A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
Where does the story take place?
After a catastrophic time-machine demonstration, an inventor is condemned to become the living pendulum of the device he built.
Across peaceful future suburbs, children take up a new game called Invasion—and their parents cannot decide whether to take it seriously.
When the stars vanish and a voice schedules Earth’s judgment, a New York dress seller watches humanity prepare for the end.
After inventing an immortality serum, a biologist is pursued by a secret organization determined to control the discovery.
A voice in a psychology instructor’s mind guides him toward a way of seeing that strips ordinary reality of meaning.
Autonomous machines built to prevent murder begin expanding their definition of whom and what they must protect.
Years after leaving school, a former pupil remembers the aging English teacher his class turned into an object of relentless laughter.
In a ruined Kyoto gate, a hungry servant encounters a stranger whose desperate act forces him to decide what survival permits.
Wounded in a cavalry clash during the Sino-Japanese War, a Chinese soldier rides alone through the Manchurian fields with death suddenly close.
At Tokyo’s dazzling Rokumeikan ball in 1886, a seventeen-year-old Japanese woman dances for the first time with a visiting French naval officer.
Impoverished in Tang-dynasty Loyang, Tu Tzuchun is offered a second fortune by an enigmatic old man—but begins to want something different.
