The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naïve locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag - only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black...

Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.

After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.

Qui-Gon Jinn, a Jedi Master, has difficulty training young Obi-Wan Kenobi, because he can't forget the betrayal by his first apprentice, Xanatos.

Obi-Wan Kenobi returns to Jedi headquarters, hoping for reinstatement as a Jedi, only to find that the complex has been sabotaged, Yoda has narrowly escaped an attempt to kill him, and the temple faces destruction if he, his friends, and Qui-Gon Jinn cannot find their enemy in time.

Experiencing terrible dreams about a cave on Dagobah, young Anakin journeys to the planet accompanied by Tahiri, R2-D2, and the Jedi master Ikrit, and the group encounters more than they had bargained for.

Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi follow Qui-Gon's renegade former apprentice, Thanatos, to Telos, where they uncover a plot to destroy the planet's ecosystem and find themselves on the run after being framed for a capital offense.

After Atherton's three-tiered world collapses, ending the geographical division of the social classes, Edgar, Samuel, and Isabel try to restore the flow of water and uncover the world's mysterious origins in the process.

When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, Benedict Society members Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance follow clues on an adventure that threatens to separate them from their families, friends, and even one another.