An alien race uses humans to host their parasitic offspring. After a human boy witnesses the birth of these parasites, he is horrified by the symbiotic agreement and realizes why the alien has nourished him so much better than his siblings all his life.

On an alien world, a colony of humans has evolved to reproduce with one mother and many fathers. After delaying for years, one young woman finally chooses three fathers for her baby, but her desire for freedom draws her into the orbit of the post-human anthropologists who have come from the stars to study this quaint biological mating ritual.

On a far-away planet in a jail cell, a young human woman pregnant with a non-human being urges her child to come quickly, terrified of being murdered by her human companions as she awaits execution.

A male human travels to a seemingly unintelligent alien population with the secret goal of gaining their genetic information to clone them, creating enslaved workers.

The Eavesdropper, a human-alien hybrid woman, moves through a sentient spaceship full of comatose humans whose memories she absorbs and processes through mind reading.

While trying to conceive a child, a woman finds a small, apricot-sized hand beneath her mattress. She collects more tiny body parts that she finds around her house.

In a future Los Angeles burdened by overpopulation, a twelve-year-old boy hires an alien assassin to kill the man forcing an abortion on his mother.

When a human couple loses their half-human, half-centaur child, the father must put aside his pain and mother her fear in order to bring the child back to safety.

When an alien spaceship lands on Earth in need of help, leaders of countries around the world help and house them, causing tension between humans and these costly guests.

A woman finds herself impregnated out of wedlock by a man who suddenly decides that he will only marry a ‘pure’ woman. She conceals the pregnancy from him in order to go forward with the marriage, but his adultery and continued irresponsibility after their wedding give her a second chance at motherhood.