Editorial collection
Property · access · political imagination
The Future Has Owners
Societies organize land, labor, knowledge, and necessity through radically different rules, then reveal how ownership can survive as law, scarcity, prestige, expertise, or the power to close a door.
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Each novel approaches this collection's central pressure from a different world, scale, and scientific angle.
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Novel guide
The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
A physicist leaves an austere anarchist moon for its wealthy rival world, hoping to free a theory that both societies have learned to contain.
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Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Lauren Olamina knows the walls around her neighborhood cannot hold forever, so she prepares to survive a collapse the adults around her refuse to imagine.
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Novel guide
A Memory Called Empire
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the imperial capital carrying an outdated memory of her predecessor—and learns that he has died under suspicious circumstances.
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Novel guide
Dune
Dune
Frank Herbert
Paul Atreides arrives on a desert world knowing his family has entered a trap—and discovers that surviving it may turn him into the future he fears.
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Novel guide
Nemesis Games
Nemesis Games
James S. A. Corey
With the Rocinante crew scattered across the solar system, four private journeys expose a coordinated attack designed to break the old political order.
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Caliban's War
Caliban's War
James S. A. Corey
A vanished child, a Martian marine's impossible battlefield report, and a political struggle on Earth pull the Rocinante toward another protomolecule crisis.
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Novel guide
Abaddon's Gate
Abaddon's Gate
James S. A. Corey
When an alien Ring opens beyond Uranus, a human flotilla carries its old rivalries into a place whose physical rules no one understands.
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Novel guide
Cibola Burn
Cibola Burn
James S. A. Corey
On the first contested colony beyond the Rings, refugees and a corporate expedition fight over one world while its alien systems begin waking beneath them.
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Novel guide
Babylon's Ashes
Babylon's Ashes
James S. A. Corey
After the attacks on Earth, the Free Navy controls the Belt and the routes to new worlds, forcing old enemies to build an alliance that can survive its own history.
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Novel guide
Persepolis Rising
Persepolis Rising
James S. A. Corey
Decades after the Free Navy war, an empire returns from isolation with alien-enhanced warships and a plan to place every human world under one command.
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Novel guide
Tiamat's Wrath
Tiamat's Wrath
James S. A. Corey
With Holden imprisoned and the Rocinante crew dispersed, a hidden resistance confronts Laconia while experiments awaken the force that destroyed the gate builders.
One question. Several universes willing to answer it differently.
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