This week’s Unshelved Book Club features author’s first books. They’re about ordinary Pakistanis, an AI that used to inhabit a ship and many bodies (but now has just one), a tale of information security and code breaking in China, a mortician, how to bake pie, a dragon slayer, a young girl facing a witch to try to save her parents, and a young man who uses martial arts to work through his anger, despair, and sadness.