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Horse Passages (Medallion, 2005.)
Colonists find a breed of horse which can open gateways among the worlds.
Promise, The (?)
A virus kills all the adults in the world.
Virtual Murder (Novelbooks, 2003.)
Someone is killing the tourguides of a virtual world.
MACALISTER, V.A.
Mosquito, The (Forge, 2001.)
Marginal thriller about a man who starts a plague of malaria in the US to provoke scientists into finding a cure.
MACAPP, C.C. (Pseudonym of Carroll M. Capps, whom see.)
Bumsider (Lancer, 1972.)
The planet Lucerne is divided into two societies, the highly technological, law minded Inside, and the exiled Bumsiders who range from brutal predators to reasonable and inventive entrepreneurs. The young protagonist is allowed to emigrate Inside, his secret mission to uncover the mystery of a man gone missing.
Omha Abides (Paperback Library, 1968.)
The alien Gaddyl have conquered the Earth and divided it into fiefdoms, but the primitive human survivors and various strains of mutants stage a successful revolt when they capture forbidden technology and enlist the aid of a computerized defense system.
Prisoners of the Sky (Lancer, 1969.)
Vivid action novel set on a lost colony world where humans have colonized the heights of an unfriendly terrain and wage war using helium filled blimps. The son of a disgraced officer takes on a hopeless mission to escape a blockade and turns the tide of the entire war.
Recall Not Earth (Dell, 1970.)
The last few male survivors of a destroyed Earth hire out as mercenaries, hoping to be reunited with females of the species in return for a diplomatic and military coup against their primary enemies. They are assisted by a subject race which has discovered the secrets of a long vanished alien species.
Subb (Paperback Library, 1971.)
A young man searches for his father on a far world, is kidnapped by space pirates, and becomes involved with stolen weapons from an alien civilization which has been transferring human brains from the dying into artificial bodies called subbs.
MACARI, MARIO D. & CHARETTE, BEVERLY
Star Rangers Meet the Solar Robot (TSR, 1984.)
A multi-path gamebook.
MACARTNEY, CLEM (See also B. Flackes.)
Dark Side of Venus (Hamilton, 1951.)
An invasion by Martians based on Venus is thwarted in the nick of time.
Ten Years to Oblivion (Hamilton, 1951.)
Scientifically illiterate story of a rogue planet on a collision course with Earth.
MACAULAY, L.
Decadence, The (Watts, 1929.)
Didactic future history of England.
MACAULAY, ROSE
Mystery at Geneva (Collins, 1922.)
Not seen. The Bolshevik revolution is in turn overthrown.
What Not: A Prophetic Comedy (Constable, 1919.)
Satire about an autocratic British government that uses a form of mind control.
MACAULEY, ROBIE
Secret History of the Time to Come, A (Knopf, 1979.)
Years after the fall of civilization, a man sets out on a journey across North America, encountering small communities each of which have evolved in their own fashion, some successfully, some headed toward disaster.
MACAVOY, R.A.
Third Eagle, The (Doubleday, 1989, Bantam, 1990.)
A young warrior from a primitive world decides to pursue his fortunes among the stars and travels by starship to visit the other six sentient races of the galaxy before finally discovering that his destiny lies aboard an enormous colony ship.
Ninth Day, The (Bookwire, 2001.)
Aliens come to find out if Earth's population has survived.
MACCABEE, JOHN
Day One (Bantam, 1978.)
A scientist discovers that he is part of a secret government project to develop a virus that can selectively attack different strains of humanity, and that the security measures are not adequate to prevent their being used injudiciously.
MACCLOUD, MALCOLM
Gift of Mirrorvax, A (Atheneum, 1981.)
A duplicate Earth is discovered on the far side of the sun.
Tera Beyond, The (Atheneum, 1981.)
A precocious student discovers that there are two distinct strains of bacteria on his planet, but when he tries to make his discovery known, the reaction is steadily escalating hostility. Eventually he is on the run from the secret police of his government, determined to suppress the truth.
MACCLURE, VICTOR
Ark of the Covenant, The (Harper, 1924. Harrap, 1924, as Ultimatum.)
Scientific adventure involving marvelous airships built by daring pirates who sweep from the skies, and the eventual formation of a force capable of dealing with the menace, an organization of pacifists who enforce world peace.
Ultimatum. (See The Ark of the Covenant.)
MACCOLL, HUGH
Mr Stranger’s Sealed Packet (Chatto & Windus, 1889.)
Not seen. A trip to Mars.
MACDANIEL, CHARLES (Pseudonym of Charles M. Garrison.)
Murder on the Moon (Vantage, 1968.)
Not seen.
MACDONALD, CAROLINE
Lake at the End of the World, The (Hodder, 1989, Dial, 1989.)
A boy escapes from his underground world and encounters a family living on the surface. There he and a young girl exchange very different ideas about the history of the human race.
MACDONALD, JAMES D. (See Victor Appleton and collaborations with Debra Doyle.)
MACDONALD, JOHN D.
Ballroom of the Skies (Gold Medal, 1952, Greenberg, 1952.)
Following a nuclear war, India has become the major world power, but a second nuclear conflict is already imminent. Then the protagonist discovers that we are being secretly manipulated toward constant warfare by alien agents secretly living on the Earth.
Other Times, Other Worlds (Gold Medal, 1978.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Planet of the Dreamers. (See Wine of the Dreamers.)
Time and Tomorrow (Doubleday, 1980.)
Omnibus of Ballroom of the Skies, Wine of the Dreamers, and The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything.
Wine of the Dreamers (Greenberg, 1951, Hale, 1954, Gold Medal, 198. Pocket, 1953, Viking, 1957, as Planet of the Dreamers.)
Human dreams are invaded by the thoughts of aliens from a distant world. At first the aliens believe us to be creatures of their own imagination, but eventually they accept our reality and act to prevent us from expanding into space. Then one of their kind falls in love with a human and the course of history is changed for both species.
MACE, DAVID
Demon 4 (Granada, 1984, Ace, 1986.)
A cyborg is sent on a suicide mission to destroy a robot undersea installation still active from the recently concluded nuclear war. But the human part of the cyborg’s operating system isn’t willing to sacrifice itself.
Fire Lance (Grafton, 1986, Ace, 1989.)
A gigantic warship survives a nuclear war, and is then ordered by the surviving military authorities to use its weaponry to continue the slaughter, even if that means the extinction of the entire human race.
Frankenstein’s Children (New English Library, 1990.)
Not seen. Ecological disaster.
Highest Ground, The (New English Library, 1988.)
Not seen.
Nightrider (Granada, 1985, Ace, 1987.)
A cyborg starship is sent to destroy a rebel base on a colony world, but soon begins to question the authority of its human crew, ultimately choosing them as its enemies instead of the original objective.
Shadow Hunters (New English Library, 1991.)
Not seen.
Out There (Greenwillow, 1975. ?, as Ransome Revisited.)
Young adult novel in a catastrophically depopulated future.
Ransome Revisited (See Out There.)
MACEY, PETER
Alien Culture (Dobson, 1977.)
Earth is invaded.
Distant Relations (Dobson, 1975.)
Not seen.
Stationary Orbit (Dobson, 1974.)
Not seen. The dolphins prove to be intelligent.
MACFARLANE, JOHN
Door to Yesterday, The (Vantage, 1982.)
Not seen.
MACGREGOR, ELLEN (See also collaborations which follow.)
Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter (McGraw Hill, 1953, Scholastic, 1972.)
Miss Pickerell #2.
Miss Pickerell discovers a vein of uranium in a most unlikely place.
Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars (McGraw Hill, 1951, Whittlesey, 1951, Scholastic, 1965.)
Miss Pickerell #1..
Miss Pickerell finds a spaceship in her field and is off on a visit to Mars.
Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic (McGraw Hill, 1954, Scholastic, 1968.)
Miss Pickerell #4..
Miss Pickerell gets stranded on the ice.
Miss Pickerell Goes Undersea (McGraw Hill, 1953, Scholastic, 1972.)
Miss Pickerell #3.
Miss Pickerell gets involved with undersea rescue, atomic submarines, and a spy ring.
MACGREGOR, ELLEN & PANTELL, DORA (Numbering coincides with Archway’s enumeration.)
Miss Pickerell and the Blue Whales (McGraw Hill, 1983.)
Miss Pickerell #15.
Not seen.
Miss Pickerell and the Supertanker (McGraw Hill, 1978.)
Miss Pickerell #12.
Not seen.
Miss Pickerell and the Weather Satellite (McGraw Hill, 1971, Archway, 1980.)
Miss Pickerell #8.
The planet’s weather control system is malfunctioning, so Miss Pickerell must go into orbit personally to repair the problem and save her home town from being flooded.
Miss Pickerell Goes on a Dig (McGraw Hill, 1966, Archway, 1980.)
Miss Pickerell #6.
Miss Pickerell is investigating artifacts uncovered in a construction project when she is trapped underground.
Miss Pickerell Harvests the Sea (McGraw Hill, 1968, Archway, 1980.)
Miss Pickerell #7.
While investigating the mysterious death of crops being grown in an experimental ocean farm, Miss Pickerell varies from the proper procedures and is nearly lost in the ocean depths.
Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. H.U.M. (McGraw Hill, 1974.)
Miss Pickerell #9.
Not seen.
Miss Pickerell on the Moon (McGraw Hill, 1965.)
Miss Pickerell #5.
Miss Pickerell solves a mystery on the moon.
Miss Pickerell on the Trail (McGraw Hill, 1982.)
Miss Pickerell #14.
Not seen.
Miss Pickerell Tackles the Energy Crisis (McGraw Hill, 1980.)
Miss Pickerell #13.
Not seen.
Miss Pickerell Takes the Bull by the Horns (McGraw Hill, 1976, Archway, 1980.)
Miss Pickerell #10.
An unscrupulous farmer not only clones his livestock, but gets a law passed that makes it illegal for people to own naturally produced animals.
Miss Pickerell to the Earthquake Rescue (McGraw Hill, 1977, Archway, 1980.)
Miss Pickerell #11.
Miss Pickerell is off to rescue some scientists lost after an earthquake, because they may have found the secret of preventing another one.
MACGREGOR, G.
From a Christian Ghetto (Longmans, 1954.)
Five centuries from now, Christianity has virtually disappeared from the world.
MACGREGOR, LOREN
Net, The (Ace, 1987.)
An interplanetary adventurer bites off more than she can chew when she gets involved in a clever but dangerous robbery plot masterminded by a telepath.
MACGREGOR, RICHARD
Creeping Plague, The (Digit, 1963.)
Not seen.
Day a Village Died, The (Digit, 1963.)
Not seen.
Deadly Sun, The (Digit, 1964.)
The moon has left its orbit and Earth is being covered with mysterious dust which conceals a terrible plague that threatens to extinguish all life.
First of the Last, The (?, 1964.)
Not seen.
Horror in the Night (Digit, 1963.)
Not seen.
Taste of the Temptress (?, 1963.)
Not seen.
Threat, The (?, 1964.)
Not seen.
MACGREGOR, ROB & WILLIAMS, BILLY DEE
Justin/Time (Forge, 2000.)
Trent Calloway #2.
A pair of psychic ex-spies are reluctant to accept a job investigating a charismatic cult leader. Then someone releases a deadly plague in Washington and they reconsider, eventually tracking down the people responsible.
Psi/Net (Tor, 1999, Forge, 2000.)
Trent Calloway #1.
An ex-soldier who participated in experiments in extrasensory perception discovers that he was drugged and that there is a lingering effect which links him to others who were involved.
MACGROON, VECTOR
Burning Void (Scion, 1952.)
A conniving man seeks to dominate all space travel.
MACISAAC, FRED
Hothouse World, The (Avalon, 1965.)
A man wakens from suspended animation to discover that most of the Earth is uninhabitable. The human population survives in a single domed city which, he discovers, technically belongs to him personally.
Vanishing Professor, The (Waterson, 1927.)
Not seen.
MacIntyre's Improbable Bestiary (Wildside, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories and poems.
Woman Between the Worlds, The (Dell, 1994.)
A tattoo artist is commissioned to create a tattoo on an invisible woman and gets involved with an invasion of the Earth.
MACK, CAROL K. & EHRENFELD, DAVID
Chameleon Variant, The (Dial, 1980, Popular Library, 1981.)
An experimental substance is stolen from a laboratory and shortly thereafter a wave of inexplicable violence including murder and suicide devastates a small town.
Harbinger (Pocket, 2005.)
A Star Trek novel.
A new starbase is the focus of a complex plot.
Reap the Whirlwind (Pocket, 2007.)
A Star Trek Vanguard novel.
A military clash takes place in a mysterious star system.
Road of Bones (Pocket Star, 2006.)
A Wolverine novel.
A superhuman gets involved with a drug that might cure all human diseases.
Warpath (Pocket, 2006.)
A Star Trek Deep Space Nine novel.
A conditioned warrior has doubts about his mission.
MACKAY, KENNETH
Yellow Wave, The (Bentley, 1895, Wesleyan University Press, 2003.)
An Asian invasion of Australia.
MACKAY, SCOTT
Meek, The (Roc, 2001.)
A supposedly deserted asteroid colony proves inhabited after all when a team of engineers discovers that survivors of a genetically altered variant of humanity has managed to survive even in an airless environment.
Omega Sol (Roc, 2008.)
An alien device on the moon is programmed to destroy the sun.
Omnifix (Roc, 2004.)
An alien attack with a tailored virus devastates the Earth.
Orbis (Roc, 2002.)
In an alternate universe, aliens have revealed themselves and proclaim to be benefactors. The Roman Empire never falls, and in the 20th Century, a few people begin to suspect the aliens' motives.
Outpost (Tor, 1998.)
A woman is sent to a remote prison world where dream technology is used to control her. Eventually she regains touch with reality and discovers that the alien technology which runs the prison is breaking down, and that some of her fellow prisoners have already escaped into a wilderness inhabited by dangerous beasts.
Phytosphere (Roc, 2007.)
Aliens enclose the Earth in an impenetrable sphere in order to wipe out humanity.
Tides (Pyr, 2005.)
On a distant world where two separate intelligent races evolved, the first contact between them changes everything for both parties.
Panchronicon, The (Scribners, 1904.)
Not seen. Time travel.
MACKEL, KATHY
Alien in a Bottle (HarperCollins, 2004.)
A boy finds two aliens in a bottle on the beach and they trade three wishes for his help.
Can of Worms (Avon Camelot, 1999.)
A youngster discovers that he is actually from another planet and has various adventures among a group of aliens.
MACKELWORTH, R.W.
Diabols, The (Paperback Library, 1969. Hale, 1968, as Firemantle.)
The Diabols are an alien lifeform which is systematically burning the surface of the Earth, and killing any humans in the area. The protagonist travels into the future, where the invaders have nearely won their war, looking for the secret that will enable the timeline to be changed.
Firemantle. (See The Diabols.)
Shakehole (Hale, 1981.)
Not seen.
Starflight 3000 (Ballantine, 1972, New English Library, 1976.)
Earth is ruled by two rival agencies which have effectively become one, and on the moon, which has been given a thin atmosphere of its own, a new form of life is evolving whose existence could change humankind.
Tiltangle (Ballantine, 1970, Hale, 1971.)
The few survivors of a new ice age live in underground caverns, occasionally sending foraging parties out onto the surface to avoid the creatures that live there and harvest supplies from the ruined cities.
Year of the Painted World, The (Hale, 1975.)
A Martian virus is loose on Earth which infects humans and turns them into bellicose maniacs until the plague is brought under control.
MACKENROTH, NANCY
Trees of Zharka, The (Popular Library, 1975. )
A colony world ruled by a powerful theocracy that forbids all happiness as penance for the unnamed sins of the past sentences two young people to death for daring to be joyful. This causes one of their priests to turn renegade himself, which eventually undermines their control of the people.
MACKENZIE, COMPTON
Lunatic Republic, The (Chatto & Windus, 1959.)
Not seen. An expedition to the moon finds a civilization there.
Rival Monster, The (Chatto & Windus, 1952.)
Not seen. The Loch Ness monster.
MACKENZIE, NIGEL
Adventure in Space (Wright & Brown, 1967.)
Not seen.
Day of Judgment (Wright & Brown, 1956.)
Not seen. A plot to take over the world.
Invasion from Space (Wright & Brown, 1954.)
Not seen. Martians invade with good intentions.
Moon Is Ours, The (Wright & Brown, 1958.)
Not seen.
Storm Is Rising, A (Wright & Brown, 1958.)
Not seen.
Terror in the Sky, The (Wright & Brown, 1955.)
Not seen. An expedition to Mars.
World Without End (Wright & Brown, 1955.)
Not seen. An attempt to survive the death of Earth.
Wrath to Come, The (Wright & Brown, 1957.)
Not seen. The invasion of Earth and how the world was saved.
MACKEY, DOUGLAS A.
Weird Scenes Inside the Godmind (Qubik, 2002.)
Satire in which a group of strange contemporary humans are pursued by aliens.
MACKEY, MARY
Horses at the Gate, The (HarperCollins, 1995, Onyx, 1996.)
Prehistory #2.
A handful of people flee from the warriors of a nomadic horde that threatens to prevent them from worshipping the Mother Goddess.
Year the Horses Came, The (HarperCollins, 1993, Onyx, 1995.)
Prehistory #1.
Not seen.
MACKIN, RICK (Pseudonym of Michael Kasner, whom see.)
Chopper Cops (Pinnacle, 1990.)
Chopper Cops #1.
Organized criminal bands act openly in the near future, dealing drugs without interference from the police, who are outgunned and outmanned. This is the initial adventure of high tech, high powered aerial police called in to wipe out the bad guys, in this case a group that has stolen a missile with which to hold the entire West Coast hostage.
Gulf Attack (Pinnacle, 1990.)
Chopper Cops #2.
A group of terrorists is attacking off shore oil rigs in an attempt to cripple US industry by cutting off its fuel source.
Recon Strike Force (Pinnacle, 1991.)
Chopper Cops #3.
An elite strike force is sent to destroy a stronghold from which an orbiting satellite can be used to destroy a nuclear power plant.
Sky War (Pinnacle, 1991.)
Chopper Cops #4.
A criminal organization launches a reign of terror across the US, using drug addicted victims as pawns in their bid for power.
MACKINNON, DOUGLAS
America’s Last Days (Leisure, 2007.)
A cabal within the American government plots a revolution.
MACKSEY, KENNETH
First Clash (Arms & Armour, 1985.)
Future war novel.
Invasion (MacMillan, 1980, Arms & Armour, 1980.)
An account of the German invasion of England during 1940, written in the form of an historical record rather than a novel.
MACKWORTH, JOHN
Menace of the Terribore, The (Harrap, 1936. Lippincott, 1937, as The Raid of the Terribore.)
A criminal with a machine that travels through the ground sets off a crime wave in England.
Raid of the Terribore, The. (See The Menace of the Terribore.)
MACLAREN, BERNARD
Day of Misjudgment, The (Gollancz, 1956.)
Computers benevolently rule the world.
MACLAY, JOHN (See collaboration with J.N. Williamson.)
MACLEAN, ALISTAIR (See also Ian Stuart.)
Circus (Doubleday, 1975, Crest, 1975.)
A circus aerialist with ESP is recruited by the CIA to penetrate a foreign base and discover the secret of an antimatter bomb.
Goodbye California (Doubleday, 1977, Crest, 1978.)
The theft of fissionable material from a nuclear power station is followed by a threat to use an explosion to trigger a devastating earthquake. The protagonist must track down the culprit before he succeeds.
MACLEAN, KATHERINE (See also collaborations which follow.)
Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy, The (Avon, 1962, Manor, 1973, Wildside, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Missing Man (Berkley, 1976, Wildside, 2002.)
A man with an odd form of ESP is involved in the search for a missing girl and discovers various dangers and conspiracies lying hidden from view.
Trouble With You Earth People, The (Starblaze, 1980.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MACLEAN, KATHERINE & CONDIT, TOM
Trouble with Treaties (Lanthorne, 1975.)
Not seen.
MACLEAN, KATHERINE & DE VET, CHARLES V.
Cosmic Checkmate. (See Second Game.)
Second Game (DAW, 1981. Ace, 1962, in shorter form as Cosmic Checkmate, bound with King of the Fourth Planet by Robert Moore Williams.)
The human empire is confronted by an inimical alien species who are absolutely determined to conquer them, but the conflict may be resolved by a pair of games played between their representative and a human secret agent.
MACLEAN, KATHERINE & WEST, CARL
Dark Wing (Atheneum, 1979.)
A teenager living on an Earth dominated by a repressive government comes into contact with an underground resistance movement. Among other things, the practice of medicine is illegal, and this in particular attracts his interest.
MACLENNAN, HUGH
Voices in Time (St Martins, 1980, Macmillan, 1980.)
A generation after nuclear war destroyed civilization, much of the old knowledge has been deliberately destroyed. Now a treasure trove of books allows members of the new generation to discover the truth about the good as well as the evil of the past.
MACLEOD, ANGUS
Body’s Guest, The (Dobson, 1958, Roy, 1959.)
Not seen. Body switching.
MACLEOD, IAN R.
Breathmoss and Other Exhalations (Golden Gryphon, 2004.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Great Wheel, The (Harcourt, 1997.)
A priest travels to a ruined, pestilent North Africa of the not too distant future and by studying the plight of the people there gains insight into the nature of the settled Europeans nations.
Past Magic (PS, 2006.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Voyages by Starlight (Arkham, 1996.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MACLEOD, J.G.
Overture to Cambridge (Unwin, 1936.)
A state of never ending war dominates the future.
MACLEOD, KEN
Cassini Division, The (Legend, 1997, Tor, 1999.)
Star Fraction #3
Intrigue and adventure in a solar society recovering from a war against rebellious artificial intelligences, plagued with nanoviruses and other dangers. Are the Jovian rebels willing to trade with the rest of the solar system, or are they planning further disruption?
Cosmonaut Keep (Orbit, 2000, Tor, 2001.)
Engines of Light #1.
The novel alternates between two generations of the same family. In one, humans make the first contact with an alien race. In the other, humans and aliens are jointly colonizing other planets.
Cydonia (?, 1998.)
A Web novel.
Teens using a world wide web connection get involved with what appears to be the coverup of an alien landing on Earth.
Dark Light (Orbit, 2001, Tor, 2002.)
Engines of Light #2.
An expedition to a far world discovers an artificial ecosystem created by aliens with godlike powers.
Engine City (Orbit, 2002.)
Engines of Light #3.
A highly advanced colony world has fallen into decay when a projected alien attack never happened, and now a newcomer is coming to prepare them for war.
Execution Channel, The (Tor, 2007.)
In a near future world riddled by terrorism, a mysterious broadcast depicts actual deaths.
Human Front, The (PS, 2002.)
In an alternate world where Europe and America turned on Russia during World War II, the protagonist discovers that the Americans are using aliens to fly their aircraft.
Learning the World (Tor, 2005.)
As humanity expands into space, new kinds of intelligence are discovered.
Newton's Wake (Tor, 2004.)
An interstellar entrepreneur has adventures in the aftermath of a collapse of human civilization caused by a rebellion of artificial intelligences.
Sky Road, The (Legend, 2000, Tor, 2000.)
Loosely related to the Star Fraction series. An attempt to help humanity return to the stars is dependent upon an understanding of problems from the distant past.
Star Fraction, The (Legend, 1996, Tor, 1998.)
Star Fraction #1
An interplanetary crisis is in the making when a new drug is developed in a scientist’s lab, and a high tech mercenary finds himself in the middle of it.
Stone Canal, The (Legend, 1996, Tor, 2000.)
Star Fraction #2
A clone searches for the truth about the death of his original. A robot woman struggles to reconcile her nature with her emotions. A man battles against artificial intelligences to preserve human freedom.
MACLEOD, SHEILA
Circuit Breaker (Bodley Head, 1978.)
An astronaut’s only hope of survival is to forge a telepathic bond with people he has known and use their combined kinetic powers to alter his craft’s orbit.
Snow White Soliloquies, The (Viking, 1970, Secker & Warburg, 1970.)
Not seen. Suspended animation.
Xanthe and the Robots (Bodley Head, 1977, Penguin, 1979.)
The human race is debating the advisability of pursuing the manufacture of two new forms of robotic worker, each of which is humanoid and one of which seems capable of much of the intellectual creativity of human beings.
MACMILLAN, IAN
Blakely’s Ark (Berkley, 1981.)
A devastating new plague has wiped out more than ninety percent of the world’s population, and many of the survivors are insane or deformed or live in violent, roving bands. The protagonist is possibly the last sane, unaffected man in the world, and he’s getting lonely as he travels about looking for companionship.
Ancient, The (Xlibris, 2002.)
Military and political thriller set among the stars.
MACPHERSON, DONALD
Go Home, Unicorn (Faber, 1935.)
Reggie Brooks #1.
People’s thoughts manifest themselves by means of a new device.
Men Are Like Animals (Faber, 1937.)
Reggie Brooks #2.
Not seen. Mind control.
MACTYRE, PAUL (Pseudonym of R.J. Adam.)
Doomsday, 1999 (Ace, 1963. Hodder, 1962, as Midge.)
The world has been nearly destroyed by an atomic war and the survivors are struggling to build a new society when a new menace arises to throw their future into jeopardy. A mutated insect form with a mass mind begins to divide what remains of the human race, preventing them from organizing any effective resistance. The protagonists are on the run from a variety of human foes when they discover that they alone can somehow communicate and co-exist with the swarms.
Midge. (See Doomsday, 1999.)
MACVICAR, ANGUS
Lost Planet, The (Burke, 1953.)
Jeremy Grant #1.
A race to visit a far planet, with the good guys finally beating the villains, who are aided by a spy plotting to sabotage their rivals. For younger readers.
Peril on the Lost Planet (Burke, 1960.)
Jeremy Grant #5.
Not seen.
Red Fire on the Lost Planet (Burke, 1959.)
Jeremy Grant #4.
Not seen.
Return to the Lost Planet (Burke, 1954.)
Jeremy Grant #2.
A spacecrew returns to a planet to solve a fresh mystery.
Satellite 7 (Burke, 1958.)
Not seen.
Secret of the Lost Planet (Burke, 1953.)
Jeremy Grant #3.
An interplanetary battle for a mind controlling device.
Space Agent and the Ancient Peril (Burke, 1964.)
Jeremy Grant #8.
Not seen.
Space Agent and the Isles of Fire (Burke, 1962.)
Jeremy Grant #7.
Not seen.
Space Agent from the Lost Planet (Burke, 1961.)
Jeremy Grant #6.
Not seen.
Super Nova and the Frozen Man (Brockhampton, 1970.)
Super Nova #2.
Not seen.
Super Nova and the Rogue Satellite (Knight, 1969.)
Super Nova #1
A young spaceman tries to disable a satellite that is malfunctioning and finds more trouble than he bargained for.
Tiger Mountain (Burke, 1952.)
Not seen.
MADDEN, S.
Memoirs of the Twentieth Century, The (Osborn and Longman, 1733.)
A future history.
MADDEN, TIMOTHY A.
Outbanker (TSR, 1990.)
The Outbankers are a group of roving space patrolmen whose job is to protect their indep