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Fantasy and Science Fiction October 2025 |
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All That We See or Seem
by Ken Liu
"Orphan hacker" Julia Z is pulled from digital obscurity when a lawyer's artist wife, a dream-weaving oneirofex kidnapped by criminals, is needed for her unique skills to retrieve stolen dreams from a dangerous virtual underworld.
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The Last Spirits of Manhattan
by John A. McDermott
In 1950s Manhattan, Carolyn Banks takes refuge in her eccentric great-aunts' haunted mansion, where a Hitchcock-hosted party spirals into a surreal collision of ghosts, glamour, and buried family secrets that force her to confront love, legacy, and the supernatural.
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| The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene, eds.Set during and after the events of Stephen King's highly acclaimed 1978 novel The Stand, this anthology collects new stories of human resilience after the apocalypse from authors like Poppy Z. Brite, Tananarive Due, Josh Malerman, and many more. Both a tribute to and an expansion of the original novel, fans of King's work will be delighted by the dedication on display from the contributors. |
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The Sword of Light
by Heather Graham
Fabled objects of power appear just when an encroaching tide of northern invaders threatens ancient Ireland. Will fabled objects of myth be enough to defend their emerald isle?
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| The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra KhawAlessa Li has been forcibly enrolled at Hellebore Technical Institute, an elite academy for the dangerously powerful world-enders within its hallowed walls. On graduation day, Alessa is trapped in the library along with other students being forced to take part in the institute's grisly ritual: being devoured by the monstrous faculty. A harrowing and lore-rich tread into the darkest depth of dark academia fantasy, Khaw's latest is "a visceral symphony of body horror" (Booklist). |
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| Anji Kills a King by Evan LeikamCastle servant Anji is on the run after murdering the king, with a mysterious band of mercenaries known as the Menagerie hot on her heels. One of the Menagerie, a surly swordswoman named Hawk, has cause to keep Anji alive and the two form an uneasy alliance to evade death. Fast-paced and rich with character and world details, this debut series opener is a must for fans of Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief and Sarah Rees Brennan's Long Live Evil. |
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The First Thousand Trees
by Premee Mohamed
Haunted by a deadly mistake and alone in a fractured world, Henryk Mandrusiak leaves behind his crumbling community to seek distant family, only to confront deeper hardship and haunting truths in a bleak, climate-ravaged landscape where hope flickers faint but persistent.
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The Raven Scholar
by Antonia Hodgson
The Raven Scholar is a masterfully woven tale of imperial intrigue from an electrifying new voice in epic fantasy.
Let us fly now to the empire of Orrun, where after twenty-four years of peace, the reign of Bersun the Brusque has come to an end. In the dizzying heat of midsummer, seven exceptional warriors, thinkers, strategists compete to replace him. When one of them is murdered, it falls to Neema Kraa, the emperor’s brilliant, idiosyncratic High Scholar, to find the killer and fight for the throne. Neema believes she is alone. But we are here to help; all she has to do is let us in.
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