Long ago Earth's paleobiologists established the planet Anee as a vast storehouse of extinct species, each continent home to life forms of a different era. For a thousand years the starfarers' great sea serpents formed a wall of teeth and flesh that protected Smilodon Bay from the ravaging dinosaurs that swam across the ocean from Hotland. Now the serpents are gone and Anee is being ravaged by tyranny, war and slavery. Tull, son to a human father and a Neanderthal mother, feels doomed to toil his life away as a common field hand, but his mission becomes clear when he takes action to save his homeland. Tull must seek a distant river in the slave nation of Craal, where young serpents can be found. Legend has it that Adjonai, the Neanderthal god of terror, is king of Craal. Yet only by facing this dark enemy can Tull hope to bring home his serpent catch alive. This is the first installment of a four part series. Originally published under the name "Dave Wolverton."

Book Three of the Serpent Catch Series. Catching the serpents was only the beginning. Before Tull can lead his people to freedom, Tull must first free himself from the beast within. He must break the fiery chains of Adjonai as he leads an uprising against the powerful Slave Lords, but the ultimate battle for Tull and his allies will come against the Creators, machines with minds of crystal waging a program of total genocide against all life on Anee. "No one who has read Dave Wolverton doubts that his is a major talent." —Algis Budrys, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction "For me, what lifts this book out of the first rank of quest-adventures and onto another plane entirely is Wolveton's creation of the Pwi, a people who are as loving and spiritual as Homo sapiens is angry and rational... an extraordinary novel of ideas that coexist quite easily with a powerful story of adventure and character... You won't soon forget this book." —The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

The last installment of the Serpent Catch Series Catching the serpents was only the beginning. Before Tull can lead his people to freedom, Tull must first free himself from the beast within. He must break the fiery chains of Adjonai as he leads an uprising against the powerful Slave Lords, but the ultimate battle for Tull and his allies will come against the Creators, machines with minds of crystal waging a program of total genocide against all life on Anee.