Search Worlds Without End

A Space Academy student and his time-travelling robot stop an evil villain from taking over the Solar System in this children's sci-fi classic.

Fourteen-year-old Jeff Wells, a cadet at the Space Academy on Mars, is in danger of being kicked out unless he can improve his grades. With a little help from the academy's commandant, Jeff finds a robot named Norby to help him study. But Norby's no ordinary robot. He has the only mini-anti-gravity device in existence.

Norby's special abilities suddenly come in handy when a villain named Ing targets Jeff's older brother in his quest to conquer the Solar System. When Ing takes over Manhattan Island, renaming it "the Kingdom of Ing," Norby and Jeff put studying aside to teach Ing a lesson!

Scheming scientists want to find the secrets behind Norby's antigravity abilities, but they have to dismantle him to do it! To evade them, Norby and Jeff flee to the planet Jamya, where Norby was created. But can these friends survive a planet is inhabited by angry robots and intelligent, hungry dragons?

Jeff and Norby travel unintentionally to the distant planet Izz, where they are forced to join a search for the missing princess. Their journey takes them to the muddy world of the Slithers, strange creatures who imprison the travelers, sting them into submission, and communicate with them only through musical sounds. Then things go from bad to worse when they discover that the missing princess has been turned into a tree!

Jeff Wells and his robot, Norby, must rescue the Grand Dragon of Jamya from strange, blimplike aliens known as the Hleno. Determined to protect the environment from the overuse of technology, the Hleno take Norby and Jeff prisoner, too. Encased in an impenetrable plastic bubble, Norby is helpless. And without Norby, Jeff is lost in outer space.

Sent to 1785, France, Jeff and Norby get mixed up with an extravagant necklace intended for Marie Antoinette--and accidentally alter events that led to the French Revolution. Now they must shuttle back and forth through time and space to set world history straight.

Jeff and his mixed-up robot, Norby, are joined by red-headed Rinda, Crown Princess of the planet Izz, and Rinda's small robot, Pera. Their time-travelling adventures take them from the Pleistocene period to five hundred years into a false future. Along the way, they must tame evil forces of Ing the Incredible Ingrate and bring back the Others, the intelligent and wise beings from ancient times.

Jeff Wells has a space dynamics test coming up at the academy, but when he hears that his brother, Fargo, is in trouble down on Earth, he and Norby blast into hyperspace and head home to help. It turns out that Fargo has tripped into a mystery involving zapped robots and stolen computer parts. Norby, in his inimitable mixed-up way, manages to jump into the middle of the mystery through his research into MacGillicuddy, his maker. It seems that MacGillicuddy left behind a very strange family....

When Jeff and his robot Norby accompany Admiral Yobo to prehistoric times so the admiral can do family research, the trip turns into a dangerous adventure.

Jeff Wells and his personal robot Norby find adventure when they travel to planet Jamyn and attend the Grand Dragon's birthday party.

Anticipating nothing but fun during spring break at the Space Academy, Jeff Wells and his robot, Norby, prepare to visit their friend Pera, but their plans are disrupted when Pera is attacked by an evil court jester.

Jeff and Norby must find the evil Garc the Great in order to save Earth and the human race and are sent into space to hunt him down and change the course of history.