New Books

Ashton, Edward: Antimatter Blues (St. Martin’s 978-1-250-27505-9, $26.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 3/14/2023)

Bakewell, Catherine: Flowerheart (HarperTeen 978-0-06-321459-0, ...Read More

Afifi, Nadia: The Transcendent  (Flame Tree Press UK 978-1-78758-673-4, $26.95, 352pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, 3/7/2023)

Quasi-SF thriller/horror novel, third in the Cosmic trilogy begun in The Sentient. After a fateful confrontation with her former ally, Tony Barlow, Amira Valdez is on the run, pregnant with her own clone and desperate. The fundamentalist Trinity Compound has grown in strength and numbers, and with the help of the powerful mind-controlling ...Read More

Barnhill, Kelly The Crane Husband (Tordotcom 978-1-250-85097-3, $19.99, 128pp, hardcover, ebook)

This is a feminist fantasy novella doing a contemporary retelling of “The Crane Wife” by the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon: one fiercely pragmatic teen forced to grow up faster than was fair will do whatever it takes to protect her family.

Brown, Diane Marie Black Candle Women (Harlequin/Graydon House 978-1-5258-9991-1, $28.99, 368pp, ...Read More

Armstrong, Kelley: Murder at Haven’s Rock

(St. Martin’s Minotaur 978-1-250-86541-0, $27.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

Associational mystery novel from the NY Times bestselling author, the first in the Haven’s Rock series, a spinoff from the Rockton series.

Feehan, Brian: Harmony of Lies

(Penguin Random House/Jove 978-0-593-44055-1, $8.99, 336pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

This paranormal romance novel is the second in the ...Read More

brown, adrienne maree: Maroons

(AK Press 978-1-84935-480-6, $17.00, 216pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, February 14, 2023)

SF novel, sequel to Grievers, set in a plague-ravaged Detroit. Ebook also available. AK Press, 370 Ryan Avenue #100, Chico CA 95973; <www.akpress.org>.

Chokshi, Roshani: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

(HarperCollins/Morrow 978-0063206502, $30.00, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 14, 2023)

Gothic novel about a marriage threatened dark secrets, ...Read More

Balstrup, Sarah K.: The Way of Unity

(Burning Mirror Press 9780645474701, $17.99, 450pp, formats: trade paperback, February 6, 2023)

Fantasy novel. Velspar’s rulers move against the Intercessors, a psychic priesthood, but some people rebel at having to live in an alienated world without psychic soothing.

Blackwood, Lauren: Wildblood

(St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books 978-1-250-78713-2, $18.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 7, 2023)

Young-adult dark fantasy novel about a teen Wildblood, ...Read More

Anthony, Piers: Apoca Lips

(Open Road 978-1-5040-6693-8, $16.99, 200pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, January 31, 2023)

Fantasy novel, #47 in the Xanth series. As Prince Nolan goes on a quest to find his ideal bride, a “pundemic” spreads through Xanth.

Chen, Mike: Vampire Weekend

(Harlequin/Mira 978-0-7783-8696-4, $17.99, 368pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, audio, January 31, 2023)

Urban fantasy novel. Lonely punk vampire Louise Chao, living on blood ...Read More

Ali, Bachtyar: The Last Pomegranate Tree

(Archipelago Books 978-1-953861-40-5, $24.00, 321pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, January 24, 2023)

Fantasy novel/parable about a man freed from prison after 21 years, searching for the son he’s never known, and finding myths and legends instead. Translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman.

Burges, Audrey: The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone

(Penguin Random House/Berkley 978-0-593-54647-5, $16.99, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, ...Read More

Albo, Mike: Another Dimension of Us

(Penguin Random House/Penguin Workshop 978-0593223765, $18.99, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 17, 2023)

Young-adult gay fantasy romance novel of alternate dimensions and time travel. Teens accidentally swap minds and bodies across the astral plane, between 1986 and 2044, and one needs to be rescued from a demon.

Boey, Brandon Ying Kit: Karma of the Sun

(CamCat Books 978-0-7443-0760-3, $25.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ...Read More

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Arnett, Mindee: Riven

(HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray 978-0-06-305783-8, $19.99, 448pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 10, 2023)

Young-adult fantasy novel inspired by Iceland. Adepts accidentally created Ice, a toxic magical substance that anyone can use, giving the wealthy full control of magic, as long as they suppress the adepts.

Baggott, Julianna: The Wick

(Underland Press 978-1-63023-068-5, $13.99, 86pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, January 10, ...Read More

Adams, Sean: The Thing in the Snow

(HarperCollins/Morrow 978-0063257757, $27.99, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 3, 2023)

Satirical psychological horror novel about an isolated, largely abandoned, research station, where a mysterious object found in the snow has a strange effect on people’s minds.

Berg, Sibylle: Grime

(St. Martin’s Griffin 978-1-250-79651-6, $22.00, 448pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, December 27, 2022)

Near-future dystopian SF novel, following teens from a ...Read More

Colby, Scott: Vengeance Squad

(Outland Entertainment 978-1-954255-41-9, $17.95, 300pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, December 20, 2022)

Urban fantasy novel, fifth in the Deviant Magic series. The Talisker tower in Detroit has exploded, and a ragtag team of losers team up to find the demonic evil behind the disaster.

Datlow, Ellen, ed.: The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

(Skyhorse/Night Shade Books 978-1-949102-67-3, $15.99, 432pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, ...Read More

Andrews, Ilona: Sweep of the Heart

(NYLA Publishing 9781518741289, $20.99, 454pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, December 13, 2022)

Fantasy novel, the sixth book in the Innkeeper Chronicles. The inn is forced to host an intergalactic spouse-search for one of the Galaxy’s most powerful rulers after Sean’s werewolf mentor is kidnapped.

Dodge, Nathan B.: Hidden Enemy

(WordFire Press 978-1680573862, $25.99, 392pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, December 13, 2022)

SF ...Read More

Baron, Melissa: Twice in a Lifetime

(The Quick Brown Fox/Alcove Press , $17.99, 325pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, December 6, 2022)

Fantasy timeslip novel of parallel realities. A woman gets messages supposedly from her husband in the future, trying to prevent her suicide.

Isla has moved away from Chicago after a breakdown; she now lives in a tiny cottage outside St. Louis, working as a graphic designer and figuring ...Read More

de Bodard, Aliette: The Red Scholar’s Wake

(JAB Books 978-1-399-60138-2, $15.00, 315pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, November 24, 2022)

SF novel about a lesbian tech scavenger in a marriage of convenience with a sentient pirate spaceship.

Clare, Gwendolyn: In the City of Time

(Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends 978-1-250-23074-4, $20.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, November 29, 2022)

Young-adult time-travel novel, the first in the eponymous duology, set in the world of Ink, ...Read More

Adler, Dahlia, ed.: At Midnight

(Macmillan/Flatiron 978-1-250-80602-4, $19.99, 464pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 22, 2022)

Young-adult original anthology of 14 reimagined fairy tales, plus one new.

Anderson, Kevin J.: Double-Booked

(WordFire Press 978-1-68057-350-3, $21.99, 252pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, audio, November 22, 2022)

Humorous fantasy detective novel, eighth book in the series featuring Dan Shamble, zombie P.I., who has to deal with diabolical schemes surrounding the publication ...Read More

Armentrout, Jennifer L.: A Light in the Flame

(Evil Eye Concepts/Blue Box Press 978-1-957568041, $31.99, 608pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, audio, November 15, 2022)

Fantasy romance novel, second in the Flesh and Fire series. The only person who can save Sera now is the one she’s spent her life planning to kill.

Arnold, Justin: Wicked Little Things

(Tiny Ghost 978-1739983475, $12.99, 244pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, November ...Read More

Bradley, Marion Zimmer, Ross, Deborah J.: The Laran Gambit

(Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust 978-1-938185-72-4, $29.99, 314pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)

SF novel in Bradley’s Darkover series. A Terran woman searching for a cure for a dictator’s mind-control device crash-lands on Darkover.

Britz-Cunningham, Scott: Interface

(Turner/Keylight 978-1684428809, $17.99, 464pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, November 5, 2022)

Near-future SF novel about a neural implant that ...Read More

Anderson, Brian D.: The Sword’s Elegy

(Tor 978-1-250-21468-3, $20.99, 416pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, November 1, 2022)

Fantasy novel, the third in the Sorcerer’s Song series about a reluctant bard-turned-assassin.The doom of humankind has at last been realized. Belkar’s prison is broken and his army is on the move. The nations of Lamoria, unaware of the greater danger, look to repel the aggression of Ralmarstad.

Bara, Dave: Trinity’s ...Read More

Baker, A. Deborah: Into the Windwracked Wilds

(Tordotcom 978-1-250-84844-4, $20.99, 224pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, October 25, 2022)

Fantasy novel, the third book in the Up-and-Under series begun in Over the Woodward Wall, the book-within-a-book from Middlegame by Seanan McGuire. When the improbable road leaves Avery and Zib in the land of Air and at the mercy of the Queen of Swords, escape without becoming monsters may be impossible. ...Read More

Andrew, Kelly: The Whispering Dark

(Scholastic Press 978-1338809473, $18.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, October 18, 2022)

Young-adult dark fantasy novel. A deaf girl joins a prestigious university program that trains students to slip between parallel worlds.

Azad, Nafiza: Road of the Lost

(Simon & Schuster/McElderry 978-1-5344-8499-3, $19.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, October 18, 2022)

Young-adult fantasy novel. Croi believes herself to be a humble brownie, until a book ...Read More

Barnett, Fiona: The Dark Between the Trees

(Rebellion/Solaris UK 978-1-78618-713-0, $26.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, October 11, 2022)

Horror novel. In 1643 seventeen soldiers retreated into the haunted Moresby Wood. Only two emerged, telling strange stories. In the present day, a group of researchers return to Morseby Wood to find out what happened.

Brooks, Terry: Daughter of Darkness

(Penguin Random House/Del Rey 978-0-593-35741-5, $28.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, ...Read More

Adams, Erin E.: Jackal

(Penguin Random House/Bantam 978-0-593-49930-6, $27.00, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, October 4, 2022)

Mystery horror novel. Something is taking Black girls in a small, mostly white, town.

Aguirre, Ann: Extra Witchy

(Sourcebooks Casablanca 978-1-7282-6246-8, $15.99, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, October 4, 2022)

Feminist fantasy romantic comedy novel, the third in the Fix-It Witches series. Leanne, after two failed marriages, cares more for her ...Read More

Ames, Alison: It Looks Like Us

(Page Street 978-1-64567-618-8, $18.99, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, September 27, 2022)

Young-adult horror novel. Teens interning at an Antarctic research base face something that looks human.

Anderson, Taylor: Artillerymen: Hell’s March

(Ace 978-0-593-20074-2, $28.00, 480pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 27, 2022)

Alternate-world military SF novel, second in the Artillerymen series set in the world of the Destroyermen series. American soldiers from 1847 ...Read More

Bennett, Joshua: The Study of Human Life

(Penguin Random House/Penguin 9780143136828, $20.00, 144pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, September 20, 2022)

Collection, a poetry/speculative fiction hybrid. His first work of speculative fiction, “The Book of Mycah”, brings Malcolm X back from the dead; two sets of autobiographical poems frame the story.

Bevan, Deniz: Druid’s Moon

(Dancing Lemur Press 978-1-939844-86-6, $16.95, 176pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, September 20, 2022)

Fantasy ...Read More

Amor, Gemma: Full Immersion

(Angry Robot UK 978-0-85766-981-0, $15.99, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, September 13, 2022)

SF horror. A traumatized woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her demise.

Bacon, Eugen: Chasing Whispers

(Raw Dog Screaming/Anti-Oedipus 978-1-947879-44-7, $15.95, 198pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, September 8, 2022)

Original collection of 13 stories (two reprints) of transformative Afro-irrealist Black speculative fiction. ...Read More

Berwah, Tanvi: Monsters Born and Made

(Sourcebooks Fire 978-1-72824-762-5, $18.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)

Young-adult fantasy novel with South Asian and classical mythical elements, about a teen who hunts maristags, giant ocean beasts, so her family can survive, but desperation forces her to cheat her way into a competition for the elite.

Bishop, Ash: Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc.

(CamCat Books 978-0744305869, $20.99, 608pp, formats: trade paperback, ...Read More

Acker, Ben: Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires

(Simon & Schuster 978-1665917001, $17.99, 192pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, August 30, 2022)

Collection of scary stories to tell vampires so they’ll keep you alive.

Bannen, Megan: The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

(Orbit 978-0-356-51866-4, $17.99, 448pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, August 23, 2022)

Humorous fantasy romance novel. Small town Marshal Hart Ralston unwittingly gets his nemesis, the undertaker Mercy ...Read More

Andrews, Ilona: Ruby Fever

(HarperCollins/Avon 978-0-06-287839-7, $7.99, 384pp, formats: paperback, hardcover, ebook, audio, August 23, 2022)

Paranormal romance/urban fantasy novel, the third in the trilogy featuring Catalina Baylor and sixth overall in the Hidden Legacy series.

Aryan, Stephen: The Warrior

(Angry Robot US 978-0-85766-958-2, $14.99, 400pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, August 9, 2022)

Fantasy novel, the second in The Quest for Heroes series, about a hero who believes ...Read More

Bacon, Eugen: An Earnest Blackness

(Raw Dog Screaming/Anti-Oedipus , $18.95, 124pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, August 15, 2022)

Non-fiction collection of 12 critical essays, four new, looking at speculative fiction’s potential for dealing with blackness, Afrofuturism, colonialism, and more. Individual essays include references.

Dawn, Randee: Tune in Tomorrow

(Rebellion/Solaris US 978-1-78618-630-0, $16.99, 464pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, August 16, 2022)

Humorous fantasy novel, subtitled “The Curious, Calamitous, Cockamamie Story ...Read More

Adlakha, Sarah: Midnight on the Marne

(Tor/Forge 978-1-250-77459-0, $26.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, August 9, 2022)

Alternate history/time loop fantasy novel. A soldier’s action changes the outcome of WWI, and he gets a chance to go back and set things right.

Chu, Wesley: The Art of Prophecy

(Penguin Random House/Del Rey 978-0-593-23763-2, $28.99, 544pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, August 9, 2022)

Fantasy novel, the first book in the ...Read More

Attebery, Brian: Fantasy: How it Works

(Oxford University Press 978-0-1928-5623-4, $27.95, 208pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, June 30, 2022)

Non-fiction, critical exploration of the genre, its popularity, and its relevance to contemporary experience as “the lie that speaks truth”. Authors covered include Ursula K. Le Guin, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor.

Blair, Melissa: A Broken Blade

(Barnes & Noble/Union Square & Co. 9781454947875, $17.99, 448pp, formats: trade paperback, ...Read More