Eight stories of rockets and robots, monsters and Martians, fistfights and beauties, wonders and awe... An astronaut and a lamia make deal: She'll stop eating children if he takes her to outer space. Hak Iri and his friends are drafted by an aethir pirate for a rescue mission to chaotic Ooranos. A man extracts his hero from a starship's virtual storage before that hero can be arrested. Someone on Mars has decided that Hamlin Becker is a thief. And more!