Tar-Aiym Krang — Alan Dean Foster

THE DEADLIEST ARTIFACT OF A DEAD WORLD -- KRANG

The last vestige of the last culture of TAR-AIYM, the long-dead planet, was Krang. It magnetized the adventurous, the curious...and the greedy.

And killed them all. Or turned them into its living-dead slaves.

Until a boy named Flinx--and his pet snake--stole its awesome power.

Then Flinx had to decide what to do with it.

The answer astonished him.