Three Tales of Omne / The Elder of Days (Wildside Double #8)

In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the eighth Wildside Double. THREE TALES OF OMNE: A COMPANION TO WORDSMITH by Michael R. Collings This is Omne a world enveloped by perpetual clouds without metals machines or technology whose people harbor the secrets of an unimaginable power for destruction--or redemption. But--before it became Omne it was Colony home of a small group of refugees from Earth struggling to survive on a new planet and understand its rules unaware of their gradual transformation into something no longer quite human. This is the story of how it all began! THE ELDER OF DAYS: TALES OF THE ELDERS by Robert Reginald They hide among us these near-immortals and they go by names like William Shakespeare and John Donne and Napoleon Bonaparte. They're immune to most diseases heal rapidly from injury and age so slowly that their life-spans are encompassed by the passage of millennia. These are The Elders. In Katydid Jack must penetrate the mystery of a decaying trolley car and the curious 1920s photo album secreted within. A statistical reporting anomaly for Eldering a forgotten town tucked away in the Cumberland Mountains prompts a dying census worker to investigate. Abused wife Jewel-Rose can only find the chaud in the Boneyard just outside her small Montana town. Time traveler Pat Wardon is determined upon Saving Jane Austen--whether she wants to be saved or not! Great romantic fantasy stories.