A simulacron, who serves as a representative of an alien species, speaks with the US Secretary of Science about their wish to purchase the planet Jupiter. While the Secretary worries about stirring up conflict between the simulacron and another species, the simulacron assures him that no harm will come to Earth, and the two eventually reach an agreement.

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.

An older Indian man recounts his story of "alien" encounters on Mars during Saturday tea.

Online, space ship storytellers discuss why they tell stories for a living—and how to do it right.

When a rebel space pilot discovers a potential cure to the plague that has enslaved most of the known galaxy under an iron-fisted corporation, she must risk life, limb, and soul to return the specimen to her fellow revolutionaries.

A brief but ill-fated spark flares between an earth-roaming Spacer and a local frelk.

A woman feels a strange wash of power over her as she accidentally stumbles into the world of a science fiction convention.

Through three tales of impossible machines with abilities to manipulate the physical world, travel through time and space, and bestow telepathy onto an entire community, candidates of an engineering exam in the far future are asked to ponder fantastical implications of technology.

When a low-budget science fiction television show successfully predicts the discovery of extraterrestrial life, its cult followers investigate its mysterious origins, only to be met with more mysteries.

When a space exploration program costs five men their lives, the manager of the program decides to send himself and his dog to Jupiter to investigate the men’s disappearances and save Earth from an encroaching apocalypse.