Victoria is the 'wild card' pioneer on a ship that carries all the hope for the future of humanity. Every seven weeks Victoria and one of her shipmates (on an all-female crew) is woken up. For several days they conduct inspections of the ship and its precious cargo of seeds and embryos – and converse with the ship AI, Athena. When the ship tells Victoria that it has identified a planet that could be their new home it also sets her a moral dilemma that will have lasting repercussions.

The award-winning Chris Beckett interrogates the nature of happiness, purpose and duty.

On a century-old journey Keihi is woken up by her ship. She has been travelling the stars, seeking a possible new home for the inhabitants of Earth. But she has been travelling for so long, with so many disappointments, that she doubts there is still anyone left at home for her to report to.

When her ship wakes her, it is to the view of a strange star, one that is shielded by an engineered 'second skin'. And the star is trying to communicate. What happens when the discovery you have been hoping for comes in an unexpected form? What happens when you have forgotten how to hope?

A bold emerging voice in the SF field, An Owomoyela's prose is faultless, beautifully crafted and boldly imagined.

In this story Nikesh Shukla introduces a new superhero for our times. Anuj is a good boy from a nice family who have sent him from Amenebad to Bristol to study law. All he wants is to work hard, get his degree, and maybe find some friends along the way. But weeks into his trip he realises nobody seems able to see him.

A meeting with fellow classmate Cynthia leads Anuj to ask: is he becoming invisible or is he being erased? With characteristic humour and a keen social message, Shukla uses the classic superhero story to interrogate what it means to be a stranger in a strange and unwelcoming land.