Sam Falkirk, Captain of the World Police and stationed at the World Council building in New York, has a special interest in investigating the sudden and inexplicable death of Angelo Augustine, the brother of his girl friend. A messenger employed by the Council, Augustine was also a spy in the pay of Senator Rayburn, a fanatical Nationalist who is fighting both to retain his power and to destroy the Orient before they, as he believes, turn against the Occident. Augustine had died while delivering a parcel containing a statue of a Buddha for an employee of Senator Sucamari of the Japanese Legation, and who, in his own way, is as fanatical as Rayburn himself. Sucamari wants to gain living room for the teeming millions of the Orient, and his secret plan involves the releasing of a deadly bacterial plague across the Americas. The bacteria is contained in a special coating on the Buddha statue, but when the statue is stolen by a petty criminal, millions of people hover on the brink of agonizing death, unless Falkirk can find the criminal in time…

There were two. Rosslyn, the pilot, and Comain, the dreamer. Rosslyn died in space, frozen, preserved for two centuries until found and resurrected by a miracle of future surgery. Comain…? Comain remained on Earth, and crystallised his dreams, and when Rosslyn returned he found a civilisation beyond his wildest imaginings. Women ruled the planet, guided solely by the automatic and relentless predictions of a tremendous and frightening machine. A machine that foretold the future and determined the actions of an entire world. Into this assured and new civilisation Rosslyn came, and the impact of his presence brought near chaos. He had to be assimilated—or eliminated. Rosslyn wanted neither. He became the pawn in a colossal gamble, with power as the prize . . . and the future of Mankind at stake!

Ships occasionally disappeared in hyperspace, regrettable sacrifices to the luxury of faster than light travel. But now one of the lost ships has been found and the wreckage is enough to terrify even the most cold-blooded witness. The lucky ones on the lost ship are dead. The others have been turned inside-out in gruesome parody of human beings and they are still alive. Disgraced Captain Kurt Varl is chosen to command a suicide mission to discover the cause of these disasters. The enemy is unknown and the only way Varl can solve the mystery is to use himself as bait!

On several settled worlds of the Earth Confederation, towns had been utterly destroyed by attacking alien vessels— exploded into flaming ruin, and fleeing people reduced to smears of blood and bone. And so they sent for Captain Kurt Varl, the only man to have fought an alien ship and destroyed it—the only survivor from his crew of thirty souls. And now he would have to lead another ship and crew into battle, knowing that as well as the alien raiders he faced the things that lurked in limbo, existing in four dimensions and capable of transforming humans into things of screaming horror…

The bases of the major powers are watching one another—and waiting... But what bothers Britain’s Moon Base personnel most of all is the visit of a Royal Commission, sent to investigate expenditure. Travelling with the Commission, but under separate secret orders, is Felix Larsen, whose investigations are of quite a different nature. Why should one man fall a thousand feet and escape with minor bruises while another dies after falling eighteen inches? Why does a desperate man, bent on suicide, find it absolutely impossible to kill himself? What are the strange messages emanating from the Base—and where do they come from? And what is the fantastic thing that has been conceived in the research department?

Trapped in an economic rat-race, Kevin Blake had little going for him but an over-active imagination—an attribute which brought him to the notice of Paul Trevainen. Trevainen made Kevin an offer he couldn’t resist: find a billionaire’s daughter, bring her back to Earth, and collect a dazzling reward. The only trouble? Crystal was wilful, stubborn, and worst of all, hard to find. The quest would force Kevin to become an advocate in an alien court, turn him into a hunter, and make him the captive of giant, money-hungry frogs. Worst yet, he would have to rebel against established authority, become a fugitive, and even a criminal. Was it a mistake to long for adventure?