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Set two thousand years in the future, Cestus Dei describes a galaxy in which the various worlds settled by the human race are bound to Earth, not by political structures, but by religion. Each religion has its own interstellar empire, and the supreme decision-making body in humanity is the United Faiths.

Have we got a planet for you. And don't worry: nothing native to Delta Pavonis is likely to hurt you; humans are too alien to be tasty. At least that's what they said during orientation. Dierdre Jamail isn't quite sure she believes them -- she's never believed an authority figure in her young life. That's why she's been assigned to Delta Pavonis, in fact, rather than to some more promising planet: Delta P. is the absolute least desirable exploration point in the entire galaxy. But Dierdre's always been lucky -- and she's about to make the find of the century -- and run into some serious authority figures.

Hring was not sure what woke him. He listened, but heard nothing. He tried to move and found he could not. He tried to call out to Halvdan, but could not speak. He saw a stirring among the trees. Two figures came walking, almost gliding, soundless across the glade. When they were near he saw that they were both tall women. One wore a cloak, a cowl hiding her features. the other was young and bareheaded. Her fair hair fell below her waist in two plaits as thick as a child's arm. Her deep-shadowed eyes regarded him with icy detachment.

"Will he do, Mother?" said the fair one.

"He will do marvelous well," said the other. Her hand rose, and sh bent to touch Hring. Her finger traced a design on his brow, and where the nail touched, his skin was so cold that it burned.

"The seal of our wyrd is upon him, now," said the cowled one. It was the second time he had heard the old word this night. Christians weren't supposed to use it. But then, he thought, he was not in Christian land, and the church had done with him. The woman pointed at him.

"Sealed to me are you, wolfshead, to do my will. It may be soon or it may be late, buy your wyrd and mine are entwined like mating serpents." Then the women faded back into the trees.

With the government offering to guarantee a market to the first company that can beam a gigawatt of electricity to earth, the race is on to harness solar energy.

They changed his name, wiped his memory clean, and replaced his hand with a thing of polished steel. But the man called Slate will stop at nothing to regain his past and the woman whose face he almost remembers. Who or what is Slate? The giant corporations that control what's left of civilization think they know. But they're wrong. Dead wrong.

The newly discovered world of Charun, spring from a Roman tradition, has strayed far from the old religion. Not only is the aristocracy ridden with corruption, but it is supported by slaves, gangsters, and monstrous android warriors. The citizens of Charun have long been deprived of any kind of hight ideals, All they live for is gambling and the fights--confrontation of brutality and certain death--between slaves well groomed and trained for their fate...

In this grotesque place threee men are bought together: a young fighter who sold himslef into slavery in order to save his tribe from extinction, a Jesuit priest with a few tricks up his sleeve, and a Franciscan brother who plans to go quietly winning converts among Charun's poor. Their methods are different, but their aims are the same: to livbe long enough to return a violent planet to the path of righteousness...

Haakon: formerly a naval captain on the losing side against the Bahadur, ex-smuggler, ex-quarry-slave. Rama: almost-legendary mast criminal, Amazonian genetic cross between woman and cat. Blackmailed by Timur Khan Bey, most powerful and ruthless of the Bahadur, Haakon and Rama must lead a team of misfits into the Cingulum, one of the last star systems to hold our against Bahadur.

But the Cingulum is like no other place in the universe, for among its planets circle artificial constructs left by a race that is believed to have disappeared from the galaxy before man first stepped into space.

To Mughal, planet of opulence, go Hakkon, Rama and the rst of the the crew of Eurynome. Caught between the government of Mughal, the planet's underworld, and rebels plotting revolution, Haakon and Eama must seek out the top-secret project, Precious Pearl, which supposedly has discovered ways to circumvent the physical laws of the universe. To fail will mean their deaths; to succeed will mean worse for all of humankind.

In a mysterious region of space where time and history are warped, Hakon must face Pancho Villa, Montezama, and the Shogun of Japan in order to prevent the destruction of the planet Meridian.

In his native Cimmeria, Conan discovers foreign sorcerers defiling the most sacred place in the land as they struggle for the power to command the very gods. As ancient blood-enemies of his people invade, Conan must unite the ever-feuding clans to face an even greater foe... Demons ride to war on the slopes of Ben Morgh.

Stranded in the furthest northern reaches of Brythunia, Conan the Cimmerian pledges himself as the champion of the haughty, beautiful Queen Alcuina. Soon the mighty barbarian is enmeshed in a war with two kings, who want Alcuina's lands, and the evil wizard Iilma, who plots to rule the entire northland and has his own foul designs on the queen's body. From the blood-drenched snows of the Brythunian forests to the sorcerous Shifting Lands the battles rage. The dead rise to slay, and victory can only come from Conan the Champion

In the fabled lands far beyond the Vilayet Sea, Conan of Cimmeria faces his most deadly challenge. The warlord Bartatua plans to unite the Hyrkanian tribes and sweep across the world in conquest, while the Turanian wizard Khondemir plots to use Bartatua's ambition to further his sorcerous schemes. Ishkala, haughty Princess of Sogaria, and Lakhme, seductress and spy, weave their own intrigues as the power of gods is drawn to the City of Mounds, ancient necropolis of the Hyrkanians. Every hand is turned against Conan, and he can only be Conan the Marauder.

When his would-be bride and her family are savagely killed by Taharka of Keshan, the young Conan of Cimmeria vows his unrelenting revenge. From the fighting pits of Croton to the plains of Ophir, Conan pursues Taharka to a battle to the death.

Everyone in the corrupt city of Sicas wants the priceless treasure Conan of Cimmeria has come there to find. Beautiful women who offer smiles, kisses--and maybe a knife in the back. A priest who may be closer to his goddess than he thinks. Noble lords, and the bosses of criminal gangs, and a fop whose perfumed kerchief may hide poison.

All are willing to kill for the artifact, but none realize the horror in can unleash, a hellish menace that only one man can face... Conan: The Rogue.

Conan of the Cimmeria is hired by three strangers, two men and a woman, to find the woman's husband. But the real goal, Conan discovers, is the fabled wealth of Python. To survive, he must put his trust in his own wits and his skill with the sword, for even the best can be corrupted when faced with the treasure of Python.

Treasure beyond imagining waited in the temple of Ahriman, a god so evil and terrifying that even the despicable priests of Set aided in his banishment. None dared to steal the treasure--until Conan the Cimmerian came to Shapur. Now he must smuggle tons of gold and jewels past the city guards and escape to a place of safety, while pursued by the most efficient and dangerous band of manhunters ever assembled, led by a warrior whose skills and ferocity rival Conan himself. But great dangers lurk when Conan returns to the temple--and the priests of Ahriman conspire to bring their fearsome deity back into the world...

Roaming the hills of Brythunia Conan comes face to face with a legend--Achilea, once Queen of a tribe of savage women, is a consummate warrior, as fierce as she is beautiful. Together they set out to uncover the riches of the long-lost Janagar, a mighty city that stood tall for five thousand years. It was abandoned by its people, who fled on one strange night, never to return. Treasure hunters beware! Deadly horrors are waiting for Conan and Achilea deep in the bowels of Janagar.

Who killed Ambassador Bloodarrow?

When the Lord of Tarsis finds himself with a politically volatile murder on his hands, he turns to the three most expendable inhabitants of the city of a solution. A mercenary, a poet-assassin, and a thief might not be everyone's first choice for detectives. But they find they're quite good at bringing murderers to justice.

Perhaps a little too good....

Soviet scientists discover the secret of a mysterious explosion that leveled a remote section of Siberia in 1889 and now intend to use their discovery to destroy the United States by identical, seemingly natural causes.

Because of a world-spanning socialistic bureaucracy on Earth in the twenty-first century, those who seek freedom must journey to the space colonies established in the asteroid belt.

While exploring on the Saturnian moon Rhea, Derek Kuroda discovers some powerful alien artifacts which soon become the source of power to launch dozens of asteroid worlds to freedom.

For Kelly, it was an impossible dream come true when he shipped out on the Space Angel. Ship's boy was the most menial job aboard, but it was excitement enough just to be in space.

Things became more exciting than even Kelly wanted when an unimaginably old and powerful entity commandeered the Space Angel and sent the freighter on an incredible mission to the center of the galaxy - with two hereditary killers and a poetic crab added to the crew for extra interest! Kelly knew that he would finish the trip as a seasoned spacer - or a very dead one.

Rescued by the crew of the freighter, Space Angel, Kiril, a street urchin, must use her telepathic powers to prevent the ship from being used as a pawn in an insane attempt to start an intergalactic war.

Hael, a young herder cast out of his tribe for killing a taboo beast, is thrust into a foreign world where steel is so rare it is used as currency, and where a simple herder must become a warrior in order to survive.

Long ago, so legend says, the world was destroyed, and everthing changed. Once there were animals called bull and bear; now men ride horned cabos, and avoid the deadly long-neck. Now there are new nations, new empires, for the hearts of men have changed little. In this world, Hael, Shasinn warrior exiled from his home islands for breaking a taboo, has found a life among the nomadic tribes of the plains, but his past is coming to find him. The Shasinn have changed and and old enemy is leading them to conquest. The Black Shields are coming, and the civilized world rocks on its foundations.

While traveling throughout the south, Ansa, son of King Hael, meets Fyanna, and together they become caught up in the chaos caused by the arrival of the conquering armies of Grania.

Under King Hael, the People of the Plains unite under the security of a mountain of pure iron, defending their land with steel arrowheads and swords.

Strange ships appear from an unknown continent bringing opportunity for vast wealth and power to Islanders and Mainlanders alike - and a deadly plague that devastates the kingdoms of the Mainland. But King Gasam and the Islanders are immune.