By now, it's hard to tell how human my father still is. But we're still family. What that means...is another question. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Jon and Toku travel the universe suspended in Interdream, only waking up to check up on certain business ventures. Simple. Until one of the business ventures, something called "Earth," objects.

Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, branching out from each moment like infinite trees. Doug can also see the future, but for him, it's a single, locked-in, inexorable sequence of foreordained events. They can't both be right, but over and over again, they are. Obviously, these are the last two people in the world who should date. So, naturally, they do.

From award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders comes an original space opera short story "If You Take My Meaning" As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sharp jaws of death. But now she's embarking on the most terrifying adventure of her life-journeying into the darkness to become a new type of being, one who can help humanity to survive. And deep at the heart of the city in the middle of the...