The Sparrow
A Jesuit-led first-contact mission to a singing alien world becomes a devastating inquiry into faith, guilt, and humanity.
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Timescape
Scientists in a collapsing 1998 try to warn 1962 colleagues through physics, triggering a high-stakes time-communication puzzle.
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A security operative chasing revenge enters a plague-ravaged city where memory, identity, and history unravel.
Dissolution
An elderly woman enters her husband’s memories to recover stolen history before reality—and their love—unravels.
Gateway
A desperate prospector wins a chance to ride alien ships to unknown worlds, then must confront what the gamble did to him.
Now We Are Animals
A teen girl’s journals reveal life as a human pet under alien colonizers and her growing resistance.
The Guilt Pill
A new mother and startup CEO is offered a pill that erases guilt, but freedom may cost her everything.
Where the Creek Bends
A runaway bride returns home to Montana, where a childhood mystery and strange time-slip energies upend her plans.
Léviathan, tome 3
Teenagers trapped on a ruined spacecraft face a deadly survival game while a present-day search uncovers the truth.
Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre
Two Watchmen prequels trace a masked team’s rise and fall and a young heroine’s break from family control.
The Kingdom of Liars
A disgraced noble son recounts a regicide trial while untangling court lies, memory-erasing magic, and revolt.
The Last Beekeeper
In a bee-less future, a beekeeper’s daughter returns home for answers and finds a fragile new family, a secret, and hope.
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