H.P. Lovecraft (written by Don Webb)
Jack London (Dave Wolverton)
The Dowager Empress of China (Walter Jon Williams)
Jules Verne (Gregory Benford & David Brin)
Rudyard Kipling (Barbara Hambly)
Henry James (Robert Silverberg)
Pablo Picasso (Daniel Marcus)
The Texas Rangers (Howard Waldrop)
Joseph Conrad (M. Shayne Bell)
plus ten others!"
"Racing to contain the virus, Mulder and Scully discover that the lab's hotshot cancer researcher - killed in the fire - was experimenting with a promising yet highly dangerous technology that could cure any disease, heal any wound, and could even be the key to immortality. Then a second corpse turns up, savagely mutilated from within. Could these machines created to cure have learned to kill? Scrambling for answers, Mulder and Scully must fight powerful, faceless enemies who will stop at nothing to control this technology; enemies with all the resources of the government - perhaps even the FBI - behind them. As sinister forces close in, Scully fights to save the life of an innocent boy, while Mulder comes face-to-face with a crazed and desperate man whose slightest touch brings agonizing death - and perhaps a resurrection more horrible still."
"Mulder thinks there may be more to this case than simply a missing team of scientists - namely ancient curses, blood sacrifices, and deadly reptilian monsters lost in the jungles since before history.
"Scully is, as always, more skeptical and likely to provide the logical explanations for her partner's unorthodox speculations. Meanwhile, a covert U.S. military commando team has been sent to investigate, and destroy, a strange electronic signal received from beneath the ruins - a signal aimed upward, at the stars...."
