Harry Harrison

Powerful bishops and corrupt black-robed priests rule over the warring kings of British Isles. The Vikings of Scandinavia carrying the Hammer of Thor as their emblem collide with the Church launching an all-out war between the Hammer and the Cross.

A craftsman, visionary, and warrior, Shef has risen from slavery to become king of a mighty Viking nation. But his growing kingdom menaces all of Europe, and he has made many powerful enemies. Chief among his enemies are the Knights of the Lance, a fanatical order of soldiers sworn to bring Shef down, no matter what the cost. To defeat Shef, they will go to extraordinary lengths to find the sacred spear of Christ--and resurrect the Holy Roman Empire. Driven...

Fifty stories for fifty years! A collection-and celebration-of the work of Harry Harrison From his first sale in 1950 on, Harry Harrison has been one of the science fiction world's creative dynamos, working in every subgenre of the field, always bursting with provocative ideas. Parodic one moment, serious the next, Harrison has been called by Brian Aldiss "one of the few authors capable of carrying the old vigor of earlier days forward into a new...

In a futuristic world where no one lives past thirty, a member of the Death Squad escapes the city to avoid his own death; a plague resulting from germ warfare threatens the world's population and one man wages war against the carriers of the disease; a cop discovers the ultimate recycling project in an overpopulated futuristic world.