Ice mining in space, aliens within our solar system, colonization of extraterrestrial moons, war between interplanetary corporations, and time travelers bent on destruction... NASA's Cassini Missions have captured stunning images of Saturn, its mesmerizing Rings of ice and rock, and its 53 officially named moons. These twelve authors present their visions of the Saturn System's promise, as rich and diverse as the reality of Saturn, its Rings, and moons. In the depths of an ice mine on Dione, embattled troopers combat alien amoeba in the frigid tunnels. Wry humor combines with eccentricity in...

Visions V stories take place somewhere-anywhere-in the Milky Way Galaxy. Planets, stars, and aliens, with no limitations, form the subject and action taking place outside our Solar System and within the Milky Way. Humankind has forded the immense stream of space between stars and reached our nearest solar neighbors. What will we discover on hospitable planets circling those new stars? Will we find almost familiar moons, asteroids, planetary rings? Or, could there be never before seen astronomical formations? The sky is no longer the limit for our soaring imaginations, because somewhere out...

With hundreds of billions of galaxies in the Universe and hundreds of billions of stars in most galaxies, the possibility of habitable planets other than our Earth is a certainty. When humankind spreads outward, as it must in order to survive, communication and interaction between galaxies must also reach unforeseen capabilities. Life in a distant future, where moving between galaxies is accomplished with ease, will be different...yet in many ways the same. Human interaction is a constant-love, hate, trust, fear-emotional qualities of life cannot change. Or can they? What will future humans...