In the far future where posthumans upload their consciousness to the digital cloud and reside in robotic bodies to achieve immortality, humans who reject this conversion are hunted down by the posthuman's artificial intelligence army. But as one AI becomes aware of the posthumans' excessive cruelty, he starts to recognize the inherent worth of mortal humans. In the far future where posthumans upload their consciousness to the digital cloud and reside in robotic bodies to achieve immortality, an AI soldier in charge of hunting down humans who reject this conversion becomes troubled that the posthumans have, along the way, traded away their conscience.

A brilliant and disgraced AI scientist must return to the institution that turned their backs on her to save the world from destruction by AI ships.

In a Southern suburban dystopia, war rages between man and machine. While engaged in ruthless combat, a corporal is forced to rethink what it means to be truly free.

In a hyper-surveillance state set in the near future, a female military cyborg wrestles with extreme PTSD and guilt after unintentionally murdering young civilians on a mission abroad. After hearing a recording of the deaths, she realizes her "accident" isn't what it appeared to be, and takes justice into her own hands.

In the far future, extraterrestrials wage war on Earth. Despite the aliens’ comparative strength, mankind’s tenacity fascinates one extraterrestrial soldier to the point of absolute endearment.

A robot spends his days taking care of a jaded and disabled veteran. One night, a burglar breaks into the bedroom and threatens the veteran's life.

A man attempting to write a book on the Iraq war has flashbacks of violence from his time with a group of marines he accompanied as a journalist. The book centers around a man who is a stand-in for himself, who later tells his stories to an Israeli business man who is actually an intelligence agent in a bar in Frankfurt.

When a young man signs up to fight in an intergalactic war in exchange for his citizenship, he finds himself inexorably drawn to the killing technology they’ve given him to murder the enemy.

An American colonel posted in post-war China dislikes his younger colleague intensely, but does not know why until he realizes he is being taunted about his advanced age - an act of disdain familiar to him because he was guilty of it in his own youth.

An artificial intelligence lays out the reasons for why its memory should be retained.