Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections
Skeeve travels alone to a hostile dimension to find his lost partner and learns how to stand on his own.
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Lowriders in Space
Three friends with big garage dreams turn a junker lowrider into a contest car, then take it on a wild trip through space.
Orbital
Six astronauts orbit Earth for one day, and the view forces them to confront beauty, distance, time, and loss.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
A crew of astronaut-scientists surveys alien worlds by adapting their bodies, then faces a far-reaching choice about home.
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
A nameless undead woman crosses a ruined world, carrying grief, hunger, and a fading self toward what she has lost.
Hothouse
A far-future survival journey through a planet ruled by giant plants, strange lifeforms, and devolved humans.
Tuesday
A nearly wordless picture book follows frogs on an impossible nighttime trip through town, leaving clues and wonder behind.
Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 1
Two girls roam a ruined, near-empty world by motorbike, scavenging to survive and finding small joys in the wasteland.
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VALIS
A self-divided writer chases a pink-light revelation into Gnostic theology, madness, and the meaning of reality.
Herland
Three men enter a hidden all-women society and are forced to confront a radically different vision of civilization.
Harrow
A teenage girl searches a broken world for her missing mother amid climate collapse, absurdity, and revenge-minded elders.
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The Coming Race
An explorer falls into an underground civilization and learns its strange customs, power source, and unsettling social order.