Through three tales of impossible machines with abilities to manipulate the physical world, travel through time and space, and bestow telepathy onto an entire community, candidates of an engineering exam in the far future are asked to ponder fantastical implications of technology.

There are 770 million cameras in the world and we don't know who is watching or why. An worker in boiler room, a cop, a high school student, and a woman escaping from an abusive environment all have one thing in common, they are being watched.

A village requests the aid of a demon slayer to help them vanquish demons that have recently afflicted them—but at first glance, he isn't what they expected.

After the robot revolution, a man salvaging materials from an abandoned city runs into its mastermind.

Two men who retreat underwater during war become the stuff of legend in the town surrounding their river.

Denied from countless jobs due to accommodations requests, a neurodivergent person finally lands upon the right job for them.

A doctor ponders their time spent with a planet-sized library in the wake of its scheduled destruction.