The Weapon From Eternity

The hot winds were flames whipping at Jarl's face, and the driven sand slashed and burned like pelting needles. Slowly, the night died and, off to his right, the sun rose--fiery...

Then, at last, he was crawling through the dusk on hands and knees, up to the shattered hull of the ship from beyond the void. The sun had burned his face to a tortured mask, an...

But that passed, too. Slowly, the pain and weariness ebbed. Jarl's strength flowed back. Once more, he was acutely conscious of the filth, the smells, the slithering vermin. Som...

Lying in the darkness, waiting for him, Jarl battled in stubborn silence against the pain. He found himself giving heed to a thousand little things--the roughness of the pollard...

It was a time for thinking--because there was nothing else to do but think. Escape was not even a thing to dream about by daylight, with primitives still roving through these wa...

A grim, slim, deadly craft, the _Knife_, black as the heart of her mutant master. The fastest ship in all the raider fleet, with a killer crew drawn from the scum of the whole w...

Here were burrows of Rhea's spider men, and _Pervod_ cones, and _Fantay_ spires. Hive-like Mercurian domes rose amid the flat-roofed dwellings of the _llorin_. Throbbing _Transm...

Coolly, the girl slid out from under the bunk and, supplely graceful, rose to her feet. Ignoring Jarl, she straightened the sleekly-styled blue Federation tunic that accented ra...

His table stood at the far end of the vast room that had been _Ktar_ Wassreck's workshop. Other tables radiated out in a great arc from it--tables crowded with officers of the F...

Frowning, Jarl Corvett crouched deep in the shadows. Tension crawled his spine like a leather-footed _palau_. His own black thoughts pressed relentlessly in upon him: _Is this w...