Adventures into the Unknown #76

When Professor Henry Kincaid theorizes that environment shapes an organism far more than heredity, he embarks on a bold—and ultimately audacious—scientific experiment to prove it. Adopting a baby gorilla and raising it among civilized society, he hopes to demonstrate that the right influences can transform even nature itself, all while competing with his rival cousin George Forbes for a prestigious position at the Markham Scientific Institute. But as Kincaid's experiment unfolds, his theory faces a test far more dramatic than he anticipated.

When a meteorite crashes near Martin Runes' home in upstate New York, experts recover the space rock for study—only to make an impossible discovery buried within it. Inside the meteorite lies a fossil of a creature that shouldn't exist: a tiny unicorn, a being relegated to legend and fairy tale. The mystery is left in your hands: how did a mythical beast end up fossilized inside a rock from outer space?

When astronomers detect a distant star's sudden destruction, two lives separated by millions of miles—Prince Jansen of the doomed planet Extron and Alice, a struggling young woman on Earth—find themselves on unexpected collision courses. Jansen must lead his entire civilization to the stars to escape a catastrophic comet, while Alice pursues her dream of stardom in Hollywood, unaware that her heart troubles may hold a deeper mystery. Their paths are destined to cross in ways neither could have imagined.

In 1950s Russia, Dmitri Simenov, chief of the Bureau of Political History, oversees a chilling campaign to erase Ivan Kolchak from existence—scrubbing the disgraced official from every document, photograph, and record until no trace of him remains. When Simenov is arrested and brought before a tribunal, he faces the horrifying realization that the machinery of erasure he set in motion has turned against him, and discovers that his own place in history may be far more fragile than he ever imagined.