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In Saudade City, on the edge of an event site where the laws of physics have broken down, Vic Serotonin makes a living taking tourists into the site, while Detective Lens Aschemann investigates what comes out of it.
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Light
In 1999 a physicist who murders people is close to a breakthrough in quantum computing, while four centuries later a woman wired into her starship and a burnt-out pilot circle the Kefahuchi Tract, where physics breaks down.
Stations of the Tide
A bureaucrat pursues a shapeshifting rebel across a terraformed world where technology is indistinguishable from magic.
The Einstein Intersection
After alien invaders abandon Earth, the mutated humans left behind reenact the myths of Orpheus and Theseus in a transformed, hallucinatory landscape.
Borne
In a ruined city stalked by Mord, a giant flying bear, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small green creature caught in Mord's fur and takes it home, against the wishes of her partner, Wick, who deals in biotech that alters memory.
Roadside Picnic
Years after unseen visitors stopped briefly on Earth and left behind six Zones full of lethal anomalies and priceless artefacts, Red Schuhart makes his living as a stalker, slipping into the Zone outside his town to bring out what he can sell.
The Other Side
An artist invited to a remote 'Dream Realm' in Central Asia watches the impossible city and its exiled population collapse into entropy and violence.
The Shadow of the Torturer
Severian, an apprentice in the guild of torturers on a far-future, dying Earth, is exiled for showing mercy to a prisoner, and begins the journey that opens The Book of the New Sun.
Lord of Light
A man who is also a god wages war on heaven using the stolen technology of the gods against them, in a far-future Hindu-Buddhist mythology.
Vurt
In a future Manchester, Scribble and his gang take feathers that send them into the Vurt, a shared dream world, and Scribble's sister Desdemona has been lost inside it.
When Gravity Fails
Marîd Audran, a small-time hustler in the Budayeen, the walled quarter of a future Muslim city where people plug personality modules into their brains, is drawn into hunting a killer.
Too Like the Lightning
In a 25th-century world without nations or war, a convict narrator chronicles the week a boy who can bring toys to life is discovered and a stolen list threatens the fragile global order.
The Physiognomy
Physiognomist First Class Cley, who reads character from the shape of a face for the ruler of the Well-Built City, is sent to the mining town of Anamasobia to find who stole the white fruit of paradise.