Joshua Dread
A middle school boy with supervillain parents must hide his own powers and team up with unexpected friends to save them.
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Legacies
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This Perfect Day
In a computer-run future of drugged conformity, one uneasy man begins to question a perfect world built to erase freedom.
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Railsea
On a rail-covered world, a young apprentice joins a mole-hunting train and uncovers a secret beyond the tracks.
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The Book of Koli
A teenage outcast in a walled future village discovers secrets about old tech, power, and a deadly changed world.
Rebel Skies
A servant girl with forbidden paper magic is swept into a skyship hunt, empire secrets, and a fight over what shikigami are.
Fluke
A stray dog with human memories roams England, searching for the truth behind his past life.
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Birthmarked
A teen midwife in a harsh walled future risks everything to rescue her arrested parents and uncover her society’s secrets.
Against the Fall of Night
A curious young man in Earth’s last city uncovers buried truths that could shatter a stagnant immortal civilization.
The Ship Who Searched
A young girl disabled by an alien illness becomes a brainship and hunts for the plague’s source with her chosen partner.
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The Finisher
A curious teen in a walled village uncovers a hidden world, a dangerous truth, and a path toward escape.
The House of the Scorpion
A cloned boy raised as property in a drug lord’s future borderland must confront what makes him human.
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