Dr. Grace Brown, a government research scientist at ELF (The Extraterrestrial Life Forms Lab), is forced to investigate a number of alleged abductees who claim they have been probed and impregnated by aliens. To punish her boss for this unwanted assignment, Grace brings these "nut cookies" back to ELF for "further study," but the joke is on her when each gives birth to physically varied and undeniably non-human offspring. This new Generation eXtraterrestrial is as eccentric as their diverse Earth parents and initially causes pandemonium in the government, the courts, and the churches, as all...

The robot Pentser is the last of his kind. Technology is obsolete. It only exists in museums and the collections of oddballs like Govil. Govil is a 19th Century Romantic living in a 31st Century utopia, in a Garden of Eden manufactured by GenieCorp, meeting Mankind's every need, whim, and fancy with biological Creature Comforts . Illness, war, poverty, famine, and death are gone. And so are love, parents, children, and families. Were everyone is eternally happy, healthy, and wealthy; everyone but Govil. Like any other decent 19th Century Romantic hero, Govil needs to discover a great love, a...