Ship of Strangers

The chronicle of adventures of the survey ship Sarafand as it journeys through space exploring and mapping newly-discovered planets. The mission bring them into contact with many startling life-forms and menacing aliens. On one world the Sarafand sends out six survey modules and seven return...one of them is a shape-changing, malevolent alien - but which? On another planet they discover a humanoid civilisation which can move around in time. Suddenly the Sarafand investigators are marooned millions of years in the past. Finally, the Sarafand and its crew are stranded in a distant galaxy where everything - including them - is shrinking inexorably to zero size... series: A.E.S.O.P. / fixup 1. Appointment on Prila (1968) 2. Gambler's Choice (1971) 3. Retroactive (1972) 4. Unfaithful Recording (1975)