Jet Power #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains two science fiction stories. "Jet Power" follows a pilot navigating a turbulent underground passage with a gravitation device, racing against torrent river waters and giant engines to escape a collapsing hangar before reaching the river. "Space Ace" is set three hundred years in the future on a colonized Mars, where a mysterious adventurer called Space Ace battles desert-dwelling creatures and contends with a malfunctioning spacecraft while combating atomic-powered threats in the Syrtis Major Basin.
Meet Jet Powers, Captain of Science—an inventor and adventurer whose genius is matched only by his determination to protect mankind from evil. When a series of devastating man-made earthquakes strikes major American cities, Jet discovers the threat originates from a hidden laboratory in the Himalayas, where the sinister Mr. Sinn is orchestrating a plot to conquer the world. Racing across the globe in his atomic-powered Aerocar, Jet must infiltrate the enemy stronghold and stop Sinn's apocalyptic scheme before it's too late—but his arrival in Asia sets off a cascade of danger that tests even his remarkable scientific abilities.
After destroying Mr. Sinn's Tibetan laboratory, Jet Powers discovers that the arch-criminal has vanished—and that U.S. military and scientific secrets are disappearing at an alarming rate. When Jet's radar picks up an impossible signal: a man-made metal moon orbiting Earth, he knows exactly who's behind it and launches a desperate space mission to stop him before it's too late. Jet finds himself locked in a deadly confrontation aboard Mr. Sinn's orbiting fortress, where survival means stopping both a ruthless genius and the very forces of nature itself.
In "The Desert Devils!", Space Ace races across the red dunes of Mars, chasing a band of rogue robots that ambush cargo planes with deadly precision. When the robots’ photoelectric cells activate upon the sight of passing ships, the young pilot must uncover the truth behind their sudden aggression—leading him to the forgotten remains of a long-dead Keeper of the Sands and a dormant control panel still humming with power.
When a meteor streaks across the desert and delivers an alien insect creature named Nev Tow to Earth, the being begins a methodical plan to conquer the planet—starting by studying human technology and fashioning a mind-probe weapon from scrap metal. Jet Powers, a scientist monitoring mysterious atomic radiation, discovers Nev Tow's underground laboratory and the imprisoned victims within, setting up a tense confrontation between Earth's defender and an extraterrestrial threat bent on signaling an invasion fleet. With the alien racing toward the nation's atomic reactors, Jet must stop Nev Tow before the creature can trigger catastrophic explosions as a beacon to his people.
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↩ Reprints Jet Powers #1 [A-1 #30] (1951)
Reprinted in Centaurus #1 (2013)
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