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Nine Differing Species of Human Shapeshifters. . . Provincia presents a world where a tenth of the population consists of shapeshifting humans with biform natures. Some varieties are selfish and evil, others are warm-hearted and generous. Diploids are as variegated as the humans around them. Their natures are revealed in a series of conflicts they are involved in. Blood-thirsty harpines, flying sylphine nurses, underground gnomi miners, turtle...

Police Detective Skopo Kitanin wages a difficult conflict against the Readers, a vengeance-seeking group of vandals attacking the viroid communications of the planet Farmer.In the city of Kalender, Skopo joins with the librarian Dari Totmax and her brother, Mlem. The trio traces the vandals through a carnivore anti-vegetarian restaurant, a hydrotherapy hospital, and a viroid language school to two brothers, Prado and Zado Atat, trying to aveng...

Ranid came to be torn between two sects of the same Amphibiot religion, the frog faith and the salamander one. He began as a researcher in the archives of the frog-worshipers but discovered their founder was a fraudulent, ambiguous person. Escaping into the swamps, Ranid joins a salamander community. He saves this cult from a conspiracy of mystics and defeats a mosquito contagion. Rand evolves into a unity-minded combiner dedicated to consolid...

The industrial history of Rubber City centers on the continuous conflict between the majority of Phrixians and the minority of Gefirs, reflected in the feud between the family of the Terions and the Gefir Meuns. The hero is the lawyer Phot Aiton who joins the Meuns, marrying the daughter of Kimon Meun and fighting the Terion firm over tire patents and winning. The Meun company battles the Terions in mayoral politics, the development of rubber ...

Xexun Kuon was from childhood aflame with fascinated curiosity about the concealed, unseen opposite side of the satellite body revolving around his planet Farmer. As a university student, he is encouraged to fly there to explore and study these unknown countries. After contact with tribes on the near side, he travels to three lands on the far side, where he discovers stubborn resistance to science innovation and invention. In Siopia, Xexun uni...

Two psychiatrists, a father, and daughter provide their patients an immersion to the bottom of the ocean. Three patients, a landscape artist, a musician, and a lawyer receive treatment in the deep-sea globoid, but there occur collisions three times, with a giant monster shark, a great jellyfish, and a gigantic squid. At the seaport city of Porto Lago, Dr. Maltem Cacao and his daughter Data have begun a new system of psychotherapy to deal with ...

Venco is one of the Otromi, a mountain-dwelling ethnic minority in four different countries. He goes to the upland town of Gopa in Mnin to learn the trade of a cable-tapper from Uncle Faro and Cousin Gorda, then travels with the latter on a mission to Bakaz. The duo helps to tap, expose, and defeat a planned coup by the head of military intelligence. Venco proceeds on the land of Ruxum to tap the Foreign Minister, revealing him to be anagent o...

A series of stories cover several inventions and breakthroughs that could have occurred in an imagined Post-World War II America. They cover microwave faxing and storage, brain wave mental therapy, alongevity serum from the Soviet Union, synthetic gasoline from corn, electronic medical treatments, new zodiacs in astrology, cloud-seeding for whether control, a universal antiviral compound, , advanced steam- powered autos, a cure for alcoholism,...

Tegumen is a planet divided between the Red Hat elite on the mountain peaks and the belowers of the valleys with only two or three hours of sunlight each day. The young Yie Evroe is recruited to study galactic energy dynamics at a mountain claustrum community. He falls in love with Joa, daughter of the Red Hat chieftain. The lovers secretly study the archives and discover clues to a different, helial energy system. When the father uncovers the...

Police Detective Skopo Kitanin wages a difficult conflict against the Readers, a vengeance-seeking group of vandals attacking the viroid communications of the planet Farmer. In the city of Kalender, Skopo joins with the librarian Dari Totmax and her brother, Mlem. The trio trace the vandals through a carnivore anti=vegetarian restaurant, a hydrotherapy hospital, and a viroid language school to two brothers, Prado and Zado Atat, trying to aveng...

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The head of Hyperchip Corp., Sekar Airan, and his research director, Dr. Bijan Jha, create a new bio-computer with DNA microprocessors for the casino owner, Vinod D evar.But a secret group of ex-gambling addicts, the Rigorists, make a cyberattack on the casino and shut it down for a time. The brother of Bijan Zha is part of this fanatical conspiracy of the self-cured.Sekar and Bijan develop a plankton-based substitute. But the conniving techni...

This series of stories set in Serbia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia combines creatures from regional folklore, exotic technology, and magical herbs. The characters include a grobnik vampire, a dhampir vampire-hunter, a stija lake nymph, samodiva female spirits, talisman treasure, magical snakes, building ghouls, vuklen wolf-men, enlivened dolls, costumed kuker mummers, Peoples of the Balkans share similar folklore traditions and legends that reflect...

The ancient Greek philosopher Thales journeys to Egypt to learn the secrets needed to assemble an artificial replica of a human. He depends on Egyptian priests and Greek artisans and weavers to build a being he names Abax, but breaks with the Egyptians when they attempt to create drones. Abax is found to have the power to transmit thoughts and make leaps through time. He conflicts with hemithane ghouls in a past age. Thales takes him back to M...

ENON GAREB enters the Memory Institute as an apprentice and assigned as assistant to Dr. Reia Terah. He helps her in combining hypnotic and neurofeedback therapy, but himself suffers from loss of most childhood memories. Reia is fired when her enemy, Dr. Azot Luban, an ally of a pharma tycoon, uncovers her secret experiments with patients and Enon. She continues her work at a university facility and solves the problem of Enon's memory, but he ...

A Moscow detective, David Klimov, is hired by a distressed father to find his daughter Sara, a missing university student of parapsychology. He traces her to Suzdal and the local Psychic Tsekh guild and he becomes associated with its leader, the mayor. The trail leads to Yaroslavl and Dr. Viktor Razum, founder of a new movement based on telepathic hypnotism. David finds Sara and joins the Razumites in order to understand her. He aids Razum in ...

These tales tell of human beings, the "Snakians", who have snakes living and residing within their bodies and the adventures these interior creatures compel them to experience. Such snakes appear in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, and Italy, then later on in Istanbul, Athens, Salonika, Hungary, Serbia, Ireland, New York State, San Francisco, and Hollywood.

On the planet Vivaldi, two field researchers, theanthropologist Sinus Ak and the physician Doa Mito travelthrough four tribal territories in order to study traditional folkmedicine and newer unconventional therapies. In the Ezeriteterritory, they learn much from a natural healer who uses plantsand herbs. He links them to a truck farm where a widow growsmushrooms and fungi used in many therapies. Here, they meetan advanced user of magnetic ther...

The scene is an eight-decked vertical city built by migrants from Ancient Greece ages ago. Hermes, a scientist at the desert Light Institute discovers a new color spectrum never seen before. This new light becomes the center of a new cult of Apollo and the farm laborers who flock into it. The rebel movement is opposed by Nessos, a photonic industrialist who exploits the labor conflict to set up his own personal dictatorship. Internal civil war...

BifrostThe psychiatrist Cam Bingen comes to arctic Bifrost to learn the new methods of actinotherapy using light. At the Photinic Clinic, he is assigned the hotel singer of folksongs Sunda Vipur as his first patient. She is madly pursued by a spoiled playboy son of, the richest tycoon who dominates the algae industry. Cam rescues her from her wild admirer, who begins to set fire to his father's arctic algae plantations in vengeance and hatred ...