Facing liquidation due to public mistrust of robotic life-forms, a historic robotics company introduces a new eco-friendly form of robot in hopes of improving robot-human coexistence only to accidentally pave the way for robot domination of life on Earth.

In the near future, an energy crisis compels humanity to take advantage of the one source left untouched by industrialization: the past.

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.

In the near future, an investigative journalist interviews several key players in the rise of a genetic enhancement drug that has made predominantly white Americans Black.

When electricity-eating beings invade and overtake the earth in 1977, all humans are stripped of anything electrical-powered and forced to adapt.

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.

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.

In the future, two human men and their robotic companion are stationed at an old mining base on Mercury. When the robot goes missing on a mission, it's up to the men to find and rescue their companion—at risk to their own lives.

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 where hardly a trace of natural life exists untouched by human interference, a Citizen makes an unprecedented choice that brings a slew of notoriety and ethical questions.