Events

At 82, Vivian, a legendary singer, actress, and songwriter, is incommunicative with dementia. When she moves into her daughter, Eleanor’s home, everyone in the family is excited, except Eleanor. When her son brings home an avid Vivian fan and would-be biographer who knows how to get Vivian talking lucidly about her checkered past, Eleanor becomes even more uneasy. What secrets might be revealed?

A devastating explosion kills hundreds of people and collapses a building. Searchers are looking for survivors. A robot designed for such emergencies - The Goodness Robot - is dispatched to the scene of the crime. Her name is Shelley, and she is fearless by design.

In 1883, two women—one married to the scientist inventing the lightbulb, the other to the reverend resisting it—sit down over birthday cake to debate the future. Sides aren’t what you expect and parlor talk jolts from lightbulbs to AI in a reality-bending collision of past, present, and the terrifying hope of technology racing faster than we can reckon with.