The great epic of the world beneath the Bloody Sun known as Darkover did not begin with the coming of the Terrors. It began for earlier, during the dark days of the civilization that come to be known as the Ages of Chaos. For in those years the power of the matrix was first learned—and ...

It was two million years in the future and they were immortal—Holmes, Watson, all the Great Ones. With nothing to master but limitless Time. But that was before the killing began, before the world's greatest sleuth discovered that history's most heinous criminal was also "alive" ...

THERE IS ONE POWER BEYOND ALL POWERS! The search for the legendary heartstone is on — and Lahks Mhoss, officer of the Guardian Institute, is on her way. Using her gifts as a Changeling to mold her physical shape into any form imaginable, Lahks — with her gallant comrades, ...

Heao is a member of Academe, a future cult of intellectuals on a planet in the throes of a receding ice age. She and all her people have been conquered by a primitive king whose dreams of destruction haunt him . . . and may doom all her kind. She is intelligent and loving, a devoted ...

LONG AGO, WHEN THE WORD HAD NO MOON . . . Atlantis and Mu ruled the earth and a brilliant light shone in the heart of Bulinja, Princess of Grood. Beautiful and wild, Bulinga yearned to be free from her warlord father. One night, with the help of a group of traders, she escaped disguised ...

MEET PRANDRA AND KHRENG . . . They eat from the same bowl, couple and preen—then travel across Time, down through Space, to the most bizarre and dangerous worlds in the Galactic Federation. Even to Solthree, where they are met with some alarm . . . A JUDGMENT OF DRAGONS.

Of woman he was born to the royal house of Tum-Barlum, and of woman he was cursed with the crippled limb of a swan. Feared warrior, insatiable lover, seeker after mysterious power—they called him Prince Witherwing. WITHERWING is alive with swashbuckling action, uncanny excitement—and ...

"We are the future. In your heart you are one of us. I want you for your Convolution. The Master of Time. I want you because we share race, language, nation, philosophy." Ian Douglas of 1980, discoverer of the knot in Time, became Captain Gart of 2170 by accident. Once in that role, ...

Only legend told of a time when Earth was not covered by the unending ice. In the Eight Cities, the powerful ruling families sent their swift ships to hunt the icewhales and carry trade goods, and fostered the cult of the Ice Mother. His own ship lost, Konrad Arflane was granted command ...

IN A TIME AND PLACE OF SWARDS AND SORCERY... ...Here begins the saga of Kerovan of Ulmsdale, born with the amber eyes and cloven hooves of the Old Ones, who seeks his rightful heritage as Lord-heir of Ulmsdale — and Lady Joisan of Ithkrypt, proxy-wed to Kerovan, who wears about ...