
So Simon has little to lose when a stranger offers him a one way trip through a magical portal.Īnd so kicks off a pleasingly rubbish tale of magical kingdoms, knights, aliens, zombies-in-all-but-name, princesses in disguise, daring escapes, and more than a few witches. Although honorable, he has managed to get himself kicked out of the army and into the bad books of black marketeers who want him dead.

Simon Tregarth is an America commando kicking around Europe after World War II. Petronius had been right: this was no world he knew. Two rough pillars of reddish rock stood there, between them no city yard but a stretch of the same gray-green moor running on and on into a wall of fog. Simon got to his feet and glanced back over his shoulder. The dawn light did not mean sun to come, for there was a thick mist filling the air.
