Science Fiction & Fantasy
longings in this sequel to The Knight and the Moth.
Nikita Gill The River 2: Styx Simon & Schuster, 1st September, hb, eb, £20, 9781398537194
Retelling of the Greek myth of the goddess of the underworld river.
Amy Goldsmith A Darker Act Ink Road, 13th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781785308895
Folk-horror as a theatre group confronts the monstrous legend they have awakened.
Adalyn Grace The Wretched Divine Gollancz, 22nd September, hb, £25, 9781399630023
From the phenomenon behind Belladonna comes a fantasy series about an ancient war between angels and demons and the mortal knight determined to end it.
Heather Graham The Sword of Light Mira, 19th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780778306634
Steeped in the folklore of ancient Ireland and its people’s battle to defend their homeland from invasion.
Ian Green The Deep and the Drowned
Head of Zeus, 6th August, hb, eb, £22, 9781804545898
First in a fantasy trilogy from the author of the Rotstorm series and Extremophile, a swashbuckling tale set on the high seas of Morost.
Series
Killmarth Trials Rachel Greenlaw HQ, 97800087413 Sizzling romantasy and magical dark academia. The Ordeals 10th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 03
The Divines 8th October, hb, eb, £20, 58
Series Elly Griffiths
The Killing Time Quercus, 10th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529433425
Second outing for Ali Dawson and her time- travelling cold-case team after The Frozen People.
Thea Guanzon This Shattered Tempest HarperVoyager, 8th October, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780008555931
Final Hurricane Wars novel sees Talasyn and Alaric face love, duty and war.
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John Gwynne The Wolves of War Orbit, 3rd November, hb, eb, £25, 9780356527864
International bestseller offers a blockbuster epic fantasy inspired by Slavic mythology.
AJ Hackwith Goblin Market Titan Books, 20th October, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781835418970
Colourful version of Christina Rossetti’s poem of the same name.
Seth Haddon Volatile Memory Tor, 3rd September, pb, £9.99, 9781250395269
Haddon’s science fiction debut, a whirlwind novella of sapphic revenge in space.
Seth Haddon Null Entity Tor, 1st October, hb, £16.99, 9781250365217
Sequel to Volatile Memory. Wylla and Sable take their revenge into the heart of the very corporation that keeps the galaxy turning.
Carole Hailey The Falling Atlantic Books, 5th November, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781805461586
About the end of the world.
David Hair The Falling Sky Arcadia Books, 22nd October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781529422955
Conclusion to stirring epic the Talmont Trilogy.
Andrea Hairston The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays
Tor, 6th August, hb, £22, 9781250807311
An extra-dimensional murder mystery with a dog detective and alien tricksters.
Peter F Hamilton Queens of an Alien Sun Angry Robot, 1st December, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781836730132
Third and final book in the Arkship trilogy.
Gareth Hanrahan The Dungeon Book Orbit, 11th August, hb, eb, £20, 9780356531205
The Jungle Book reframed in a Dungeons and Dragons world. Gleeful.
MK Hardy
The Haunting of Avis Lovelock Solaris, 27th August, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781837866960
A sceptic must join forces with the spiritualist who has a knack for getting under her skin. Victorian mystery.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
David J Harrison The Glorious Dead The Book Guild, 28th August, pb, £9.99, 9781835744864
Banou, heir to the enslaved Drift, and the weary warrior known as the Teacher defy captains and kings to end a civil war.
S Hati The Carousel of Forgotten Places
Angry Robot, 25th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781836730392
Time-travelling romance of humour and charm.
Emily Hauser, Bella Vivante Helen of Troy Flame Tree Collections, 22nd September, hb, £20, 9781835628072
Collection presents modern stories alongside an introduction examining Helen’s myths, the sources of the stories and their enduring cultural legacy.
RR Haywood Changing Worlds Titan Books, 1st September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781835417867
Propulsive chase through the multiverse as a washed-up writer joins an elite crew of scouts on a mission to stop terrorists destroying entire realities.
Kate Heartfield The Swordmaster Solaris, 10th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781837864188
Minor nobleman’s daughter travels to Paris and becomes embroiled in a war between shapeshifters and vampires.
Joe Hill
King Sorrow Headline, 15th September, pb, £12.99, 9781035434312
Six friends summon evil and unleash lifelong consequences. “A tour de force. Absolutely fantastic” —Guardian.
Alastair Horne Encyclopedia of Dragons & Mythical Creatures Amber Books, 20th October, hb, £19.99, 9781838867348
Illustrated guide features everything in the menagerie of fantasy, from Smaug in The Hobbit to the Minotaur and many more.
Ivelisse Housman Til Quest do us Part Zaffre, 1st December, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781806176205
Teenagers who saved the world need to learn how to be adults. Witty and warm fantasy.
Tiffany Hunt Dark Lord’s Guide to Honeymooning Scarlett Press, 10th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398559059
Now bound by marriage and the power of the Heirloom, Kazimir and Arabella embark on a honeymoon where the only thing more dangerous than their enemies are their growing feelings.
James Islington Scion Gollancz, 1st September, hb, £22, 9781399641869
Unmissable sci-fi thriller from the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Will of the Many.
Jeremy Jacobson Resonant Bindery Books, 26th November, pb, £14.99, 9781967967162
Antediluvian epic where a long-silent Firesong binds three strangers to protecting the Five Realms from an ancient danger.
Danielle L Jensen Defy the Dusk Del Rey, 3rd November, hb, eb, £20, 9781529955217
When darkness means certain death and survival depends on reaching the dawn the woman whose magic broke the world will carve another path.
Ella Jezdikova The Thorned Prince Roundfire Books, 24th November, pb, £15.99, 9781917704793
Born of storms, forged in shadows, doomed to love.
Ai Jiang
An Empire in the Clouds Titan Books, 8th September, hb, eb, £17.99, 9781835414941
Highly inventive Chinese- inspired science-fantasy of a royal family torn apart. Set on a drowning continent riddled with corruption, deception and strange technology.
Anthony Joseph, Lauri Scheyer The African Origins of UFOs
Peepal Tree Press, 5th November, pb, £12.99, 9781845236205
Time-shifting narrative fuses surrealism, metafiction and Trinidadian history to explore exile, race and genetic memory in an innovative language infused with speech rhythms of the island.
Series
Saga of Recluse LE Modesitt Jr Tor, 97812503 Final two parts of the series that began with From the Forest and continued with Overcaptain.
Sub-majer’s Challenge 13th August, pb, £10.99, 26843 Last of the First 10th September, hb, £22, 49057
Lynn D Jung Mothsblood Del Rey, 13th October, hb, eb, £20, 9781529972078
Alchemist must uncover her university’s secrets while trying to escape her mysterious past. Electrifying debut.
Julie Kagawa Deathless HQ, 14th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008737498
Kagawa sweeps readers into a new world where a twisted game of destiny has far-reaching consequences.
Logan Karlie Cursed by the Dawn Headline, 4th August, hb, £20, 9781035428663
Sequel to Dream by the Shadows is a lush, gothic read of romance, revenge and dreamy world-building.
Raven Kennedy The Sweetest Fiend Michael Joseph, 22nd September, hb, eb, £22, 9780241767405
Author of the Plated Prisoner series brings to the table the first part of a romantasy duology set in a world of fae.
TJ Klune The Stars Look Like Home Tor Wildthorn, 14th January, hb, eb, £22, 9781035009329
Klune’s love letter to our four-legged friends, for dog lovers everywhere.
Danielle Knight A Rather Vengeful Accord Daphne Press, 10th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781837840854
Necromancers and gladiatorial combat against eldritch abominations.
Dan Kobalt The Jewel Empire Angry Robot, 26th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781836730538
Low-magic fantasy where four doomed souls undertake a rescue mission rather than face the gallows. A great read for fans of Ocean’s Eleven.
JJ Kochmanski, David Reuss The Side Questers
Turner, 3rd September, pb, £13.99, 9798887981956
Non-player character Anya is stuck in a programmed loop in a role-playing game.
CM Koseman The Final Inoculation Wilton Square Books, 1st October, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781806770809
From the cult creator of All Tomorrows comes a surreal collection of stories and illustrations that blend dream logic, ancient myth and speculative worlds.
Naomi Kritzer Obstetrix Tor, 20th August, hb, £16.99, 9781250423375
From a Hugo award- winning writer: a tense portrait of a future we desperately hope to escape.
Mercedes Lackey, Andre Norton Elvenbane
Caezik, 5th November, pb, £19.99, 9781647101916
A SFWA Grandmaster reimagines a fantasy masterpiece. Shana, forbidden child of Elvenlord and a human slave and raised by dragons, escapes hunters to fulfill a prophecy and topple an empire.
Hal LaCroix Here and Beyond Bloomsbury, 8th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781526678263
Six hundred humans journey into space in search of a new home. Hypnotic, speculative debut.
Keri Lake Eldritch Evermore, 17th September, pb, £10.99, 9781911746270
Gothic fantasy about a shunned woman who is forced beyond the mortal realm’s forbidden boundary into a world of cursed souls and grotesque creatures.
Harley Laroux Her Soul to Take Solaris, 22nd October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781837868537
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