Strange Worlds #5

Georg Garron never expected an asteroid rich with pure radite to bring chaos—but when a band of escaped Earth criminals, transformed into glowing monsters by a decade of radiation exposure, invades Mars with an army of radioactive creatures, he and Laura Blair find themselves taken hostage and hauled toward the very asteroid that was supposed to save two worlds. Now stranded on an alien world where radiation runs rampant and Rokk's ultimatum threatens Earth and Mars with conquest, Georg must find a way to stop the invasion before it's too late.

When World Federation undercover agent Mike Gordon is assigned to secretly protect the President's daughter Nadine Grail aboard the starship Stardust Queen, a mysterious villain named Anders Zorn stages a daring mutiny and kidnapping—demanding one million decimars for her safe return. Stranded on the airless Moon with nothing but his wits and determination, Gordon must track down the ruthless Venusian before the ransom exchange goes through.

Grandfather shares a harrowing tale of the night he was abducted by mysterious metal creatures into a bizarre fourth-dimensional world—a realm where enslaved humans toil endlessly to feed a colossal, disembodied monster brain and its robotic servants. Trapped in the rock-pits alongside fellow slaves Elto and Aza, he must devise a desperate plan to overthrow the tyrant that rules this alien domain. A cautionary story about greed wrapped in science-fiction suspense, "World of the Monster Brain" shows why possessing everything might not be a blessing after all.

When passenger ships mysteriously vanish along the space route to Mars, Jim Fanning of Earth's Interplanetary Emergency Bureau boards the Star Queen undercover to investigate—only to discover that two young passengers, the Carson twins, may hold the key to a deadly weapon hidden somewhere on the bleak Asteroid 9. As Fanning pieces together the truth about their missing father and a villain known as the Lone Wolf, he must race to stop a desperate attack before another ship meets a grim fate.