Solomon Kane does not like the look of the Cleft Skull, a lonely tavern deep in the Black Forest with barred windows, no other guests and a host with small red eyes. He shares the night's lodging with Gaston l'Armon, a dandified Frenchman who overtook him on…

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…

Someone, or something, is giving the whole world nightmares. In a gentle utopia of skylon cities and flying togs, Thorn and his friend Clawly have charted a steady rise in bad dreams and believe it points to a danger the World Executive Committee refuses to t…

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…

Conger's new job is to kill a man who has been dead for two hundred years. A hunter and smuggler with six years left in prison, he is offered his freedom by the Speaker of the Council if he will ride a time cage back to 1960 and shoot the obscure Founder of t…

The claws were built to win the war, and they may have done it too well. Six years after the bombs, Earth's surface is ash, and the battlefield belongs to self-repairing killing machines that burrow in the rubble and hunt anything warm that isn't wearing a ra…

Solomon Kane is sick of the jungle, but before he leaves, his blood-brother N'Longa, voodoo man of the Slave Coast, presses a carved staff of black wood into his hands. Kane carries it toward a chain of bare, silent hills where vultures gather and something k…

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…

Earth is a backwater now, one planet-wide game farm where rich outworlders come to shoot beasts imported from five dozen worlds. Gilbert, eighteen and already a guide in the swamps of Lewsanna, has led plenty of jaded clients. Mulveen is the worst. After a th…

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…

For eight years humanity has lived underground while robot 'leadys' fight the war on a radioactive surface no person could survive. Don Taylor, a weapons planner on his first rest period in months, is happy to read about another raid on Moscow over breakfast,…

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…

Tomorrow the legions of Rome march into the heather, and Bran Mak Morn, king of the Picts, may lose his kingdom before it is born. His alliance of Pictish clans, British chariot-fighters and the Gaelic horsemen of Cormac of Connacht depends on three hundred N…

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…

In the Deathlands, every stranger is a killer until proven otherwise, and most of them prove it. Ray Baker, bald, scarred and pushing forty, is a hundred miles from Nowhere when a blue-eyed young woman with a steel hook for a right hand falls into step beside…

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…