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Who better to narrate today's best science-fiction stories than today's favorite science-fiction stars? This exciting collection features many.

What do you get when you mix mystery and speculative fiction, then toss in the holidays for good measure? A mobster Santa, genetic hanky-panky, Victorian villages, time-travelling detectives, Krampus, eerie bell spirits, and more-this collection of short cross-genre fiction is the perfect counterpoint to traditional holiday stories!

A girl from Kansas wins a ride to orbit in a lottery. A physicist sets up a mysterious experiment on the same ship. When the experiment is turned on, the girl from Kansas takes the ship through the mysterious Beyond to a new star. Thus begins an intriguing future history in which humans have a rare talent for exploration that is the envy of all the Galaxy.

As a child growing up on her grandparents' ranch, Brinlee never imagined running it by herself, much less converting it into a refuge for innocent children fleeing a brutal war. And she never would have believed how much one toddler's sunny little presence could brighten her lonely road. With all the suffering and pain surrounding them, will Joy's influence reach farther than she knows?