In the near-future, people of color have been legally classified as infected, which has led to extreme systemic oppression. Two Black men risk everything to provide their community with a free library, but the police force threatens to shut them down.

A snarky teenage boy attending a high school for intelligent students in space discovers that his favorite professor has been fired, and he soon begins receiving mysterious messages claiming that he is in danger. The boy and his best friend go into hiding and must find a way to escape before being captured by the school's many soldiers.

In a futuristic world where the outdoors is clouded in an impenetrable darkness, a group of school children learn about mathematically engineered images that kill those who look upon them. They discover the strange darkness is due to biochips in their brains, designed to protect them from terrorist displays of these images.

The life of a young Japanese man becomes intimately intertwined with his deceased best-friend's girlfriend, as they each navigate the past in search of lost time.

A Black teenager falls in love with a Muslim girl at a high school competition, only to meet her again in college and find that she has changed.

At the end of the world, a girl resolves to finish her English paper.

A woman at the end of her life, confronted with the Monkey King of myth, looks back at the magical and mystical moments that have defined her existence.

Aboard a human city ship headed for Proxima b, shadows begin to haunt the sleeping passengers. An engineer commits suicide, and a psychotherapist finds that these apparitions feed on human guilt. The only way to survive is to master and confront the mounds of guilt that each human passenger carries inside herself.

A teacher invites her adult students — many with personal ties to the Holocaust — to attend a symposium on genocide, but the event is interrupted by incessant screams of an unknown origin.

When a mysterious object threatens to kill the ocean ecosystem, the headmistress of a women's university in Africa and her students must traverse the waters to find the mad scientist responsible for putting it there.