Search Worlds Without End

In the future, cancer has been eliminated on Earth. Despite his diagnosis, celebrated artist Jimson Alleca can live peacefully for another twenty years if he stays on the planet to receive his medication. But, Jimson doesn't want peace; he wants love. Even though it will shorten his lifespan to one single year more, Jimson leaves space-normal to enter "the Hype," a shimmering space outside of space. He goes in search of his former lover, the starcaptain Russell O'Neill. What he finds is enough adventure and freedom to fill a lifetime.

This short story originally appeared in Omni, June 1984. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985), edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989), edited by Ellen Datlow.

WFA nominated novelette. It originally appeared as a chapbook. The story can also be found in the anthology Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (1988), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. It is included in the collection Tales from a Vanished Country (1990).

Captured trying to recover his stolen property, Starcaptain Dana Ikoro is arrested and sentenced to ten years of slavery on the slave world of Chabad. There could be crueler masters than Rhani Yago, the beautiful and powerful aristocrat. Dana forges a dangerous bond with his master--and discovers that on a world where drugged criminals are used as slaves, rebellion may be the highest form of love.

World Fantasy Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Amazons! (1979), edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. The story can also be found in the collections The Woman Who Loved the Moon and Other Stories (1981) and Tales from a Vanished Country (1990).

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Tales from a Vanished Country) - essay
• 5 - Wizard's Domain - (1980) - novelette
• 49 - The Woman Who Loved the Moon - (1979) - novelette
• 71 - The Red Hawk - (1983) - novelette

This collection of Lynn's early short stories serves as a wonderful introduction to her influential work. Soaring emotions, eloquent prose, and fully-realized worlds are truly a joy to become lost within. That explains why the namesake short story "The Woman Who Loved the Moon" won Lynn one of her two World Fantasy Awards.

Table fo Contents:

• 1 - Wizard's Domain - (1980) - novelette
• 35 - The Gods of Reorth - (1980) - novelette
• 56 - We All Have to Go - (1976) - short story
• 72 - The Saints of Driman - (1977) - short story
• 81 - I Dream of a Fish, I Dream of a Bird - (1977) - short story
• 95 - The Island - (1977) - short story
• 106 - The Dragon That Lived in the Sea - (1979) - short story
• 112 - Mindseye - (1977) - short story
• 123 - The Man Who Was Pregnant - (1977) - short story
• 127 - Obsessions - (1978) - short story (variant of The Fire Man)
• 136 - The Woman in the Phone Booth - (1981) - short story
• 140 - Don't Look at Me - (1978) - short story
• 150 - Jubilee's Story - (1978) - short story
• 159 - The Circus That Disappeared - (1978) - short story (variant of Circus)
• 174 - The White King's Dream - (1979) - short story
• 182 - The Woman Who Loved the Moon - (1979) - novelette

Since his twin's theft of his talisman, Karadur Atani can never become a dragon king. Instead, his dragon's heart remains imprisoned in the body of a broken man. But when his brother returns, cloaked in a veil of black magic, Karadur Atani will fight for his birthright--once and for all.

In the province of Ippa, the twin sons of Kojiro, the Black Dragon, warred with sorcery and fire to decide which of them would rule their father's kingdom. After his brother's death, Karadur, who inherited his dangerous father's shape-changing gift, becomes the master of Dragon's County.

In a land brought to life by warriors and lovers, war and honor, the legendary tower, Tornor Keep, is invaded by raiders. No longer the watchtower at the winter end of a summer land, Tornor turns to a young prince with the hopes that he might protect the future of the enchanting land.

The epic adventure that began with Watchtower continues in the second breathtaking book in Elizabeth A. Lynn's Chronicles of Tornor--a series that has won unprecedented acclaim.

This novel of a young servant girl who finds the warrior within herself--and radically alters the peaceful-but-oppressive world in which she lives--is the final volume in Elizabeth Lynn's World Fantasy Award-winning trilogy.