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'Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES 'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER George Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion...

Nineteenth-century art expert Derryn Witt documents an impossible find: gorgeously detailed paintings depicting the modern world…from 1859. But when a massive solar flare forces a shutdown of all integrated technology, her discovery is jeopardized. The threat intensifies when a group of rebels attack the college, their movement resting upon the rejection of technology. Derryn flees to New York with the help of a sympathetic Sovereign, under the guise of being one herself.

The most powerful and evil time diver ever wants him dead. Matt's forced to trust a mysterious woman who is a fellow traveler with a very shrouded past. Will she help Matt, or is she the ultimate femme fatale angling to exact revenge on him? The more Matt learns about the world of time diving, the more he realizes he's in way over his head. Matt also learns that his newly discovered powers of time diving have amazing fringe benefits. When not in mortal danger, he has an opportunity to wander the globe and wander time.

An exciting, far-flung narrative of a people and species, the Anunna, who called themselves the primary "source" of life in our galaxy. A speculative history using the newest discoveries in science and technology that point to a directed panspermia and purposeful manipulation of human development. A truly complete history of their motives, methods, and evidence from the creation of the universe to expectations of our very future!  

Felicia, Lizbeth Rose's younger half-sister and student at the Grigori school within the capital of the New Holy Russian Empire in San Diego, is caught between secrets and powerful family struggles. As a distant relative to the Tsar, she provides an essential service to him by providing blood transfusions for his hemophilia, and she is thus given rare access and dismissed as if cattle. At the Grigori school she is seen as a charity case, a poor orphan with no prospects and no sign of magical prowess—the latter which Felicia keeps purposefully hidden.

Felicia, Lizbeth Rose’s half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego—capital of the Holy Russian Empire—is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter of Rasputin, she provides an essential service to the hemophiliac Tsar Alexei, providing him the blood transfusions that keep him alive. Felicia is treated like nonentity at the bedside of the tsar, and at the school she’s seen as a charity case with no magical ability. But when Felicia is snatched outside the school, the facts of her heritage begin to surface. 

One day, six towers appear on Earth. Each one stands hundreds of stories tall, and are invulnerable to all attacks. At the base of each tower is a portal, welcoming in all who dare enter it. All sorts of magical monsters can be found inside the towers. Even treasure, magic, and superhuman strength can be acquired. The problem is that the towers aren't a friendly place. Even worse, the towers sometimes release waves of monsters to attack Earth. In the year 2083, there are only a hundred survivors. In one last attempt, they challenge the final floor without regard for their lives.

Combining intense theological research with his signature writing style, Gerald Welch crafts the definitive story of the War in Heaven. Set in the world of The Last Witness, War in Heaven establishes itself as the first inclusive recount of the war that changed the fate of Heaven and Earth!