A brilliant little boy is taken to an elite school in space to learn how to fight "buggers", insect-like aliens who have attacked Earth in the past and will likely attack again. Along the way, he is forced to participate in acts of extreme violence that challenge who he believes himself to be.

An intergalactic space war leads to a gladiator-like fight between a human and a spherical alien. They fight to the death, and whoever wins prevents the annihilation of their race.

In the far future, extraterrestrials wage war on Earth. Despite the aliens’ comparative strength, mankind’s tenacity fascinates one extraterrestrial soldier to the point of absolute endearment.

On an intergalactic spaceship, two runaway servants turned mercenaries agree to a dangerous mission that will take them back to the planet from which they escaped—in return for a shot at a clean record and a peaceful life.

In the near future, two men—a quiet, rule-following biologist and a swashbuckling engineer—are tasked with a decades-long mission to colonize a planet outside the Solar System. But in the spaceship’s close quarters, tensions bubble up until one man decides he is going to kill the other.

A decorated commander of an intergalactic space race embarks on a mission to rescue crewmates overcome by enemy forces, but when his cover is blown, he realizes that someone must be a double agent.

In a distant future on another planet, a middle-aged female cyborg finds herself at the end of a five-year long war. Amidst Earth's triumph, this soldier must confront the death of her long-missing husband and the toll of years of violence. With the help of a fellow survivor, the new widow and veteran begins to learn how to both honor and let go of the past. On the war-torn land of another planet, a female cyborg soldier finds herself at the end of five years of violence. Though Earth claims the victory, the new veteran cannot celebrate, confronted by the loss of her husband and her will to live. The widowed woman and a fellow survivor reckon with their uncertain futures and learn how to let go of the past.

A young human boy goes into the nearby alien city to play with his alien friends after learning from his parents that humans had lost a battle in the war between the two people. There, he gets attacked by his friends and other aliens; he escapes, only to be told by his parents, once he is home, that the war is lost.

The world is at war: on one side, the corporate remains of human civilization. On the other, the aliens who have returned from Mars to live and regrow the Northern Hemisphere. In the midst of the war, one unnamed corporate solider realizes that their travel technology can be used to time-travel and takes that opportunity to try to save lives in the midst of this senseless violence.

A crew of global explorers realize they may not be alone in the universe when they encounter a traveler from another world who wants to use his space technology for evil.