Days after announcing an invention that will change the fabric of his futuristic world, an inventor goes missing and two detectives must find out where he is and what his supposedly groundbreaking invention was.

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.

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

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

When their housekeeper robot breaks down, a family contemplates the nature of her sentience.

A spirit, once stranded on earth, finally returns to his realm–but ponders the rightness of his choice.