Two men awaken from a long cryogenic sleep, to do battle in a future as primitive and violent as the remote past. California has become an arid island wasteland of subsistence farming, hunting and scavenging. The air quality is now perfect unlike the bio-contaminated atmosphere of almost a century before.
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
Five astronauts make the first manned trip to Mars in the second decade of the 21st century. They must battle and overcome inferior computer components, corporate greed and indifference, and their own personal problems, as well as the surprises that the Red Planet has in store for them.
Due to profit-driven commercial scientific research by humans, it led to the emergence of retaliatory actions from a giant squid in the depths of the Antarctic against the Antarctic international scientific research station. Han Lian, a member of the Antarctic transportation team, gets involved in this disaster. In order to rescue Rosa and his teammate Qiangzi, he engages in a life-and-death struggle with the giant squid and ultimately manages to escape.
It's the year 2210 and the world has been wiped out by a virus let loose on mankind by an alien race that wants to take over. Before they can do so, they find that two humans have survived the virus, a man and a woman. The gluttonous leader Lord Gideon dispatches his army of inept alien ninjas to finish them off so they can claim earth all for their own.
Griffin, a rollerblader in the not so distant future of an economically wrecked Los Angeles, races against time to save both his younger brother and the city from the fate dealt out by the fascist rollerblading street gang, the Rollerboys.
In an unspecified near future, humanity seems to have turned into a fishbowl: everything is transparent, monitored by an all-powerful central authority, while people are trapped and suffer from almost complete amnesia—just like goldfish.
Brent Ziff is an internet shock-jock at the top of his game. Fans and followers tune in from coast to coast to be insulted and dismissed by their favorite on-air provocateur. But on one very unusual night, Brent's world is rocked by a long-time listener who calls in with a grave message.
After his girlfriend's murder, Daniel, a physics student becomes obsessed with the idea of going back in time to stop the tragedy. He lets himself be consumed by his own obsession until after years of isolation, he finds the solution. Daniel then gives up his future and returns to the past. However, he is not the same man.
Humans live in a comfortable dream that repeats itself. They control the dream. They were humans once too. Some humans wake up, most don't. Daniel wakes to be told that things could be different. Daniel believes it. For a while at least.
Ingemar waters the "forbidden plant" and encounters Mebana; a mix between a woman and a plant, who grows up from the soil. Soon Ingemar falls in love with her.
Three graduate students accept to participate in a confidential research as part of a psychopathology class. The students develop devices capable of recording and analyzing human brain patterns. As the assignments unfold, they discover that this eerie study has much more serious consequences then they could have ever imagine.
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
An injured man lies completely still in a hospital room with doctors hovering at his bedside, appearing serene and peaceful as he slowly succumbs to death. However, in his own mind, memories of a recent battle vividly flash by. Thoughts of death and chaos haunt him, even in his final moments.
Facing a terminal disease, a mother uses space travel and relativity to stretch her last two years over the lifetime of her baby daughter, visiting for only one night every seven years. Mother and daughter must negotiate to build a relationship despite the longing and estrangement that marks the life moments they are able to share.