num_pages: 253
description: Destiny's Orbit (114 p.)Though Ajax Calkins was wealthy enough to buy anything on earth his heart desired the one thing he wanted most was strictly forbidden. That was a world of his own - a planet however small which would be his private kingdom in the sky. The Earth-Mars Space Administration stood in his path. They would tolerate no such 18th Century derring-do in the commercial and workaday planetary channels of the 21st Century. Empire-building was out.But when an offer from a bearded stranger opened the way to just such an adventure Ajax leapt at the chance. In his luxury spacecraft Destiny he shot out through the inner planets to the tiny world that waited a king - and unwittingly to a monster outer-planet empire that waited a detonator for cosmic war.Times Without Number (139 p.)Traveling backwards in time Don Miguel had to undo the errors and interruptions o f other time-interlopers; he had to preserve the present. Even the most insignificant nudging of the past could entirely alter his world! And he suspected that this had already happened: that a maniacal genius crazed with a desire for nationalist vindication had plotted to alter the victorious outcome of the Spanish Armada of 1588 - thus changing recorded history and perhaps even imperiling the mighty Spanish Empire of 1988!If Don Miguel did not successfully intercede when he came back to the present he might find a different world...a different time...a time in which he probably didn't even exist!
language: English
title: Destiny's Orbit/Times Without Number
publisher: Ace Books Inc