This unique collection of science fiction stories focuses on the human emotions unbalanced by a world made unrecognizable by science and technology and including such stories as "The Children of Winter," a lucid tale of doomed love between alien species on a far-off world in the distant future. The book also offers three stories that deal with the Kethani aliens—a group that has come to present-day Earth offering life after death via technological resurrection. As the characters are pushed to their moral thresholds they attempt to deal with the unforseen consequences contained in fascinating new technologies.