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Great scaly dragons roamed the dunes -- unreal beasts resurrected daily in the mirage belt. Illusions created by atmospheric manipulation -- and by magic. For although Esmeralda was a backward world, it had a very real and unusual native art -- witchcraft! Raker of Soldiers of Fortune, Inc. was being paid well to track down the planet's deadly Fire-Eater -- who visited flaming death upon distant enemies. But Raker found himself battling not one wizard, but a whole pack of sorcerers, plague makers, lycanthropes, and fire assassins. And the ones who couldn't kill him with words went at him with battle axes, swords and the like. Raker began to wonder if even a great fortune was going to be just compensation if he couldn't live long enough to collect....

Het beschadigde schip van Falkayn is gestrand op Larsurn, een primitieve planeet, die in een kille, verloren uithoek van het heelal om de rode duivelsster Gilrigor wentelt. Het plaatselijke voedsel is voor de bemanning puur vergif, de eigen voorraden zijn bijna uitgeput en de beestachtige autochtonen, die volgens onwrikbare, starre patronen leven, trekken zich geen zier aan van hun netelige situatie! De wanhoop nabij trekt Falkayn er in zijn eentje op uit om onderdelen te gaan halen, terwijl Meester Schuster de zekerheden van het arrogante Huis der Astrologen probeert te ondergraven door de briljantste geleerden met een schokkende visie op het heelal te laten kennismaken... Maar de wrede, sinistere priesterklasse organiseert een meedogenloze klopjacht op de niets vermoedende Falkayn; hij heeft het meest heilige van alle heilige voorwerpen ontwijd - het wiel... De onstuimige avonturen van David Falkayn, geslepen onderhandelaar in dienst van Nicholas van Rijn, de kleurrijkste en meest gewetenloze handelsmagnaat aan deze kant van de Melkweg!

In the bustling Constantinople of 1150 AD, Judson Daniel Elliot, a tour guide for the Time Service, abandons his group of tourists to spend a stolen hour with a dazzling, time-defying paradox of seventeen springs, named Pulcheria. This is a serious crime! Upon his return, he discovers that a cunning tourist has independently dived into time. In a panic, Jud tries to locate the man, but he keeps making one bewildering blunder after another. His friends rush to mend the frayed temporal fabric, but the relentless Time Patrol is onto them. Jud could be plucked from the time stream at any moment, which means he would simply cease to exist. This is a gripping tale from a writer who has already made a significant mark in the field and was recently honored with the Nebula Award for A Time of Changes.

'Twas boring in Artesia. ...or so thought Sir Lafayette O'Leary, ex-draftman from Earth, and now seemingly ex-interdimensional swashbuckler extraordinaire as well. His battles were all won, his dragons all slain, and life was just the same boring round of riches, royal hunts and regattas. Boring, boring, boring; untilhe walked past the azalia... Suddenly Artesia was gone, and O'Leary was trapped in Melange, a world of giants and pirates, karate-chopping hags and electronic flying carpets, a world where goons and harlots are the spitting images (literally!) of his own aristocratic Artesian associates. And because they think that he's his double, lots of his new friends want O'Leary dead. Unless he can get through the interdimensional gate and find the continuum path back home, O'Leary's life will never be boring again. Just short.