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Nightwatch 01: Dragon's Egg
Robert Moriyama
For Dr. Simon Litchfield, engineer, linguist, and — other things, the discovery of a mysterious object in Afghanistan was just another day at the office.

Issue  82,  Jun-04

Nightwatch 02: Alconost
Martin Delgado-Scott
A crazed poet and a secret from the past lead Dr. Simon Litchfield on a race to stop a coming terror.

Issue  83,  Jul-04

Nightwatch 03: Rogue Harvest
Ralph Jr. Benedetto
The thing about bureaucracy, Tom Weldon said as the ambulance stopped in front of a sign reading Good Hope Evangelical Hospital, is that, if you know what you're doing, it's easy to manipulate.

Issue  84,  Aug-04

Nightwatch 04: Dimensions' Gate
Jeffrey Williams
Max Cory, trapped in a mountain cave system thanks to his own carelessness, finds something unusual happening there, and he soon finds that he's not alone, that someone else is also observing the strange goings on.

Issue  85,  Sep-04

Nightwatch 05: Cardenio
Kate Thornton
A lost Shakespearean play, a lost research station, and Stephanie Keel's lost past all converge in the steamy jungles of Amazonia. Simon Litchfield's khakis keep their impeccable crease as he, Tom Weldon, and Stephanie do battle over an incredible and ancient secret.

Issue  86,  Oct-04

Nightwatch 06: Ghost Rockets of Sweden
John R. Murray
A mad Russian rocket scientist. Is that two clichés or three?

Issue  87,  Nov-04

Nightwatch 07: The Orion Affair
Dan L. Hollifield
A phone call in the night leads Dr. Simon Litchfield into a headlong rush towards danger.

Issue  88,  Dec-04

Nightwatch 08: The Kindness of Strangers, Part 01
Jeffrey Williams
Stuck in unfamiliar circumstances, Dr. Simon Litchfield tries to solve a mystery with little more to go on than the knowledge that 'something strange and dangerous' is happening—and that failure could mean the end of everything as he's known it.

Issue  90,  Mar-05

Nightwatch 08: The Kindness of Strangers, Part 02
Jeffrey Williams
Time is changing. There's a timequake coming, something so drastic that all Simon knows of the future could be changed, and he is the only one who can prevent any further alterations from happening. If only he can find what is causing them…

Issue  91,  Apr-05

Nightwatch 09: Jigsaw Creek
Robert Moriyama
Strange things are happening in the little coal mining town of Jigsaw Creek. Simon and Stephanie must find and fix the problem to avert bigger trouble—even if it's all in the townspeople's heads.

Issue  93,  Jun-05

Nightwatch 10: The Peacekeeper
Robert Moriyama
Years ago, Simon Litchfield tried and failed to prevent the slaughter of an entire village in Darfur — and failed himself as well. Now he must revisit the darkest moments of his life in search of clues to a new threat —with thousands of lives at stake …

Issue  94,  Jul-05

Nightwatch 00: Fly By Wire Part 01
Dan L. Hollifield
"What was concealed
Shall stand revealed
In all its radiant glory.
Those secrets held
Shall be unveiled
And there hangs this story…"

Issue  95,  Aug-05

Nightwatch 00: Fly By Wire, Part 02
Dan L. Hollifield
What was concealed/ Shall stand revealed/ In all its radiant glory./ Those secrets held/ Shall be unveiled/ And there hangs this story…

Issue  96,  Sep-05

Nightwatch 11: The Sin Watcher
Jaimie L. Elliot
What is more terrifying, the demons within or the demons without? The fate of the world hangs in the balance as Stephanie Keel confronts demons of all sorts.

Issue  97,  Oct-05

Nightwatch 12: Tinsel Rime
N. J. Kailhofer
The ghosts of Simon's past revisit him in this Christmas future

Issue  98,  Nov-05

Nightwatch 13: CSM-15 Part 01
Jeffrey Williams
Toward the end of the day, Alan Shepard, chief of the Astronaut Office, took the microphone in Mission Control to give the crew a public and official, if mild, reprimand. 'I just wanted to tell you,' he said, 'that on the matter of your status reports, we think you made a fairly serious error in judgment here in the report of your condition.' Carr accepted the rebuke: 'Okay, Al. I agree with you. It was a dumb decision.' And that was that.

Issue  101,  Apr-06

Nightwatch 13: CSM-15 Part 02
Jeffrey Williams
While the crew packed up data and shut down systems, reporters wondered whether NASA planned any more visits to Skylab. Neil Hutchinson played down the possibility, pointing out that there would be no atmosphere, no power, and no food. Besides, the workshop systems could be expected to deteriorate beyond reliability. The abandoned Skylab would be a drifting hulk, presenting too much risk to make a revisit attractive. He conceded that it would be possible to dock with the workshop, but saw no profit in reactivating and reusing it.

Issue  102,  Jun-06

Nightwatch 14: Death Valley
Kate Thornton
Death Valley is eerily beautiful. The creepy landscape is the stuff of off-world fantasies, and more than one desert rat has claimed First Contact out on the weird expanse. Situated between several strategically-important military and scientific research sites, it is that strange place everyone knows about — but no one really knows.

Issue  103,  Jul-06

Nightwatch 15 : Adam
Iain Muir
The peace talks were going well — as well as any peace talks ever do. If only the Arab delegates wouldn't keep turning up dead in their hotel rooms, they might have a chance. The killer refuses to show up on video tape, and leaves no fingerprints behind. What Vrchny Inspektor Franticek Capek can't understand is the traces of clay his men keep finding…

Issue  104,  Sep-06

Nightwatch 16: Seven Years
Ralph Jr. Benedetto
How can you tell whom to trust? What do you do when even your own face in the mirror can betray you? For Simon Litchfield, these questions are no longer academic…

Issue  105,  Oct-06

Nightwatch 17: Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Part 01 of 03
Bill Wolfe
The Nightwatch Institute may not be perfect, but they do try to keep an eye out for all manner of threats. By-and-large, they do a fair job of making sure that the world you know when you go to sleep is still there when you wake up. But if they're watching out for us, who's watching them?

Issue  106,  Nov-06

Nightwatch 17: Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Part 02 of 03
Bill Wolfe
Nightwatch isn't the only organization watching the world. The Collective—an organized group of powerful psychics—has been watching them! But when one of their own goes missing, who else but Nightwatch can they turn to for help? Who else, indeed?

Issue  107,  Dec-06

Nightwatch 17: Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes, Part 03 of 03
Bill Wolfe
Simon and the Nightwatchers rush desperately to save the psychic child…

Issue  112,  Jul-07

The Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes
Elizabeth Markham and Jeffrey Williams
What do a series of clumsy robberies have in common with a sudden change in behavior by the Nightwatch Institute's own Stephanie Keel? It will take the combined skills of Simon Litchfield and the whole Nightwatch crew to find out.

Issue  150,  Mar-11

Nightwatch 18: Transit
Jeffrey Williams
"In pursuit of a lead on the mysterious Prometheus Group, Simon Litchfield and Stephanie Keel board a train — but end up going somewhere not on the timetable. "

Issue  156,  Oct-11

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