Aryan, Stephen: The Blood-Dimmed Tide (Angry Robot 9781915202864, $18.99, 400pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 07/09/2024)

Historical fantasy novel, the second in the Nightingale and the Falcon trilogy inspired by the Mongol Empire’s invasion of Persia. Kaivon, the last Persian General, is celebrating as Hulagu Khan’s dream of conquering the whole world lies in tatters. But the fight is not yet done, as Persia is still occupied by Mongol invaders. ...Read More

Asaro, Catherine: The Down Deep (Baen 9781982193508, $28, 240pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 07/02/2024)

SF novel, first in the Dust Knights series set in the Skolian Empire. In a city divided between the rich and the poor, a member of the Royal class wants to help the Undercity, and recruits Major Bhaajan and her Dust Knights for a mission of good will. But the problems of the Undercity run deeper ...Read More

Ackley-McPhail, Danielle, ed.: The Chaos Clock: Tales of Cosmic Aether (eSpec/NeoParadoxa 9781956463354, $17.95, 328pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 07/01/2024)

Anthology of short stories involving time, mixing the cosmic weird of H.P. Lovecraft and the steam-age technology of H.G. Wells. Authors include James Chambers, Carol Gyzander, Will McDermott, Jody Lynn Nye.

Adeyemi, Tomi: Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Macmillan/Holt 9781250171016, $24.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 06/25/2024)

Young-adult fantasy novel ...Read More

Breakwell, James: The Gods of Spenser Island (Rebellion/Solaris UK 9781786189967, $15.99, 384pp, formats: trade paperback, 06/18/2024)

SF thriller novel, second in the series The Chosen Twelve. A colony world with the last 12 humans, all of them children, struggle to create a new civilization on the alien island that is now their forever home—a place full of monsters and the deadly robots brought with them on the colony ship.

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Bowles, David & McCall, Guadalupe García: Hearts of Fire and Snow (Bloomsbury USA 9781547610044, $19.99, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 06/11/2024)

Young-adult fantasy romance about two people linked by a magic conch: a woman in modern day Mexico fleeing gang violence and a man in 1521 Tenochtitlan under siege by Spanish invaders. The authors provide a long note on working together and their inspirations.

Cashore, Kristin: There Is a Door ...Read More

Cerilli, Matteo: Lockjaw (Penguin Random House Canada/Tundra 9781774882306, $17.99, 328pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 06/04/2024)

Young-adult horror novel of two queer teens in a community that doesn’t accept them. When one is killed by a monster the other has to prove it’s real to clear herself and save the town.

Cobell, K.A.: Looking for Smoke (HarperCollins/Heartdrum 9780063318670, $19.99, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 06/04/2024)

Young-adult thriller novel set on ...Read More

Barnet, Frankie: Mood Swings (Astra House 9781662602597, $26, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 05/31/2024)

Humorous, near-future SF novel. An Instragram poet starts an affair with the California billionaire who destroyed all the animals on Earth after they started attacking humans, but now promises a time machine that will make everything “normal” again. A first novel.

For a novel that doesn’t feature a single paradox, time loop, or change to history, ...Read More

Bell, Crystal J.: The Lamplighter (North Star Editions/Flux 9781635830989, $14.99, 304pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 05/21/2024)

Young-adult historical horror novel. Temperance takes over as lamplighter in the 19th-century whaling village of Warbler after her father’s death, and has to prove she can do the job after a girl disappears and her investigation shows there may be a monster at large. A first novel.

Boldizar, Alexander: The Man Who Saw ...Read More

Beagle, Peter S.: I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 9781668025277, $26.99, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 05/14/2024)

Fantasy novel. Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (who would much rather people call him Robert) has recently inherited his deceased dad’s job as a dragon catcher/exterminator, a career he detests with all his heart, in part because he likes dragons. Illustrated by Justin & Annie Gerard.

Bedi, Aman J.: ...Read More

Adler, Sarah: Happy Medium (Penguin Random House/Berkley 9780593547816, $18, 416pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 04/30/2024)

Paranormal romance novel. A con woman posing as a spirit medium is hired to investigate odd phenomena on a skeptical farmer’s goat farm, and finds a very real ghost.

Al-Essa, Bothayna & (Translator), Sawad Hussain: The Book Censor’s Library (Restless Books 9781632063342, $17.99, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 04/30/2024)

Satirical dystopian SF novel ...Read More

Akers, Tim: The Eccentrics (Baen 9781982193393, $18, 304pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 05/07/2024)

Dark fantasy/sword & sorcery novel, the third in the Knight Watch series. Led by the eighth incarnation of Nikola Tesla, the Society of Eccentric Geniuses protects the Mundane world from the horrors of the Gestalt, a timeline of the future that never was.

Almada, Selva: Not a River (Graywolf Press 9781644452851, $16, 104pp, formats: trade paperback, ...Read More