A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home - and its even stranger, jade-green double, seen by the recluse on an otherworldly plain where gigantic gods and monsters roam.
Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off.
A young man is transported into the future, to a changed earth where men live in peace with each other and in harmony with the planet. As he struggles to come to grips with the contrast with his old life, he falls in love with one of the women of the family who have 'adopted' him.
A crew from the Astral Horizons Initiative encounters a rogue planet drifting in the empty darkness between galaxies, with no sun or source of light. As they descend to explore, they find themselves trapped by an unnatural blackness that absorbs all energy, rendering their ship and equipment useless. When engineer Jamal travels to the surface with a team they realize they may be unable to escape. Strange shadows and visions invade their minds, revealing that the planet is a sentient void feeding