Fantasy and Science FictionSeptember 2025
Recent Releases
The Folded Sky
by Elizabeth Bear

Archinformist Dr. Sunya Song embarks on an interstellar trek with her wife and family to make contact with the artificial intelligence known as Baomind. However, the research station housing the Baomind is besieged on all sides by anti-AI fanatics, putting Sunya and her family at risk as she tries to preserve a new hope for humanity. The latest in the author's White Space series, this title will appeal to fans of well-developed and thought-provoking space opera.
Exiles : a novel by Mason Coile
Exiles
by Mason Coile

When a Mars colony mission arrives to find its setup crew of robots fractured and one missing, the astronauts must unravel conflicting accounts of what happened, in the new novel by the author of William.
The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
The Shattering Peace
by John Scalzi

In a series installment a decade in the making, the author returns to the galaxy of the Old Man's War series with the long awaited seventh book.
Sub-majer's challenge by L. E. Modesitt
Sub-majer's Challenge
by L. E. Modesitt

As war looms between Cyador and Cerlyne, battle-hardened officer Alyiakal fights overwhelming enemies on the empire's remote frontiers while grappling with thwarted romance, political resistance and impossible orders that demand sacrifice for victory.
Land so wide : a novel by Erin A. Craig
Land So Wide
by Erin A. Craig

Trapped in the prosperous but cursed settlement of Mistaken, mapmaker Greer Mackenzie defies the Warding Stones to rescue her beloved from monstrous creatures, uncovering dark secrets about her town and her own origins.
The Toxic Avenger : The Official Movie Novelization by Adam Cesare
The Toxic Avenger: The Official Movie Novelization
by Adam Cesare

When a struggling janitor is pushed into a vat of toxic waste, he is transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his friends, and his community from the forces of corruption and greed. Experience this action-packed, irreverent, gory and outlandish saga of vengeance and twisted justice, adapted from the 2025 reboot of the classic cult comedy-horror extravaganza The Toxic Avenger
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses
by Malka Older

In this 3rd entry in the Mossa and Pleiti science fiction mystery series, Pleiti agrees to help a former classmate resolve a case of false plagiarism while grappling with the sudden aloofness of her partner Mossa. However, the stakes of this academic defense may turn deadly as a conspiracy unravels. For fans of: Mur Lafferty's Midsolar Murders and Jessie Mihalik's Starlight's Shadow series.
Love bites by Cynthia St. Aubin
Love Bites
by Cynthia St. Aubin

A girl’s gotta eat—and so do her three cats. Recently divorced art history grad student Hanna Harvey has just fibbed her way into a job as the assistant to dangerously drool-worthy art gallery owner Mark Abernathy. For Hanna, working in the field she desperately loves provides the perfect opportunity to begin putting her life back together. 

But when her boss's lady friends start turning up dead, Hanna finds herself in the cross hairs of a murder investigation. Even worse, hunky homicide detective James Morrison fears hers might be the next body he discovers.
The summer war by Naomi Novik
The Summer War
by Naomi Novik

When Celia's accidental curse condemns her brother Argent to a loveless life, she spends years mastering her prophetic magic to break it, uncovering along the way a buried truth about an ancient war that could finally bring peace—or destroy her people entirely.
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