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his thirty-six inch pike head buried halfway to the end of its iron head into a billman's hip. He dropped the
pike and drew the two-handed sword Boarsbane from its scabbard across his back. He had the sword
blade out in time to parry a blow from a billhead. His next stroke sent the edge through the billman's
shoulder, splitting him down to his tripes.


"My friend Beam Piper would have liked this book."

тАФJerry Pournelle

"GREAT KINGS' WAR is a lot of fun, a fine adventure story in the tradition of the original H. Beam
Piper works."
тАФPoul Anderson

"Kalvan of Otherwhen goes resoundingly to battle once more in skilled hands."
тАФGordon R. Dickson

"We both enjoyed the book very much. When is the sequel coming out?"
тАФRobert Adams and Andre Norton



PROLOGUE
After her visit with her Graduate Advisor, Danar Sirna was still in a state of shock as she rode the
gravlift down to the 40thFloor of Dhergabar University Tower where the large assembly halls were
situated. Her Advisor had dropped a bombshell, as he put it; he was a well-known expert on Fourth
Level, Europo-AmericanтАФspecializing, she thought wryly, in clich├йs.

Still, Sirna had just received the dream posting of the decade; she'd been assigned to the Kalvan Study
Team as the only undergraduate!

Lord Kalvan, the former Pennsylvania State trooper Calvin Morrison, had been picked up on a
transtemporal conveyor accidentally and been dropped off on Aryan Transpacific, Styphon's House
Subsector where he'd created enough of a stir to spin off an entirely new time-line, identified almost
immediately by the Paratime Police. Suddenly, for the first time in history, the University had an
opportunity to study and observe a new time-line from the exact moment of divarication.

And Sirna was going to be there.
 She was an undergraduate specializing on Fourth Level Studies, with an emphasis on
Alexandria-Macedonia, Ptolemaic Subsector History, which was about as far away from life on First
Level as she could find. After a disastrous marriage, she was literally retreating from reality, as her
Mentalist had put it, when she'd informed him that she intended to return to the University of Dhergabar
and work on her Scholar Degree.

Sirna's scholastic scores were high, but not exemplary, so it had come as a shock to her, and her
advisor, to learn that she had gotten this dream assignment to the Kalvan Study Team. It could easily
translate into a career in Outtime Studies or a chair in Aryan Transpacific. Still, there were thousands of
more deserving graduate students at the University and she couldn't come up with any reason that she, of
all people, had been selected.