This is the first book of "The Belgariad" series. Long ago the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the...
The words VITA NOSTRA, or “our life,” come from an old Latin student anthem Gaudeamus: “Vita nostra brevis est, Brevi finietur” or “Our life is brief, It will shortly end…”
The heroine of the novel has been forced into a seemingly...
Silverberg’s magisterial alternate history is likely the coda to his ongoing exploration of a Roman empire that survived in some form to a time contemporary with our world’s present. The turning point in his version reflects Gibbon’s view that...
Dekker, back from space, found great physical changes in the people of Earth; changes that would have horrified him five years before. But now, he wanted to be like the rest—even if he had to lose an eye and both ears to do...
Young Amishman Jedidiah Troyer signed up for an emigration program designed to colonize the planet of New Pennsylvania with plain farmers who won’t make any trouble. But Jed and his new friend Dawn arrive on New Pennsylvania in the middle of a...
It had been five hundred years since the distant Terran Colony of Corwin had communicated with Earth. But now Corwin was threatened by the indomitable warriors of Klodni and the peaceful planet desperately needed help. Baird Ewing was the ambassador...
This is the first book in the action-packed science fiction series, Sten. Vulcan is a factory planet, centuries old, company-run, ugly as sin, and unfeeling as death. Vulcan breeds just two types of native—complacent or tough. Sten is tough. When...