Drake, David

The great city of Carce (a fantasy world based on Europe during the later Roman Empire) and all life on Earth will be destroyed unless two young men, Corylus and Varus, and two women, Hedia and Alphena, pursue the answer to the mysterious and threatening happenings that prefigure this disaster.

The elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak, centering on Garric, an innkeeper's son, his sister Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, their friends with magical powers, and the wizard Tenoctris who has been cast forward in time a thousand years.

Young shepherd Garric, his sister Sharina, their friends Cashel and Ilna, and Tenoctris, a sorceress Garric pulled from the ocean, set out toward a confrontation with the forces of evil.

Danger abounds in space as Republic of Cinnabar Navy Lieutenant Daniel Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy fight the Alliance and other foes in the "Princess Cecile.".

Contains two novels, short stories, and a novella about the adventures of mercenary leader Alois Hammer and his armored regiment.

Contains twenty-one stories by science fiction writer David Drake about the Hammer's Regiment, a mercenary tank regiment in the future.

Contains twenty-nine short science fiction stories chosen by the editors as favorites of their youth, featuring selections dating from the 1930s onward, by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, L. Sprague de Camp, Isaac Isomov, Theodore Sturgeon, and others.

Collection of over 150 poems about libraries, librarians, patrons, friends of the library, and books written by a twenty-year veteran of the library profession.