15th Annual National Indie Excellence Award finalist. Eleven surprising sci fi short stories flavored like the lovechild of Ted Chiang and Robert Heinlein. A science fiction anthology that attempts to answer the great questions of humanity: What are we? What do we want? How will it all come crashing down around us? A naked man-droid that asks too many questions... An alien theme park unfortunately filled with humans... A wheelchair-ridden Viking ripped of his hopes for an afterlife... A city of people competing for points in a holographic paradise... A space pirate who concedes his will to the Devil himself... A CEO who would destroy herself to keep her position on the moon... An old man must escape robot zombies and his own guilt... Historic dictators trapped in a future game show A team sent to rescue nuns discover ice has a voice on Enceladus.... A confined man, back from the dead, transitions into something no cell can contain... These stories will both shock and entertain you while forcing you to examine the harsh truths of the human endeavor.