The Void Captain of the starship Dragon Zephyr encounters numerous obstacles, adventures, and triumphs in search of a new and alien world.

Present Tense. In the midst of the horror of the first World War, a stranger falls from nowhere into the mud and death of the Flanders battlefield bruised, babbling, and stark naked with a remarkable story to tell. Wrongly accused murderer Edward Exeter has reappeared on this Earth bearing scars and secrets. From somewhere he calls next door--a place old godly intrigues and an ancient prophecy that he wants no part of. But powerful forces on both sides of a mystical border have other plans...

"Threads of Magic" saw the crippled sweep's boy, Drib, testing his powers of magic under the watchful eye of Nevian, Master of Magic. Now, as they move towards Candlebane Hall, the stage is set for a climax in which the powers of the evil Company of Murderers must be finally quashed.

It had all began with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer. Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from...