This second level of Orson Scott Card’s five-book anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race.

A Thousand Deaths In Soviet-occupied America, Jerry Crove is available guilty and convicted of knowing about the planned assassination of a Russian high public rather than reporting it towards the authorities. Rather than a compelled confession and apology on television, he gives a conversation on American independence. His sentence is to be repeatedly put to loss of life about Flux: Stories of Individual Futures: Book 2 of Maps inside a Reflection and brought back alive until he apologizes convincingly.

Clap Hands and Sing An old man travels back in time to fall deeply in love with a ladies he let escape.

Dogwalker A guy hacks right into a federal government database using a program administrator’s password. But getting the code right actually is very wrong.

But We Do not Act like It A man complains to the television office that he cannot switch off his TV which it-especially the soap operas-disturbs him in his attempts to read, his preferred activity. He’s informed that he’ll be allowed to turn off the TV only when he changes his social status by making some close friends or creating a sexual relationship.

I Place My Blue Genes Earth, right now an uninhabitable wasteland of biological warfare, is revisited with a contingent of humans who look for a little band of “not-quite-human” beings still fighting an enemy which has very long since been annihilated.

In the Doghouse Aliens from a doomed planet relocate to Globe, having preserved only their intellectually superior brains. Forbidden by their moral code from killing another sentient getting, they choose Earth’s widely beloved canines as their new vessels-but they shortly uncover what it means to “maintain the doghouse.”

The Originist With this story occur Isaac Asimov’s Base universe, an excellent scientist working on a thorny issue is described the Galactic Library, an indexing task of astonishing breadth.