When you get to the very end of the line--the end of freedom, of life support systems, of the world as we know it--how do you cheat fate and keep going? What mysterious portals might open onto new dimensions, what previously invisible corners be turned, what fantastical opportunities appear?
How do disabilities open doors? Secure your space helmet, buckle up, and meet the protagonists of Elm Books' second science fiction anthology, Strange Flight.
Emmen's body is shutttting down for good, but at the outer reaches of known deep space her life's research on the nature of stars might offer her a kind of eternity.
After a violent accident ejects her from her Sense Ship, Nani, hired as an Eyes expert, finds herself floating in a viscous, dark goo with only her sense of touch available to try to figure out what happened and reunite her crew.
Ronan Lecrom's only friends in the universe start acting peculiar after a quick stop at a sperm bank to make some cash. When Ronan finally pieces the puzzle together, it may be too late to save his friends and himself.
Jill Dempster has just started to pull her life together when she discovers the perpetrator of one of the twentieth century's greatest crimes has escaped the law by time traveling to her storage locker.
It's the very end of the world, but if Leia can find the sensory breadcrumbs her genius aunt has left for her, she might push through to a new world grown out of the old.
Maybe Moira's career as a detective on Earth is nearing an end, but her second life on a new planet awaits... if she can just solve one last crime.
Editor Leonie Skye writes and edits fiction in Portland, Oregon.
