A hard-science space mission encounters an inexplicable extraterrestrial signal and assembles a specialized crew to investigate. The narrative orients around scientific inquiry into alien minds, neurologically informed speculation, and the practical hazards of human contact with a fundamentally other intelligence.

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

A short, focused novel that follows a small group of characters as they face a pressure introduced by a speculative technological or environmental condition.

Set in a near-future America broken by economic collapse, climate effects, and violence, the novel follows Lauren Olamina, a young woman who records her experiences and develops a practical belief system called Earthseed.

A novel that frames an alleged demonic possession as a matter for testing and judgment: characters confront religious belief, evidence, and moral responsibility as the question of Satan’s presence is treated almost legally.

A Stranger in Olondria follows an outsider in a foreign city whose interest in local books, monks, and oral traditions pulls them into investigations of stories, memory, and uncanny occurrences.

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

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.

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

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.

A first-person narrator recalls growing up at an elite boarding school in an alternate late-20th-century England and the friendships and loyalties formed there while an institutional ethical situation quietly shapes their lives.

A historical fantasy set in medieval Russia about a young girl who perceives and interacts with household spirits and older folk-magic as organized Christianity gains influence and seeks to suppress those practices.