A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

CONSPIRACY ON CALLISTO, by Frederik Pohl

AFTER SOME TOMORROW, by Mack Reynolds

CATALYSIS, by Poul Anderson

FAMILY TREE, by Charles L. Fontenay

A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, by Russ Winterbotham

A MATTER OF ORDER, by Fox B. Holden

FREEWAY, by Bryce Walton

BUT THE PATIENT LIVED, by Harry Warner, Jr.

COMMUNICATION, by Charles Fontenay

ROUTINE FOR A HORNET, by Don Berry

THE EARTHMAN, by Irving Cox, Jr.

DREAMTOWN U.S.A., by Leo P. Kelley

EASY DOES IT, by E. G. Von Wald

CRONUS OF THE D.F.C., by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

THE HEMINGWAY KITTENS, by A.R. Morlan

ESCAPE MECHANISM, by Charles E. Fritch

FIRTH’S WORLD, by Irving Cox, Jr.

BRIGHT ISLANDS, by Frank Riley

THE HAPPY CLOWN, by Alice Eleanor Jones

FORCED MOVE, by Henry Lee

JEKYLL-HYDE PLANET, by Jack Lewis

THE OLD GOAT, by Charles L. Fontenay

JUVENILE DELINQUENT, by Edward W. Ludwig

LOST ART, by G. K. Hawk

NIGHT COURT, by Norman Arkawy

NOR DUST CORRUPT, by James Mc Connell

THE DRIVERS, by Edward W. Ludwig

INHIBITION, by James Causey

DEAREST ENEMY, by Fox Holden

THEY WERE DIFFERENT, by Neil J. Kenney

SHOCK TROOP, by Richard Bolton

PIONEERS, by Basil Wells

THE CYBER AND JUSTICE HOLMES, by Frank Riley

REJECT, by John Johnson

YOUR SERVANT, SIR, by Sol Boren

SELLER OF THE SKY, by Dave Dryfoos

THE PATRIOT, by Charles L. Fontenay

SLOW BURN, by Henry Still

TASK MISSION, by Fox B. Holden

THE ALMOST-MEN, by Irving E. Cox, Jr.

THE BARBARIANS, by Tom Godwin

THE 3RD PARTY, by Lee B. Holum

WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT?, by Poul Anderson

THE ELROOM, by Jerry Sohl

THE FLOATER, by Kenneth O’Hara

SHANGO, by John Jakes

THE HAPPY HERD, by Bryce Walton

THE LABORATORIANS, by Edward Peattie

WRONG ANALOGY, by Joseph Shallit

THE RUMBLE AND THE ROAR, by Stephen Bartholomew

THE OUTER QUIET, by Herbert D. Kastle

THE SCAMPERERS, by Charles A. Stearns

TO PAY THE PIPER, by James Blish

UNTIL LIFE DO US PART, by Winston Marks

WAR GAME, by Bryce Walton

THE MARGENES, by Miriam Allen De Ford

WILLIE’S PLANET, by Mike Ellis <

The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty light-years distant. But, because the ship will accelerate to close to the speed of light, for those on board subjective time will slow and the journey will be of only a few years' duration.

Then a buffeting by an interstellar dustcloud changes everything. The ship's deceleration system is damaged irreperably and soon she is gaining velocity. When she attains light-speed, tau zero itself, the disparity between ship-time and external time becomes almost impossibly great. Eons and galaxies hurtle by, and the crew of the Leonora Christine speeds into the unknown.

Forget minor hazards such as the H-Bomb. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes.

Manse Everard, the Patrol's finest temporal trouble-shooter, bears a heavy burden. The fabric of history is stained with human blood and suffering which he cannot, must not do anything to alleviate, lest his tampering bring disastrous alterations in future time. Everard must leave the horrors of the past in place, lest his tampering - or that of the Patrol's opponents, the Exaltationists - erase all hope of a better future, and instead bring about a future filled with greater horrors than any recorded by past history at its darkest and most foul.

Poul Anderson is one of the most celebrated authors of science fiction and fantasy. He combines elements of both genres in the three novellas presented here, which have never been collected in one book before. Heroic science fantasy at its best!

WITCH OF THE DEMON SEAS—Guide a black galleon to the lost, fear-haunted citadel of the Xanthi wizards—into the very jaws of Doom? Corun, condemned pirate of Conahur, laughed. Aye, he’d do it, and gladly. It would mean a reprieve from the headman’s axe—a few more precious moments of life and love… though his lover be a witch!

THE VIRGIN OF VALKARION—Tonight, so spake the Temple Prophecy, a sword-scarred Outlander would come riding, a Queen would play the tavern bawd, and the Thirty-Ninth Dynasty should fall with the Mating of the Moons!

SWORDSMAN OF LOST TERRA—Proud Kery of Broina felt like a ghost himself; shade of a madman flitting hopelessly to the citadel of Earth’s disinherited to recapture the fierce, resonant Pipes of Killorn—weapon of the gods—before they blared out the dirge of the world!

The sword Tyrfing has been broken to prevent it striking at the roots of Yggdrasil, the great tree that binds earth, heaven and hell together . . . but now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves, who are heavily involved in their war against the trolls, and only Skafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade the mighty ice-giant, Bolverk, to make the sword Thor broke whole again. But things are never easy, and along the way Skafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard the changeling, who took his place in the world of men.

A superb dark fantasy of the highest, and most Norse, order The Broken Sword is a fantasy masterpiece.

The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threaten the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons and the Wild Hunt itself, are poised to overthrow the Realms of Light.
Holger Carlsen, a bemused and puzzled twentieth-century man mysteriously snatched out of time, finds himself the key figure in the conflict. Arrayed against him are the dragons, giants and elven warriors of the armies of Chaos, and the beautiful sorceress Morgan le Fay. On his side is a vague prophecy, a quarrelsome dwarf and a beautiful woman who can turn herself into a swan, not to mention Papillon, the magnificent battle-horse, and a full set of perfectly fitting armour, both of which were waiting for him when he entered the magical realm. The shield bears three hearts and three lions - the only clue to Holger Carlsen's true identity. Could Carlsen really be a legendary hero, the only man who can save the world?

In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in North East Lincolnshire.

The Wersgorix, whose scouting ship it is, are quite expert at taking conquering planets, and having determined from orbit that this one is suitable, they initiate standard procedure. Their ship carries guided missiles and nuclear weaponry - but they have long since lost the art (and weapons) of hand-to-hand fighting. And this time it's no mere primitives the Wersgorix seek to enslave - they've launched their invasion against Englishmen!

In the end, only one alien is left alive - and Sir Roger's grand vision is born. He intends for the creature to fly the ship first to France to aid his King, then on to the Holy Land to vanquish the infidel. And then . . . ?

Somewhere, spinning through another universe is an Earth where a twist of fate, a revolution and a few early inventions have made a world quite unlike our own.

It is a world where Cavaliers and Puritans battle with the aid of observation balloons and steam trains; where Oberon and Titania join forces with King Arthur to resist the Industrial Revolution; and where the future meshes with the past in the shape of Valeria, time traveller from New York.

Steve Matuckek Book 1

In a war waged against Black Magic, the fact that Steve is a werewolf and his wife is a highly skilled witch is not unusual. But their adventures prove very unusual, even for their world, when they are given the task of neutralizing an enemy's ultimate weapon - the world's most powerful demon.