The Peripheral
A rural gamer is pulled into a cross-time mystery linking a collapsing near future to a decadent post-apocalyptic London.
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The Mechanics of Memory
A woman with a missing year enters a luxury memory clinic, only to find her memories and reality are being rewritten.
Interference
A physicist vanishes after baffling seizures, pulling his wife and a detective into a race through science, money, and suspicion.