October is here , and our list of new scifi and fantasy Scripture is as overstuffed as a put-on - or - treat handbag carried by a kid who walk the same confect - productive route three times in three dissimilar costumes . In laurels of the season , there ’s even some horror on this calendar month ’s round - up .
Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
In the sequel to Akata Witch , a Nigerian - American girl continue to develop her magical great power as she prepares for a predestined showdown that will make up one’s mind the fortune of the worldly concern . ( October 3 )
Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray
The third ( of four ) book in the Diviners serial follow the supernaturally - power radical as they take on a new enemy : the King of Crows , who supervise the malevolent ghosts who ghost an forsake asylum outside of New York City . ( October 3 )
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu
This anthology contains 20 of the year ’s best skill fiction and fantasy little stories , cull from places like Lightspeed and Tor.com . Notable generator include The Last Unicorn ’s Peter S. Beagle , N.K. Jemisin , Catherynne M. Valente , and Genevieve Valentine . ( October 3 )
The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan
This first in a planned quaternary of phantasy novel envisage a world where a speedily - spreading movement called the Talisman seeks to control knowledge and oppress cleaning woman . undismayed , a pair of distaff warriors set out to reclaim the Bloodprint , a mysterious text that could help oneself end the Talisman ’s reign of terror forever and a day . ( October 3 )
The Complete Psychotechnic League, Vol. 1 by Poul Anderson
The Hugo- and Nebula - acquire author presents the first ( of three ) collections of his Psychotechnic League stories , about a post - World War III radical doing its best to spread peace instead of fight . ( October 3 )
The Core by Peter V. Brett
The writer ’s Demon Cycle wraps up with this 5th episode , which ascertain the series ’ two submarine , Arlen and Jardir , link up together with close friends and family member to fight one last conflict against iniquity to redeem humanity once and for all . ( October 3 )
From a Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars by various authors
These 40 history re - tell key second from 1977 ’s Star Wars : A New Hope , offering novel perspectives on intimate events by shift the degree of view . For instance , Nnedi Okorafor weaves a tale about the trash - compactor monster . Other authors let in Gary Whitta , Meg Cabot , Pablo Hidalgo , Pierce Brown , Wil Wheaton , and many more . ( October 3 )
The Genius Plague by David Walton
A mysterious fungal infection spreads across South America , and those who do n’t die become top-notch - smart function of a hive mind working toward a sinister goal . Justifiably concerned , a valet de chambre fights to save his sidekick from what certainly sense like a covert exotic takeover in the making . ( October 3 )
Haunted Nights, edited by Lisa Morton and Ellen Datlow
That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston
A nigh - succeeding tale that imagines a different kind of British Empire , limit to be ruled by a crown princess who gets a chance to change the world before she ’s pressed into a politically - arranged marriage . ( October 3 )
Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories by Hugh Howey
This collection of poor fantasy and science fiction narration from the well - selling author of Wool includes three stories set in that book ’s earth , as well as two marque - novel pieces written just for this freeing , and 15 previously - print works . Every ingress includes a distinction from the source explaining its genesis . ( October 3 )
The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
Every time Molly Southbourne bleeds , another Molly introduce the world — and this new edition of her always desire the old translation of her to pass . Molly number one has learned how to evade her homicidal knockoff , but how long will she really be able-bodied to hide from herself ? ( October 3 )
Things I’m Seeing Without You by Peter Bognanni
A teenage young woman tries to cure after the suicide of her first sexual love by helping her forefather with his “ alternative funeral business , ” but finds dealing with deprivation is a complicated and extremely irregular affair . ( October 3 )
Quillifer by Walter Jon Williams
In this epic phantasy set in a Earth of goddess and Dragon , a new scholar returns home to find oneself his city encrust by pirates . After scarce last and seeing his family in chemical chain , he sneaks off to gather a crew of protagonist and new allies , determined to fight back . ( October 3 )
Satellite by Nick Lake
Three teenager who ’ve pass their entire life on a space station , raised by surrogate - parent astronauts , get quick to visit Earth for the first time . But there ’s no literal manner to fix the kids for the incredible amounts of civilization cushion they ’re about to look . ( October 3 )
The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera
Two goddess - warriors aim to fulfill their luck by joining together to save their land . It wo n’t be sluttish , as a long - bind magical border paries has commence to crack and dauntingly vicious military force will shortly be upon them . ( October 3 )
What the Hell Did I Just Read by David Wong
The third book of account in the drollery - horror - scifi - weirdness series that kicked off with John Dies at the End follow the troika of Dave , John , and Amy , as their former case morphs from investigating a configuration - shift child piranha into something manner , way , manner more flakey . ( October 3 )
The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson
The hugely influential generator , who drop dead in 2013 , gets a new “ gravid - hit ” assembling of his iconic short fib , curated by rising revulsion talent Victor LaValle ( The Ballad of Black Tom ) . ( October 10 )
The Book of Swords, edited by Gardner Dozois
The gravid draw poker here is a new A Song of Ice and Fire story by George R.R. Martin , intriguingly titled “ The Sons of the Dragon . ” But ! There are also stories by Robin Hobb , Ken Liu , C.J. Cherryh , Ellen Kushner , and many more , all weaving swashbuckling tales of fantasy . ( October 10 )
The Fissure King: A Novel in Five Stories by Rachel Pollack
The author and tarot - carte expert ’s four existing novellas about mischievous shaman - for - hire Jack Shade come together in a exclusive bulk , with a last tale to wrap up his occult - themed risky venture . ( October 10 )
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
A beautiful teen with a purple fate is haunted by dark conjuration in this East Asiatic pouf tale , a entry novel that offers a rich retake on the origin narration of Snow White ’s Evil Queen . ( October 10 )
Ironfoot by Dave Duncan
In medieval England , a unchanging son lucks his fashion into attending , then finally instruct at , a school of illusion . He ’s always been a bit of an outcast , but he short becomes the royal family ’s bang-up hope when he stumbles upon an ancient spell that could help thwart an assassination secret plan . ( October 10 )
Light Both Foreign and Domestic: A Collection by Darin Bradley
A brusk - story collection of work “ that reveal the tenacious light of the human spirit , no matter the torturing darkness that presses down on us . ” ( October 10 )
A Long Day in Lychford by Paul Cornell
In the third Witches of Lychford book , Brexit has just passed and the forest witch are n’t quite certain what the hereafter brings . Of more prompt concern , however , is the fact that a smartphone - app glitch has started allowing random wanderers into their charming realm . ( October 10 )
A Lot Like Christmas by Connie Willis
Yep , it ’s a book of Yuletide tales arriving a shade early , but seeing as how it ’s from 11 - time Hugo winner Connie Willis , we ’ll give up it . This bulk is actually an expanded edition of Miracle and Other Christmas Stories , adding five new - collected storey to the speculative bunch . ( October 10 )
The Sea Peoples by S.M. Stirling
prepare in a fanciful hereafter where sophisticated engineering was enigmatically wiped out , force human society to slow reconstruct itself , this up-to-the-minute entry in the author ’s Novels of the Change series follows parallel tales of a group that travel into the infernal region to make unnecessary a prince ’s soul , and a war in the South Pacific that take both weapons and magic . ( October 10 )
To Guard Against the Dark by Julie E. Czerneda
The author terminate her Reunification trilogy with the fib of a spaceship captain who returns from the edge of space carrying worthful information that could prevent an all - out war . ( October 10 )
Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi
The author explores a character first introduced in his former dystopian novel Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities : Tool , a man - savage bioengineered for state of war who break free and go rogue , intent on take down his former masters . ( October 10 )
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke
An illustrated fellow to the pop , devil - centric podcast , soon to be an Amazon series . take in the late trailerhere , which was written by its boniface . ( October 10 )
Breach of Containment by Elizabeth Bonesteel
The author ’s latest military scifi thriller conform to the adventures of former Central Corps Commander Elena Shaw , who has leave behind the military for an engineering fizgig aboard a commercial transportation vessel — but still find herself drawn into a frantic pursuit to stop a war before it starts . ( October 17 )
Infinite Stars, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Both new and reprinted floor fill this aggregation of space opera house and military scifi tales , include new works go under in the universes of Orson Scott Card ’s Ender ’s Game , Jack Campbell ’s confused Fleet , and Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ’s Dune . ( October 17 )
A Plague of Giants by Kevin Hearne
The generator of the Iron Druid Chronicles kick off a new phantasy series that lead off as an army of giants overrun a kingdom , and follows the mostly average people ( a mother , a scholar , and , uh , a kid who can spill to animals ) who must become sinful heroes to fend them off . ( October 17 )
Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders
The carbon monoxide - founding father of io9 collects six of her short stories here , including the Hugo - winning “ Six Months , Three Days , ” and the brand - new “ Clover , ” a computerized tomography - centrical coda to her Nebula - succeed novel All the Birds in the Sky . ( October 17 )
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Harding
A wealthy family refuse to take on an illegitimate daughter — until they realize she may be of exercise to them , since she ’s inherited the pry ability to be possessed by ghosts . The English Civil War forms the backdrop of this dark diachronic phantasy . ( October 17 )
The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear
The Hugo winner returns to the mankind of her Eternal Sky serial publication with this first book in a young serial publication , about an automaton whose wizard Godhead made him partially human , and his sidekick , an ex-husband - bodyguard recognise as “ the Dead Man . ” They make an unlikely dyad , but they stick together as war looms . ( October 17 )
The Two of Swords: Volume One by K.J. Parker
Various battle - weary characters intersect in this first book in a new series , about a warfare that ’s been going on so long there are few still alive who remember why it even started . ( October 17 )
Welcome to Night Vale: It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
The Almighty of the strike podcast present a fresh mystery , in which a no - nonsense scientist arrives in the townsfolk of Night Vale and must before long reexamine her notion when she encounters the inscrutable radical known as the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God . ( October 17 )
Vallista by Steven Brust
The author ’s 15th Scripture in his Vlad Taltos serial digs into the mysteries of the primary character ’s home planet , Dragaera , while send him on the run with a bounty on his head . ( October 17 )
Weaver’s Lament: Industrial Magic Book 2 by Emma Newman
The sequel to Brother ’s Ruin brings more magical adventures for Charlotte as she on the Q.T. learns to assure her powers , but she ’s soon absorb into a mission that could either save or attaint her own family . ( October 17 )
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
lover of The Golden Compass , take distinction . This first entry in a new three - part work is set 10 twelvemonth before the well - sell His Dark Materials series commence , and covers the early living of Lyra Belacqua and her daemon Pantalaimon . ( October 19 )
Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monsters by Kim Newman
After they ’re exiled from Victorian England , a group of vampires move to Japan , where they do n’t just primed in with the local blood - sucking universe . earn matter worse , there ’s a liquidator in their thick — and the Temple of One Thousand Monsters threatens to unleash something even more terrific . ( October 24 )
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley
A 2,000 - yr - old line-shooting named Dar Oakley shares the unbelievable story of his life — or lives , since his story includes many multiple returns to Earth from the nation of the dead . ( October 24 )
Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill
The author of The Fireman present four terrifying tales , exploring such horror as : a Polaroid camera with supernatural index ; a skydiver who gets trapped by a unfriendly cloud ; a storm that dumps a deluge of deadly glass nail instead of rain ; and a near - misfire mass shot in a shopping mall . ( October 24 )
Switchback by Melissa F. Olson
This sequel to Nightshades pick up three calendar week after the issue of that book , with the Chicago branch of the Bureau of Preternatural Investigations hardly having time to reorganize before they ’re back out on another mellow - stakes pillowcase . ( October 24 )
Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns
Unable to find oneself legitimate work in their war - torn solar system , a pair of engineers adjudicate to join up with a ragtag group of space pirate — but they ’ll demand to take down a sinister AI to earn their place with the crew . ( October 31 )
Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi
In this debut fantasy adventure , a talented young sin - feeder believes he ’ll be capable to overcome the inevitable side effect of his livelihood : madness . So far he ’s doing a decent job at it , until he becomes pulled into a royal confederacy that threatens his passion , his life sentence , and his world . ( October 31 )
Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers by Joe R. Lansdale
The Supreme Being of rock’n’roll and roll monsters have blessed us with a prequel to Bubba Ho - Tep , and it sounds like a hoot . Elvis Presley fall in a ragtag gang ( other member admit “ a strategic wizard ” and a wanna - be pop star ) to take on a group of figure - shifter who ’ve brought evil to New Orleans , led by the King ’s notorious manager , Colonel Tom Parker . ( October 31 )
First-Person Singularities: Stories by Robert Silverberg
This collection features 18 tales selected from the 40 - year career of the scifi legend . All of them — as you may likely guess — are told in the first - individual singular . ( October 31 )
Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire
The author of Wicked and After Alice takes on another fantastical literary realm : the magic land of the Nutcracker . Here , he give a backstory to toymaker Drosselmeier , first introduced in the 1816 story by E.T.A. Hoffmann , and later made famous for make Christmas tree raise in countless performances of the classic ballet . ( October 31 )
The Mongrel Mage by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
This is the nineteenth volume in the Saga of Recluce serial publication , and it kicks off a new storyarc beleaguer Beltur , a magician with the singular ability to habituate both whitened and black magic . ( October 31 )
Siege Line by Myke Cole
A undead Navy SEAL becomes driven to take down the shadowy organization that steal his family , his vocation , and even his life . But he ’ll need the assist of a radical of elite warrior — and the right kind of thaumaturgy on his side . ( October 31 )
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