Multi-award-winning speculative fiction author Donald Firesmith brings you eleven visionary and thought-provoking science fiction gems that will take you on a faster-than-light journey to future worlds of dreams and nightmares. If you enjoyed episodes of the TV series The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, then these short stories are for you.

Memories: Who among us doesn’t have terrible memories we would like to permanently forget? But perhaps some memories just aren’t meant to be erased.
Mind Trap: An oligarch’s deathbed confession leads to one last crime.
A Mind Full of Memories: A successful operation unexpectedly violates a neurosurgeon’s Hippocratic oath.
Everlife: A woman’s multiple resurrections point to a serial killer.
Original Equipment: A man’s latest upgrade completes his physical transformation.
A Jump Too Far: A man must deal with the unintended consequences of jumping between timelines to fight terrorists.
We Service All: A lonely spacer’s visit to an alien brothel turns out to be exactly what he needs.
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: During first contact, an alien species’ strange reproductive biology results in unexpected pregnancies.
History is Written: Government-approved history lessons hide a forbidden truth.
Ariana: A man uses a time machine to undo his greatest regret.
To Serve and Protect: Time travel is used to undo humanity’s extinction.
Questioning God: A system tester goes behind his management’s back to ask a god a question.
The Warning: Scientists ask a master artificial intelligence how to stop and undo the climate crisis.