Mind-Bending Tales of Alien Encounters — V. Bertolaccini

An astounding twenty-first century mind-bending sci-fi horror adventure classic with two novelette tales about explorers encountering mind-bending aliens, after taking voyages beyond the boundaries of normal space, with the explorers marooned and racing to escape. In the first tale, a voyager is created and launched to explore the deepest depths of the universe. 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 tale, set at the end of the twenty-first century, explores discover a pulsating alien sphere on Mars, and investigate it and a black hole that it holds in its confines, and enter it and travel out beyond space and time where they encounter strange entities, in a strange universe.