Fantasy and Science Fiction

Discover recent releases in fantasy and science fiction, from space operas and apocalyptic worlds to dragons and magic!
Updated July 21, 2024
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Martha Wells
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller. A Washington Post bestseller. A USA Today bestseller. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. ...
Bookshops & Bonedust
Travis Baldree
Paper Book
An Instant #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 An Amazon Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2023 When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may...
Chaos Terminal
Mur Lafferty
Paper Book
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, thank you very much. But no matter what she does, people persist in dying around her - and only she seems to be able to solve the crime. After fleeing to an alien space station in hopes that the lack of humans would stop the murders, a...
Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros
Paper Book
PLEASE NOTE: The limited edition with stained edges is sold out, but we invite you to purchase an unstained edition--same captivating story, same heart-pounding read! Discover the instant #1 New York Times bestseller! Now optioned for TV by Amazon Studios. ...
Floating Hotel
Grace Curtis
Paper Book
Esquire Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 UK bestseller Goodreads 58 Biggest Books of Spring Men's Health 30 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi and Fantasy books of 2024 Apple Books 2024's Most Anticipated Books LitHub March's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy...
House of Flame and Shadow
Sarah J. Maas
Paper Book
The stunning third book in the sexy, action-packed Crescent City series, following the global bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath. Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she...
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
Malka Older
Paper Book
Named a Best Sci-Fi Book of 2024 by Esquire Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a new mystery in the follow-up to the cozy space-opera detective mystery The Mimicking of Known Successes, which Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders...
Thornhedge
T. Kingfisher
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways. *A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom...
Cascade Failure
L. M. Sagas
Paper Book
L. M. Sagas's debut, Cascade Failure, is a high-octane, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes's Divide series with Firefly. It features a fierce, messy, chaotic space family, vibrant worlds, and an exploration of the many ways to be--and not to be--human. Most...
The Narrow Road Between Desires
Patrick Rothfuss
Paper Book
An instant New York Times, USA Today and Indie Bestseller! #1 New York Times-bestselling phenomenon Patrick Rothfuss returns to the wildly popular Kingkiller Chronicle universe with a stunning reimagining of "The Lightning Tree." Expanded to twice its previous length...
The Future
Naomi Alderman
Paper Book
A Most Anticipated Book of Fall at Associated Press, Booklist, Chicago Tribune, Goodreads, Good Housekeeping, Literary Hub, Time, The Week, and W Magazine The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a...
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
Seanan McGuire
Paper Book
A USA Today Bestseller! Portals and danger, and a girl who can find both in the next book in the Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire. Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School...
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 * INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A prophetic masterpiece." -- Ron Charles, Washington Post On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's...
The Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett
Paper Book
A Holmes and Watson-style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett "Great fantasy detective stories are too rare, but Bennett--[a] rising star of fantasy--more than delivers."--Charlie...
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
Heather Fawcett
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it's too late, in this heartwarming, enchanting second installment of the Emily Wilde series. Emily Wilde is...
These Burning Stars
Bethany Jacobs
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2024 PHILIP K. DICK AWARD  A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones of a genocide. A carefully hidden secret that could collapse worlds, hunted by three women with secrets of their own. This is...
The Fragile Threads of Power
V. E. Schwab
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller September IndieNext Pick A new door opens... Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a...
To Challenge Heaven
David Weber
Paper Book
The third entry into the New York Times bestselling series, To Challenge Heaven brings another thrilling adventure from the masters of military science fiction, David Weber and Chris Kennedy. In a universe teeming with predators, humanity needs friends. And...
Aftermarket Afterlife
Seanan McGuire
Paper Book
Two-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series "Kind of like taking a tour through a very deadly theme park made up of alternating parts awesome and terrifying." --Reactor Seanan McGuire's New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award...
The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "This summer's hottest debut." --Cosmopolitan * "Witty, sexy escapist fiction [that] packs a substantial punch...Fresh and thrilling." --Los Angeles Times * "Electric...I...
The Atlas Complex
Olivie Blake
Paper Book
The Atlas Complex marks the much-anticipated, heart-shattering conclusion in Olivie Blake's trilogy that began with the New York Times bestselling phenomenon, The Atlas Six. Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive...
The Lost Cause
Cory Doctorow
Paper Book
It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are...
Empire of the Damned
Jay Kristoff
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of the Nevernight Chronicle, Jay Kristoff, comes the much-anticipated sequel to the international bestselling sensation EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE. From holy cup comes holy...
Exordia
Seth Dickinson
Paper Book
Michael Crichton meets Marvel's Venom in award-winning author Seth Dickinson's science fiction debut "Agonizing and mesmerizing, a devastating and extraordinary achievement."--The New York Times "Magnificent. . . . A science fiction action...
He Who Drowned the World
Shelley Parker-Chan
Paper Book
USA TODAY bestseller, #1 international bestseller, and Indie Next Pick Best of 2023 Pick for Autostraddle and BookPage; a Recommended Reading List Pick for Locus; Locus Award Finalist The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became...
The Tusks of Extinction
Ray Nayler
Paper Book
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again. Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant...
The Innocent Sleep
Seanan McGuire
Paper Book
The 18th novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series. For one bright, shining moment, Tybalt, King of Cats, had everything he had ever wanted. He was soon to set his crown aside; he had married the woman he loved; he was going...
Sword Catcher
Cassandra Clare
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Two outcasts find themselves caught in a web of dangerous magic and dark secrets that could change the world forever in the start of a riveting epic fantasy series from the author of The Shadowhunter Chronicles. "Everything I look...
Annie Bot
Sierra Greer
Paper Book
"Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our creations outgrow us." -- Esquire "Unexpected and subtle...delicious and thought-provoking." -- New Scientist For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark...
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories
Terry Pratchett
Paper Book
"If you read just one of Pratchett's books, you'll want to read everything he wrote. That now includes A Stroke of the Pen." -- Washington Post A delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry Pratchett, the award...
A Quantum Love Story
Mike Chen
Paper Book
A cozy sci-fi novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana...
Machine Vendetta
Alastair Reynolds
Paper Book
From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series--Machine Vendetta is a thrilling tale of deadly conspiracies and old enemies that refuse to die. Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the...
The Sunlit Man
Brandon Sanderson
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson--creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy--comes this standalone novel showing a rare glimpse of a future Cosmere universe. Running....
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Katherine Arden
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the author of The Bear and the Nightingale.
Defiance
C. J. Cherryh
Paper Book
The 22nd book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Cameron as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi. In the east, outright warfare has tied down the Assassins' Guild, and that region is in...
The Book of Doors
Gareth Brown
Paper Book
A debut novel full of magic, adventure, and romance, The Book of Doors opens up a thrilling world of contemporary fantasy for readers of The Midnight Library, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, The Night Circus, and any modern story that mixes the wonder of the unknown...
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
Samit Basu
Paper Book
A 2024 Locus Award Finalist! A "Best Of" pick in BookBub | Lit Hub | Book Riot | The Mary Sue "So much fun!"-Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author From international bestseller Samit Basu,<...
Sleep No More
Seanan McGuire
Paper Book
The 17th novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series. October is very happy with her life as the second daughter of her pureblood parents, Amandine and Simon Torquill. Born to be the changeling handmaid to her beloved sister...
Jumpnauts: A Novel (Folding Universe)
Jingfang Hao
Paper Book
From the Hugo Award­-winning author of Folding Beijing comes a gripping science fiction thriller in which three unlikely allies attempt a desperate mission of first contact with a mysterious alien race before more militaristic minds can take matters into their own hands. ...
Mammoths at the Gates
Nghi Vo
Paper Book
The Crawford and Hugo Award-Winning Series Finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella; shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award, the Ignyte Award; One of Book Riot's Best Fantasy Debuts of All Time; A Milwaukee...
Those Beyond the Wall
Micaiah Johnson
Paper Book
A searing sci-fi thriller about a woman reckoning with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in the face of a coming apocalypse--from the Compton Crook Award-winning author of The Space Between Worlds. "A bold, beautiful, gut-punch of a story, at...
The Hemlock Queen
Hannah Whitten
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The glittering and dangerous world of the Sainted King's royal court is upended when Prince Bastian seizes control and a mysterious dark force begins to take over in the second installment of New York Times bestselling...
The Icarus Job
Timothy Zahn
Paper Book
HOPING TO TAKE POSSESSION OF A NEW ALIEN STAR-HOPPING PORTAL, ROARKE AND SELENCE ARE TASKED WITH TRANSPORTING AN ASSASSIN, WHO IS HERSELF BEING TARGETED. For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited...
Ghost Station
S.A. Barnes
Paper Book
"Relentlessly creepy and fantastically atmospheric...Ghost Station is space horror at its best."--The New York Times A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence....
The Hurricane Wars
Thea Guanzon
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "An incredible debut full of rich atmosphere, clever world building, opposing magic, and sizzling romance, The Hurricane Wars is my newest obsession."-- KERRI MANISCALCO, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Throne of...
Bride
Ali Hazelwood
Paper Book
#1 Indie Next Pick! A Hall of Fame LibraryReads pick! One of People's Best Books to Read in February A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the...
Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Paper Book
Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time. To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly...

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