On a world made dangerous by recurring, civilization-shattering climate events called "Fifth Seasons," communities live under constant threat of seismic and social collapse.

Set across the span of a single year, the novel follows multiple interlinked characters and institutions as environmental degradation and pollution escalate in the United States.

In a near-future coastal setting, scientists discover a hyper-intelligent octopus species and confront what that intelligence means for ethics, exploitation, and human self-understanding. The discovery triggers corporate and political interests, forcing choices about study, containment, and contact.

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.

Nine Americans with distinct backgrounds develop deep, formative relationships to trees; the separate life strands are arranged in a deliberately non-linear, mosaic structure that brings the characters together around forest destruction and conservation.

An astronaut wakes with amnesia aboard a stranded spacecraft and must piece together who he is and why he's on a one-way mission to avert an extinction-level threat to Earth.

A specialist reaches an isolated planet where a virus has wiped out most men and reshaped society; she must learn local ways of living and reckon with a community rebuilt around different social norms.

Two narrative strands span deep time: one traces an artificial-intelligence–guided project to terraform a world where Portia labiata spiders evolve into a complex civilization; the other follows humans aboard an interstellar ark leaving an ecologically collapsed Earth in search of a home.

On a forested alien world, an occupying human logging colony treats the native population as subjugated labor. Tensions escalate after an especially brutal crime, and a native leader mobilizes resistance against the colonists.

After a pandemic that leaves civilians transformed into violent, vampiric beings, a lone survivor inhabits a ruined Los Angeles and endures daily assaults on sleep, sanity, and shelter.

Two contrasting societies — one organized around communal, anarchist principles and the other structured by more conventional hierarchy and market relations — come into contact.

A fictional reimagining of a doomed overland expedition in the 19th-century American West that places characters under escalating scarcity and suspicion.