Four widely desperate people form a gang dedicated to the destruction of a dam that has ruined the Colorado River Valley.

The unicorns flee from the noise, violence, and destruction of civilization and find refuge in the sea.

An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...