A brilliant and disgraced AI scientist must return to the institution that turned their backs on her to save the world from destruction by AI ships.

A married couple clashes over the husband’s unwillingness to work. Laziness and enterprise produce a surprising invention.

A virus spreads between music-playing electronic devices, pausing music across the world and playing a series of chords that awe everyone.

In an apocalyptic world where a beast-god threatens the survival of the six remaining human colonies, a teenage girl tasked with destroying the beast-god revolts against her commanders.

Short bursts of inexplicable silence envelope an unnamed city and its residents, inspiring self-reflection and—much to their surprise—contentment.