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The Sword of the Spirits (The Sword of the Spirits, Book #3)
by John ChristopherAlthough he returns triumphant from his expedition in the North, Luke loses the three things he cares about most. British edition.
Beyond the Burning Lands (The Sword of the Spirits, Book #2)
by John ChristopherLuke returns from exile to Winchester, a city of a future England ruled by patterns from the past, and sets out on a journey through the Burning Lands, a volcanic wasteland. US edition.
The Shining Ones (Book Two of The Tamuli)
by David EddingsYears ago, the Child-Goddess Aphrael had hidden Bhelliom, the Stone of Power, at the bottom of the sea. Yet now it is needed again to stop a malign force from spreading evil and destruction across the lands. Sparhawk, Queen's champion, sets out to retrieve the Stone. But others seek the gem for their own diabolical ends. Most fearsome of these are the Shining Ones, whose mere touch melts human flesh from bone. Now Sparhawk finds himself stalked by these creatures out of myth . . . whose touch is all too real.
Trick of the Mind
by Judy WaiteSeveral young people who confront family problems, emotional problems, unrequited love, mystery, and violence, is told from the viewpoint of Matt, who is known for his unusual behavior but who also has unusual gifts, and Erin, who tries to use her proficiency with magic to attract Matt.
The Judgment of Eve
by Edgar PangbornFour people meet in a post catastrophe world. What will they encounter and can it teach them what is love? Eve: She was the true descendant of the first Woman--still craving the knowledge of life in the new world after the holocaust, Claudius: only he remembered the world before the One-Day War. Would this memory help him find the truth?, Ethan: He had the heart of a lion... but to conquer Eve he needed the heart of a man. Kenneth: He had confronted both the lady and the tiger... now he would have to face the judgment of Eve.
The Witch's Brat
by Rosemary SutcliffThe knowledge of herbs and healing that once prompted the villagers to stone him out of town eventually becomes the salvation for a crippled boy in twelfth-century England.
War of the Wing-Men
by Poul AndersonOnly three humans survived the wreck of that spaceship on the little known planet of Diomedes. One was the beautiful ruler of a distant colonial world; another was the fat, slovenly owner of a great Solar trading company; the third was a handsome, blue-eyed engineer. The survivors had food for only six weeks, for the native food was one hundred percent poisonous to people. So in that limited amount of time they had to gain the trust of the winged barbarians who held them prisoners, end the terrible war that these Diomedians were engaged in, and persuade the wing-men to carry the three across the thousands of miles of unmapped territory to the single Earth spaceport. Their desperate efforts to beat that fatal deadline makes WAR OF THE WING-MEN one of Poul Anderson's most exciting novels.
The Time Shifters
by Sam Merwin Jr.They called it T.T.T. --short for Time Teleportation Technique. Like all really great ideas, it was simple, and easy to operate--too easy, for Chuck Percival, who suddenly found himself drafted into an army dedicated to defending yesterday against today... and captained by strange men from tomorrow! Chuck found the idea of time travel intriguing, but he was by nature suspicious of people wanting to do him favors--and vice-versa. And time travel turned out to have a couple of nasty side effects that made the price of time jumping almost too high to pay. But like it or not, Chuck found himself in this particular army for the duration--a duration that might last several hundred years! What happened to him shouldn't happen to any devout twentieth century coward... including meeting and falling in love with his own great grandmother!
The Prince in Waiting (The Sword of the Spirits, Book #1)
by John ChristopherA curious chain of circumstances leads Luke to a rich prize -- he is named Prince in Waiting when his warrior father becomes Prince of Winchester. Luke's elevation arouses bitter jealousy and hatred, but his future seems both assured and powerful until treacherous enemies strike, and he is left desperately vulnerable.
Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel
by Francis Rabelais Sir Thomas Urquhart Of Cromarty Peter Antony MotteuxSeven Conquests
by Poul AndersonSeven tales of war and peace in the not-so-far-off world of the future. Seven harrowing stories of men caught up in tomorrow's age of ultraviolence. Kings Who Die evokes the special terrors that confront spacemen captured in interplanetary war. Wildcat chronicles a desperate attempt to send a team of men through a time machine back into the age of brontosaurs--there to prospect for oil and pump it back into the present. Cold Victory depicts the holocaust of an interplanetary civil war fought to prevent Earth's secession from the Solar Union. Inside Straight spins the tale of a peaceful planet that employs the superstrategies of gambling tipsters to foil its archenemies. Details unfolds a suspenseful drama of international events influenced by unseen visitors. License probes the fate of man living in a world where violence is legalized by state licenses. Strange Bedfellows describes the mind-boggling intricacies of corporate political battles in tomorrow's world. However far the man of tomorrow may project himself through space and time, it seems inevitable that he will carry with him the plague of war. In Seven Conquests, one of America's most exciting writers of science fiction spins seven brilliantly imaginative tales of man caught up in the superagonies of cosmic warfare. The setting of each tale is in the twilight zone of future technologies. Amid the nightmarish maneuvers of spaceships, monstrous computers, time machines, orbiting dreadnoughts, and hellish nuclear devices, the characters of each story probe and reveal the motives that impel whole races of men to deliberately imperil their survival. In "Cold Victory," two brothers are tragically divided when the powers of Mars and Venus launch a war against Earth to prevent its secession from the Solar Union. In "Wildcat," a time machine transmits a team of men back into the Jurassic age to prospect for oil in fields overrun with giant reptiles. In "Inside Straight," the wily citizens of a distant planet employ the calculated odds of gambling to outmaneuver their warring enemies. "Kings Who Die," "Details," "License," and "Strange Bedfellows" add further excitement to this brilliant collection of new science fiction stories by Poul Anderson. With each story, Mr. Anderson adds new luster to his reputation as a master of technical background and suspense, and a writer of soaring imagination.
World's End
by Joan D. VingeBZ Gundhalinu, police officer of the Hegemony, member of the elite "tech" class of the ruling planet Kharemough, left the planet Tiamat before the Stargate closed, cutting himself off forever from the simple barbarian girl who gave him back his sense of self worth. Moon Dawntreader Summer is now the Summer Queen, and BZ knows he can never again be her lover.
The Kindly Ones
by Melissa ScottEven after years on Orestes, Trey Maturin could not overcome an intense dislike of the Orestean social code. All the more so because, as sworn Medium for the great House of Halex, Trey was frequently a dutiful but reluctant partner to the code's often cruel injunctions. For 1,500 years, the Orestean code had held together a society carved out of a cold, material-poor moon of the planet Agamemnon, dividing its territories among five great Families. The code demanded the utmost loyalty to one's Family. To break it meant "death"--a legal declaration that banished the offender into a sharply defined social limbo. He or she became a ghost, unseen by the living. One could communicate with the dead only through a Medium, such as Trey; to do otherwise meant suffering social death oneself. There had been a time when the harsh code had served its purpose. On a world simmering with interfamilial rivalry, it had, with sanctioned Feuds, kept in check the ambitions and hatreds that might have completely destroyed Orestean civilization. But working for the House of Halex, Trey had long felt the tremors that would begin to undermine the code. For the Halex Family had been pioneering off-world trade, building their only marketable resources, fur and wool, into a rich source of income. Such commerce had brought new, exotic influences to insular Orestes... and excited the jealousy of their chief rival, the powerful, unscrupulous House of Brandr. The Brandr, who had been biding their time, reopened an ancient feud against the Halex. And suddenly Trey, who had sought to remain apart from the Orestean code, was thrust into the center of the deadly power struggle--becoming, by default, the custodian of the 15-year-old heir to the Halex patriarchy.... trapped by duty while the world, seething with economic and social unrest, moved toward war and devastation. Hunted by the Brandr, abandoned by the other Families, Trey's only allies were a crippled off-world spaceship captain and a ragtag band of ghosts. But those allies had their own ambitions and dreams to fulfill, and the bold, dangerous plan they conceived threatened to shatter what was left of Orestes.
Ensign Flandry
by Poul AndersonAfter the first flowering of the Terran Empire, which has grown increasingly decadent and corrupt, other civilizations in the galaxy threaten to take over the Terran's worlds. In this scenario steps the debonair, tough and pessimistic Dominic Flandry, half-Hans Solo, half-James Bond and a hero for the ages!
Out of the Darkness (Babylon 5: Legions of Fire, Book 3)
by Peter DavidThe final book in the Legions of Fire trilogy.
The Green Book
by Jill Paton WalshPattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it would seem that the four-year journey has been a success. But as they begin to settle this shining world, they discover that the colony is in serious jeopardy. With supplies dwindling, Pattie and her sister decide to take the one chance that might make life possible on Shine.
The Blind Alien -- The Beta Earth Chronicles: Book One
by Wesley BrittonYoung professor Malcolm Renbourn is captured in a scientific experiment that drags him across the multi-verse from his home planet, Alpha earth. Blinded in the capture, Malcolm tries to adapt to a new world where he understands nothing he experiences. After being a prisoner in a slave-holding country, he escapes to freedom, but learns his trials have just begun on a planet where an ancient plague kills three out of four male babies their first year. He meets the first of his wives—Lorei, the prophetess of the goddess Olos, her simple sister Elsbeth, the blue-skin Bar Tine, the towering Joline, and Doret, a mutant offspring of a failed genetic experiment. Together Tribe Renbourn battles a planet hoping Malcolm’s genetics carry the cure to the plague before a monstrous disaster strikes Bergarten, the city where Malcolm Renbourn’s second life began. And in Balnakin, the blame for the disaster is placed on one blind alien. “The Blind Alien is a story with a highly original concept, fascinating characters, and not-too-subtle but truthful allegories. Don’t let the sci-fi label or alternate Earth setting fool you--this is a compelling and contemporarily relevant story about race, sex, and social classes.” --Raymond Benson, Former James Bond novelist and author of the Black Stiletto books
Annals of the Time Patrol
by Poul AndersonMEN WANTED 21-40, pref. single, mil. or tech. exp., good physique, for high-pay work with foreign travel. Engineering Studies Co., 305 E. 45, 9-12 & 2-6. To Manson Emmert Everard, 30-year-old veteran, engineer, bachelor, outdoorsman--and decidedly independent spirit--it sounds like an ideal opportunity. Especially the foreign travel. But, as he steps into the office, he has no idea how foreign. For Manse Everard is being recruited for the Time Patrol. Once accepted, Manse is ferried by time shuttle to the Academy, the Time Patrol training center set in the ancient Oligocene period. There he learns how time travel had been discovered in a turbulent far-future by the Nine--who saw in it sinister possibilities--and how the mysterious Danellians had stopped them. And how, to prevent abuse of the time lanes by the foolish and the greedy, the Time Patrol had been formed. "Your work will mostly be within your own eras,"^' his class is told. "You will live ordinary lives, family and friends as usual--But you will always be on call!" Returning to a cover job at the Engineering Studies Co., Manse finds the 20th century a springboard to danger, adventure and intrigue, contained here in five now-classic tales and two exciting new novellas. Join Manse as he rescues a 20th-century archeologist reluctantly enthroned in ancient Persia--sabotages Kublai Khan's 13th-century expedition to North America... returns New York to its rightful history... seeks to foil bandits holding the ancient city of Tyre for ransom -- Annals of the Time Patrol is an adventure lover's delight, a 2-in-1 volume including The Guardians of Time and Time Patrolman.
Beasts of Gor (Chronicles of Counter-Earth #12)
by John NormanOn Gor, the other world in Earth's orbit, the term beast can mean any of three things: First, there are the Kurii, the monsters from space who are about to invade that world. Second, there are the Gorean warriors, men whose fighting ferocity is incomparable. Third, there are the slave girls, who are both beasts of burden and objects of desire. All three kinds of beasts come into action in this thrilling novel as the Kurii establish their first beachhead on Gor's polar cap. Here is a John Norman epic that takes Tarl Cabot from the canals of Port Kar to the taverns of Lydius, the tents of the Sardar Fair, and to a grand climax among the red hunters of the Arctic ice pack.
Planet of the Apes
by William T. QuickCaptain Leo Davidson has been transported in to a world where apes rule, and humans serve as slaves and pets.
True Minds
by Spider RobinsonEleven short stories by Hugo Award winning author Spider Robinson. Includes some erotica.
Captive of Gor (Chronicles of Counter-Earth #7)
by John NormanSLAVE-WOMAN ON GOR ... Elinor Brinton of New York City--beautiful, rich, spoiled, used to having her way with the men of earth--is hunted down and abducted by alien beings to find herself a captive on Gor, where men are absolute masters, and women their complete slaves.
Blades of Cairndale
by Michael EspinozaThree warriors, one perilous quest, and a realm teetering on the brink of chaos. Expert swordswoman Urunzai Zuna, half-nymph Esmera Atlia, and fresh recruit Garyn Valenthir must journey into the wild lands to the west of Cairndale at the behest of their ruler, Azyriana the Witch-Queen. As unprecedented rebellion and insidious political deception gnaw at the foundations of their homeland, the trio must race to unearth the source of haunting dreams that assail their queen before her father, Thurzir the Demon-King, returns from the Abyss to reclaim his throne. "Blades of Cairndale" reads like a broadsword's swing: fast, hard, and straight to the point. The swift-moving narrative recounts a timeless tale of politics, persecution, and persevering friendship in the face of what may seem insurmountable odds.