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Interconnected satirical stories trace power, class, and community inside a 674-story skyscraper nation.
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Interconnected satirical stories trace power, class, and community inside a 674-story skyscraper nation.
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Four side stories revisit Aincrad, following Kirito’s encounters with girls, guildmates, and grief inside the trapped game.
A mysterious hair-carpet tradition on a backwater world gradually exposes a vast empire, hidden history, and a shocking truth.
A linked set of Known Space stories follows a rogue pilot through alien worlds, physics puzzles, and high-stakes space trouble.
Four Horus Heresy novellas follow primarchs and their legions as loyalty fractures, secrets spread, and war shifts.
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A Black veteran’s search for his missing father uncovers a supernatural conspiracy and the everyday terror of Jim Crow America.
A boy’s summer in a small Illinois town becomes a vivid meditation on childhood, time, and mortality.
A physicist uncovers a physics-decoding breakthrough as reality itself starts changing, and humanity’s multiverse hangs in the balance.
Linked surreal SF stories in a decaying desert resort where art, tech, and desire warp reality around the idle rich.
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Six linked futures trace how genetic engineering and body modification reshape humanity, morality, and identity.
A demon prince toys with mortals across a mythic flat-earth world in linked dark fairy tales.
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Two robot constructors roam a strange future universe, solving problems with wildly inventive machines and witty, philosophical fables.
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Linked post-apocalyptic stories follow survivors in a Mormon-led Utah rebuilding civilization after war and collapse.
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A Lovecraft anthology of dream-linked tales where eerie dreamlands, cosmic terror, and forbidden knowledge blur reality.
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Interlinked sword-and-sorcery tales use a mythic world to probe slavery, gender, money, language, and power.
A lyrical cycle of linked stories follows Earth’s attempts to settle Mars and the human flaws that follow.
Split across eras and convoys, a far-future fleet races to unravel an alien megastructure before the mystery turns dangerous.
A mosaic of far-future stories traces humanity’s survival, transformation, and conflict across cosmic time.
Two roguish adventurers chase treasure up a deadly mountain, then into an underground realm of wizardly intrigue.
A fractured sci-fi love story links future collapse, Easter Island, and another age to ask whether humanity can break its cycle.
In a future Hackney tattoo shop, a woman’s body art opens onto many lives, times, and women’s histories.
A global craze for camera-eyed toy pets links strangers in invasive, unsettling ways, exposing loneliness and hidden impulses.
A coffee-fueled salesman spins linked tales of interstellar trade, strange worlds, and possible tall tales in Rosario.
A solitary biological vampire poses as a professor, but exposure forces him into a chain of human entanglements.