A near-future urban world where immersive virtual systems, media feeds, and software-hacking reshape identity and embodiment.

Set in a near-future American Southwest devastated by prolonged drought, the novel follows characters entangled in fights over scarce water and the policies, mercenaries, and markets that secure it.

An envoy from a small, independent station takes up a precarious diplomatic post inside a vast imperial court and must navigate unfamiliar rituals, institutional power, and a suspicious death tied to her predecessor.

Set in a near-future Earth where humans and intelligent machines can be owned, the story follows Jack, a maker of unauthorized drugs, and Paladin, a law-enforcement combat robot tasked with finding them after one reverse-engineered drug causes dangerous effects.

A tightly plotted political thriller about a professional assassin hired by a dissident French paramilitary group to carry out a high-profile killing. The book sets up a procedural duel between the lone contractor's meticulous preparations and the official security forces racing to identify and stop him.

Set in a future where living form is determined by exchangeable cellular units called cytes and by unstable morphotypes rather than fixed DNA, the novel follows people whose bodies and identities are socially and medically negotiable.

Presented through a collage of documents, memoir excerpts, and alternate accounts, the novel orients on a secretive, immensely wealthy financier and the contested stories about him and his wife.

Set in a near-future dystopia, the novel follows a skilled programmer pursued after years on the run; his escape relies on creating and deploying computer programs to confuse trackers and undermine the systems that control society.

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

Set in the near future, the novel traces efforts around an institutional body created under international agreements whose mandate is to secure the rights of future generations.

Set in a near-future urban milieu, the story follows a drug-damaged computer hacker recruited by a team — including a battle-hardened ex-soldier and a powerful artificial intelligence — to pull off a high-stakes digital heist.

Set against Cold War anxieties, the story follows characters entangled in a conspiracy that links wartime experience, political ambition, and psychological manipulation. The central pressure arises from a plot involving covert conditioning and an assassination scheme that threatens public life and private loyalties.