A collection of 15 short stories; a hyper-celebrity steals a planet; a man quick-saves his life; Mars contains a horror; two friends play dare; and two students come up with a terrible experiment. This is a collection of 15 short stories of differing genres:
1. Grand Theft Planetary - a bored celebrity steals a planet.
2. My Life is Saved - a man quick-saves his life.
3. From Afar - the first Martian runs from a horror.
4. Technology Fails Me - the newest Q computers exhibit strange behaviour and an IT guy discovers that they are gaining sentience.
5. Modern Glass - a highly-strung businessman visits his daughter.
6. Man Alone - mankind is on the brink of extinction, and a survivor heads for Plymouth.
7. Barriers - mankind fights over a mysterious alien device.
8. Murve's Dog - a heartbroken man befriends a heartbroken dog.
9. Bud and Rufus Play Dare - two flatmates decide to drink and play dare.
10. I Rule - the 47th POTUS takes a test.
11. A Theoretical Question - two students decide to answer an age-old question - how many babies would it take to defeat a man.
12. Time and Punishment - a penal colony sends criminals to die in the past.
13. Farming - the rulers of the world demand progress.
14. A Visual Masterpiece - a mysterious woman brings special services to a university.
15. Ticket - an unpleasant anniversary is re-lived.
