An exciting repository of the Tales of an Empire that pre-dates the solar system\'s recorded history.
One had a cryptic note scrawled in blood: "They\'re coming!". ghost ships with missing crews. . .
Augurs see bad omens, demon familiars speak of a coming cataclysm; a few ships have gone missing along the fringes of the system, only to be spotted and boarded later .
Above them all looms a mysterious THREAT on the horizon.
Through the combined efforts of sorcery and science, mankind and alienkind have returned to the stars in Aether ships, though even these are considered crude by the ancient Imperial standards.
The worlds of the solar system have slowly emerged to reclaim only the most slender portion of the ancient splendor of the Empire.
This weapon caused the Ruin; it shattered worlds and threw the citizens of the Empire into such a state of savagery that it has taken 10,000 years to make it to a current Dark Age.
War rent the system, until finally a doomsday weapon was deployed.
Civil war erupted inside the Empire when warlords of another Planet sought to seize the Iridium Throne of Earth.
This anthology\'s "present" is 10,000 years after the Ruin of the Empire of Sol, an event immortalized by a cabal of poets who wove history with myth.
His youngest wife, the most cunning, became the first Empress of Sol and began the Imperial practice of tracing lineage through the female.
A sorcerer who learned to extend his life through elixirs and potent demonic bargains, he ruled a thousand years, until deposed by a conspiracy among his wives.
A return to an era when the exploration of time and the mystery of space travel held the attention of the reading World with heroes/heroines that faced dangerous unknowns with hopes and fists raised high! 20,000 years ago, the first Emperor of Sol ascended the Iridium Throne of Earth.
A spectacular homage of ten \'romantic Tales of high adventure\' written in the American pulp imagination style of breathless bravado.
An exciting repository of the Tales of an Empire that pre-dates the solar system\'s recorded history
