In Universes
A queer cosmology researcher falls through parallel lives, chasing love, meaning, and the self they might have been.
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Plot structure labels used: episodic structure, linked stories, novelettes, short stories, vignette structure, multi-threaded, framed as bridge volume, bridge book, mid-series continuation, time jump, interconnected subplots, follows multiple children
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Two souls are bound across reincarnations, forcing them through war, myth, history, and far-future worlds.
Deathbird Stories
A linked collection of dark short fiction where modern gods, human cruelty, and myth collide in bleak, shocking tales.
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Noumenon
A clone-crewed generation ship convoy travels for centuries to investigate a strange distant star and its consequences.
Roma Eterna
An alternate-history fixup follows an eternal Roman Empire across millennia, from a failed Exodus to a secret bid for the stars.
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