The Space Barbarians / The Eyes of Bolsk

THE SPACE BARBARIANS by Mack Reynolds John of the Hawks was a proud, young man, proud of his people, proud of his heritage, and proud of his ability to count coup on his clann’s traditional enemies. He knew what was right and what was wrong – the four great books had laid down the way things had to be. Which is why the uncouth ways of the clannless drifters from space outraged him so. Not only did these peddlers know nothing of the finesse of proper combat, they knew nothing of the respect due to such things as the coup stick, the right way to capture a wife, and the sanctity of the clann’s elders. Worse still, they had some idiotic notion that that cheap silvery metal so commonly used for plumbing and horse-bits, known as platinum, was somehow of special merit. Well, one could excuse an outrage or two on the grounds of ignorance, but there came a time when any good clannsman, such as John certainly was, must decide to teach these barbarians from space a lesson! THE EYES OF BOLSK by Robert Lory Jared Kane thought of himself as a secret agent doing the dirty work that governments usually do not like to admit they must do. But in the midst of an especially difficult sabotage assignment, he found his role had changed. For no longer was he on Earth and no longer was he involved in the devious politics of cloak-and-dagger. Rather, he was now called on to assume the role of a sword-and-sorcery expert on a world where medievalism competed with something that hinted strongly of either magic or super-science. However, if there was one characteristic that Jared had in great quantity it was the ability to keep his wits in any surroundings. And when he was confronted with the supreme enigma of THE EYES OF BOLSK, he found that still a third role confronted him—a role that just might be called "world saver."