In the middle of a war, two enemy pilots crash land on a desolate and inhospitable world. The human, Willis Davidge, and the Drac, Jeriba Shigan must overcome their mutual hatred and learn to work together not only for their own survival, but for that of the child that Jeriba is carrying.

Barry Longyear’s Hugo and Nebula award-winning novella was adapted to the 1985 film starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr.

In John Kessel’s Nebula award-winning novella, Another Orphan, stockbroker Patrick Fallon is plucked from his civilized life by an unknown force and dropped on the whaling ship, Pequod, as a member of Captain Ahab’s crew during his quest for the white whale. However, the story doesn’t proceed as written by Melville and Fallon learns a grueling lesson about the nature of reality and freewill. ( )