Seeing the future with ease, the Joon live a contented life. Until the greatest of their visionaries foresees a terrible danger that can only be avoided by destroying a world inhabited by ten billion people who have done them no harm. Sojourning through the deeps of space, the Joon capture a monstrous comet and send it to a neighbouring star and the planet called earth. Their objective is not to destroy the earth but to manipulate the future of mankind in three separate timelines and force...

After breaking the peaceful ways of the Joon and devastating the home world of the humans, the Anvil of Change must now begin the next stage of his desperate struggle to save his people. Having manipulated the destiny of two species, he must journey to the home world of the Rakan and subjugate a people who are selfish and cruel beyond belief. Their lust for death and destruction must be shackled and controlled, but only after the most vicious of all the Rakan rises to power. Only then can ...

The battle against the destroyer of worlds is going badly. Even the combined force of warriors drawn from thousands of timelines has only resulted in a never-ending war of attrition. The wisdom of the Joon farseers has failed and the Forge of Time is forced to complete the circle and go back to Hoomaji and seek out the mad prophet Amanuia. His insane ravings finally reveals that the only one who can defeat the destroyer of worlds is the Sword of Life, a fourth master of destiny. The only t...

After the titanic struggle to bring about his birth, the Forge of Time grows up on an earth devastated by the fall, an earth ravaged by fire and flood and overrun by ice. The young man must grow up and learn to use his gift, for he is one of the few to have a nascent future sense. He must master his ability in order to defeat an implacable enemy hell-bent on consuming the home worlds of three species. To do so, he must rise from the ruins of earth and bend the fabric of time and destiny to...

Into the hustler's paradise of pre-revolution Egypt comes an eccentric Englishman hell bent on making his fortune in a country where everything is late, nothing works and everyone is on the take. To pay off a savage mortgage, he leads a double life teaching in a posh school by day and haggling down the back streets of Cairo by night, trying to beat those wily Egyptians at their own game.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1190, the city of York turned on itself. Eight hundred years later, Dr Wolf finds himself embroiled in a desperate struggle to heal the fear and guilt brought over by his patients from this time of betrayal and mass murder. Using his gift for seeing past lives, he must find all the players in this forlorn tragedy and piece together events that unfolded at the time of King Richard's first crusade. He must find the truth of what happened in the city of York's darkest ...

From Arizona's leading native plant organization, this accessible and colorful guide to planting natives will help gardeners at every level of experience add beneficial pollinators to their home gardens.The Southwest Native Plant Primer introduces 235 wildflowers, grasses, vines, cacti, and trees recommended for gardeners of any skill level interested in choosing native plants for a garden that makes a positive environmental impact. It covers a broad area ...

The planet Attica has two continents: Lambda and Delta. The indigenous alien population being restricted to Delta, Earth's colony was planted on Lambda. Before the arrival of the Daedalus, two sailing ships had set out from Lambda to cross the ocean separating the two continents, and neither had returned. Now a third is on its way, and Mariel Valory and Alex Alexander of the Daedalus have hitched a lift, in order that Mariel might use her talent to try to make contact with the aliens. Unfo...

The final contact made by the Daedalus Mission begins badly, even before the ship makes a hard landing in the middle of nowhere. The situation of the colony doesn't seem to make any sense, and neither does the situation of the indigenous aliens--the Sets--that have helped the colony survive and thrive. Alex Alexander doesn't take long to work out a hypothesis that might explain the mystery--a hypothesis that the people on the ground have already worked out for themselves--and he's fortunat...

hey call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which a declining Earth has sent to re-establish contact with its long-lost colonies. Biologist Alex Alexander, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that they encounter far from home. On the world called Wildeblood, named for the ecologist/Emperor who founded it, the settlers' descendants harbor a terrible secret--a secret that Alex must uncover, if the colony is to...

The fourth landing of the Daedalus Mission confronts Alex and his companions with a colonial culture seemingly modeled on a classic Utopian dream, but all of its inhabitants are infected with a mysterious alien parasite, and they no longer seem entirely human. Are they being controlled by the parasite, or has the parasite merely enabled them to transform themselves? Can the visitors from Earth avoid infection themselves, and what will the consequences be if they cannot? For once, the risks...

Captain Neal Bishop hasn't been having very good luck. While recovering from injuries, he had the misfortune of catching his Commander spending quality time with a superior's wife. That landed him a rather dull rehab assignment body-guarding a group of scientists at an archeological site.But this site wasn't like any other. This moon had never been colonized by humans, and until a miner's drill pierced one wall just three weeks ago, this cavern had never been exposed to air.S...