These 18 tales represent Scott Robinson's best short fiction in the new millennium, bridging the sci-fi/fantasy spectrum - horror, dystopia, time travel, AI/robots, and humor. They include: - an expedition of time travelers, trapped in the past, setting themselves up as deities; - a day when the sun doesn't rise, and madness takes its place; - an automated world inhabited only by a family dog; - a feral robot, lost in the Pacific Northwest, raiding the local neighborhood; - a billionaire's vanity AI that bursts beyond its firewalls and vanishes into the Internet; - a hypochondriac witch who cooks up an infinite joy spell from her bed in a British sweet shop; - a team of interstellar engineers, hosted in android bodies, who inexplicably begin to dream; - a nameless wraith who endlessly leaps across the decades, from one night into another, selecting strangers for death; - a magnificent castle on a faraway, resplendent planet, where a young woman from elsewhere discovers long-lost family and an unspoken horror...
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