Christopher Stasheff
Matt didn't know the scrap of parchment was a trap. So he read the runes - and found himself on a world where reciting poetry verses worked magic. His first effort got him locked in a dungeon by the evil sorcerer Malingo. Trying for light, he brought forth a fire-breathing, drunken dragon, who told him Princess Alisande, rightful ruler of Merovence, was also held in the dungeon.
Naturally, he had to free her, himself, and the dragon, using
...THERE'S NO JUSTICE, AND LITTLE FREEDOM, IN A WORLD WHERE MIGHT MAKES RIGHT...
The medieval planet of Maltroit seems to be repeating Earth's bloody history in the worst possible manner: endless feudal warfare, at the expense of peasants just trying to survive. It's up to the Rogue Wizard to give the downtrodden a crash course in revolution, and set in motion a plan for the common soldiers to take back power and end the bloodshed.
...LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD
Gregory Gallowglass is the eligible bachelor on the planet of Gramarye. The youngest son of the High Warlock Rod Gallowglass and the witch Gwendolyn, his powers of intellect and magic are without equal.
But he's best known for his heart—one as pure as it is impervious to love. To the femme fatale assassin Finister, it's the ultimate challenge: first to conquer, then drive a knife through.
...THEY ROCK. THEY ROLL. THEY'RE AFTER YOUR SOUL!
A plague of mysterious singing stones have flooded the kingdom, capturing the eyes—and ears—of the good folk of Gramarye, young and old alike. Entertaining, yes. But what exactly are these strange, musical rocks? Where did they come from? Why do they have such influence over the thoughts and feelings of everyone who hears them, and to what purpose? Rod Gallowglass
...HOW CAN YOU FIGHT YOUR OWN MADNESS?
Rod Gallowglass, Lord High Warlock of Gramarye, has gone mad. Lost in hallucinations, fighting monsters that aren't really there, he's a danger to his family and himself. Has he finally lost his mind? Or have his adversaries found a way to not just destroy him, but discredit him as well? Most of all, how can he find his way back to sanity? With a handful of allies real and imagined, battling enemies part
...THE FATE OF A KINGDOM RESTS ON FOUR CHILDREN
The Kingdom of Gramarye is spiraling into chaos, and the High Warlock is nowhere to be found. With their parents suddenly and suspiciously vanished, the four Gallowglass siblings - Magnus, Cordelia, Geoffrey, and Gregory - are all that stand between peaceful order and violent anarchy. But how can mere children, even with an elfin babysitter, stand against dragons and giants, witches and sorcerers?
...Something sinister is creeping over the northern duchy of Gramarye. Fleeing refugees carry rumors of a warlock army conquering barony after barony. The Lord High Warlock of Gramarye, Rod Gallowglass, is sent to investigate, accompanied by his wife and children. But before he can confront the rebel sorcerer, Rod must find a way to reign in his violent, explosive temper. If he loses control at the wrong moment, he'll lose more than his temper, he'll
...THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH - OR WARLOCK - TO LIVE!
Beyond science and sorcery, time and space, the enemies of peace once again come to the planet Gramarye. Their mission: to tempt the clergy with visions of power, and lead them to war against the throne and establish a theocracy. Only warlock Rod Gallowglass can stop it - or burn at the stake for trying...
LIBERTY IS TREASON
Interstellar liberator Magnus Gallowglass, the renegade psychic wizard, travels the stars fighting injustice and oppression. But this time the Rogue Wizard may have encountered a tyrant even he can't overthrow: a stern Protector whose oppressive regime makes Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth look like a Sunday-school picnic. For hundreds of years, this lost colony planet has preserved order by dictating every
...In this short story, Manninglore is a Wizard who is feared and loathed by the people of the valley he lives above. But when extinction threatens humanity, he comes down and shows them that he, too, is nothing more then they are - human.
IN A SUPERNATURAL WORLD, BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
Interplanetary liberators Magnus and Alea land on the lost colony planet of Oldeira, where the peasantry live in fear. Ghosts and dragons fill the woods, mutants and madmen lurk in the ancient abandoned cities, and the local Magician Lords are as likely to abuse their peasants as protect them.
Worse, the common folk have given up all thought of resistance. How can
...IN A WORLD OF ANARCHY AND CHAOS, ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE... TO RULE THE WEAK
Magnus D'Armand, the Rogue Wizard, travels the stars fighting injustice and oppression, sowing the seeds of freedom and revolution throughout the galaxy.
But on the planet Durvie, he may have met his match: a lost colony founded by idealistic anarchists, whose civilization has long since crumbled into utter chaos. Dozens of greedy warlords,
IF YOU'RE TOO TALL OR TOO SHORT, YOU'RE A SLAVE.
Gar Pike, a.k.a. renegade psychic wizard Magnus D'Armand, finds himself on the distant planet Siegfried amid a lost colongy modeled after medieval Scandinavia from Old Earth, complete with the Norse pantheon, dwarves, and even giants.
But the three human races have hated each other since the dawn of time, and the planet is beleaguered by racism and prejudice. Giants,
...SWORD AND SORCERY! SOME GUYS HAVE IT ALL...
Geoffrey Gallowglass, the Lord High Warlock's second son, has only two passions in life: war and women. As a knight-errant, he roams the Kingdom of Gramarye looking for wrongs to right and women to woo... but no one has held his interest for very long.
Until he meets Quicksilver, a fiery warrior woman as beautiful as she is deadly, with a tongue as sharp as her sword. Has
...When old Count Rory, patriarch of d'Armand Automatons, begins to lose his grip on reality and retreat into a fantasy world, it threatens his company, his noble house, and his family. Is he just a senile but harmless old man, or a danger to himself and others? And what, if anything, can be done about it?
Five hundred years from their own time and place on the magical planet Gramarye, Rod and Gwen Gallowglass are held captive on another planet - a world where purple-skinned, fur-kilted men challenge them in primitive battle. Lost within time and space, Rod and Gwen must fight for their survival, freedom, and to return home.
AT LAST, THE UNTOLD ADVENTURES OF THE WARLOCK'S FAITHFUL CYBERNETIC STEED!
Fess, Rod Gallowglass's faithful cybernetic stallion, has had a long life and many grand adventures. But what about the masters he served before Rod Gallowglass? What about the young, spoiled joyrider? Or the revolutionary hero? Or the crew of a pirate ship? Over the hundreds of years its been operating, the epileptic robot has served masters selfless
19) Warlock and Son
NO GOVERNMENT, NO PROBLEM... FOR THE INVADERS.
During his last fight for peace and democracy on a forgotten planet, the interplanetary liberator Gar Pike somehow managed to get himself a new traveling companion: Alea, a young with a certain amount of psychic ability - and a heavy dose of attitude to boot.
Now the ship feels like it's shrinking, and Alea's always around, asking questions, sticking her nose in, and tensions are rising.
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