"Ranging from boisterous to bleak, from humorous to harrowing, from action-filled to quiet and meditative; taking place in alternate pasts, the present day, the far, far future, and times that never were; set on Earth, in the distant reaches ..."
"Ever-turbulent humanity has reached out to the stars and found itself challengedby several "exosapient" species whose motivations are as unusual as their physicalforms."