Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan’s pony shied in terror as a wordless howl burst from his throat. His dripping ears were flat to his skull, fire crackled in his...

Falderson,” he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, “is as stupid as the day is long.” He craned his neck to gaze up at the hradani and shook his head. “In fact, he’s even...

The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams by night, calling to him and pleading with him to unlock...

…there was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.

Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian’s greasy hair was thick with potatoes, carrots, gravy, and chunks of beef. His companion had less stew in his hair, but an equally large lump...

Well, thank the gods,’ he sighed.’Oh? And what would it be you’re thanking them for?’ Bahzell inquired, and Brandark grinned.’For making roads and letting us find one. Not that I’m complaining, you understand, but this...

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself...

If you think it’s bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!’ He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. ‘Do try to remember we’re visitors-and not welcome ones-if you...

Tisiphone stood silent and helpless in Alicia’s mind. It was all she could do to keep Alicia’s blind savagery from dragging Megaira under and clouding the lightning-fast reflexes which kept them both alive.She’d never guessed...

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the bast bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way...

Oh, hell,” Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. “I really blew it, didn’t I?””Don’t be silly,” Berry scolded. “It’s just your first lovers’ spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and...

Without love, there can be no true marriage; with love, there can be nothing else.

Cathy smiled back ‘Rules were meant to be broken.’‘Don’t disagree,’ Oversteegen replied immediately. ‘Indeed they are. Providin’, however, that the one breakin’ the rules is willin’ t’ pay the price for it, and the price...

Yet i say to you, do not rush to marriage for it is a deep and perfect thing. Test first, that you may be certain you are called to it by love, and not simply...

Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people… have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.