Vacant. Two space helmets resting on chairs. Electronic hum. Lights on the helmets begin to signal one another. Moments of silence. A yellow light goes on. Electronic hum. A green light goes on in front of one helmet. Electronic pulsing sounds. A red light goes on in front of the other helmet. An electronic conversation ensues. Reaches a cresendo....

On a distant, frozen world, \"artificial persons\" are manufactured in discreet seclusion. With formidable new security synthetics coming online, how better to test their mettle than against a hive of deadly xenomorphs?...

Beneath the ice of Jupiter\'s moon, life teems in lightless oceans. But more spectacular discoveries elsewhere in the cosmos have left Europa\'s research facilities underfunded and ignored, a lonely wayside with an orbital station and a decaying space elevator....

A group of wildcat planetary prospectors plant their flag on a distant new world, rich in land, resources... and the greatest archaeological discovery in history, an ancient complex of impossible proportions carved deep within the living rock, a mind-numbing labyrinth of passages, ramps, bridges, and galleries that seems to extend limitlessly....