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Crater and the Lunar Rescue Company have to rescue Maria Medaris, Crater's ex-girlfriend, who is being held hostage by green-lipped, gene-splicing scientists. The planet Earth, meanwhile, is in the crosshairs of an asteroid engineered by Maria's abductors. If Crater cannot stop the asteroid, Earth will be destroyed.

Crater Trueblood, doubting the justice of the war he fights and the evil of enemies he was trained to hate, brings Crescent, an apparently female Crowhopper, to Moontown as his prisoner but soon both are fugitives, fleeing prejudice and cruelty in hostile territory.

A Fighting Man of Mars: When a nobleman's daughter is abducted at the point of a gun that can disintegrate metal, it portends great danger for the empire of Helium. To rescue the woman he lovesand locate the source of the gun, Hadron of Hastor must run the gauntlet of giant Martians, man-eating apes and a xenophobic city where he is sentenced to "The Death"-a place of roiling horror that will carry him to the weapon's mad inventor...and a surprising...

Carl Fredericksen is a 78-year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...