In the wake of a life-altering event, Anna has returned to work and written a standard, dry academic graf on self-driving cars—which, in 2042, have become the standard mode of transportation. Her paper's footnotes, however, reveal a tragic story.

When climate change leads to oil scarcity in a dystopian future, a former racecar legend and his pit crew redirect their skills to hijacking highway tankers carrying precious oil for profit. Despite the dangers of the job, it is the love between the crew mates that ultimately leads to their downfall. In a dystopian America ravaged by climate change, an oil scarcity turns a former racecar legend and his pit crew into gasoline outlaws, rustling highway tankers for profit. But a lover's quarrel seeks to undo all of their success.

In an alternate Great Depressions NYC, a Jewish foreman investigates the true outputs of his factory as his eccentric German employer seeks to use an emerging idea called "industrivism," or the improvement of the human body through technology, created by a bored pulp writer, to recruit workers to fulfill his machinations. Without realizing, a pulp writer in an alternative 1920s New York City invents the idea of "industrivism" that earns her an audience with an eccentric German businessman. Meanwhile, a Jewish foreman investigate the true purpose of the factory and unearths his employer's dark past and future machinations.

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.

Three patrol officers patrol high-speed highways in North America for 11 months out of the year, resolving crashes and maintaining order while on patrol missions. During a patrol, they track down and take down a dangerous criminal.

In a dystopian world, Ginny Sweethips' traveling roadshow profits off of sex, tacos, and drugs has a run-in with aggressive men who ask who for more than Ginny's affection.

A mechador who taunts cars much like how matador taunts bulls has become a cyborg after his second death in the ring, but comes out of his retirement to face down the cars once again.

When a serial writer decides that he can’t take more of his monotonous life, he destroys his copywriter and leaves his domestic prison to protest the rise of the machines.

A family going for a ride in their new car makes a wrong turn onto an incredibly trafficked freeway leading to an unknown place.

A bike worker's sudden mechanical epiphany leads to success for his partner, but something much worse for himself.