Earth is ravaged by tornadoes, and in their aftermath everyone becomes sterile. Certain people acquire psychic powers and can experience "trips" in each other's company, during which their consciousness appears to dislocate itself in time and space.

As the sun fades the leader of the witches returns. Exiled to a far distant star after the defeat of the witches, Llorio the Murthe has made her wicked way back to the Dying Earth. A dramatic warning from the past alerts the magicians of the 21st Aeon among their number: Rhialto the Marvellous magician of the highest order. Against the intrigues of the Murthe, Rhislato and his ally, Ildefonse the Preceptor, have a battle of magical power on their hands.

As the fate of their world hangs in the balance, Gemma and Arden face their final challenge and find that the difference between their friends and their foes could make the difference between survival . . . and Armageddon.

The Custodians tells of a visitor to a French monastery, and of one specially built tiny room which is constructed precisely on the intersection of mysterious force fields, so that anyone who enters is able to foresee the future. Paradise Beach is the story of a wall-screen whose image of the sea attunes itself to the individual perceptions of the onlooker. Piper at the Gates of Dawn is set towards the end of the next millennium when the stories about the coming of the mysterious white bird of...

The continuing adventures of Rhapsody, The Brother, Grunthor three of the most engaging characters of modern fantasy will take the reader ever further into the extraordinarily imagined, complex and exciting world of Elizabeth Haydon's landmark fantasy series. This is a series that spans epochs of time in a richly imagined, carefully thought out wholly entrancing world. Haydon is unusual in her ability to create great characters, original slants on fantasy standards and cohesive imaginary...