Experience voyages of discovery and revelation from the imagination of Chris Parisi, as you venture on trips of the inner soul and the outer worlds. Escape the onslaught of a Martian sand storm with an asteroid miner as she hikes the Cydonian Face of Mars. Race between seasons of deadly cold and blistering heat with descendents of survivors from Earth's devastating encounter centuries earlier with a rogue black hole. Journey with the Free Trader kinship Antares Sapphire from the fringes of Known Space to the stellar nurseries of Orion. Jog down memory lane with a marathoner decades after his last high-school race. And discover the first extraterrestrial life with a repair crew in the chaotic winds of Jupiter's atmosphere. These and more are found within, a sifting of Parisi's best fiction and science-fiction stories from the historic hills of Earth to planets and places within and without our Solar System.