A spaceship captain risks his life and crew when he travels to a black hole to retrieve a missing senator and his own long-lost family.

A strange intergalactic force infiltrates the consciousness of a modern Earthling, prompting meditations on the role of the human, the loneliness of life, and the greater unknown.

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

When a posthuman 'hardshell' robot finds an injured biological human who has committed war crimes against hardshells, the hardshell's programming will not allow it to let the human come to harm, so it must use all the resources it has to find a way to bring this war criminal to justice.