New Books

Cixin Liu’s Ball Lightening, collections by Michael Bishop and F. Brett Cox, Karl Schroeder’s The Million, and other titles by Cathy Clamp, S.K. Dunstall, Catherine Egan, Alan Dean Foster, Jon Hollins, Marina J. Lostetter, Ling Ma, Abbey Mei Otis, Jason Ridler, Lawrence M. Schoen, and Francesco Verso ...Read More

Tim Powers’ novel Alternate Routes, Jo Walton’s An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, Martha Wells’ Rogue Protocol, Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 edited by Jane Yolen, and other titles by RJ Barker, John Dixon, Nicky Drayden, L. Timmel Duchamp, V.M. Escalada, Rachel Fellman, Eric Flint, Laurell K. Hamilton, Mercedes Lackey et al, Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, Dale Lucas, Ari Marmell, Mary ...Read More

Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 Edition, JY Yang’s The Descent of Monsters, Catherynne M. Valente’s The Future Is Blue, and titles by Brenda Cooper, Cornelia Funke, David D. Levine, Michael Mammay, Claire O’Dell, Vivan Shaw, and Adrian Tchaikovsky. ...Read More

Rich Larson’s debut novel Annex, James Patrick Kelly’s collection The Promise of Space and Other Stories, and titles by Becky Chambers, Sarah Fine, and Will McIntosh. ...Read More

Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife, Seanan McGuire’s The Girl in the Green Silk Gown, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Expert System’s Brother, and titles by Ann Aguirre, Gail Carriger, B. Caitling, Delilah S. Dawson & Kevin Hearne, Sebastien de Castell, Jason Denzel, Craig DiLouie, Alan Dean Foster, Kathleen O’Neal Gear, Chadwick Ginther, Kameron Hurley, A. Lee Martinez, Nick Setchfield, Emily Skrutskie, Melinda Snodgrass, and Carrie Vaughn ...Read More

Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, Jonathan Strahan’s Infinity’s End, Neil Clarke’s The Final Frontier, and titles by Taylor Anderson, Mike Carey, Adam Christopher, Ruthanna Emrys, Theodora Goss, Rachel Heng, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Kim Liggett, Thea Lim, Zachary Mason, Jay Schiffman, John Schoffstall, Kiersten White, and Rio Youers. ...Read More

Gardner Dozois’ The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fifth Annual Collection, Jeff VanderMeer’s revised Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, Francesco Dimitri’s The Book of Hidden Things, Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars, and titles by T.J. Berry, Rachel Caine, Larry Correia & John Ringo, Kurt Fawver, Kim Foster, Sam Hawke, Benedict Jacka, Sarah Kuhn, Christopher Ruocchio, Anthony Ryan, S.M. Stirling, Michael J. Sullivan, Michael ...Read More

Hannu Rajamiemi’s Summerland, Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trial of Lightning, Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World, and titles by Laura Anne Gilman, Paul Jessup, Morgan Llywelyn, Pittacus Lore, James S. Murray & Darren Wearmouth, Ellen Oh & Elsie Chapman, Philip Ridley, Patrick S. Tomlinson, and Alex White. ...Read More

Gary Westfahl’s “Modern Master of Science Fiction” volume about Arthur C. Clarke, and fiction by Siobhan Adcock, Demetra Brodsky, Terry Brooks, Mike Carey, Daniel Godfrey, TOBI Hirotaka, Tanya Huff, Greg Keyes, Todd McAulty, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., C.L. Polk, and Jeff Wheeler. ...Read More

Peter Watts’ The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Yoon Ha Lee’s Revenant Gun, Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Ten, a book by Douglas E. Cowan about religious themes in Stephen King, and other titles by Jacqueline Carey, C. Robert Cargill, John Connolly, K.D. Edwards, R.S. Ford, Simon R. Green, A.J. Hartley, and Dave Hutchinson. ...Read More

New titles by David Afsharirad, Renee Ahdieh, Callie Bates, Rob Boffard, Jim Butcher, Eric Flint & Walt Voyes, Christopher Husberg, Cameron Johnston, Mercedes Lackey, Joyce Carol Oates, Melissa F. Olson, Amber Royer, Peng Shepherd, and Raymond Villareal. ...Read More

Barry N. Malzberg’s The Bend at the End of the Road, the latest Twelve Tomorrows anthology from MIT, and titles by Jerry Apps, Jay Kristoff, and Nalini Singh. ...Read More

Stephen King’s The Outsider and titles by Joanne M. Harris, Kate Heartfield, Andrew Lane & Nigel Foster, Claire North, Andrzej Sapkowski, and Deborah A. Wolf. ...Read More

Titles by Neal Asher, Christopher Barzak, Robyn Bennis, Jack Campbell, Lara Elena Donnelly, Sarah Beth Durst, Nicola Griffith, Alex Jeffers, Stephen R. Lawhead, Brian McClellan, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Melissa Scott, Nancy Springer, Brian Stableford, and Tyler Whitesides. ...Read More

Roger Levy’s The Rig, Martha Wells’ Artificial Condition, and titles by Kevin J. Anderson & Sarah A. Hoyt, Raymond E. Feist, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dean Koontz, K.R. Richardson, Lilith Saintcrow, and Lee Thomas. ...Read More

Greg Egan’s Phoresis, R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War; collections and novellas by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Priya Sharma, Steven Rasnic Tem, and Connie Willis; an anthology from Bill Campbell, & Francesco Verso; and novels by James Abbott, Joseph Brassey, Emily Devenport, Faith Hunter, Sarah J. Maas, Sylvain Neuvel, Eliot Peper, S.A. Sidor, Jodi Taylor, and Steve White & Charles E. Gannon. ...Read More

Ian McDonald’s Time Was and titles by Phillipa Bornikova, Dave Eggers, David Farland, Will Ludwigsen, Simon Morden, Veronica Roth, and Yoko Tawada. ...Read More

Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 12, John Scalzi’s Head On, Sam J. Miller’s Blackfish City, Jack McDevitt’s The Long Sunset, and titles by Bryan Camp, Cass Morris, Emma Newman, Jeremy C. Shipp, and AdriAnne Strickland & Michael Miller. ...Read More

Catherynne M. Valente’s Space Opera and titles by Alex Bledsoe, Aliette de Bodard, Justina Ireland, Josh Malerman, Ilana C. Myer, Sam Peters, David J. Schow, and Matt Wallace. ...Read More

Michael Benson’s Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, Neil Clarke’s The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume Three, Samuel R. Delany’s collection The Atheist in the Attic, Richard Powers’ The Overstory, and titles by R.S. Belcher, Kendare Blake, D.J. Butler, Leo Carew, David Drake, Sarah Beth Durst, Kevin Hearne, Margaret Killjoy, Mark Lawrence, Jeff Noon, Chris Roberson, and ...Read More

New titles by Josiah Bancroft, Rosalyn Eves, Tessa Gratton, Jonathan Maberry, Leander Watts, and Corey J. White, plus nonfiction anthology Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy: Outstanding Essays from the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences, which appeared in February. ...Read More

Ellen Datlow’s anthology The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Brian Stableford’s novel Spirits of the Vasty Deep, and titles by Elizabeth Bear, Bradley P. Beaulieu, Tim Lebbon, Rowenna Miller, and Dempow Torishima. ...Read More

Gordon Van Gelder’s anthology Welcome to Dystopia, Kelly Robson’s Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, and other titles by Michael David Ares, Mishell Baker, James Brogden, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, Jessica Spotswood, and Nick Clark Windo. ...Read More

Nancy Kress’s If Tomorrow Comes, Jane Yolen’s Mapping the Bones, Daniel H. Wilson’s collection Guardian Angels and Other Monsters, the first English translation of a 1974 novel by Catalan writer Manuel de Pedrolo, and titles by Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell, Anne Bishop, Patricia Briggs, Jeremy K. Brown, Steven Brust, Tony Daniel & Christopher Ruocchio, Paul Di Filippo, Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon, Sean Grigsby, Alma ...Read More

Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell’s The Tangled Lands, Gareth L. Powell’s Embers of War, and titles by Laura Bickle, Spencer Ellsworth, Rachel Hartman, and Jon Sprunk. ...Read More

Published today: Vandana Singh’s debut collection Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, collections by Kelly Barnhill and Anjali Sachdeva, and novels by Myke Cole, William C. Dietz, W. Michael Gear, John Gwynne, and Tina LeCount Myers. ...Read More

John Kessel’s Pride and Prometheus, Ned Beauman’s Madness Is Better Than Defeat, David Pedreira’s Gunpowder Moon, and titles by RJ Barker, Jordanna Max Brodsky, Rachel Caine & Ann Aguiree, Susan Dennard, Thoraiya Dyer, Tom Miller, Gavin Smith, Jo Walton, and Scott Westerfeld/Margo Lanagan/Deborah Biancotti. ...Read More

The US edition of Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time and titles by E.C. Ambrose, Sue Burke, Eric Flint et al., Jasmine Gower, S. Jae-Jones, Vic James, Les Johnson, Gini Koch, Elizabeth Moon, Tamora Pierce, Beth Plutchak, R.A. Salvatore, Thomas Sweterlitsch, E.J. Swift, Travis S. Taylor, and Alex Wells. ...Read More

K.J. Parker’s The Father of Lies and other January titles from Tor.com, S.T. Joshi, David Mack, Michael Moreci, and Michelle Sagara. ...Read More

New this week: Alastair Reynolds’ Elysium Fire and titles by Brooke Bolander, Rati Mehrotra, Keith Rosson, Ahmed Saadawi, Neal Shusterman, Na’amen Gobert Tilahun, and Chuck Wendig. ...Read More

New this week: Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti: The Night Masquerade, Pierce Brown’s Iron Gold, and titles by Josiah Bancroft, H.G. Bells, Denis Johnson, Stephen Michell, Jonathan Moore, Tim Wirkus, and C.V. Wyk. ...Read More