Andy Hopkins awakes from cryo-sleep to find his colony ship being pursued by an alien craft and his commander determined to destroy it. Michael Armitage is a government sponsored assassin that cannot be touched, hurt or stopped. The perfect killing machine, that is, until he begins to develop a conscience... John is the clone of a convicted serial killer created for scientific research. The man that created him is determined to make John a killer too. Davey Weis was involved in a car accident that destroyed part of his brain and prevented him from making any decision. When revolutionary neural surgery repairs the damage he is far from normal, but what is normal anyway? Jacob Landers had ruled the Earth for a thousand years. He has ended war and hunger and set the world upon a path of continuous happiness and prosperity. He is very bored. Aliens, Assassins, Clones, Cyborgs, Dictators... Five dark science fiction stories to enjoy.