Gondwane . . . In the last days of Earth, the continents drifted together again after aeons of separation, and that was Gondwane. Gondwane . . . When all the kingdoms of all the peoples of Earth had come and gone and new ones arose, it was on Gondwane they created their ephemeral glories. On Gondwane, amid the turmoil of the last wars and the last quests and the last efforts of scientists and alchemists, there arose one final hero, the mighty Ganelon Silvermane.

Ganelon Silvermane, the genetically designed superhero of the Earth's fabulous final age, has offered himself as hostage to the worst band of barbarians to roam the plains. As a captive of the Horde, Ganelon rises to greater heights of heroism than ever before . . . and begins to assume the full power of his mighty being!

Ganelon Silvermane, the genetically designed superhero of the Earth's fabulous final age, has rapidly become the most popular of all Lin Carter's creations. Brought to life prematurely, Ganelon's adventures in a world of crumbling empires, ravaging hordes, and marvelous relics of forgotten scientific empires are always edge-of-the-seat wonder novels - the best creation of the author of the Thongor, Green Star, and Callisto books, to mention but a few!Now, in this third novel of Gondwane, Ganelon Silvermane encounters a city of illusion, the problem of scientific immortals, and the disastrous collision of a massive horde of the world's ultimate barbarians!

Ganelon Silvermane, the genetically designed superhero of the Earth's fabulous final age, has rapidly become the most popular of all Lin Carter's creations. Brought to life prematurely, Ganelon's adventures in a world of crumbling empires, ravaging hordes, and marvelous relics of forgotten scientific empires are always edge-of-the-seat wonder novels. Now, in this fifth and final novel of Gondwane, the world's last continent, Ganelon Silvermane leaves the savage barbarian Horde which he has civilized, and sets off on his greatest adventure . . . to rescue his friend Kurdi, who has been kidnapped by force or forces unknown!

AN UNLIKELY BAND OF SUPERHEROES A woman who loved in vain, a magician who loved only wisdom, and a warrior to whom love was a genetic impossibility - fought the Doom that filled the skies of their strange world. And it came to pass that Zolobion the Magician and Ganelon Silvermane set forth from the land of the great Stone Face and took the first steps of their gigantic journey across the world, a journey so long and fearful and so filled with wonders that no man since time began until that hour had undertaken a like adventure. But their mission was a logical impossibility. Hence what purpose in undertaking it? Only that the Moon was falling.

"Go to thy master and say that Mardanax hath come. I have lived to see the barbarian Thongor in his tomb." As the stranger throws back his cloak the hellish gleam of his emerald eyes confirms his statement - Mardanax, the Black Magician of Zaar - has survived Thongor's destruction of the dread City of Magicians. Mardanax strikes swiftly. His evil sorcery explodes with inconceivable power, and Thongor lies dead. Thongor's beautiful queen is drugged into mindless obedience to the Black Magician. Her son, the prince, is kidnapped. Thongor's empire seems to have fallen to the forces of Chaos. Then, wandering in the land of the dead, Thongor finds a powerful sword of light...

Lin Carter's short tales of lost worlds - Hyperborea, Mu, Lemuria, Atlantis, and more! This volume contains 8 stories, with some written collaboration with Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard.

MARS: THE SKULL OF A PLANET PICKED CLEAN BY THE WIND OF TIME North Beyond the desert of Meroe, past the ancient cliffs of the dust-locked continents, past the dry wharfs of a city that was old when Earth was new, the caravan crept into the unmapped waste called Umbra. It was into this shadowed land that the lost nation of the People had ridden and vanished-in a time beyond memory. It was here that the outworlder Ryker followed the golden-eyed Valarda and found the Child-of-Stars.

Destined to fulfill an ancient prophecy, the warrior Sargon strode through the gates of Chalsadon - the last refuge of a once-proud empire. Only Sargon, a Barbarian and an Outsider, could stem the slaughter. Only he could wield the deadly golden maul, covered with the dust of centuries. Only he was fated to test the necromancy of Shadrazar, the beautiful Black Lord of Chaos. But Sargon was mortal . . .