In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting rise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching the point of creating realistic robots (called mechas) to serve them. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically.

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

A woman is in love with a man in love with another woman, and all three have designs on a young man raised as a chimpanzee.

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

A middle-class man turns to a life of crime in order to finance his niece's first year at Harvard University.

A woman is in love with a man in love with another woman, and all three have designs on a young man raised as an ape.

The story of a baseball scout who discovers a talented but troubled baseball player.