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

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.

In the near future, a young mother leaves behind a book for her daughter before she embarks on her space journey to the outer solar system in an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial creatures. Sections from her book are interspersed with her husband's verbal recollections of their love story, which he addresses to their young daughter.

A rocket engineer is married to a rocket pilot and the two are attempting to accomplish the first moon landing, however, when the pilot's radio goes dead while on the moon, a hasty rescue mission must be started to save him before he dies of starvation, if he isn't already dead.

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 crew of global explorers realize they may not be alone in the universe when they encounter a traveler from another world who wants to use his space technology for evil.

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

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

While recovering from a serious illness, a ninety-year-old scientist wades through his patchy memory, piecing together fragments of images and emotions from his childhood as an immigrant in the once-moving American 1940s. He thinks about his admiration for airplanes, which have been outlawed in this alternate history. He considers how such scientific advancements can also bring about great destruction.

An explorer tells the tale of his time on another planet before making a strange request.