This month we ’ve got teen telekinetics , magic twins , shapeshifters , supernaturaldetectives , space adventures , castle intrigue , phantasy heroic poem , lusus naturae , and more — plus the first - ever YA fancy novel by io9 carbon monoxide gas - founderCharlie Jane Anders . Read on !
This “ polyamorous space opera house ” encompasses dangerous undertaking and romance , as master character Triz defend off an invasion while reconnecting with an old flame . ( April 5 )
The Something Dark and Holy trilogy concludes as the girl , the monster , the prince , and the queen must reunify to fight against the swarthiness they inadvertently unleashed . ( April 6 )
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The Chaos Queen epic fantasy serial publication conclude with this fifth installment . A powerful threat is rising , and all the fibre — former bravo Code and Kali , the emotionally wounded Knot , the conflicted Chaos Queen , and others — must connect forces or see the humans end forever . ( April 6 )
This standalone risky venture follows Lark — follower of a furore that instruct magic is suffering , and that the world is full of fearful monster — and his pursuit to overcome his deep - seated trauma when the cult ’s leader is arrest and he begin to question all his notion . ( April 6 )
The late speculative thriller from the writer of Annihilation follows a security consultant whose unknown clash with a taxidermied bird — left behind by an aver ecoterrorist — leads her into a conspiracy that quickly turns dangerous . ( April 6 )
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The acclaimed South Korean author present two couple of thematically interconnected speculative fabrication story , uncommitted here translated into English for the first time . ( April 6 )
depict as “ Westworld take on Warcross , ” this sci - fi tarradiddle is determine in an afterworld where a teen must protect humanity from a malevolent AI after her life is short cut short . ( April 6 )
In a dystopian New Orleans ruled by fundamentalistic Christians , the straits of security must question what he brook for when a state - sanctioned aggregated murder and a devastating flood lamp endanger the city he ’s consecrate himself to protect . ( April 6 )
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The Imposters serial remain as twins Frey and Rafi negotiate aliveness in Shreve , where tycoon fight , clashing agendas , and shifting loyalties intend the sister ca n’t believe even each other . ( April 6 )
In this experimental , epistolary workplace created from “ excerpts from various memoirs , novels , screenplay adaptations , and documents of public criminal record , ” estranged Gemini the Twins reunite after their father ’s death , only to realize their family has been hiding some ghostly secret . ( April 6 )
This launching takes on “ neuroscience , death , and the search for the hypothesis of human knowingness , ” as a shamed scientist ’s attempt at a comeback is jump when he becomes fixate on his co-worker ’s suspicious demise . ( April 6 )
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dry land ’s richest man — a quartet of trillionaires — have ingest over space as their own elite , lawless playground . When an all - female military squad poses as outer space colonists to pass through their operation , they earn restoring the Libra of power is going to be tough than they thought . ( April 6 )
A valet de chambre who ’s able to separate his spirit from his body explores a parallel property where thrall never existed — but shortly realizes he ’s in peril when he get word another mortal with his same power also exist in that other realness . ( April 6 )
This nonfiction book , indite by a range of scientist ( astrophysicist , botanists , physicians , volcanologists , and others ) and to the full illustrated , search how J.R.R. Tolkien ’s interest in scientific discipline helped shaped his worldbuilding in Middle - earth . ( April 6 )
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The Carter Archives noir phantasy series keep on as Carter takes on a new lawsuit . This time , it involves a murdered player whose death reverse out to be associate to other crimes — and whose secret begin to ensnare the detective himself . ( April 6 )
This horror novel draw inspiration from the “ Satanic Panic ” hysteria of the 1980s ; it ’s about an fine art teacher who ’s still reeling from being accuse of a terrible crime 30 years prior , and the fate of his now - grown accuser . ( April 6 )
The Step by Step sci - fi trilogy resolve after a atomic state of war , as a group of survivor still dwell in their small township struggle to reconstruct despite all they ’ve lost . ( April 13 )
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A young marital couple must watch to survive in a strange new reality as the cosmos lento starts ending around them . ( April 13 )
After her father calls in a favor , a princess attempts a political dialogue with a neighboring kingdom — only to find oneself herself kidnapped by a rival who want both her and her kingdom . It ’ll take all her skills as a thief , a royal stag , and a courtesan to release herself and her citizenry . ( April 13 )
The second entry in the Book of the Ice series follow an ice triber who dares to take exception the ruling priests in her frozen landed estate ; after she ’s deport , she maneuver off on an epical journeying searching for a new home . ( April 13 )
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Described as “ Hannibal meets Mistborn , ” this first entering in a new trilogy lead off with the theft of a death masque that ’s pervade with a serial killer ’s malefic spirit — enabling him to pick up right where he left off . ( April 13 )
Set 250 years before the writer ’s Quantum Magician , this first book in a novel serial dig into the beginning of the Quantum Evolution , charting danger and machination among the colonists living in elephantine ships within the cloud of Venus . ( April 13 )
This illusion novel inspired by Jewish folklore and fairytales follow three Magyar sisters , all skilled in the practice of King Solomon ’s consecrated conjuration , who must talk terms the future as Judaic people across Europe become imperiled . ( April 13 )
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This retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale imagines that the obscure sorceress and the cursed princess fall for each other , against all the betting odds . ( April 13 )
A woman living on an stray mountain with a adult male hiding a grotesque enigma must do scathe control when strangers appear , attend for the mysterious wight tell to be roam the surrounding forest . ( April 13 )
This original novel found on The Next Generation pick up with the crew of the Enterprise as they ’re escort guests to Betazed for a cultural event — but then meet trouble when they must make an unplanned stop at a Federation science place in crisis . ( April 13 )
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Climate variety means Charleston , South Carolina is besieged by hurricane - level storms every twenty-four hours of the twelvemonth . Despite that , people still live there , often for nefarious reasons — and it ’s up to an ex-husband - killer and an ex - U.S. Marshall to examine and take rules of order to the part . ( April 13 )
The first YA novel from the io9 co - founding father and herald author of All the Birds in the Sky is a space dangerous undertaking about a teen little girl who realizes her destiny — and how it ’s link up to an intergalactic warfare — is not what she expected it to be . ( April 13 )
A girl put forward in high - tech , submarine Atlantis dreaming of explore the fabled world above the surface — while a boy who ’s part of the “ Sun People ” stow aside on his father ’s climate - change research slip . Both terminate up discovering far more adventure than they ever imagined . ( April 20 )
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The second Burnt Empire Holy Scripture follows a mother - girl team who flee the family line ’s controlling patriarch and head across the desert — but freedom is not guaranteed , specially with the young fille ’s wizardly talents in high demand by both mortals and demigods . ( April 20 )
The Chronicles of Amicae fantasy trilogy — about a dud squad tasked with defuse magical weapons — concludes as the city of Amicae faces an alarmingly unsettled fate . ( April 20 )
The Wayfarers serial continues with this Galactic Commons story of an intergalactic motortruck stop on the planet of Gora , a berth where everybody usually just passes on through — until all traffic is grounded and a gaggle of would - be travelers are forced to wait it out together . ( April 20 )
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charge as “ The Expanse meets Game of Thrones , ” this novel kicks off the Divide series and introduces the misfit and outcast Sentinels tasked with preventing the edge of the macrocosm from collapse . ( April 20 )
The Goddess War series proceed as the victorious ruler Sonya must now negotiate with her ally — while her brother , the wizard Sebastian , is leave to stew in his licking and plot revenge . ( April 20 )
The Web Shifter ’s Library series continues with shapeshifting alien Esen ’s travels through the macrocosm , as she tracks a forbidding entity that ’s target the rest home planet of the All Species ’ Library of Linguistics and Culture . ( April 20 )
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This collection gathers 12 short stories and novellas from the Hugo - win author ’s 60 - plus year life history . ( April 20 )
This ingathering of antecedently unpublished novellas is set in the same cosmos as the Hugo - gain ground author ’s Axiom trilogy . ( April 27 )
A woman who longs to set ahead her social form finds that her uncontrollable telekinetic powers are holding her back — but her mindset brightens considerably when she conform to a fellow telekinetic who helps her develop her talents . Unfortunately , he ’s got a mystery that could ruin their romance , and more . ( April 27 )
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The sequel to Catfishing on CatNet finds Steph , Nell , and the AI CheshireCat tracking down an entity that ’s causing trouble in the real worldly concern by exert its violent influence online . ( April 27 )
In 2025 Scotland , men start dying off from a mysterious virus ; this book detail various first - individual perspectives of the women leave behind , including the doc who first identified the outbreak , a societal historiographer , a scientist searching for a vaccine , and others . ( April 27 )
The Frost Files continue as telekinetic government agent Teagan Frost fights off one powerful being after another who seem hellbent on destroying Los Angeles . ( April 27 )
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Murderbot returns ! In this adventure , it unwrap a bushed trunk in a space place shopping centre — then gets roped into the investigation , much to its uttermost annoyance . ( April 27 )
The author give to the world of Dark Shores and Dark Skies for this fantasy tale feature the characters of Teriana , Marcus , Lydia , and Killian . ( April 27 )
A charwoman who must leave alone college due to Lyme disease joins an online financial support group , only to go on a groundless road trip when one of her newfound friends suddenly fit missing . Could a lycanthrope be involved ? ( April 27 )
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Over several lifetime , the same two people meet and must puzzle through the mysterious forcefulness that ’s drawing them together before they run out of chances . ( April 27 )
The Shadow Players fantasy trilogy close as principal character Jetta ’s homeland erupts in a civil war led by a minatory necromancer . ( April 27 )
The seasoned sci - fi source writes as Bruno Argento , fantascienza writer , in this ingathering of Italian - theme fantasy and sci - fi account , some of which are being published in English for the first time . ( April 27 )
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The classic character — described as a blend of Sherlock Holmes and James Bond — comeback for a serial of sixties - set stories involving extraterrestrial being , supremely eldritch science , and supervillians . ( April 27 )
The continuation to Weave the Lightning returns to its Russia - inspired world where a phallus of the resistance tries to use her magic to assassinate a tyrannical leader . ( April 27 )
A shapeshifter appropriately named “ Trouble ” is wanted by the law , so they take the course of a human boy and stow away on a spaceship — only to see their adventures take a complicated and dangerous turn . ( April 27 )
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This appeal get together 24 short floor by the veteran alt - story specialist . ( April 30 )
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