Journey to the Center of Space — V. Bertolaccini

An astounding mind-bending sci-fi horror action thriller with two novelettes about explorers encountering mind-bending voyages beyond the boundaries of space and time A voyager travels to the deepest depths of space and into an immense void, and encounters a devil-like presence, and leaves the universe. In the second, an alien artifact takes explorers into deep space to a gateway at the center of space, where it leaves the universe. In the first, Space Odyssey: Beyond the Universe (Part I), a voyager is created and launched to explore the deepest depths of space. In the depths of a colossal void explorers encounter something of unknown origins that has been hidden away there since the dawn of creation. A hideous devil-like presence starts killing them to get the voyager, which it could use to destroy the universe. In the second, The Alien Artifact (Part II), explorers are imprisoned aboard an ancient alien artifact voyager, archaeologists found after it crashed into the world. It travels endlessly on to a gateway at the center of space, where it voyages beyond space and time, to where it came from. The small voyager takes the explorers through new mind-bending universes, universe after universe, as it accelerates beyond anything experienced before, with them endeavoring to flee, with no knowledge of where it is going or if they will survive.