The Gods of Sagittarius

Russ Tabor is one of the top security specialists in the galaxy. Muchagainst his will, he finds himself assigned toprovide protection for RupertMedawar Narayan Shenoy—“Lord Shenoy,” as he likes to stylehimself—who isprobably the human race’s most brilliant savant. Shenoy has become convinced that the race of ancient aliens known as the OldOnes possessed powers unknown to any modern intelligent species. He believesthey had harnessed forces which may well have been actual magic, giving the OldOnes the stature of gods. Off Russ and Shenoy go to find the secret. Meanwhile, Occo, a member of the alien race known as the Nac ZheAnglan,returns to her religious creed’s home cloister to find that it has beencompletely destroyed—and by meanswhich suggest that the Old Ones werethe perpetrators. Yet the Old Ones, those ancient and inimical gods ofthegalaxy, were thought to have perished eons before. Occo is not a savantof any kind. She is a shaman castigant, a warrior of her creed. Her purpose nowis to seek revenge, not to uncover the secrets of the Old Ones. But she cannotdo the one without first doing the other. So, she and her familiar Bresk setought to track down those long-gone deities. Now human adventures and analien shaman are on a collision course with the truth: despite their manydifferences, only if they unite their forces do they stand any chance ofsurviving the coming encounter with the gods of Sagittarius.