Out of This World #3

When a radiation leak at an isolated atomic reactor facility exposes a group of soldiers and a reluctant scientist to intense exposure, they begin to transform in ways no one could have anticipated—their brains expanding, their minds developing extraordinary powers. As the men change, they lose their humanity piece by piece, and the doctor finds himself fighting a losing battle to convince them to escape before it's too late. A haunting science fiction tale about the price of evolution and what happens when men stop being men.

Jonathan Prentice has built an empire of wealth and respect as a chemical magnate and philanthropist, but his carefully constructed public image shatters when a blackmailer arrives with knowledge of a dark secret from his past—something involving a rival chemist from forty-six years ago. With threats of exposure looming and his reputation hanging in the balance, Prentice faces an impossible choice between paying the extortionist or watching everything he's built come crashing down.

A rescue team arrives at a remote planet to find Jarvis, the legendary pilot who vanished twenty years ago after humanity's first spaceflight—only to discover that he's perfectly content and has no memory of his ship or why they came. As the rescuers begin experiencing the same strange contentment, they realize something far more mysterious has transformed this world and everyone on it.

Detective Charlie Nichols stumbles into a peculiar case when he arrests a street performer claiming to access the fourth dimension through the Indian rope trick—only to find himself investigating a jewel theft at a wealthy widow's home. When the eccentric Professor Hokim mysteriously reappears with photographic evidence that exposes Mrs. Lorimer's insurance fraud, Nichols discovers there's more to the old showman's impossible claims than he bargained for. A clever science fiction mystery about a detective learning that sometimes the strangest explanations are the ones that solve the case.

Hal Adams, an amateur astronomer obsessed with the mysterious planet Abella, finds his vivid imagination blurring the line between dream and reality—especially after a psychiatrist warns him about his dangerous ability to mentally project himself across space. When Hal manages to actually reach Abella through a combination of stargazing and lucid dreaming, he discovers the planet's inhabitants have been waiting to use him as a gateway to invade Earth. Trapped on an alien world with hostile beings and facing an impossible choice, Hal must find a way to protect his wife Jane and his planet, no matter the cost.