Starman Jones - The Star Beast - Tunnel in the Sky

Anthology containing:

Starman Jones
The Star Beast
Tunnel in the Sky

07 • Starman Jones

isbn:9781451637496

To get into space you either needed connections, or a lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, would ever have. What he does have going for him are his uncle’s prized astrogation manuals on star navigation that Max commits to memory word for word, equation for equation. Max takes to the road, only to discover that his uncle’s manuals, and Max’s memorization of them, is a ticket to the stars. But serving on a spaceship is not easy. Duty is everything, and a mistake can mean you and all aboard are lost forever. Max loves every minute of his new life, and he gains the trust of his superiors, and seems to be on course for a command position. But disaster strikes, and it’s going to take every trick Max hasr learned from his tough life and his uncle’s manuals to save himself and the ship from a doom beyond extinction.

08 • The Star Beast

isbn:9780345350596

Lummox had been the Stuart family pet for years. Though far from cuddly and rather large, it had always been obedient and docile. Except, that is, for the time it had eaten the secondhand Buick . . .

But now, all of a sudden and without explanation, Lummox had begun chomping down on a variety of things -- not least, a very mean dog and a cage of virtually indestructible steel. Incredible!

John Thomas and Lummox were soon in awfully hot water, and they didn't know how to get out. And neither one really understood just how bad things were -- or how bad the situation could get -- until some space voyagers appeared and turned a far-from-ordinary family problem into an extraordinary confrontation.

09 • Tunnel in the Sky

isbn:9781416505518

It was just a test . . . But something had gone wrong. Terribly wrong. What was to have been a standard ten-day survival test had suddenly become an indefinite life-or-death nightmare.

Now they were stranded somewhere in the universe, beyond contact with Earth . . . at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. This small group of young men and women, divested of all civilized luxuries and laws, were being forced to forge a future of their own . . . a strange future in a strange land where sometimes not even the fittest could survive!