Imagine if your TV was combined with the Internet and plugged right into your brain—and you could never turn it off.

Ten short stories by award-winning science fiction writers. Some are funny, some are frightening and some are very unusual.

A parallel novel to Ender’s Game, this is the story of Bean, the boy-genius doomed to live his life in the shadow of the famous and brilliant Ender Wiggins, hero of the Bugger Wars. But it is Bean who must carry the burden of saving Ender and in turn saving the world from total destruction.

Would you clone yourself if you could? Would you want to meet your clone if you did? In the year 3038, thirteen-year-old Darci discovers anything is possible.

In 2407 everyone thinks, acts and looks the same—or else. Sixteen-year-old Gemm must choose between being “recycled” or a terrifying “cure” that will change him forever.

Mark is alone on a backpacking trip when he is suddenly transported to another place and time where he must fight for his survival.

Jason would like life in his small town to be less boring. But, finding out his parents are actually aliens is more than he bargained for.

Love, time travel, mystery, alternate history—and that’s just in the first chapter of this novel set in 2057 about an unusual time travel research project.

The exchange student living in Daria’s house isn’t just from another country; he’s from another planet.

No family is supposed to have more than two children. But Luke is a “third child” who must live his life in hiding or face the terrible punishment of the population police. Try the sequel, too: Among the Imposters.

Seventh grader Robin (a.k.a. “Puck”) has been expelled from her Earth boarding school. On her way to the planet Soo, to break the bad news to her parents who are doing alien research there, Puck meets Shoowa, a young alien who has some big problems of his own.

Fourteen-year-old Corgan has been genetically engineered to be the perfect soldier in a virtual war waged among the world’s superpowers in 2088. But the more Corgan learns about the people that created him, the less he wants to fight for them.

Whatever you do, don’t open the boxes. Who could resist finding out why not? Annie can’t, and soon she learns that some things are better left unopened.