The Siege of Burning Grass
A pacifist prisoner is forced on a mission across enemy lines, where war, propaganda, and conscience collide.
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The Trees
After trees erupt across the world overnight, a reluctant man joins a small group crossing a transformed England to survive and find loved ones.
City of Illusions
An amnesiac stranger crosses a ruined future Earth to uncover his identity and the truth behind a city ruled by lies.
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Two girls keep climbing through the ruins of civilization, finding meaning in survival, memory, and each other.
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Destiny's Road
A young colonist follows a forbidden road across a strange world to uncover the secrets behind his society.
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She
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Son of the Storm
A scholar chasing forbidden truths in an empire of caste and secrecy collides with hidden magic and buried history.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
A French scientist is pulled into a global underwater voyage aboard a mysterious submarine with a secretive captain.
We Burned So Bright
An older queer couple takes one last cross-country road trip as a black hole brings Earth’s final days closer.
Off on a Comet
A comet clips Earth, carrying a small group of survivors on a two-year journey through the solar system.
Bird Box
In a world where seeing something can drive you mad, a mother must blindfold herself and her children to survive a river escape.
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After a ritual accident cuts him off from his village, a young outcast wanders a hostile world and uncovers its secrets.
The Black Orb
A Seoul salesman races to reach his parents as mysterious black orbs spread, swallowing people and unraveling society.
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The Last Ship
A Navy destroyer’s captain leads the last survivors of nuclear war through a ruined world toward uncertain refuge.
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Wolf and Iron
After economic collapse, a scientist treks across a lawless America, learning survival with a wolf companion.
The Way
In a virus-ravaged near-future America, a Buddhist caretaker crosses the West with animal companions to deliver a possible cure.
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Annihilation
A biologist joins a doomed all-women expedition into a quarantined, shifting zone where nature and truth misbehave.
The Naming Song
In a post-word world, an unnamed courier delivers new names while fleeing danger and searching for her sister.
Isle of the Dead
An ultra-wealthy immortal worldbuilder is drawn into a far-future revenge mystery tied to alien gods and his past.
The Halloween Tree
On Halloween night, eight boys chase a missing friend through time to discover Halloween’s origins.
Dinner at Deviant's Palace
In post-nuclear Los Angeles, a former cult deprogrammer-musician must infiltrate a sinister sect to rescue his lost love.
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Against the Fall of Night
A curious young man in Earth’s last city uncovers buried truths that could shatter a stagnant immortal civilization.
All the Water in the World
In a flooded future New York, a water-sensitive teen flees a museum sanctuary and journeys north to survive.
Latro in the Mist
An amnesiac Roman mercenary crosses ancient Greece, recording each day while gods and mortals shape his fate.
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