A collection of excerpts regarding humanity's various pursuits of science throughout time.

In the aftermath of World War III, a Korean student and a refugee from Venus carrying powerful contraband team up to leave Earth—with a powerful Venutian bounty hunter in hot pursuit.

After the lights go out and she's separated from her husband, a woman vacationing in an arctic Norwegian town must save herself and fellow survivors from mythical beasts.

After looking into her lover's eyes and seeing an inexplicable malice, a girl in an ambiguous Scandinavian world sets off on a quest to confront the Devil about the quotidian evil he unleashed into the world.

An ambitious explorer searches for the Beauty of the Night of legends on a forgotten world at the edge of the universe. Though he finds what he's looking for, it might not be the happily ever after he desires.

In a post-apocalyptic future, a woman in prison awaits her punishment, where she will be cast out of her community and into the mysterious world above. Though she is sure the process will kill her, when her mother reminds her of the prophecy that her people will reunite with survivors in the world above, she begins to feel a glimmer of hope.

Thousands of years in the past, men in Babylon try to build a tower that reaches heaven. One miner, in his exploration, learns the mind-baffling true shape of the world.

After his girlfriend begins going to a hypnotist, a man visits him too and finds himself plagued by horrific visions of death that start to blur with reality.

A young woman who is a Speleologist teams up to explore an extremely deep cavern with a Geophysicist who believes that the earth is hollow and the Underworld is accessible through caves. Once sealed by Aboriginals, the pair soon regrets reopening the cave.

In a dystopian future, an assistant to a movie star, who is also an immortal slave, must take pills that reveal her true monstrous form in order to help the movie star fight her battle with cancer.