A postgraduate student working on a doctorate in Exobiology is sent to a backwater planet. No one has been to the planet in over two centuries and the older records are not always reliable. It is cataloged as unclaimed and safe, but the truth is always elusive.

No stranger to surprises, Captain Vince Stewart is slated to head up the maiden voyage of earth's first superluminal starship, the Oberlux. While preparing for launch date, the ship receives a surprising demand from an alien civilization thousands of light years distant. Can the demand be ignored or should they comply? Either choice could lead to peril. A planet's civilization lies in the balance, but whose? Find out why creatures on differing worlds worship combat, fear their gods, trembl...

A novelist learns how the publishing business really works.

A man fades in and out of sight standing right next to people. They can hear his voice but can't see him. His wife is so terrified by it she tells him to never come back. He must struggle to avoid being nabbed by police, so he can solve this mysterious phenomenon before he is dissected to see what makes him tick. But that's the least of his problems.