The Philip's Baby
By Joseph Jordan
The doctors told Antonella Philip that she was crazy to try to carry her baby -- conceived the old-fashioned way -- to term in her own womb. After all, the virus that had swept across North America made birth defects all but certain...

The Black Death
By Jeani Rector
The Plague was killing everyone around her -- rich and poor, commoners and nobles alike. Elissa Hastings would need all the courage and luck she could muster if she was to survive.

Cameron Philips and the Great Cosmic Do-over
By Jon Wesick
On Novikov Station, they planned to make a stable artificial wormhole swallow its own tail. In theory, this might allow them to send information -- a beam of coherent light -- back in time. Of course, the universe seemed to have other ideas.

What We Said That Day
By Dianne Rees
She had abandoned her crewmates on a new world -- under orders? She wasn't sure anymore. It was hard to be sure of anything in this place where the laws of space and time didn't seem to apply.

Inception
By E. S. Strout
A momentary lapse in judgement can have far-reaching consequences. But that's Life...

The Battle for Castle Greystone -or- Beanie and the Floaters
By Michael J. Flanagan
Only the old and the young who had nowhere else to go lived in the flooded coastal cities. Satch, Beanie, and What's-her-name had made a home for themselves in one old building, and were content with their makeshift castle -- until outsiders tried to claim it for themselves.

Good Morning!
By James Hart
Chuck hated the exaggerated enthusiasm of the motivational seminar, but attendance had been forced on him. Still, how bad could it be? A few hours of slogans and group-hug phoniness, and his job would be secure again.

The Human Touch
By Kim Rush
Kerr had to outwit the big cat and take the antelope carcass back to Klee and Little One. His chances of survival, let alone success, were slim.

Distant Star
By Noel Denvir
Playing Irish folk music for an inattentive and half-drunk pub crowd was not exactly Jim's idea of a dream gig. But the Japanese-looking newcomers seemed to love him, and that was something special. So what if the so-called lighting rig made them look...blue?

Magic Bus
By Ken Keegan
Danny could almost do his job -- driving a campus parking shuttle bus -- in his sleep. Anyway, he was pretty relaxed and enjoying the music on his CD player the night the odd-looking guy with his maybe-English accent climbed aboard...