A GALACTIC JET OF DESTRUCTION   Was the force Dino Trigg had chosen to take revenge.on his mentor Croyd, the leader of Sol Gajaxy. Trigg; Ccoyd’s first minister and the natural heir to his power, -first sought to oust Croyd by controlling the outcome of the galactic elections. But his unique talents for mental persuasion could not hope to match the abilities of. his master, and Croyd easily won reelection.   Deprived of what he considered his rightful position, Trigg swore he’d have his revenge, not only upon Croyd but upon all the civilized worlds. His doomsday ,/ weapon would be the Magellanic Clouds, which h£ would use to form a new galaxy. And this very act of . creation would serve as the catalyst to release a deadly ' stream of energy aimed right for the heart of Sol Galaxy!

ENVOYS FROM EARTHThe two of them were hand-picked for the mission to the distant planet of Turquoise.Detective Captain C. St. Cyr combined in a unique way the qualities of lightning fast intelligence and dazzling inborn intuition.Detective Lieutenant U. Tuli was unsurpassed in her blending of computer-like logical abilities and almost religious devotion to duty.Now both of them were heading for the most disturbing trouble spot in the galaxies—to deal with a dark threat to the perfect harmony of the interplanetary confederation.Naturally in this advanced and enlightened age, it was only incidental that both of them were women. But soon it became all too apparent that on this planet their sex— and the phenomenon of sex itself—would play a crucial part in piecing together the perilous puzzle of—THE SIGN OF THE MUTE MEDUSA

Croyd brought peace to a warring world by means of his Comcord system. When a nation's discord quotient rose to the boiling point, Comcord would trigger the ultimate peace weapon called Z-sting. Z-sting would encapsulate the war-seeking nation, cutting it off totally from the world and from civilization. Comcord worked and peace had reigned for a century--until an inexplicable rise in militarism blew the terror whistle. It was up to Croyd who had created the system to find out what had gone wrong, but Croyd was by then a very ancient old man. Aided by his great-granddaughter, he undertook to prevent the Z-sting trigger from being falsely activated. To achieve this, they had to: Bring Croyd back his youth and vigor. Uncover the motive behind the war crisis. Find the trigger--hidden at the edge of the Solar System.

Once again the astonishingly inventive mind of Ian Wallace has come up with a novel jampacked with new conceptions, mind-boggling conflicts, and edge-of-the-seat excitement. Ian Wallace, author of A VOYAGE TO DARI and CROYD, is unlike any other science fiction writer in this ability -- and in THE WORLD ASUNDER he has outdone himself!   It is impossible to summarize this unusual novel in a simple statement except to say that within it you will find a conflict between time epochs, the struggle of demigods, the development of a super-weapon beyond today's, and the creation of the strangest peace-keeping organization ever devised. Running through it all is a moving novel of human relations, love and hate, romance and murder, and of events that surpass and alter the normal elements of life

They discovered a vast comet far out between the stars. Within its icy core were two beings, frozen in still life for thousands of years. One was human, a Prometheus figure. But the other, locked with the first in a tableau of eternal combat was Lucifer. Lucifer, Satan, the Devil--call him what you will--but there he seemed to be, horns, bat wings and all, the visible embodiment of all human legendary of all that was evil. Then they defrosted them. Prometheus was indeed the Fire-Bringer. The Other was the Old Enemy in person..with powers that baffled the advanced science of those future days.

Pan Sagittarius conducts a mission to the legendary if-nodes of Antan - the center of time and space where unrealized histories are stored. His assignment: to enter the mind of a key person in a historically crucial moment to affect his host's motivation (without forcing his choices) to make possible an alternative outcome. And Pan does not enjoy immunity from the consequences. His existence, too, is at stake!   Pan is one of the great heroes of science fiction- a lusty, resourceful adventurer whose wit and seeming recklessness conceal a profoundly brilliant intellect.