Tom Clavey

Gaia Station is a bit different from most stations. For one thing, it is divided into countries and, where you have countries, you can have a war. Of course, a war on a space station isn’t quite the conflict you would imagine. This particular one got started over a rude remark about somebody’s hat.

There are days when the universe doesn’t much care what you want and doesn’t leave you any choices. When a serious mechanical problem comes up that can’t be fixed out in space, you have to put into the nearest port, no matter where it is. Unfortunately, that place is Downshift City.

Mars Station is just a really nice place; it’s known as the home of the fresh start. All of the people that live there are really nice too, even if they are a bit odd by some peoples’ standards. Unfortunately, some of them are just a little bit odder than the others.

A dozen different realities. All of these stories are set in alternate realities. Some are a lot like the one we live in, some are very different. But all of them are interesting, sometimes a little too interesting.