Space Adventures #32

The crew of U.N. Patrol Ship 90 discovers a mysterious ten-foot sphere drifting in space beyond Pluto—only to receive a dire warning from the ice-beings of planet Orcan demanding its return or face Earth's destruction. With their ship trapped by the sphere's magnetic field and an artificial sun on the verge of activation, Captain Brencher and his crew must race against time to prevent catastrophe while encountering one of space's most unusual civilizations.

Professor Eli Scraggs, a brilliant scientist bitter over years of rejection, builds a spacecraft powered by harnessed brain energy and a secret size-adjustment device—then uses it to grow into a giant and threaten entire cities with destruction unless the world pays him $100 million. With the fate of millions hanging in the balance, authorities scramble to contain the threat as Scraggs demands compliance from the sky.

When a devastating fungus threatens Earth's survival, Commander Mackenzie Smith leads the crew of Space-Flight XXXIV on a desperate race across the galaxy to find the tiny planet where the blight originated—and discover what might stop it. With time running out and Earth's population weakening by the day, Smith and his team must locate not just the fungus, but the natural enemy that feeds on it, then make it home before it's too late. What begins as humanity's last hope becomes a choice that tests the commander's authority and raises troubling questions about the cost of salvation.