The Alien Sphere — H.G. Wells

A science fiction classic with two novelettes about the discoveries of alien artifacts and explorers being taken beyond the boundaries of space and time!At the end of the twenty-first century scientists with the United Nations Space Agency, operating expeditions on Mars, stumble on a mysterious metallic sphere with a pulsating vibration.A flickering laser that they fire at the sphere triggers it to unlock and reveal its forces by the manipulation of gravitational forces are suspending a black hole.At a United Nations Space Agency laboratory scientists carry out experiments on the black hole.Within the opened alien sphere the black hole magically suspends gleams of light motionlessly in mid-air.At the exhibition of it an accident occurs and scientists fall into it and travel out beyond the realms of the universe.In Beyond Space and Time explorers are imprisoned aboard a small alien artifact voyager archaeologists discovered concealed below a cave over a sea cliff.In the depths of the universe they encounter weird life forms and entities, including one with the dimensions of a small galaxy floating in a deep void.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.Their only way to survive and escape its confines is the use of a matter transferor created by an entity/transcendent, which enters them into different universes and puts them on mind-bending destinations.