/03/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921064661
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Hal Spacejock
By Simon Haynes
Described as one of the most memorable figures in sci-fi Hal Spacejock explodes onto the science fiction scene with the subtlety of a meteor strike and the hushed reverence of a used car salesman.

A perennial loser, Hal borrowed heavily to fund his intergalactic cargo business.

Described as one of the most memorable figures in sci-fi Hal Spacejock explodes onto the science fiction scene with the subtlety of a meteor strike and the hushed reverence of a used car salesman.

A perennial...

Published: 30/08/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781920731892
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle
By Dorling Kindersley

The definitive history of Star Wars no fan should be without.

Celebrate four amazing decades of everything Star Wars; decade by decade, year-by-year, month-by-month. Everything is covered, from the influences and creation of all six Star Wars movies, to the toys, books and video games that have shaped the Star Wars dynasty. The month-by-month format is brought to life by images from the movies, TV...

The definitive history of Star Wars no fan should be without.

Celebrate four amazing decades of everything Star Wars; decade by decade, year-by-year, month-by-month. Everything is covered, from the influences...

Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405341677
RRP: $69.95
Book Cover: The Quarters Novels: Volume One: Sing the Four Quarters, Fifth Quarter
By Tanya Huff
The first two novels from the highly popular Quarters fantasy series, Sing the Four Quarters and Fifth Quarter , are now in one fantastic omnibus edition. From the princess who renounces her royal blood to become a bard able to sing elemental magic, to the twin assassins Bannon and Vree caught up in a magical trap they may not survive, these unforgettable characters make both novels thrilling adventure...
The first two novels from the highly popular Quarters fantasy series, Sing the Four Quarters and Fifth Quarter , are now in one fantastic omnibus edition. From the princess who renounces her royal blood...
Published: 18/12/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780756404505
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Reap the Wild Wind: A novel of The Clan Chronicles Volume 1
By Julie E Czerneda

'THE PACE IS FAST, THE ENERGY IS HIGH, AND THE WORLD IS FASCINATING.' – SC FI WEEKLY

A Thousand Words for Stranger , the first novel in The Trade Pact Universe trilogy, introduced the Clan, refugees from the world of Cersi who built an empire few people even knew existed.



'THE PACE IS FAST, THE ENERGY IS HIGH, AND THE WORLD IS FASCINATING.' – SC FI WEEKLY

A Thousand Words for Stranger , the first novel in The Trade Pact Universe trilogy, introduced the Clan, refugees...

Published: 19/06/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780756404871
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover: The Collected Short Fiction of C J Cherryh
By C J Cherryh

It's rate that I'm not working on a novel.   Short stories often happen between novels.   Consequently my output is fairly small.   But I love the tale-telling concept, the notion 'that I can spin a yarn, rather than construct something architectural and precise.' 

So writes triple Hugo Award-winning author C.J. Cherryh in the introduction to this book, the first comprehensive...

It's rate that I'm not working on a novel.   Short stories often happen between novels.   Consequently my output is fairly small.   But I love the tale-telling concept, the notion 'that...

Published: 19/11/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780756405267
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Prophets: Apotheosos Book One
By S Andrew Swann

AT THE EDGE OF HUMAN SPACE-

It is nearly two hundred years since the collapse of the Confederacy, the last government to claim sovereignty over all of humanity's far-flung interstellar colonies.  The void has been filled by many different powers, ranging from the Eridani Caliphate to the Roman Catholic Church. 



AT THE EDGE OF HUMAN SPACE-

It is nearly two hundred years since the collapse of the Confederacy, the last government to claim sovereignty over all of humanity's far-flung interstellar colonies. ...

Published: 11/05/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780756405410
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Heretics: Apotheosis: Book Two
By S Andrew Swann

Brand new in the action-packed Apotheosis epic

Adam, an AI creation of an alien race, prepares to launch a conquest that has been centuries in the making, and if he succeeds he will rule over all humankind-over all sentient life-forms-as a God.




Brand new in the action-packed Apotheosis epic

Adam, an AI creation of an alien race, prepares to launch a conquest that has been centuries in the making, and if he succeeds he will rule over all humankind-over...

Published: 09/04/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780756406134
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Enigma
By C F Bentley

When an alien ship crashes into the space station and diplomatic post Labyrinthe VII, the precarious balance between Harmony's High Preistess Sissy and Confederated Star System Agent Jake begins to dissolve. Suddenly they are caught in a web of deceit and intrigue as undercover agents for both the humans and the aliens vie for control not only of the space station, but of a new and unclaimed planet...

When an alien ship crashes into the space station and diplomatic post Labyrinthe VII, the precarious balance between Harmony's High Preistess Sissy and Confederated Star System Agent Jake begins to dissolve...

Published: 07/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780756406257
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Steampunk'd
By Rabe Jean & Martin Greenberg

MICHAEL A. STACKPOLE * DONAL j. BINGLE
WILLIAM C. DIETZ * JODY LYNN NYE
BRADLEY P. BEAULIEU * DEAN LEGGETT
STEPHEN D. SULLIVAN * MATTHEW P. MAYO
C. A. VERSTRAETE * PAUL GENESSE
MARY LOUISE EKLUND * MARC TASSIN
SKIP & PENNY WILLIAMS * ROBERT E. VARDEMAN






MICHAEL A. STACKPOLE * DONAL j. BINGLE
WILLIAM C. DIETZ * JODY LYNN NYE
BRADLEY P. BEAULIEU * DEAN LEGGETT
STEPHEN D. SULLIVAN * MATTHEW P. MAYO
C. A. VERSTRAETE * PAUL GENESSE
MARY LOUISE EKLUND * MARC...




Published: 01/12/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780756406431
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Westward Weird
By Martin H Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes

When you are a kid did you long to put on your cowboy boots, belt on your guns, saddle up, and ride off to find adventures? Did you sit glued to the TV watching The Lone ranger, Maverick, Bonanza, The Wild Wild West, The Adventures of Brisco Country Jr. and Firefly , to name just a few of the many series that have been popular over the last sixty years? And were you caught up in movies like Outlands...

When you are a kid did you long to put on your cowboy boots, belt on your guns, saddle up, and ride off to find adventures? Did you sit glued to the TV watching The Lone ranger, Maverick, Bonanza, The...

Published: 09/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780756407186
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Zero History
By William Gibson

'An ideas-swarm, coated with a hipster glaze . . . to explore the everyday weirdness of the twenty-first century world' 
Herald

'An ideas-swarm, coated with a hipster glaze . . . to explore the everyday weirdness of the twenty-first century world' 
Herald

Published: 31/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670919550
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Frostfire: A Novel of the Kyndred
By Lynn Viehl

New York Times bestselling author Lynn Viehl has enthralled readers with her novels of the immortal Darkyn. 
Now she continues the story of the secret progeny of the Darkyn: the Kyndred, ordinary people unaware they've been altered by vampire DNA but destined to become the next generation of heroes.


New York Times bestselling author Lynn Viehl has enthralled readers with her novels of the immortal Darkyn. 
Now she continues the story of the secret progeny of the Darkyn: the Kyndred, ordinary...

Published: 21/04/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451413024
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Atlas Shrugged (50th Anniversary Edition)
By Ayn Rand

The astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did.  Tremendous in scope breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read.  It is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder-and rebirth-of man's spirit.

The astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did.  Tremendous in scope breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read. ...

Published: 02/02/1997
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451191144
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Spearwielder's Tale
By R.A. Salvatore
Set in an enchanted world one step from reality, R. A. Salvatore's Spearwielder's Trilogy follows the adventures of Gary Leger, who stumbles into a realm of elves and dwarves, witches and dragons – and takes up the magical spear of the land's lost hero. Now, together for the first time in one collectible volume, these three novels showcase the very best of fantasy and adventure – the very...
Set in an enchanted world one step from reality, R. A. Salvatore's Spearwielder's Trilogy follows the adventures of Gary Leger, who stumbles into a realm of elves and dwarves, witches and dragons –...
Published: 25/07/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780441011940
RRP: $24.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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