Twice Told sci-fi tales

Miss Amina Delamere's new novel; Twice Told Sci-Fi Tales is two books into one--the first one, RARE EARTH, the science fiction story of what happens when a lone astronaut ventures out into space on a space mission's flight to orbit the moon. During his flight, Reth Sherman will land on a peculiar, yet alien like planet of where the inhabitants are beset by a chalky, white, cannibalistic alien, who have control over the aliens of the rare earth plenum. The second book; THE WILDERNESS, 8 men with four each from different regions of America will venture to the state of Arkansas to the Ozarks. Legends have been told of a Komodo like beast has been "spotted," in the Ozarks. Fact, or fiction--those 8 men will find out, however will get out of the "boonies," alive?