Join the exploits of Royal Navy Morse code specialist Ray Scott as he captures the post-war matelot's life in graphic detail.There's much for a wide-eyed, naive teenager to discover in a Nissen hut packed with characters, conflicts and laughter.Ray's colourful memory brings the 1950s navy alive, evoking a simpler, happy time of joy and unity in service, but always with the ever-present fear of the Korean War, raging on the other side of the world, becoming global.Me...

Three separate occurrences are apparently unconnected, the theft of Stinger rocket missiles from an Australian defence installation, the suspicions of a young woman in a storage depot in a northern Victorian town, and the disappearance of two young men from their Melbourne apartment.As the police and security services carry out separate investigations it is discovered these three events are intertwined, and relate to a planned terror attack that is the precursor to a coup d'état in...

In the quiet countryside of Victoria, Australia, ordinary insurance agent Stan Simolka pulls over at a remote highway lay-by for a moment's break. Suddenly, another car screeches in behind him. Four armed men leap out and unleash a hail of bullets.Stan bolts into the bush, heart pounding, somehow slipping through their deadly net. But why him?Days later, another ambush strikes. With no answers from police, Stan vanishes into the shadows, going undercover to hunt the truth. ...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 216 thru 220 brings together five vintage science fiction stories from John Wyndham, Ray Bradbury, Frank Belknap Long, Isaac Asimov, and Andre Norton. Mars beckons, atomic technology brings unexpected danger, and some of the strangest mysteries in the universe may have equally strange solutions.Never on Mars by John Wyndham looks toward the Red Planet with the intelligence and imagination that made Wyndham one of science fiction’s...

Acomputer technician updates a computer for a client, then trades in the replaced computer to a computer shop for cash. The shop-owner passes it on to an employee, Donald Taylor, for his personal use. But when Taylor later connects it up, he discovers it contains data relating to a proposed terrorist bomb attack in Melbourne.The terrorist group realise their data is compromised and enter the shop to retrieve their old computer. They establish where it is, then murder the shop-owner...

A memoir of hard lessons learned in the racially segregated and sometimes outright racist NBA of the early ‘60s by celebrated NBA player and the first Black Coach of the Year, Ray Scott. Introduced by Earl "the Pearl" Monroe.“There’s a basic insecurity with Black guys my size,” Scott writes. “We can’t hide and everybody turns to stare when we walk down the street. … Whites believe that their culture is superior to African-American culture. ... We don’t accept many ...

**An American sports legend offers a sweeping Black history of boxing, celebrating the trailblazing athletes who fought in the ring and against racial injustice.Features a 16-page photo insert.**Here is Peter Jackson, a free-born Black tradesman and boxer from the island of St. Croix who KO’d the white boxer Tom Leeds in the thirtieth round to win the Australian Heavyweight championship in 1886. Most white fighters refused to get into the ring with Jackson. “Gentleman” Jim ...

Raiders of the VoidWhere Fortune Favors the FearlessOut beyond the safety of civilized space, the rules no longer apply. In the endless darkness between the stars, survival belongs to the bold, the clever… and sometimes the ruthless.Raiders of the Void brings together five thrilling adventures where danger waits around every asteroid, abandoned spacecraft conceal deadly secrets, and every mission could be your last....

A mysterious group prepares to carry out a ruthless terrorist attack...Geoff Miller, a Melbourne loss adjuster, is investigating a Workers Compensation claimant, suspected of rorting the system. He follows him to a remote Victorian country property where he observes the claimant, and others, on an obstacle course. Whilst videoing the claimant from a distance, Miller realises he's stumbled across a private army or terrorist group, but whilst filming is caught in the...

Jean Ray brilliantly upends the haunted-house tradition in this widely acclaimed puzzlebox of a novelA reinvention of the Gothic novel and an established classic of fantastic literature, Malpertuis is as inventive and gripping today as when it first appeared in French in the dark year of 1943.Malpertuis is a puzzle box of nested narratives wrested from a set of manuscripts stolen from a monastery. A bizarre collection of distrustful relati...

War is never confined to one world in Battlefronts Beyond Earth. This gripping collection of nine vintage science fiction stories thrusts you into alien invasions, desperate last stands, interstellar conflicts, and battlefields where courage, ingenuity, and survival are tested against impossible odds.Featuring unforgettable stories by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Algis Budrys, George Whittington, and Richard ...

A relaxing round of golf is interrupted by an assassin with mysterious motivations...Two golfers playing a round of golf are shot at by a sniper. Investigation indicates the shots came from a knot of trees alongside one of the fairways. Days later one of the players, Philip Meredith, is nearly run down in the street, a week later he is again shot at whilst on a sales trip in a country area of Victoria. Being an upright citizen with, he believes, no enemies he is ut...