The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a new home among the stars. But when first mate Michelle Campion rouses, she discovers some of the sleepers will never wake. Answering Campion's distress call, investigator Rasheed Fin is tasked with finding out who is responsible for these deaths. Soon a sinister mystery unfolds aboard the gigantic vessel, one that will have repercussions...

"Despite being an inexperienced Starfleet cadet, Sylvia Tilly became essential to the U.S.S. Discovery finding its way back home from the Mirror Universe. But how did she find that courage? From where did she get that steel? Who nurtured that spark of brilliance? It's not easy being sixteen, especially when everyone expects great things from Tilly. It's even harder when her mother and father are Federation luminaries, not to mention pressing her to...

Awakened from a cryogenic sleep to win the century-long conflict between the Alliance and the Syndicate Worlds, Captain John "Black Jack" Geary discovers that his loyalty is being questioned and suspects that he is being deliberately sent on a suicide mission.

Disgraced after being expelled from the military academy, Kylara Vatta goes home to face her family. Given one last chance to redeem herself, she is sent on a mission to take an old Vatta Transport ship to the scrap yard. However, this mundane assignment turns into the mission from hell.

An anthology of short stories of spaceships, aliens, and the outer worlds by classic science fiction authors.