Forbidden Worlds #82

When the Army seizes the sacred garden of Coyote Charlie to build a rocket base, the old medicine man turns to his spirit drums and an ancient power that science can't explain—with consequences that defy every meteorologist's instruments and expectations. Hamilton Frump, the weather station's meteorologist, finds his forecasts thrown into chaos as Charlie's supernatural vengeance unfolds across the southwestern skies. As the rocket base nears completion and its first test launch, the real battle between old magic and modern technology reaches its climax.

Cameron Lane makes an impulsive act of kindness at a downtown art exhibit, purchasing a painting from a desperate street artist for five dollars—only to discover days later from an art dealer friend that the painting is a masterpiece by Ravagne, a legendary artist dead for twenty-five years. When Lane and his friend rush back to the exhibit to find the mysterious painter, all traces of him have vanished, leaving only questions about the impossible encounter that netted Lane a fortune.

Two alien explorers return to a green planet a million years after their ancestors visited, hoping to find an intelligent species suitable for conquest—only to discover the world still teems with the same monstrous creatures that deterred the original expedition. Their hasty retreat back to space leaves them puzzled by the planet's evolutionary stagnation, unaware that what they've encountered is actually an elaborate mechanical attraction designed by humans named Fred and Mr. Garett. "A Second Look!" cleverly subverts the cosmic-conquest premise by revealing Earth's dinosaur park through extraterrestrial eyes.

A scientist leading an oceanographic expedition vanishes six months ago chasing a fantastical theory—that the legendary ships lost in the Sargasso Sea still exist, floating together somewhere in the South Atlantic. When he's miraculously rescued from the sea, Lancelot Boggs reveals an incredible tale of what he discovered in those missing months, a discovery that will test the limits of anyone's belief.

Rick Foster's theory about migrating polar shifts gets him booted from an African expedition—but when he ventures into forbidden mountains to prove his controversial geology, he discovers an ancient structure with mysterious mechanisms that trigger something catastrophic. Now, as the earth's axis begins shifting and the world descends into earthquakes, floods, and ice, Foster races against a global catastrophe he may have unwittingly set in motion.