The Destroyer of Worlds!

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Ready for more classic space-faring tales from Robert Silverberg? We've got three of them in Planet Stories: The Planet Killers!

In the eponymous "The Planet Killers", it's kill or be killed! The Terran Security Service's computer has calculated that the planet Lurion is on a course to destroy Earth—in 67 years. Terran Agent Roy Gardner and his team are assigned to take out their future enemy's world first. From the acceptance of the mission to arrival on Lurion, things are a lot more complicated than at first glance. Nothing is cut and dry, and nothing is as it seems among the mistrustful Lurioni.

Hypnojewels—unremarkable, irregularly faceted thumbnail-sized gems. Nondescript until you actually stare into them, and then your mind is lost, drawn into an inescapable dreamworld. Incredibly illegal, these baubles are at the heart of the story in "The Plot Against Earth." All the humanoids in the galaxy are subject to its effects, and Special Investigator Lloyd Catton has to find and stop the traffickers of the gems. Dealing with the other major races that have a stake in the outcome of the case is part of his problem, as they have no love for Earthmen. When his life is put on the line, Catton has a sudden vested interest to find the origins of the hypnojewels—and stop it!

Finally, in "One of Our Asteroids is Missing", would-be asteroid miner John Storm wanted to stake his claim of the rich veins and happily retire with his beautiful wife back on earth. Other people have their eyes on the very same asteroid as Storm, though, and have no compunctions about making him disappear after he makes a startling discovery.

Check out the rest of the Planet Stories line here!