A father and his young son travel over months through a devastated landscape after an unspecified cataclysm. Their trek focuses on survival: finding food and shelter, avoiding hostile encounters, and preserving the child's safety and moral education amid widespread collapse.

Set in a near future where disease is mostly cured, a woman given a terminal diagnosis becomes the object of a reality program that wants to televise her final days. She resists being packaged for entertainment, unaware that a reporter bearing covert cameras is recording her without consent.

Set after catastrophic solar heating has melted the ice caps and turned temperate cities into tropical lagoons, the novel follows a scientist stationed in a submerged London who becomes increasingly drawn to the altered environment.

A small, stranded community faces a dire survival problem and must decide how to preserve life when resources and choices are scarce. The book stages debates, factions, and a mounting moral pressure as the group confronts whether and how to continue as a social unit under extreme conditions.

A near-future world strained by extreme population growth and dense social systems, presented through interconnected vignettes, reportage-like inserts, and character strands.

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.

Set in a near-future theocratic state, the narrative follows a woman assigned to a mandated reproductive role within tightly policed households.

Lakewood focuses on a near-future or altered-present community shaped by medical research and its social consequences. The plot pressure arises from ethically fraught experiments and their effects on Black women and community trust.

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