| 1 | * "Literature/{{Someday}}": Managing nightmares with no violence, no gore, no monsters, and no clear explanation of the title. Two kids own a low-quality robot that can tell fairy tales, and listen to some of its stories while discussing how crude it is compared to most modern machinery. Very little of what they're describing is advanced far beyond the present day. Then they leave the room, and the robot tells itself a story, one about a robot taken care of by cruel "step-people," a robot that one day hears the step-people talk of how advanced robotics is getting, and who knows now that someday... and that's when the robot seems to break down, for it keeps repeating the same word over and over. "Someday. Someday. Someday." |
| 2 | * "Literature/AllTheTroublesOfTheWorld": Panic ensues when a young boy manages to get past all the defences protecting Multivac, the supercomputer which basically runs the world. He doesn't have a sinister purpose though- he just wants to help his arrested father, and Multivac told him how to do that. The way to do that... includes destroying Multivac. Consider; A supercomputer upon whom all the economics, law enforcement, and, potentially, medicine, depend... is suicidal. |
| 3 | -->"I want to die." |
| 4 | * "Literature/Nightfall1941": In a universe where humans live on a planet with almost perpetual daylight, a short eclipse creates darkness for the first time in 2000 years which causes the revelation that the humans' solar system is not one of dozens as they believed, but millions in the universe (as it is now properly visible to them) which is sufficient to drive humanity mad to the point where they will literally burn down their civilization out of fear of the darkness. The scientists try to avert this apocalypse and fail entirely. |
| 5 | * "The Life and Times of Multivac": Multivac exercises benevolent but undisputed control over human civilization, to the displeasure of some people (who are left free to freely express their rebellious opinions). One of the dissidents figures out a scheme to trick Multivac into making itself vulnerable, and then crashes it. He then announces that humanity is free... and realizes from the stunned reactions that the rebels don't really want to -- and perhaps are not ''able'' to -- keep civilization running without Multivac's guidance. |
| 6 | %%* ''Literature/LuckyStarrAndTheRingsOfSaturn'': [[http://sf-encyclopedia.uk/gal/robinson/Asimov-StarrUK5.jpg This book cover.]] |
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