In I sing the body electric, a girl comes to understand that a grandmother can be a tender, thoughtful, caring, loving woman, even if she is a robot. In Long distance call, a young boy uses a toy telephone to talk with his dead grandmother. In Lonely, a murderer is sentenced to solitary confinement on a distant asteroid. In Probe 7, over and out, the lone survivors of two annihilated planets must begin new lives together on a new world.

The trade-ins: An elderly couple hopes to transplant their personalities into youthful artificial bodies but they can only afford one; Sixteen millimeter shrine: An aging movie star lives in her dreams of the past and eventually disappears in her screening room; Mr. Denton on doomsday: A has-been gunslinger finds he can revive his abilities with a magic potion; The lateness of the hour: The daughter of an inventor feels imprisoned by her father's...

In Kick the can, a children's game somehow offers rejuvenative powers to an old man. In Steel, Lee Marvin's boxing robot breaks so he must enter the fight disguised as his own robot. In Game of pool, a young pool player finds himself playing against a long-dead master pool shark, with his life as the stakes. In Walking distance, an advertising agent visits his home town and slips thirty years into his childhood.

Passersby: On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a house. He and the owner, a recent widow, discover that all who the house are dead, including themselves -- The Grave: Before dying, the notorious Pinto Sykes puts a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller, swearing to kill Miller if he ever sets foot on his grave -- Deaths-Head revisited: A former Nazi SS captain returns to the ruins of a concentration where is he judged by his...

Third from the sun: With a nuclear war about to begin, two friends steal an experimental spacecraft to take their families to an unknown planet; The shelter: When a UFO invasion appears imminent, suburban neighbors fight over one family's bomb shelter; To serve man: Nine foot tall aliens arrive on Earth. They end war, famine, and disease, all to serve man. The aliens' secret agenda is revealed by translating a mysterious text titled "To Serve man";...

Although not about to say "I do" anytime soon, hip party-planner Madeline Bean is no stranger to the phenomenon known as the LA wedding; the good, the bad and the kind where the party lasts longer than the marriage. Still, Maddie never expected to be the guest of Vivian Duncan, the West Coast's Grande dame of wedding consultants, at a lavish affair held amidst the dramatically lit fossils in the Nature Museum's Hall of Dinosaurs. While checking out...

For six years, Carly Nolan has built a secretive life for herself and her son Christopher. Nobody in the quiet little beach community of Twilight Cove, California, suspects she is running from the tragic memory of her fiancé Rick and his unexpected death--and from his rich, powerful parents, who want to take away her child. She has carefully concealed her troubled past from the folks in the isolated cove. Until now. Private investigator, Jake Montgomery,...

When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.

Although eighteen-year-old Bella joins the dark but seductive world of the immortals by marrying Edward the vampire, her connection to the powerful werewolf Jacob remains unsevered.