Arkady Stories

byPureet 1948 (Note: Contains characters from The Lion King and various other Disney movies, together with everybody's favorite Russian detective, Arkady Renko) Space Station 2 was beaming broadcasts down (in bad Yoruba, apparently) calling on Africa to rise up and destroy all non-Africans. The African states were in their usual mildly chaotic condition. Everyone hoped that Station 2 would provide a running check and help to quiet maters. Instead, they inflamed the situation. The messages were becoming increasingly bizarre. They had claimed to have destroyed Station 1 and they were using that bit of propaganda to bolster their bid for suprmacy. There'd been a lot of drumbeats, lately, too... Only one experienced space team was available on Earth to send up to investigate: the former crew of the now destroyed Space Station 1, a group as odd in themselves as the drumbeaters still in orbit. And so the U.N. sent them up again on a find-and-report mission---and to make sure that they would be able to cope with whatever they found, they added one more member to the band..... A genuine African witch doctor!

What common denominator links Russian novelist/traveler Eric Delko, the Tunguska explosion, and a Russian spaceship from the year 2060?