Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #34

When Lt. Colonel Alvin Breen mysteriously reappears two years after his first expedition to Venus vanishes, Commander Duggan leads a new mission to the planet—only to discover that the man claiming to be Breen may not be human at all. As the commander faces an impossible choice between protecting his crew and risking first contact with an alien intelligence, the fate of Earth-Venus relations hangs on whether peace is possible with beings far beyond human understanding.

Archaeologist Charles Abajian and his companion Helen Reed venture into the newly discovered tomb of the ancient Pharaoh Kafara, only to find themselves drawn into a strange ritual orchestrated by a mysterious Egyptian workman who believes Helen to be the goddess ISIS reincarnate. As the scented oils of millennia fill the air and the boundaries between past and present blur, the line between imagination and reality dissolves in the darkness of the burial chamber. What begins as a search for historical artifacts becomes something far more unsettling—a question of what actually happened in those ancient shadows.

Jo, a quiet archivist with a penchant for quiet routines, finds herself drawn to a single, unassuming purple door in the library’s forgotten east wing. When she finally opens it, the world she knows unravels in ways she never imagined—though what lies beyond remains a mystery.

Captain Dixon, Lydia West, and Ed Talbot land on the alien world of Ardoeplex Og, where they’re drawn into a desperate struggle against the terrifying space dragons ravaging the planet. As the crew of the *Stellar Seeker* tries to understand the planet’s strange rulers and ancient defenses, they find themselves caught in a mystery far older than their mission.