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A strange electrical power transports Mike Kenscott from the Earth he knows to the strange land of Narabedla in another man’s body. Now as Adric of the Crimson Tower, Kenscott must solve the mystery of Narabedla’s Dreamers or perish in a foreign world.

It started as an investigation of a simple insurance claim, but soon the Continental Op is embroiled in murders, narcotics, a religious cult, and a supposed family curse. No one is who they seem, and the bodies continue to pile up.

In the aftermath of World War II, a funeral home mortician by the name of John Cave has a revelation about the nature of death: Death is peace; death is nothing to be feared. This simple concept will evolve into an atheistic religion known as Cavism, which will displace Christianity as the dominant western faith. But Cavism has a dark past, and even more ominous future.

Rinbon, the prince of thieves, is sent to rescue a priestess who possesses a jewel of tremendous power known as the Flame of Gilliad. Charvella has been kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Zuthal Ka and taken to his demon-haunted temple. It's up to Rinbon to save Chavella before Zuthal Ka can seize the jewel and use it for his evil purposes. Elmray, a young sorcerer apprentice, witnesses his mentor's death at the hands of the evil sorcerer Yoza. Twelve years later, Elmray must confront Yoza.

Metropolis is a classic of science-fiction that created an impact on the literary world which reverberates to this day. Its dramatic presentation of the city-world of the next century stirred the minds of readers with an unforgettable vision of a metropolis grown to Gargantuan proportions, of humanity fighting to keep its soul against the monster world of machinery, robots, and complexity that had been spawned in our own century. The book inspired a movie, possibly the best science-fiction film ever made.