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A BREATHTAKING TIME CHASE THROUGH HISTORY

Centuries before, New Jerusalem had been Chicago. Now it was ruled by the World Ecumenical Church... a repressive theocracy founded by one Allen Howard Dover and governed by fear.

Eugene Stillman didn't like this world. But he was a law-abiding government time traveler, not a radical--at least not until hi met Melanie. She introduced him to the delights of proscribed sex, brought him into the undeground, and presented him with a plan to prevent the birth of Allen Howard Dover. All in involved was murder... and a little trip.

BECAUSE OF MELANIE, STILLMAN AGREED.

BECAUSE OF MELANIE, THE CHURCH MADE STILLMAN A HUNTED CRIMINAL.

And because of Malanie, Stillman suddenly found himself on a horrifying flight through time, running back and forth through centuries to escape pursuers who were determined to follow him all the lives of his days... forever!

Past and present mingle, conscious and subconscious memory intertwine in this impressive work of the imagination. Described by the author as an "old-fashioned ghost story", The Awakening explores with chilling subtlety the theme of the uneasy dead seeking peace--a fear which must go back into our paleolithic subconsciousness.

It's hoped that a few month's rest at the rundown farmhouse, Aaron's Rock, will help heal Ray Albright of the effects of a horrendous car accident: a badly broken back, terrible guilt at the death of his passengers, and the swift comprehension of how little separates the living from the dead. But the farm is not the expected idyllic refuge, for Ray's daytime sketching is disturbed by ghastly moans from a thicket close by, his sleep by sounds downstairs of a wounded man's crawling silenced by an explosion, and his peace of mind by visions of his absent wife in the arms of another man. And he is visited by a recurrent dream, each night a little longer and more real: a band of exhausted men in tattered gray uniforms comes forward in the dawn light, but then turns again wearily to face enemy fire.

Only gradually, and with the help of a lovely and willing neighbor, does Ray come across the story of the Civil War tragedy which killed off the first owners of Aaron's Rock and whose ghosts are said to haunt the house. And only at the very end does he understand his own soul to be hostage to these ghostly players seeking release from torment.

In this spellbinding novel Richard Meredith makes use of a lifetime spent in the deep South, in towns which, like Aaron's Rock, cannot bury their unfinished past. He now lives in Milton, Florida, with his wife and children.

Starship Captain Robert L. Janas had only one loyalty--to the firm he worked for--the Stellar Trading Company. And with good reason, for STC was not just a merchant corporation.

For 1200 years the vast complex of companies that called itself STC had maintained contact between Earth and the multifarious worlds peopled with its colonies, giving help, support, financing and protection whenever and wherever these were needed, without regard to politics.

Inevitably, and precisely because it was neutral, STC had come to play a powerful rold in intergalactic affairs--more powerful, indeed, than Earth itself.

Now that neutrality was threatened--from withing the firm.

And Janas knew they would all be destroyed in the holocaust.

When race survival teetered in the balance...

Captain Absolom Bracer, with an artificial brainpan and synthetic eyes. Astrogation officer Gene O'Gwynn, a lady with a plastic face. Weapons officer Akin Darby and Communications officer Miss Cyanta, both with assorted prosthetic parts.

These were the officers of the Iwo Jima, one of the two heavy battle-cruiser starships protecting the vast cumbersome Rudolph Cragston, a hospital ship returning to Earth with thousands of wounded in cold sleep.

These brutally injured officers had been restored to temporary, artificial life to do this job because no intact man or woman could be spared from the main conflict.

But then Breakaway Station, a vital link with Earth, was suddenly threatened..

MATHER'S DILEMMA

Soldier of fortune Eric Mathers has signed on to help in a war among the European nations that resembles what in our timestream is called World War I. But this war continues in the 1970's, and involves an army called the American Colonial Forces--said to be subjects of Britain's King George X!

The non-human Kriths, whom Eric workd for tell him they are altering history to forestall a time-wide catastrophe that their hypertechnology has told them is inevitable. Buth then the anti-Krith forces Eric encounters tell him his whole rationale for his life as a Krith soldier is false.

On Eric's resolution of this dilemma hangs the existence of all civilizations in all timestreams--hangs, in face, the existence of existence itself. Or so it seems...

AN INVASION FROM SPACE IN THE YEAR 4000 A.D. WILL WIPE OUT ALL LIFE...

That terrifying message is received by the Kriths, strange creatures from an alternate Earth. And so the Timeliners are formed: fierce commandos that skudd through alternate worlds, battling the present in hopes of changing the future.

But how honorable, really, are the Kriths' motives? This question and others gnawed at Eric Mathers each time he killed for the Kriths. Such disloyalty brought him a death sentence from his former masters.

Now Eric is hiding in a parallel line, waging the war he is so used to. Buth this time he kills for semifeudal powers invading the North American continent. His enemies are men.. and sometines not. If the answers are here, Eric will find them--or die trying.

ALIENS HAVE MEDDLED WITH TIME, CREATING COUNTLESS PARALLEL WORLDS IN THE PROCESS.

But as Eric Mathers desperately skudds through a dazzling array of Timelines, they crumble around him. The prophecy of a catastrophe in the far future is coming true now!

Eric's survival depends on two things. He must follow the direction of a phantom force known only as the Shadowy Man, And he must travel to a parallel Earth in search of a true time machine. But to obtain it, Eric becomes the general of an army--of his own clones. And that is only the beginning...