Thirteen Award-Winning Stories take you to places you’ve never been before

You are invited …

To a future where a cop’s performance depends upon the quality of his illegal brain-enhancing drugs.

To the home of Jack, who is troubled by a misbehaving pet Death God name Zu’ar.

To the planet Hesperidee, where one girl is on the brink of becoming something other than human.

To hop between doomed planets … and celebrate each one’s apocalypse.

There is a world where …

Mankind’s sins must be forgiven, lest it be doomed.

The spirit in Abe’s magical book makes big promises, but will only deliver at a tremendous cost.

The mobsters in Vinh Quang hope to purchase freedom for entire families—if they can just avoid the cops.

One young man’s hallucination might be a ghost—or the key to survival.

Meet the neighbors …

A girl named Elizabeth is haunted by ghostly echoes from her past.

A person whose genetic upgrades let him speak only in five-word sentences.

The kids at Kessington House—a dorm for the psychomorphically unstable.

A writer gets to see what he could have created, if he’d only found the courage.

You think you have problems?

In the seaside resort of Summerland, a young artist struggles to complete a mural, and mend broken spirits.

Daniel’s neighbors want your life—but only because they need it to get your soul.

Sam is trapped on a refinery in space and his fusion reactor is about to blow—and that’s just the first of his problems.

It seems that our sun has just exploded.