Synopsis: What if your job - and family - relied on selling a planet? What if love at first sight meant being transported into someone's deepest imagination? Who would you leave behind to man the first probe into the sun? Aurichrome (and Other Stories) explores the role of humankind in a future inspired only by our present. From struggling to provide for a family as the instrument of a larger corporation (AURICHROME), to how the jury will sway on a murder conviction in the wake of a tragic childbirth (THE TRIAL OF WESLEY CARPENTER) – these stories embrace the human spirit.