Travis's illegal medical knowledge, his experiences, and his friendships enable him to help Iron Phedon, a persecuted boy from another planet, and also to help himself to what he really wants.
While recording the enslavement of her space mission crew by inhabitants of the planets Ix-thlan, an exo-biologist is projected into the future where she meets descendants of the crew who have known nothing but slavery.
In the midst of conflict and unrest the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm.
With the help of two refugees from a penal colony, three earthmen, separated from a fourth on the planet Torin, elude capture by the Great Elder and gain cooperation for their mission.
As Keill battles to save the planet Veynaa from destruction at the hands of an evil genius of the Deathwing, he discovers, almost too late, that there is more than one agent of the Deathwing on Veynaa.
When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.
Tanqui discovers she has the only means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people and the Heathens who have invaded prehistoric Dalemark.
