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A woman rebuilding her life after a violent past navigates corporate intrigue and bioremediation in a near-future where clean water is power.
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The Sea and Summer
In the Melbourne of the mid twenty-first century, with the seas rising and most people unemployed and crammed into the tower blocks of the Swill, two brothers try to keep a hold on the life above it. Centuries later, historians study what they left.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
As pollution and plague leave humanity sterile, the wealthy Sumner family, in their isolated Appalachian valley, prepare by building a hospital and a cloning laboratory.
The Mountain in the Sea
Ha Nguyen, a marine biologist, is brought by a technology corporation to the Con Dao archipelago off Vietnam, now sealed off from the world, to study a species of octopus that may have developed its own language and culture.
Venomous Lumpsucker
In a near future where companies buy extinction credits to wipe out the species that get in their way, Karin Resaint, a scientist who studies animal intelligence, and Mark Halyard, a mining company's fixer, go looking for the last venomous lumpsucker, a fish that may be clever enough to matter.
The Speed of Dark
Lou Arrendale, an autistic man who works in pattern analysis and fences on weekends, is pressured by his company to undergo an experimental treatment that could change who he is.
Autonomous
A biotech pirate, a military robot, and a runaway slave converge in a near-future thriller about pharmaceutical freedom and corporate control.
No Enemy But Time
A modern man is sent back in time to Pleistocene Africa, where he must live among early hominids and question what it means to be human.
Timescape
In 1998, with the world dying of ecological collapse, Cambridge scientists try to warn the past using tachyons, and in 1962 a young physicist in California picks up the strange noise in his experiment and tries to make sense of it.
Ammonite
On Jeep, a planet where a virus killed all the men among the first colonists and many of the women, the descendants have lived for generations without men, and Marghe Taishan, an anthropologist, arrives to test a vaccine on herself and learn how the women have children.
Land of Milk and Honey
With crops failing under a smog that has covered the world, a chef takes a job cooking for a secretive colony of the very rich on an Italian mountaintop, where real ingredients still exist.
The Windup Girl
In a future Bangkok threatened by rising seas and engineered plagues, a Western calorie-company agent, an abandoned genetically engineered woman, a Chinese refugee and an incorruptible environmental enforcer are caught up in a struggle over the kingdom's seedbank.
Trouble and Her Friends
India Carless, a hacker known as Trouble who quit the net when new laws made it dangerous, comes back when someone starts committing crimes under her name.