Science Fiction lets us glimpse places we can only dream about visiting. In these stories, we take trips -- sometimes fleeting, sometimes lengthy -- to strange alien worlds that are nothing like our own.

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21st Century Dreamtime by Steven Thorn (1995)
A riddle: what do an ex-astronaut, an Australian aborigine, a giant stone sphere, and the planet Mars have in common?

Home by Ellen Terris Brenner (1994)
Especially in a small town, people who are at all unusual draw attention whether they like it or not. And someone who is incredibly different...

Sanford's Calico by Andrew J. Solberg (1993)
Pet lovers understand that getting a new animal can be a crapshoot -- you might end up with a great animal, but you might get a dud. Of course, a dud may not be the worst-case scenario...

The Gardener by Jim Cowan (1994)
In the tradition of Cardinal Bellarmine and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, here is a tale of a priest caught between doctrine and his relentless pursuit of truth.