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 Miletos in Ionia, where he is sent back in time to deal with a mother and two daughters known to have metapsychic abilities. After the death of Thales, Abax builds replicas of himself who become the main staff of the scattered schools and colonies of Pythagoras and his followers, seekers of wisdom and inspiration.
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 winning control of the Yaroslavl psychic guild. He balances between the two parties of psychics. But at the national psychic convention in St. Petersburg Sara engages in a dangerous experiment in hypnotic levitation and Razum is stabbed. The detective must solve several mysteries surrounding Sara and the House of Razum...
PERO ARSLAN becomes a navigator-pilot on a buccaneer ship at the pirate center of Brigantine Island, where this business is legal. But the pirate fl eet is in steep decline due to new defenses of commercial ships with artillery and gyrocopters. He joins those turning to legitimate trade and helps bring vitrified hardwood developed in the tropics. Then he becomes part of a group building a vitrifying factory on his home island to glassify coral. A new, advanced gangster piracy rises to threaten shipping and is opposed with plasmatic gas screens by Pero and his friends.
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 invisible forces and creatures that have always surrounded their daily lives.
Bifrost The 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 of his parents. Avia Ornithologist Gauge Krave pursues his bird observation studies in the land of Avia, but suffers injury in an air crash. He becomes associated with the head of a mountain bird observatory and his daughter. His condition grounds him in a colony of raptor-worshipers who are breeding giant, dangerous teratorns. The raptor movement of fanatics is recruited by the dictator of Avia. His scheme is to use the teratorns to destroy the farms of small, independent farmers who oppose him. Gauge leads his friends in an attempt to flee Avia and its Auspex secret police before the teratorns are used to destroy the opposition and invade neighboring countries.
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 consolidating the two faiths.
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 ensues between the farmland ergati workers and the elite of the upper city decks. The balance of power falls to the desert oases, the small farmers, and the revived cult of Artemis, to whom Hermes and his allies turn for decisive support.
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-like testudinals, oceanic ondinals, blue bear ursines, chatan wildcats, oranoid orangutans, and primate knuckle-walkers participate in the adventures of three primary protagonists. In the end, a way is found of reconciling troubled humans with their secondary diploid forms.
On the planet Vivaldi, two field researchers, the anthropologist Sinus Ak and the physician Doa Mito travel through four tribal territories in order to study traditional folk medicine and newer unconventional therapies. In the Ezerite territory, they learn much from a natural healer who uses plants and herbs. He links them to a truck farm where a widow grows mushrooms and fungi used in many therapies. Here, they meet an advanced user of magnetic therapy. An inspector from the Ministry of Health sends an undercover agent to infiltrate this clinic as an assistant. Sinus and Doa learn how the power of magnetic tubes can be amplified and focused on ailing sections of patient bodies. The inspector decides to pose as a patient, but is identified and dies in a magnetic chamber. The clinic survives and continues. In Tilia Territory, Sinus and Doa deal with crystal therapy augmented by laser light radiation. The light expert, the physician, and the two making the study undergo arrest but refuse to turn on each other. No one is prosecuted for the gemstone therapy. In Boyanian Territory, traditional acupuncture is advanced through a new method of skin scraping that is superior to the use of tiny needles. Holographic microscopy enhances the therapeutic effects. An attempt by the head of the foremost hospital to halt, arrest, and prosecute those involved, including Sinus and Doa, fails and the latter two flee and escape the Boyanian authorities.
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