A VERY
HAIRY PROBLEM

Travel-weary wizard Kedrigern is off on another business trip.  It seems King Ithian of Othion has a hairy problem indeed - his daughter Berzel keeps turning into a wolf whenever there's a full moon.  And a silver bullet is simply out of the question.

Kedrigern must find a cure - before the next full moon.  Meanwhile, his lovely wife Princess and the spoiled Berzel, who is getting furrier by the minute, are dodging ogres, hungry witches, evil jesters and a giant chess game... played to the death!

It's enough to make anyone howl.

Praise for the KEDRIGERN books:
"Enjoyable... fun... Kedrigern is an adequately crusty protagonist and his house troll, Spot, is a delight."
- FANTASY REVIEW

"Quite funny!"
- STARLOG

"Four stars."
- OTHERREALMS

KEDRIGERN
IN  WANDERLAND

The wizard Kedrigern, connoisseur of counterspells, is now happily married.  Well, fairly happily.  His bride has confessed that she longs for her own magic wand - and good ones are hard to come by.  Homeloving Kedrigern will have to hit the road again in search of the perfect wand - this time with his wife Princess by his side.

Instead of a wand they find a talking sword, once the Princess Louise.  Kedrigern sees very quickly why someone turned the Princess Louise into something inanimate, and if he were not such a gentleman he would have a lot more to say on the subject.  But at least she promises to help him on his quest in return for his help in claiming her lost kingdom.

Home is beginning to look farther and farther away, as Kedrigern and Princess contend with a passel of second-rate sorcerers, a three-hundred-year-old curse to which everyone has forgotten the punch line, and the trials of traveling with a whining weapon.

Praise for the KEDRIGERN books:

"Enjoyable... fun... Kedrigern is an adequately crusty protagonist and his house troll, Spot, is a delight."
- FANTASY REVIEW

"Quite funny!"
- STARLOG

THE QUESTING
OF  KEDRIGERN

His name is Kedrigern.  Wizard extraordinaire.  Counterspell expert.  Lazy homebody.  And when he's asked to lecture at the annual wizard's convention, his lady friend Princess is delighted to get out of the house.

But tragedy strikes the Wizcon when a pair of drunken conjurers inadvertently turn Princess into a toad.  Again.  And since counterspells only work once, it's up to Kedrigern to go out and find a new solution.

So begins a most extraordinary quest.  With strange companions at his side - and Death at his heels - Kedrigern must cross a maelstrom of magic and a sudden detour into a dangerous future land called L.A. - or else his Princess will have to live on a diet of flies for the rest of her life!

Back cover:

OTHER SCIENCE FICTION TITLES
FROM WALKER

HORRORS UNKNOWN
Edited by Sam Moskowitz

The stories in this collection have in common an offbeat approach to horror that presents the reader with an element of novelty that broadens the genre.  These previously unanthologized stories are masterpieces of fantastic terror.

PARTNERS IN WONDER
By Harlan Ellison (in collaboration with
fourteen other wild talents)

No matter how many books you've read, you have never read a book like this one.  The first book of collaborative short stories ever created, it is unique in publishing history.

SOLARIS
By Stanislaw Lem
Translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steven Cox

When Kris Kelvin left Earth for Station Solaris, he was prepared for the hazards of space travel but not for the cruel miracle that awaited him.  Landing at his destination, he finds himself as he really is, and must confront a presence and emotions long forgotten and suppressed.

Front flap:

STARBRAT
by JOHN MORRESSY

STARBRAT is a picaresque novel of the future, the story of a twenty-seventh century foundling who wanders the galaxy in search of his rightful home and true identity, and encounters a variety of adventures before finding what he seeks.

For sixteen years, Del Whitby lived quietly among the pious farmers of the planet Gilead.  On the eve of his time of decision, when a boy of Gilead becomes a man, Del learns that he was a foundling, the sole known survivor of a tragedy in distant space.  He chooses to marry his childhood sweetheart, Cassie, and live out his life as a man of Gilead, but that very night he is taken by a band of galactic slave traders and his long wanderings begin.

Del is sold to a gladiatorial school on Tarquin VII.  After years in the arena, he wins his freedom in a tournament on distant Vigrid, and hoping to make his way back to Gilead, he signs on as guard on a pilgrim ship.  Eventually he acquires a driveship of his own, and he and his friend Grax set out to find Gilead and the truth of Del's identity.

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Back flap:

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Their wanderings bring them to many places: Skorat, a barbarous place where they witness the return of a long-lost king; Watson's Planet, the information center of the galaxy, where Del takes part in a mind-wrenching search for the secret of a lost civilization; the pleasure-planet Barbary; and eventually to Mazat, where Del, Grax, and a small band of free-lance warriors from across the galaxy join to liberate the inhabitants from the ravages of a band of space pirates.  In time, Del returns to Gilead and Cassie and learns the truth of his origin.  It is not what he hoped for or expected, but as the book ends, he has found a home and people of his own.

THE AUTHOR
JOHN MORRESSY is the author of two novels and several short stories. STARBRAT is his first venture into full-length science fiction.  A resident of East Sullivan, New Hampshire, he teaches at Franklin Pierce College.

FLIGHT INTO
THE UNKNOWN

Jolon Gallamor was being hunted by the same inter-galactic murderers who had slain his father.  Behind him lay certain death.  Ahead of him lay a universe teeming with pirates, slavers, tyrants and warriors, where all law and order had broken down, and survival was only for the fittest.

Jolon Gallamor had a mother wit and an acting skill that let him play a different role on every planet.  He had a strange store of knowledge from man's nearly forgotten past that he used to his bizarre advantage.  And he had an implacable enemy coming closer and closer as Jolon moved ever outward in space toward the point of no return...

A SAGA OF SORCERY AND WAR

The Empire has enjoyed long years of peace and prosperity.  But beyond the
walls of the White City the Eastern Alliance is gaining strength.  An attack
is imminent.

The magician Valimagdon senses his approaching death and passes on his powers to Gariel, the only man he trusts not to misuse them - for using
magic as a weapon will unleash pent-up forces of uncontrollable evil.

But what he fears has already come true.  For Gariel’s brother, Bellenzor, has
reawakened the dread Ankaria to defeat the Alliance and rule the Empire.

Ankaria, otherwise known as...
the Great Annihilator.

STRANGE ALLIES

JORRY was a space freebooter, a member of the dying breed of individualistic adventurers who roamed through space, doing what they wished, taking what they wanted, and fleeing the growing tyranny of the intergalactic empire.

AXXAL was born an underling, one of a despised race whom the space lords had made their helpless servants.  But Axxal unlike his brothers refused to obey the Imperial edicts, and dreamed of freedom not only for himself but for all the oppressed.

No two men could have been more different.  Yet together they vowed to topple the mightiest power that the universe had ever known...