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Fantasy and Science Fiction October 2025 |
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Stone & Sky
by Ben Aaronovitch
While vacationing in Aberdeen with family, friends, and fellow magicians, Peter Grant investigates the murder of a gilled man and uncovers a supernatural mystery tied to ancient local families, oil industry secrets, and dangerously magical seabirds.
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| A Rebel's History of Mars by Nadia AfifiKezza is an aerialist in a Martian circus, determined to get revenge on the man who helped lure desperate emigrants to the red planet. Azad, living on a neighboring planet a thousand years in the future, finds a cryptic message that he hopes will lead him to his long-lost sister. Separated by time, these two stories will collide as historians seek the truth behind the colonization of Mars. Nadia Afifi's offbeat and suspenseful storytelling will enrapture fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky and M.R. Carey. |
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The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam
by Megan Bannen
Immortal demigod Rosie Fox has been patrolling Tanria for decades, but lately, the job has been losing its luster. When Rosie dies (again) by electrocution (again) after poking around inside a portal choked with shadowy thorns only she can see, she feels stuck in the rut that is her unending life. Thanks to Rosie's meddling, the portal's inventor, Dr. Adam Lee, must come in person to repair the damage. When all the portals begin to break down, he declares an emergency evacuation of Tanria. In the mad rush to get out, Rosie and Adam end up trapped inside the Mist. Together. And uptight Adam Lee in his bespoke menswear seems to know a lot more about what's happening than he lets on.... Rosie is determined to crack the shell of his cool exterior. But the more she learns about Adam, the more she realizes that they both have personal histories as tangled and thorny as the plant that has them trapped inside the Mist. Maybe two people who have found themselves stuck in this life can find a way to unstick each other ... just when their time on this earth seems to be running out.
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| Moonrising by Claire BarnerIn 2073, Dr. Alex Cole is researching mutagenic food to help mitigate starvation in a world beset by climate change; after losing ground due to radical opposition, she accepts an opportunity to supply food to a lunar hotel run by Mansoor Al Kaabi. As threats continue to push in, Alex, Mansoor and their allies must decide what's truly important to them. Equally science fiction and romance, this engaging novel will be appealing to fans of Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis. |
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What Hunger
by Catherine Dang
In the summer before high school, Ronny Nguyen drifts through boredom and sibling anxiety until tragedy fractures her Vietnamese American family, awakening in her a strange, primal hunger that blurs the line between grief, identity, and a dark new power she cannot fully control.
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Wrath of the Dragons : a Novel
by Olivia Rose Darling
As war ignites across Ravaryn, dragon heir Elowen Atarah and Demon Commander Cayden Veles must navigate a fragile alliance and their complicated feelings for one another while fighting to claim their thrones and protect a realm on the brink of collapse.
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| The End of the World as We Know It 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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Written On the Dark
by Guy Gavriel Kay
Thierry Villar, a tavern poet from Orane, becomes entangled in royal intrigue, war, and supernatural mysteries, encountering an aristocratic muse, a healer guided by inner voices, and others as his wit and charm are tested amidst a nation's unraveling.
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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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| Infinite Archive by Mur LaffertyIn this 3rd entry in the Midsolar Murders series, Mallory Viridian's relative peace (and boredom) is disrupted when she boards a data ship from Earth carrying a boatload of mystery convention-goers -- as well as the entire Internet. With all of these converging chaotic elements, Mallory must solve the murder of her agent before time runs out. For fans of: fast-paced and snappy science fiction crime novels such as Malka Older's Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti series or Constance Fay's Uncharted Hearts series. |
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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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What We Can Know : a Novel
by Ian McEwan
In a future drowned by climate disaster, solitary scholar Thomas Metcalfe uncovers a trail to a lost 2014 poem that once stirred scandal, unraveling a century-old mystery of love, betrayal and artistic legacy in a world longing for what it has lost.
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Anima Rising : a Novel
by Christopher Moore
From New York Times bestselling author comes a humorously deranged tale of a mad scientist, a famous painter and an undead woman's electrifying journey of self-discovery.
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| The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat MurphyIn this clever Victorian mashup, Mary Darling is beside herself when her three children go missing, and her uncle John Watson's dear friend Sherlock Holmes proves more hindrance than help. Mary takes matters into her own hands, recruiting friends from her past to help her find her way to Neverland and rescue Wendy, Michael, and John herself. With both fantastical adventure and thoughtful exploration of both sexism and colonialism, this book will be a delight for readers looking for another feminist retelling of classic tales. |
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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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Awakened : a Novel
by A. E. Osworth
A coven of trans witches battles an evil AI in the magical coming-of-middle-age romp about love, loss, drag shows, and late capitalism. Awakened is an exhilarating, hilarious and thought-provoking reflection on the ways that we are responsible for creating our own realities , a story of finding community, and a meditation on what it means to have a body (and if it might be far worse never to have had one at all).
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The Winds of Fate
by S. M. Stirling
Years after altering ancient Rome's path, Artorius and his team uncover a rival mission by Chinese time-travelers to reshape the Han dynasty, forcing them into a perilous struggle to prevent a premature nuclear conflict and preserve the future they once risked everything to build.
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