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.

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

Two royal twins with emergent magical abilities are sent away from their ruling parent and trained by a monastery; their powers and identities entangle them with wider political and social conflicts.

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.

A woman who works as a local tour guide becomes alarmed by disappearances and unsettling changes in her Brooklyn neighborhood and starts investigating.

A midcareer novelist-turned-MFA-teacher recognizes a student’s apparently brilliant plot idea and later faces a career- and conscience-shaped crisis tied to that idea. The setup focuses on intellectual ownership, ambition, and how one striking idea can change a writer’s fortunes and ethical choices.

A scientist who researches human cloning discovers her husband has used her work to create an identical partner.

Set on a future Mars, the story follows a lowborn miner who infiltrates the ranks of the ruling elite by assuming a false identity.

A group of older, formerly professional killers—now ostensibly retired—are pulled into a dangerous sequence of events when a job and its fallout force them to act. The book follows their attempts to manage threats, reckon with past choices, and protect one another while outside forces close in.

Two women’s lives intersect around a risky decision to assume another identity, and that choice sets off a chain of deception, pursuit, and moral reckoning. The immediate pressure is whether the protagonist can keep the assumed life intact while past secrets close in, with consequences for friendship and survival.

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.

A determined investigator reopens a dangerous case tied to recent political violence and personal loss, tracing clues that connect domestic life to wider conflict. The book follows her efforts to untangle family grief and a history of unrest while someone with violent intent may still be at large.