Janet Morris

In the beginning there was Thieves' World, a book so popular that it earned a panel all its own at the World Science Fiction Convention. Then came Tales form the Vulgar Unicorn... And now "Shadows of Sanctuary", Sanctuary, the meanest, seediest town in all of fantasy, has captured the imaginations of some of the most popular writers in all of fantasy — Robert Asprin, Lynn Abbey, Andrew J. Offutt, Vonda N. McIntyre, Janet Morris, C. J. Cherryh. Join them, and the characters you came to love in previous books, in this third volume of the most unique series in science fiction.

Twelve short crime novels: Leslie Charteris - The Lawless Lady Mignon Eberhart - Introducing Susan Dare Cornell Woolrich - Nightmare John D. MacDonald - Death's Eye View Hugh Pentecost - The Murder Machine Erle Stanley Gardner - Death Rides a Boxcar Ross Macdonald - The Bearded Lady Fredric Brown - Murder Set to Music Rex Stout - The Zero Clue Ed McBain - Storm Daphne du Maurier - Don't Look Now Bill Pronzini - Booktaker

"The Gate of the Flying Knives" by Poul Anderson "Unicorn Tapestry" by Suzy McKee Charnas "Sleep Well of Nights" by Avram Davidson "Black Heart and White Heart" by H. Rider Haggard "Red Nails" by Robert E. Howard "Storm in a Bottle" by John Jakes "Ill Met in Lankhmar" by Fritz Leiber "The Lands Beyond the World" by Michael Moorcock "A Man and His God" by Janet Morris "Spider Silk" by Andre Norton "Where is the Bird of Fire?" by Thomas Burnett Swann "Guyal of Sfere" by Jack Vance * "Tower of Ice" by Roger Zelazny

Imagine a deadly virus that can be tailored to wipe out a specific race of people and powerful, ruthless individuals who have and intend to use it to clear Africa of blacks. They've already tested it on the moon and achieved satisfactory results on the Arab population with a 100% kill ratio. Who could say that they would stop there? That's exactly the situation that two moon security officers and a UN rep find themselves facing and at times causes them to be envious of whatever is between a rock and a hard place. Janet Morris teams up with David Drake to present us with almost nonstop action in a book well worthy of being read.

Sixth in the series of Sacred Band of Stepsons novels, and the last for twenty years, until The Sacred Band, 2010, Storm Seed is the most mythological of the Sacred Band books and a sophisticated romp. This searing adventure unites the Sacred Band of Stepsons and Tempus's sister-in-arms, Cime, for a mission like no other as Tempus's shape-changing son, bent on revenge, stalks his father into tomorrow. Favorite characters, old enemies and friends, witches and warlocks, are brought together for this battle with no less than the future of the heavens at stake.

Nikodemos, Tempus's partner and member of the Sacred Band of Stepsons, falls out of the sky in a rain of fish and into a young girl's arms. So begins the City at the Edge of Time, the only Sacred Band of Stepsons novel focused on Niko, Tempus's partner, over whom gods and numinous powers contest in this stand-alone adventure that is, none the less, Book 5 in the Sacred Band of Stepsons series. In this Stepsons adventure, a princess of the City falls in love with Niko and all hell breaks loose as, separated from Tempus, the young fighter must become an avatar of the god Enlil, or lose his life in a test no man can survive. Gentler than some of the books in this series, City at the Edge of Time is charming, sexy, and mystical. This is a pivotal Sacred Band of Stepsons novel and one long-awaited by fans of Niko, Tempus's young partner, in this satisfying and mythic tale of honor tested and evil run amok.

Chance Matthews is drawn into a battle between angels and monsters because of something in her possession-a fossil of a creature that couldn't possibly have ever existed. But it did. And still does.