A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
The narrator’s attitude toward the story.
After a Mars-based spiritual grifter strands a group of elderly women, their leader decides they will take the promised journey anyway.
A man surrounded by labor-saving luxuries begins to question the debts that control his family’s future.
A freighter’s failed engine sends three incompatible crewmen out of the solar system with no ordinary route home.
When the stars vanish and a voice schedules Earth’s judgment, a New York dress seller watches humanity prepare for the end.
An alien organism that converts every attack into food begins spreading across rural New York.
A prejudiced anthropologist and his assistant discover that an alien village possesses a rare medicine with extraordinary healing powers.
The masked president of a future Western dictatorship opens talks with his Asian rival, then learns that his purges have missed the real infiltrators.
A long-haul spacer returns to Earth to meet his newborn son, drunk, broke, and unsure whether he can stop choosing space over his family.
