In the hospice above old Earth, a paralysed man answers the arbitration question with neither yes nor no, and the system encounters a state it has no name for.
The complete closed file of an orbital hospice's arbitration committee, which was asked to rule on a patient who answered neither yes nor no, and which discovered it could not.
On a planet where time and entropy run backwards, a xenolinguist must learn to think in reverse to survive the research mission.
In the Museum of Extinct Sensations, an empathic AI named SELENA learns to calculate grief and chooses to become all versions of itself.
A man experiences the most productive, observant day of his life, finding poetry in the ordinary inefficiencies of the world.
A man sustained by machines in a hospice above old Earth fights for his life through an AI surrogate in the final arbitration.