As a newly minted graduate of space school, Paul lands space station duty and is given the tricky and dangerous assignment of salvaging defunct satellites. But there's more up there than anyone bargained for...

'You are an artificially constructed human being, a mobile gathering device.'That is what the computer's metallic voice tells Tanner when it releases him from his cell. Naked, unarmed, with no memory to guide him, he emerges into a savage world, into the ruins of Manhattan in the 23rd century where wild animals roam and men have become cannibals in a frantic struggle to survive.Who has unleashed this chaos upon the world? Has Tanner really been dispatched to gather facts to ...

The dream of being a superman came true for Max Quest - and immediately turned into a nightmare.He was not alone. There were Others with extraordinary powers, and the last thing they wanted was another superman on Earth - especially one working for good instead of evil.They couldn't kill him. But they could send him . . . elsewhere.Elsewhere was the viciously hostile world of Qanar, where Max's powers didn't work and sorcery was a more potent weapon than science, wh...

All of a sudden I was moving faster than usual. The other passengers standing on the subway platform seemed rooted to their places. It took me only seconds to reach the top of the six flights of stairs, and then I was out of the station and moving down Fulton Street at better than forty miles an hour!What was happening to me? It was as though I were the helpless passenger in a runaway car. Something else had assumed control and was guiding me.My body turned into an...

Frank Marshall suddenly finds himself 500 years in the future, and needs the help of the daughter of the corporate warlord to avoid being killed as useless waste...

You are riding home from work on the subway. There is a jolt - and as you fall against your neighbour you discover - he is a manikin.You investigate. The entire train is filled with manikins. Are there no humans in this world...?You approach a door. There is only an opaque blackness on the other side. You are wary. You put through only one arm. It disappears completely. You are curious. You must find out what lies beyond.You walk through the door into the ...

Larry is home from grad school to work on his father's project to save the world from starvation, and finds himself the target of a plot to sabotage the whole project and kill them all...

TWO PATHS TO ARMAGEDDONTwo valiant humans: swashbuckling Elron and the Sorceress Shannara...two implacably evil "Others"...two kinds of weapons with which to fight...and many kinds of doom awaiting an entire world if the battle is lost!Again Ted White takes us to the strange, paradoxical world of Qanar, where a weird age-old magic exists as everyday reality, side by side with the remnants of an equally ancient but less understood science. The alien "Others" are making a new b...

Makstarn was ugly, an outcast in the midst of the beautiful people of his tribe. Where they were tall and slender, he was short and squat. Where they were golden, touched with the beauty of the dawn, he was black and hairy . . . and hated by those of his own generation. It little mattered that the Elders respected him for what he was . . . and for what his father, Max Quest, had been; the young were all that mattered.And their hatred drove him at last from the tribe, and on an impo...

Tad Dameron's assignment was routine enough: escort Bjonn, the alien from Farhome, on the final leg of his journey to Earth - and learn what he could about the alien's culture.But from the beginning Dameron realized that there was something strange and ominous about Bjonn - something in his eyes and the way he spoke, even the way he help himself, that forewarned of danger.Then Bjonn was gone, slipped away to mingle with Earth's teeming millions, and with him the beautiful Dia...

Prepare to embark on an exhilarating journey with *Phoenix*, a captivating collaboration between Marion Zimmer Bradley and Ted White. This compelling tale unfolds in a richly imagined universe where survival hinges on the delicate balance of power, loyalty, and the struggle for identity.What if the very essence of your being was tied to a destiny you never chose? In *Phoenix*, the story centers on a group of survivors seeking refuge in a world ravaged by ch...

One minute I was in New York . . . walking down Sixth Avenue, a private eye on a two-bit job . . .Next minute I was in New York . . . a crazy town I almost recognised - but Goebbels was speaking in Union square, Hitler invited me to a cocktail party, and aliens from outer space were running the whole show. Fun City it wasn't . . .Plucked from his own "time", a pawn in a Galactic power play, Ron Archer fights his way through a deadly maze of intrigue and conspiracy t...