The East Bordzvek basin is known thruout Kassidor as a place of certain death. It is too hot for human life, the ground is too rugged and broken to traverse, but most of all, the wildlife is too deadly for even the most heavily armed expeditions to survive. Only the fringes of the basin had been seen, other than that, unmanned balloons and orbital vehicles were the only things that had ever seen it.Honshu is falling back into her loon addiction, uninterested in anything else of lif...

Dorrick is restless. He doesn't know if it's TongSu's recuperation, boredom with the farm or boredom with Bordzvek. He knows he feels 'kept' at her farm, no matter how much he tries to help. Most of all he worries if it is boredom with TongSu. He worries that he's seen her thru this convalescence out of guilt. He knows he feels guilt over going to the East Basin and he's faced the fact that he did it for his own adrenaline needs and not Honshu's.TongSu knows Dorrick is getting bore...

Dorrick has landed a new assignment from the University of Kex on Centorin. They are assisting the Kassikan in locating the last of Feanor's crystals using a ground penetrating imager. The crystal is believed to lie somewhere in the ruins of the Dark Lord's black tower in a has-been tourist trap called Mordor.Just getting there was an adventure in itself, it was a year's flight from Knidola over lands filled with Orcs and other mutants from early genetic science. They have to rescu...

Dorrick has now been on Kassidor ten Earth years, a decade and forty as he tells time now, and they are living comfortably in the Yakhan. Best of all, TongSu has remained with him. Then his old friend Bulf, with whom he'd done some light work in the past, invites him to a reunion dinner in Kex. He wonders how Bulf ever got the money to do that, but because Bulf promised that Jason and Vio would also be there, he thinks it would be nice to surprise TongSu with an all-expenses-paid trip to t...

In an ancient land that thought of itself as the 'Known World' until recently, there lies a group of cities only a day's hike from one another that are the cultural melting pot of this 'known world.' Thru most of it's history few paid any attention to the outside world. Then, two centuries ago this area was discovered by an outside group, a civilization of Elves with many advances in technology. They brought advanced crops that banished hunger until the population grew. They brought advanc...

In the year 5876ad. the Blue Kite club and the tower above it is the center of the East Hdengragger region of the Ydlontrostl cities. On this particular evening a well known band playing songs of the 'Caravan' genre is there instead of their usual acts which primarily play 'Lectroshock'. The club is where the most sexually active come for entertainment most of the time. Kessil has friends who frequent it but she only comes by occasionally, mostly when there is someone on stage she wants to...

Desa has never faced as physically difficult a situation as she had to endure in the years 552411 and 552412 when she made the journey from the Dos basin to the Zhlindu basin thru the Kinsheeta waste. On Earth, this happens during May, June and July of 2212. She is 350 Earth years of age at the time, about a century and a half by her own calendar. By this time none are considered to be a youth any more, so her judgment should be as good as it's ever going to get.Between the great b...

This war is completely different than anything mankind has fought so far. At first humans do not even understand what type of being they are actually fighting. It has calculating intelligence but its behavior patterns are written in its DNA over the millions of years it has been riding the galactic currents in mankind's direction, determined to be the only multicellular animated life in any oxygen atmosphere in the galaxy. It is over a century before humanity understands the true extent of...

In 3818ad. the stargate has only recently opened to the planet Kassidor and people from other planets can now reach this huge and ancient world. Dorrick's new field assignment is to take a scientist to a distant city on this primitive planet to study the ancient sex slavers of the Borlunth basin. They are of special interest because they seem so uncharacteristic of the peaceful and pastoral world of Kassidor. Only one eccentric professor had studied that culture in depth, and written three...

Leand was a respected man in the town of Sinbara who befriended Jorma after a bad burn out. Jorma treasured his friendship and the chance for a new start he'd been given. Then Leand had a beautiful, smart, lusty and driven daughter named Tdeshi who became Jorma's lover once she was grown. But after only a year sharing his cabin, she became determined to continue her education in the distant city of Kassidor Yakhan. Neither Jorma nor Leand could convince her to change those plans and his fr...

On the planet of Kassidor, metals are extremely rare and precious. Those that can only be extracted with even rarer energy are even more precious, and people will do almost anything to possess them in spite of incredible danger.Jorma was lucky to return from the Yakhan with Venna, who was everything Tdeshi was and more. He was lucky to live in the beachfront home left by Ava, the Yingolian sorceress from the Kassikan. He was luckier still to find a fortune in aluminum stuck in the ...

Dorrick would do anything in his power but kill to bring the creator of loon to justice. Making the most addictive substance known to man was evil in its own right, but to have done so and gone unpunished was unthinkable. With great difficulty he eventually found the name of its creator and the rumor that his lab had been in the East Wash of Trenst. While danger from other people was minimal, the East Wash had many other dangers, some mild like getting bombed when passing under an apartmen...