Search Worlds Without End

A collection of Langford parodies and pastiches incorporating the whole of The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two (1988, long out of print) plus some 40,000 words of additional material.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - essay by David Langford
• Introduction - (1988) - essay by David Langford
• Guest Introduction - (1988) - essay by David Langford
• Xanthopsia - (1988) - short story
• Tales of the Black Scriveners - (1988) - short story
• Look at It This Way - (1985) - poem
• The Distressing Damsel - (1984) - short story
• Duel of Words - (1983) - short story
• The Thing in the Bedroom - (1984) - short story
• The Gutting - (1988) - short story
• The Mad Gods' Omelette - (1984) - short story
• Jellyfish - (1976) - short story
• Lost Event Horizon - (1984) - short story
• The Spawn of Non-Q - (1988) - short story
• Outbreak - (1985) - short story
• Author's Note - essay by David Langford
• The Last Robot Story - (2002) - short story
• The Net of Babel - (1995) - short story
• The Spear of the Sun - (1996) - short story
• Christmas Games - (1993) - short story
• The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech - (1997) - short story
• Out of Space, Out of Time - (1998) - short story
• The Case of Jack the Clipper or A Fimbulwinter's Tale - (1997) - short story
• Not Ours to See - (1997) - short story
• The Case That Never Was - (2001) - short story
• Sex Pirates of the Blood Asteroid - (1979) - short story
• The Thing from Inner Space - (1976) - short story
• If Looks Could Kill - (1992) - short story

A long time ago in the future, the secret of time travel became known to all. Everyone seized the opportunity - and the world nearly ended. There will always be idiots who want to change history.

And so, the Time Police were formed. An all-powerful, international organisation tasked with keeping the timeline straight. At all costs.

Their success is legendary, and the Time Wars are over. But now the Time Police must fight to save a very different future - their own.

This is the story of Jane, Luke and Matthew - arguably the worst recruits in Time Police history. Or, very possibly, three young people who might just change everything.

A time slip in Versailles, problems in the Ice Age and illegal time travellers in need of rescue. Must be a job for the Time Police. Luke, Jane and Matthew are back and ready to cause havoc - inadvertently or otherwise - in their latest adventures.

Life is good for Team Weird, now heroes and fully fledged Time Police officers. Luke can't wait to bear arms. Jane has a date. And Matthew still hasn't had his hair cut.

But Time waits for no one and neither do criminal masterminds. A major threat to the Timeline is looming, one far deadlier than mere idiots who want to change history. And when a familiar face becomes a Very Important Lead, will conflicting family loyalties spell trouble for Team Weird?

One missing. One guilt-ridden. And one facing the end of their Time Police career before it's even begun. Not so good then, after all.

Patience is not a virtue known to the Time Police. And Commander Hay is facing the longest day of her life...

After their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero. Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy historical artefacts blows up in all their faces.

An officer is attacked within TPHQ. A prisoner is murdered. And investigations are about to lead to the one place where no officer can legally tread.

Worst of all, trouble is brewing for Luke, Jane and Matthew as a shocking revelation threatens to tear Team Weird apart for good.

'I'm just stepping outside. I might be some Time.'

Is this Luke Parrish sacrificing himself to save others?

A ghost train, lost in Time, hurtles through the night with two members of Team 236 trapped on board while the third struggles to track their progress through the Time Map and effect a rescue.

With Lt Grint and Team 235 in hot pursuit, what is the future for Team 236? And do they even have one?

It's 2183.

Do you know where your past is?

The Second Republic was mercilessly efficient.

It controlled the press, the state and the rights of citizens.

The one day it captured the secret of time travel.

Now the Second Republic could control the past, piece by piece, slowly changing it to make sure that they would never lose their grasp on history.

Jason Dubcheck's family has vanished!

As if they never existed, Jackson's sister-in-law, niece and nephew have disappeared.

Even their names have been erased from the public records.

He must find them and knows where to look - in the past.

Jackson Dubchek was exiled by the notorious Time Police. A citizen of the Second Republic in 2249, Jackson finds himself stranded in Mexico in 2074, unable to return to his own generation.

Yet Jackson is not alone. He meets a Mexican historian and his beautiful daughter who have also been exiled to the past by the Time Police. Using these fellow travelers in time, Jackson pieces together the truth about the Second Republic and their Time Police. They are changing the past in order to protect their future.

Jackson must decide whether to try to set himself against all the resources of the Second Republic. Yet first he must determine how the events of 2074 differ from the way the Second Republic has recorded them.

Will the Time Police catch him?