In the 25th century... Survivors of the nuclear war must live underground. Their actions must be regulated. Their passions must be controlled.

Love is a crime... And when a man dares to take a lover of his own choice, he must be punished.

It's time for a change... And the only way to alter this grim future is to journey back to the past... and change a few small details.

Dream a Little Dream
(with Julie Brady)

Nola and Tina are both girls with problems. They don't know each other yet, though they will; each is a creator, with the magical ability to turn dreams into reality. That would be a powerful gift-- if either knew that she had it. And this world is hard on dreamers. Nola is trapped in a terrible, abusive relationship with a man she once loved, and Tina is an orphan who makes her living on the street. All their dreams are slowly being ground to dust.

That's a tragedy no matter who it happens to. But when the great dreamers stop dreaming, whole universes of imagination can be lost. And the land of Nola and Tina's dreams is fighting back.

Into their miserable every world soars Esprit, a winged unicorn dark as the space between the stars. He is the vessel of Nola's dreams, come to aid her in her battle with sordid reality. Following after him comes Prince Michael, whose quest it is to find the human dreamers who can save his land from ruin.

And suddenly, Nola realizes that the last thing she wants is to keep both feet firmly on the ground...

The E.S.P. Worm
(with Robert E. Margroff):

Earth's first alien visitor looks like a twelve-foot long cabbage worm, acts like a spoiled brat, and delights in taking over human minds for fun. Qumax's daddy, the terrifying Swarm Tyrant, wants him back, and will snuff out the sun if the terrible tot isn't returned.

The catch--Qumax doesn't want to go home.

Fortunately, Earth has a Minister of Inner-Galactic World Affairs to handle the case. Unfortunately, the Minister is the President's deadbeat cousin, hapless Harold Prodkins...

If I Pay Thee Not in Gold
(with Mercedes Lackey)

In the age of the Mazonians women rule through magic - and men suffer what they must. Magical creations only last for a single day (magical food is great for dieting), but that is quite long enough for casting a giant wet blanket (if you're feeling kind) over a would-be rampaging male- or a block of granite (if you're not). No uppity males in Mazonia!

But then, as now, some people rise above what they've been taught. One such is Xylina; somehow she has always understood that being of the wrong gender, or even lacking magical power, is no reason for stripping a human being of dignity. How ironic, then, that the Queen has ordained that in order to avoid execution Xylina must use her magic to publicly conquer the most glorious male Mazonia has ever seen- and how doubly so that together he and Xylina will transform their world.

Quest for the Fallen Star
(with James Richey and Alan Riggs)

Beneath the twin suns Ellistar and Deneob, the Realm of Infinitera is menaced by the Dark One and his minions, the Illcreatures. And in these strange times has come a thing never seen before: a star which has tumbled fromt he sky, holding power of evil more dangerous than the Dark One himself.

Now, to save the realm, the High Bishop charges a lonely group of travelers with a crucial task: carrying the mightiest weapon ever known, the Thunderwood Staff, to safety in the Holy City of Norivika.

Running before the storm, this doughty band must traverse the world, and learn the true nature of the Fallen Star, in order to stave off the Dark...

After a youth trapped in exile, Jeff Font returned to Earth to seek vengeance against the planetary mogul who had framed and destroyed Jeff's family. Jeff's plans backfired: he was captured, drugged, rammed through a computerized court system, convicted... and ringed.

The ring. The ultimate high-tech civics lesson. A surgically implanted electronic monitor that automatically caused unendurable agony when a convict strayed from righteousness. A ringer could do no evil, see or hear evil without ratting to the robocops- nor defend himself or others from insult or injury.

And in a corrupt world of licensed sin and satanic parties, floral estates and city-sized slums, ringers were the ultimate victims. But the ring's data banks had factored in Jeff Font's strength... courage... and his will to fight society, the world and the agony of the ring to unravel the plot that entrapped him, and see justice done.

The Secret of Spring
(with Jo Anne Taeusch)

A disturbing tale of our own world, and the strange creatures with whom we share it.

It is well and truly said that there are more things under heaven and earth than there are anywhere else; true also that many lurk, unsuspected, far below the surface of the ocean.

For thousands of years, mankind has trusted in the sea's generosity while using it as a dumping ground, believing that in it's vastness his garbage will be swallowed up and forgotten.

But that was never really true. And now, when the earth's hungry inhabitants demand more than even the ocean's endless bounty can provide, strange things are being born in the oceanic depths-- strange things that the sea throws back upon the land...

Tales From the Great Turtle 
(with Richard Gilliam)

Through the Ice
(with Robert Kornwise)

"...What a turn reality had taken! He had been about to drown and then turned up on a world where magic governed. Now he was committed to a quest whose nature he knew virtually nothing about, except that it would be dangerous..." -from Through the Ice

Anthology

TBP.

Learn about the astonishing hierarchy- and lowerarchy- of sorcerers and shape-changers; of goblins, harpies, and half-humans who inhabit this extraordinary universe! Explore the perilous Ogre-fen, Ogre-fen and the inner chambers of the mysterious Castle Roogna! Revel in the history and the culture of the most remarkable civilization this side of Oz!

Bursting with exquisitely detailed maps, charts, and illustrations, here's an indispensable addition to the amazing Anthony Xanthian anthology that no true "Xanthophile" will want to be without- a delightful escape from the routine grind of Mundania!

The Willing Spirit
(with Alfred Tella)

Hari, a remarkably well-set-up young village lad raised by a pious widowed mother, has a soul tainted by worldly sophistication. But now, poised on the brink of manhood, Hari feels himself moved by strange new urgings -- urgings he interprets as a hunger for spiritual enlightenment. And so he sets out upon the pilgrim's path, a wander in search of true wisdom.

But who can forsee the ways of the Gods? For Hari and his quest have become the subject of a wager between two immortals: the pulchritudinous Apsara Mohini, and the vile demon Ravana who lusts after her. Joyful, Romantic Mohini will try to get Hari entangled in the charms of seven different women; meanwhile, the cruel and violent Ravana will have seven chances to kill get Hari killed.

As the sages have written, there's a seeker born every minute; but Hari's journey of discovery is fated to be stranger-- and far livelier!-- than most.