'Four winning stories. A great follow-up to DREAMS INC and NET 2.3.' Writer's Intl'Nice story movement - great plots.' The Evening Book Review.A University of Chicago Neuroscientist, plagued since childhood with visions of a post-apocalyptic Earth, explores the 3rd degree of consciousness to confirm her belief that our world ended in a nuclear holocaust nearly 100 years earlier. THE 3rd DEGREE OF CONSCIOUSNESSPeyton Webb is unknowingly creating alternate futures with his newest novel. And the survivors of one of those futures are desperately trying to conquer time travel in an effort to send someone back to 2019 to stop him from finishing it. THERE WAS A SILENCECapitoline-E is the world's largest, most illustrious city-state. For those in the restricted sectors, it's a vast open-air prison and an Orwellian nightmare. When Jin Cress' family is targeted by the ruling elite, he must choose between his comfortable existence and a battle for the right to control his own mind. BORDERSIn this sensitive, often amusing tale of a failed screenwriter faced with execution over a drug debt, we are invited into Michael Lemont's world of dreams, inadequacies and his struggle to remain a 17-year-old party guy. Along the way to understanding the supernatural forces which intervened in his murder, Michael will uncover the difference between what is fun and what is important. PLAIN AND SIMPLE