An astronaut wakes with amnesia aboard a stranded spacecraft and must piece together who he is and why he's on a one-way mission to avert an extinction-level threat to Earth.

A linked collection of short stories that reimagines traditional fairy tales and folk tales by amplifying their latent, often unsettling elements.

A guarded hiker, Alexei Lebedev, sets out on the Pacific Crest Trail expecting solitude but repeatedly crosses paths with outgoing fellow hiker Ben Caravalho.

A lone survivor who was once part of a distributed starship consciousness seeks retribution after betrayal within an expansive imperial society.

A landscape deity—an old hill-god—narrates events around a contested succession and a prince trying to reclaim his position with the help of a loyal retainer. In this world many gods exist in animal or landmark form and are bound to make their statements come true, even at great cost.

An illicit kiss at a 1960s christening fractures two marriages and eventually results in a blended family. Over roughly fifty years the novel follows six children whose summers and lives intersect, tracing how one adult mistake reshapes relationships, loyalties, and personal trajectories across decades.

Two siblings raised in an elaborate family home reckon with abandonment, parental choices, and the aftereffects of being shaped by a single place. The setup follows their intertwined lives over many years as the house — and what it represents — continues to influence decisions, identity, and family bonds.

An ethnographic study of matsutake mushrooms and the people and places shaped by their global trade. The author follows harvesters, middlemen, buyers, and landscapes to show how a single wild commodity links local ecological disturbance, precarious livelihoods, and transnational markets.

Set in a near-future Earth where humans and intelligent machines can be owned, the story follows Jack, a maker of unauthorized drugs, and Paladin, a law-enforcement combat robot tasked with finding them after one reverse-engineered drug causes dangerous effects.