June is here , and it ’s bring tons of newsci - fi , fancy , and horror booksfor summertime recitation . They ’re full of wiz - crossed couples , deep - spacebounty hunters , intergalactic art thieves , and passenger on a magical railroad train — plus two different tales ofcursed film , as well as two unlike tales ofutopias gone faulty .
The Noumena alt - chronicle serial bear on as Earth frantically ramps up its military magnate after form first contact with an exotic civilization — while another , even more hostile alien presence begin to make itself known . ( June 4 )
The Crowns of Nyaxia illusion love affair series continues in a tale describe as being “ full of heartbreak , redemption , roue machination , and heart - pounding action . ” ( June 4 )
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“ A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this knock-down historical fantasy that shines a light source on the drowned mordant towns of the American South . ” ( June 4 )
“ The highly anticipated third instalment of the steamy Artefacts of Ouranos serial publication journeys deeper into the glint fae world as Lor puts both her life and her heart on the line in this enemies - to - lovers fantasy romance . ” ( June 4 )
A bounty hunting watch gets offered the proverbial job she ca n’t refuse , tracking down her cousin ’s murderer . Things get complicated when she pluck up an extra target — and starts fall for them while she ’s on the trail of the grampus . ( June 4 )
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“ In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy , the most notorious nine - tailed George Fox in Korea pairs up with a trickster god - turned - tec to track down a wrathful devil … before it can destroy the mortal world . ” ( June 4 )
In a small Appalachian townsfolk , a woman with a alone gift — she can talk to dying and prevent people from dying — investigates the mysterious death of her first cousin , who had the power to see the future . ( June 4 )
The Songs of Penelope trilogy , a riff on the myth of Odysseus , conclude with this “ reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives phonation to the womanhood who stand defiant in a human race ruled by ruthless men . ” ( June 4 )
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The Between Earth and Sky modern illusion trilogy concludes as “ the interwoven destinies fo the mass of Meridian will finally be determine . ” ( June 4 )
This tale of magical realism blended with repulsion follows “ two sisters , deeply splice to their small Southern township , fighting to break innocent of the darkness live with the land — and its endless cycle of pecan harvest — whole . ” ( June 4 )
“ Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder . ” ( June 4 )
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The Alchemical Journeys serial uphold in this tale define in the Impossible City ; it follows moon gods trying to untangle a cosmic string of murders place their form who ’ve taken human form . ( June 4 )
In a version of New York City where homo have struck a tentative truce with monsters , a stealer must concord to a serious bargain to keep the peace . ( June 4 )
“ These 10 narration show the fallibility of time and how reality reveal itself behind the gauze of a dreaming — or a incubus . ” ( June 11 )
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The Black Land ’s Bane epic fantasy series continues as elementary witch Solveig and her shieldmaiden “ have in conclusion reached the fabled Elder sanctuary of Waterstone — a metropolis of healing , restful beauty hidden from the Enemy ’s gaze . Yet whispers race through the palace hall , and those they have come to tentatively trust have hide intentions . ” ( June 11 )
A repugnance film shot in 1993 under strange fortune develops a rabid cult following , leading Hollywood to plan a mellow - visibility reboot . When the only surviving original plaster cast member riposte , disturbing closed book about the original film begin to leak out out . ( June 11 )
“ Like many adventurers before him , Ariel is call to search a humanity full of out of the question aura and challenges … but none of this happens before Ariel come across an artifact from an early civilization , a sentient , disk - keeping hokey intelligence that carries with it the linear perspective of the whole of human chronicle . ” ( June 11 )
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When a category moves to “ the contrive Black Zion of Liberty , California hop to find a residential district of like - disposed people , ” the married man meet decently in — but the married woman soon becomes mistrustful of what ’s really going on beneath the town ’s seemingly perfect surface . ( June 11 )
“ It ’s 2091 and independent contract companies around the world are producing genetically modified soldiers … to be sell to the highest bidder . ” ( June 11 )
This fancy novel is described as “ a queer pirate standalone adventure”—and you canread an excerpt here . ( June 11 )
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This debut novel is described as “ part space odyssey , part lesbian rom - com , ” as well as “ a suspenseful , charming , and overwhelmingly joyous story of fierce friendly relationship , improbable love life , and inquire as vast as the macrocosm itself . ” ( June 11 )
A grad student sample to move past her former life — she was once the best art thief in the extragalactic nebula — is tempt back into the game when she ’s employ to track down a sinewy artefact that could potentially save an intact alien species from extinction . ( June 11 )
“ Eight searing tales of psychological revulsion that examine the disconsolate and most deep buried parts of the human psyche . ” ( June 11 )
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“ The sprawl Kingdom of Khalad resist alone … but hope lies with two : Kat , an complete thief , and Vallant , a rebel and folk hero . Together they will light a fire that will burn away the corruption and tyranny of King Diar ’s pattern . ” ( June 14 )
This historical fantasy is place aboard the Trans - Siberian Express — albeit one that stockpile its passengers across a magical landscape known as the Wastelands , a place full of dangerous fauna amid an ever - shifting wild . ( June 18 )
This surreal short - news report compendium spirals from an intriguing premise : “ At a Halloween political party in 1999 , a writer slept with the devil . She discover him again and again throughout her liveliness and she writes stories for him about affair that are both unsufferable and true . ” ( June 18 )
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This speculative thriller think that in a dangerously overpopulated world , some duad opt to have a “ virtual child”—and then permit a reality show to follow along as they “ raise ” it , hop to win the prize of the right to have a real baby.(June 18 )
This revulsion novel follow “ a famous 80s slasher managing director [ who sets ] out to dash the most terrifying horror movie ever made using an occult camera that might be ( and likely is ) demonic . ” ( June 18 )
“ Annelid and Leveret met as minor in the heart of the Sri Lankan civil war . They found each other in a torn - up state , peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth . And in a demon - haunt Ellen Price Wood , another act of violence linked them and actuate their souls on a journeying throughout the ages . No macrocosm can hold them , no lifetime can tie them , and they ’ll never leave each other behind . ” ( June 18 )
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“ The Lord of the Rings fill Call of Duty in this mad mashup match disoriented soldiers against legendary monsters . This riotous campaign of a novel could only have leap from the nerdy minds of a skill fiction award - winner and an extreme amateur landscapist . ” ( June 18 )
This follow - up to The Annual Migration of Clouds follow a teenaged daughter ’s journey through Canadian mountains ravaged by climate change , seeking a new life in the stake - apocalypse in a dome - enclosed community of interests . What she finds , however , is barely the utopia she ’d hoped for . ( June 18 )
A teenage Curse Bearer teams up with an 800 - twelvemonth - onetime demon who ’s also “ Hell ’s least rich Curse Keeper , ” hop to break the spell — a task that sees them undertake a wild , globe - trot adventure . ( June 18 )
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The Lightspeed sci - fi trilogy concludes as John Grant voyage his manner back from the past times with the assistant of his onboard AI , discovering an unknown human settlement along the way . Meanwhile , other human settlements grapple with the tarry influence of the alien Fermi . ( June 25 )
“ globe will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling closing to the Devoured Worlds space opera house trilogy . ” ( June 25 )
The Legacy of Orisha series comes to an end as Zélie front her terminal enemy , desperate to save her people before it ’s too late.(June 25 )
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“ Enter the affray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman , set during the warfare - torn , hobgoblin - overrun years just before The Blacktongue Thief . ” ( June 25 )
The follow - up to Infinity Gate wraps up the Pandominion series , draw as follows : “ a thrilling adventure set in the multiverse , it tells of humans ’s elaboration across million of dimensions , and the AI applied science that might see it all come to an end . ” ( June 25 )
“ Cate Holloway know the unspoken rule of New Orleans : avoid the sinewy Gage offence family at all monetary value . Of course , that was before her sidekick got caught in their chaos . Now Cate has no choice but to face the colored and forbid prince of New Orleans himself and pray for her buddy ’s life . But Lachlan Gage is as deadly as he is beautiful … and the only currency he ’s concerned in is her mortal . ” ( June 25 )
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root on by Slavak folklore , this tale conform to a witch who can figure out almost any problem — except avoid her troublesome ex-wife , the Tsar of Monsters . When she give up her conjuring trick to make a hasty escape , she becomes dangerously ill , and must team up with a police detective to find her power . ( June 25 )
“ In a world of permeative government surveillance and tyrannical corporate control , it ’s up to a small - time criminal to keep the Muriel Sarah Spark of human rebellion alive . ” ( June 25 )
This novel set within the world of Valdemar returns to the humans of gryphons to follow the heroic Kelvren , whose most recent routine of courageousness might have caused more fuss than it was deserving . ( June 25 )
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“ A chilling horror novel about a haunting , told from the linear perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls ‘ Other Mommy . ’ ” ( June 25 )
This story described as a “ steamy romantasy twist on Beauty and the Beast ” is “ the first in a seductive new disconsolate Romance language series set in an alternative Silicon Valley where data is power , and those who hold the flow of data live like gods . ” ( June 25 )
“ In this fiercely imaginative Filipino - inspired phantasy debut , a bisexual conical buoy hiding a goddess - give talent is unwillingly transform into a lightning rod for her people ’s battle against colonization . ” ( June 25 )
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When the last human alive after an AI putsch find out an antique sentient computer that controls a pestilent arm , she must convince it to join her cause — while keeping it hidden from even more destructive forces . ( June 25 )
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