Day One. You walk around a corner and meet a stranger. An alien. Or a weird ship drops into your nearby space and says hello.First Contact with an alien species. How will it all work out?Come explore what might happen on that day withmore than a dozen stories spanning the entire gamutof thoughts. And troubles.

What happens when the bloom falls off the rose and your civilization is in that long, unstoppable slide in senescence?When nothing is going to save it but a revolution before the barbarian hordes come?Come see where a group of highly talented writers took that question and looked and outward into what might come.

There are monsters out there. Sometimes, they come inside, too.Are you ready for the dark and hungry things that emerge from the blackness of space or the beauty of an alien world?Join more than a dozen of your favorite storytellers as they look into those dark corners. And find those eyes reflecting back at you.