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When Gwen's exceptional baseball pitching arm draws attention from a prestigious, Netted-only college, her family is forced to decide how much of their independence and safety they're willing to trade for her chance at a different life, as the country's surveillance state closes in around anyone who steps out of line.\n\nGish Jen builds a satirical dystopia around class, automation, and race, following the Su family from a marginalized floating community into the heart of a system that would rather absorb their daughter's talent than her whole self.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kwym1qr2z4r2vs8tsv029d23.jpg?v=bfff16b2f6","LgD_N?ofB@bIESnhw[S$cFbHrpj[",320,[723],{"id":724,"slug":725,"name":726},"01kjr9nry5q4p1bgma1z6m4n3r","gish-jen-ywyg","Gish Jen",[728,729,730],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":41,"name":42,"slug":43,"is_fiction":19},{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":70,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":733,"themes":734,"setting_period":7,"summary":735,"content_warnings":7},[76,75,78],[],"In a near-future America split between the surveilled, gig-economy \"Surplus\" and the comfortable \"Netted\" elite, a teenage girl's extraordinary pitching talent pulls her family into dangerous conflict with the algorithm-run government that decides who matters.",{"id":737,"slug":738,"title":739,"description":740,"primary_cover_url":741,"cover_blurhash":742,"first_publish_year":743,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":744,"authors":745,"genres":750,"series":766,"enrichment":767},"01kqbdn5r5pkf10es1964zzntn","parasites-like-us-8vk9","Parasites Like Us","Dr. Hannah, an anthropology professor at a small Midwestern college, leads his graduate students in excavating what they believe is a Clovis burial site — until it isn't. The discovery unleashes something ancient and catastrophic that dismantles civilization piece by piece, forcing the men to confront their own mortality as the world collapses around them.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kqbdn5ss4jcdg34mmb0b75q4.jpg","LWSPIaoe.T%N.8ofITRiTKbHZ$oJ",2003,341,[746],{"id":747,"slug":748,"name":749},"01kjxn0a265fk5xge5gsmdv4qc","adam-johnson-ffft","Adam Johnson",[751,755,756,760,764,765],{"id":752,"name":753,"slug":754,"is_fiction":19},40,"Suspense","suspense",{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":757,"name":758,"slug":759,"is_fiction":18},96,"Psychology","psychology",{"id":761,"name":762,"slug":763,"is_fiction":18},95,"Self-Help","self-help",{"id":458,"name":459,"slug":460,"is_fiction":19},{"id":41,"name":42,"slug":43,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":305,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":768,"themes":769,"setting_period":7,"summary":740,"content_warnings":7},[77,75],[],{"id":771,"slug":772,"title":773,"description":774,"primary_cover_url":775,"cover_blurhash":776,"first_publish_year":777,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":778,"authors":779,"genres":784,"series":790,"enrichment":791},"01kvrbvhcm2w40yf0spcz97jb1","tenth-of-december-rv3j","Tenth of December","Tenth of December collects ten stories that range across suburban America, near-future dystopia, and quiet domestic crisis, unified by Saunders's ear for interior voice and his interest in people under moral pressure. In \"Escape from Spiderhead,\" inmates in an experimental prison program are dosed with drugs that manufacture love and suffering on command. In \"The Semplica Girl Diaries,\" a father's diary records his family's growing unease over a status-symbol garden installation made of impoverished immigrant women. The title story follows a dying man who walks into the woods intending to end his life, and the awkward, courageous boy who inadvertently stops him.\n\nSaunders's prose is famous for its comic, vernacular energy — corporate jargon, self-help clichés, and ad copy all filtered through characters straining toward decency inside broken systems. The stories are frequently satirical about consumerism, class, and medicated modern life, but the collection resists cynicism; several stories build to moments of genuine grace.\n\nTenth of December won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It's widely regarded as one of Saunders's strongest collections and a good entry point for readers new to his short fiction.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kvrbvhcm2w40yf0spcz97jb1.jpg?v=0d33c7ccb4","LjM7u;~qWB%M?bt7IUWBM{IUfQxu",2013,251,[780],{"id":781,"slug":782,"name":783},"01kjte574xh1e45bcfzj8vee7t","george-saunders-eba7","George Saunders",[785,788,789],{"id":358,"name":786,"slug":787,"is_fiction":19},"Short Stories","short-stories",{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":19},{"id":41,"name":42,"slug":43,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":70,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":792,"themes":793,"setting_period":7,"summary":794,"content_warnings":7},[77,75,120,121,76],[],"A collection of ten stories that move between suburban satire and unexpected tenderness — a teenage boy testing chemical weapons on rodents in his basement, a hospice-bound father contemplating suicide to spare his family the cost of his illness, a group of underpaid workers strung with electrified collars for a wealthy family's garden decor. 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Now hunted, hidden in an off-the-grid cabin with two days, her wits, and a laptop, she races to save her own life the only way she can think of: by telling her story.\n\nShe pours it out in a frantic series of emails to Justice for Bimbos, a wildly popular feminist investigative podcast, laying out how she was recruited and trained by a cabal of code-named operatives. Then she starts another message, this one to her ex — and the facts begin to rearrange themselves. As her competing accounts multiply, the truth of what happened grows impossible to pin down.\n\nRebecca Novack's debut is a fractured, satirical literary thriller with a sharp ear for the language of the moment — a slippery, darkly funny interrogation of truth, disposability, and optics in contemporary American life.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fcontributions\u002Fwork\u002F01\u002F01kt972rx1kr93csk8zqyezzs7_6a2a748c97856.jpg?v=a1e37b72b9","LIB{7hM{N@ni||t8EKxu^+V@t7NG",2026,1,224,[806],{"id":807,"slug":808,"name":809},"01kt972rxchcs3wz8vcndxzheq","rebecca-novack-izub","Rebecca Novack",[811,812,813],{"id":151,"name":152,"slug":153,"is_fiction":19},{"id":41,"name":42,"slug":43,"is_fiction":19},{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":198,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":816,"themes":818,"setting_period":7,"summary":821,"content_warnings":7},[77,76,78,75,817],"gritty",[819,820],"unreliable-narrator","epistolary","A thirty-two-year-old sex worker is recruited by undercover agents to assassinate a right-wing politician nicknamed \"Meat Neck\" — then realizes she was chosen because she's entirely disposable. Hunted and holed up in a remote cabin with only a laptop and two days to save herself, she emails her account to a feminist investigative podcast, Justice for Bimbos. But when she starts a second message to her ex, the story shifts, and the truth grows harder to hold. 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Before he can do much about it, his friend Ford Prefect — who, it turns out, is not from Guildford after all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse — reveals that the entire Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace express route. Moments before the planet is vaporized, the two hitch a ride on a passing Vogon spaceship.\n\nSo begins one of the funniest and most quoted science-fiction adventures ever written. Armed with a towel, a battered copy of the electronic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which bears the reassuring words DON'T PANIC on its cover), and a growing sense of bewilderment, Arthur is swept across the cosmos. 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To her millions of followers, she is the perfect “tradwife”: baking sourdough, raising her children on a sun-dappled ranch, and modeling a wholesome life supposedly stripped of modern excess. What the camera never shows are the nannies, the producers, and the industrial appliances humming just out of frame. Then a public scandal detonates her carefully managed image — and Natalie wakes to find herself trapped in a brutal, unforgiving version of 1855. The ranch is now a freezing cabin without plumbing or heat; the children who answer to her are strangers; and the household is ruled by an archaic, menacing version of her own family. Forced to actually live the pioneer existence she once performed for views, she tries to work out whether she is the victim of an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far stranger. 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Everyone except Harper, whose fixation on a mysterious shipping container drags the whole family into a genuine criminal conspiracy—one that, improbably, might be the thing that finally pulls them back together.\n\nTold in a chorus of voices that pings between the Flynns and the townspeople around them, Madeline Cash's debut novel Lost Lambs is a quick-witted, irreverent, unexpectedly tender family saga for the twenty-first century.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kvfvvn4cjd0p8qpcqwgs7ht6.jpg?v=5d18cd71b7","LHJbBDD%M|-;5PS0=}V]~DV@xuM{",[905],{"id":906,"slug":907,"name":908},"01kqs6y2mbw0wsxgy9x2m73g0q","madeline-cash-ldsx","Madeline Cash",[910,911,912,913],{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":19},{"id":752,"name":753,"slug":754,"is_fiction":19},{"id":41,"name":42,"slug":43,"is_fiction":19},{"id":676,"name":677,"slug":678,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":70,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":916,"themes":917,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[120],[918],"family-saga",{"id":920,"slug":921,"title":922,"description":923,"primary_cover_url":924,"cover_blurhash":925,"first_publish_year":630,"community_rating_avg":926,"community_rating_count":189,"page_count":927,"authors":928,"genres":933,"series":938,"enrichment":939},"01ktszxgmrk7dx0cd7zwesyfgs","rytual-0por","Rytual","Adrift and unsure of herself, Marnie Sellick lands a coveted job at rytuał cosmetica, the mysterious cult beauty brand everyone wants to work for. 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