A group of human colonists settles on a newly reached planet and must build lives amid an ecosystem whose dominant intelligences are sentient plants.

A government research zone has been sealed off after decades of strange phenomena. A team of four unnamed female specialists enters as the twelfth expedition to survey the area and record observations.

A member of a long-lived, blood-dependent species awakens with amnesia and physical injuries and must piece together who she is and how she relates to the human partners her kind depends on.

Light stages several linked strands: high-tech spacefaring and scientific work, characters wrestling with gender and identity, and a persistent thread involving serial violence. The novel frames these pressures against questions about consciousness, causality, and human meaning across near-future and cosmic contexts.

Set in a damaged near-future world, the narrative follows humans and lifelike androids whose similarities prompt tests of empathy and legal distinction. The central pressure is whether artificially created beings should be treated as persons and how human identity holds up under scarcity, grief, and imitation.

An investigation into nonhuman minds using cephalopods—especially octopuses—as a case study.

Several loosely connected characters across different eras encounter anomalies that call into question the nature of reality, time, and memory.

Set in a future ruined city overrun by biotechnology, the story follows a scavenger named Rachel who collects genetic experiments and discarded engineered organisms. The city is dominated by a massive engineered grizzly, and Rachel discovers an unusual sea-anemone–like creature she names Borne.

Set in the same universe as an earlier work by the author, this novel follows encounters with a mysterious, hazardous site called Nova Swing and the people drawn to it.

Set aboard a generation ship, the novel follows life inside a rigidly stratified vessel where social caste, inherited servitude, and systemic racism govern daily existence.

Set in a near-future world where crossing between parallel Earths is technologically possible but limited, the plot follows a protagonist who can travel because most of their alternate selves have died.

In a living biotech port city, reformed thief Yat Jyn-Hok works night patrol while carrying the memories of a vanished lover and punishment for her sexuality. After being murdered by colleagues, she is resurrected by an ancient power that lets her manipulate life force.