to death. Valérian returns to the lab with Myril's body. But he has an idea – he gets Laureline to take the body to Zone B to see if the backwards flow of time there brings him round. Then he enters Zone C in search of Astair. He finds Astair who has been shrunk to the size of a flea. By the time he gets him back to the lab, Valérian needs a microscope to see him. He brings him to Zone D where slowly Astair grows back to his normal size. Suddenly they are attacked by one of the giant sequoia eaters that live in the Zone who blocks the entrance to the lab. Using his gun, Valérian makes the animal flee but his exposure to the zone has been too long and he has grown so tall that he has difficulty squeezing through the lab's doors. Once inside, he realises that Laureline has been gone too long. Searching Zone B, he is horrified to find that while Myril has come back to life, he is now only a boy and Laureline is now a baby. Taking them both back to the lab, Valérian tries to keep order while Astair tries to calculate how long each of them needs to spend in each zone to get back to normal. Galaxity calls looking for a progress report and Valérian tells them they have had some technical difficulties. Notes Shy of two stories, the collection was first published as an album release in 1979 (), whereas a complete collection album followed in 1997 (). No official English translation exists as of 2019 – the efforts of UK publisher Cinebook notwithstanding, which has published all other Valérian and Laureline albums in English – , but it has seen translations in several other languages, among others in Dutch. The order in which the stories were published in Super Pocket Pilote is different from the order that they appear in this collection. The correct chronological order should be: The Great Collector The Cogs of Uxgloa Tsirillitis the Asteroid The Sad Planet Funny Specimens The Fflumgluff of Friendship Triumph of Technology Laureline appears in person in only two of the stories, Tsirillitis the Asteroid and Funny Specimens, and makes a cameo in Valérian's dream in Triumph of Technology. It is not clear exactly where in the Valérian canon these stories fit – their original publication