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Published in 1989, Dan Simmons's space opera follows seven pilgrims traveling toward the Time Tombs on the planet Hyperion. Their journey provides a frame inspired by Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, with individual stories revealing why each traveler has come. The mysterious Shrike links their fears...

Courtroom testimony becomes a puzzle in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations, a visual novel adventure that continues Phoenix's work as a defense attorney. Players investigate cases, gather evidence and look for contradictions in witness accounts. Progress depends on presenting the...

N. K. Jemisin opens the Broken Earth trilogy in the Stillness, a continent repeatedly disrupted by catastrophic geological events. Prolonged disasters known as Fifth Seasons shape the society's survival practices and institutions. Orogenes, people able to influence geological forces, are both needed...

And Then There Were None is a 1939 mystery thriller by British author Agatha Christie. The plot centers on ten individuals with hidden pasts who are lured to an isolated island and subsequently murdered one by one in accordance with a counting-out nursery rhyme. The novel is distinguished by its per...

Presented as Jim Burden's fictional memoir, Willa Cather's 1918 novel My Ántonia looks back on childhood in Nebraska and a lifelong connection with Ántonia Shimerda. Ántonia belongs to a Bohemian immigrant family trying to establish itself under the difficult conditions of prairie settlement. Jim's...

Full Metal Daemon Muramasa is a visually striking Japanese visual novel developed by Nitroplus. The game blends samurai action with dark fantasy elements set during a reimagined World War II period. It features intricate character designs and a mature narrative exploring themes of revenge, duty, and...

KeroQ's Wonderful Everyday, originally released in Japan in 2010, is a psychological visual novel written by SCA-DI. Down the Rabbit-Hole introduces a story in which apparently ordinary school life gives way to disturbing incidents and conflicting understandings of reality. As perspectives change, f...

This is the first edition of Miguel de Cervantes’ *Don Quixote* published in Madrid in 1605. It represents a pivotal moment in literary history as the earliest known printed version of this influential novel. The work established many conventions of the modern European novel and remains significant...

A snowbound train becomes the scene of a murder in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, published in 1934. Belgian investigator Hercule Poirot examines the death of a passenger who has been stabbed aboard the immobilized train. With the occupants of the carriage available for questioning,...

Ten people arrive on an isolated island under different pretexts in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, published in 1939. Once cut off from the mainland, they face accusations connecting them with past deaths. As members of the group are killed according to a nursery rhyme, the survivors mu...

Published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time follows a narrator through French social life from the late nineteenth century into the First World War. Encounters with aristocratic society share space with intimate examinations of desire and self-understandi...

Subarashiki Hibi ~Furenzoku Sonzai~ is a visual novel developed by the Japanese studio KeroQ and released for Windows in 2010. The narrative is structured across multiple chapters, with each section presenting the story from the perspective of a different character. It is known for its psychological...

Ideas that resist being remembered lie at the center of There Is No Antimemetics Division, a science fiction horror web serial by Sam Hughes, writing as qntm. Set within the collaborative SCP Foundation fiction universe, it follows specialists trying to contain threats that interfere with awareness...

The Umineko When They Cry Question Arcs present the initial investigation into the Rokkenjima murders. These episodes utilize a unique narrative structure where each case is presented as a complex logical puzzle. The series explores themes of guilt, perception, and truth through intricate storytelli...

First published in 1626, Francisco de Quevedo's The Life of the Buscón follows Pablos through a series of attempts to escape his disreputable origins. His father is a thief, and his mother is presented as a witch. Pablos seeks the standing of a gentleman through deception and criminal schemes, but r...

Robert Musil's unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities began appearing in 1930 and follows life in Vienna and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1913. Its setting places intellectual debate and social ambition on the eve of the upheaval that would end the empire. The central character, Ulrich, resist...

Written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Eddie Campbell, From Hell builds a fictional account around the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. Originally serialized from 1989 to 1996, it uses the crimes to examine Victorian society, including class divisions and the treatment of women. Freemasonry and ro...

Tsukihime is a Japanese visual novel developed by Type-Moon. It’s a remake of the 2000 title, offering an expanded narrative centered around Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Tour and her sister Chlode. The story explores themes of immortality, forbidden love, and supernatural conflict within a richly...

T. H. White retells the Arthurian legend in "The Once and Future King," moving from Arthur's childhood and Merlin's magical lessons toward the burdens of governing a kingdom. Medieval romance sits beside modern satire, and an initially playful tone gives way to increasingly painful questions about p...

Anton Chekhov was a prominent Russian novelist and playwright whose work significantly shaped realist drama in the 19th century. He is particularly noted for his concise and psychologically astute short stories which explore themes of social observation, disillusionment, and human relationships with...

Published in 1959, Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan follows Malachi Constant, a wealthy man pulled into events whose purpose remains hidden from him. Winston Niles Rumfoord helps direct those events after entering a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, which scatters his existence through space and ti...

Witch on the Holy Night is a visual novel developed by Type-Moon and written by Kinoko Nasu. The narrative centers around the lives of two witches, Marie and Lilim, residing in Tokyo during the late 1980s. It explores themes of magic, loneliness, and relationships within a modern setting. This title...

The Satyricon is a Latin work of fiction attributed to Petronius, written during the first century AD. Characterized as a satirical and picaresque novel, it recounts the wandering misadventures of the rogue Encolpius and his companions across the Roman Mediterranean. The longest surviving section is...

Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, published in 1973, sets its sprawling narrative primarily in Europe near the end of the Second World War and in its immediate aftermath. Characters become connected through the German V-2 rocket program, whose machinery and trajectories provide both a concrete sub...

The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, developed from a story first serialized in Black Mask magazine. Private investigator Sam Spade becomes entangled with criminals seeking a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette whose history and value are obscured by decepti...

First published in 1952, Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire is the second book in the original Foundation trilogy. Two linked sections follow the Foundation's struggle with the declining Galactic Empire, then introduce the Mule, a mutant with unusual mental abilities. His influence disrupts the as...

The Secret History is Donna Tartt's 1992 debut novel, narrated by Richard Papen, a California student who enrolls at the fictional Hampden College and joins a small classics seminar. The group becomes involved in the killing of fellow student Edmund "Bunny" Corcoran, and the story examines guilt, se...

Greg Egan's 1997 hard science fiction novel imagines a far future in which humanity exists in several forms, including biological people and software-based citizens. Many digital minds inhabit virtual communities called polises. The story begins with the creation of Yatima, a new digital person whos...

Published in 2019, Tiamat's Wrath is the eighth Expanse novel by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, writing together as James S. A. Corey. It follows Persepolis Rising and the changed human civilization established after that book's thirty-year time jump. The Rocinante's crew now operates within a strugg...