Ahead lie stories of Mars, derelict A.Is, lonely robots, and more happenings of the future.
In "Anything but A 1," a new AR implant takes full control of a user's five senses and makes them see anyone they are romantically compatible with as beautiful, even if the person is nowhere near attractive. In "Addie.23.e#," a robot copes with being assigned to a planet where she is the only being with anything resembling consciousness. In "New Eden," a teenager discovers a forgotten VR game where he encounters npcs that are surprisingly life-like. In "A Morning Like no Other," a group of Mars-Native humans try to keep alive a tradition that Terran immigrants are attempting to ban. In "Others," there are stories about colony life, stock market disputes, and interplanetary traders, to name just a few.