Having devoted his studies to optics and refraction, an impulsive scientist named Griffin has rendered himself invisible. Unable to reverse the effects, his struggle to survive grows desperate until he realizes that there are benefits to living out of the public eye. Increasingly isolated, he soon spirals into a life of crime and degenerates into madness. He can't see that he has become his own worst enemy. Exploring the loss of identity and the willful...

In the year 2019, a man spends his declining years with his cat. His home is in a lightly forested area, providing them with calm, scenic views. Both their healths are in decline, the man's from a hard-to-diagnose disease, the cat's from old age. In the year 2294, a patrol cruiser was launched into the service of the third fleet. It served under several captains until it was pirated in 3045. Its new captain now uses the ship and a one-of-a-kind technology...

It began with death. It began with a journey destined for hopelessness. A baby basket is left on the doorstep of a Monastery. Inside it, is the frail body of a new-born baby girl with a bad skin condition from birth, and is left for dead. The medical condition known as Epitheliogenesis imperfecta would lead her realise that only very difficult options existed in the life she would have to live. A life full of pain and dejection, devoid of love, that...

Being the son of a leader is never easy but Alien Travelers Kellan and Tendra just want to be like everyone else on Earth, that is until they come face to face with anti-Trav humans, an experience that will forever change their direction in life.Agent Kate Pierce's job as a member of the newly formed Reattachment and Protection Agency is to keep children safe – specifically, human and alien hybrid kids. But when terrorists threaten Kate's ability...

Dr. Dakota Thomas isn't prepared for the gunshot victim who rolls through his emergency room doors. Michael Ricco looks like a young Marine in a world of trouble, his dog tags, however tell a different story. How could the military have no record of him? Why was he shot in the back in the middle of the desert, and why were thirteen people murdered to keep his secret? More than that, how could he have a birth date of 1898? In a world where genetic...

Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful stories. They not only knock you down . . . they raise you to the stars. Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis, the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught stories in the English language; a pyretic who creates fire merely by willing it; the last surgeon in a world of robot physicians; a spaceship...

Veracity's the personal assistant of her thirty times great grand uncle, the thousand year old astronaut. It's not such a bad gig, earning her the social and financial credits to live her life the way she wants. But then someone decides it's not fair that Jasper should live so long and takes steps to find out why. They harass and kidnap Jasper and it falls on Veracity to find and rescue him. Nobody's listening to her though. Nobody thinks this actually...

"Finally, something you all know about-this epidemic of what we've called convulsive accidents. Cases of mild poisoning and electric shock, with the victim suffering muscular spasms and going into a hazy and unrealistic mental state that sometimes lasts for days. There have been altogether too many of those 'accidents.' It's as if there were a silent wolf pack around us-dozens of the red-eyed beasts-"

There's a fresh grave dug at the Fairfield Funeral Home and all it's missing is a tombstone. For months Alex Cheradon has been on the receiving end of a helping hand from Jonathon Bragan. But Bragan's help has been nothing more than a careful manipulation of Alex. Bragan's reaching the part of his plan where it's time to make his true intentions known to Alex. Of course, when that happens, the price of Bragan's help is going to come due as well. Devon...