New Books

Baker, Kylie Lee: The Scarlet Alchemist (Harlequin/Inkyard Press 9781335458018, $19.99, 432pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 10/03/2023)

Young-adult historical fantasy novel, the first in a duology set in an alternate Tang Dynasty China, where a poor biracial girl with the ability to raise the dead gets caught up in the dangerous political games of the royal family.

Basu, Samit: The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport (Tordotcom 9781250827517, $28.99, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, ...Read More

Blake, Kendare: Champion of Fate (HarperCollins/Quill Tree 9780062977205, $19.99, 480pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 09/19/2023)

Young-adult fantasy novel, first in the Heromaker series. An orphan raised by the Aristene, an order of mythical female warriors, Reed grew up surrounded by by her future sisters-in-arms and the incredible stories of their quests. She must pass one final test before initiation: shepherding her first hero to glory on the battlefield. Reed’s assigned ...Read More

Armentrout, Jennifer L.: Fall of Ruin and Wrath (Tor/Bramble 9781250750198, $27.99, 432pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 09/12/2023)

Fantasy romance novel, the first in a series for adults. Nine cities dot a vast wilderness teeming with monsters and unimaginable dangers, each city ruled by royalty who feed on mortal pleasure. Calista lives hidden as a courtesan of the Baron of Archwood. In exchange for protection she uses the infallible intuition she ...Read More

Anders, Lou, ed.: Tales from Stolki’s Hall (Lazy Wolf 9798985153125, $29.99, 294pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 09/05/2023)

Anthology of 10 stories set in Norrengard, the Norse-inspired land created by Lou Anders for his Thrones & Bones middle-grade trilogy and adult/all-ages Thrones & Bones roleplaying game. Authors include J. Dianne Dotson, Ed Greenwood, and Joel Shepherd.

Anderson, Kevin J.: The Funny Business (WordFire Press 9781680575026, $33.99, 284pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ...Read More

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Arndt, Skyla: Together We Rot (Penguin Random House/Viking 9780593526279, $18.99, 272pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 08/29/2023)

Young-adult horror/thriller/romance novel. Wil Greene’s mom has been missing for over a year, and the police are ready to call the case closed — they claim she skipped town and you can’t find a woman who wants to disappear, but she knows her mom wouldn’t just leave. Meanwhile, Wil’s former best ...Read More

Creagh, Kelly: Strange Unearthly Things (Penguin Random House/Viking 9780593116081, $19.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 08/22/2023)

Young-adult paranormal romance, a reimagining of Jane Eyre. Orphan Jane Reye is a psychic artist who sees spirits and the supernatural. After graduating from the girls’ school she’s spent most of her life at, she gets an invitation to join a study at the English manor Fairfax Hall, where the elusive proprietor is a handsome ...Read More

Alsberg, Sasha: Fracturing Fate (Harlequin/Inkyard Press 9781335453754, $19.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 08/15/2023)

Young-adult fantasy novel. While battling the demigod Llaw, Klara is catapulted five hundred years into the past, alone and distraught that she and her fated love Callum killed the demigod at the cost of Callum’s life.

Klara is the last Pillar of Time, an anchor point in the timeline of the world. Treacherous enemies both magical ...Read More

Anderson, Kevin J.: Skeleton in the Closet (WordFire Press, $20.99, 242pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, 08/08/2023)

Humorous fantasy novel about a motley crew of medieval con artists. Cullin the former scamp, Sir Dalbry a washed-up knight in shining armor; Reeger, ready and eager for any part of the dirty work; and Affonyl, former princess, who wanted to study science and alchemy, rather than embroidery. Together, they cross the land ...Read More

Bacon, Eugen: Languages of Water (Mvmedia 9798985733662, $5.99, 179pp, formats: ebook, 8/1/2023)

Original anthology of stories, poems, and essays; a rare but intimate fusion of East, West and Africa, a stunning artefact of writerly immersion and cultural exchange. This child of digital collaboration brings together writers, illustrators and translators of poetry, fiction and essays, and refuses to be contained.

Bergman, Rebekah: The Museum of Human History (Tin House ...Read More

Anderson, Kevin J. & Allyson Longueira: Merciless Mermaids: Tails from the Deep (WordFire Press 9781680574616, $23.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, 7/25/2023)

Fantasy/horror anthology. Features 30 original stories and poems by Mercedes Lackey, Rick Wilber, D.J. Butler, Gama Ray Martinez, Julia Vee, Ken Bebelle, and many others. From Japanese legends to mafia mermen, from carnival freaks to flying aces, from bayou legends to kraken-like behemoths, these tales explore the ...Read More

Abraham, Daniel: Blade of Dream (Orbit US 9780316421898, $29.00, 464pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio) Fantasy novel. Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories endure. This is Garreth’s story. Garreth Left is heir to one of Kithamar’s most prominent merchant families. The path of his life was paved long before he was born. Learn the ...Read More

Aryan, Stephen: The Judas Blossom (Angry Robot UK 9781915202192, $18.99, 432pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 7/11/2023) Historical fantasy novel. An imaginative and sprawling epic fantasy reimagining of the Mongol Empire’s invasion of Persia, following the lives and treacherous journeys of four key figures in the heart of war.

Ashing-Giwa, Kemi: The Splinter in the Sky (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 9781668008478, $27.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 7/11/2023) Science ...Read More

Asher, Neal: War Bodies (Macmillan/Tor UK 9781529050080, £20.00, 576pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audio, 7/6/2023) Science fiction novel. Rebellion could be their salvation—or their doom. Long ago, the Cyberat left Earth to co-evolve with machines. Now, led by the powerful dictator Castron, their Old Guard believe that machines should replace the physical body. But these beliefs are upended with the arrival of the human Polity—and their presence ignites rebellion.

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Arm, Aaron H.: The Artifice of Eternity (John Hunt/Cosmic Egg Books 9781803412023, $23.95, 416pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 7/1/2023) Science fiction novel. War. Corruption. Overpopulation. Climate change. When Earth reaches a tipping point, the world’s wealthiest man decides to reboot civilization on another habitable planet. Deemed “Project Exodus,” the voyage includes 4,000 like-minded colonists, a political manifesto, and all the resources they can fit on their ship.

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Allen, Jeffery Renard: Fat Time and Other Stories (Graywolf Press 978-1-64445-239-4, $15.99, 288pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 6/20/2023)

Fantasy novel/fable, where Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen, reimagined and transformed to bring us news of America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Along with them are characters of Allen’s invention: two ...Read More

Bergren, Lisa T.: Estuary (Enclave 979-8-88605-046-2, $16.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 6/13/2023)

Fantasy romance novel. Lady Tiliani Forelli is the epitome of the She-Wolves who raised her, an adept archer with a mind of her own. It is long past time for her to wed, but she deems each young lord who comes to bid for her hand lacking. With battles upon their border, and rumors of war growing ...Read More

3dtotal Publishing: Sketching from the Imagination: Character Concepts (3dtotal Publishing 9781912843626, $37.00, 320pp, formats: trade paperback, 6/6/2023)

Following the success of previous titles in this popular series, Sketching from the Imagination: Character Concepts showcases the incredible character work of 50 artists and illustrators. Chosen especially for this book, these artists from around the globe take inspiration from folklore, myths, modern stories, and sometimes real life as a basis for their ...Read More

Buchbinder, Nat: Inkweed / The Mellification (Pink Narcissus Press 9781939056191, $15.00, 210pp, formats: trade paperback, 6/1/2023)

This is a collection of two novellas, both revised: futuristic “Inkweed” about a laborer who gets involved in selling a dangerous new drug in an underground city, and “The Mellification”.

Armstrong, Kelley: The Poisoner’s Ring (St. Martin’s/Minotaur 9781250820037, $28.00, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 5/23/2023)

Fantasy time-travel mystery novel. This is the second in the Rip Through Time series. Modern-day homicide detective Mallory, stuck in 1869 Edinburgh, helps medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray investigate serial poisonings.

Bellin, Joshua David: Myriad (Angry Robot UK 9781915202468, $17.99, 328pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 5/23/2023)

Science fiction novel. Myriad has been in ...Read More

Ampuero, María Fernanda: Human Sacrifices (Feminist Press at CUNY, The 9781558612083, $15.95, 144pp, formats: trade paperback, 5/16/2023)

Original collection of 12 stories, translated from the Spanish Sacrificios humanos (Páginas de Espuma 2021) by Frances Riddle. Simultaneously terrifying and exquisite, Human Sacrifices is “tropical gothic” at its finest―decay and oppression underlie our humid and hostile world, where working-class women and children are consistently the weakest links in a capitalist economy. Against ...Read More

Allan, Nina: Conquest (Quercus UK/riverrun 9781529420777, £17.47, 284pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 5/11/2023)

Science fiction mystery novel. Rachel’s boyfriend Frank sees patterns everywhere and gets obsessed with an alien war just before he disappears; a 1950s science fiction story may have clues. 

Blackgoose, Moniquill: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (Penguin Random House/Del Rey 9780593498286, $18.00, 519pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 5/9/2023)

Fantasy novel. The remote island of Masquapaug ...Read More

Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame: Chain-Gang All-Stars (Penguin Random House/Pantheon 978-0-593-31733-4, $27.00, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 5/2/2023)

This is a dystopian science fiction novel set in an alternate United States, where prisoners in a private-run prison system can compete for freedom in gladiator-style arena death matches.

Bazterrica, Agustina: Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird (Pushkin Press UK 978-1-782279013, $17.99, 176pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 5/4/2023)

From celebrated author Agustina ...Read More

Binge, Nicholas: Ascension (Penguin Random House/Riverhead 978-0593539583, $28.00, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, and audio, 4/25/2023)

This is a science fiction cosmic horror novel. A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human.

Brust, Steven: Tsalmoth (Tor 978-0-7653-8284-9, ...Read More

Ausubel, Ramona: The Last Animal (Penguin Random House/Riverhead 9780593420522, $28.00, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 4/18/2023) In this near-future science fiction novel, teenage sisters Eve and Vera never imagined their summer vacation would be spent in the Arctic, tagging along on their mother’s scientific expedition. But there’s a lot about their lives lately that hasn’t been going as planned, and truth be told, their single mother might not be ...Read More

Anders, Charlie Jane: Promises Stronger Than Darkness (Tor Teen 9781250317506, $21.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 4/11/2023)

Young-adult science fiction novel. When Elza became a space princess, she thought she’d be spending her time at the palace, wearing gorgeous couture, and soaking up everything there is to know―but instead, she’s on the run, with everyone hunting for her and her friends.

Armstrong, Kelley: Someone Is Always Watching (Tundra ...Read More

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Akers, Tim: Wraithbound (Baen 9781982192556, $18.00, 464pp, formats: trade paperback, e-book, 4/4/2023)

Dark fantasy sorcery novel. Since he was a boy, Rae Kelthannis has dreamed of being a storm binder like his father, with an air elemental stitched into the fabric of his soul and the winds of heaven at his command. Those dreams died when his father, through no fault of his own, fell into disgrace and was ...Read More

Ballingrud, Nathan: The Strange (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 9781534449954, $27.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 3/21/2023) An intriguing alternate timeline SF novel. 1931, New Galveston, Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to find Silas Mundt’s gang who have stolen her mother’s voice, destroyed her father, and left her solely with a need for vengeance.

Chong, Jinwoo: Flux (Melville House 9781685890346, $28.99, 352pp, formats: ...Read More

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