Larry Elmore Knihy

Barbarian horsemen have breached the Dragonwall and threaten Shou Lung, and a general who is a descendant of the barbarians may be Shou Lung's only chance of survival--if the imperial court will give him the opportunity

THE FALL ACCORDING TO C.J. CHERRYHThe Roman Empire. Imagine its fall. Now imagine that warring time with cannon—and a working system of magic. C.J. Cherryh did. In The Sword of Knowledge, Cherryh has explored the fall of empires and the impact of technological knowledge while replacing the repressed religion of the Christians with a Church of Knowledge.In A Dirge for Sabis we saw the Sabirn Empire fall to barbarians because the rulers were too inflexible to make use of the technology available to them.Wizard Spawn opens centuries later, with the Sabirn empire a blighted memory and the barbarians established as the new and oppressive rulers.Now another half millennium has passed, and new barbarians are on the rise. It will be a battle of barbarian vigor vs. The Sword of Knowledge in Reap the Whirlwind!

Adam was born an elven prince, but when his father's realm seems doomed to fall before the onslaught of the evil Unseleighes, the royal youth is sent into our world so he can grow to elven manhood and fight another day. Given memories to make him believe he belongs here, he is unaware that the Dark Elves are trying to track him down.