Ted White

You are riding home from work on the subway. There is a jolt-and as you fall against your neighbour you discover-he is a manikin.You investigate. The entire train is filled with manikins. Are there no humans in this world...?You approach a door. There is only an opaque blackness on the other side. You are wary. You put through only one arm. It disappears completely. You are curious. You must find out what lies beyond.You walk through the door into the void...

Two valiant humans: swashbuckling Elron and the Sorceress Shannara...two implacably evil "Others..".two kinds of weapons with which to fight...and many kinds of doom awaiting an entire world if the battle is lost In this sequel to Phoenix Prime, Ted White takes us again to the strange, paradoxical world of Qanar, where a weird age-old magic exists as everyday reality, side by side with the remnants of an equally ancient but less understood science. The alien "Others" are making a new bid to take over the planet...and only the noble Elron stands against them. But not entirely alone after he meets the beautiful Shannara, and she adds her limited psionic powers to his great strength to vanquish the enemy. Together they share an outstanding Odyssey-through unpredictable matter transmitters and over treacherous terrain-to reach a hair-raising climax...

Tad Dameron's assignment was routine enough: escort Bjonn, the alien from Farhome, on the final leg of his journey to Earth, and learn what he could about the alien's culture. From the beginning Dameron realized that there was something strange and ominous about Bjonn, something in his eyes and the way he spoke, even the way he helped himself, that forewarned of danger. Then Bjonn was gone, slipped away to mingle with Earth's teeming millions, and with him the beautiful Dian, Dameron's partner. When next he surfaced, Bjonn was heading a new religion-one that threatened to subvert all humanity. Dameron found himself embarked upon the most dangerous job of his career to halt the alien menace.

As Jack Eskridge sped through the night toward Chicago, the sky was suddenly lit with a flash of brilliance.Jack stopped the car and ran toward the light. He was greeted by a fantastic sight: a huge, weirdly glowing arch, through which were pouring strange-looking tanks, airships and metallic-clad soldiers carrying sinister weapons.Jack knew he had to get away and warn the country of the invasion. But before he could reach Chicago all the major cities in the United States had been conquered by the aliens.No one knew where they came from or what their evil purpose was. Only one thing was certain-they had to be stopped before the whole of mankind fell under their domination.

The dream of being a superman came true for Max Quest-and immediately turned into a nightmare.He was not alone. There were Others with extraordinary powers, and the last thing they wanted was another superman on Earth-especially one working for good instead of evil.They couldn't kill him. But they could send him... elsewhere.Elsewhere was the viciously hostile world of Qanar, where Max's powers didn't work and sorcery was a more potent weapon than science, where shadows were as menacing as steel. Max Quest still had to save Earth from the corrupt threat of the Others-but he found his destiny intricately linked with that of Qanar as well. And somewhere in space-time was his lost love...

The world is perfect, with enforced sanity and perfected sameness. Bob Tanner is doing his annual duty in an arena with a thousand people, executing rebels the system has identified as not normal. On his way home, he realizes he's having thoughts he shouldn't, and the ubiquitous scanners will certainly detect him if he passes by one, with fatal consequences. What now?

For untold centuries humanity had dreamed of realities like these... An ideal agrarian community, run by women and ruled by love and harmony... A city state that mirrored history's most famous utopian vision... A society aglow with the wit and style that only Regency England had briefly achieved.All were real. All were flourishing. All were waiting to astound and entrap four space voyagers from Earth who had crashed on this unknown planet, and who now broke all laws to learn the terrifying secrets of a forbidden world.

As a newly minted graduate of space school, Paul lands space station duty and is given the tricky and dangerous assignment of salvaging defunct satellites. But there's more up there than anyone bargained for...

Frank Marshall suddenly finds himself 500 years in the future, and needs the help of the daughter of the corporate warlord to avoid being killed as useless waste...

Larry is home from grad school to work on his father's project to save the world from starvation, and finds himself the target of a plot to sabotage the whole project and kill them all...