Adventures into the Unknown #69

Captain Phil Carstairs has spent his life trying to clear the name of his great-great-grandfather, Colonel David Carstairs, who vanished from Fort Shelton during the Civil War alongside the regimental payroll—a century-old shame that haunted the entire family. When Phil transfers to the fort to investigate, a strange dream overtakes him at midnight, pulling him into the past as a spectator to the true events of that fateful day. As Phil watches the mystery unfold before his eyes, he discovers the real culprit behind the theft and his ancestor's disappearance.

Ronald Chausens is a brilliant scientist who clawed his way up from a childhood of forced violin lessons to lead an ambitious interplanetary mission with his colleague Tim Shore—but a gnawing envy over Tim's wealth, charm, and beautiful fiancée Diana Harkness eats away at him as they prepare for their historic voyage to Saturn. When the two men finally launch into the void, Ronald's old resentments resurface in unexpected ways, threatening to unravel what should be humanity's greatest triumph.

Charles Trask, a wealthy ornithologist on African safari, discovers an extraordinary bird—a creature so rare and intelligent that it learns human speech in mere days. When the Skybird begins to speak and think with unsettling clarity, Trask becomes obsessed with proving his discovery to the scientific world, but the bird has its own designs. As tensions mount between captor and captive, both will discover that nature has a way of settling scores.