A dispossessed group in the skies searches for the land where they can finally breathe.

An astronaut working on a floating station in the upper reaches of Venus' atmosphere falls down to the planet's surface, where he knows he will die. As an astronaut falls down to Venus' surface from the upper reaches of its atmosphere, he tries everything he can to survive.

In a Tucson, Arizona of the near future, an Asian American engineer races to salvage her prized creation, a stratosphere-orbiting balloon, before it can be hijacked to serve nefarious purposes.

In modern day Lanzhou, China, the author meets up with a zeppelin long-haul pilot who has agreed to take the author on his transpacific haul.

When an accountant's flight is delayed due to intense fog, he and the other waiting passengers experience a series of strange occurrences, from meteors to a Cuban uprising.

While on a cruise, a retired man and his wife, along with a group of older tourist, take a bus in the scorching heat to go on a nature walk for a day trip. When they get to their destination, the tourists get held up at gun point and robbed, but the man’s ex-Marine training kicks in and he retaliates.

In the WWII era, a married couple spectates a death-defying stunt. The husband likens the impossible feat to their failing marriage and is relieved when the performer succeeds, but when the man then falls to his death, his wife's strange reaction signals the end of their love.

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.

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

The captain of the largest aircraft in history becomes a cyborg after his aircraft crashes, and he sets his sights on becoming the first man to land on Jupiter.