A man journeys across the post-apocalyptic landscape of Asia and the Mid-East to Europe to attempt to construct a replicate of his lost loved one.

As invading aliens unleash monsters resembling mutated carnivores to devour all of human life on Earth, an extended family gathers together in a mansion on an isolated bluff for a last stand. To survive, they must fight together against ravenous beasts attacking from land and sea.A recently divorced woman joins a virtual community in search of social acceptance and companionship. After fashioning a new identity for herself, she sets off to explore the meticulously created landscape...

In the near future, a couple seeks to evade societal confusion by joining a commune based upon sharing and solidarity. However, the once free-thinking members become oppressed by authoritarian leadership and investigating governmental agencies. As the escalating situation becomes increasingly restrictive and intolerable, the couple plans an escape.

An investigator journeys to a castle in a remote valley on a frontier planet to determine the motivation for a gruesome suicide. When he arrives, he encounters a sexually profligate cult focused on a local fungus with hallucinogenic properties. As he learns more about the alien psychedelic and its devoted users, he discovers a sinister threat to his sanity and his life.

An estranged married couple remains in virtual worlds compiled from past memories while they await new younger bodies. Their adult children must cope with tense surrealistic visits with each of their parents as well as protestors that resent the resources spent on keeping older people alive.An official investigating a gruesome suicide journeys to a castle in a remote valley on a far planet where a sexually profligate cult ritually imbibes a fungus with hallucinogenic properties.

While captive with his mother and sister and a trainload of other passengers traveling towards an ominous destination, a boy enters an interior fantasy that seems every bit as genuine as his present dire circumstances. Which is imagined and which is real? Can he help his family escape their fate by journeying with them into the alternate landscape of his dreams?

Hannah and a colleague from the Telepathic Guild have been investigating environmental issues in the Arctic. After the crash of their small plane in a remote wilderness area, they encounter a renegade who has forsaken human society and become telepathically linked to a savage wolf pack.

After fleeing systemic intolerance on Earth, a lonely man on a far-flung interstellar outpost receives an exciting offer from a battle-jaded veteran - but there's a catch. She's lonely too, and wants a traveling companion, but only if he agrees to assimilate a hitchhiking alien life form.

An elderly homeless man suddenly discovers that his debit card, which is usually almost empty, has been filled with thousands of dollars, and whenever he spends money, by the next morning it has somehow reappeared. He uses this inexplicable bounty to get off the streets, clean himself up, and attain a measure of personal security. The source of the magical largesse is something he never would have imagined.

Leon Wolf, an elite quarterback on a Super Bowl-bound football team, suddenly discovers that he has telepathic ability. At first, it merely seems an advantage in the game, as he can read the minds of his opponents and teammates and anticipate their moves. However, he is then approached by a representative of the mysterious Telepathic Guild and presented with a life-changing proposition.

Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and II.John Walter draws on meticulous research and the reminiscences of more than fifty snipers, tracing their journeys from recruitment and selection through training, combat and its aftermath to reveal a surprising commonality of experience, even across nationalities.Laying bare the triumphs and brutalities of sniping, the personalities and psycholo...

Essays and memoirs on the sixties and seventies, rock music, writing, travel, science fiction, and other topics. Includes: "The Ongoing Relevance of the Sixties and Seventies", "A Tales of Two Jackets", "Reflections on The Who's Performance of Quadrophenia in San Diego, February 5th 2013", "Loneliness Versus Solitude", "Standing Up to Intimidation", "On Attending ConDor 2013, San Diego