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"Astronaut, you've activated one of the emergency recordings in your consciousness' astronaut pack. This recording is for mission overshoot . You are outside of predictable variations.  Obtain the equation. Transmit it back through your transmission stem. Save our world." Douglas Spitzer is no ordinary astronaut. His destination is not outer space but different realities. His consciousness has been transmitted out of his body and into an alternate version of himself in a parallel universe... in which the world is not dying. In his native version of Earth, a quantum anomaly threatens to end all life. Reality itself is infected with a cancer which has spread outward from a point source at a Russian proton accelerator. Ninety per cent of the world has fallen, the remaining cities huddled behind barriers. But the barriers are failing... Douglas is one of the candidates chosen to travel to an alternate reality in which a 'cure' can be found for the quantum mutatio...

Space sector 7141986: space cadet Junior, accompanied by her trusty miniature talking hippopotamus buddy Walter, has been given the job of repairing damage to a remote observation station in orbit of planet 811. It's punishment detail, for what we do not know, but she messed up somewhere and this is the result. Busy bitching about her predicament, she fails to notice a detail that Walter - the more level-headed of the duo - has picked out: holes ostensibly caused by meteor impacts do not look like they were actually the result of natural phenomena. Further ruminations become academic when a fireball hurtles straight towards them, forcing them back into their (now damaged) ship and en route to a very hasty crash landing on the planet below... Junior by writer/artist Alex Kmeto plunges the reader into a thrilling, tumbling ride from danger into ... well, quite probably a lot more danger. Planet 811 is full of life and it is of the carnivorous variety, complete with jaws, claws an...

OK, so you're generally an all-round failure, navigating the ups and downs of life's random bouts of catastrophic chaos, narrowly surviving certain death at one moment only to emerge relatively unscathed just in time to be hurled into the next fatal predicament... At least you can console yourself with the supposition that, at some point, things cannot get any worse... Right? Cargo freighter pilot Caspian Porter has escaped the frying pan of 2086 - in which he was pursued by enforcers working for the angry husband of the woman he drunkenly bedded following a card game on a space station in which he lost his entire cargo (which also belonged to said angry husband) - by falling through a random wormhole and crashing on Mars 500 million years in the past. At this point in time Mars has a thriving ecosystem - complete with slavering dinosaurs - and a population of fellow stranded time travellers. In Caspian Porter #3: The Merciless Pirates of Mars by writer Drew D Lenhart and ar...