"Look at the crystal ball son," Merlin commanded. Gawaine looked. Inside the shimmering ball, he glimpsed a pallid young girl on a hospital bed. "Elli's dying, Gawaine. In weeks, she'll be dead. Only two ways she can be saved. One of them lies in Camelot's wilderness. You must quest for the Silver Chalice." "And, if I can't?" protested Gawaine. "There is another way but it's too difficult even for me to mention." "There seems to be more," Merlin continued. "I see a speck where it should be clear. A dark speck. Wait please." A moment later, four huge creatures that seemed a cross between a...

"Look at the crystal ball son," Merlin commanded. Gawaine looked. Inside the shimmering ball, he glimpsed a pallid young girl on a hospital bed. "Elli's dying, Gawaine. In weeks, she'll be dead. Only two ways she can be saved. One of them lies in Camelot's wilderness. You must quest for the Silver Chalice." "And, if I can't?" protested Gawaine. "There is another way but it's too difficult even for me to mention." "There seems to be more," Merlin continued. "I see a speck where it should be clear. A dark speck. Wait please." A moment later, four huge creatures that seemed a cross between a...

Neo Darwinists who exploit the latest sciences and technologies as they seek to make the Cosmos their private goldmine, and the People of the Book who see human expansion beyond Earth as an abomination. Into the turmoil step Dr. Jennifer Colbert, scientist, and Boone Dalton, a surgically altered race driver. Boone and Jennifer have an inadvertent blood exchange following an assassination attempt that proves to be key to their surviving android ambushes and a terrible Martian pandemic. Although mismatched, Boone and Jennifer work together and become the first humans robust enough to colonize...

To avoid a marriage arranged by her father, Penelope flees her village, cuts her hair and takes a job herding hogs. Attacked by one of the pigs, she nearly drowns in a hog wallow before being rescued by a passing knight. Mistaken for a boy by this handsome yet inexperienced young man, she is hired by him to be his guide on a quest to find the Dragon Lord. She soon finds she needs to continue as a boy as Emperor Aethelred wants her head, Lord Grim wants her in his bed, and Lady Dazzle wants her dead. As her problem mount, she has to choose between her protecting herself, accepting her legacy...