Five Against Arlane / Lord of the Green Planet

LORD OF THE GREEN PLANET by Emil Petaja Diarmid O’Dowd, space explorer, was suddenly an Off-worlder in an Old World legend. Since he had crashed his ship through the green barrier to this uncharted world, he found himself due to take a place in the Deel’s song of ancient Ireland, living again on New Tara. Diarmid was scheduled to love the Lady and lose to the Lord, be the valiant Son of the Sun, and add a few heartsome verses to the legend – before being fed to Nacran. But astronaut O’Dowd wasn’t pleased at the role cast for him, and with the help of Old Grane, the Wees, the Silkies, and Fianna-of-the-Dreaming-Lips, Diarmid broke the pattern. He had to find and counter the self-established god who had populated the planet with pookas and peasants, fearless heroes and firewings – all to fit a madman’s idea of a peopled poem. Cover art by Kelly Freas FIVE AGAINST ARLANE by Tom Purdom David Jammet ruled Arlane with fear, drugs, and controlees — people whose wills were subverted to Jammet's wishes. The slightest opposition to him received a brain control and the loss of psychological freedom. Jammet's world was constructed for the laboratory creation of a new race. The day of determinism was near — yet no one on Arlane could oppose him. It was up to four out-worlders, Migel, Rolando, Zach, and Sylvia, to feel the hatred of universal oppression, to fear the threat of a machine-man world, to befriend Anata, the only Arlanean willing to give up her chance at eternity for her ideals. These four and Anata would fight, no matter what the cost, knowing the stakes were too high not to. They stood alone, but they stood up to an entire world's armament. These FIVE AGAINST ARLANE. Cover art by Jack Gaughan