From John P. Warren are three soft science fiction tales as two short stories and one novella in this collection featuring characters whose lives are turned upside down when they encounter forces of time travel or traversing parallel realities.


BEYOND THE STARS LIES OURSELVES

On exploration of the deep space colony called Zetoria, an accident takes place when an improvised installation of an alien FTL propulsion system being integrated into his ship, the Searcher.

That night, when Captain Tom Weller is being intimate with his wife Selena, a baby daughter is part conceived by him and part by his alternate, chaos is born. This child threatens to mix up both universes with a flip-flop effect resulting in mayhem and massive loss of life throughout both realities.

Can Weller's Lieutenant, Rick Caulker, fix things especially confronted by mysterious alien beings?

THE AFTERGLOW

One day, in the quiet town of New Cedars, Alaska, a bright flash is seen to streak across the sky. A luminous glowing ribbon remains, leaving many questions unanswered. Soon the entire town's population discovers that they are the only people left in the world. Before long, Ted Malone, a devoted husband and father, is contacted by a strange-looking man who claims to have the answers to his obvious questions.

APOLLO CITY

Meet Jim Callaghan, a self-proclaimed freedom fighter. He's a dilettante in quantum mechanics and experiences bursts of scientific knowledge from the future that he hasn't even learned yet. So when he sends an ally - a young woman called Sophie - whom he has fallen in love with- on a fatal assignment. Guilt-ridden, Jim attempts to travel back in time to prevent her death. He fails. But discovers a portal that allows him to traverse parallel realities. Moving between parallel universes creates imbalance at a subatomic level. A new virus is born. A virus with the power to destroy the multiverse. Can Jim find a cure before the inevitable melding of all living matter? Will he and the original Sophie ever be reunited?