A Playboy is someone with power, too much time on his hands, and too little sense of a goal worth achieving. And if the Playboy happens to belong to a highly advanced culture....
The trials of a patent lawyer are usually highly technical tribulations--and among the greatest is the fact that Inventors are only slightly less predictable than their Inventions!
Despite a warning received in the Suq by a nomad, Conan stays the night in a cheap tavern in Zamboula, run by Aram Baksh. As night falls, a black Darfarian cannibal enters Conan's small chamber by means of a trick lock to drag him away to be eaten. The Darfarian slaves in the city are cannibals who prey on travelers, the people of the city tolerate this and stay locked securely in their homes, while nomads and beggars make sure to sure to spend the night at a comfortable distance from its walls.
A volume in the Earthbound Series Volume IV of the Earthbound Series: Nykkyo, now a widower living with Suki's mom and her son, carries an incredible secret about her death. As New York recovers from the 9/11 attack, there is an outbreak of a fatal virus on Earth and one of his Floran co-workers dies. Nyk thinks the virus is of alien origin -- a biological weapon created by a faction on a rogue colony. He teams up with his ex-wife in a race against time to develop a cure before the separatists can unleash their plague.