block quitting booze or starting an exercise authorities — the only New Year ’s resolution deserving make ( because it ’s the most playfulness to stick with ) is “ interpret more leger . ” io9 ’s got you cover with a racy list of sci - fi and phantasy tone ending coming in January , include new title fromJames Rollins , Charles Stross , Nnedi Okorafor , Tochi Onyebuchi , and many more .
The author ’s first myopic - story collection spans narration of World War II - era flying lizard , steampunk zombies , vanishing nineteenth century boats , and lots more . ( January 1 )
OK , technically this is n’t a sci - fi or fantasy record , but it is a true - offence chronicle fib try out a 1908 murder that persist unsolved — and whose gravel details later on barrack the story of Laura Palmer on Twin Peaks . ( January 1 )
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A novel fantasy duology begin as a young woman becomes accidentally infected by a warlock ’s spell — something she ’ll have to get disembarrass of quickly ( because all magic is pestilent ) and discreetly ( because all magic is illegal ) . ( January 4 )
This first ledger in an Indian - inspired illusion duology follows four regal siblings who must put aside their differences and find a novel wizard rootage to redeem their country from a devastating warfare . ( January 4 )
This continuation to The prove Storm finds the Jedi doing their good to protect the Outer Rim ’s Starlight Beacon from the rampaging Nihil . Read an excerpt here ! ( January 4 )
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When a student has a sight of the apocalypse , she gets a end prison term in coming back — so she goes on the run and before long falls in with a ragtag crew that includes a beaten-up soldier , a misfit prince , and a thief in possession of a noteworthy artefact . Read an excerpthere . ( January 4 )
The Comet Cycle continues as life scientist Jack and homicide police detective Nora — alienated since their daughter ’s fade in the wake of a comet drop mysterious junk on Earth — are drawn back together when his discovery of a new fungus ties into the series of ritualistic execution that she ’s investigating . ( January 4 )
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet place in the class 2083 , in a world where metre - locomotion exists — but only if you need to go forward — and where Romeo lie in a coma while his true sexual love tries to reckon out what to do next . ( January 4 )
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The Wayward Children series continues as the youngster enrolled at an anti - witching school — a position not at all as welcoming as Eleanor West ’s home plate for Wayward Children — arrange a rebellion against their teachers . ( January 4 )
A nomadic philosopher team up with a deaf minor to try and halt a pestilence that ’s being passed around by a rather threatening verse — if you hear it , you turn into a human being - slaughtering monster . ( January 10 )
The queen is dead — but that does n’t stand for his ghost is n’t still hand down orders . A failed escort , a enchantress , and the assassin who was hired to kill the king are the unlikely trio charged with cypher out who exactly paid the assassin — and with get sure the wrong royal stag does n’t end up on the throne . ( January 11 )
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plunge into the world of “ scrap linguistics ” in this tale , which follows a VR game champion who must take a stand against the spellcasting anarchists ( who have some terrifying inter - dimensional allies ) seek to take over California . ( January 11 )
The pitch on this fairy tale - inspired tarradiddle is “ Sleeping Beauty see Indiana Jones ; ” it ’s about a treasure hunter and a warrior who team up to break the whammy that ’s got its clasp on a sleep prince ( January 11 )
In this phantasy Riffian on a classic natural selection narrative , girl and her Friedrich August Wolf pal must dodge ice-skating rink goblins , huge bears , and the malevolent ruler who ’s chasing both of them across a stock-still major planet . ( January 11 )
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The fable of the Formosan moon goddess inspires this fantasy about a youthful woman who go on a quest to the Celestial Kingdom in disguise to get a line deception — and hopefully , deliver her female parent from exile . ( January 11 )
When an experimental VR headset transport a struggling video game designer into an substitute reality , he must figure out how to get back to his family in the tangible macrocosm before it ’s too later . ( January 11 )
The Wake the Dragon series go on as tensions rise up between the Three Kingdoms and Ishara — and the spot becomes even more complicated when a deadly ancient race get to come forth again . ( January 11 )
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The Ravens duology resolve as sis at a sorority for crone get word a dangerous new chassis of magic , then must prevent a rival sorority from unleashing actual blaze . ( January 11 )
While human land campaign a ostensibly endless war , a ogre invader do itself known . The warfare could be ended with a bright marriage between a prince and princess from each side — but the other difference demand the aid of an immortal warrior who ’s fond of killing royal . ( January 11 )
After Sixteen Ways to fight a Walled City and How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It , the writer ’s witty trilogy about a conniving ne’er - do - well conclude with this entry . ( January 11 )
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Espionage meets Lovecraft horrors in this Laundry Files entree , which check a foursome of supernaturally load stories twine in a Britain go by a Prime Minister who happens to be an eldritch god . ( January 11 )
In this sequel to The Cruel Stars , a small group of bomber have deal to repel a hefty enemy hellbent on eliminating any human with genetic or neural engineering . But now come the arduous part : rebuilding Earth ’s civilisation while remaining on high alert for both novel and familiar invaders . ( January 11 )
The Elemental Masters alt - history series carry on with Wild West fable Annie Oakley , who in this version is not only a talented crack shot , but also a thaumaturge who fights creatures of the night . ( January 11 )
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After Akata Witch and Akata Warrior , the Nigerian folklore - inspired series continues as Sunny Nwazue undertakes a life - exchange quest to an otherworldly realm , enwrapped on recovering an object that could forestall the end of the Earth . ( January 18 )
When an draw a bead on surgeon gets kicked out of school ( because she ’s a woman ) , she change by reversal to a life-threatening robber to supply the corpses that ’ll help her persist in her studies . But all is not well in Edinburgh , where people are disappear , strangers are skulk , and dreadful plague has started to make a comeback . ( January 18 )
Orphaned sisters — one wizardly , one elegant — ask a river goddess for help when they ’re in danger of lose their country . But the favor they ’re grant comes at a usurious terms , and they must embark on a dangerous and turbulent mission to pay their debt . Read an excerpthere . ( January 18 )
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When the purple heir is mistakenly accused of unleashing desolation upon her kingdom , she ’s sent to a wizard fortress where a breakout seems out of the question — but that ’s just what her darling is going to attempt to do . ( January 18 )
bill as “ The Hunger Games foregather Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy , ” this sci - fi story pits 22 humans against each other to determine which 12 will get to start out their ship and actually begin colonise the planet they ’ve arrived at . Some other complications , though : there are both monsters and slayer robots . ( January 18 )
A new serial publication begins as three siblings are beam to the far border of their region to oversee their nation ’s worthful industries . What they find is surprising : a grow revolt , dark conjuration that conceals a darker secret , and a dangerous trick that bring down one of them in big trouble . ( January 18 )
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This anthology compiles 15 news report about play , from athletic competitions and tabletop competitors to TV games and practical reality . ( January 18 )
In the Arctic Circle , a long - torpid plague is unexpectedly unearthed by archaeologist working in the thaw permafrost . In the consequence , various human life are forever altered , admit a scientist who teaches a grunter to talk and a grandmother and granddaughter who blast off in hunting of a new home satellite . ( January 18 )
This collecting gathers narrative from the author exploring “ nightmares , dreams , desire , and visual sensation rivet around the Chicana experience . ” ( January 18 )
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After she ’s freed from indentured servitude , a flack mage lends her acquisition to a group of rebels — and ends up getting entangled in a regal confederacy along the way . ( January 18 )
In this horror novel , a mother and girl must overcome darkness in their pasts to take down a sea wolf recognize as “ the Cur , ” who targets young women that reject to adjust . ( January 18 )
An international array of authors admit Nalo Hopkinson , Jaquira Diaz , Andrea Hairston , Linda D. Addison , Rion Amilcar Scott , Marie Vibbert , and Maurice Broaddus contribute to this anthology of “ speculative fable fib of ancient H2O in all its innumerous forms . ” ( January 18 )
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This continuation to The Unwilling proceed the story of Judah the Foundling , who ’s now free from her castle prison house but must now find out her way alone through a strange wood . ( January 25 )
The acclaimed author ’s grownup debut is set in the 2050s — when the rich have begin to depart Earth to populate space , and the people left behind struggle to survive on a dying planet — and follow unlike points of opinion on this unique vision of the time to come . ( January 25 )
A woman falls for a married man , but when his wife dies on the spur of the moment she realize charwoman dying of a sudden is a distressing pattern in his life-time . Things get even more distressing when the ghosts of his past tense start out to leech into her present . ( January 25 )
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This sequel to Beyond the Ruby Veil finds Emanuela enjoying her berth of power — at least , until her illusion begin to stutter and she ’s forced to make alliances with some of her most dreaded enemies . ( January 25 )
Years after their forefather and brother vanished—(possibly ) due to an foreign abduction — a pair of sisters remain estranged due to their unlike perspectives on what really go on . When their brother abruptly reappears , they ’ll need to reconnect fast to avail him avoid the FBI and ( perhaps ) unfriendly interstellar personnel . ( January 25 )
In this retelling of The Nutcracker , when an aspiring ballerina in 1906 Nottingham meets her new neighbour — an enigmatic toymaker — he brings conjuring trick and mystery into her life . ( January 25 )
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A woman who ’s the only enchantress in a land of magician protects castaway with her swords — until it becomes necessary to enhance her weaponry with a magic patch that could either deliver everyone or ruin her . ( January 25 )
An orphan with no knowledge of his birth family develop up to disclose he has unusual powers — and once the government learns about those powers , he ’s forced to go on the run with sinister federal agent in sideline . ( January 25 )
In the frozen reaches of Siberia , a docudrama film producer drives an ill-famed rural highway collect local touch stories and legend — until he reaches “ the coldest blank space on Earth ” and finds preternatural wildcat awaiting his arriver . ( January 25 )
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The work of the late Marvel comedian caption inspired this thriller about a particular ops unit of measurement whose member enhance their defective guy - nabbing acquisition with a little help from the Devil himself . ( January 25 )
The highly clap generator ( Parable of the Sower , Kindred ) get a originative biography focusing on her new years , told in both verse form and prose . Read an excerpthere . ( January 25 )
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