The Crystal Labyrinth

Book excerpt: All is peaceful on the lush planet Sunderworld when a cloister of Shaolin-like monks adopt six enigmatic infants found abandoned within an exotic metallic saucer. Dubbed “the Earthlings” after a mythological fable of orphaned superheroes, these untiring babies possess unheralded strength and speed and foster uncanny sensory advantages. Local planetary physics aff ord these bolstered attributes exclusively to alien earthlings, yet they sometimes prove a hindrance. As four maturing earthlings fulfi ll a noble quest to a dark continent of invading gargoyles, three deviant earthlings mysteriously surface, tempting their counterparts and terrorizing their enchanted world of princesses and shimmering glass castles and palaces.