Third from the sun-Nuclear war is imminent,and scientist Wiloliam Shirka.his family and a sympathetic test pilot plan to commandeer an expermintal spaceship and flee to a distant populated planet.

The shelter-Fear can bring out the worst in people,as Dr. William Stockton discovers when he locks himself and his familky in their basement shelter after news of a coming invasion.Although the shelter can only hold 3 people their desperate neighbors are determined to enter by any means possible.

To serve man-The world cheers when an advanced alien precedes a fleet of spaceships to earth,claiming that he has come to serve man.As government cryptographers work to decipher a book the alien brought to earth,thousands of people board flying saucers.

The fugitive-A crippled young girl has a new friend,an older man named Ben,who can assume any form.She has more serious problems the convincing her mother he really exists.2 men are looking for him and have made her sick to get him to come out of hiding.