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A bombardier is selected to drop an atomic bomb on Japan, but he is morally opposed to his assignment.
Two American operatives are ordered by a high-profile client to remove a dangerous and conspicuous weapon from beneath a woman’s living room in Belfast, Ireland.
Two men have been locked underground somewhere in Utah, Montana, or Idaho with instructions to wait for a monitor's signal then each turn a key in a lock simultaneously to fire a "bird" at an unknown target city. They also have guns and instructions to shoot the other if the other behaves strangely.
In the cosmic war fought beyond the constraints of time, a party of Soldiers and Entertainers fight over what to do with the atomic bomb in their possession.
In the cosmic war fought beyond the constraints of time, a party of Soldiers and Entertainers fight over what to do with the atomic bomb in their possession.
In a world where telling time is illegal, Newman is a death-row prisoner for attempting to do just that.
A young female scientist invents a cyborg swarm to clean up radioactive waste in Detroit after nuclear fallout. She has ambitious plans for the future, but her creations turn out to already be far more potent than what anyone could've expected...
In a time fraught with fear surrounding school shootings, a parent struggles to hone her anxiety into a productive tool for protecting her children. But after devoting a decade of her life to developing a quantum simulation program, she learns that the answer she has been seeking is far simpler than she could have ever guessed. How does an anxious parent reconcile their desire to protect their children with the risks of interfering with the simulation of the known world? That is the question the narrator seeks to answer, confronting the inadequacy of fear and preparation in a time of bone-chilling crisis.
In a futuristic world, one of the members of a tour group is murdered. Nobody knows who the murderer is, and as the police try to solve the case, they discover that this murderer has far more nefarious plans that can alter the world.
Some time in the distant future, a children's toy inspection agency reviews imported alien toys to make sure they are safe for "Terran" children to use. The inspectors play the three imported games and suspect nefarious intentions from the "Ganymedean" toy makers.