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In a post-pandemic America split into Day and Night castes, a reckless Smudge’s baby-heist pulls her into conspiracy and romance.
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City of Illusions
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The Doctor and Rose are stranded on a tech-dead planet and swept into a steampunk space-pirate hunt for a legendary casket.
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The Hospital at the End of the World
In a near-future AI-run world, a medical student uncovers family secrets and a deadly medical mystery in New Orleans.
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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Labyrinth
A grieving veteran with tinnitus and missing time uncovers a number-code, a buried conspiracy, and a virtual reality mystery.
Cosmic Detective
An unnamed detective investigates an impossible murder in a neon-noir future where gods walk among humans.
Rogue Elements
A disgraced freighter captain’s hunt for a future turns into a twisty, reference-rich Star Trek caper across the frontier.
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 Black Orb
A Seoul salesman races to reach his parents as mysterious black orbs spread, swallowing people and unraveling society.
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Ventus
On a terraformed world ruled by silent AI “gods,” a young man is drawn into a planet-scale mystery and cosmic conflict.
To Each This World
A human arbiter, an alien ally, and an AI race across colony worlds to rescue lost settlers and decode a dangerous truth.
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