Search Worlds Without End

Tom Tyson journeys to a futuristic Australia where terraforming, genetic engineering and mental sciences have become a way of life and tribal satellites monitor perpetually warring Ab'O states.

Contents:

• 3 - Colouring the Captains - novella
• 47 - The Only Bird in Her Name - (1985) - novelette
• 71 - The Robot Is Running Away from the Trees - novelette
• 101 - What We Did to the Tyger - (1986) - short story
• 119 - Spinners - novelette
• 143 - So Much for the Burning Queen - short story
• 163 - Mirage Diver - novelette
• 191 - Time of the Star - (1986) - novelette

The Blue Captain... Of the seven Nationals who have won Colours and fine sand-ships from the tribes, earning for themselves the right to cross the eerie and exotic Australia of the future, Tom Rynosseros is the most mysterious. He is the one from the Madhouse, the Captain whose adventures among the powerful tribes of the interior reveal a hidden purpose, a destiny waiting out in the red deserts which affects not only Nation but the Dreamtime itself.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1992) - essay by Jack Vance
• Breaking Through to the Heroes - (1992) - novelette
• Going to the Angels - (1992) - novelette
• Vanities - (1990) - short story
• A Dragon Between His Fingers - (1986) - short story
• Djinn of Anjoulis - (1992) - short story
• A Song to Keep Them Dancing - (1992) - short story
• Stoneman - (1992) - short story
• Privateers' Moon - (1992) - novelette
• Dreaming the Knife - (1992) - short story
• Totem - (1992) - novelette

A Ship, a Star, a Woman's Face... All that Tom Rynosseros remembers from his time in the Madhouse. But who was he? Why did the powerful Ab'O tribes send him there? What do the three signs mean? From the haunted streets of Twilight Beach to the burning heart of this future Australia, from the eerie wind-river called the Soul to the dream-ridden shores of the Inland Sea, Tom searches desperately for whatever pieces of his life he can find.

Contents:

1. 1 - Shatterwrack at Breaklight - (1985) - short story
2. 17 - The Babel Ships - (1993) - novelette
3. 49 - Sailors Along the Soul - (1993) - short story
4. 69 - Roadsong - (1991) - novelette
5. 99 - Larrikin Wind - (1990) - short story
6. 113 - Nights at Totem Rule - (1993) - novelette
7. 155 - The Final Voyage of Captain Gelise - (1992) - short story
8. 167 - The Leopard - (1993) - novelette
9. 193 - A Whisper from the Voice at the Vanishing Point - (1993) - novelette
10. 215 - The Green Captain's Tale - (1993) - novelette
11. 241 - Ship's Eye - (1992) - novelette

Tom Rynosseros commands a sandship and searches for his lost memories and the meaning of three images left from his incarceration in the Madhouse.

Contents:

• 3 - The Leopard - poem
• 5 - Doing the Line - One - (2007) - short story
• 13 - A Woman Sent Through Time - (1994) - novelette
• 39 - Doing the Line - Two - (2007) - short story
• 41 - The Maiden Death - (1997) - short story
• 59 - Doing the Line - Three - (2007) - short story
• 63 - No Hearts to Be Broken - (1997) - short story
• 75 - Doing the Line - Four - (2007) - short story
• 77 - Fear-Me-Now - (1993) - novelette
• 97 - Doing the Line - Five - (2007) - short story
• 101 - Ships for the Sundance Sea - (1995) - novelette
• 139 - Doing the Line - Six - (2007) - short story
• 143 - Swordplay - (2007) - short story
• 159 - Doing the Line - Seven - (2007) - short story
• 163 - Tessarina and the Target Man - (2007) - short story
• 173 - Doing the Line - Eight - (2007) - short story
• 177 - The Bull of September - (2007) - novella
• 227 - Doing the Line - Nine - (2007) - short story
• 231 - Coyote Struck by Lightning - (2003) - novelette
• 255 - Coming Down - (2003) - novelette
• 279 - Sewing Whole Cloth - (2003) - novelette
• [304] - The Complete Rynosseros [Rynosseros bibliography] - (2007) - essay