In Tales of the Talisman 7-1, you'll find fourteen stories and fourteen poems that will propel you into the future. Danielle Ackley-McPhail tells the story of a spaceship that comes upon a station manned only by a mech with the mind of a heartless technician. Derek Muk intoduces us to a paranormal investigator who teams up with a nun to check out a UFO sighting in a New Mexico ghost town. James S. Dorr takes us to a future where humans are relentlessly colonizing other worlds, at least until they encounter a race of intelligent atoms. Richard Wolkomir imagines a pair of energy beings who come to Earth, concerned that a human might want to enter their realm.