These stories come from a remarkable blue-white planet located on the spiral arm of an unremarkable galaxy, one of billions in the universe. This collection contains 10 stories about aliens who need a friend. Alien abduction. Survival after an alien invasion. Miners from Mars and Europa travel to Earth to find a dead planet. An Earth-like planet is discovered fifty light-years away, but can humans get there? Books are the most valuable thing after the Internet is destroyed in the war. It's hard to know what the truth is when your memory is erased.