Vault: The Very Best of Scott Robinson

These 17 tales represent Scott Robinson’s best short fiction in the new millennium, bridging the sci-fi/fantasy spectrum - horror, dystopia, time travel, AI/robots, and humor. They include:

- an expedition of time travelers, trapped in the past, setting themselves up as deities;

- a day when the sun doesn’t rise, and madness takes its place;

- an automated world inhabited only by a family dog;

- a feral robot, lost in the Pacific Northwest, raiding the local neighborhood;

- a billionaire’s vanity AI that bursts beyond its firewalls and vanishes into the Internet;

- a hypochondriac witch who cooks up an infinite joy spell from her bed in a British sweet shop;

- a team of interstellar engineers, hosted in android bodies, who inexplicably begin to dream;

- a nameless wraith who endlessly leaps across the decades, from one night into another, selecting strangers for death;

- a magnificent castle on a faraway, resplendent planet, where a young woman from elsewhere discovers long-lost family and an unspoken horror...