These stories introduce thirteen new high-tech heroes, not superheroes but scientific ones. Each has a high-tech system that uses state of the art and beyond science to give him or her a limited and specific enhanced ability to deal with problems. Three chemists use wide arrays of glues, or lubricants, or psychoactive chemicals to influence events. Three others have devices that super-size their hearing, smell, or vision. The rest can: deploy a protective energy bubble at will; use strong but focused magnetic attraction or repulsion; float soundlessly in the air; slow up the muscle movements...

Prison guards Henderson and Killian, looking for some easy money, plot to secretly spring convicts Jones and Williams whom they have talked up to the Press as very dangerous, and promptly recapture the pair for the reward. Prisoners Carson and Dees who really want to escape are persuaded to forcibly take the drugged Jones and Williams out with them as the price for being allowed to escape themselves. The guards' plan is that the four cons will then to be held at a mountain cabin by hired "minders" until the guards arrive to take the four cons back in. But Jones and Williams really do escape,...

Fifty-plus Tess Lanzetta and Hal Sitko, who have never met before, are separately recruited to help with the Prosperity Point Kitchen hot meal program. When they must prepare lunch for the delivered meals and the soup kitchen clients with only bits and pieces, most of them left-overs, Sitko and Lanzetta make what they call tail-end stew. They then help deliver that to the homebound clients in a livelier than usual manner. When some of the sickly clients report feeling better than they have for weeks after that meal there in talk of a miracle or a secret ingredient of potential great value to...

Stanley is notified by an Angel that his soul is being repossessed for failure to say the prayers he promised after a narrow escape from death. He received a first notice in the mail but laughed that off, now he has only a short time to make some arrangement with Heaven. The Angel uses the body of a recently dead but not yet discovered woman to deliver the message in a shopping mall which leads to major questions about Stanley when her body is subsequently found and specifics about how and when she died bother the police. This happens just after Stanley meets Maureen, a woman he really wants...

Maddie Dullboy, identified by those behind the scheme as "the face of Mrs. Everyman," is conned into signing a contract that under the guise of making her the winner of a contest requires her and husband Jake to pose for print and video ads for a token payment of one dollar, all other payments going to the scheme organizers - but the Dullboys must pay all costs of the shoots. Since she admits she signed the contract without reading it, Maddie and Jake find little sympathy for their situation. The law won't help so they decide to become too much trouble for the Ad people to deal with so that...

Nerber is a contestant on the the Far-Out Show, the first intergalactic reality TV show of his planet Ormelex. He is the first of his kind to secretly visit Earth since he is the only one of the several who traveled here for the purpose to safely reach Earth's surface (although he doesn't know that and the producers want to keep him from learning it). He sets off to carry out a series of prescribed show challenges involving interactions with whatever intelligent life forms he can find. That ends up including the unintended one of surviving being hunted by fear-crazed human vigilantes. Back on...

Inept burglars Tony and Bill Perrine sneak in to steal a valuable painting from an office where it is on display only to find after all their trouble that it was moved to a local college art show as a temporary exhibit. An art collector and thief currently handicapped by injuries anonymously hires them to steal the painting from the art show for him. The brothers sneak in to steal the painting and accidentally destroy half the art show learning that the special canvas it is moved elsewhere overnight for extra security. The next day they learn there is more to the hush-hush one percent...

They wanted them; They got them; They used them. Airhead college guys Carlton Achey, Ned Brakey, and Larry Hart live together in Brest House, a private off-campus residence at Logelife College. Their guiding principle is to always take advantage of whatever opportunities come their way. They are fixated on breasts and when they mysteriously grow their own they plan to use them to cause mischief while they learn to undo the effect. Their additions result from an invention of the missing uncle of one of the trio - whom they learn had the same mammary fascination. Although they don't know it...

Reluctant seer Adrian Barakat foresees the Titanic rising and sailing for New York, then is called on to suggest why this happened and how to prevent a possible disaster. The lead theory is that the spirit of a strong-willed woman who went down with the ship is causing this in an attempt to reunite with the man whom she loved before he dies. While the world speculates about the "love that defies even death" Barakat must try to help the navies stop the ship before even stranger and scarier things happen. When the ship rises as predicted there is great wonder. When the ship steams for New York...

What kind of emotional burdens does the person who accidentally harmed or even killed another have to live with and how does it shape the rest of the perpetrator's life? What kind of special help might they need to get beyond the guilt? Abrasive lawyer Martin Southby, 35, a successful attorney and generally lousy human being who was embittered by the harsh treatment he received as a child after inadvertently injuring another child, learns about himself and finds he has an unexpected role to play as he defends falsely accused small town resident Ken Matheson, 40, whose secret it that he...