Fantasy and Science Fiction

Discover recent releases in fantasy and science fiction, from space operas and apocalyptic worlds to dragons and magic!
Updated June 12, 2026
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Automatic noodle
Newitz, Annalee
Paper Book
A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz. An instant USA Today and indie bestseller! Indie Next pick | Library Reads pick | Best of the Year at...
Katabasis : a novel
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
Order now to receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION-- only available on the first printing while supplies last! The collector's hardcover features stenciled edges, case effects, and illustrated endpapers. Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all...
Rapport : friendship, solidarity, communion, empathy
Wells, Martha
Ebook
A 2026 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novelette! Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management...
Brigands & breadknives
Baldree, Travis
Paper Book
Return to the cosy fantasy world of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree, a freshly baked adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern.Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a...
Platform Decay
Wells, Martha.
Paper Book
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.Including human children. Ugh.This may well call for... eye contact!...
Hemlock & silver
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller DELUXE EDITION--a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring bright green sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and custom endpapers illustrated by the author. From New York Times...
The shattering peace
Scalzi, John
Paper Book
Multiple New York Times bestseller John Scalzi brings us a fast-paced adventure set in the far-future.The Shattering Peace is a much-anticipated return to Scalzi's beloved Old Man's War universe. As peace turns to war, a galaxy prepares to fight. . . For a decade, peace...
Stone & sky
Aaronovitch, Ben
Paper Book
THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES 'This isn't London. The rules are different up here, and so are the allegiances.' Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he'll need one...
The everlasting
Harrow, Alix E.
Paper Book
From Alix E. Harrow, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest.A legend. A lie. A love story.A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame. He's sent back...
Operation Bounce House
Dinniman, Matt
Paper Book
From the author of the sensational global bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series comes a brand new epic standalone . . . All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do is run the family ranch and keep his family's aging fleet of intelligent agriculture bots ticking. But when his planet's...
Alchemised
SenLinYu
Paper Book
\"What is it you think you're protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There's no one left for you to save.\" Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner-of war and of her own mind. Her...
Slow gods
North, Claire
Paper Book
There is no Antimemetics Division
qntm (Author of science fiction)
Paper Book
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARK AWARD * 'Astonishing' M. R. Carey, author of Infinity Gate 'A hugely entertaining, super smart, witty novel that is also nerve-shreddingly terrifying... a timely book that is also one for the ages.'...
Twelve months
Butcher, Jim
Paper Book
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, has always managed to save the day - but, in this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, can he save himself? One year. 365 days. Twelve months. Harry Dresden has been...
Snake-eater
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
In this witty fantasy horror from New York Times bestselling, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author T. Kingfisher, a young woman seeking a fresh start is confronted by ancient gods, malevolent supernatural forces, and eccentric neighbours in an isolated desert town. Perfect for fans of...
Agnes Aubert's mystical cat shelter
Fawcett, Heather
Paper Book
Nobody's baby
Waite, Olivia
Paper Book
Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the second entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective. Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty's most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are...
Hell's Heart
Hall, Alexis J.
Paper Book
Hell's Heart is a queer speculative fiction retelling of Herman Melville's classic story.Here, a small party go hunting for a giant space creature - and experience love and loss along the way.Earth is a ruin, and the scattered remnants of humanity scavenge what they can from the stars....
Queen demon
Wells, Martha
Paper Book
A USA Today Bestseller! A Finalist for the Locus Award! The remarkable sequel to the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling novel Witch King: a breathtaking new epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling...
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold
Mcguire, Seanan.
Paper Book
A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Selection! A fan-favorite character returns in this action-packed installment of the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series. After Nancy was cast out of the Halls of the Dead and forced to enroll at Eleanor West's...
After the fall
Ashton, Edward (Science fiction writer)
Paper Book
Part alien invasion story, part buddy comedy, and part workplace satire, After The Fall by Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (inspiration for the film Mickey 17), asks an important question: would humans really make great pets? Humans must...
Infinite archive
Lafferty, Mur
Paper Book
Amateur sleuth Mallory Viridian has just about got her bearings aboard the space station she calls home, but now the physical embodiment of the Internet is on its way, and it's bringing murder with it. Mallory Viridian has had a quiet few months. Even with the increased influx of...
A witch's guide to magical innkeeping
Mandanna, Sangu
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! * A whimsical and heartwarming novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers--and her life--back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Sera Swan...
Hole in the sky : a novel
Wilson, Daniel H.
Paper Book
A Native American first contact story and gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse "Thrilling and personal... an important addition to the landscape of science fiction."--Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of...
Among the burning flowers
Shannon, Samantha
Paper Book
With the awakening of fire-breathing dragons, Among the Burning Flowers sees the first sparks of danger that threaten to consume the world in The Priory of the Orange Tree. Take your first steps into the epic. Yscalin, land of sunshine and...
The enchanted greenhouse
Durst, Sarah Beth
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER! A #1 LibraryReads pick! An Indie Next pick! DELUXE EDITION--a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring beautiful mint green sprayed edges! #1 New York Times...
Radiant Star
Leckie, Ann.
Paper Book
The summer war
Novik, Naomi
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * HUGO AWARD FINALIST * In this poignant, heartfelt novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Spinning Silver and the Scholomance trilogy, a young witch who has inadvertently cursed her brother to live a life without love must find a way to undo her...
God's junk drawer : a novel
Clines, Peter
Ebook
What we can know : a novel
McEwan, Ian
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be...
The strength of the few
Islington, James
Paper Book
The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am. But with all that has happened-with what I fear is coming-I am not sure it matters anymore. I am no longer one. I won the Iudicium, and lost everything-and now, impossibly, the ancient...
The Astral Library
Quinn, Kate.
Paper Book
Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are doors to new worlds. Alix Watson knows one thing: unlike people, books will never let her down. Working dead-end jobs to make ends meet, she takes nightly refuge in the...
The Iron Garden Sutra
Sui, A. D.
Paper Book
Klara and the Sun meets S. A. Barnes's Dead Silence with a touch of Becky Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild-Built in Nebula Award-winning author A.D. Sui's darkly philosophical, locked room murder mystery, as a death monk and a team of researchers trapped onboard a spaceship of...
The Faith of Beasts: Book Two of The Captive's War
James S. A. Corey.
Paper Book
The poet empress
Tao, Shen (Fiction writer)
Paper Book
*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK* 'This is a five star read for real' ROBIN HOBB 'An impressive debut with real psychological depth' THE GUARDIAN 'Richly imagined and politically driven' THE I PAPER<...
Children of strife
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Paper Book
Long ago, towards the end of humanity's first expansion into space, the vast majority of worlds were terraformed under the auspices of irascible genius Avrana Kern. But Kern had rivals, and a team of self-proclaimed innovators took one world from her remit and devoted themselves to reshaping it into...
The red winter
Sullivan, Cameron
Paper Book
A bewitching historical fantasy from a debut author, and the next global sensation from Tor. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power and redemption.A devastating love story.A bewitching twist on history.A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption.<...
Lightbreakers
Gabel, Aja
Paper Book
'Audaciously tackles life's most formative experiences: love and loss' RUMAAN ALAM, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind 'Like walking down a hall of mirrors . . . Lightbreakers made me see things anew' LING MA,...
Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain any more
Krempholtz, Emily
Paper Book
''Charming . . . A romance that, gently and pleasantly, asks questions about power and its uses.'' The New York Times ''I have rarely read a book so charming...Violet Thistlewaite might not be a villain anymore, but she''s definitely stolen my heart.'' Ashley Poston<...
Apparently, Sir Cameron needs to die
Stothers, Greer
Paper Book
In Which Many Dangerous and Homosexual Things Happen. All his life, Sir Cameron has stayed as far away from danger as possible. He is quite frankly too handsome to die a pointless death in battle. But then the Church hands down a prophecy to his fellow knights: the only way to defeat their...
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
Andrews, Ilona.
Paper Book
This is the start of a page-turning, unforgetable fantasy set in a city peopled with ruffians, spies, malcontents and murderers. Experience out-of-this world adventure and dangerous politics as Maggie tries to survive waking up in her favourite fictional world. A heart-pounding epic from No. 1...
A mouthful of dust
Vo, Nghi
Paper Book
Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle. "Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High Hill Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river...
Wolfskin
Szal, Jeremy
Paper Book
"Cutting edge action space opera, mixing lightning pace with grand storytelling" - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke and Hugo Award-winning author of CHILDREN OF TIME Vakov Fukasawa is trapped. Captured by his ruthless and cruel enemies, the House of Suns, he...
The forest on the edge of time
Kirkbride, Jasmin
Paper Book
The Future of Another Timeline meets The Bone Clocks in this dazzling piece of time-travel climate fiction. Recruited by the mysterious Project Kairos to change history and save the future from ecological disaster, Echo and Hazel are transported through time to...
Brimstone
Hart, Callie
Paper Book
Alchemy of secrets
Garber, Stephanie
Paper Book
It starts with a class in an old movie theatre . . . From the bestselling author of the Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart series comes an enthralling story of myths and murder, as a student seeks to prove that Hollywood's most infamous deaths were actually killings...
Outlaw planet
Carey, M. R.
Paper Book
A LONE OUTLAW, HAUNTED BY HER PAST, WITH ALL THE MULTIVERSE AGAINST HER . . . **FINALIST FOR THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD** 'A sweeping story of vengeance, love and redemption, set against a backdrop of unimaginably vast interdimensional conflict' Claire...

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