An intergalactic space war leads to a gladiator-like fight between a human and a spherical alien. They fight to the death, and whoever wins prevents the annihilation of their race.

In the far future, extraterrestrials wage war on Earth. Despite the aliens’ comparative strength, mankind’s tenacity fascinates one extraterrestrial soldier to the point of absolute endearment.

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.

A thirteen-year-old space fanatic's day is made when he meets his astronaut role model, but he soon learns that his hero is not who he thought.

A decorated commander of an intergalactic space race embarks on a mission to rescue crewmates overcome by enemy forces, but when his cover is blown, he realizes that someone must be a double agent.

A space pilot ordered to annihilate a human colony contemplates sabotaging the mission, but the autopilot on the ship maintains the course.

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.

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.

A sentient rocket ship that malfunctioned and crashed on a planet reminisces on its time as a war ship in battle against the Martians and its love for its former crew.

Urban legends about a popular folk hero get passed on through the years as human beings colonize outer space.