Whilst walking on his local beach, Joe Laing chances upon a tunnel in the cliffs, which is a time gateway leading to the Neanderthal Britain of 35,000 years ago. He contacts the primitive hunter-gatherers and is recognised as 'the Futama', whose legend has survived amongst the tribesmen for 250,000 years. Although Joe cannot understand the reason for the legend, he settles easily into the lives of his new friends. He witnesses the Neanderthal methods of hunting game and introduces flint-tipped throwing spears to replace the fire-hardened stabbing spears that have served the primitive people...

In a parallel universe the Faithful believe that the Futama will deliver them from the despotic empress, Prua Landi. They send emissaries back in time, who persuade Joe Laing to exchange his life in the early twenty-first century for an era seven-hundred millennia into his future. In that distant time Prua Landi is attempting to exterminate every member of the Faithful sect. Joe is captured, and the empress tortures him with powerful mental probes before killing him with a violent telepathic thrust. The vile act is witnessed by Sennit, a palace servant. The empress steps up her systematic...

The deposed empress, Prua Landi has been exiled, along with her acolyte, Praeton to Mars 300 million years in the past, when deep oceans cover much of the planetary surface. Two Martian years into their exile, having toiled on his own to make their existence more comfortable, Praeton risks a violent death from a savage mind probe when he gives Prua Landi an ultimatum: she must work to earn her food and shelter... or starve. Faced with appalling loneliness and starvation, the exiled empress accedes to Praeton's ultimatum, because she does not have the ability to survive on her own. A volcano...

M'lin and his companion, Lore Chenatikan are on a centuries-long quest to reunite the seven elements of the Medallion of Lorn. When the medallion's creator, Lorn Chenatikan, the greatest of all the mages is murdered by one of his three apprentices, he scatters the separate magical jewels to the furthest reaches of the Seven Universes. Following Lorn's death, M'lin and Lore wage a continuing war against the murderous Troy and his followers - until Troy 'kills' M'lin. Lore saves her companion's life spark and secretes it within an infant on twentieth-century Earth, and the child grows into Rob...