The short stories in this collection might best be described as slipstream. Defying genre boundaries, they flirt with the hard and soft of science fiction, veer into playful absurdity, or turn darkly...

Shortly before Kato Whip was to become Kato Whip, he was waiting in line at a bank. He waited patiently, as he had done so countless times before. There was no hurry. Suddenly a woman crowded in front...

For Horatio Oberon Twitchgrove, the war had never ended. He fought as a child, as a teenager, as an adult. He fought into his twilight years. War was all he had ever known. Peacetime? Hah, like he could...

On the sanctuary world Hearth Seven, with its world-forest of mile-high trees, Sarah joins a band of troubled women. All have suffered past traumas. While Sarah expects a positive and supportive group,...

Centuries ago, on another planet, a few people took refuge in the swamp. They did so to escape the Five Continent Wars. When the wars ended, the people stayed. The swamp had become their home. And the...

At sixteen, Willie "The Eureka Kid" Jasper shocked the field of theoretical physics with his unified field theory. Shortly thereafter he invented the Inchworm Drive, catapulting humanity to the stars....