<div>Three fan-favorite authors present &ldquo;a classic fantasy quest involving mysterious wizards, rites of passage, and the salvation of a kingdom&rdquo; (Library Journal). Peace has long reigned in Ruwenda thanks to the magical protection of the Archimage Binah. The realm&rsquo;s devoted guardian is aging, however, and her magic is weakening. When the kingdom&rsquo;s triplet princesses were still infants, Binah gave each of them the mystical power of the Black Trillium. But the unthinkable occurs too soon, and Ruwenda is overrun by the ravaging armies of neighboring Labornok before the sisters, Haramis, Kadiya, and Anigel, have time to learn how to use their great gift. Forced to flee, the young princesses must follow their separate destinies through a dangerous and unfamiliar world of Oddlings and enemies&mdash;for only the combined power of three magical talismans can help them defeat the malevolent sorcerer who has brought chaos and death to their once-idyllic home. But it will take new kinds of strength and wisdom to confront the great evil that has descended on the World of the Three Moons. Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, and Andre Norton, three of the most honored names in fantasy fiction, have joined forces to create an extraordinary world and culture in the first book of the remarkable Saga of the Trillium, a breathtaking tale of duty, peril, love, and magic. </div>

Black Trillium

<div>A powerful malevolence reemerges in a terrifying new guise to threaten a feuding royal family and enslave the realm in the continuation of the acclaimed Saga of the Trillium Twelve years have passed since three princesses joined together to defeat the powerful evil poisoning their kingdom, but over time their relationship has become strained. When impetuous Kadiya, devoted champion of the aboriginal Oddlings, loses the talisman entrusted to her, she and her sisters, Anigel the noble Queen and wise Haramis the Archimage, will need to put their differences aside or see the world they protect obliterated&mdash;for the return of a malevolence they believed had been vanquished threatens the fragile security of Ruwenda and the future of the World of Three Moons. The fugitive wizard Portolanus&mdash;originally believed to be merely a lesser magician and an intolerable windbag&mdash;has gained the ability to magically unbind the sisters&rsquo; tripart Scepter of Power. And woe to the world when the enemy&rsquo;s true face is finally revealed&mdash;for it has turned the petals of the sacred Black Trillium, encased in amulets worn around the necks of three royal siblings, an ominous blood red. A beloved author of science fiction and fantasy, Julian May created the World of the Three Moons in collaboration with her fellow fantasy fiction luminaries Andre Norton and Marion Zimmer Bradley in the classic novel Black Trillium. She takes the reins alone with Blood Trillium, the breathtaking continuation of the thrilling saga of sisterhood, magic, and a broken family reuniting to save a world. </div>

Blood Trillium

<div>As a world crumbles, three royal sisters must reclaim a lost magic to rescue their shattered home from a plague of ancient malevolence. The story that began with Black Trillium&mdash;the brainchild of Julian May, Andre Norton, and Marion Zimmer Bradley, three of fantasy fiction&rsquo;s greats&mdash;takes glorious flight in Sky Trillium as author May carries the magnificent saga of magic, sisterhood, and destiny to breathtaking new heights. The Petals of the Living Trillium&mdash;Anigel the Queen, Kadiya the Warrior, and Haramis the Archimage&mdash;have defeated great evil to keep their realm safe, thanks in part to three magical talismans dating back to the War of Enchantment that nearly destroyed the world in the time of the Vanished Ones. Now, with one relic missing and another rendered powerless, the World of the Three Moons is vulnerable&mdash;and a devastating outbreak of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural disasters suggests that a dark and terrible magic is descending once again. The last hope for the planet&rsquo;s salvation lies in the fabled Sky Trillium, but its creation depends on the three sisters being able to recover what was stolen from them and escape the poisonous intrigues of the royal court, banding together one more time to forge a Scepter of Power. But the old wounds of an ancient war continue to fester&mdash;and the Star Men are waiting to see the Petals wither and fall.</div>

Sky Trillium

<div>Second in the series that portrays &ldquo;one of the best-thought-out futures ever encountered in science fiction&rdquo; from the author of The Many-Colored Land (Joe Haldeman).Six million years in the past, a proto-Europe is inhabited by two extraterrestrial races, the chivalric Tanu and the dwarfish, forest-dwelling Firvulag&mdash;both of which possess far-reaching psychic powers. But now, time-traveling humans from a future society have become involved in the age-old struggle between the two.One group of captured humans is brought to Muriah, the stately capital of the Tanu kingdom. Among them is Elizabeth Orme, who was once, in her own world, a Grand Master Metapsychic. In spite of Tanu harassment, she begins to recover her lost powers.The other human group, which has managed to overcome its Tanu guards and escape into the northern forests, includes Chief Burke, a Native American, and Felice Uindry, an athlete gifted with certain psychic powers of her own. This group, with the ambiguous aid of the Firvulag, determines to launch an attack against the very heart of Tanu dominance. At the end of the Grand Combat tournament between Tanu and Firvulag comes the astonishing climax to this astonishing novel.Praise for the Saga of Pliocene Exile&ldquo;Enchanting and engrossing . . . I was captivated.&rdquo;&mdash;Fritz Leiber&ldquo;Julian May has woven a many-colored tapestry of exotic adventure.&rdquo;&mdash;Roger Zelazny&ldquo;Action-oriented and vivid.&rdquo;&mdash;Vonda McIntyre &ldquo;An amazing journey from the distant future to the distant past . . . High adventure.&rdquo;&mdash;SFReviews.net</div>

The Golden Torc

<div>An origin story of Julian May&rsquo;s Galactic Milieu Trilogy and a link to her Saga of Pliocene Exile&mdash;&ldquo;a superb piece of speculative fiction&rdquo; (Library Journal). They have always been among us&mdash;the telepaths, the persons possessing higher mind-powers that have been called &ldquo;metapsychic&rdquo;&mdash;but they have always been few and far between and their abilities weak or erratic. Until now . . . Human evolution makes a quantum leap. And all over the world, people begin to be born with extraordinary minds. Some of them are geniuses and some are very ordinary. But all of these metapsychic operants have mind-powers that &ldquo;normal&rdquo; humanity considers amazing&mdash;and dangerous. Intervention paints this advent of Homo superior in a broad and colorful chronicle that begins in 1945 and culminates in 2013. Its many characters reveal the impact of higher mind-powers upon the possessors themselves, upon their &ldquo;normal&rdquo; associates, and upon a troubled society striving to avoid nuclear annihilation. The metapsychic operants are secretive and fearful at first. When they reveal themselves they are regarded with awe, exploited, and finally persecuted. They are torn by the dilemma of what role to play: are they destined to save the &ldquo;normal&rdquo; from global war, even if it means that they must use their mental powers to subjugate the race that gave birth to them? The book&rsquo;s principal protagonists are members of the Remillard family of New Hampshire&mdash;whose descendants are featured in Julian May&rsquo;s worldwide bestselling Saga of Pliocene Exile. Intervention details with humor, thundering action, and scientific insight a world where the human mind does much more than think&mdash;a world that is fantastic, but by no means implausible.</div>

Intervention

<div>In the final novel of the award-winning sci-fi saga, both humans and aliens face destruction as a new time-portal opens a path back to the twenty-second century. Human time-travelers from the sophisticated Galactic Milieu of the twenty-second century came to the Pliocene Epoch seeking a Garden of Eden. What they found was slavery under the knightly Tanu race, who had been exiled to Earth from a far galaxy. Freed by the usurper Aiken Drum, the humans enjoy a brief period of dominance. But now King Aiken&#39;s rule is threatened by the dwarfish Firvulag, who scheme to destroy both humans and Tanu in an ultimate Gotterdammerung. This menace becomes almost incidental when Aiken discovers that his realm is about to be invaded by another human who possesses psychic powers even greater than his own. Marc Remillard, the instigator of the Metapsychic Rebellion, nearly conquered the Galactic Milieu before escaping through the time-portal after his defeat. Marc and his followers are out to overthrow Aiken just as a new time-gate is about to be built&mdash;one that will provide a two-way portal between the Many-Colored Land and the future world of the Milieu. The Adversary brings Julian May&rsquo;s Locus Award-winning series&mdash;which also includes The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Tore, and The Nonborn King&mdash;to a rousing climax.</div>

The Adversary

<div>In Pliocene Europe, warring races of aliens and humans face a new threat from North America in the third novel of the Locus Award&ndash;winning sci-fi series. A group of misfits from the twenty-second century have travelled six million years back in time to the Pliocene Epoch. But instead of an uninhabited paradise, they discover a land overrun with two alien races&mdash;each possessing great psychic powers&mdash;locked in bitter war. After escaping the knightly Tanu, a group of humans forms an uneasy alliance with the dwarfish Firvulag. But even after they succeed in destroying the Tanu capital, the war is far from over. Aiken Drum, a human with awesome mental powers, has usurped the Tanu throne. Aiken faces opposition from skeptical Tanu factions, as well as the revitalized Firvulag, who now out-number the Tanu-human coalition that Aiken has patched together. But another menace emerges to threaten Aiken&#39;s rule: a group of fearsome rogues from the year 2083, who have been living quietly in North America for decades. Led by Marc Remillard, they now seek to take advantage of the chaos in King Aiken&#39;s Many-Colored Land in order to seize control of the time-portal. The Nonborn King features the same blend of adventure, rich pageantry, humor, and fantastic eroticism that characterized The Many-Colored Land and The Golden Torc.</div>

The Nonborn King

<div>The author of the acclaimed Pliocene Quartet offers an in-depth guide to a saga that &ldquo;has most closely matched J. R. R Tolkien&#39;s achievement&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle). With its richly imagined universe and large cast of finely-drawn characters, Julian May&rsquo;s Saga of Pliocene Exile has won devoted fans across the globe who find new layers, details, and ideas with each reading. In the words of Isaac Asimov&#39;s Science Fiction Magazine: &ldquo;Julian May has made a new and fresh masterwork in the genre and has irrevocably placed herself among the great of fantasy and science fiction.&rdquo; Covering all four novels&mdash;The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Nonborn King, and The Adversary&mdash;this reading guideoffers a plot chronology, the author&#39;s original maps, a descriptive listing of all the characters, and three delightful interviews with May herself. Beyond that, it gives the reader a chance to explore further the surroundings of a world six million years in the past. The glossary gives information on metapsychology, on the futuristic science of the Galactic Milieu, and on the exotic world of the Tanu and Firvulag. In all, A Pliocene Companion is a must for followers of the Saga.</div>

Julian May

Books By Julian May (8 Books)

Black Trillium

Blood Trillium

Sky Trillium

The Golden Torc

Intervention

The Adversary

The Nonborn King

A Pliocene Companion

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