Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been a Florida theme park where fun is guaranteed. After a hurricane isolates the park, rescuers arrive five weeks later to find a scene of horror and viral photos of heads on spikes and human remains in gift shops. Presented as a fact-finding investigation with first-person interviews, the book reconstructs how mostly college-aged employees who surrendered their devices split into rival tribes that compete for resources, status, and even human flesh.

In a bleak totalitarian society, a low-level Party worker quietly rebels against an all-seeing regime that monitors citizens, controls information, and enforces orthodoxy through Newspeak, constant surveillance, and the Thought Police. He pursues a furtive relationship and forbidden ideas, only to be betrayed, arrested, and subjected to relentless psychological and physical torture intended to destroy personal loyalties and reshape reality. The story traces the systematic eradication of individual autonomy as the state rewrites history, crushes dissent, and forces ultimate capitulation to its ideology.

An aging country gentleman, driven mad by chivalric romances, reinvents himself as a knight-errant and sets out with his loyal, shrewd squire on comic and poignant exploits—tilting at windmills, rescuing imagined ladies, and getting entangled in schemes—that contrast his lofty ideals with a prosaic, skeptical world, yielding a rich satire of romanticism and a profound meditation on imagination, identity, and friendship.

In Vienna in 1911 Gustav Klimt finds a woman's body in the Danube canal and, while sketching her, she coughs and proves alive. Back at his studio Klimt and his model Wally tend the nearly feral woman who cannot remember who she is, and he names her Judith. She recalls being stranded in the Arctic a century earlier, locked in a crate by Victor Frankenstein and visiting the Underworld. Many people pursue her, including Geoff, a giant croissant eating devil dog of the North.

Kevin and Maureen Hurley are middle aged twins who live in remote Irish farming country with their bedridden father. Maureen believes she is carrying a child, and the siblings set out to find a plausible sire for that child. Their search takes place on the remote farm where they live. The book traces their efforts to identify a father while they remain with their bedridden father in the rural setting.