Books in The Outer Limits series

Where is everybody?The alarm clock goes off. You wake up and get ready for school, just like every other day. So what's the big deal? Well, what if one morning you suddenly discovered that you were one of the last surviving people on Earth? That's right, everyone else has disappeared. No idea how, no idea why, just...gone--vanished. This has come true for a small group of teenagers who have just awakened to their worst nightmare.But it gets worse. Someone--or something--is hunting them down.

Welcome to the seventh grade...again. And again.Fitting in at a new school is tough for any kid. But what if you were a robot? Roger is one of the new children--sophisticated androids created to act and talk and think just like normal kids. Only these "kids" are machines. A mysterious toxic plague has infected the human population, and the only way to have children is to manufacture them. But machines don't grow up like normal children. They can't grow. They just keep repeating the same year over and over again. At some point Roger's owners--er, parents--will replace him with an older Roger. The problem?Roger doesn't want to be replaced.

Feeling a little...saur today?Every school kid knows that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago. But what would happen if maybe some dinosaur DNA managed to survive? And what if it could be revived and transferred into a living host?A host just like...you?As a group of teenagers are about to discover, this Jurassic lark is no fairy tale. It's real. People are beginning to mutate into monstrous creatures--part dinosaur and part human, but one hundred percent deadly....

A case of kidnapping? Or a rescue?Aggie Travers is different from her classmates. She has telekinetic powers...violent powers she has difficulty controlling. Her parents are baffled; they don't know what to do. Then Aggie is befriended by Karen--a substitute teacher with unique insights into Aggie and her powers.The problem? A government agent is hunting for Karen. She has been linked to the disappearance of other children...children with similar powers. It is really Karen the agent is after? Or Aggie? The Travers don't know who to trust. They will have to make...the choice.

School's out on the planet Tarshish...forever.Humans have established a thriving colony on the planet Tarshish, until a native species of semi-insectoids awakens from a long incubation and attacks the colony. Only the children survive--and a computer.The computer teaches the children how to form their own community. A community without adults and without boring adult rules and stupid adult regulations. On Tarshish, kids rule! Until the day a rescue ship arrives to bring them back.But the kids don't want to be rescued. They like being in charge. In fact, they might go to war to prove it!

Puppy love--but with a real bite!When the pets in her neighborhood suddenly go on a rampage, it's Devra Thomas who ends up in the doghouse. It seems a group of primates in a "brain enhancement" experiment have escaped from a nearby research facility. Somehow they are passing on their enhanced brains to all the other animals, and they want their revenge for all the years of humiliation at the hands of their human masters. The animals take over the town and no human is safe.Luckily, Devra's beloved pooch would never turn on her. Or would she? It's time for a little...payback--bow wow style.

It was only a nightmare...right?When teenager Cassie Wilson volunteers for a study in psychic phenomena at the university, she figures it will be a lot of fun. But the experiment goes terribly wrong and Cassie ends up in the hospital. She's fine, except for the terrible nightmares--and each one is worse than the last. Cassie makes a startling discovery: what she sees in her nightmares comes true. But when she tries to warn people of the danger, no one believes her! Instead, her friends turn on her. Then her neighbors. Fear turns to anger. Mobs hunt Cassie down like an animal.But the nightmares grow stronger....

In this movie, the special effects seem so real...maybe a little too real?Melanie and Jeff are thrilled to be cast as extras in the newest alien invasion epic being filmed in their hometown. It's so cool! And the special effects are awesome! The movie has everything, including an army of freaky alien invaders with high-tech laser annihilators.But it turns out the movie is just a cover for a real alien invasion. And so are all the other hit alien moves. Melanie and Jeff have to warn someone. But no one will listen!This time when the director yells "It's a wrap!" it could mean the final cut for the human race.

These growing pains are...monstrous.Thirteen-year-old Lucas Wright is hiding out for his life. The space research station he and his family live on has been invaded by a dangerous alien. One by one each member of the station team has disappeared. Captured. But why?Part of the answer is revealed when Lucas stumbles upon a series of strange cocoons on board. Inside he finds the imprisoned crew members, including his family. Even more horrible, each is undergoing a slow metamorphosis. But into what? Lucas has only a very short time to discover the answer before he, too, undergoes...the change.

A case of kidnapping? Or a rescue?Aggie Travers is different from her classmates. She has telekinetic powers...violent powers she has difficulty controlling. Her parents are baffled; they don't know what to do. Then Aggie is befriended by Karen--a substitute teacher with unique insights into Aggie and her powers.The problem? A government agent is hunting for Karen. She has been linked to the disappearance of other children...children with similar powers. It is really Karen the agent is after? Or Aggie? The Travers don't know who to trust. They will have to make...the choice.