Search Worlds Without End

Accompanying his scientist parents on an exploratory voyage to another star system, seventeen-year-old Cliff Macklin discovers the ruins of an alien culture.

Spacepedition!

Nightwind and his cyborg companion were an unlikely team by galactic standards, but they shared a fierce drive for independence and adventure. When they heard about the lost civilization, and its untapped treasures, they wasted no time to search for it. But Rhyl was a barren, unrelenting planet; covered with endless deserts, and deadly sciroccos. They were prepared for that hardship, but not for the beasts-sandcats of Hell!

His path is set, but it could all end in darkness...

After a good night goes badly wrong, Dar-elLan-Martak finds himself on the run for a murder he didn't commit.

With the vicious and much-hated grey soldiers fast on his toes, Lan must find a way to escape - and Cenotaph Road may just be the answer to that.

Legend has it that if you lie down in the crypt of a long-dead hero, when the moon is full and the clock strikes midnight, you will be transported... elsewhere.

But Lan soon discovers that one cannot escape ones problems so easily.

Hoping for a safe haven, he finds only a stronger desire for vengeance on the other side.

With an arachnid companion at his side and a treacherous journey ahead of him, Lan must stay hidden from the grey soliders that litter every world, all whilst seeking vengeance for the death of his love.

When the Wheel turns, nobody knows where the traveler will stop...

Darel-elLan-Martak has walked the Cenotaph Road - and in the blink of an eye, he was forced to exchange everything he thought he knew for his new reality.

A new life, and a new world.

He and his companion Krek, a gigantic tarantula, must walk the path that has been laid out for them. But when they encounter the evil wizard Claybore, now only a mere skull, things quickly go from bad to worse.

When they arrive in this new land, Lan and his companion realize that their friend Inyx is missing... trapped along Cenotaph Road.

In a race against time, Lan and Krek must journey up Mount Tartanius, a huge mirrored mountain, if they hope to retrieve an ancient artifact that control access to all the portals along the Road.

But if Claybore reaches it first, then they will be stranded in this world forever...

The Cenotaph Road is a link between worlds that not many people travel along.

However, Lan Martak and his humongous but gentle arachnid partner Krek are not the only beings travelling the Cenotaph Road. But who else is crossing between worlds?

The wizard Claybore's body has been disassembled, but his spirit lives on. He wants to use the road to find all the pieces of his disassembled body, so his evil can reign forever. Will he succeed?

Meanwhile, the road leads to the lair of the master of illusion, Luister len-Larrotti, who has captured the beautiful Inyx by becoming the image of all she loves.

Only Lan can save her and stop Claybore. his own magic is growing... but will it grow fast enough?

The Cenotaph Road has held many adventures in the past, but this is one of the biggest yet.

The Cenotaph Road has once again led Lan Martak, Inyx and their Krek, their spider companion, to a new world.

They know it will bring new friends, new enemies and new dangers.

But the evil, fleshless wizard Claybore has already begun wreaking chaos and havoc in these lands as he searches for his old body and powers.

This time, he seeks his Iron Tongue...

The travelers soon learn that Claybore's tongue now belongs to another. In a race against time, Lan and his companions must find the Iron Tongue before Claybore does.

Will they be able to find its user? And will they be able to defeat the nefarious mage once and for all?

Lan Martak is still journeying the Cenotaph Road with Inyx and Krek and they find themselves in the middle of a fight with Claybore.

They have located the evil magician's tongue, cut out when the rest of Claybore's body was dismembered to prevent him from taking over the universe. The tongue resides in a weak leader, but Martak has to fight against Claybore's champion despite the disadvantage.

With a combination of sorcery and swordplay, Martak defeats Claybore's champion, but not before Claybore's revenge, the champion's sword thrown unerringly at Martak and cleaves his jaw from his face.

In a desperate bid to save Martak, Inyx and Krek place Claybore's tongue in Martak's mouth and the powerful tongue allows Martak to command himself to heal.

The group continues to travel the road in search of Claybore to defeat him yet again and prevent him from taking the universe under his control.

Strange Hereslers, dangerous fogs, and a long fight under the mountain Yerrary will lead to the heroes finding new friends, discovering the depths of magic, and perhaps lose what they hold most dear.

Lan and Kiska k'Adesina are hunting for Claybore's legs.

The sorcerer had been dismembered and his parts strewn along the infinite length of the Cenotaph Road.

Over the years, through the millennia, Claybore had slowly reunited his parts.

Only Lan Martak stood between Claybore and domination of not a single world but myriads of them.

Lan had destroyed the sorcerer's skin and in his own mouth Lan tasted the metallic tang of the magical tongue once used by Claybore to speak spells and world-wrecking curses.

Now he is forced to an unknown world, a planet of evil enchantment and lost souls, where the final lesson of magic lay silenced in the tomb of a hero.

Will Lan break the spell and stop Claybore? Or will an ancient curse close the road behind him... forever?

Contents:

• 1a - The Glass Warrior - [Demon Crown - 1] - (1989) - novel by Robert E. Vardeman
• 1b - Phantoms on the Wind - [Demon Crown - 2] - (1989) - novel by Robert E. Vardeman
• 1c - A Symphony of Storms - [Demon Crown - 3] - (1990) - novel by Robert E. Vardeman

Porotane is a kingdom divided. Two factions vie for control in a bloody civil war that threatens to destroy everything in its path. To win the war one side must possess the Demon Crown.

Wrought by demons the plain gold circlet is wondrously magical, and in the wrong hands it is pure evil. To end the war the Glass Warrior must find the twin heirs of the dead king of Porotane and restore them to the throne. The twins have been missing for twenty years, now the Demon Crown is missing and only the Glass Warrior can bring them together.

Amidst incredible chaos in the kingdom, Vered and Santan, two freebooters, must steal the Demon Crown from the Wizard King and find his missing twin, to restore peace and order in the land.

In this stunning conclusion to the Demon Crown series, Vered and Santan, the two freebooters who placed Lorens on the throne, have found the mad king's twin sister Lokenna. But their troubles have just begun as they must face rebel forces, a demented king, and a husband who does not want his wife to be queen!

Kesira Minette's world has shattered amid a terrible rain of jade. The magical jade has killed the patron demon of her order and turned ordinary humans into strange werecreatures. Worse, the demons who were not killed have become...insane. She leaves the safety of her cloistered existence, accompanied by a sentient green bird and a tongueless shapeshifter, Molimo.

Together they fight the growing powers of the Jade Demons, who have plunged the world into chaos. Eternal winter, earthquakes of impossible magnitude, clouds that cut human flesh and worst of all, the white fire that burns both body and soul are the obstacles they must overcome. But what fate lies in store of Kesira, even if she is successful in saving the world. In her lies the destruction--and birth of a new world.

Contents:

• The Quaking Lands - [Jade Demons - 1] - (1985)
• The Frozen Waves - [Jade Demons - 2] - (1985)
• The Crystal Clouds - [Jade Demons - 3] - (1985)
• The White Fire - [Jade Demons - 4] - (1986)

The war of demons against mortals begins! Lovely Kesira, cloistered and naive in the ways of the world, is thrust into violence, forced on a sacred quest to avenge her patron, Gelya. Her magical talking bird companion Zoltan is, at times, more of a hindrance than a help. Following her is the shape-changer Molimo as they enter the lair of the loathsome Jade Demons. Kesira's weapons are few, but her resolve is great. Her destiny, that of her companions--and the world--depend on her faith never flagging.

So begins a war of magic and wonder.

WINTER WORLD

It was the Time of Chaos, and a deadly blanket of white enshrouded the world. This was the vengeance of the implacable Jade Demon Ayondela, whose half-human son was killed... struck down by Kesira Minette, the fiercely courageous she-warrior of a religious order, and by Molimo, the man-wolf whose savage strength was devoted to Kesira.

Now they must journey to the Isle of Eternal Winter, Ayondela's stronghold, through a land of killing cold, filled with demon spawn, human mercenaries, magicks, monks, and fearsome beasts. And unless they can force Ayondela to renounce the power of the jade and her icy fury... their planet is doomed.

Kesira Minette, proud she-warrior and last flame of a fallen creed, now faces a challenge greater than ever before. Together with her proud companions-the fierce man-wolf Molimo, and the wise magical bird Zolkan-she has journeyed to the fabled mountains of Sarn, realm of the wrathful Jade Demon Ayondela. There she will seek a confrontation with evil... and discover the fearful answer to the buring question that haunts her. For Kesira bears with her a magical child, a babe who never cries but whose eyes shine with a mysterious light. Against mercenaries armed with axe and spear, against demons bent on Kesira's destruction, the child acts as a talisman against the forces of night. what is the small one's special destiny? Will he be Kesira's salvation.... or a demon spawn who will unleash untold horror?

With the aid of the powerful changeling Molimo and her wondrous magical bird Zolkan, Kesira Minette, a beautiful warrior-maiden, battles to free her people from the tyranny of the Jade Demons.

Giles Grimsmate, world-wandering survivor of the Trans wars, has won the golden key in a game of chance. The second key has been stolen. To enter Paradise, three more keys are needed - the Flame Key, the Key of the Skeleton Lord and the Key of Ice and Steel.

After the end of the Trans War, Giles Grimsmate begins his quest for the key to the legendary Gates of Paradise and the promise of total fulfillment.

Giles, Petia, and Keja have three of the keys to the Gate of Paradise, but to acquire the fourth they must cross an endless desert, defeat an evil sorcerer, and escape past his fanatical subjects.

Giles Grimsmate, Keja Tchurak, and Petia Darya, search for the fifth and final key in the Adversary Mountains, but the evil Lord Onyx is closing in on them.

Captain Kirk and his crew are ordered to Alnath II to challenge the deadliest Klingon starship Terror. A defenseless Vulcan crew of a Federation science ship has been wiped out and the remaining members of the Alnath II mission have discovered a fabulous ancient city, except that their report doesn't make sense.

Soon Captain Kirk cannot make decisions, Spock starts to throw temper tantrums, and Chekov has disobeyed vital orders.

The crew of the Enterprise are losing their minds.

The Enterprise is crippled in orbit around a dangerous, living, breathing planet, and a desperate peace mission to the Orion Arm is stalled. Kirk has never needed his crew more. But a lithe, alien woman is casting a spell of pacifism, and now mutiny over the crew.

Suddenly Captain Kirk's journey for peace has turned into a terrifying war to retake command of his ship.

Davin's lover, Lijena, is possessed by a fearsome demon that forces her to commit unspeakable acts, but can anyone save her from her fate when the Faceless Ones ride?

Swirling through the realm are winds of rebellion fed by greed, lust for power and the need to possess the magical sword of Raemllyn's first king, Kwerin Bloodhawk. In the wrong hands magic will rule-and ruin.

Freebooters Davin Anane and Goran One-Eye face demons unleashed as they struggle to save the lovely Lijena from her horrendous destiny-and to deliver a kingdom to its rightful ruler.

Even the demonic Faceless Ones quake at mention of master mage Lorennion's Blood Fountain, yet it is there that lovely Lijena Farleigh is magic-bound to go. Davin Anane and his changeling companion Goran One-Eye are powerless to stop her and can only hold the demon hordes at bay as Lijena discovers the secret of... the Blood Fountain.

The magical Sword of Kwerin Bloodhawk has come into Lijena Farleigh's grasp-and so has a strange, alien lover. Chal is a pacifist in a world plunged into war and double-dealing. Pitted against the two lovers is Zarek Yannis, known as the Blackheart. Love must overcome evil if the kingdom of Raemllyn is to survive.

Sold into slavery! Davin and Goran rely on false friends and are forced to crew a merchant ship doomed to sail into the dark source of soul-devouring beasts lurking in the gray mists of Raemllyn's seas.

Even on a pleasure ship crowded with a cargo of gorgeous concubines, Lijena Farleigh stands out as the most beauteous. In her possession is the magical Sword of Kwerin Bloodhawk, a blade that can free or enslave an entire continent. Her goal is simple. Deliver the blade to Prince Felrad so he can triumph against the usurper Zarek Yannis. To do so will require using her every wile.

With the sword, Felrad might be invincible--but he must defeat not only a human army but also a demonic one led by the Faceless Ones--fiery hell riders each the match for a hundred soldiers.

Felrad. Yannis. One will live and one will die--and by Lijena's hand fate is sealed.

This fifth book of a six-part series tying in with the VOR adventure game is set on a future Earth trapped in another universe. A meteor has crashed into the Central American jungle, radiating intense and deadly energy. Two deadly aliens are hurtling toward Earth to suck up the meteor's powers and kill any humans who stand in their way.

Fost Longstrider's mission seemed ordinary. He'd been hired to deliver a jug to a wizard on the far side of the forest. Unfortunately the jug contained a sex-starved genie, the wizard was dead by foul means, and Fost was probabley the next to die.

Then the genie was stolen and spirited away to the City in the Sky. It was up to Fost to steal it back from two beautiful sisters. They were fighting to become queen and, using dark powers, one had called forth a demon. Now Fost's foray was suddenly a terrible war.

The Amulet of Living Flame, the most powerful talisman in existence. Its magic brought the dead back to life. They all wanted it, but only one of them could possess it. It could make Fost Longstrider an invincible warrior. It could make his lover Moriana triumphant over her evil twin sister. It could even make the hideous Prince Rann a most expert executioner.

Unfortunately the amulet was encased in living ice within the City in the Glacier. And only a lecherous genie knew the path to take.

Can a lecherous genie find happiness with his demure female counter part? Can Fodt Longstrider find love with the woman who caused his death? Not with the objects of their affections in another part of the realm, raising a mighty army for a terrible war.

Princess Moriana wants to reclaim her birthright and free the land from her sister's harsh oppression. In her single-minded goal, she has killed the only man she ever loved and unwittingly stolen a very dangerous magic talisman. Unless Fost can reach her in time, Moriana will plunge the realm into total war. And if the raging battle disturbs the fearsom entity sleeping below, the war will become a holocaust.

The vagaries of the Destiny Stone, a magical amulet, have caused Princess Moriana and her lover Fost to the war against her powerful evil sister. And now, just when they could use a fairy godmother, they've got a pair of squabbling genies instead. As a last resort, there are always the Fallen Ones.

These repulsive, dangerousm reptilian aliens will help them, but there's a catch. The price os the retrieval of the awesome black diamond known as The Heart. All the Fallen Ones who have tried to steal it have died. But perhaps the deadly rays of The Heart's guardian do not affect humans and genies. Who will be the first "volunteer" to find out?

The city of Medurim is a wonderful place. No real worries about war, bloodshed, torture, demons... just one long orgy. A great spot for lovestruck genies who finally get it on, but not quite suitable for Queen Moriana, who hopes to raise a new army here.

Things are not going well for Moriana and her lover, Fost. They no longer control the Sky City; instead, the treacherous Fallen Ones are using it as a base from which they kill every human in sight. And the Demon of the Dark Ones, entobed for ten thousand years, is on the loose again, sucking up everything like a giant vacuum cleaner. Alas, it doesn't look as though Moriana and Fost will be able to pull its plug...

Lizards: 427. Humans: 12. The final confrontation between nonhumans and humans does not bode well for the latter. The treacherous Fallen Ones are busy killing everyone in sight-- and doing a good job of it. Their most powerful weapon is the Demon of the Dark ones, an infinite alien being that gathers strength from death and destruction.

But to prevent the annihilation of the planet, mortal enimies-- like Fost and Prince Rann, Moriana and Synalon--must join forces. One of them will the instrument for the ultimate battle, a focus for magical powers needed to kill the Demon. And one of them will probably die in the process.