Gdzieś z daleka, spośród czterech zasiedlonych przez ludzi światów Rombu Wardena, wroga człowiekowi rasa szpiegowała Ziemię. Nie można jednak było wysłać tam agenta. Podróż do światów Wardena była bowiem podróżą bez możliwości powrotu. Żyjący tam mikroskopijny symbiont przedostawał się do wnętrza każdego żywego organizmu, uniemożliwiając mu tym samym życie poza systemem Wardena.Należało więc zastosować środki nadzwyczjne. Wybrano jednego agenta, a czterech innych odarto z ich umysłów i osobowości, narzucając im umysł i osobowość tego wybranego. Połączony odpowiednio z tą czwórką, mógł on odbierać ich raporty, nie opuszczając bezpiecznego miejsca, z dala od Rombu Wardena. Każdemu z czwórki wyznaczono jeden ze światów. Celem misji było odnalezienie i zlikwidowanie Władcy danego świata.Bohaterem pierwszej księgi jest Carl Tremon, którego wysłano na Lilith, planetę będącą Rajem — ale Rajem takim, jaki tylko Piekło mogło wymyślić!

The author brings to a conclusion the confrontation between the mighty Confederacy and the small but powerful worlds of the Warden Diamond.

Umysły czterech kryminalistów zastąpiony umysłem najlepszego agenta Konfederacji. Agenci wysłani na Lilith, Cerbera i Charona odnieśli sukces. Wyrafinowany plan Konfederacji zaczął przynosić efekty.Tarin Bul wylądował na Meduzie.Na tej mroźnej planecie szybko dołączył do miejscowych konspiratorów, którzy zamierzali obalić znienawidzonego Lorda Talanta Ypsira; cel buntowników doskonale mu odpowiadał. Jednak połączenie, jakie stanowili obcy i tajna moc Ypsira, okazała się ponad jego siły.Do akcji wkroczył Agent Bez Imienia, nadzorujący wszystkich czterech wysłaninników. Był zmuszony wykazać się swoimi nadzwyczajnymi umiejętnościami, gdyż wszystko sprzysięgło się przeciw niemu.W czwartej ostatniej księdze ekscytującej tetralogii Jack Chalker doprowadza do dramatycznego zakończenia epicką konfrontację pomiędzy potężną Konfederacją a małymi — ale równie potężnymi — światami Rombu Wardena.

Umysły czterech kryminalistów zastąpiony umysłem najlepszego agenta Konfederacji. Agenci wysłani na Lilith, Cerbera i Charona odnieśli sukces. Wyrafinowany plan Konfederacji zaczął przynosić efekty.Tarin Bul wylądował na Meduzie.Na tej mroźnej planecie szybko dołączył do miejscowych konspiratorów, którzy zamierzali obalić znienawidzonego Lorda Talanta Ypsira; cel buntowników doskonale mu odpowiadał. Jednak połączenie, jakie stanowili obcy i tajna moc Ypsira, okazała się ponad jego siły.Do akcji wkroczył Agent Bez Imienia, nadzorujący wszystkich czterech wysłaninników. Był zmuszony wykazać się swoimi nadzwyczajnymi umiejętnościami, gdyż wszystko sprzysięgło się przeciw niemu.W czwartej ostatniej księdze ekscytującej tetralogii Jack Chalker doprowadza do dramatycznego zakończenia epicką konfrontację pomiędzy potężną Konfederacją a małymi — ale równie potężnymi — światami Rombu Wardena.

For centuries, interstellar prospectors had searched for the fabled worlds of the Three Kings, the lost El Dorado of the galaxy. But none had succeeded. Only the mad cyborg Prophet, Ishmael Hand, had ever seen the mysterious system, and he had refused to reveal its location before vanishing forever into history. Then, with the help of his flock, a starfaring evangelist—Doctor Karl Woodward, preacher and leader of the starship The Mountain—found it, only to disappear in turn. Now a new group of explorers must follow the trail that Woodward blazed. A spacegoing salvage team, desperately in debt after a violent alien menace ruins a lucrative assignment and decimates the group, is hired to follow the clues Woodward left behind. But the team’s shady creditors won’t want to wait...and they won’t much care how they get their investments back. Fearing pursuit by their former backers, the group heads off for the ultimate salvage operation. By hook or by crook, they will find the Three Kings—if the galactic underworld’s repo men don’t get them first!

Entered by a thousand unsuspected gateways—built by a race lost in the clouds of time—the planet its dwellers called the Well World turned beings of every kind into something else. There spacefarer Nathan Brazil found himself companioned by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid—all once as human as he.Yet Nathan Brazil’s metamorphosis was more terrifying than any of those… and his memory was coming back, bringing with it the secret of the Well World.For at the heart of the bizarre planet lay the goal of every being that had ever lived—and Nathan Brazil and his comrades were… lucky?… enough to find it!

The survival of the human race, spread throughout the universe in the future, depends on an unlikely team led by naval officer Gene Harker, who must retrieve the only defense against the godlike Titans.

Mavra Chang had been a master criminal, notorious throughout the galaxy, but for years she has been trapped in a no-longer human body on the Well World—the Master Control planet for the universe. A supercomputer can restore her form, if only she can obtain a spaceship to reach it.

Mavra Chang had been a master criminal, notorious throughout the galaxy, but for years she has been trapped in a no-longer human body on the Well World—the Master Control planet for the universe. A supercomputer can restore her form, if only she can obtain a spaceship to reach it.

Nur Mavra Chang — Mitkämpferin in dem Krieg auf der Sechseck-Welt — und Obie — der Computergefährte — können jenes Wissen finden, das als einziges dazu imstande ist, die Sechseck-Welt zu erreichen und den dort entstandenen Schaden radikal auszumerzen. Doch der teuflische Nathan Brazil — Halbgott und ewiger Jude zugleich — wwill nicht gefunden werden…Und so ist der Bestand des ganzen, von der Sechseck-Wet erzeugten und erhaltenen Universums in Gefahr!

Racing to the Well World, bitter rivals Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang find an impossibly changed land and a price on their heads, and fear that Brazil himself has been altered in an attempt to divert history.

The evil Dark Baron has escaped and joined forces in the far North with the Master of the Dead to theaten all of Husaquahr with enslavement. Only Joe can stop them—but Joe is no longer quite himself. In fact, he’s not sure who he is!

Explore fascinating, often chilling “what if” accounts of the world that could have existed–and still might yet…Science fiction’s most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you’ll experience mind-bending tales that challenge your views of the past, present, and future, including:• “The Lucky Strike”: When The Lucky Strike is chosen over The Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb, fate takes an unexpected turn in Kim Stanley Robinson’s gripping tale.• “Bring the Jubilee”: Ward Moore’s novella masterpiece offers a rebel victory at Gettysburg which changes the course of the Civil War… and all of American history.• “Through Road No Wither”: After Hitler’s victory in World War II, two Nazi officers confront their destiny in Greg Bear’s apocalyptic vision of the future.• “All the Myriad Ways”: Murder or suicide, Ambrose Harmon’s death leads the police down an infinite number of pathways in Larry Niven’s brilliant and defining tale of alternatives and consequences.• “Mozart in Mirrorshades”: Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner explore a terrifying era as the future crashes into the past–with disastrous results.…as well as works by Poul Anderson • Gregory Benford • Jack L. Chalker • Nicholas A. DiChario • Brad Linaweaver • William Sanders • Susan Shwartz • Allen Steele • and Harry Turtledove himself!The definitive collection: fourteen seminal alternate history tales drawing readers into a universe of dramatic possibility and endless wonder

An ex-detective gets mixed up in a plot to use a revolutionary supercomputer system to provide power for a magic ritual. Of course, such a thing is going to require a virgin, and in this case, the girl is a quadraplegic. However, a computer system of this power can do a lot of things—change people being one of them.

The Dreel was a hive-mind, composed of trillions upon trillions of virus-sized units, which infected intelligent beings like a disease and took over the mind of an occupied being, utterly. It had occupied planets throughout the galaxy, making their entire population its mind-slaves, and was on its way to conquering the entire galaxy-until a cop on the frontier planet of Parkatin discovered the truth. Those whose minds were still free fought back, using a weapon so powerful that it wrought havoc with the control of the Well World, the ancient planet-sized supercomputer that a vanished super-race called the Markovians built to recreate the entire universe, and maintain it in its present form. If the Well World’s control of time and space could not be restored, the universe could vanish like a blown-out candle flame. Only a Markovian could go to the Well World and repair the damage, but only one Markovian was still known to survive. He had last been seen in human form, going by the name of Nathan Brazil. No one knew where he was now, what name he was using, or even if he still appeared human. Finding him, somewhere in the immensity of the galaxy, seemed an impossible task. So the task fell to someone who had done the impossible over and over: Mavra Chang, one of the few beings ever to escape from the Well World. And on that occasion, she had brought back with her a computer named Obie, who just might be the second most powerful computer in the universe, after the Well World itself. With those two on his trail, Nathan Brazil could run-but could he hide?

Three star travelers—Ming, Ari, and Angel—become enmeshed in a vicious blood-feud between an evil genius and Jeremiah Wong Kincaid, the man who has vowed to destroy him.

The rift in the fabric of space was fast approaching the Well World, and time was running out. Troops all over the planet were gathering for the final battle.Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang somehow had to reach the Well of Souls in time to save the universe and before any of the hostile natives managed to kill them.At best, a difficult mission. At worst, impossible—especially since there was a price on Brazil’s head and many would-be claimants! For Brazil, the difficult was but the work of a moment—the impossible would take a little longer!