Wrongly accused of rape by Queen Cynethryth, Oswald, one of King Offa's finest champions, flees into exile. Learning that Cynethryth plots to bring down her husband's kingdom with the aid of the Red Dragon, Oswald leads a small band of companions across war-torn Dark Age Britain in a desperate quest for the only weapon than can kill the monster that threatens their land... The long-lost Sword of Wayland The Sword of Wayland is the first in the Wayland Saga trilogy.

Two years after the events described in The Sword of Wayland, Oswald is living in exile in East Anglia. Queen Cynethryth's machinations have brought Offa's kingdom and the Frankish empire to the brink of war. Oswald and his friends journey to the land of monsters in search of the one man who can bring peace - Wayland's father, Wade. But Wade is nowhere to be found. The Work of Wayland is the second in the Wayland Saga trilogy.

East Anglia has fallen. Even Oswald's adoptive homeland cannot escape the grasp of Offa - and his evil wife, Queen Cynethryth. Learning that Cynethryth plots to bring all seven kingdoms under her sway with the aid of a dragon army, Oswald and his friends use Wayland's magic to travel to Northumbria, where an attack by Vikings begins a series of events that will result in the death of three English kings. The seven kingdoms hang in the balance. The Bones of Wayland is the last in the Wayland Saga trilogy.

After being sucked into a black hole as the universe around them is annihilated, Gerald and his friends are surprised to find themselves falling through the clouds of what proves to be a planet of wizards and warriors. Soon they are drawn into a conflict between the Cult of Stasis and the Archmage Mirabilis. But where are they? How did they survive? Has the universe survived? Or is this some strange dimension beyond the black hole? Has Earth been destroyed? Part Three in THE PLANETEERS

CONQUISTADORS AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH 'So what did happen to this treasure?' 'The Indians say that they first came to the city of Mexico from a place far to the north, in the desert, ' the friar said. 'Chicomoztoc it's called, the Place of the Seven Caves. They climbed up from a land beneath the ground and migrated by stages to the Valley of Mexico. The priest who Dona Isabella's father spoke to said that, before the final destruction of Tenochtitlan, seven temple priests took the treasure into the deserts of the north and concealed it deep within Chicomoztoc, in Tollan, the chief of...

Managing the beast-fights at the Colosseum was never going to be an easy job, but this time MARCUS had really made his Emperor angry. To make up for his latest blunder, he would have to hunt down the fabled crocodilopard - half leopard half crocodile - and bring it back to exhibit in Rome. Accompanied by DIDIUS SENECA, a scholarly but scatter-brained senator, and BRUTUS, a bullying, blustering centurion, Marcus must journey to the headwaters of the Nile in search of his quarry, said to be found only in a lost jungle valley infested with giant saurians. It seems impossible. He doesn't even...

THIS WEEK Schlock Webzine is celebrating four years as purveyors of the finest schlock horror, fantasy and science fiction. We begin with a story of a private investigator and his voyage to the bottom of the sea from first ever Schlock contributor James Rhodes, author of The Hettford Witch Hunt series and short story This Is What's Happening, followed by a post-apocalyptic superhero tale from Gary Murphy. Next we have a new horror tale from Gregory KH Bryant, whose B-Movie horror epic Terror on Snail Island reaches Part Eleven elsewhere in the zine, followed by Death Comes in Kaleidoscope...

'DON'T YOU REMEMBER?' NORMAN ASKED. 'TRAVELLING THROUGH HYPERSPACE DAMAGES THE FABRIC OF SPACE-TIME. THEY SAID THAT IF WE HYPERJUMPED OUR FLEET ACROSS THE GALAXY TO ATTACK THE GALACTIC EMPRESS, REALITY ITSELF WOULD BE DAMAGED IN THE PROCESS.' HIS EYES MET GERALD'S. 'CAUSALITY WOULD UNRAVEL. THAT MUST BE WHAT'S HAPPENING ' Percy goes missing after the rebel space fleet makes another jump through hyperspace. He is inexplicably replaced by a mysterious bird woman. Could it be that causality chaos, which Gerald and Norman have long dismissed as imperial propaganda, is real? Are the space fleet's...