In the far future, a selfless woman helps a wary man flee from a destroyed Earth to the world beyond the solar system.

An explorer tells the tale of his time on another planet before making a strange request.

In the very far future, a woman takes the chance to leave Earth and look for a new planet to settle on. However, each time she's awoken from her stasis pod, she's confronted with the choice of whether to settle on an increasingly unfamiliar and strange planet that will force her to adapt into something non-human or whether to go back to sleep for thousands of years more, hoping for something better.

Prison inmates are told that they're being sent to scope out a new Earth for mankind to move to, but when they "come back" they find out they have just been play-testing a new virtual reality video game. Prison inmates are used to test a new video game which would have them inhabit a virtually real new planet, but they believe they are truly being sent to another solar system. When they realize that they've just been playing a game, there are long-term psychological impacts.

When a young man goes insane on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, and runs out onto the hostile surface, his friends to follow him out on a dangerous journey.

In a distant future, a young woman travels to a planet that all are forbidden from visiting and finds an alien that looks and speaks exactly like her long-lost father. But will she be able to escape?

A dispossessed group in the skies searches for the land where they can finally breathe.

An outer space fugitive on the run stops to help an old friend and becomes involved in a revolution. A fugitive pilot from Earth helps his found family escape persecution from the Coalition and gets involved in a revolution taking place on another planet.

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.

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.