Eleven stories of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. - Roak is plowing his fields when he receives The Call. - Harry Hunter is making an ordinary freight run when his ship’s computer breaks down. - Steph Jurdan is living out his life in obscurity when a journalist finally tracks him down. - Cheryl Hemming and Ann Furlan are on vacation when they make a wrong turn. - Craig Vanson discovers the future is both familiar and unrecognizable. - Senior Guild Pilot Jane Henderson, recuperating from a routine run, wakes up somewhere else. - Billy and Red try to figure out what use to make of a discarded time machine. - Sha'nel makes a futile offering to the gods on the very eve of war. - Fleet Commander Pitjara trips a mousetrap with his fleet. - Junior Guild Pilot Mulga must enforce the Guild’s Penalty Clause, for the very first time. - Computer programmer Maki gets an unusual assignment, with far-reaching consequences. Adamant and other stories contains the novella Adamant, the novelette On Purpose, a flash-fiction serial in ten parts, six other science fiction short stories, and two fantasy short stories. This is the author’s first published fiction.