The Six Cities

Enter the world of the Six Cities. G. W. Thomas presents 18 tales of the fantastic, the mysterious, along with 40 plus short-shorts about The Rainbow Man to get you thinking, laughing, cursing and wondering. Here is a world filled with questions, strange folk and stranger ways, and best of all, the unknown.

Something is going on in the city of Stormcock. Wizards are disappearing at an alarming rate. Fortunately, Emmerant the crystal gazer knows what terrors threaten the City of Birds, and perhaps the entire world. With the help of the rogue known as The Falcon, the unlikely duo must face angry barbarians, possessed hounds and the terror that is Nyoglatha. G. W. Thomas offers up an intriguing world of

The Rainbow Man is a wizard who will enchant you with his quick wits, his sardonic charm and his mystifying answers to big questions. G. W. Thomas offers all 43 fables featuring this four-armed magician along with an afterword entitled "The Fantasy Writer as Moralist".

He was a hero of old. When Arkayla the wise-woman called for him and his blade, he came despite his long years. The seeress had a terrible job for him, to play executioner to one who would lie waste to the countryside. That killer was only a baby!

Murder in the dragons' den! Vrashkor has been framed for the murder of Grimbolt and his time is running out. Someone has killed the other dragon with a human sword and if the dragon detective can't find out which of his fellows is the culprit he will die by tooth and claw.

Liaro is on a desperate hunt for his wife and child. Foolish Wekka has taken their baby and gone in search of the legendary treasure in the temple. Only death and worse wait there. Can Liaro find them in time before the terrible guardian reveals the secret of Wekka`s gold.

Torel warned the strangers to stay away from Skeleton Tor, home of the evil race known as the trows. But the trio have other ideas, ideas that include Sri Lan, the beautiful healer. Their plans will take them to very heart of Skeleton Tor, to its very secret beginnings.

Princess Luantishee wanted only to find the Kalduun crossroads but the people of the little village had other ideas. They wanted her to slay their dragon. But the dragon was no longer a threat, having grown old and weary. So why was she there? The village burgher's evil plans made a pawn of her and that would never do for the Silver Princess of Sadavol, bearer of the magical sword Ensate!

The trows have taken Tantri's young children and it is up to Torel the Gelt to get them back or to kill them for anything is better than being a captive of the trows. Taking the terrible job he follows their trail but it ends in a mystery. The trows are dead! And something even worse has the young girls...Dragontongue.