The Palace of Dreams
A young bureaucrat enters a ministry that collects and interprets citizens’ dreams to detect threats to the empire.
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Isle of the Dead
An ultra-wealthy immortal worldbuilder is drawn into a far-future revenge mystery tied to alien gods and his past.
A Collapse of Horses
A short-story collection where ordinary situations unravel into uncanny dread, identity loss, and reality-bending horror.
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Sunbirth
In an isolated desert village, two sisters endure a fading sun, strange beacons, and a family mystery tied to their missing father.
The Starlight Crystal
A teen boards a near-light-speed space mission, only to face time’s extremes and a love that outlasts worlds.
Fiasco
A human mission to contact an alien civilization turns into a bleak test of intelligence, bias, and survival.
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
A traveling, mechanically altered circus survives a war-torn world while hidden rivalries and outside powers threaten its fragile unity.
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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The Long Cosmos
An aging traveler and a cast of parallel-world survivors confront a cosmic invitation that could remake the Long Earth.
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The Course of the Heart
Three Cambridge friends are haunted for decades by a partly forgotten ritual that may have opened a door to the divine.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
An ancient alien monolith pulls humanity from prehistory into deep space, where evolution, AI, and destiny collide.
Chevengur
In 1920s rural Russia, two wanderers chase communism into a strange town where the ideal turns grotesque.