A Choice of Gods
In a far-future abandoned Earth, humans and robots evolve apart while a return from the stars threatens everything.
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Plot structure labels used: slow burn, conversation-driven, philosophical digressions, long reveals, slow reveal, epistolary framing, journals, chapter epigraphs, time jump, future history, minimal action, withheld information, reveals near the end
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The Telling
A future anthropologist enters an authoritarian world where a suppressed oral culture may be the key to its past and future.
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The Kingdoms
An amnesiac man in French-ruled London follows a century-old postcard into a time-bending search for his true past.
The Temple
A stranded WWI German submarine captain descends into madness after recovering a strange idol from the dead.
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Magic Street
A foundling boy in modern Los Angeles discovers dream magic, hidden fae forces, and an epic conflict around his identity.
Stages of Rot
A mostly wordless graphic novel about life, decay, and change unfolding around the carcass of a giant whale.
Slow Gods
An immortal pilot from a brutal star society becomes central to a galaxy-wide response to an impending supernova.
Spectators
Two ghosts drift through a collapsing future, watching humanity’s appetite for sex, violence, and spectacle.
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Termush
Wealthy guests shelter in a luxury hotel after nuclear disaster, but fear and moral strain begin to break their sealed world.
The Moonday Letters
A healer on a ravaged future Earth hunts for her vanished spouse across the colonized solar system.
Leech
A parasite-doctor in a frozen chateau investigates a death and encounters a rival infection threatening body and mind.
One Second After
After an EMP attack wipes out electronics, a North Carolina town struggles to survive the sudden collapse of modern life.