
An observer from Earth lives under a false name in a medieval kingdom, tormented by whether he has the right to intervene in a cruel history that is not his own.

A programmer takes a job at an institute of wizardry, where science meets magic and the staff are seriously in the business of miracles.

A former cosmonaut arrives in a prosperous seaside town and realises that its comfort hides a dangerous emptiness.

Two intertwined stories - one of a man beside a mysterious Forest, one of a man lost in a senseless Directorate - come together as a parable about an unknowable future.

A young Earthman crash-lands on a planet scarred by atomic war and is drawn into a struggle against a regime that rules people's minds.

On a distant planet a survey team finds an Earth child raised by an alien, non-humanoid civilisation, and tries to understand him.

After an alien visit a dangerous Zone remains, and stalkers risk their lives smuggling out its baffling artifacts.

A scientist on the verge of a major discovery meets strange interference, as if the universe itself does not want his work finished.

An agent of a future security service investigates a man whose very origins may pose a threat to all humanity.

An aging Maxim Kammerer gathers scattered facts and arrives at a guess about a new force quietly at work among humankind.

Several eras and storylines weave together into a dense novel about good, evil and the price of teaching.

People from different countries and eras are gathered in a strange City for an inscrutable Experiment whose rules no one knows.