In the last days of the world's beginnings, a great wall of ice encroaches from the North--a terrible weapon of supernatural forces intent upon destroying the enduring race of humans who inhabit these harsh and primitive lands. Yet there is one whom ...
Life on Earth was intolerable - and yet Man had stayed there, his dreams and potential suffocating under the dead weight of bureaucracy. The stars were attainable - thanks to the Infall Drive - but only a few heard the call of deep space. Some had al...
IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE WORLD'S BEGINNING In this tale, for the first time, the two great forces of the Long Winter come into direct conflict. Here the awesome powers of the Steerers of the World are confronted by the wizardry of Smithcraft in the...
IN A TIME BEFORE HISTORY -- IN A WORLD LONG FORGOTTEN Seven winters of peace have come and gone since fledgling mage and Mastersmith vanquished the Power that enslaved a lost city. But in a time of healing, seeds of disaster are nurtured in the ...
THERE ARE OTHER WORLDS WITHIN OUR WORLD... On a nostalgic visit to the docksides of his youth, Steve, a quiet, unassuming import/export agent, enters a quaint gaslit pub...and steps into another universe--one of the rare, secret places out of time...
Shipping agent Stephen Fisher knows the world of international trade--and he has journeyed through realms of mtyth and malevolence hidden to all but a stalwart few Stymied in his attempts to ship life-saving technology to a beleaguered island nati...
The Spiral: where past and present meet, where myth and legend infiltrate the mundane world, where Hy Brasil and Babylon are but a short voyage away - via the cloud archipelagos...You can't always find it - but it can always find you.And when it find...
Centuries before the building of the Great Causeway, when the enveloping Ice seems to be in retreat, the lands of the North and South are on uneasy terms. War appears to be inevitable. But there is still some trade between them, particularly for the ...
Gille Kilmarsson is a mastersmith and musician in a quiet northern town. But he yearns for something more. When he saves a Southern merchant ship from the savagery of the corsairs, he takes as his only reward an old musical instrument. And his life c...
Maxie's in trouble! Again. Only, this time it's serious. Driving a stolen Ferrari Testarossa off a motorway flyover at something approaching Mach 1, with the police in hot pursuit, is no way to make old bones. But it's child's play to what follows. ...
Young Walter Scot is hot on the heels of cattle raiders in the service of the dark Lord of Soulis when he encounters his kinsman Michael Scot - and his life is changed for ever. Even in the turbulent Borderlands of the thirteenth-century Scotland Mic...
The Winter Chronicles record many tales of the folk who fled out of the west seeking refuge from the spreading dominion of the Ice. The savage, soulless warriors had destroyed the ancient civilisations, and all that survived was legend. Among those l...