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

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.

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.

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

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 injured man lays on a long stretch of sand looking up at the stars; his mind races back to previous injuries and illnesses, but he can't seem to get a grip on where he is or why he's there. He soon realizes that he's a long way from home, in outer space.

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

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

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.

In a distant future of intergalactic colonies and relative diplomacy between extra-terrestrial races, two junkyard scavengers scour star systems for potential valuables. After stumbling upon a damaged robot on an abandoned planet, the pair analyse its memory core in the hopes of turning a profit, but are instead forced to challenge their notion of humanity.