When a talented linguist makes contact with the Martian species and is invited into their inner circle, he uncovers a culturally rich civilization in danger of going extinct.

After her mother's tragic death in Nigeria, a Nigerian-Martian refugee must decide whether or not to support her younger sister's desires to return to their homeland.

A journalist interviews a filmmaker at three different points in human history–2018, 2027, and 2039–to chart the discovery, retrieval, and visualization of a mysterious book found on Mars.

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

The asteroid work crews don't have much to do but tell tall tales to each other. One man tells a particularly riveting account of an expedition where he met a strange parasitic species that inhabits human bodies and barely escaped unscathed—or did he?

In a resettlement community on Mars, a gay Palestinian man drinks away his troubles. But when his brother arrives on the planet and offers to bring him home, the man must decide if he can face his past–and stay sober.

The first man to walk on Mars recounts a trip with a strange alien companion across the planet to his disbelieving crew.

After discovering a mysterious alien artifact on the Moon, human astronauts endeavor to uncover its purpose and message from an extraterrestrial civilization.

Is it better to have a human civilization devoid of art and culture than to have none at all? Three Earth ambassadors must whether to annihilate a space colony that has traded away human consciousness for a hive mind that feels nothing but the need for survival. In the distant future, three humans in possession of nuclear warheads must decide whether to allow a remarkable human variant species without consciousness to dominate the galaxy or destroy them forever.

As life on Earth crumbles around her, one woman attempts to save the last survivors of a failed Mars colony.