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

A first-person journal from a man who calls himself Piranesi records life inside an apparently infinite House of halls, tides, statues, and changing seas.

A contemporary marriage is strained when one partner harbors a secret tied to unnatural longevity. The setup places trust, love, and the ethical cost of living beyond normal limits against everyday domestic pressures, with a central tension anchored in secrecy and its consequences for a family and a community.

A human envoy arrives on a frigid, isolated planet to persuade its nations to join an interstellar confederation, but finds himself hampered by profound cultural and sexual differences.

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.

A man trained from childhood to assassinate a prominent spiritual leader faces the dilemma of carrying out that mission within a city where supernatural "bright doors" intersect everyday life.

Set after a catastrophic nuclear war, the novel follows members of a Catholic monastery who preserve fragments of scientific knowledge while centuries pass and human societies slowly re-form.