Two rival temporal agents working for opposing, mutually exclusive timelines exchange secret letters as they sabotage history on behalf of their employers.

On a world where robots abandoned human settlements long ago, a traveling tea-maker meets a robot who has returned and seeks to understand human purpose. Their low-stakes dialogue and small, everyday interactions become the site for questions about work, meaning, and how people live now that high technology is gone.

A speculative rupture reshapes a community and forces characters to make urgent ethical and practical decisions as they adapt.

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.

Six distinct narratives, each written in a different voice and set in a different time and place, are arranged so that echoes between them imply moral and causal connections across eras.

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

Set before and after a fictional, devastating influenza pandemic, the book traces several connected people — including actors who tour small settlements — as they navigate loss, survival, and the persistence of art.

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.

A wandering, nocturnal circus full of impossible attractions serves as the stage for a concealed magical contest whose rules and contestants are revealed in fragments.

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.

Set across expansive technological futures, the novel follows the emergence and journeys of intelligences—biological, engineered, and fully virtual—grappling with identity, survival, and exploration.

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 government research zone has been sealed off after decades of strange phenomena. A team of four unnamed female specialists enters as the twelfth expedition to survey the area and record observations.

Set in a future ruined city overrun by biotechnology, the story follows a scavenger named Rachel who collects genetic experiments and discarded engineered organisms. The city is dominated by a massive engineered grizzly, and Rachel discovers an unusual sea-anemone–like creature she names Borne.

Four women from parallel worlds — each living under different social rules and gender expectations — come into contact and confront one another's lives. Their meetings force personal reevaluation and stage a sustained feminist interrogation of what 'being a woman' can mean across differing social systems.

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 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.

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 the near future, the novel traces efforts around an institutional body created under international agreements whose mandate is to secure the rights of future generations.

Billy Pilgrim, an American who served in World War II, experiences a fractured relationship with time after the war. The novel follows episodes of his life — including his capture and survival of the Allied firebombing of Dresden — presented out of chronological order.

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

Set in a near-future, economically collapsed Toronto, the novel follows characters navigating a city left to decay after officials abandon it.

An energetic near-future story that interleaves a fast-paced real-world plot with a pervasive virtual-reality environment and a memetic/linguistic threat.