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Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur Clarke all tell stories of the future. They each create their own world, that is similar to our own but with extra machinery that could help our world, but also completely damage all that we, as humans, believe is good. In “All You Zombies,” Heinlein shows fear of how a time machine can be a bad thing. People can easily hop from one time in a person’s life to the next, potentially missing out on most of their own lives because of all their time travel. Asimov shows how robots, while being helpful by doing everyday chores, could potentially be the end of the human race if made to be too smart, in his short story “Robot Dreams.” Clarke tells a story of the end of the world coming because monks discover “The Nine Billion Names of God.” In all these stories, time machines, robots, and research machines are feared because of what terror they could bring to human lives.