5 Science Fiction stories plus a near-future novella:
Ice Fall - Wrangling ice-rich asteroid Bennu to the Moon for vital water gets interrupted by a hostile base takeover.
Sim Survivor - An elderly archeology professor gets replaced by his young AI-controlled clone and must escape his "elimination."
Mom for Rent - A young woman hires her womb to a male clone clan but falls in love with the baby boy she births.
Devil Virus - A biochem professor mentors an amoral grad student who develops a multi-vectored gene-altering military virus.
Tarallel Uniterse - Along with many young people with "pure" DNA, a governor gets highjacked into a world where weaponized gene splicing has hybridized species.
The Test of Time - A near-future novella where a planned monorail threatens a rural commune. The community's leader gets kidnapped by agents for experimental VR brain-washing to gain her cooperation.