“Tales From the Anime Café” (part one) includes three stories from the 99 Gods: War universe. These tales can be considered as side stories, back story, or stand-alone stories set in the same world as 99 Gods: War.

The first, “Saving the North Wind”, is set just before the start of “99 Gods: War”. This short novel involves the Indigo group of barely unnatural people as they learn the 99 Gods aren’t who they thought they were, and how they save an allied group from unknown assailants.

The second, “The Searchlight Mind”, is a long novella about Nessa Binglehauser. The story details the time in her childhood when she first learns she is a telepath, her first meeting with Ken Bolnick, and her first encounter John Lorenzi and the Minds of the Sea.

The third, “Pennies”, is a novelette (long short story) telling the tale of Dr. Velma Horton (one of the Indigo group’s liaisons with Atlanta) and her first encounter with the dangerous unnatural (and the Indigo group), roughly thirty five years before the events of “99 Gods: War”.