Set in a distant future when our sun is about to expire, the six adventures in this book, originally published in 1950, take us to a world filled with strange lands and ancient wonders, where the moon has long-since left the sky and science has been all but replaced by magic, where hopes and dreams for a golden tomorrow have given way to a decadent grandeur, outrageous schemes and the most desperate and reckless acts of derring-do imaginable.

In this world, home to pelgranes, erbs and Deodands, Gauns, gids and Twk-men, we meet Turjan of Miir in his unswerving quest to create artificial life, watch the cruel Mazirian the Magician as he pursues his latest dark obsession, and observe the beautiful T’sais as she learns to find beauty in Earth’s final days. We follow the antics of Liane the Wayfarer (and Chun the Unavoidable!) in that bandit-troubadour’s quest for a fabulous tapestry, follow Ulan Dhor as he seeks the lost spells of a great magician in far-off Ampridatvir, and join Guyal of Sfere in his search for ancient knowledge in the Museum of Man.

The world itself is a setting at the end of time, at once doomed and magical, elusive and yet always fascinating.