The Fires of Paratime Author:L. E. Modessit, Jr. On the planet Query, immortality is universal and the ability to time-dive is common. Developed talents join the Temporal Guard, a military unit formed millenia ago after a devastating war with time-traveling Frost Giants. But Query and the Guard have lost all ability to create technology and so now amount to no more than time-thieves and time-... more »dictators-until Loki comes along. An extraordinary time-diver since childhood, his powers are growing. And he knows there is something wrong with Query, the Temporal Guard, and Time itself!« less