After much delicate tweaking of his home-brewing apparatus, security officer Tony Verdeschi handed a beaker of murky amber liquid to Professor Bergman with a proud grin. “There we are, Victor. I know I’ve got it right this time! What do you think?” The Professor eyed the beaker with amusement, sniffed it and took a cautious sip. Tony’s heart sank when …

Alert signals rang out across the control room of Space Tracking Station Galileo. Within moments a pair of operators had trained powerful scanner beams on the unidentified space object that had triggered the alert. A sophisticated auto-analyser rattled out the details on a strip of info-tape. Object classification: Alien missile armed with Neutomic Warhead Projected impact area: Western United States …

Preparations to ring in the new year were well on the way on Tracy Island. Alan, Gordon and Tin-Tin had just returned from helping Grandma and Kyrano in the kitchen when there came the familiar bleeping of an emergency call. Jeff Tracy pressed the concealed button on his desk and spoke into the hidden microphone, “Go ahead, John.” The large …

Scarlet The Spectrum Captain – by Paul Metcalfe You know Ochre and Blue, Indigo and Fawn Grey and Green, Magenta and Brown But do you recall The most famous Captain of all? Scarlet the Spectrum Captain Had a very special gift And if the Martians saw it They would likely be quite miffed All of the other Captains Used to …

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS REPORT Trying to trace the sports hopper from CCTV footage was a dead end. The cameras covering the side of the Hudson Heights apartments had been disabled. One of the benefits of being the man on the inside was the access to the city’s CCTV control systems. Very useful if there was a crime to commit – …

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS REPORT Brogan stood on the roof of the NYPD building and watched as the hovering ambulance took to the air and screamed away across the city. By some miracle Donovan was still alive, but in critical condition. The reinforced glass of his office window had deflected the shot just enough when it shattered to give him a …

New York never changed. The large bulletproof window of the 99th Precinct building looked out over the same towering skyscrapers and packed hover lanes that Brogan remembered so vividly. A lot had happened in the five years since he’d last taken in the view. Come to that, a lot had happened in the past five weeks. It had taken Slomo …

Continued from Previous Report As the Great Abyss began to roll sideways in front of him, Gordon gritted his teeth and slammed the throttle control forward. With a whoosh of bubbles, Thunderbird Four surged towards the stricken submarine with its magnetic rams deployed. There was a terrific clang as the powerful magnets connected with the side of the vessel and …

The large translucent hemisphere on the main control bank flashed red and the auto-recorder began to spool as the distress signal played over the speakers in Thunderbird Five’s control room. John Tracy, the young fair-haired International Rescue space monitor, strolled across the anti-gravity floor plating and listened to the transmission attentively. His brow furrowed in dismay at what he heard. …

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS REPORT The deadly snout of the gun didn’t waver as William Alexander spoke again, “I thought I’d seen the last of you in Prague. Too bad about Peterson.” A series of images flashed through Rule’s mind. The climb up the fire escape. Peterson springing the rooftop ambush on Alexander. Rule making it to the roof just in …