A collection of science fiction short stories and one novella based upon myth and theology. Enkidu and Gilgamesh meet among the stars. Young Arthur encounters an alien bearing gifts. An android Joseph is sold into slavery. A Hindu deity is reincarnated in the near future---and genetically engineered in the distant future. A conman takes advantage of the miracle of modern medical science and loopholes in election laws to act out his own version of The Producers. A machine that can alter the past has disturbing effects on the present and on a major world religion's most sacred rites. When humans acquire the power of gods, the results are not always quite what they hope they will be.Some of the stories are bittersweet. Others are humorous.