Set during an interstellar war, a poet-linguist is recruited to decipher an enemy language—Babel-17—that appears linked to acts of sabotage. The central pressure is linguistic: does learning or speaking a language alter perception and agency, and can decoding or revising that language stop further attacks?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A mid-20th-century science-fiction novel that follows a determined protagonist caught in a personal quest for vengeance within a richly constructed twenty-fifth-century milieu.

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.