Serroi had been an outcast. She was a misborn of the windrunners, of small stature with pale olive skin and certain strangely heightened sensitivies. But now she was a meie - a woman warrior trained by an exclusive order. She had been with her shieldmate at the Plaz when she overheard the assassi...
ALEYTYS THE FUGITIVEFar out among the stars the masterminds of the spider people had placed their mightiest mysteries in the scientific device called the diadem. And when that coronet was stolen, they were prepared to pursue it throughout eternity.The thief crashed among the nomads of Jaydugar, a...
This vibrant heroine and the powers of the Diadem. For on the world to which it conveyed her, she must confront not only the hordes of half-humans who are devastating the planet but meet head-on the mental force of a madman of her own ancestral race. It is an encounter on several levels - human, ...
The two contenders tossed the dice for the final contest. The Noris drew the Runner, the Sword, the Sorcerer, the Eye. He was pleased. The armies could march. The valley and all that was in it would be his. The Indweller drew the Kingfisher, the Poet-warrior, the Priestess, the Magic Child. "The...
The second in the Duel of Sorcery trilogy.I have to say, I liked the first one better. Where the first book set up a parallel structure with Serroi's childhood and her present, this volume alternates between Serroi and a young village girl, Tuli.Serroi's now on a quest with the headman she rescue...
They called the gems Ranga Eyes. They were beautiful crystals, cool and smooth. They opened doorways to magical realms, leading to escape, happiness, peace. But they exacted a terrible price for they were an incredible narcotic. After only a single use, they dragged you in, sucked your soul dry, ...
Aleytys, wanderer of the skies, seeker of the home planet of her mother's super-race, wearer-slave of the mind-enhancing diadem, is down on Maeve, forest planet of tree-dwellers and semi-humans. Her aim to continue her quest, to shake her pursuers. It's an action-packed adventure filled with con...
Sold into slavery to an insectoid race, Aleytys had been chosen as proxy-mother to the old Queen's successor. In short, she would be both bearer and food. But Aleytys was the wearer of the Diadem, a creation of galactic science that linked her nervous system to powers of great potency.
The diadem that crowned the head of Aleytys was in contact with her central nervous system - and invisible to outsiders. But even that star-born fugitive herself did not know what the diadem's powers were or what it could do to or for her.
This final novel in Jo Clayton's Skeen trilogy takes readers with Skeen on an adventure-filled, galaxy-spanning journey, complete with interstellar hunts, deadly dangerous space battles, and a desperate race to a star on the brink of becoming a super-nova.
FUGITIVE FROM THE STARS! Skeen, space pilot, trader, collector, and thief, had come to the world of Mistommerk through a bizarre Gateway in time and space - a Gateway which only one of its creators, the mysterious Ykx, could reopen from the Mistommerk side. And so, Skeen began her search for one...