Jedi. Cursed forests. Murderbots. And ancient shadows rising. These are some of the best, popular and most anticipated new sci-fi and fantasy for adults books in 2023
Robots. Sorcerers. Jedi. Ancient nightmares and battles for light. This is a collection of some of the most exciting, best, new and popular sci-fi and fantasy books and stories for 2023 – for adults, teens, everyone!
New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books and Series to Discover
Lords Of Uncreation
Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2 May 2023
The final book in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Final Architecture series. The brief (though miserable) peace human warrior Idris and crew enjoyed after the alien threat, The Architects, seemingly disappeared in Shards of Earth (Book 1) is well and truly shattered when they return with a vengeance in Eyes of the Void, able to destroy entire planets at will. We join Idris as he returns from terrible “unspace” with news that will spell either hope or doom for the human race in Lords of Uncreation.
Genres Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fantasy, Adult
Author Adrian Tchaikovsky Home born Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire; lives Leeds, UK
Publisher Pan Macmillan Buy it Hard Cover | Kindle
Dragonfall
LR Lam, 2 May 2023
Billed as sci-fi with fantasy elements. The first book in LR Lam’s all-new Dragon Scales Trilogy, Dragonfall reintroduces dragons to the mortal realm when a thief acquires a magical object that could make all their dreams come true. Problem is it requires a specific dragon to work fully, and that particular dragon is the last male, foretold to be the saviour of his kind – whose already begun to plot the poor thief and all of humanity’s demise in Dragonfall.
Genres Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dragons, LGBTQ, Romance, Adult, High Fantasy, Magic
Author LR Lam Home born California US; lives Scotland
Publisher Astra Publishing House | Buy it
Deadly Memory
David Walton, 2 May 2023
Something for your Jurassic Park itch. Book 2 in David Walton’s Living Memory paleo-thriller series, Deadly Memory, sees China and the US face off to claim Thailand’s fossil riches as an unprecedented new find in a secret CIA lab strikes fear into scientists. While a deadly aquatic killer resurfaces from 250 million years ago. Question is: can humanity work together to save itself? Let’s see in David Walton’s Deadly Memory.
Genres Science Fiction, Thriller
Author David Walton Home Philadelphia, US
Publisher Self | Buy it
Star Wars: The High Republic: Path Of Vengeance
Cavan Scott, 2 May 2023
Book 41 in the Star Wars: The High Republic series, and the sequel to Path of Deceit, Cavan Scott’s Path of Vengeance sees Path of the Open Hand members Marda and Yana Ro working to undo the Jedi. But they’ll come to a crossroads where their choices will not impact the rest of their lives but also the fate of the entire galaxy.
Genres Star Wars, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Canon
Author Cavan Scott Home United Kingdom
Publisher Disney Lucasfilm Press | Buy it
The Ferryman
Justin Cronin, 2 May 2023
Justin Cronin’s new standalone novel The Ferryman sees Proctor Bennett’s life upended by his aged father’s prophetic words amid rising tensions in the supposed idyllic paradise, Prospera. He’s always ferried the aged citizens to be re-lifed, and never questioned it, until now. As tension mounts among the citizenry and resistance forms against the order, there might be more to all of this than Bennett would ever have guessed.
Genres Science Fiction, Dystopian, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Adult, Horror
Author Justin Cronin Home Houston and Cape Cod, US
Publisher Ballantine Books | Buy it
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, 2 May 2023
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s debut novel Chain-Gang All-Stars sees two lovers and top prison fighters make a pact as they take on the toughest inmates in the American private prison system in a gladiator-style battle for the ultimate prize: their freedom. Of course, the corporate owners have other, perhaps deadlier plans, while the inmates search for a way to preserve their humanity in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s scathing exploration of the US prison system in Chain-Gang All-Stars.
Genres Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy, LGBTQ, Adult, Lesbian
Author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Home New York, US
Publisher Pantheon | Buy it
Capture The Sun
Jessie Mihalik, 9 May 2023
For romance fans, the final instalment in Jessie Mihalik’s Starlight’s Shadow trilogy, Capture the Sun sees intergalactic thief Lexi Bowen prepare to fulfil a new contract when her former crew goes missing nearby. Not good, because this could lead to an all-out war. And the only way to stop it is to throw in her lot with the teleporter who infuriatingly cost her a payday once, not to mention stealing her heart… in Jessie Mihalik’s Capture the Sun.
Genres Science Fiction, Romance, Adult, Fantasy, Space Opera, Adventure
Author Jessie Mihalik Home Texas, US
Publisher Harper Voyager | Buy it
The Cassandra Complex
Holly Smale, 11 May 2023
And making the leap from YA to adult, Holly Smale’s new The Cassandra Complex sees a slightly neurotic Cassandra Penelope Dankworth’s life fall apart as she’s dumped, fired and deprived of her favourite comfort snack. Until she discovers a way to go back in time and maybe save the life she destroyed in The Cassandra Complex.
Genres Science Fiction, Time Travel, Adult
Author Holly Smale Home London, UK
Publisher Penguin | Buy it
Fractal Noise
Christopher Paolini, 16 May 2023
The second book in Christopher Paolini’s FractalVerse series, Fractal Noise sees another unexpected and unprecedented find in the furthest reaches of space. This time, it’s an anomaly on an uninhabited planet, and teams are sent to investigate. But this is more than just a curiosity, as the mere act of moving closer to the anomaly starts to have a profound effect on each of the Adamura crew in Christopher Paolini’s all-new Fractal Noise.
Genres Science Fiction, Space Opera, Adult, Action, Young Adult, Sci-Fi Fantasy
Author Christopher Paolini Home Montana, US
Publisher Tor Books | Buy it
The Blighted Stars
Megan E O’Keefe, 23 May 2023
The first book in Megan E. O’Keefe’s all-new The Devoured Worlds trilogy, The Blighted Stars introduces us to undercover revolutionary Naira whose task is to infiltrate the supposedly corrupt organisation leading a new planetary settlement. Though, the man in charge seems different from the stories she’s heard. But then they get marooned on a dead planet together and must work together to survive, only to discover a sinister plot that’s bigger than both of them in Megan E O’Keefe’s The Blighted Stars.
Genres Science Fiction, Adult, Space Opera, Sci-Fi Fantasy, Space, LGBTQ, Romance
Author Megan E. O’Keefe Home California, US
Publisher Orbit | Buy it
The Best Science Fiction Of The Year: Volume Seven
Neil Clarke, 30 May 2023
After a two-year hiatus, award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine editor Neil Clarke is back with his annual collection of the year’s best short stories in sci-fi and fantasy. The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Seven features shorts by 32 top authors including Christopher Rowe, Ellen Klages, Rachel Pollack, KJ Parker, would you believe it Ken Liu, Neil Gaiman and many more – with foreword by Jonathan Strahan.
Genres Fantasy, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Collections, Adult
Author Neil Clarke | Home New Jersey, US
Publisher Night Shade | Buy it
A Game Of Malice And Greed
Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, 3 March 2023
The twisted sisters are back! The first book in the exciting new The Fallen Fae series from Zodiac Academy co-author sisters Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti, A Game of Malice and Greed (AGOMAG) is an enigmatic dark fae-focused romance complete with gods, curses, warriors and forbidden love to kick off the best of sci-fi and fantasy books in March.
Genres Fantasy, Romance, Fae, New Adult, High Fantasy
Authors Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, UK
Publisher Dark Ink Publishing | Buy it
The Mimicking Of Known Successes
Malka Older, 7 March 2023
A Sherlock Holmes-style mystery with lesbian intrigue on a distant gas-wreathed outpost on Jupiter, long after earth’s collapse. Inspiring human and acclaimed The Centenal Cycle trilogy author Malka Older is back with The Mimicking of Known Successes. When a missing person’s investigation on Jupiter leads to a human habitat’s most prominent university, investigator Mossa must enlist the help of a former girlfriend and hope the past doesn’t get in the way of this case – or a chance of finally re-establishing mankind back on earth.
Genres Science Fiction, Mystery, LGBTQ, Romance, Novella, Adult, Mystery Thriller
Author Malka Older | Home Phoenix, Arizona, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
Dead Country
Max Gladstone, 7 March 2023
Max Gladstone is taking us back to his The Craft universe with Dead Country. Book 1 in the brand-new The Craft Wars sequence is billed as both the finale of The Craft saga and an intriguing entry point for new readers. Seemingly an ocean of time from her childhood home now that she’s dealt with gods, encountered monsters and been embroiled in more would-be wars than she can count, Tara Abernathy is called back to bury her father. But a chance encounter with a powerful being just as lost as she was those many years ago, could now change the world forever.
Genres Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Horror, Science Fiction
Author Max Gladstone | Home born Cambridge; lives Somerville, Massachusetts, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars
Sam Maggs, 7 March 2023
After the events of the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order game, Cal, BD-1 and the Mantis crew encounter a defecting stormtrooper who’ll exchange knowledge of a powerful new weapon – if they’ll assist her in escaping the Empire for good. Problem is, this could put them on a collision course with powerful sith inquisitor Fith Brother. That is if this stormtrooper can be trusted at all… rockstar Marvel comic writer Sam Maggs’s Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars by.
Genres Star Wars, Science Fiction, Canon, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult
Author Sam Maggs | Home born Ontario, Canada; lives Los Angeles, US
Publisher Random House | Buy it
The Cognomina Codex
D. Eric Maikranz, 7 March 2023
In the sequel to The Reincarnationist Papers (recently adapted into the Mark Wahlberg film, Infinite), Evan Michaels is in a new life in Syria when memories of his former lives draw him back to Zurich, where his fellow reincarnationists are headquartered. But a new faction among their kind appears. An excommunicated member with vast resources sees a different future for the planet. And a war between the immortals, with Evan right at the centre, seems inevitable in D. Eric Maikranz’s The Cognomina Codex.
Genres Science Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Crime, Metaphysical
Author D. Eric Maikranz | Home born Evansville, Indiana; Lives Colorado, US
Publisher Blackstone Publishing | Buy it
The Foxglove King
Hannah Whitten, 7 March 2023
Book 1 in Hannah Whitten’s brand-new romantic epic fantasy The Nightshade Crown series, The Foxglove King introduces us to a young woman with the secret and rare gift of raising the dead. When caught out, though, she’s not burnt but instead called to the king – seems there’s a blight affecting the outskirts of the kingdom, and talents just like hers are needed. But can she navigate the intricacies of the king’s court, now to mention the politics and the devout religious? Her power is of darkness, after all, and the darkness she was running from is now starting to catch up.
Genres Fantasy, Romance, Adult, LGBTQ, Young Adult, Magic, High Fantasy
Author Hannah Whitten | Home Tennessee, US
Publisher Orbit | Buy it
The Queen’s Price
Ann Bishop, 7 March 2023
The 12th book in Ann Bishop’s Black Jewels series sees three young women pushed within the powerful monarchic SaDiablo family to a point where they must choose to pay the Queen’s price – the ultimate sacrifice of self for what you believe is right. Life at court doesn’t come easily to Zoey, the would-be queen. But an alliance with one everyone warns her against might just be her price. While witch Jillian risks revealing a terrible secret and the High Lord of Hell’s daughter, Saetien, embarks on a quest for her own truth. In Anne Bishop’s The Queen’s Price.
Genres Fantasy, High Fantasy, Romance, Dark Fantasy
Author Anne Bishop | Home New York, US
Publisher Penguin | Buy it
The Faithless
CL Clark, 7 March 2023
Book 2 of CL Clark’s Magic of the Lost trilogy, The Faithless sees Qazal rebels victorious against the empire. But that freedom might be shortlived as warrior Touraine discovers leading a nation is different from leading a rebellion. At the same time, empress heir Luca must reclaim her throne from her usurping uncle, yet her allies are all slowly disappearing from her side. She might have to work with Touraine, overcoming their history and heartbreak if anyone is to have their freedom.
Genres Fantasy, LGBTQ, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Romance
Author CL Clark | Home Amsterdam, Netehrlands
Publisher Hachette UK | Buy it
Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology
7 March 2023
And, for something a little different in sci-fi and fantasy books in March, Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology is as the name suggests a collection of entirely new short stories in famous worlds of 17-odd great fantasy authors. It includes Patricia Briggs with a Mercy Thompson and Alpha & Omega story and Jim Butcher with something unseen from The Dresden Files. Etc. With a bit of a twist – these stories focus on the creatures who fight alongside some of your favourite heroes. Catch Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology.
Genres Anthology, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Authors numerous, including LJ Hachmeister, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs
Publisher Source 7 Productions | Buy it
Mountains Made Of Glass
Scarlett St Clair, 7 March 2023
The first book in Scarlett St Clair’s new Fairy Tale Retelling series, Mountains Made of Glass puts an exciting new spin on the Brothers Grimm classic The Frog Prince with overtones of Beauty and the Beast. Gisela lives in a town troubled by curses, each to be broken by a resident. And when the town well dries up and it’s her turn to dispel the curse by killing the toad that lives in the water, things get complicated by the fact that he’s not really a toad but an elven prince suffering a curse of his own – or so the toad claims. She doesn’t wait to find out, though, killing the poor toad. But now his brothers come to seek revenge by kidnapping her to live with their seventh brother, known only as the Beast. All in Scarlett St Clair’s Mountains Made of Glass.
Genres Fantasy, Retelling, Romance
Author Scarlett St Clair | Home Oklahoma City, US
Publisher Bloom Books | Buy it
The Medici Manuscript
CJ Archer, 7 March 2023
The second book in CJ Archer’s gaslamp Glass Library series, The Medici Manuscript sees Sylvia discover a book that could hold the keys to understanding her family history (and their special kind of magic) in an attic in the old Italian city of Florence. Trusting others isn’t easy, and confiding in Gabe is hard. But when the book suddenly disappears it rends the two (and Sylvia’s heart – for how can she tear herself away from one so magnetic?), and they must act fast before its secrets are lost forever.
Genres Fantasy, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Books About Books
Author CJ Archer | Home Melbourne, Australia
Publisher CJ Archer | Buy it
Conquer The Kingdom
Jennifer Estep, 7 March 2023
The finale in Jennifer Estep’s Gargoyle Queen trilogy, Conquer the Kingdom sees crown princess Gemma struggle to maintain the normal day-to-day with a powerful enemy still out there plotting against her kingdom. Not even the enticing Prince Leonidas can keep her mind off it; when the Sword and Shield tournament brings warriors from every corner of the kingdom into the capital. As the kingdom seems to be slipped from her grasp, there’s nothing for it but for Gemma to dig deep and uncover the true secret of her latent magic.
Genres Fantasy, Magic, Romance, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance
Author Jennifer Estep | Home Southern USA
Publisher Harper Voyager | Buy it
The Primal Hunter 5
Zogarth, 10 March 2023
For something very different and very special in sci-fi and fantasy books in March, The Primal Hunter is a popular new Literary RPG series. That is: a new genre that’s a mix between a book and a role-playing game, with classes, levels the works. You can read it as a book, though you have to make some choices along the way, and the stories are compelling. In the 5th LitRPG by enigmatic self-publisher and creator Zogarth, “earthling” Jake continues his quest through the multiverse, this time against the vampires and the land of Yalsten itself as all the major factions of earth descend on the cursed land in search of treasure, in The Primal Hunter 5.
Genres LitRPG, Literary Role-Playing Game, Fantasy, Dystopian, Apocalyptic, Urban Fantasy Author Zogarth Publisher Independent | Buy it
When He’s Torn
Suzanne Wright, 10 March 2023
The fifth book in Suzanne Wright’s The Olympus Pride series, When He’s Torn sees snake-shifter Bailey and cat-shifter Deke dance around between love and hate. Until a typical shapeshifter phase known as touch fever forces usually grumpy Deke to let his guard down, tangling the duo up in an affair no one might have seen coming.
Genres Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Adult, Shapeshifters, Urban Fantasy
Author Suzanne Wright | Home England, UK
Publisher Tantor Media & Independent | Buy it
Feed Them Silence
Lee Mandelo, 14 March 2023
A scientific researcher develops a neurological interface to link her mind to that of a wild wolf. You know, to satisfy both her research needs and lifelong obsession with life in a wolfpack. The forest, true freedom, even the taste of a fresh kill – but especially the sense of belonging to the pack. These will all be hers. Except that it all comes at a terrible cost to her marriage. Herself and the poor creature she must inhabit. But how can she possibly stop now?
Genres Horror, Science Fiction, Novella, Adult, LGBTQ, Fantasy, Short Stories
Author Lee Mandelo | Home Lexington, Kentucky, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
Proud Pink Sky
Redfern Jon Barrett, 14 March 2023
What would a gay country be like? With pride parades, complete sexual freedom and even an official gay language? Teens William and Gareth have been dreaming from afar of visiting the world’s first gay state – especially hoping to find a place for themselves in its central metropolis, Berlin. While inside the city, new mom Cissie has never left her heterosexual district. Until she discovers a hidden slum where the city’s trans culture flourishes. Redfern Jon Barrett challenges assumptions of sex, gender and belonging in his trademark “ambitopian” (at once utopian and dystopian) style in Proud Pink Sky.
Genres Historical, Science Fiction, LGBTQ
Author Redfern Jon Barrett | Home Berlin, Germany
Publisher Amble Press | Buy it
Bitter Medicine
Mia Tsai, 14 March 2023
In a contemporary paranormal fantasy debut, Taiwanese-American author Mia Tsai explores the lives of an underperforming and underappreciated Chinese magical calligrapher and a French half-elf security expert with a secret. The duo form a partnership, rendering both of them perhaps more effective, but, as with any modern tale, they yearn to be free of the daily grind. Problem is the “agency” they work for is no mortal outfit. And freedom might cost much more than either of them have to sacrifice.
Genres Fantasy, Romance, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Magic, LGBTQ
Author Mia Tsai | Home Atlanta, US
Publisher Tachyon Publications | Buy it
The Ashes And The Star-Cursed King
Carissa Broadbent, 15 March 2023
There’s not much info on Carissa Broadbent’s second novel in her Crowns of Nyaxia series, The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King. Other than that it follows from the Nightborn vampire king’s adopted human daughter Oraya and ruthless killer Raihn, who competed together in the legendary Kejari tournament. And now, the duo might be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of love and power. Though the release date is still uncertain for Carissa Broadbent’s The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King.
Genres Fantasy, Romance, Vampires, Paranormal, Adult, High Fantasy, Supernatural
Author Carissa Broadbent | Home Rhode Island, US
Publisher Independent | Buy it
Beyond The Reach Of Earth
Ken MacLeod, 21 March 2023
Book 2 in the Lightspeed Trilogy, Beyond the Reach of Earth sees the inevitable results of mankind developing faster-than-light travel – ancient aliens awake to keep us in check. John Grant reaches the Apis system, but there seems to be more than the alien Fermi here. White Alliance agent Marcus Owen sets out to communicate with the strange beings in the rocks first before anyone else can get to them. Prepare for gripping first-contact and dark conspiracies among the stars in Ken MacLeod’s Beyond the Reach of Earth.
Genres Science Fiction, Space Opera
Author Ken MacLeod | Home born Scotland; lives Boston, US
Publisher Orbit | Buy it
Overlord, Vol. 15
Kugane Maruyama, 21 March 2023
And for something a little different… Overlord is a long-running light novel series (part manga, part novel), translated into English from Japanese. It’s the story of an Ainz (a former human game player who remained logged into his favourite game when the servers shut off, and the entire game world got remade into reality in another realm). This time, Ainz, Aura and Mare travel to elf country for a bit of R&R, unknowing that the Slane Theocracy plans to overthrow the elves in preparation for war with the Nation of Darkness.
Genres Manga, Anime, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Author Kugane Maruyama | Home Japan
Publisher Yen On | Buy it
The Great Unmaking
21 March 2023
The third and final book in Brian Nelson’s The Course of Empire series sees General Chip Walden in control of the world’s most powerful military technology. Scientist Eric Hill is haunted by premonitions of disaster as the tech turns and takes on a life of its own. And even as FBI Special Agent Bud Brown pursues the eco-terrorists responsible for heinous murders, the apocalypse seems to become inevitable – it might no longer be about how to stop it, but who – if any – can survive the coming disaster in Brian Nelson’s The Great Unmaking.
Genres Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, War, Political, Adventure
Author Brian Nelson | Home born Ohio; lives Denver, Colorado, US
Publisher Blackstone Publishing | Buy it
The Sinister Booksellers Of Bath
Garth Nix, 21 March 2023
The sequel to Garth Nix’s The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, The Sinister Booksellers of Bath sees the booksellers who police the Old World troubled by an entity in the hot springs of Bath. And when a sorcerous map gets left-handed bookseller Merlin in deep trouble, a rescue attempt by his right-handed bookseller sister, Vivien, and art student Susan Arkshaw sees the trio transported to a realm of deadly sorcery and monstrous living statues. The first step in a long journey to uncover the secrets of the deadly Ancient Sovereign now threatening everything in the world of mortals and magic.
Genres Fantasy, Young Adult, Urban Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Magic, Historical, Suspense
Author Garth Nix | Home born Melbourne,; lives Sydney, Australia
Publisher Harper Collins | Buy it
The Witch And The Vampire: A Novel
Francesca Flores, 21 March 2023
A standalone Rapunzel retelling in sci-fi and fantasy books of March, Francesca Flores’s The Witch and the Vampire follows two childhood best friends grown apart. Kaye has just graduated as a flame witch and is determined to prove herself by ridding the town of vampires. While Ava never graduated, because she was attacked and turned into a vampire in a tragic accident. Now, as Ava flees the village for refuge in the ancient woods, Kaye joins her with a promise of friendship (a lie, she wants to turn her in herself). But the woods are deadly – man-eating trees, vicious vampires attacking from above and Ava’s hunters at their heels. And with every step, Kaye begins to question more and more the truth of everything she was led to believe about witches and vampires.
Genres Fantasy, Lesbian, Young Adult, LGBTQ, Romance, Retellings, Vampires, Witches, Paranormal
Author Francesca Flores | Home San Francisco, US
Publisher St. Martin’s | Buy it
We Dream Of Gods
Devin Madson, 211 March 2023
The fourth and final book in Devin Madson’s The Reborn Empire series, We Dream of Gods sees the fate of the world decided when gods and men go to war. Dethroned Empress Miko Ts’ai has a dangerous plan to retake her empire. Rah e’Torin is at the head of a group of Swords again. Cassandra Marius’ mind is no longer her own. And Dishiva e’Jaroven must give up everything in order to gain the power to win a new homeland in We Dream of Gods.
Genres Fantasy, Adult
Author Devin Madson | Home Australia
Publisher Orbit | Buy it
The Lies Of The Ajungo
Moses Ose Utomi, 21 March 2023
In Nigerian-American author Moses Ose Utomi’s debut novella in sci-fi and fantasy books in March, The Lies of the Ajungo, a young boy convinces their chief to disobey the terrifying Ajungo Empire by giving his mother some water illegally. In return, he will set out into the desert and bring back enough water for everyone – an easy promise to make because any fate will be better than waiting for the Ajungo to arrive and take him as a sacrifice for the water. Yet he doesn’t plan on leaving anyone to their fate. He will be back with water and salvation.
Genres Fantasy, Novella, Adult, Science Fiction, High Fantasy, Short Stories, Dystopia, Africa
Author Moses Ose Utomi | Home Honolulu, Hawaii, US
Publisher Tor.com | Buy it
Smolder
Laurell K Hamilton, 21 March 2023
Book 29 in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, Laurell K Hamilton’s Smolder sees monster-killing necromancer and Preternatural US Marshall Anita begin preparations to marry none other than the new vampire king Jean-Claude. But a new and ancient evil is revealed as a spate of bloodcurdling killings (human and monster) sweeps across the country to arrive in St Louis, just in time to challenge the would-be happy couple’s union, in Smolder.
Genres Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Shapeshifters, LGBTQ
Author Laurell K Hamilton | Home born Arkansas; lives St Louis, Missouri, US
Publisher Berkley | Buy it
A Kingdom Of Venom And Vows
Holly Renee, 23 March 2023
Some more romance amongst these sci-fi and fantasy books of March 2023. The final book in Holly Renee’s spicy Stars and Shadows series sees once-reluctant Adara come into her own. Once the plaything of princes, manipulated and forced against her own heart and desires into a toxic union with one who is only after her latent power (even if she’s always refused to accept or wield it). What will Evren give to finally come and steal her away?
Genres Fantasy, Romance, Fae, Vampires, High Fantasy, Paranormal
Author Holly Renee | Home Maryville Tennessee
Publisher Holly Renee Publishing | Buy it
A House With Good Bones
T Kingfisher, 23 March 2023
T Kingfisher’s new Southern Gothic-style contemporary horror mystery A House With Good Bones sees young woman Sam excited to return to her North Carolina childhood home for an extended visit with her mom. But all is not well. The warmth is gone from the house. And her mother is constantly on edge and looking over her shoulder as vultures circle the garden. When Sam starts discovering horrifying clues to the mystery of what’s up with her mom and this house, things start to unfold that could make her wish she never started asking questions.
Genres Horror, Gothic, Fantasy, Adult, Mystery, Paranormal, Thriller
Author T Kingfisher | Home North Carolina, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
And Put Away Childish Things
Adrian Tchaikovsky, 28 March 2023
It seems that nothing failing kids’ TV presenter Harry Bodie does can further his career. And the act that he has a famous grandmother who wrote a hit children’s book series set in a fantastical place called Underhill seems to be more of a hindrance than a help. Until Harry gets mysteriously called to the delightful fantasy world of Underhill. Which isn’t very delightful at all. Find out in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s novella, And Put Away Childish Things.
Genres Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adult, Novella
Author Adrian Tchaikovsky | Home born Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire; lives Leeds, UK
Publisher Simon Schuster | Buy it
Herrick’s Lie
TM Blanchet, 28 March 2023
The 2nd book in the Neath trilogy, Herrick’s Lie sees Ollie troubled again by approaching doom. This time, everyone’s at risk because of him, and he has to brave the deep dark waters of a foreboding underground lake to stand any kind of chance at setting things right.
Genres Fantasy, Young Adult
Author TM Blanchet | Home Massachusetts, US
Publisher Tiny Fox Press | Buy it
Forever
JR Ward, 28 March 2023
Book no 2 in The Lair of the Wolven series, Forever sees clanless Lydia and US operative Daniel finally together only to realise that he is terminally ill. And when the compound they’re in comes under attack, Daniel has no doubt it’s his former boss and has to summon all his strength to protect Lydia, even it means this is the last time they’ll see each other.
Genres Paranormal, Romance, Shapeshifters, Fantasy, Werewolves, Urban Fantasy, Vampires
Author JR Ward | Home Louisville, Kentucky, US
Publisher Pocket Books | Buy it
The Fairy Bargains Of Prospect Hill
Rowenna Miller, 28 March 2023
Through the years, people have forgotten the secrets of what lay beyond the hills. And when Alaine’s sister confides in her that her husband is not the man she thought, she must find a way to help free her sister from her vows. But mere human ways won’t do. Luckily, she still remembers some of the old songs and wisdom of trading goods for favours with the fae folk of Prospect Hill. And small favours seem to work to buy them time. But true freedom might cost more than anyone’s willing to sacrifice.
Genres Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Fairies, Fae, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy
Author Rowenna Miller | Home Midwest, US
Publisher Redhook | Buy it
Vigil’s Balance
James A Hunter, 28 March 2023
Another special addition to these sci-fi and fantasy books of March 2023, is more awesome literary RPG! Book 3 in James A Hunter’s popular LitRPG series Vigil Bound. Vigil’s Balance sees Boyd Knight forced to join the Fae Queen of Oblivion’s deadly wyld hunt. To refuse is to die, but undertaking the quest might not be much different. Can he navigate the treacherous politics of the fae court?
Genres LitRPG, Literary Role-Playing Game, Fantasy, Mystery, Fae
Author James A Hunter | Home bone Denver, Colorado; lives Lexington, Kentucky, US
Publisher Shadow Alley Press | Buy it
The Gargoyle’s Captive
Katee Robert, 28 March 2023
The third instalment in Katee Robert’s steamy A Deal With a Demon series, The Gargoyle’s Captive sees determined monster hunter Grace allow herself to be taken as captive to the demon realm in order to find her long lost mother (who’d done the same many years ago). Problem is she can’t get away, and her mind gets fuzzier as her captor finds and seduces her again and again…
Genres Romance, Fantasy, Monsters, Adult, Paranormal, Demons
Author Katee Robert | Home Pacific Northwest, US
Publisher Trinkets and Tales | Buy it
What Lurks Between The Fates
Harper L Woods, 28 March 2023
Book 3 in the Of Flesh & Bone series, What Lurks Between the Fates sees Estrella captured for the sake of Caldris by the vicious Queen of Air & Darkness, who keeps her purely because no one still knows who she truly is. But her and Caldris’ freedom might yet come at a very high price.
Genres Fantasy, Romance, Fae, Magic, Fairies, Paranormal, High Fantasy, Dark
Author Harper L Woods | Home US
Publisher Adelaide Forrest | Buy it
Lady Of Starfire
Melissa K Roehrich, 30 March 2023
Rounding up our sci-fi and fantasy books of March 2023, the fifth book in the Lady of Darkness series, Lady of Starfire sees Scarlett Sutara Aditya prepare for the final battle of her realm. The cost of which might be more than anyone can bear, but there might ye again be a glimmer of hope, as before in darkness, this time salvation could come from the stars.
Genres Fantasy, Fae, Romance, Magic, Adult, New Adult, Paranormal, Vampires
Author Melissa K Roehrich | Home North Dakota, US
Publisher Tractors & Heels | Buy it
Wild Massive
Scotto Moore, out now
Prepare for a breakneck, genre-bending ride through countless worlds with Scotto Moore’s trademark wildly imaginative fiction and wit. Carissa is a bit of an elevator-hermit who’s content to just travel between the floor-worlds of the infinite Building, never actually visiting any. But when a mysterious stranger intent on saving many worlds lands on top of her elevator, she’s forced into the Wild Massive network of equally bewildering, shall we say… theme parks? In Wild Massive.
Genres Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adult, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy
Author Scotto Moore | Home Seattle, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
Encore In Death
JD Robb, out now
Something different: The 56th book in the Eve Dallas In Death series, the romantic murder-mystery-style Encore in Death sees detective Eve called to a Hollywood celebrity couple’s A-lister event after the husband dropped dead after raising a toast. Problem is the drink was intended for his wife, and with so many attendees, staff and servers in one place, it’s quite a task figuring out who planted the poison. Not to mention Eve’s aversion to the limelight amongst all these glitterati in JD Robb’s Encore in Death.
Genres Science Fiction, Romance, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Crime
Author JD Robb | Home born Boonsboro, Maryland, US
Publisher St. Martin’s Press | Buy it
These Infinite Threads
Tahereh Mafi, 7 February 2023
The sequel to Tahereh Mafi’s best-selling This Woven Kingdom, These Infinite Threads sees Alizeh, the heir to the Jinn throne, and Kamran, the heir to the human throne, fall in love. But as a murderous foe kills Kamran’s family (leaving him perhaps the human king) and kidnaps Alizeh, Kamram must hurry to find her and undo the devil’s deal – that is unless she’s already become the new Jinn queen. In These Infinite Threads.
Genres Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Mythology, High Fantasy
Author Tahereh Mafi | Home born Connecticut, lives Santa Monica, California, US
Publisher HarperCollins | buy it
Seven Faceless Saints
MK Lobb, 7 February 2023
In her debut novel, M.K. Lobb paints a picture of a dark city ruled by saints and disciples. A rule which, after her father’s death, rebel Rossana is determined to end, even if it means confronting the disillusioned security captain who broke her heart, Damian. In fact, as a murderer rakes up victims in the city streets, Rossana and Damian are forced to work together as terrible darkness closes in, in Seven Faceless Saints.
Genres Fantasy, Young Adult, Mystery, LGBTQ, Thriller, Dark Fantasy
Author MK Lobb | Home Canada
Publisher Little, Brown Books | Buy it
The Cradle Of Ice
James Rollins, 7 February 2023
The second book in his Moonfall series, James Rollins brings us back to the unlikely fellowship of a soldier, a thief, a lost prince and a young girl who set out in the middle of great wars to stop the coming apocalypse. But now, just as their binds seem strongest, the group must split up and brave a vast new world of ice and legend, before time runs out.
Genres Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic
Author James Rollins | Home born Chicago, Illinois; lives Sacramento, California, US
Publisher Tor Books | buy it
World Running Down
Al Hess, out now
Prolific artist and self-publisher Al Hess brings a story of a dystopian Utah salvager who faces salt pirates to eke out a living and dreams of one day making it to Salt Lake City where the transgender medical procedures he needs are accessible. And he gets just such a chance, but in order to make his dreams come true, he has to do the unconscionable: destroy his found family and betray sentient AIs into a life of slavery in World Running Down.
Genres Science Fiction, LGBTQ, Adult, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
Author Al Hess | Home US
Publisher Angry Robot | Buy it
The Tyranny Of Faith
Richard Swan, out now
In the second book in Richard Swan’s Empire of the Wolf series, Sir Konrad Vonvalt returns from battle to a capital city in the throes of a rebellion stirring against the Emperor. And, charged with locating the Empire’s kidnapped prince, Vonvalt and allies Helena, Bressinger and Sir Radomir must head south to face the templar knights – and a perhaps more terrifying dark power than any could have imagined in The Tyranny of Faith.
Genres Fantasy, Adult, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy
Author Richard Swan | Home born Yorkshire, UK; lives Sydney, Australia
Publisher Orbit | Buy it
Star Wars: The Battle Of Jedha
George Mann,14 February 2023
Part of the multimedia Star Wars: The High Republic project, The Battle of Jedha follows on from 2022’s Convergence. Jedi travel to the moon of Jedha, a place where the Jedi are just one of many factions who study the force. But their presence here stirs trouble, perhaps big enough to ignite a war that could engulf the whole galaxy. (You might remember the battle of Jedha from the Star Wars movie Rogue One; see it from a new angle in the all-new Star Wars: The Battle of Jedha.
Genres Star Wars, Science Fiction, Adult, Space Opera, Canon
Author George Mann | Home born Darlington; lives Lincolnshire, UK
Publisher Random House Worlds | Buy it
Hopeland
Ian McDonald, 14 February 2023
Part love story, part tech thriller, Hopeland is a picaresque novel that starts with two people who meet during the London riots. But their love cannot be because he is “cursed”, and they are doomed to circle each other at a distance for years through events that shape the 21st century and their manifold ties to one family in Ian McDonald’s Hopeland.
Genres Science Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author Ian McDonald | Home born Manchester, lives Belfast, Ireland
Publisher Tor Books | Buy it
The Last Tale Of The Flower Bride
Roshani Chokshi, 14 February 2023
In a chilling Mexican Gothic style, this book is the story of a scholar of myths who accompanies his mysterious wife to her childhood home, where the house itself seems to want to tell him something important about his bride. If only he can manage to distinguish reality from fantasy in The Last Tale of the Flower Bride.
Genres Fantasy, Gothic, Adult, Horror, Romance, Mystery, Thriller
Author Roshani Chokshi | Home born Saint Louis, Missouri; lives Georgia, US
Publisher HarperCollins | buy it
The Cage Of Dark Hours
Marina Lostletter, 14 February 2023
The second book in Lostetter’s The Five Penalties epic fantasy series, The Cage of Dark Hours sees Krona and her Regulators survive defeating a back-from-the-dead serial killer, but new information about the dark forces that control their world will drive them to battle the elite and fend off beasts from beyond the foggy barrier, all in search of the truth behind the children’s story of the Thalo, the legendary quiet, creeping puppet masters who control it all in The Cage of Dark Hours.
Genres Fantasy, Horror, Adult, Epic Fantasy, Mystery, High Fantasy
Author Marina Lostletter | Home born Oregon; lives Arkansas, US
Publisher Tor Books | Buy it
The Jaguar Path
Anna Stephens, 16 February 2023
The next instalment in Anna Stephens’s Songs of the Drowned series sees the lands of Ixachipan controlled by the Empire of Songs’ hypnotic, magical music. All the rebels are dispersed and Xessa, Lilla and Tayan are ensnared in the empire’s machinations to fully control the populace and use them for its future battles. Yet each of them still harbours a secret hope, waiting for a chance to strike at the Empire from within.
Genres Fantasy, Dark Fantasy
Author Anna Stephens | Home UK
Publisher HarperVoyager | buy it
Arch-Conspirator
Veronica Roth, 21 February 2023
In this sci-fi retelling of the Sophoclean (441 BC Greek) story Antigone, the heroine (by the same name) and her siblings are taken in by her militant uncle Kreon, who takes her father’s throne after the death of her parents. But Antigone soon realises the siblings are here more as captives than family, Ad it’s time to test the strength of their gilded cage in Veronica Roth’s Arch-Conspirator.
Genres Science Fiction, Fantasy, Retellings, Adult, Dystopia, Mythology, Science Fiction Fantasy
Author Veronica Roth | Home born New York; lives Chicago, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | buy it
The Iron Wolf
Siri Pettersen, 21 February 2023
In the first book in the new Vardari series by The Raven Rings trilogy author Siri Pettersen, Juva, born of the swindlers they call blood readers detests her heritage. But the threat of the ageless vardari sets her on a course to rediscover the ancient blood reader legacy that once changed the world, and she might change her mind yet if she can confront the terrifying childhood memory she fought so long and hard to forget in The Iron Wolf.
Genres Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Mythology, Scandinavian, Romance, Werewolves
Author Siri Pettersen | Home born Finnsnes; lives Søgne, Norway
Publisher Arctis | Buy it
Fallout
Nicholas Sansbury Smith, 28 February 2023
The 10th book in the Hell Divers series, Fallout sees the aftermath of a traitorous nuclear explosion in Brisbane threatening the few remaining hell divers and human castle-settlements in the area, while carnivorous vines strike in Panama, betrayal rocks the Vanguard Islands and lethal radiation seeps out to destroy the last vestiges of humanity in Nicholas Sansbury Smith’s Fallout.
Genres Science Fiction, Dystopia, Pot Apocalyptic, Technothriller
Author Nicholas Sansbury Smith | Home Iowa, US
Publisher Blackstone Publishing | Buy it
A Day Of Fallen Night
Samantha Shannon, 28 February 2023
A standalone prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree, part of The Roots of Chaos series, Samantha Shannon’s A Day of Fallen Night shows the course of events that changed the lives of four women – wyrm-slaying priory sister, queen and princess, and a devout trying to raise the gods from their slumber – and the age of terror and violence that will echo through their world for generations to come.
Genres Fantasy, Adult, LGBTQ, High Fantasy, Dragons, Romance, Science Fiction Fantasy
Author Samantha Shannon | Home London, UK
Publisher Bloomsbury | Buy it
The Magician’s Daughter
HG Parry, 28 February 2023
Washed up on the shores of a legendary Irish island hidden by magic as a baby, Hy-Brasil and her guardian, the mercurial magician Rowan, is all that Biddy has ever known. But, when one day Rowan fails to return from his mysterious travels, Biddy must venture into the outside world for the first time to face the powerful enemies who’ve set against Rowan and, unwittingly, Biddy herself in The Magician’s Daughter.
Genres Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Adult, Magic, Magical Realism
Author HG Parry | Home Wellington, New Zealand
Publisher Hachette | Buy it
Emperor Of Ruin
Django Wexler, 28 February 2023
The third and final book in Django Wexler’s epic Burningblade & Silvereye series, Emperor of Ruin sees siblings Gyre and Maya reunite old allies from across The Splinter Kingdoms and Deepfire, as well as locate a legendary hidden weapon, to take down Ashok and Twilight Order once and for all.
Genres Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Adult, LGBTQ
Author Django Wexler | Home Seattle, US
Publisher Hachette | Buy it
The Crane Husband
Kelly Barnhill, 28 February 2023
This retelling of the Japanese folklore tale “The Crane Wife” sees a fifteen-year-old has to grow up pretty fast to take up most of the responsibilities on the farm, including raising her young brother. This while her mother, an artist, becomes aloof and engaged in weaving tapestries. Until one day Mom brings home a menacing new “friend”, a six-foot tall crane who commands the woman’s heart and demands she weaves a very specific tapestry, in Kelly Barnhill’s The Crane Husband.
Genres Science Fiction Fantasy, Horror, Magical Realism, Retellings, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Fairy Tales
Author Kelly Barnhill | Home Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
The End And The Death: Volume I
Dan Abnett, 28 February 2023
And for something a little less traditional, legendary comic book writer Dan Abnett is releasing a hardcover version of the 8th book in the Warhammer 40,000 The Horus Heresy series. for Games Workshop. Horus Lupercal, aka the Warmaster, has defeated the legions protecting the empire. And now, with the gates flung open, there is nothing that can stop him from doing what he came for – to end the tyranny, to murder the emperor, his father. This is it, The End and the Death.
Genres Science Fiction, Space Opera, Space Fleet, Adventure
Author Dan Abnett | Home Kent, UK
Publisher Games Workshop | Buy it
More Recent New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
The Stolen Heir
Holly Black, 3 Jan 2023
The first of two new Elfhame books, Holly Black’s new Young Adult novel sees Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, hiding from her royal past in the human world. But her charming, beautiful and manipulative former betrothed, Prince Oak, finds her and has a proposition. Can she guard her heart, avoid the horrors she sought to leave behind and face a new threat from Lady Nore’s icy north? All in The Stolen Heir.
Genre Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Fae, Fairies, Fantasy Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
Author Holly Black | Home born New Jersey, US; lives Amherst, Massachusetts, US
Publisher Bonnier Zaffre Ltd. | Buy it
A Ruinous Fate
Kaylie Smith, 3 Jan 2023
Kaylie Smith’s debut novel follows Calliope Rosewood. Cursed with such terrifying powers, she’d been forced to desert her coven and live on the run from a secret prophecy: that she would be the one to destroy the world and her people, and eradicate magic forever. But now, there might be a chance to alter her fate – though she’ll have to face many new temptations and ultimately decide if choosing what’s best for herself is worth damning everyone else, in A Ruinous Fate.
Genre Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Witches, LGBTQ, Paranormal
Author Kaylie Smith | Home Louisiana, US
Publisher Disney Hyperion | Buy it
Unseelie
Ivelisse Housman, 3 Jan 2023
In her debut novel, Ivelisse Housman weaves a YA fantasy tale about two sisters. One is a professional thief and the other a changeling – both on the run for different reasons. The thief is in pursuit of a legendary treasure, while the changeling is seeking answers about her true identity and a sense of belonging among both the fae who created her and the humans who reject her, in Housman’s Unseelie.
Genre Fantasy, Young Adult, Fae, Disability, Fairies, Autistic, Romance, Paranormal
Author Ivelisse Housman | Home Blue Ridge Mountains, US
Publisher Harlequin | Buy it
Song Of Silver, Flame Like Night
Amélie Wen Zhao, 3 Jan 2023
What a treat! This new xianxia duology (Chinese fantasy inspired by Buddhism, Taoism and mythology) sees Lan struggling to uncover the secrets of her colonised kingdom’s past – because they might hold clues to the hidden powers within herself. Aided by magician Zen, she journeys to the Last Kingdom in search of answers and a way to overthrow their oppressors. But they must confront their own secrets as they unearth the potential for great power, as it could just as easily liberate their land as bring about its destruction. More in Song of Silver, Flame Like Night.
Genre Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Dragons, High Fantasy, Magic, Asian Literature
Author Amélie Wen Zhao | Home childhood Beijing, China; lives New York, US
Publisher Random House Children’s Books | Buy it
Hell Bent
Leigh Bardugo,10 Jan 2023
Billed as one of Amazon’s most recommended new books of 2023, the second instalment in Bardugo’s Alex Stern series sees Alex hellbent on breaking Darlington out of purgatory. But she can’t call on the university’s Ninth House (from the first book, set to be adapted by Amazon Studios into the new Ninth House TV show) this time and must assemble a rogue squad of dubious allies to help decipher the secrets to accomplishing this feat. When university faculty members start to die off, though, she realises there’s more to this than meets the eye. In Hell Bent.
Genre Fantasy, Adult, Mystery, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Thriller, Horror, New Adult
Author Leigh Bardugo | Home born Jerusalem, Israel; lives US
Publisher Flatiron Books | Buy it
The Daughters Of Izdihar
Hadeer Elsbai, 10 Jan 2023
Hadeer Elsbai’s debut novel is the first in a duology set in a modern-Egyptian-inspired world where Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat, and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker, discover they have more in common than they thought. They want to stand up for women’s rights. And they both can wield forbidden elemental magic to do it. Look out for The Daughters of Izdihar.
Genre Fantasy, Young Adult, LGBT, Adult, Urban Fantasy
Author Hadeer Elsbai | Home Queens, New York, US
Publisher HarperCollins | Buy it
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia Of Faeries
Heather Fawcett, 10 Jan 2023
A Cambridge professor’s quest to create the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore leads to the small town of Hrafnsvik. A rival academic, Wendell Bambleby, charms the townspeople and hampers her search. But the investigation into the Hidden Ones also yields clues about Wendell’s true intentions. And to solve that mystery, Emily must confront her own feelings.
Genre Fantasy, Romance, Adult, Historical Fiction, Fairies, Magic
Author Heather Fawcett | Home Vancouver, Canada
Publisher Random House Worlds | Buy it
City Of Nightmares
Rebecca Schaeffer, 10 Jan 2023
This YA fantasy set in a Gotham-like city run by crooked politicians and sinister cults sees a cowardly girl embroiled in a criminal syndicate conspiracy. But this city is also a place where dreaming means becoming your worst nightmare – like in Strange the Dreamer. And clearing her name will mean confronting terrible monsters, including some of her own in this City of Nightmares.
Genre Fantasy, Young Adult, Horror, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Vampires, Dystopia, Dark
Author Rebecca Schaeffer | Home Canada
Publisher HarperCollins | Buy it
Lost In The Moment And Found
Seanan McGuire, 10 Jan 2023
Can lost innocence be reclaimed? Even discovering the place where all lost things go, Antoinette cannot find the one thing she is looking for, in Seanan McGuire’s standalone novella, Lost in the Moment and Found.
Genre Fantasy, Young Adult, Novella, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Magical Realism, LGBTQ
Author Seanan McGuire | Home California, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
Barrow Of Winter
HM Long, 17 Jan 2023
When an endless and maddening night cloaks the frozen northern land, the last Daughter of Winter returns from her new home in the warm southern lands to see her former people and siblings teetering on the brink of mad violence. It will take everything she has to prevent the madness from spreading. And do so before the spring winds blow, for then the sons and daughters of Winter will bring her southland to its knees, in Barrow of Winter.
Genre Adult, High Fantasy
Author HM Long | Home Ontario, Canada
Publisher Titan | Buy it
(Set yourself a reminder on this page: Barrow of Winter release date.)
The Keeper’s Six
Kate Elliott, 17 Jan 2023
Space, time, dragonlords – they have nothing on this parent’s love. Even being banned from travelling the “Beyond” can’t stop spell-slinger mother Esther from assembling her magical party to go into it and find her captured son in The Keeper’s Six.
Genre Fantasy, Dragons, Adult, Science Fiction, Magic
Author Kate Elliott | Home Hawaii, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
Godkiller
Hannah Kaner, 19 Jan 2023
A former champion of the god wars must trick a slayer of gods, a young girl and an unkillable god into coming back to the city of fallen shrines – without any of them figuring out the reason for this strange new quest. All in the new fantasy book, Hannah Kaner’s Godkiller.
Genre Fantasy, Adult, Mythology, LGBTQ, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Young Adult
Author Hannah Kaner | Home United Kingdom
Publisher HarperCollins UK | Buy it
The House At The End Of The World
Dean Koontz, 24 Jan 2023
Embattled artist Katie lives ensconced in her fortress-like island home when a terrible secret from a nearby island turns her world upside down. And soon Katie’s embroiled in a terrifying battle against an omnipresent terror that might just threaten to bring about the end of the world. Discover it in Dean Koontz’s new book, The House at the End of the World.
Genre Science Fiction Horror, Thriller
Author Dean Koontz | Home born Everett, Pennsylvania; lives Newport Coast, California, US
Publisher Amazon Publishing | Buy it
The Infinite
Ada Hoffmann, 24 Jan 2023
The third and final book in Ada Hoffmann’s The Outside series sees the chaos-ravaged planet Jai in dire peril. But a new prophecy claims Yasira Shien can save everyone by sacrificing herself. And now, as ancient enemies close in, it’s a desperate race to find an alternative in The Infinite.
Genre Science Fiction, LGBTQ
Author Ada Hoffmann | Home Ontaria, Canada
Publisher Angry Robot | Buy it
Spice Road
Maiya Ibrahim, 24 Jan 2023
In the first book of an epic fantasy series set in an Arabian-inspired world, 16-year-old Imani must use her skills and knowledge of secret spice magic to protect her nation from the monsters lurking in the sands. When her brother, the person she trusts most, betrays the country and becomes its greatest threat, Imani is determined to find him and bring him back to the right path, in Maiya Ibrahim’s Spice Road.
Genre Fantasy, Young Adult, Magic, High Fantasy, Mythology, Asian Literature
Author Maiya Ibrahim | Home Sydney, Australia
Publisher Random House Children’s Books | Buy it
Village In The Sky
Jack McDevitt, 31 Jan 2023
In the 9th instalment of McDevitt’s Alex Benedict series, archaeological crew Alex, Chase, and Gabe travel to the Orion Nebula to investigate newly discovered intelligent life that had simply vanished without a trace, mere months after its first discovery. Only to find something both miraculous and absolutely terrifying. All is revealed in the sci-fi mystery novel Village in the Sky.
Genre Science Fiction, Mystery
Author Jack McDevitt | Home Brunswick, Georgia, US
Publisher Simon and Schuster | Buy it
The Terraformers
Annalee Newitz, 31 Jan 2023
Probably the most talked about and anticipated novel on this list. Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers is a sci-fi epic spanning thousands of years during the terraforming of Earth-like planet Sask-E. You have one network analyst discovering a hidden city and making decisions that ripple through the ages. To engineers many generations down the line discovering dark real estate secrets, with desperate planet-altering choices along the way. Plus: humans helped by moose, mole rats and cyborg bovine – check out The Terraformers.
Genre Science Fiction, Epic, Speculative, Sci-fi Fantasy, Adult, LGBTQ
Author Annalee Newitz | Home born Irvine, California, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
Children Of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky, 31 Jan 2023
In the third instalment of Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series, life is tough for the people of Heorest Holt’s new human colony, established elsewhere after earth’s apparent downfall. Much technological knowledge has been lost, but humans survive. Until a highly-advanced new threat appears, throwing everything into jeopardy. Can Holt’s granddaughter Liff save the colony? Find out in Children of Memory.
Genre Science Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Adventure
Author Adrian Tchaikovsky | Home born Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire; lives Leeds, UK
Publisher Orbit | Buy it
Vampire Weekend
Mike Chen, 31 Jan 2023
Being a vampire kinda sucks… There’s no flying or turning into bats, no murdering (ever!) and, for loner vamp Louise Chao, just blood bags, terrible night jobs and enjoying decades of punk rock from afar. Unless she can find a way to hide her “dark” nature and start her own band… Why not? All in Mike Chen’s Vampire Weekend.
Genre Horror, Vampires, Fantasy, Adult, Paranormal, Supernatural
Author Mike Chen | Home San Francisco, US
Publisher MIRA | Buy it
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