The main character of M. Leinster's novel The Pirates of Zahn, Bron Hoddan, was an excellent electronics specialist. He would happily go about his business if circumstances had not forced him to take up the good old craft that exists on his home planet - space piracy... In the novel "The Monster from the End of the World" something terrible and unknown befalls the employees of a scientific base on Antarctic island of Goe Island. A plane from the “mainland” makes a strange landing, and that’s where it all begins: all the passengers disappeared from the plane, the pilot committed suicide, people began disappearing on the island...