A few hundred years in the future, people live in a space station far from Earth, controlled by a multinational corporation that is the object of cult-like adoration. On the surface, everyone seems satisfied with this "perfect society". In this world, human beings seek to surpass their own limits and stand eye-to-eye with the gods. By establishing a...
After 1,000 years spent contemplating his immortality on the throne, the former King of Hyperborée sets off for Mount Olympus. As the years of his life have dragged on and on, he's lost countless loved ones and subjects, and finally decides to track down the gods to ask them why he is the way he is. Why him? How can he die? Will he ever see the woman he...
On the planet Emeraude, a colony taken from the tentacled Cepods, a secret agent is investigating the mysterious disappearance of a number of humans. When someone tries to kill him, he is forced to work outside of official channels. His mission takes an unexpected turn when the poet with whom he had made a romantic connection is herself the victim of a...
Stung by a swarm of telepathic insects during a visit to a faraway planet, Julius can read people's thoughts and uses his gift to get by as a two-bit con artist. One night, on the run from the angry losers of a card game gone wrong, he winds up seeking refuge with an old acquaintance, Marje. A former leader and flamboyant adventurer with a shady past, she...
Jolt and Massir discover that during the crash their vessel was seized by a monstrous sea creature. A genious geneticist, Jolt proposes a wild plan: cause the beast to mutate and force it to surface. But if the experiment works, what will the two men find on dry land? Who will hear their distress signal, and when?
Lionel in turn faces the dangerous creatures of Sidar to bring his master to the Resident's clinic, where he hopes to revive him… That is, if the cruel Xressians will let him. Immediately upon arriving, they begin to slaughter the native Sidarians and terrorize the few Terrans still on the planet. Soon it will be too late. Could saving Lorrain also save...
