Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Tree of Swords and Jewels by C.J. Cherryh Creator / C. J. Cherryh. Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by her pen name C.J. Cherryh, is a fairly prolific American Speculative Fiction author. She was a Classics teacher before working full-time as a writer, with a degree in Latin and a Masters in Classics. Unsurprisingly given the humanities background, her works tend more towards examining the social implications of things. She has written a fair amount of fantasy, but she's best known for her science fiction, having won two Hugos for novels and one for a short story. Most of the science fiction elements in her stories tend to be of the "hard" variety, with Faster-Than-Light Travel generally being the only major deviation from currently understood physics, but, her works fall more in line with social science fiction. Her real name is actually "C.J. Cherry," with no "H" on the end. This was added by her first publisher , who felt that "C.J. Cherry" did not look exotic enough to grace the cover of a science fiction book. She has her own extensive website . In 2014 she married Jane Falcher, her long-time partner who's a fellow fantasy/sci fi writer. The Tree of Swords and Jewels by C.J. Cherryh. C.J. Cherryh : Bio and Bibliography. (c) 2002 by C.J. Cherryh. Resident of the Pacific NW. BA in Latin in 1964, U of Okla; MA in Classics at Johns Hopkins U. in Maryland, 1965; and additional language course at OU in 1967. Academic awards and Honors : American Classical League Scholarship 1960; Alpha Lambda Delta; Phi Beta Kappa; Woodrow Wilson Fellow 1964-5 in Classics. Literary Award Nominations : Hugo Award, novel The Faded Sun: Kesrith, and short story Cassandra at Seacon, Brighton, England, 1979; Nebula Award, novel The Faded Sun: Kesrith and short story Cassandra, 1979; Hugo Award, novel Downbelow Station in 1982 at Chicago IL, Chicon; Hugo Award, Chanur's Venture, 1985, Hugo Award, novel Cuckoo's Egg, at Atlanta in 1987; nominated Hugo Award, novel Cyteen, in Boston, 1989. Literary Awards (won) : John W. Campbell Award 1977 voted by the World Science Fiction Association at The World Convention: SUNCON, Miami FL, for Best New Writer; Hugo Award, short story Cassandra at The World Convention: SEACON, Brighton, England, 1979; Hugo Award, novel Downbelow Station in 1982 at the World Convention at CHICON, Chicago IL; Locus Award: Cyteen, Best SF Novel of 1988; Hugo Award, novel Cyteen in 1989, at the World Convention at Boston, Mass, NOREASCON. Guest of Honor at Bucconeer, the 1998 World Science Fiction Convention, in Baltimore, MD. Academic specializations and areas of reasonable competency: Latin, Greek, bronze age myth as related to archaeology; field archaeology (qualified but never practiced); law of early Roman Empire; history of engineering; French (professional translator); Italian and other languages in which I can at least get a drink of water and directions to the train station; was once classroom teacher. Informal training and areas of personal interest: human genetics, astronomy, space science and aeronautics, astrophysics, botany, geology, climatology (some of this formal education, where it crosses my archaeological studies); cosmology, anthropology; technology in general with practical and anthropological considerations. Professional experience teaching Latin, Greek, Ancient History; writing; semiprofessional in archaeological photography. Hobbies: travel, weaving, aquariums, dinosaurs, art, ice skating. oh! One other award: a silver medal in very-beginner figures. Jane won gold, because she went straight and I fell onto my right inside edge and traced a very embarrassing half circle clear across the ice. I write full time; I travel; I try out things. The list includes, present and past tense: fencing, riding, archery, firearms, ancient weapons, donkeys, elephants, camels, butterflies, frogs, wasps, turtles, bees, ants, falconry, exotic swamp plants and tropicals, lizards, wilderness survival, fishing, sailing, street and ice skating, mechanics, carpentry, wiring, painting (canvas), painting (house), painting (interior), sculpture, aquariums both fresh and salt, needlepoint, bird breeding, furntiture refinishing, video games, archaeology, Roman, Greek civ, Crete, Celts, and caves. I've traveled from New York to Istanbul and Troy; outrun a dog pack at Thebes, and seen Columbia lift on her first flight. I've fallen down a muddy chute in a Cretan cave, nearly drowned in the Illinois River, broken an arm, been kicked and tossed by horses, fended off an amorous merchant in a Turkish tent bazaar, fought a prairie fire, slept on deck in the Adriatic, and driven Picadilly Circus at rush hour. I've waded in two oceans and four of the seven seas, I've seen Halley's Comet from Australia's far coast, and I want to visit the Amazon, the Serengeti, and see the Erebus volcano in Antarctica. I've seen the Northern Lights and experienced tornadoes and a small earthquake. I choose to live downwind of five active volcanoes, (one of which has just waked up) and directly atop the evidence of world-class cataclysms: lava flow and Ice Age flood. I love snow and cold, and with my good friend Jane Fancher, I took up figure skating at 61. I took silver (to her gold) in my first small competion six months later. We practice the sport daily, and we both have ambitions to compete in adult Nationals. if I can ever get my outside back edges steady. I see this planet as part of the whole universe: I'm stuck on it a while, and until I get the chance to get off it---(I want to do a flyby of Mars and take a look at Nix Olympica and the Vallis Marinaris, personally; and I want to see Titan and Saturn's rings and the Red Spot on Jupiter)--- I don't plan to neglect where I am either, and I'm keeping a constantly updated list of wonders this planet has to see. Bibilography. C.J. Cherryh. Gate of Ivrel 1976 Daw Books; Futura Press, Britain; Editrice Nord, Italy as LA PORTA DI IVREL; Ateneo, Argentina; Heyne Verlag, Germany; OPTA, France; Holland; Metheuen, Britain; combined with WELL OF SHIUAN and FIRES OF AZEROTH as THE BOOK OF MORGAINE for the SFBC; adapted by Jane S. Fancher in graphic novel format, as the GATE OF IVREL graphic set. Well of Shiuan: 1978 DAW; Heyne Verlag, Germany; Metheuen, GB; Holland; Argentina; SFBC. Fires of Azeroth 1979 DAW: Heyne Verlag, Germany; Metheuen, GB; Holland. The Book of Morgaine SFBC combination of Morgaine books. Brothers of Earth 1976 DAW; Futura, GB; Opta, France; SFBC; Heyne Verlag, CHRONIKEN DER ZUKUNFT. Hunter of Worlds 1976 DAW; Futura, Britain; Orbit, Britain; J'ai Lu, France; SFBC; Heyne Verlag, Germany; Editrice Nord, Italy as I SIGNORI DEGLI STELLI. The Faded Sun: Kesrith 1977 DAW; SFBC; British SFBC; serialized (condensed) GALAXY magazine; Heyne Verlag, Germany; Hayakawa Books, Japan; OPTA, France as SOLEIL MORT: KESRITH; nominated Nebula and Hugo Awards. The Faded Sun: Shon'jir 1978 DAW; British SFBC; Heyne Verlag, Germany; Hayakawa, Japan; OPTA, France. The Faded Sun: Kutath 1979 DAW; SFBC; British SFBC; Heyne Verlag, Germany; Hayakawa, Japan; OPTA, France. Serpent's Reach DAW 1980; SFBC: MacDonald, Britain hb; Orbit, Britain pb.; Heyne Verlag, Germany as DAS BISS DER SCHLANGE 1984; J'ai Lu, France as LES SEIGNEURS DE L'HYDRE. Hestia DAw 1979; * ROMANE UN ERZAHLUNGEN, Heyne Verlag, Germany; J'ai Lu, France; DIGA SULLA PIANETA HESTIA, Italy, Urania Press; Israel. Sunfall DAW 1981; SFBC; J`ai Lu, France as LES ADIEUX DE SOLEIL; collection, contains original publication of: The Only Death in the City. The Haunted Tower. Wave without a Shore DAW, 1981; J'ai Lu, France. The Green Gods by Charles and Nathalie Henneberg; DAW 1980; translator. Star Crusade by Pierre Barbet DAW, 1980; translator. Downbelow Station DAW 1981; SFBC; German, Heyne Verlag; SLAN, Italy as LA LEGA DEI MONDI OSCURI; France, OPTA as FORTERESSE DES ETOILES ; Britain, Metheuen Hugo Award, 1981. The Pride of Chanur DAW Books, 1982; SFBC; condensed in Science Fiction Digest; Britain 1983, Metheuen; J'ai Lu, France; Hugo nominee. Merchanter's Luck DAW 1982; SFBC; Metheuen, Britain; J'ai Lu, France as L'OPERA DE L'ESPACE 1983. Port Eternity DAW 1982; SFBC. The Dreamstone DAW Books March 1983; contains in substantially changed form, the short story "The Dreamstone" and the novelette: "Ealdwood"; Heyne Verlag, Germany; SFBC with TREE OF SWORDS AND JEWELS as ARAFEL's SAGA from SFBC; also Holland; J'ai Lu, France. The Tree of Swords and Jewels DAW August 1983; sequel to THE DREAMSTONE, qv. 40000 in Gehenna Phantasia 1983, special ed.; DAW Books 1984, first mass market; SFBC. Voyager in Night DAW March 1984; SFBC. Chanur's Venture Phantasia 1984 special ed; DAW BOOKS 1985 first mass market; SFBC. The Book of Shai by Daniel Walther DAW 1984 Jan; translator. Cuckoo's Egg Phantasia lim. ed 1985; DAW first mass market 1985; Hugo nominee. The Kif Strike Back Phantasia lim ed 1985; DAW First mass market 1985. Angel with a Sword DAW hb Sept. 1985, first DAW hb. Visible Light DAW 1985-6; anthology with original publication of THE BROTHERS. Chanur's Homecoming Phantasia 1986; DAW Jan 1987; SFBC 1987. Soul of the City with Janet Morris and Lynn Abbey Ace Books Jan 1986, a Thieves World novel. Kings in Hell with Janet Morris Baen Books, Mar 1986; a Heroes in Hell novel, HB and paper. Gates of Hell with Janet Morris, Baen Books, Merovingen Nights editor DAW Book 1987; shared universe sequel to Angel with the Sword. Festival Moon DAW Books, 1987. Fever Season DAW Books, 1987. Troubled Waters DAW Books, 1988. Smugglers' Gold DAW Books, 1988. Divine Right DAW Books, 1989. Flood Tide DAW Books, 1990. End Game DAW Books, 1991. Exiles' Gate DAW Books, January 1988; Metheuen, Mandarin Books, 1989. Legions of Hell Baen Books, 1987. The Paladin Baen Books, 1988; SFBC 1988. Cyteen Warner Books HC 1988; NEL 1989; SFBC 1988: published in paper, 1989 as CYTEEN: The Betrayal; CYTEEN: The Rebirth; CYTEEN: The Vindication; Locus Award 1989 as Best SF Novel of 1988; Hugo Award, best novel 1988 at NOREASCON in Boston, 1989. Rimrunners Warner Books HC 1989; NEL 1990. Rusalka Ballantine Books HC, OCT. 1989; Metheun, England, 1990; Easton Press First Editions 1990; Chernevog Ballantine Books, HC, 1990; Metheuen, England, 1990? Easton Press First Editions 1990; Heavy Time Warner Books, HC, 1991; NEL 1991. Yvgenie Ballantine Books, HC, 1991; Metheun, England, 1991; Easton Press. Goblin Mirror Ballantine Books, HC, 1994; trade, Random House UK. Hellburner Warner Books HC 1994, Hodder Stoughton UK 1994. Faery in Shadow Ballantine Books, pb, 1994; trade, Random House UK 1995. Tripoint Warner Books HB 1995, pb 1996; Hodder Stoughton UK. Foreigner DAW Books 1994, pb 1995. Invader DAW Books May 1995 HB. Fortress in the Eye of Time Harper Collins May 1995, pb 1996. Rider at the Gate Warner Books Aug 1995, pb Aug 1996. Inheritor , DAW Books, March 1996. Cloud's Rider, Warner Books, September 1996, pb Aug 1997. Lois & Clark: A Superman Novel, Prima Publications, September 1996, trade paper September 1997. Finity's End [Merchanter Universe] Warner Books, August 1997. The Dreaming Tree [reissue of The Dreamstone and Tree of Swords and Jewels with revisions] DAW Books, December 1997. Fortress of Eagles: Harper Collins, January 1998, paper in January 1999. Fortress of Owls: Harper Collins, January 1999. Fortress of Dragons: Harper Collins, March, 2000. Fortress of Ice: Harper Collins, Short Fiction The Dark King Year's Best Fantasy #3 by Lin Carter, DAW Books 1977; The Campbell Award Winners, Bluejay 1984, Geo. Martin ed; also DAS DIGITALE DACHAU, Heyne Verlag, 1985. Cassandra F&SF Oct 1978; WORLDS BESt SF, Donald A Wollheim ed, DAW; Univers 1980, J'ai Lu, France; SCIENCE FICTION STORY READER 13, Heyne Verlag, Germany; NEBULA WINNERS 14, F. Pohl; Poland; Nebula nominee Hugo Award, short story 1979; in SCIENCE FICTION JUbILAUMS BAND: DAS LESEBUCH, Heyne Verlag, 1985. Homecoming Shayol summer 1979 copyright by Flight Unlimited, Inc., all rights reverted to author. Also contained in VISIBLE LIGHT. The Dreamstone; Amazons! by Jessica Amanda Salmonson DAW Books 1980; Germany; Holland, also contained in novel THE DREAMSTONE in revised form. A Gift of Prophecy original pub in Holland; also Germany; not available in English. Ealdwood novelette, Donald M Grant pub, 1981 hc; contained in revised form in THE DREAMSTONE; nominated for World Fantasy Award 1982. Willow ,Hecate's Cauldron by Susan Shwartz, DAW 1981. Sea Change Elsewhere by Terry Windling, ACE 1981. Ischade Shadows of Sanctuary Thieves' World, Rbt. Asprin ed; ACE 1982; SFBC as SANCTUARY. Downwind :Storm Season Thieves' World ACE 1983. Highliner alsoWORLds BEST SF, D. Wollheim ed 1982. The Haunted Tower also YEARS BEst SF, Terry Carr ed. 1982. A Thief in Korianth Flashing Swords #5 Lin Carter, Dell books 1981; SFBC; VISIBLE LIGHT, DAW; Balrog Award 1982. The Last Tower Sorceror's Apprentice magazine 1981 and VISIBLE LIGHT, DAW. Companions The Campbell Award Winners Bluejay 1984, George Martin ed; novellette. Necromant: Faces of Chaos Thieves' World ACE 1983. The Scapegoat: Alien Stars Betsy Mitchell ed Baen Books 1985 Jan; novella. Witching Hour: Wings of Omen Thieves' World Ace, 1984. Pots: Afterwar Janet Morris Baen books 1985, novella. The Prince: Heroes in Hell Janet Morris Baen Books 1985-6. The Brothers Visible Light C.J. Cherryh DAW; novelette. The Unshadowed Land Swords and Sorceresses II Marion Z. Bradley; DAW 1985. Dagger in the Mind Thieves world Abbey/Cherryh/Morris, Berkley 1986. Death in the Meadow Thieves World same vol. Conscience of the King with Nancy Asire; Heroes Baen 1987. Monday Morning Rebels in Hell Baen 1986. Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth Crusaders in Hell Baen 1987. Pawn in Play Heroes Baen 1987. Mech Future Crime. NONFICTION. A rms and the Writer , Writers Digest 1979; FICTION WRITERS MARKET 1981-3. To the Rescue CAT FANCY 1977. Futurewar : afterward in novel. article, personal note in Faces of Science Fiction Patti Perret; Bluejay 1985. Miscellaneous star maps and misc. in THE COMPANY WARS, game from MAYFAIR GAMES 1983. C. J. Cherryh. Carolyn Janice Cherry (1 September 1942 - ), pen name "C. J. Cherryh", is a fairly prolific American female Speculative Fiction author. Was a Classics teacher before working full-time as a writer, with a degree in Latin and a Masters in Classics. Unsurprisingly given the humanities background, her works tend more towards examining the social implications of things. Has written a fair amount of fantasy, but she's best known for her science fiction, having won two Hugos for novels and one for short story. Most of her science fiction tends to be of the "hard" variety, with Faster-Than-Light Travel being the only deviation from currently understood physics. Has her own extensive website. Asteroid 77185 Cherryh is named after her. Universes/series. , which contains many series, some only lightly connected: The Morgaine Cycle, essentially fantasy novels but with a tenuous tie-in to the Alliance- Union chronology The Chanur Novels, in which the viewpoint characters are alien lion-like creatures. Stand-alone works. -- Low Fantasy martial-arts story set in essentially medieval China, in which pig-girl [1] Taizu turns up on exiled swordsmaster Saukendar's doorstep to learn the skills she needs for revenge. The Goblin Mirror -- Fantasy in what's more or less medieval Hungary ("Maggiar"). There are two kinds of beings that humans refer to as goblins, and one of them seems to be more like The Fair Folk. They don't much like being lumped together with the other breed. Also, trolls appear to be something likeGenius Loci, and Krukczy, the one that's seen most -- big and shaggy, with a tail described as ratlike -- is quite benevolent. The dog likes him. Faery in Shadow is set in Ireland. As the name indicates, the Fair Folk play a large role. - It's pretty clear that Tristen fell under Good Is Not Nice at best in his previous life. If he was who they come to think he was, he killed or worse his own son, apparently for attempting to rebel. - In the Rusalka fantasy trilogy, a wizard's wishes will come true -- all of them. Somehow. Not always in a way that's good for the wizard. Wishing a stone to fly won't make it levitate -- it'll cause something to come along and fling that stone through the air. "Wish a stone to fly -- and then beware the whirlwind." Tristen has to watch this, because his wishes have a lot of power. Also almost all the alien races in the Chanur novels. Among those motley horsemen, from the dead or the living, Tristen had found a blade and wielded it, shieldless, turning the red mare with his knees this way and that, the blade swinging dark and deadly in the light, as enemies went down. a dark and terrible force cutting into the enemy's ranks. The arm was unerring, hewing down men, no move wasted. / Corrupt Church - The state religion in the Fortress series. - What Tristen was called back to fight. And probably Tristen himself is a Humanoid Abomination, although a very nice one. - Tristen, especially regarding horses and birds. Killing his birds is used to get to him more than once. - Tristen's ultimate origin. probably. - Pyetr in the Rusalka trilogy. His home town saw him as at best a Lovable Rogue — one woman is quoted as saying he's so slippery that "Rain would not fall on him," but he's what holds together several high-strung wizards as an extended family. One of them, formerly the villain, tells Pyetr's wife that her husband is the only good person he ever knew. Pyetr's younger daughter feels that when he asks her to "be good," it becomes easy to be good. For him. His elder daughter didn't know he was her father until shortly before they met ( he didn't know she existed), and she'd grown up taught to fear and hate him, but he won her over in only a few hours. - Pyanfar sheltering Tully - Tristen and Cefwyn, who make a good OT3 with Ninevrise. Also Justin and Grant in Cyteen , including some nice art on Cherryh's own site. Chernevog in the Rusalka trilogy takes a liking to Pyetr after failing to murder him, and will address him as "Dear Owl." : The Pride of Chanur - Pyanfar Chanur - Double Subverted with Bren and Jago, since Jago is incapable of understanding what romance is. They still end up sleeping together. - There are legends of this in the Fortress series: the rulers of the second major country are called Regents explicitly because of this. - the Foreigner series. Also the Alliance Union universe, if "stories in the same 'Verse by the same author" counts as a "series". - Faded Sun - A lot of people accuse Tristen of this, and even his best friend gets paranoid about it on occasion. Subverted since Tristen just really is that clueless about the world he's found himself in, complicated by the fact that he perceives reality differently. - She uses several varieties. Wood Elves are common. Tristen is a subversion: he's a Cloudcuckoolander who spends a lot of time needing help and advice from the older and wiser humans around him, as opposed to giving them advice, and while he does give advice, it's not condemnation of human culture and so on but practical stuff like 'Remember to close the windows.' - Owl in the Fortress series, especially in the beginning. Kavi Chernevog in the Rusalka trilogy also associates with an owl he calls only "Owl" . and then, after taking a liking to Pyetr, starts calling him "Owl." Also a felicitous number to the atevi. ↑ That is, she herds pigs; she's not a Half-Human Hybrid. Script error: The function "navbox" does not exist. THE UNIVERSES OF C.J. CHERRYH. Earth's colonial enterprise, founded on a stringof planetless stars, fell apart when orders to solve problems lagged a long time behind the reality of the situation. Distance made it impossible to maintain the close control Earth wanted to exercise, and Earth's ill-advised orders provoked rebellion among the colonies when the discovery of Faster-Than-Light travel suddenly brought Earth into close contact and frequent contact with the colonies. Cyteen had outright defied Earth's visa requirements and founded a runaway colony, its population deliberately augmented by cloned-man establishEarth'sments. Pell Station attempted to stand by its allegiance to Earth. So did other colonies, fearing the strangeness developing at Cyteen. I use Alliance/Union to describe novels that are centered around the Company Wars---i ncluding the Merchanter books: this would be: Downbelow Station, Cyteen, Regenesis, Merchanter's Luck, Finity's End, Tripoint, and others yet to come. The novels in this universe, except Hellburner and Heavy Time, and Cyteen and Regenesis, can be read completely out of order. just like real history. The actual sequence of the Alliance / Union stories is: The Company Wars Heavy Time Hellburner (these first two have fairly close connections) Downbelow Station: Hugo Winner, Best Novel Merchanter's Luck Rimrunners Tripoint Finity's End. The Merchanter Novels: Trading ships and commerce after the Company Wars Merchanter's Luck Tripoint Finity's End. Unionside novels: Cyteen won the Hugo for Best Novel. There was a paperbound publication that split the novel into three parts, but this has ended: the current and, by my wishes, all future publications, will have Cyteen as one unified book. Cyteen 40,000 in Gehenna or Forty Thousand in Gehenna Regenesis. Far Down The Time Line , but still within the story. The Faded Sun novels: A lone human soldier confronts the last of an alien species. Kesrith Shon'jir Kutath. AND: Serpent's Reach , set in the far future of the Alliance, a splinter group. Then. Very, Very Far Down the Time Line. Brothers of Earth A far, far future world at the crossroads of its history---and a human soldier who foresees the failing of his own species. It should be noted: the Hanan Rebellion does not involve the whole human species, nor more than a region of space; but from Kurt Morgan's point of view the disaster is universal. Hunter of Worlds : another splinter group and a predatory species. Hani are catlike, spacefaring, attitudinal, and protective of their violent and aggressive menfolk; and yes, I've made a little commentary on gender politics; but I've also tried to tell an honest, light, and rowdy story about very different aliens and a strayed human. Pyanfar never wanted him for a passenger. but having him. well, life just couldn't be the same. And if you think mahendo'sat politics gets thick. Pyanfar agrees. Pyanfar's motto is, when confronted with vastly intelligent, aggressive politics: Do something totally irrational and let the enemy think himself to death. The Pride of Chanur nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel.> Chanur's Venture The Kif Strike Back ( never, ever joke about titles: your publisher may use one) Chanur's Homecoming (Ulysses has nothing on Pyanfar) And the next generation : Chanur's Legacy . Foreigner. starts with Foreigner and goes through the career of Bren Cameron, translator between atevi and humans. Each arc is 3 books, and you are safe reading the first of any arc first, but you may enjoy tracking down Foreigner and starting at the beginning. I didn't want to put the first few chapters into Foreigner: be patient with them---everybody in those chapters has been long gone by the time their descendant, Bren Cameron, comes on the scene with a midnight intruder, a shadow on the curtains, and a gunshot. The front end of Foreigner is a novella and a short piece, the first setting up how Phoenix, a station set-up mission, skewed far and dangerously off course. The second chapter tells the story of their descendants some distance along. And then the real story in the novel begins,. Say that there were problems in the relationship between humans and the civilization they met. I didn't plan to have the first two sections on the first Foreigner novel, but my editor said put them in. So I did. The initial situation with the lost colonists in chapter one, is pretty grim. but as you get to know the atevi centuries later, in the main part of the story, they do have a very active sense of humor. Foreigner Invader Inheritor. The world of Finisterre is a bad real estate deal: a lot like the ground-level assumption behind Pern and Darkover, it doesn't really matter that everyone arrived from space. Clearly this isn't Earth, that's the important thing, and while townsfolk fear the native wildlife, the riders who keep the towns alive are very happy being friendly with the nighthorses, who are, well, the reason riders exist and the reason humans survive on Finisterre at all. Nighthorses are addicted to human minds, in the long and the short of it, and find their importation of bacon the single most important event in the history of the world. While the books have moments that you may not want to read alone after dark, have faith: the horses will get you through. The Gene Wars. Far into the future, far, far distant, humanity and an alien race have gotten into a war---in which the weapon is nanotechnology. tiny bots that can literally change matter. Earth wants nothing to do with the survivors, and has imposed strict contact barriers between herself and her colonists. The story of Marak, who belongs to a world under seige, and is given a short window in which to get himself and others to safety. The Forge of Heaven. Transit to the station---where the strange culture of the station itself surrounds a young watcher, whose job, an age later, is to track what has happened to Marak and his world, which is being terraformed to prove the contamination can be reversed. The nanobots can do more than destroy. Marak is proof of it. Nhi Vanye i Chya, seeking redemption for his sins. finds himself indebted to a liege reputed for betrayal, sworn with an oath that can damn his soul. Gate of Ivrel Well of Shiuan Fires of Azeroth Exiles' Gate The graphic novel, Gate of Ivrel . We own all the copies of this former Donning title, which Jane Fancher did, and we or Selina can sell those to you. This includes all myth-based stories. Arafel Left behind in the retreat of the elves from human lands, Arafel maintains a watch over Men. The Dreamstone The Tree of Swords and Jewels . Faery in Shadow. The Russian Stories. Goblin Mirror. . trolls, goblins, and a chip off the Goblin Queen's mirror. A young man sets out to answer one question and discovers questions multiplying around him. . multiple ages of the world, and a wizard from the last age, called Mauryl Kingmaker, isolate from the young kingdoms of Men, works a summoning, a last bit of magic. But was he a good magician, or what cause did he serve? This set is a project I've worked for years on, and I'm very excited about it. Fortress in the Eye of Time. Fortress of Eagles. Fortress of Owls. Fortress of Dragons. Fortress of Ice. Over the years my publishers and editors, Donald Wollheim, Jim Baen, Betsy Wollheim, to name a few, have supported me in books that let imagination run free. It's a list of the varied and the different. The Paladin . set in a mythical far east, a potential student seeks a retired hero for a teacher. Angel with a Sword . there is no magic, but a city on stilts, with swords and piratical derring-do. is close. Followed by all the Merovingen books. Merovingen Nights (shared world, preceded by Angel with a Sword) Visible Light (anthology) a collection of widely diverse stories with personal commentary. Sunfall (dying earth stories) Hestia . a colonial story, on a river with a native secret. Wave without a Shore. A philosophical science fiction novel with a fantasy twist. Some people name their college professors and wonder if I know them. Voyager in Night. An aeons-old alien and the [perhaps] dead crew of a passing spacecraft. Hunter of Worlds . a species notorious for predation. Recommended reading in some anthropology classes. I'm grateful to Don Wollheim who bypassed considerations of commercial appeal in favor of preserving the science fictional use and development of language. Besides all that. it has an action story. Port Eternity An Arthurian novel, of sorts, set in distant space, among azi. The Dreaming Tree. It was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which before had echoed only with fairy voices. In that dawn of man and death of magic there yet remained one last untouched place—the small forest of Ealdwood—which kept the magic intact, and protected the old ways. And there was one who dwelt there, Arafel the Sidhe, who had more pride and love of the world as it used to be than any of her kind. But fear of the world of Faery ran deep in the hearts of men, and when Ciaran Cuilean, Lord of Caer Wiell, a man with Elvish blood in his veins, found himself the object of increasing distrust and suspicion from his men, his king, and even his own family, he knew he must once again put his humanity aside and return to Ealdwood. For shadows of a newly awakened evil swarmed across both lands, and unless Ciaran reclaimed his haunted weapons from the Tree of Swords and joined Arafel, he would see this evil overtake not only the warm hearthstones of the mortal keeps, but the silvery heart of Ealdwood itself.