The animated sky lit up again above the small, cozy coffee shop. Numerous lamps and lights turned on, stairwell lighting came on, and elevators and escalators started moving. “I think it's time for me to go,” said the blonde, blowing...

An old tinted minivan quickly pulled into the underground parking garage. No one paid any attention to this. Not the sleepy security guards at the shopping center, long accustomed to catching only petty thieves and drunken hooligans from time...

“Nooo,” the girl replied slowly, rolling her eyes slightly in contempt. “Modern games don't appeal to me at all. They're too simple and based on chance. They're for single-celled organisms...” “Then what?” “Chess.” “Really?” Alexei asked with interest. “I know how to...

“You're probably wondering why we need such a complex system. Why does the computer need to monitor everyone? What do we do with all this information?” Mikhail said, settling into a chair in front of the monitors, and answered...