Stephen R. Lawhead

The Song of Albion

The Paradise War

Wolves prowling the streets of Oxford. A Green Man haunting the highlands... Lewis Gillies is face to face with an ancient mystery. Drawn from the ivory towers of Oxford to the misty moors and glens of Scotland, Lewis expects little more than a pleasant weekend away. But the road north leads to a mystical crossroads, and he finds himself in a place where two worlds meet, in the time-between-times.
The ancient Celts admitted no separation between this world and the Otherworld: the two were delicately interwoven, each dependent upon the other. In The PradiseWar this balance is disturbed--a breach has opened between the worlds, and cosmic catastrophe threatens.
The Paradise War is the first book in Stephen Lawhead's epic series, Song of Albion. As in The Pendragon Cycle, Lawhead mines the rich vein of Celtic mythology, giving us a fresh look at what is, and what may be.

The Silver Hand

"Hear, O Song of Albion: Blood is born of blood. Flesh is born of flesh. But the spirit is born of Spirit, and with spirit evermore remains. Before Albion is One, he Hero Feat must be performed and Silver Hand must reign."
The great king, Meldryn Mawr, is dead and his kingdom lies in ruins. Treachery and brutality stalk the land. Prince Meldron, prompted by the cunning and grasping Siawn Hy, now claims the throne.
But Tegid the bard holds the kingship--and his choice falls on another. The Day of Strife begins.
Kingship, sovereignty and the making of a true king lie at the heart of this second book in the Song of Albion trilogy. Herein lie passion and power, heartbreak and hope--the fate of Albion and the destiny of the long-awaited chamption: Silver Hand.

The Endless Knot

Once Lewis Gilliew crossed from Scotland into another realm of war and wonder. Now called Llew Silver Hand, he has ascended the throne of Albion - a High King celebrated in word and song. But an evil malaise has befallen the land, turning pasturess into wastelands and sweet streams into poisonous rivers. A terrible fire is raging unseen, drawing the darkest forces to its invisible flame. For the Brazen Man defies Llew's sovereignty, and the final battle has begun - one that calls Llew into thr Foul Land to redeem a sacred treasure in order to save the world he rules... and the one he had abandoned.

Empyrion

The Search For Fierra

First Orion Treet, an itinerant and often-unemployed writer, is abducted at gunpoint. Then he is offered eight million dollars and the adventure of a lifetime. Strange. Very strange. The mission? To observe and chronicle the growth of a new extraterrestrial settlement, Empyrion.
After an exciting but frightening space journey, Treet arrives on the planet Fierra only to discover a civilization in decline, fragmented by millennia of mistrust and hatred. As Treet and his odd assortment of companions try to unscramble the mysteries before them, they come face to face with sspiritual realities they could never have imagined.
The Empyrion novels are mong Lawhead's most captivating accomplishments of story telling and adventure - the vest there is in science fiction. The Search for Fierra won the Campus Life Editor's Choice Award.

The Siege of Dome

How resilient is the human spirit in the face of incredible oppression? What values in life stand up to imminent, merciless death?
In The Siege of Dome, the second and concluding book of the Empyrion saga, Orion Treet determines to return to Dome after his brief respite among the peaceable, graceful Fieri. No one but Treet and a handful of rebelss seriously believes that Dome will carry out its threat to annihilate Fierra. But soon even Treet's companions from Earth abandon him, and he becomes a solitary figure in a deadly civil war.

Miscellaneous Works

Byzantium

Here, in the story of a great gift and an even greater journey, is summoned all the magic and splendor, the brutality and the innocence of a lost era - the not-so-Dark Age where faith ruled men's hearts.
Aidan is a scribe in a remote Irish monastery on the far, wild edge of Christendom. He was born to rule, but his future was lost with his father's kingdom, to the fierce Danes. Behind the walls of Cennanus na Rig, Aidan is secure and sheltered by monastic life, dividing histime between prayer and work, contemplation and the dreams of the wider world that stir every young man's mind.
Then a miracle bursts into Aidan's quiet lfie. He is chosen to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the farthest eastern reaches of the known world - the fabled city of Byzantium, where they are to present a beautiful and costly had-illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells, to the emperor of all Christendom.
Thus begins a journey beyond his wildest imaginings, by sea and over land, from Ireland's gentle hills across the storm-tossed Narrow Sea, to the blue waters of the Mediterranean; from the peaceful solitude of contemplative life, into the vast, corrupt, and glittering heart of the Holy Roman Empire.
On this expedition, Aidan becomes, by turns, a warrior and a sailor, a slave and a spy, a Viking and a Saracen, and finally, a man. He sees more of the world than most men of his time, becoming an ambassador to kings and an intimate of Byzantium's fabled Golden Court. And finaly this valiant Irish monk faces the greatest trial that can confront any man in any age: commanding his own Destiny.

Dream Thief

The dreams have become nightmares. The nightmares have become real.

Whoever is playing with Spence's mind is playing for keeps.

Every morning Dr. Spencer Reston, dream-research scientist on space station Gotham, wakes up exhausted - with the nagging feeling that something terrible is about to happen. Spence soon discovers that he has become a vital link in a cosmic coup master minded by a mysterious creature known as the Dream Thief... and all civilization hangs in the balance.

Here is science fiction on the grand scale of Dune and Asimov's Foundation series. Dream Thief has it all: fast-paced adventure, alien settings, wonderful character development, cliff-hanging supsense, epic plot, and compelling spiritual underpinnings.