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New science fiction, fantasy, and horror books for the week of February 11, 2025. 

Becker, Elizabeth: The Moonlight Healers (Harlequin/Graydon House 978-1525830426, $30, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook 02/11/2025)

Louis Winston belongs to a family whose women possess magical healing powers, which they use by moonlight. She moves to her grandmother’s orchard, ...Read More

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Cambias, James L.: The Miranda Conspiracy (Baen 978-1668072400, $18.00, 320pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 02/04/2025)

SF novel set in the far-future Solar System, third in The Billion Worlds series. Our hero Zee goes to the moon of Miranda to meet his girlfriend Adya’s upper-class parents. But while they visit, her parents are targeted ...Read More

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Addison, Katherine: The Orb of Cairado (Subterranean Press 978-1645242130, $45.00, 120pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 01/31/2025)

Original fantasy novella, set in the award-winning world of The Goblin Emperor. Ulcetha is a disgraced scholar, framed and kicked out the University, and he makes a living crafting elven forgeries. But when his friend dies ...Read More

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Burke, Ava: Haunting and Homicide (The Quick Brown Fox/Crooked Lane 978-1639109289, $29.99, 272pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 01/21/2025)

Fantasy mystery novel, first in the Ghost Tour Mystery series. Tallulah “Lou” Thatcher can see ghosts, which helps her host viral ghost tours in New Orleans. When her rival tour guide is murdered by ...Read More

Lackey, Mercedes: Miss Amelia’s List (Astra House/DAW 9780756419097, $28, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 12/24/2024)

Fantasy novel, 17th in the Elemental Master series. In 1815 Miss Amelia Stonehold, goes to the Devon town of Axminster, looking to buy and staff a property, and possibly find a husband. But the Honorable Captain Harold Roughtower has his eyes fixed on her fortune and his plans for her wealth include the hidden Roman temple ...Read More

Anderson, Brad C.: Ashme’s Song (Shadowpaw Press 9781998273164, $19.99, 402pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 12/17/2024)

SF novel. Ashme, a genetically enhanced New Mesopotamian has the ability to control computer systems at will, destined to help her oppressed people. But she is stuck caring for her neurologically frail twin brother.

Heitz, M. Turville: Black River (Crossroad Press/Mystique Press 9781637891346, $14.99, 350pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 12/17/2024)

Fantasy novel. Kyle Nelson, ...Read More

Anderson, Kevin J.: Fantasy Stories, Volume 2 (WordFire Press 9781680577129, $17.99, 316pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, 12/10/2024)

Collection of 18 fantasy stories, one new; four are collaborations. Each story has an introduction by Anderson. Ten stories were previously collected as part of Selected Stories: Fantasy (2018). This is part of the seven-volume Kevin J. Anderson Short Fiction Library series funded through Kickstarter.

Boey, Eliane: Club Contango (Dark Matter ...Read More

Adamson, Glenn: A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present (Bloomsbury USA 9781639730230, $32.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 12/03/2024)

Non-fiction, a look at the cultural history of futurology, and how trying to foresee the future influences the culture of its time. From scientists and futurologists such as Buckminster Fuller to authors including Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Shulamith Firestone and Sun Ra.

Amplitude: The Art ...Read More

Chapman, Greg: Black Days and Bloody Nights (IFWG Publishing International 9781922856869, $12.99, 206pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 12/02/2024)

Collection of short horror stories and novellas.

Datlow, Ellen, ed.: The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen (Start/Night Shade 9781949102734, $19.99, 384pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 11/26/2024)

Year’s best anthology of 19 stories, with a summation of the year 2022 in horror by Datlow and a list of honorable mentions. ...Read More

Anderson, Kevin J.: Horror and Dark Fantasy Stories, Volume 2 (WordFire Press 9781680577198, $18.99, 332pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, 11/19/2024)

Second volume of horror and dark fantasy stories in Anderson’s short story series, with stories about ancient gods and unleashed demons, resurrected rock stars and bloodthirsty drums, haunted trains, the boogeyman, as well as Bela Lugosi and the real Vlad the Impaler.

Ashta, Lucía: Ride and Die (Podium ...Read More

Bacon, Eugen & Editor), Abimbola Adelakun (Series, ed.: Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic 9798765114674, $29.95, 256pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, 11/14/2024)

Non-fiction anthology, a selection of original essays. Introduction by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Authors including Dilman Dila, Nerine Dorman, Nuzo Onoh, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Suyi Okungbowa, Tobi Ogundiran, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Stephen Embleton, and Xan van Rooyen – offer boldly hybrid chapters (both ...Read More

Boop, David, ed.: Last Train to Kepler-283c (Baen 9781982193768, $18, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 11/05/2024)

Original anthology of 13 Weird West space stories, third in the series. Authors include Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Mark L. Van Name, Chesya Burke, Kevin Ikenberry, David Mack, and John Stith.

Compiet, Iris & Bende, S.T.: Star Wars Bestiary, Vol. 1 (Insight Editions/Titan Books UK 9798886630985, $40, 208pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 11/05/2024) ...Read More

Anderson, Kate: Lonely Places (North Star Editions/Flux 9781635831016, $14.99, 304pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 10/29/2024)

Young-adult horror novel. After a traumatic experience steals Chase’s younger sister’s voice, the family moves to an isolated fire lookout in Pando, a grove of Aspen tree clones connected by a massive underground root system. They moved hoping for stability, but Chase learns that something bad happened at the lookout, and Pando appears to be ...Read More

Anderson, Kevin J.: Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 (WordFire Press 9781680577259, $18.99, 350pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, 10/22/2024)

Second volume in Anderson’s short story series, including science fiction stories about asteroid miners, time travelers, body swappers, giant robots, space cadets, futuristic prisons, and more.

Carroll, Jordan S.: Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (University of Minnesota Press 9781517917081, $10, 120pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 10/22/2024)

Critical non-fiction about ...Read More

Baxter, Stephen: Fortress Sol (Orion UK/Gollancz 9781399614610, $14.99, 480pp, formats: ebook, audio, 10/17/2024)

SF novel. Rab’s mother, in order to save him from a life in the hellish mines of Mercury, cut off his hand when he was a baby. Decades later, Rab works on the Mask, the structure that hides the Solar System from aliens, when a spaceship from a long-forgotten colony approaches, threatening that security.

Blake, Olivie: ...Read More

Ali, S.K.: Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of Revolution (Penguin Random House/Kokila 9780593531242, $21.99, 544pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 10/08/2024)

Young-adult SF novel, the first in the Keeper’s Records of Revolution duology. A privileged and obedient princess from the Upper Earth, agrees to an arranged marriage to the Crown Prince of corrupt and volatile Lower Earth, in order to usher in a final age of enlightenment and put an end to ...Read More

Ajram, Sofia: Coup de Grâce (Titan Books 9781803369624, $19.99, 144pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 10/01/2024)

Experimental horror novel in the form of a sort of CYOA novel. Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after a lifetime of depression and pain. But, stepping off the subway, he finds ...Read More

Alkaf, Hanna: The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette’s (Simon & Schuster/Salaam Reads 9781534494589, $19.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 09/24/2024)

Young-adult horror novel. A highly reputable school for girls has an outbreak of screaming, first one student in the middle of class, and by the end of the day 17 girls are affected. ...Read More

Brom: Evil in Me (Tor/Nightfire 9781250622013, $31.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 09/17/2024)

Horror novel. Ruby Tucker’s dreams of making it big in the Atlanta punk scene are gone — until she gets possessed through a cursed ring. The only way to exorcise it is to get hundreds of people to chant a spell, so she gets her band back together for one last song. Illustrated by the author in ...Read More

Allen, Samantha: Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet (Zando 9781638931539, $18, 288pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 09/10/2024)

Ghost romance novel. An actor’s ghost with just enough energy to communicate via kitchen speaker wants Adam Gallagher to help write his autobiography before his body is found crushed by an avalanche. They have to get it done within one month, and ghost and ghostwriter don’t entirely agree on their visions for the ...Read More

Aiello, K.J.: The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell (ECW Press 9781770417083, $18.95, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 09/03/2024)

Non-fiction, a memoir mixed with research and cultural criticism showing ways popular fantasy can serve as a framework for understanding mental illness and notions of what is good or evil, sane or mad.

Buffini, Moira: Songlight (HarperCollins 9780063358218, $19.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, ...Read More

Abtahi, Olivia: Twin Flames (Lee & Low/Tu Books 9781643790435, $24.95, 368pp, formats: hardcover, audio, 08/27/2024)

Young-adult fantasy novel about teenaged Argentinian Iranian twin girls living in a small town, each one very different the other. On their eighteenth birthday a neighbor’s barn mysteriously burns down, and when one of the twins discovers a djinn arising from the fire she suddenly gains strange powers and can no longer touch iron.

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Anderson, Kevin J. & Morris, Jeffrey: Persephone (WordFire Press 9781680576207, $16.99, 292pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, 08/20/2024)

SF novel. Colonists on the ark-ship Odyssey awaken to discover the ship’s tech has been damaged. Also, their new planet is barely habitable, and has a mysterious giant geoglyph that might be a massive ore deposit — or a message.

Burton, Gabi: Drown Me with Dreams (Bloomsbury USA 9781547610419, $19.99, 432pp, ...Read More

Ashby, Madeline: Glass Houses (Tor 9780765382924, $27.99, 272pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 08/13/2024)

Near-future whodunit mystery novel. A group of employees and their CEO, celebrating the sale of their remarkable emotion-mapping-AI-algorithm, crash onto a not-quite-deserted tropical island. The survivors find a beautiful, fully-stocked private palace, with all the latest technological updates (though one without connection to the outside world). The house, however, has more secrets than anyone might have guessed, and ...Read More

Anderson, Leslie J.: The Unmothers (Quirk Books 9781683694298, $18.99, 320pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 08/06/2024)

Folk horror novel. After the death of her husband, and involvement in her own terrible accident, a journalist is sent to a small, backwards town to investigate the rumor that a horse has given birth to a human baby boy. Thinking the story is clearly ridiculous, she goes to investigate and finds two horribly ...Read More

Bracken, Alexandra: The Mirror of Beasts (Penguin Random House/Knopf 9780593481691, $20.99, 496pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 07/30/2024)

Young-adult dark fantasy novel, second in the Silver in the Bone duology. With the dream of Avalon in ruins, Tamsin and her friends are all that stands in the way of Lord Death’s plans to unleash the horrors of Anwnn on the world of the living. Legend tells of a “Mirror of Beasts” ...Read More

Aira, César: Festival and Game of the Worlds (New Directions 9780811237307, $15.95, 192pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 07/23/2024)

Collection of two novellas, one about a director of SF films, the other a far-future SF story set in a regimented world where an immersive video game encourages players to exterminate the inhabitants of distant worlds. Translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.

Anderson, Kevin J. & Longueira, Allyson, eds.: Feisty ...Read More

Alering, Alisa: Smothermoss (Tin House 9781959030584, $17.95, 264pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 07/16/2024)

Dark fantasy/rural gothic/fairytale novel. Two sisters in 1980s rural Appalachia are drawn into the hunt for the murderer of two female hikers on a nearby trail, as darkness seems to take over their home and community.

Allen, Mike: Slow Burn (Mythic Delirium Books 9781956522037, $18.95, 296pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 07/16/2024)

Collection of short body ...Read More

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