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Ciaran is a wandering harper and a thief, and Mouse is a branded thief with a temper and a good throwing arm. Between them they have never had a full belly or a roof over their heads. Camped above the Forbidden Plains, they watch a shadow spread across the sk…

Eric John Stark can spend twenty years in the Luna cell-blocks, or he can ride into Valkis as a spy for the man who once pulled him out of a cage. Simon Ashton, the lawman who raised him, runs him down in the Martian desert and makes the offer. Stark takes it…

Peter Claney is the only man who has ever tried to cross the sun side of Mercury and come back alive, and he has the scars to prove it. Now James Baron is planning the same trek at perihelion, and Claney turns up at the Red Lion to tell him exactly why it can…

Twins Tom and Greg Hunter haven't spoken in a year, but the news from the Asteroid Belt drags them into the same room. Their father, Roger Hunter, has died alone between Mars and Jupiter when the fuel tank on his scooter exploded. The U.N. calls it an acciden…

Bron Hoddan grew up on Zan, a planet of space pirates who swear they are simple farmers, and he has spent two years trying to become a respectable engineer on super-civilized Walden. Then he breaks into a power station to prove his new receptor works, a dead…

Alfric of Aslak rides into Valkarion looking for work for his sword, and before he reaches the gate, Temple slaves try to kill him with poisoned darts. Valkarion is the last withered remnant of a once-mighty empire, perched above a dead sea-bottom, and tonigh…

Hugh Starke pulls off the biggest payroll robbery in history, crashes beyond the Mountains of White Cloud, and wakes up dying, until a green-haired woman offers him a new body. He opens his eyes in chains, wearing the huge, scarred frame of Conan, a traitor e…

Vye Lansor is mopping up after a knife fight in the Starfall, the lowest dive on Nahuatl, when a stranger buys him a drink and offers him a future. Vye doesn't know the cup is drugged, or that the stranger, Ras Hume, is a crippled star pilot with a grudge who…

Burl has never seen the sun. On a cloud-wrapped world the galaxy forgot, the descendants of a wrecked liner's passengers live like hunted animals among giant mushrooms, deadly spores and insects the size of cattle, without fire, metal or any memory of where t…

Shann Lantee, the lowest hand on a Terran Survey team, survives the Throg raid that wipes out his camp only because he was up in the hills chasing two escaped wolverines. Now the beetle-like raiders hold Warlock, and Shann, Taggi and Togi are alone on a world…

Cappen Varra, a red-haired minstrel from golden Croy, came north to sing for the barbarians of Norren and has regretted it ever since. Now he is freezing on King Svearek's ice-crusted longship in a winter storm when a fire glimmers on a lonely island. Trolls…

Corun of Conahur, the most feared pirate on the seas of Achaera, is finally in chains and bound for the headsman, until the Thalassocrat's sorcerer offers him a way out. Shorzon and his granddaughter Chryseis, a witch as beautiful as she is cruel, need a guid…

Bordman, a senior Colonial Survey officer who lives by specifications, comes to the desert mining world of Xosa II expecting a routine final inspection. Instead his ship cannot land. A sandstorm has buried the colony's half-built landing grid, and all its ste…

Burk Winters was a starship captain until the girl he meant to marry flew out over the Martian desert and never came back. Now he is a shaking wreck with one reason left to return to Kahora Port. In the Trade City, Shanga is the newest fashionable vice: an ol…

Race Cargill has spent six years behind a desk in Terran Intelligence, his face scarred and a death sentence on his name outside the Trade City walls on Wolf. On the night he finally leaves the planet, they pull him off the starship. His sister Juli has come…

Stark's friend Helvi sailed into Shuruun and never came back, so Stark goes after him, and the crew of the boat that carries him there tries to take him before it docks. Shuruun is a fog-bound nest of wreckers and smugglers on the Red Sea of Venus, an ocean o…

Brion Brandd has just won the Twenties, a month of brutal contests that makes him champion of his world, when a man named Ihjel drags him out of his hospital bed. Ihjel has a job only Brion can do. On Dis, a scorched desert planet, humans have adapted to the…

In a moonlit valley Solomon Kane finds a dying girl, and with her last breath she names the man who killed her: Le Loup, the Wolf. Kane is a gaunt English Puritan with a rapier, a brace of pistols and an iron sense of justice, and he does not swear oaths. He…

Garin Featherstone is a war-hero pilot with no war left to fight, until the explorer Gregory Farson hires him to fly into a strange blue haze rising from the Antarctic ice. Garin's plane goes down inside it. He wakes in Tav, a hidden crater world where a scho…

Elak is a wolf-faced swordsman drinking and brawling his way along the waterfront of Poseidonia when a Druid's white fire saves him from a sea captain's blade. Dalan the Druid brings grim news. Elak's brother Orander, king of Cyrena in the north of Atlantis,…

Jason dinAlt is a gambler who wins whenever he wants to, and tonight a stranger wants him to turn twenty-seven million credits into three billion. The stranger is Kerk Pyrrus, and the money is meant to buy weapons for his home world. Pyrrus has double gravity…

Outlaw pilot Roy Campbell has the Spaceguard on his tail and a price on his head, and the only people who ever took him in are about to vanish. The Kraylens, a dying tribe of the Venusian swamps, call him their almost-son. Now the Terra-Venusian Coalition pla…

Five years after the clans of Killorn left their purple hills, Red Bram's band marches into war-torn Ryvan and straight into an army out of the Dark Lands. The invaders are gaunt, silent, golden-eyed men from the country of endless night. Kery son of Rhiach c…

Memphir, empire of empires, burns below the mountain, and Varta, last Maiden of Asti, is the only one left to obey her god's final command. She lifts the tiny sun and its four worlds from the stone hand of Asti, puts on an ancient suit of lizard skin, and goe…

Huyghens is the only human on Loren Two, a world closed to settlement because of the sphexes, and his outpost there is completely illegal. He shares it with Semper, a bald eagle, and four mutated Kodiak bears who have learned to fight sphexes on their own ter…

Cororuc, a young Briton making his way home alone from a secret mission to the wild Cornish tribes, cuts through a silent forest where no birds sing. There he saves a strange wolf from a panther, takes the head of the bandit chief Buruc the Cruel, and flees a…

When a German U-boat sinks his ship, Bowen Tyler ends up in the Atlantic with his Airedale, Nobs, and soon he is helping to capture the very submarine that attacked him. His family's yard built it. Now Bowen, a rescued young woman named Lys La Rue, a handful…

A dying thief's last wish puts a stolen talisman in Eric John Stark's hands, and every clan in the Martian Norlands wants it. Camar took the crystal lens from Kushat, the city that guards the pass called the Gates of Death, and he dies in the snow before he c…

On its very first run, Abner Perry's iron mole bores five hundred miles straight down and breaks through into Pellucidar, a hidden world inside the Earth where the sun never moves. Time hardly seems to pass there. David Innes and Perry climb out among cave me…

For years Solomon Kane has followed the trail of Marylin Taferal, an English girl kidnapped as a child and sold to slavers, and now it ends at a black crag in the African jungle. Beyond it lies Negari, an ancient stone city ruled by Nakari, a beautiful and pi…

Someone in the fort has sold out the Stellar Legion, and when the rains come to the Venusian swamps, the Nahali will pour over the earthworks. Ian MacIan, a white-haired Earthman who was once an officer, wants nothing now but to die honorably in the ranks. Yo…

Twelve ships and thirty-eight hundred exiles from Earth have wandered the seas of Venus for a generation, driven from every shore by fever, swamp and the hostile Cloud People. When a granite cliff rises out of the mist, Matt Harker, bitter and haunted by memo…

Bored Chicago clubman Robert Grandon is drugged at the opera, offered a taste of real adventure, and wakes in another man's body as a slave in the marble quarries of Venus. A scientist with telepathic powers has traded him into the flesh of Prince Thaddor of…

A meteor that crashes onto a Massachusetts farm is really a capsule fired from Venus, carrying the story of Myles Cabot, the radio inventor who vanished from a locked room. A short circuit in his matter transmitter flung him to Poros, a cloud-wrapped world ru…

Conn Maxwell comes home to Poictesme after six years at university on Terra, and the whole town of Litchfield is waiting for him to tell them where Merlin is. Merlin was the legendary supercomputer of the war that left Poictesme littered with abandoned milita…

Steve Clarney and Yar Ali are down to their last bullets in a desert sand-pit, with Bedouin riders circling and their water nearly gone, all for the sake of a legend. The American wanderer and his big Afghan comrade have followed rumors from Shiraz to the Per…

Trigger Argee was sent to Maccadon's Colonial School to organize the Plasmoid Project, the study of living Old Galactic artifacts her boss, Commissioner Holati Tate, discovered. Eight weeks later she is working under a false name with dyed hair, Tate and the…

On the day Lucas Trask marries Elaine Karvall, a jealous rival with a submachine gun turns the wedding into a funeral. The killer, Andray Dunnan, steals the new warship Enterprise and flees Gram for the half-ruined worlds of the Old Federation. Trask has alwa…

Dal Timgar finished near the top of his class, and Hospital Earth still means to throw him out. He is the first member of an alien race ever to train as one of its physicians, a gray-furred Garvian with a pink fuzz-ball named Fuzzy riding on his arm, and plen…

A chemist peers through a microscope of his own making into a scratch on his mother's wedding ring and sees, deep inside a single atom of gold, a girl sitting beside a pool. He cannot forget her. So he invents drugs to shrink himself, vanishes into the ring,…

Ross Murdock is a young crook with a talent for slipping out of trouble, until a judge gives him a choice between prison and a secret government project. The project is stranger than he could have guessed. The Reds have begun producing technology no one on Ea…