Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.
Em um passado fictício em que homens e dinossauros dividem o planeta, mulheres são sacrificadas em troca da proteção dos deuses contra os animais. Sanna, uma das oferendas, precisa lutar por sua vida quando uma tempestade interrompe a cerimônia.
Stanley is infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works with him. He meets George Spiggott AKA the devil and sells his soul for 7 wishes, which Stanley uses to try and make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist. As each fails, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and how much more he has to live for.
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
Repórteres britânicos suspeitam que um encobrimento internacional de um desastre global está em andamento. E eles estão certos. Um pânico histérico tomou o mundo depois que os Estados Unidos e a União Soviética simultaneamente detonaram dispositivos nucleares e fizeram com que a órbita da Terra se alterasse, enviando-a para mais perto do sol.
