Howard Falcon, a once-celebrated explorer remade by surgery and steel, signs on to pilot a sleek, living aerostat into the storm-wracked skies of Jupiter. The mission is supposed to be...
Howard Falcon, a once-celebrated explorer remade by surgery and steel, signs on to pilot a sleek, living aerostat into the storm-wracked skies of Jupiter. The mission is supposed to be reconnaissance and glory—a human instrument probing an alien weather-beast—but Falcon carries quieter motives: a hunger for transcendence, memory, and a last chance to feel alive in a hollowed-out body.
As the balloon descends into layered clouds, Falcon encounters prodigious, bioluminescent creatures—massive, medusa-like lifeforms that drift and hunt in the planet’s violet depths. Alone with the strange intelligence of the Jovian fauna and the fragile crew aboard the craft, Falcon confronts fear, wonder, and the fragile line between man and machine. The story moves from hard-eyed exploration to intimate revelation, tracing how contact with the utterly alien forces an inward reckoning that changes Falcon forever.
A fragile human city rises on a cold red world, and with it the tangled dreams of those who chose exile over Earth. The saga follows a core of pioneers—political fixer Frank Chalmers, patient...
A fragile human city rises on a cold red world, and with it the tangled dreams of those who chose exile over Earth. The saga follows a core of pioneers—political fixer Frank Chalmers, patient geologist Ann Clayborne, visionary engineer Sax Russell, and the indefinable Maya Toitovna—whose ambitions and loyalties shape the fate of Mars. They wrestle with survival, governance, and the moral weight of reshaping an entire planet.
As societies form, factions clash: scientists debating terraforming versus preservation, activists fighting corporate and national claims, and settlers carving out daily life in dome and dust. Personal loves, betrayals, and ideological conflicts ripple outward, turning geological projects into acts of politics and identity. Over decades Mars becomes a mirror for Earth, asking what freedom, community, and responsibility mean when civilization must be reinvented from rock and thin air.
Maya Alvarez returns to the sun-bleached suburbs of Orange County to care for her aging father and confront the gulf between memory and the present. As heat waves and shifting coastlines begin to...
Maya Alvarez returns to the sun-bleached suburbs of Orange County to care for her aging father and confront the gulf between memory and the present. As heat waves and shifting coastlines begin to rewrite the rhythms of daily life, Maya navigates family tensions, old friendships, and a community learning to live with slow, insistent change. Her brother, Tomas, who stayed behind to run the family hardware store, offers a steadier counterpoint as both siblings reckon with loss, responsibility, and the stubborn comforts of place.
Against a backdrop of strip malls, suburban cul-de-sacs, and relentless daylight, small domestic choices ripple outward: decisions about land, water, and who gets to stay. Intimate scenes—porch conversations, late-night drives, a single ruined summer—accumulate into a portrait of a region at a tipping point, where personal histories and environmental futures collide in humane, quietly urgent ways.
In a near-future Washington, a coalition of scientists, civil servants, and uneasy politicians tackle an unfolding climate emergency that will remake the nation’s capital and the lives around it....
In a near-future Washington, a coalition of scientists, civil servants, and uneasy politicians tackle an unfolding climate emergency that will remake the nation’s capital and the lives around it. The story follows a central climatologist and the pragmatic policy-makers she must convince as storms, droughts and infrastructural collapse force urgent, morally complex choices. Personal lives are entangled with public responsibility: relationships fray, careers pivot, and the human cost of policy is made intimate.
The narrative moves between laboratories, Congressional offices, and neighborhoods transformed by extreme weather, charting both the slow machinery of government and the sudden shocks that demand immediate action. It is a portrait of political will under pressure, of science trying to speak in a language politics can use, and of ordinary people learning what survival and solidarity require when familiar systems fail.
