Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #12

A desperate alien civilization dispatches a massive ship to Earth to steal every drop of water needed to save their dying world, but the mission's reluctant commander begins to question the morality of condemning an entire planet to save his own. When the great vessel begins draining Earth's oceans in 1959, one being's conscience becomes humanity's only hope against total annihilation.

In the year 4958 A.D., John Robinson awakens to a nightmarish vision of automated war machines churning endlessly, manufacturing weapons of mass destruction while humanity has nearly vanished from the Earth. Desperate and alone, he pleads with the senseless machines to stop, only to find himself jolted back to reality as a fellow armament worker rouses him from a troubled dream. "Automata Ultima" explores the haunting cost of unchecked automation and mechanized warfare through one man's fevered glimpse of a future that may still be avoided.

Dr. Fagol's experimental time dimension machine has made him the laughingstock of the scientific community—until he convinces his simple-minded handyman Willie Keggs to test the device, and the young man vanishes in a blinding flash. When Dr. Fagol is arrested and charged with kidnapping, a mysterious stranger appears in court with startling claims about who he really is and where he's been. A wild ride through dimensions unknown, where the meek inherit more than just the earth.

A man acquires a charm bracelet that's supposed to warn him when his intentions are wicked—and he's about to find out if it really works when he and a partner plan to shake down a shopkeeper. As fate closes in with each step toward crime, the bracelet's power becomes impossible to ignore, testing whether superstition or cold calculation will win out.