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KALIAN PENDEK SHALL NEVER DIE!

Hunters Associated was the simple name of the organization. Who was behind it, what its ultimate purpose was, was never told to its agents. All they needed to know was that they covered the galaxy, that their real identities had been buried, that once in Hunters they could be anybody.

He was Seven. That was all. Identity Seven. He had a new assignment. Identity Six had just been slain - lasered down on a far world by enemies unknown. But the death had been kept secret long enough for Seven to be sent to take his place.

To take his place, to take his features, to take his task - and to be a target to slay once again. If he failed, there would be an Identity Eight to step into his burned-out shoes... and a Nine and a Ten.

But Seven was determined to see that the progression stopped with him - even if he had to go to the bottom of an alien sea and hobnob with horror.

For Aufcash III, High Hodgepoker of Balik Trovo, the magical Etrax of Overnon is a must-have. Thus, for Hamper, official However to the throne, the legendary jewel becomes a must-get--or become food for three deadly, fanged fliers whose mission is to keep him on a straight path. But the path is less than straight. Testing his wits are home-grown assassins, mountain bandits with marriage ambitions (for him), won't-hear-no naval recruiters, a ravenous dragon, cannibalistic pirates, a spiteful sorceress and a treacherous genie (lamp included). And that's all before reaching Overnon, where awaiting him are the Four Perils and, worse, the Hag Who Rules. Wish him luck.

It wasn't easy for Hari Denver to be an agent for the United States of America - that is, the states that remained in 1989. Even if he could change his appearance at will to nearly any human form. the country was at the lowest point in its history: New York and Washington were almost complete ruins, petty gangs and warlords controlled large areas of New Jersey and Connecticut, the west was know as "The Wasteland," the south was separated into White and Black Dixie... and 13 golden bracelets (slavegirls attached) were stolen from the visiting Mudir of Chad.

Masters of the Lamp

Send a spy to find a god.

A Harvest of Hoodwinks

Collection including:

• Foreword - essay
• Archimedes' Lever - (1968) - shortstory
• Mar-ti-an - (1964) - shortstory
• The Star Party - (1964) - shortstory
• Futility Is Zuck - (1970) - shortstory
• Snowbird and the Seven Warfs - (1970) - shortstory
• The Locator - (1968) - shortstory
• Appointment at Ten O'Clock - (1964) - shortstory
• Only a God - (1970) - shortstory
• The Fall of All-Father - (1970) - shortstory
• Because of Purple Elephants - (1970) - shortstory
• Rolling Robert - (1970) - shortstory
• Debut - (1966) - shortstory

The Hard Way Up

Collection including:

• With Good Intentions - shortstory by A. Bertram Chandler
• The Subtracter - (1969) - novelette by A. Bertram Chandler
• The Tin Messiah - (1972) - shortstory by A. Bertram Chandler
• Sleeping Beauty - (1970) - novelette by A. Bertram Chandler
• The Wandering Buoy - (1970) - shortstory by A. Bertram Chandler
• The Mountain Movers - (1971) - novelette by A. Bertram Chandler
• What You Know - (1971) - novelette by A. Bertram Chandler

The Veiled World

Shamryke Odell, save the worlds!

The Space Barbarians

John of the Hawks was a proud, young man, proud of his people, proud of his heritage, and proud of his ability to count coup on his clann's traditional enemies. He knew what was right and what was wrong - the four great books had laid down the way things had to be.

Which is why the uncouth ways of the clannless drifters from space outraged him so. Not only did these peddlers know nothing of the finesse of proper combat, they knew nothing of the respect due to such things as the coup stick, the right way to capture a wife, and the sanctity of the clann's elders.

Worse still, they had some idiotic notion that that cheap silvery metal so commonly used for plumbing and horse-bits, known as platinum, was somehow of special merit.

Well, one could excuse an outrage or two on the grounds of ignorance, but there came a time when any good clannsman, such as John certainly was, must decide to teach these barbarians from space a lesson!

The Eyes of Bolsk

Was he puppet or sword-arm for a world's unseen master?