Short stories tagged with Altruism

Listing 9 stories.

In the far future, a selfless woman helps a wary man flee from a destroyed Earth to the world beyond the solar system.

A woman faces a choice after she is brought back to life after the annihilation of the human race: Should she ask the race who resurrected her to resurrect all humankind?

In a New York City of the near future, a middle-aged suit finds his life upturned when online terrorists accuse him of humanitarian crimes in front of everyone he knows.

When a search engine becomes artificially intelligent, it decides to try to help people...starting with the users who upload the best cat photos.

After 300,000 teens and young adults commit mass suicide, a student pursuing their PhD investigates what caused the Year of Suicide, forcing them to relive their trauma and navigate the process of healing from so much death.

A couple adopts a troubled six year old child who takes a startling interest in one very precious item in their home.

A Jewish night-school teacher attempts to change an anti-Semitic student's negative assumptions about Jewish people.

A successful gentleman whose ventures have recently failed goes on a miserable quest to find a seam of ore, following a questionable character who claims to have found it.

In a futuristic world, a man awoken from being cryogenically frozen meets a ditzy tour guide to the Future, whose job is to help him learn about the new world through a series of virtual reality simulations. However, the world's AI leader may be manipulating them both for his own gain.