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

In the near future where NASA is defunded and only private corporations have the infrastructure for space travel, a former NASA astronaut gains favor with one such corporation to send a mission to Mars, but then crash lands in an accident that may have been intentional sabotage by the company who funded their trip.

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 elderly Chinese engineer reflects the time he spends working on obsolete space craft in relative isolation.

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