A War of Gifts
At Battle School, a forbidden holiday gift exchange sparks conflict between religion, culture, and the rules of war.
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The Brief History of the Dead
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A Closed and Common Orbit
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The Man with the Compound Eyes
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The Man in the High Castle
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Decorum
A polite assassin, a courier, and a galaxy-scale AI crisis collide in a dense, visually explosive sci-fi graphic novel.
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Homestuck
Four friends start an online game and trigger a sprawling, multimedia chain reaction with world-ending consequences.