"It is the year 1537. The great winged Lion stares over a Venice where magic thrives. The rich Venetian Republic is a bastion of independence and tolerance. Perhaps for that reason, it is also corrupt, and rotten with intrigue. But for the young brothers Marco and Benito Valdosta, vagabond and thief, Venice is simply home. They have no idea that they stand at the center of the city's coming struggle for its very life. They know nothing o ..."
A Mankind Witch(1st Edition) (The Shadow of the Lion) by DaveFreer Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2005 by Baen ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-9913-2, ISBN: 0-7434-9913-1
"In an alternate world where magic works, the Holy Roman Empire still rules Europe, the time of the Renaissance has come, with very different results. Norway is still pagan, and a sacred relic, the Armring of Telemark, has been stolen from Odin's temple. Without it, truce-oaths cannot be renewed and bloody war with the Empire will follow. Signy, the older stepsister to the King Vortenbras is accused. When she disappears, most think it pr ..."
"In the sequel to The Shadow of the Lion, the demon sorcerer Chernobog, having failed in his attempt to gain power over Venice, enters into a dangerous alliance with the King of Hungary to seize control of Corfu, an island that holds the key to controlling the Adriatic, while the heroes who had saved Venice reunite to stop him."
"At last-the sequel to The Witches of Karres. Three top writers continue the bewitching adventures begun in one of science fiction's most beloved novels. First time in paperback.It just wasn't fair! Captain Pausert had foiled the deadliest of space pirates and eliminated the threat of the Worm World, yet his troubles kept piling up. Sent on a secret mission to stop the nanite plague, a self-aware disease that could devastate whole worlds ..."
A Mankind Witch(Reprint) (Shadow of the Lion) by DaveFreer Paperback, 499 Pages, Published 2005 by Baen ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-2115-0, ISBN: 1-4165-2115-1
"(Starred Review) ¿In Freer's superior heroic fantasy novel, set in 16th-century Scandinavia, allies of a demon try to thwart Christian missionary-magicians from the Holy Roman Empire. Freer (The Forlorn) wisely concentrates on individual participants within this big struggle: a shipwrecked Barbary corsair, Cair Aidin, branded as a worthless thrall; a good-hearted but insecure princess; a spectacularly evil troll hag and her grendel son; ..."
"The intrepid team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader had not only pulled off the only victory the beleaguered colony's feeble and bungling military forces had won against the invading aliens, but had also uncovered the secret that the invaders were really a feint, being under the control of the other aliens which the naive humans had thought were their allies. Unfortunately, that was the easy part, becau ..."
"The battle between democracy and tyranny is joined, and the American Revolution has begun over a century ahead of schedule. A cosmic accident has shifted a modern West Virginia town back through time and space to land it and its twentieth century technology in Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years War. History must take a new course as American freedom and democracy battle against the squabbling despots of seventeenth-century Europe ..."
"It just wasn't fair! Captain Pausert had foiled the deadliest of space pirates and eliminated the threat of the Worm World, yet his troubles just kept piling up. The Empress Haile herself sent him on a secret mission to stop the nanite plague, a self-aware disease that could devastate whole worlds. Then someone convinced the Imperial Fleet that he was actually a wanted criminal, which led to a battle leaving his ship in urgent need of r ..."
""He's run off somewhere," said Virginia, waving her hand vaguely at the window.
"I believe he's around, but I ... And if that wasn't Virginia's foot touching his leg,
then there was a dog under the table. He squeezed it between his own ... Thom
went over to stand proprietarily behind Virginia. "Of course, Miss Virginia. I told
you about him. But it is really time Miss Shaw was allowed to go back to rest." He
made no attempt to gree ..."
"Before Erik set the long powdertrail, they took sixteen small casks of powder, one
per horse, and loaded them up. Then all but Erik left quietly. There was the
barrack encampment not two hundred yards off, with sleeping Croats, and the
rest of the guard detachment. One galloping horse could not be avoided, but at
least there didn't have to be seventeen of them. The gate was arranged with a
spike holding the bar up, and a stout cord ..."
"A rampaging monster sent by the Lord of Demons terrorizes Venice in 1537. Now, a group of misfits form an uneasy alliance under the shadow of the Lion."
"The intrepid team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader had not only pulled off the only victory the beleaguered colony's feeble military forces had won against the invading aliens, but had also uncovered the secret that the invaders were really a feint, being under the control of the other aliens which the naive humans had thought were their allies. Unfortunately, that was the easy part, because now they h ..."
"starters, Red was one of those union activists who, though not really a socialist
himself, had been influenced by socialists he'd run across in the course of his
activities before the Ring of Fire. In his case, by the Socialist Workers Party, which
had, off and on, had a certain presence in northern West Virginia going back to
the late 1940s. One of the things Red had picked up from the SWP was a hostility
toward Zionism. And while ..."