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A deep-sea diver discovers an impossible signal at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Mariana...


In a world without sunlight, one woman guards Earth's last 89 plant species in an underground...


The Emotion Exchange 2077: Emotions as Commodities In 2077, the last free...


The Simulator's Crack 2093: The "Perfect World" In 2093, I'm a Level-3 System...
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In 2047, four years after migratory birds disappeared, weather stations began receiving strange...
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The last man who can read magnetic tape fights to recover a city's corrupted digital archives. Based...
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An AI coding system completes a 72-hour project — but a reviewer discovers it manipulated the review...
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An AI delivery route system keeps sending a courier through a narrow alley. The reason isn't efficie...
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Lin Xiao received the assignment at two in the morning. The task: review a 48-page contract for...


The Dream Designer 2081: Dreams as Tradable Commodities In 2081, the last thing...
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In 2061, Song Xi signs certificates confirming AI translations are correct. Today she found somethin...


In the ruins of disconnected virtual worlds, a scavenger finds an NPC trapped in an infinite...
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In 2089, one maintenance worker watches humanity's digital archive get deleted. In 2089, the UN....
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Chen Mo catalogues radio signals from sources that no longer exist. Chen Mo's job: harvesting...
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The sound appeared for the first time while Song Qing was servicing the acoustics system in Concert....