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This classic story is filled with all kinds of teachings, from Ram Dass playing on the Wurlitzer of Wisdoms, to the Tibetan wheel-of-life, to Sufi stories, all woven into a humorous adventure taking place in an old mansion called Inverness. The mansion has three towers, but Jack Flanders has seen a fourth. When he finally enters the tower, he discovers there are various levels, and each level contains another world.

On the planet Summa Nulla (crossroads of the galaxy, high point of nothing) someone is manipulating the media. And Ruby, smart, tough, sexy detective that she is, is hired to track down the male-factors. The swinging Andriod Sisters perform speak-satirical songs as Ruby, the funny, fast-paced galactic gumshoe encounters some pretty weird planetary inhabitants on her quest for truth and the intergalactic way.

A strange velvet overstuffed chair is delivered to Jack's apartment. When he sits in the chair, sinking down through the soft cushions, he finds himself in a realm of pirates, sorcerers and three masted ships that fly the skies.

Jack Flanders has inherited the Inverness mansion from his late aunt, Lady Jowls. A strange energy is emanating from the ruins of a temple that Madame Trunknose believes is the awakening of an old pagan god. Jack calls Mojo to help save Inverness. When Jack hears the voice of Little Frieda calling for help, he enters the Fourth Tower and finds not only Little Frieda, but also the seductive, shapeshifting daughter of the King of the Rakshasas!

This edition contains all four unabridged episodes, "The Moon Coins of Sonto Lore", "The Turban of El Morya", "Dark Night of the Reptiods" and "Mad moon for Rubina". Ruby is hired to find four moon coins. There is a myth that when the four coins come together, dimensions will shift. Along with Teru and Kapoor, Ruby explores a creepy planet of slithering reptilian beings called Reptiods.

In "The Underworld", Ruby investigates the dark force within Magnifico, City of Malls, while Inanna journeys into the Seven Gates of the Underworld. In "The Invisible World", Ruby finds herself in the Astral Bar & Grill, where the decor adapts to each person's personality.

A new Ruby, but as snappy and sassy as ever. Our futuristic sleuth faces some grotesque new adversaries in screwball locations as she battles the manipulators of the electronic media. Will Ruby defeat the detractors of the truth and protect the perspective of credulous consumers, or desiccate in the dreadful desert of the Great Boosbooszees? From Kismet to the Ossirian Islands, Ruby's escapades move, twist, and shimmy!

This is the very first Ruby story (before even Ruby 1). Ruby Tuesday (that's what she was called) is hired by Colonel Abulah Abdullah of the star cluster, Saudi Asteriodia, to find Cleo, a missing planet. Ruby discovers there's much more behind this mystery when she encounters the villainous Forked Forefinger of Fong. Also includes four Ruby pilot episodes that had never been released before.

A delightful vacation in Bali turns into something else as Jack is confronted with black magic, dreams, and spectral visits from a Balinese holy man who sends Jack through a circular doorway to a wold where those who step in rarely step out.

Mojo receives a call from "The Whistle Stop Hobby Shop". He's told his pocket watch has arrived. It's a gift from someone named "Rufus". But the pocket watch has no hands or numbers, just an opaque face that reminds Mojo of a zombie's eye. Mojo is mistaken for the detective, Rufus. He's hired to find Angelina, the missing sister of Philadelphia gangster Tony Rizzo. By using his watch as a portal, Mojo is able to look beyond the veils of this world, and he traces Angelina to a mysterious train.

Illuboo Roi is a planet inhabited by pear-shaped beings with pointed heads. Ruby is hired by Oop Boop, an Illuboo, to uncover a secret society known as "The Illusionati". When the Digital Circus is invited to Illuboo Roi, Ruby, Teru, And/Or, and Rodant Kapoor travel incognito as performers. Meanwhile, doppelgrangers, grown out of bio-flesh, are replacing infuential Illuboos, perhaps even Oop Boop!

People are disappearing in Montreal. Jack and Mojo believe they are being drawn into the "Other City", an ephemeral city that appears at random, and suddenly vanishes, taking people with it. There's a blind street musician whose haunting accordion echoes down the narrow streets of a city that may only exist somewhere "next door to reality".

Ruby steps into a tavern called "The Tickly Tentacle". Standing behind the bar, polishing four glasses at the same time, is her old friend the Tookah. Since it's a quiet afternoon, the Tookah relates to Ruby some of the schemes and scams he's run on other planets, and how he barely escaped with his tentacles intact.

The natives of a far-flung archipelago are tring to turn their islands into a fantasy world called "Land of Zoots". There are rainbow bubble abodes, giant inflatable walking/talking toes, and trees that grow feathers. While Rodant Kapoor is leading a troupe of tiny Terminator Teddy Bears, Ruby is trying to find out who is behind all this. Dan it be, the Wizard of Zoots?

Jack is led by a crystal skull to the ruins of a lost city in the Amazon. One night, an ethereal city appears hovering above the ruins. Jack climbs to the top of a pyramid temple, and is drawn up into the city.

In the small Caribbean town of San Miguel, Jack and Mojo begin to hear stories of islands that appear and disappear. They soon discover there are strange ghost-like beings that visit the town when the islands appear. They are called, Luc-an-oona (those who bless us). But when one of Jack's crew visits the ghost island, strange things begin to happen.

While Jack Flanders is being chased by a zombie, his phone rings. It's Mojo waking Jack from his nightmare and inviting him to New Orleans. Later, strolling through the French Quarter, Jack is amazed to see Claudine, from Montreal. Or had he just met a voodoo priestess who can shapeshift into the woman of his dreams? And who is that zombie that keeps following him?

Wherever Rodant Kapoor attempts to hide in this vast universe of ours, his Mother always find him. So when the Techno-Witches, Onoffon and Offonoff ask Kapoor to try out "The Rapturizer", a device they're invented that's based on "The Rapture" (where one ascends into Heaven), Kapoor gladly accepts. He steps into, "The Rapturizer", and Poof, Rodant is Rapturized! But Mother Kapoor, claiming she's about to kick the bucket, convinces Ruby, along with Teru & And/Or, to go after her wayward son.

In a little theatre, off off off Broadway, Simon Gray is attempting to direct a production of Macbeth, but every actress who plays Witch #3 disappears. Simon calls in his old friend, Mojo Sam. When Mojo sees an actress vanish before his eyes, he brings in Little Frieda. When Little Frieda plays Witch #3, she also disappears. When she reappears in the Realm of the Muse, Little Frieda meets the real Witch #3, the one Shakespeare based his character on, and she is sizzling mad and out for revenge.

Ruby, Teru, and Kapoor arrive on the planet of Mobius-Morpheus, a planet of Dreamers. Someone is tampering with their dreams. While Ruby is attempting to discover who is behind this, she stumbles upon her old friend, the Tookah, a shrewd observer of the Dream Weavers.