FORWARD

I should explain here that I have written a series of "adventure interplanetary war with alien beings living beneath the surface Old Stone Age (35,000 BC) and enslaved Neanderthals to serve them as slaves inside gigantic caverns they hollowed out beneath the surface of Mars. Over thousands of years, the Lorr genetically "altered" these slaves and produced the race of Cro-Magnons, from which we are descended. Upon discovery of the existance of the Lorr in the 21st Century, Mankind decided to destroy the aliens, both doubtlessly due to their enslavement of humans and due to their own appearance, which was similar to that of gigantic ants. This resulted in an interplanetary war which Mankind "lost", with the result that only the most barbaric civilization remained as a rule, although there was still some records left of the past. In my books there is a "history" dating from 1988 through the year 2047 where I chronicle the development of a "world civilization" under the rule of a benevolent woman dictator, Janet Rogers. Ja- net Rogers in turn owing her ideas to Doctor Lorraine Marie Duv- al, a Los Angeles "shrink" with a genius level I.Q. and a hearty dislike for everything for which "Western Civilization" stood. A woman who is perhaps the greatest swordswoman of all time, a sort of "female John Carter" for you Burroughs fans, who gets into all sorts of adventures in the 26th Century, and who unlike most such fictional characters is also a person of "feeling" and "emotion". There is also plenty of the sort of "philosophy" for which John Norman is so famous (I am a "fan" of his), although I do think my own stories are perhaps more "realistic" in treatment of women...

      In this, the fifth book of this series I introduce two "new" characters that I think the reader will like. Also, we'll see our famous swordswinging "Queen Lorraine" from another viewpoint. There were those who had no "love" for her, and they were not all "Dularnians" by any means either! One suspects here that perhaps the Priestesses of Lys were engaging in a little "balance of pow- er" here, giving the Dularnians someone from the 20th Century to balance off the "advantage" that Darlanis had in Queen Lorraine. And the question is raised here: "Did Lorraine fly up into that thunderstorm that sent her and Sharon into the 26th Century of her own free will?" In any case this is another lusty sword- swinging tale that you will enjoy. Especially as "Carol" is just the sort of a wench that you'd love to meet, but would never want to "take home to greet your parents"! In any case, I now present the "Simmons", a loving couple who suddenly finds themselves "teleported" from the Twentieth Century up to the Twenty Sixth! Where Robert Simmons finds plenty of adventure with his lusty and sexy wife, Carol, who has been "introduced" before to my readers.

      Jerome Bigge

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