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Enoch Wallace, a Civil War veteran who hasn't aged a day in a century, keeps a lonely farmhouse in Wisconsin that is secretly a relay station for alien travellers.
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A Case of Conscience
Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez, a Jesuit biologist on a commission to the planet Lithia, finds an alien race living in perfect reason and goodness without any God, and decides it must be the Devil's work.
Charlotte's Web
Wilbur, a runt pig saved from the axe by a farm girl named Fern, learns that he is to be slaughtered at Christmas, and his friend Charlotte, a clever grey spider, sets out to save him with words woven into her web.
Hominids
Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth where his species survived, is accidentally transported into a neutrino detector deep under Ontario.
Contact
Ellie Arroway, a radio astronomer, picks up a signal from the star Vega that turns out to carry the plans for a machine, and the world has to decide whether to build it and who should go.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
As pollution and plague leave humanity sterile, the wealthy Sumner family, in their isolated Appalachian valley, prepare by building a hospital and a cloning laboratory.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Four astronauts on a mission funded by people back on Earth reshape their own bodies to survive the life-bearing worlds they have come to survey around a distant star, and record what they find for whoever is still listening at home.
In Ascension
Leigh Hasenbosch, a marine biologist who grew up in Rotterdam, joins the study of a vast trench newly found in the Atlantic whose vents seem to hold the origins of life, and is drawn from there into a space mission to follow it further.
This Immortal
Conrad Nomikos, an ageless Greek with a mysterious past, is assigned to guide a blue-skinned alien on a tour of an Earth left in ruins by nuclear war and largely bought up by aliens.
Tuck Everlasting
Ten-year-old Winnie Foster runs off into the woods and discovers the Tuck family, who drank from a spring that made them immortal, and they must persuade her to keep their secret as a stranger in a yellow suit closes in.
Rainbows End
Robert Gu, a famous poet lost to dementia, is cured in 2025 and has to go back to high school to learn a world of wearable computers and overlaid realities, and is drawn into a conspiracy.
Darwin's Radio
A mass grave in Georgia, a frozen Neanderthal family in the Alps and a new virus that causes miscarriages all point to the next step in human evolution.
The Calculating Stars
In 1952 a meteorite destroys Washington DC and sets off a climate catastrophe, and Elma York, a mathematician and former wartime pilot, joins the rush to space and wants to be an astronaut.