Set in a far-future, quasi-medieval city, the novel follows Severian, an apprentice in a torturers' guild, whose expulsion forces him to leave his home and travel into a decaying world.

An elite human soldier raised in an isolated outpost sets out believing Earth was destroyed by an external enemy; as she pursues vengeance, she discovers that the story she's been taught about Earth's fate is misleading and must decide what to do with that new truth.

Light stages several linked strands: high-tech spacefaring and scientific work, characters wrestling with gender and identity, and a persistent thread involving serial violence. The novel frames these pressures against questions about consciousness, causality, and human meaning across near-future and cosmic contexts.

Set against the legacy of a notorious reform school, the novel follows characters who confront buried atrocities and the supernatural traces those abuses may have left behind.

A Jesuit-led mission makes contact with an alien civilization and returns with consequences that force survivors to reckon with faith, morality, and trauma. The novel frames its central pressure around human responses—religious, ethical, and personal—to an otherworldly meeting and the costs that follow.

A grandchild listens to a collection of long-storied tales about the Old Country while another strand follows two men who accompany a dying goddess across that realm.

A retelling of Greek myth that reimagines the life of the witch Circe from her own point of view. The narrative follows her development from an outsider of the immortal world into a solitary figure who practices magic, encounters famous mythic figures, and negotiates relationships with gods and mortals.

Six individuals across New York awaken as living embodiments of the city’s boroughs while a hostile, otherworldly force threatens the metropolis.

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.