Space War #7
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeCaptain Hugo of the World Space Forces discovers an ancient alien civilization's hieroglyphics and code messages revealing a bridge to another dimension, which the aliens call Lavana and consider their heaven. When Hugo attempts to use the bridge's full power to reach the ship, his commanding officer General Mutrie must stop him to prevent the destruction of Earth, leading to a confrontation where Hugo is forced to abandon his mission.
Space Marshal Hoie pilots his Earth Galactic Patrol ship toward a crimson world to investigate reports of raids, only to discover the planet's inhabitants evolved with eyes sensitive to a completely different spectrum of light—making his silvered vessel appear blinding to them. When a tense standoff escalates into what seems like peaceful negotiation, the Marshal must decide whether to trust the red world's leader or prepare for deception. A clash of alien physiology and military strategy unfolds across the blood-red landscape as Hoie races to complete his mission and return home.
Captain Hugo, a decorated war hero grief-stricken over his brother's death, steals a warship with plans to end the endless conflict between Earth and its outer-space enemies—by delivering the planet's most secret military intelligence to the opposing forces. Racing through space toward enemy territory, Hugo encounters a mysterious apparition blocking his path, forcing him to confront what he believes is his own fractured mind in this tense 1960 tale of conscience and deception.
Tim Roberts, a brilliant archaeologist from an American university, is captured by a tribe in the Brazilian jungle who intend to sacrifice him to their gods—but his discovery of an ancient bridge and its mysterious inscriptions offers him a desperate gamble for escape. Using his knowledge of the tribe's legends and a clever scheme involving a sacred stone, Tim must outwit his captors before the full moon ceremony seals his fate. What he witnesses on that fateful night, however, proves far stranger than any legend he could have imagined.
When the mysterious inhabitants of Venus kidnap Anne, General Atlas's secretary, a determined space warrior named John Mutrie launches a desperate solo assault on their invisible observation platform—only to find himself captured as well. Trapped aboard a Venutian vessel bound for the hostile planet, Mutrie must find a way to free them both and return to Earth before Venus's forces can extract humanity's most guarded secrets from their minds.
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Reprinted in Race into Space #1 (1961), Astounding Stories #176 (1985), Creepy Worlds #237 (1986), Silver Age Classics: Space War #2 (2022), Astounding Stories #40, Astounding Stories #43, Outer Space #10, Outer Space #4, Uncanny Tales #40
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