MAGIRA

"We have plans to make our way into your world, Frankari.  You are only the first.  The Lion is riding under the Banner of Chaos.  I shall take your place as player.  This time the fate of Magira is sealed.  The rules of the game are changing!"

But the fate of Magira can never be sealed, however vast the power that dared interfere.  For that barbaric world with its continents and kingdoms, its hordes of armed warriors, its votaries of fearful religions and monster monarchs, was greater than its creators.  Though it had been created by Earth-born men, it existed in a time-space of its own, beyond their ability to destroy - only leaving men the ability to play out their secretmost desires against the rules of a cosmos not that of Terra!

ARMY OF DARKNESS is a novel of the war-gamers' world, Magira, the first and greatest of such creations guarded by the Fellowship of the Lords of the Lands of Wonder!

A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL
NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK

Herbert W. Franke, who is rated as one of the four best science fiction writers of modern Europe, is quite tricky.  What may seem simple usually turns out to be deceptively complex.  What may seem irrelevant may have an impact like an earthquake.

In THE MIND NET we encounter a vast spacefleet exploring the cosmos.  They find some organic remnants in the lifeless soil of an ancient world.  But when the space explorers test these mysterious objects they suddenly find their ship trapped in an alien mental web and face a menace never allowed for on their computers.  But that is only the beginning and thereafter we encounter seemingly isolated scenes on alien worlds with unearthly growths, in mechanical civilizations, in rebel cities where everyday people face extraordinary problems.  The whole ties in with a shocking impact... and THE MIND NET will prove again that the name of Franke ranks with those of Philip K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem as a science fiction innovator.

NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK

FROM DAW
Watch for
WARRIOR OF WORLD'S END
by Lin Carter
UQ1140

WAR-GAMERS'
WORLD

The Fellowship of the Lords of the Lands of Wonder!  That is the name of the select group who control the struggles and marvels of the world known as Magira - a fantasyland planet created years before war-games were known in America.  It was the members of FOLLOW who built up Magira, city by city, island by island, crown by crown, created its continents and oceans, and continue to this day to bring ever greater sword-and-sorcery reality to its misty shores.

Hugh Walker, himself one of the Grand Wizards of FOLLOW, as well as an outstanding science fiction novelist and editor in his Earthly habitat, now brings the first chronicle of Magira to America's fantasy readers and war-gamers alike, in an adventure of the human player who found himself forced to be another's pawn in a ruthless contest of knights and wizards, of priestesses and armed avengers.

A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL
NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK