Welcome to a pair of rousing adventures from the rim of human space. Tales from the Rim gives you BOTH 'Liquid Gambit' (a 2015 reader's choice award winner) and 'Cherry Pickers'. 'Liquid Gambit' is a sci fi noir call out to 'Casablanca'. It's a tale of hope and sacrifice in Rick's Bar - a lost souls hang out on the last station in human space. In 'Cherry Pickers', seventeen-year-old Nikki is determined to prove she's a woman, even if she has to kidnap the only man on the planet to do it. It's a rollicking coming-of-age story - with spiders. Romantically challenged spiders.