An investigative journalist and an exceptional young hacker appear again as a new murder case and linked criminal activity draw both into a maze of secrets. The novel sets a procedural inquiry—murders, trafficking, and corruption—against a cold urban backdrop and follows attempts to unravel who is responsible and why.

A small fellowship forms to carry a dangerous, world-threatening object away from its origin toward a hostile realm, forcing characters of different kinds to travel together under growing peril.

A gigantic cylindrical alien spacecraft enters the Solar System in the 2130s and a human exploration team intercepts it to investigate.

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.

A ragged group raised inside a mysterious library that holds strange powers must confront secrets about their teacher, the library’s rules, and the wider world beyond.

Two narrative strands span deep time: one traces an artificial-intelligence–guided project to terraform a world where Portia labiata spiders evolve into a complex civilization; the other follows humans aboard an interstellar ark leaving an ecologically collapsed Earth in search of a home.

Set aboard a generation ship, the novel follows life inside a rigidly stratified vessel where social caste, inherited servitude, and systemic racism govern daily existence.

An Indian boy named Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel survives a long sea voyage after a shipwreck and is forced to share a lifeboat with zoo animals, most notably a Bengal tiger.

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.