title: Intervention: A Root Tale to the Galactic Milieu and a Vinculum Between It and the Saga of Pliocene Exile
author:  Julian May 
description: As humanity enters the 21st century, the world grows closer to war. A small group of people gifted with "metapsychic" powers wages its own desperate battle to tip the balance towards peace. The stories of Dartmouth professor Denis Remillard, Scotsman Jamie MacGregor, Soviet psychic Tamara Sakhvadze, and Chicago businessman Kieran O'Connor combine with an old man's memoirs and a commentary by an exotic group of extraterrestrial observers to create a compelling panorama of the near future. This "root tale" to "The Galactic Milieu," a forthcoming trilogy, can stand alone as a superb piece of speculative fiction. Highly recommended. JC<br />Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: PERIHELION
  
  A RAYENOR VS EISENHORN STORY
  
  by Dan Abnett
  
  AN HOUR INTO the symposium it became clear we weren’t all going to get out
  alive.
  
  I’d come to watch. To spectate. Covering my identity with the paperwork of an
  archaeolinguist from Shurfath, the local universitariate, and disguising my
  face and build with scholar’s robes and a falsehood, I’d come to sit among the
  academics and the savants in the gallery.
  
  I lie. I hadn’t come to watch. I’d come to see him. It had been a long time
  since I’d last seen him. Fifty years? A century? I lose count.
  
  Bader Vecum had died. That was the start of it. Bader Vecum, eleventh son of
  an eleventh son, the last discernible branch of a noble house line that had
  ruled the island nation of Maelificer for thirty generations, had died. You
  know the island, I’m sure. In the cold, green northern oceans of Gudrun, in
  the Helican Sub; a place of mild summers and dark winters, of ice-capped peaks
  and geothermal power, of ancient towns etched into the steep