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Kosa Saag casts its tremendous shadow over half the world. It is the Wall, an immense and solitary mountain, dominating the lowland landscape of teeming humanity. Strange and bewildering gods live at the summit, on the roof of the world: the First Climber brought back the gift of fire from them, and the secrets of hunting and growing food. Poilar Crookleg has the blood of the First Climber in his veins. His father was a Pilgrim and his father before him - but thousands of years have passed since the time of He Who Climbed and many thousands of Pilgrims have disappeared as Poilar's father did, or died, or gone mad, following His footsteps to the summit. Poilar's journey, through dreamlike new realms of danger and seduction, in a diminishing company of other young Pilgrims, is an epic journey of discovery. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Short stories and excerpts of fantasy, space and time from the best writers. In this volume: The Little Sisters Of Eluria (The Dark Tower), Stephen King; Debt Of Bones (Sword of Truth), Terry Goodkind; Grinning Man (Tales Of Alvin Maker), Orson Scott Card; The Seventh Shrine (Majipoor) Robert Silverberg; Dragonfly (Earthsea), Urusla K. LeGuin; The Wood Boy (The Riftwar Saga), Raymond E. Feist. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Book II of Lord Prestimion. Set a thousand years before the reign of Lord Valentine, in a time of ancient mysteries, new wonders and new horrors. Prince Prestimion has at last become Coronal Lord Prestimion. Though he should have succeeded automatically to the title, Korsiva, the son of the last Coronal, claimed it and thereby plunged the nation into war. Prestimion's first act as Coronal is to summon a vast magical spell that obliterates, across the land, all memory of the civil war. Korsivar, killed in battle, is erased from memory...even his father, who has become Pontifex, has no memory of the son he sired and raised. Only Prestimion, and a handful of trusted associates, have knowledge of the catastrophic civil war. But such a scar on the face of the land is not easily wiped out. Mass psychosis threatens the new peace and Prestimion must find a way to deal with this new threat, as deadly as the forgotten war. But the last thing Prestimion can contemplate is further use of sorcery to put the matter right. From Labyrinth to Castle Mount, from Isle of Sleep to Desert of Stolen Dreams, a plague of madness sweeps the land. Prestimion's quest for a cure takes him to the most extraordinary territories on all Majipoor and brings him face to face with old enemies, new delusions and forgotten powers. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Book One of Lord Valentine. Valentine, a wanderer who knows nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city, and joins a troupe of jugglers and acrobats; gradually, he remembers that he is the Coronal Valentine, executive ruler of the vast world of Majipoor, and all its peoples, human and otherwise... His journey is a long one, a tour through a series of magnificent environments. Fields of predatory plants; impossibly wide rivers; chalk-cliffed islands and unforgiving deserts...are they dreams or realities? On Majipoor, dreams rule the minds of great and humble alike. Cover art by Josh Kirby. -
This volume contains: Slaves to the Star Giants: Lloyd Harkins is transported to a far future when civilization has collapsed. Small mutated humans live underground in isolation. Ancient robots left over from the Time of Cities still roam the jungles but no longer serve any useful function. Small human tribes aboveground are used for social experiments by a race of aliens known as Star Giants. Harkins hatches a deadly plan to find the Brain that can reprogram the robots in order to wage war against the alien interlopers. The Songs Of Summer: A time traveler from New York, 1956, accidentally winds up in the 35th century, where he tries to bring back modern civilization to an agrarian society. Hopper: Earth is overcrowded and suffering from widespread air pollution. Time travel is being used illegally to send poor people back to the 20th century. Corrupt police officer Quellen is in a quandary - if he apprehends the criminal, he may alter the past (and who knows what the consequence will be?), but if he lets the criminal go free, the inevitable tide of history will result in the unsustainable reality in which he is living. Blaze of Glory: A hot-headed communications officer sacrifices himself to save his ship. Heroism - or murder? Warm Man: In this smart, socially satirical piece, an empath comes to a small New York suburb. Cover art by Tom Kidd.
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The Collected Short Stories Volume 5. The featured stories are: To See the Invisible Man; The Pain Peddlers; Neighbour; The Sixth Palace; Flies; Halfway House; To The Dark Star; Passengers; Bride 91; Going Down Smooth; Fangs of the Trees; Ishmael in Love; Ringing The Changes; Sundance; How It Was When The Past Went Away; After the Myths Went Home; The Pleasure of Their Company; We Know Who We Are; Something Wild Is Loose; The Reality Trip. -
Sailing To Byzantium: On 50th-century Earth, people live in recreations of historical cities. Charles and Gioia live in ancient Alexandria - Charles, a visitor, does not age, but Gioia, a 'temporary', does. Cover art by Brian Waugh. Seven American Nights: A young Muslim from Iran takes down a journal of his one week visit to a post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. He falls in love with a theatre actress, consumes hallucinogenic eggs, wanders the dangerous city at night, is robbed and holds discussions with the police. Cover art by Bryn Barnard. -
A thousand years and more into the future, the human race has spread all over the galaxy, settling on a host of bizarre and exotic worlds. The tenuous galactic empire humanity has cast across the skies depends for its very existence on hyperspace and the pilots who can ride its bizarre force-fields. And these pilots are the gypsies. The Romany have come into their own. But there is a price: the legendary Romany Star. All the leverage the gypsies can bring to bear is used in the search for their ancestral home. Intergalactic blackmail? Of course. But also a statement of intent - romantic but implacable. Who better to orchestrate a scam so colossal than Yakoub, one and future King of the Gyspies. Sulking in luxurious exile, he has been planning his return to power and reminiscing over his extraordinary life. But when the moment of truth arrives, nothing seems to go according to Yakoub's plan. All his ingenuity, every sacrifice - even his pride - may not be enough... Cover art by Jim Burns. -
A thousand years from now...The tenuous galactic empire humanity has cast across the skies depends for its very existence on hyperspace and the pilots who can ride its bizarre force-fields. And these pilots are the gypsies. The Romany have come into their own. But there is a price: the legendary Romany Star. All the leverage the gypsies can bring to bear is used in the search for their ancestral home. Intergalactic blackmail? Of course. But also a statement of intent - romantic but implacable. Who better to orchestrate a scam so colossal than Yakoub, one and future King of the Gyspies. Sulking in luxurious exile, he has been planning his return to power and reminiscing over his extraordinary life. But when the moment of truth arrives, nothing seems to go according to (Yakoub's) plan. All his ingenuity, every sacrifice (even his pride) may not be enough... Cover art by Fred Gambino
