Vermilion Sands
Linked surreal SF stories in a decaying desert resort where art, tech, and desire warp reality around the idle rich.
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Linked surreal SF stories in a decaying desert resort where art, tech, and desire warp reality around the idle rich.
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A future America ruled by religious dictatorship sparks revolt, then shifts into two linked stories of social control and survival.
A short-story collection revisits Cradle's world across prequel, side, and post-series episodes for fans wanting more.
A disabled girl becomes the mind of a starship and navigates missions, love, grief, and the ethics of her existence.
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A Horus Heresy anthology of linked stories and a novella tracing Calth’s aftermath through survivors, traitors, and buried horrors.
A linked set of early Heinlein stories follows inventors and entrepreneurs pushing society toward the Moon, at any cost.
Five Pern prequel tales trace colonization, evacuation, and the founding of key holds and weyrs on the early colony world.
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A queer cosmology researcher falls through parallel lives, chasing love, meaning, and the self they might have been.
Seven Sun Eater stories expand the galaxy with war, mystery, machines, and key spoilers for the main series.
Five Earthsea tales and an essay deepen the world’s history, magic, and gender politics across past and future timelines.
Six Sun Eater side stories expand a war-torn galaxy with assassins, soldiers, family drama, and shifting POVs.
Six linked Doctor Who stories follow Missy across time as she plots, kills, evades control, and redefines herself.
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