All the majesty and mayhem of Greek mythology springs to life once more in the powerful second novel based on the bestselling and critically acclaimed God of War® franchise.Once the mighty warrior Kratos was a slave to the gods, bound to do their savage bidding. After destroying Ares, the God of War, Kratos was granted his freedom by Zeus—and even given the ousted god’s throne on Olympus.But the other gods of the pantheon didn’t take kindly to Kratos’s asce...

THE KLINGONS ARE HUNGRY FOR WAR...THEIR TARGET: THE ENTERPRISE!When Captain Kirk and his crew are ordered to Alnath 11 to challenge the deadliest Klingon starship Terror, they're ready for anything -- or so they think. But the defenseless Vulcan crew of a Federation science ship has been wiped out. The remaining members of the Alnath II mission have discovered a fabulous ancient city -- but their report doesn't make sense. The Klingon battle cruiser has the Enterpri...

Mutiny On The EnterpriseThe ship is crippled in orbit around a dangerous, living, breathing planet, and a desperate peace mission to the Orion Arm is stalled. Kirk has never needed his crew more. But a lithe, alien women is casting a spell of pacifism -- and now mutiny -- over the crew.Suddenly Captain Kirk's journey for peace has turned into terrifying war--to retake command of his ship!

Kesira Minette's world has shattered amid a terrible rain of jade. The magical jade has killed the patron demon of her order and turned ordinary humans into strange werecreatures. Worse, the demons who were not killed have become...insane. She leaves the safety of her cloistered existence, accompanied by a sentient green bird and a tongueless shapeshifter, Molimo.Together they fight the growing powers of the Jade Demons, who have plunged the world into chaos. Eternal winter, earthq...

THE SWORD OR THE PLOWSHARE...The destruction of the interplanetary communications net has isolated planets across the Republic of the Sphere. On Mirach, a widening schism in the military between those who would remain loyal to The Republic and those who would break away threatens the peace and prosperity that have lasted for generations.Once a formidable MechWarrior, governor Sergio Ortega now believes that diplomacy will win the day. His sons, Dale and Aus...

Having visited the Lord of Death and Life and learned the ways of dark magicks and the evil curse placed upon his shoulders, Brion Rouwen returns to the Kingdom of Gan seeking justice against his enemies in Legion of the Air, the second book in Robert E. Vardeman's Accursed trilogy. Armed with not only the knowledge of a spell book, but also his own battalion of airy warriors, Rouwen is finally ready -- with the exiled Queen Diarra in tow -- to put things right.Rouwen's refusal to ...

Sir Francis Barstow has unlimited funds from the alchemist's dream--he can transmute lead into gold with a special ray confined to a Cornish coal mine. To exhaust generated fumes from the electrical equipment, he uses a strange black portal only a foot in diameter--the portal opens onto an entire new dimension, the World of Rust.Other, larger holes have appeared across the world. The Kaiser uses one to smuggle contraband from the United States into Switzerland in preparation for la...

If you have come this far, there's no turning back. Months now (or is it longer?) have passed since Brion Rouwen accepted his cruel, twisted fate. Armies have risen and fallen, spells have been cast, wanton destruction has torn apart the land he used to love. In The Flame Specter, the third and final volume of The Accursed, Robert E. Vardeman embraces the themes of love, honor, vengeance, and betrayal that have propelled the story thus far and leads them effortlessly to a breath taking con...

Lord of Death and LifeAnd you think you've got problems. Brion Rouwen has lost everything. In the blink of an eye. His occupation, his honor, and the woman he loves have been replaced with a curse far beyond even his darkest reckoning: not only can he not die, a cruel antecedent to the blistering pain inflicted upon him by his wrongdoers, but -- as he finds out -- everyone he loves will perish immediately upon contact with him.So begins The Lord of Death and Life, the first ...

From the depths of space comes utter destruction...The alien fleet orbited Penum IV and used colorful incinerating death rays on the planet rotating below. When the inhabitants of the globe were annihilated and everything left worth pillaging stowed on black-hulled plunder ships, the fleet moved on to the next inhabited human world, unopposed except by…The warship Preceptor, commanded by Pier Norlin, a junior officer on a ship with only a skeleton crew. The ship la...

Lorelei singt ...In reparaturbedürftigem Zustand muss die Enterprise einen Krieg zwischen zwei Planeten verhindern, den die Romulaner sich für eine Invasion zunutze machen könnten. Doch der Überlichtantrieb des Schiffes ist defekt, die Enterprise kommt nur langsam vorwärts. Als Kirks Mannschaft dann die mit hypnotischen Kräften begabte Hylanerin Lorelei aus ihrem havarierten Raumschiff birgt, ist Kirk nicht mehr Herr der Lage: Die schöne Frau mani...

Eine unheimliche Macht bedroht die EnterpriseAuf dem Planeten Alnath II wurde eine mysteriöse schwarze Pyramide entdeckt, ein Zeugnis einer ausgestorbenen Zivilisation. Die vulkanischen Wissenschaftler, die sie erforschen, werden tot aufgefunden. Captain Kirk und seine Crew sollen das Rätsel lösen. Unter Verdacht stehen die Klingonen, die ebenfalls auf Alnath II gelandet sind. Ihr Schlachtschiff ist der Enterprise weit überlegen, Kirk darf es nicht zum Kam...