Set in a near-future Orange County, the novel follows an undercover narcotics agent embedded in a household of drug users while concealing his identity from both the police and his targets.

Set in a damaged near-future world, the narrative follows humans and lifelike androids whose similarities prompt tests of empathy and legal distinction. The central pressure is whether artificially created beings should be treated as persons and how human identity holds up under scarcity, grief, and imitation.

A single unicorn, convinced she is the last of her kind, leaves the safety of the forest to discover what happened to other unicorns.

A conscripted young soldier joins an elite force fighting an alien species in an interstellar war; relativistic travel stretches years into decades for those on Earth.