A catalog of the tools different alien species use to read and write, leading to fundamental questions about what it means to make patterns of knowledge against the noise of the universe.

A woman who is able to read people's minds feeds on people's ugly thoughts and craves the taste of horrible, despicable people. After meeting others who also feed on thoughts, the woman tries unsuccessfully to protect a woman she has fallen in love with from becoming a victim.

In the year 2033, a reviewer for a novel written by an algorithmic recreation of Isaac Asimov’s brain believes the work acts as a reverse Turing Test, prodding the self-consciousness of its human readers through its unorthodox construction. According to a think piece written by a fictitious reviewer in the year 2033, a novel written by a simulation of Isaac Asimov's brain is capable of interrogating humans about their own self-consciousness.

A new TV show displays masked interactions between therapists and clients with a twist: the client's therapist can either be AI or human and neither the client nor the audience will know which.

In the future, a ship of ten clones, known as a tendone, lands to exploit a mine that two non-clone humans have discovered on a faraway planet. An earthquake destroys the mine, killing nine of the ten clones, leaving the last one to learn to live as an individual.

On the campus of Pembleton College, a fierce debate arises. Should the student body mandate calliagnosia, a neurological imposition that prevents one from seeing and evaluating the beauty of others? Hear what students, professors, lobbyists, and others have to say regarding the matter right before the consequential vote.

When a search engine becomes artificially intelligent, it decides to try to help people...starting with the users who upload the best cat photos.

If two sisters are born to a family, they will be competitive for life.

When a mysterious new member joins a group of struggling authors, the friends discover that they may have a supernatural creature in their midst, who can grant a single author success above all the others—but at a cost.

A couple plays a guessing game. They disagree on whether a corner could be classified as an object and meet no consensus.