The Star Kings

Did John Gordon, an ordinary American clerk, know what it would turn into for him the first time he heard a voice in his head—someone else’s voice? The voice introduced itself as Zart Arne, a prince from a distant future, a scientist and an inventor of a machine that allows exchanging minds between representatives of different eras.

Zart Arne offered Gordon a body swap to taste the pleasures of lives from eras previously inaccessible to him. Gordon agreed—who would refuse, if given the chance to be a star-prince for a week?

But right after the swap, everything went wrong. Not everything in the future world was smooth. Envy, the struggle for power, politics, war—people spilled all of it out across the interstellar expanse. And John Gordon’s mind and the body of Prince Zart Arne, who understood nothing about what was happening, are thrown headfirst into this vortex. Political assassinations, intrigues, attempted murders, and kidnappings pour in like an endless stream. The Empire is on the brink of a general war, and everything now depends on the Earthman who, by the will of fate, happened to be in this place at this time. Because the fleet of the League of Dark Worlds has already begun its invasion—and among the stars, armadas of spaceships collide, and thousands of people die.

And the question is no longer “Who will win?” but “Will anyone win at all? And what will the winner get?” For from the vault, the Destroyer is already being brought out—a most terrible creation of science, a weapon that destroys space itself…