UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · SCIENCE FICTION
Sterling E. Lanier
Also known as: STERLING E. LANIER, Sterling E Lanier
Most acclaimed
Hiero's journey
From back cover Del Rey paperback May 1983: A Mission of Terror Per Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath -- and a highly trained killer. Together with his great riding moose and the young bear who was his friend, he was on a mission that seemed beyond even his extraordinary powers. For this was five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death, and the world was greatly changed. Now the evil Brotherhood of the Unclean was waging all-out war against the few remnants of normal humanity, determined to wipe out all traces of its emerging civilization. Hiero's task was to locate and bring back a lost secret of the ancients which might save the humans who were ruled by the Abbeys. But his path lay through the very heart of the unknown territory ruled by the Unclean and their hordes of mutated, intelligent, and savage beast followers. And the Unclean were waiting for him!
The curious quests of Brigadier Ffellowes
The remarkable Brigadier Ffellowes, whose exploits are legend, has returned, and along with him comes a sense of wonder that is increasingly difficult to find in contemporary fantasy. Ffellowes of course is the retired British general who is a link between our bustling twentieth century and a world that is full of the bizarre and the fantastic. This second volume of Brigadier Ffellowes contains six episodes which are collected in book form for the first time. Here are tales of Arthurian legend ("Ghost of a Crown"), of strange creatures on opposite sides of the world ("And the Voice of the Turtle" . . . and "Thinking of the Unthinkable"), of Roman remains ("Commander in the Mist"), and a gem of a tale about old Ffellowes' dad ("A Father's Tale"). But perhaps the strangest of these yarns involves an Atlantean survival and the curiously associated fact that Ffellowes has taken a wife — and what a wife she is! ("The Brigadier in Check — and Mate"). This book is pure delight — a breath of fresh air — and it establishes Sterling E. Lanier firmly in the top echelon of fantasy writers. With six illustrations and dust wrapper by Ned Dameron. Introduction by Donald M. Grant. Edition limited to 1200 copies signed by the author and artist.
The unforsaken Hiero
From back cover Del Rey paperback April 1984: Betrayed! Per Hiero Desteen was alone, weaponless, and without food or water, facing the unknown perils of the desert in this grim world, five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death. Sent south to spy on the evil Brotherhood of the Unclean which fought to destroy the emerging civilization of the north, he had been welcomed as the son-in-law of the King of D'alway. Welcomed, honored -- and betrayed! Now his wife and all he loved were lost. ANd the mental powers which had enabled him to defeat every previous trick of the Unclean had been burned from his mind by drugs. North, his numbed mind told him! North, where he might find help. But without his lost powers, he could not suspect the command was a subtle, cunning lure. Somewhere ahead, a creature that should not have existed was calling him to a meeting he could not imagine.