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Pirate and privateer Phoebus Krumm, is brought out of retirement and into action for a mission to thwart a deadly new threat from the same interstellar empire that had destroyed his home and killed his wives. He is joined by friends Bretta Islay (aka the dread pirate Bretta Martyn) and Hanebuth Tarrant on a mission that will change the balance of power in the Saggitarius Cluster.This graphic novel is the third story set in L. Neil Smith's Henry Martyn universe.

A thousand years in the future, humanity has spread across the universe, colonizing a hundreds of worlds and countless more outposts. They have also established space-cities such as Novo Paolo, a.k.a. Bubbleopolis, where 30 million people inhabit a fantastic space city protected by a collection of transparent and near-impenetrable Borvonite spheres. But an unknown enemy has figured out how to penetrate those spheres and launches a devastating attack, killing more than a million and threatening the city's very existence.As the city has no formal government, it is up to Alyss Roaz and other leading citizens to protect their home, identify their adversary and end the attacks.This is the seventh volume of the continuing QUANTUM VIBE saga, the story of humanity's universal diaspora.

One thousand years in the future, a teen-aged boy, "Bok" to his friends, copes with life in a failing, planned-utopia colony world. His mother long-dead and his father imprisoned for subversion, he keeps his sanity playing class-clown by day and skulking around the city by night, trading black-market goods. When Bok and his friends stumble across the enigmatic "Alyss Roaz," they learn the true origins of their world and of a much larger inter-galactic civilization which had been closed to them. And they must decide whether to try and save their world, or build new lives elsewhere.

Dr. Seamus O''Murchadha''s quest to create a bridge to alternative universes takes him and his young assistant Nicole Oreseme and their gynoid bodyguard Murphy to the outer reaches of the Solar System, where they encounter danger and intrigue at every turn.Nearing Jupiter, their ship is hijacked by the dread space pirate Jes├║s Hernandez. On the Jovian moon Ganymede, Nicole finds a new love but Murphy is left behind, only to make an incredibly daring rescue attempt after Nicole is kidnapped in transit to the Saturnine moon Hyperion. And once our heroes reach Hyperion, a foul betrayal and a dark secret from Seamus'' past threaten to derail the entire project.Volume 3 completes the grand saga of the mad scientist, his young assistant and their robot-girl, while creating a springboard to even grander adventures ahead.

Continuing the futuristic, outer-space adventures of young Nicole Oresme and her mad-scientist employer, Dr. Seamus O'Murchadha: Our protagonists visit the planet Mars, which its Sino-Japanese colonists call Huoxing, where Seamus must pay his respects to his late friend Po Xu-ke and deal with Po's nefarious nephews. Along the way they meet the android/slave Ventura, formerly Po's concubine, who has some secrets of her own. Later, our protagonists proceed to the planetoid Vesta, where they become involved in a murder mystery that is linked to a scheme which could result in the deaths of millions and an inter-planetary war.

Five hundred years in the future, a smart, high-spirited and hard-drinking young woman begins a tour of the Solar System with a centuries-old mad scientist, who has employed her in a project that will change the course of trans-human history. The two face the dangers not only of hostile otherworldly environments, but of human treachery, as unscrupulous corporate powers seek to learn what this scientist is up to. Collects the first 400 strips of the popular serial-adventure webcomic by Scott Bieser.