"At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on...

"Jack Four is one of twenty human clones, created to be sold. His purchaser is the alien prador kind, who wants to chain his mind, then use him for battle. But there's something different about Jack. No clone should possess the secrets hidden in his head -- and they could help him escape. The prador king has been mutate by the Spatterjay virus, and it's made him even more monstrous than the rest of his kind. However, the prador will use any weapon...