When a far-away planet requests the return of two fugitive queer extraterrestrials, a closeted man finds the empathy necessary to enable their escape.

A newscaster recently arrived in space receives ominous advice from a jaded engineer: whatever you do, leave space because getting attracted to aliens will be the death of us all.

Three men in a bar find themselves talking about the kind of woman they'd like to spend their lives with, and discuss indulgent sexual encounters versus the comfort of a steady, solid marriage.

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 benign alien invasion has befallen small town Ohio in the '50s. When one young girl grows tired of her angry father and abusive boyfriends, she chooses to move to the alien side of town, instead, and changes the fate of the town forever.

When an ambiguous small US town must welcome recently-landed aliens into the mix, the townspeople experience a range of emotions: sexual attraction, curiosity, disgust, sympathy, ambivalence.

There are many stories from the days of the first refuges to Mars, but none of them are love stories.

A wife discovers that her husband is co-inhabiting his body with an alien visitor as part of an experiment; she comes to favor the alien lover over her unsatisfying husband.

A human teacher travels to another planet to teach aliens about Manifest Destiny, and the benefits of being colonized by humans — from textbooks created by his employers, a mining corporation. After he develops an understanding of alien lives, he decides to help the aliens to fight for themselves.

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