August bring the final book in N.K. Jemison ’s Hugo - winning Broken Earth trilogy , The Stone Sky — as well as Stephen Baxter ’s subsequence to H.G. Wells ’ classic The War of the Worlds ( ominously title The Massacre of Mankind ) . And those are just two of the title on this rather tenacious lean , so you ’d better start up turn over some Page .
After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley by Rob Reid
After a claim change and a release date shift , the modish novel from Reid ( Year Zero ) has finally arrived . It imagine a brawny young social web call “ Phluttr , ” an forthwith essential invention that ’s poise to either elevate humanity to a raw level — or take over the world . Read an excerpt here . ( Aug. 1 )
The Best of Bova, Volume 3 by Ben Bova (Aug. 1)
The later collection of gruelling scientific discipline fiction story selected from the six - time Hugo Award winner ’s prospicient and prolific career .
The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor
The author of Titanic novel The Girl Who Came Home uses another event from that era for inspiration : the 1917 photo taken by two young girls that , at the time , were trust to be of real fairy . It explores that mo in chronicle as well as the life of a present - 24-hour interval woman who realizes she has a unusual connection to it . ( Aug. 1 )
The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy
Everyone knows that criminals lurk within the internet ’s darkest recess , but what if an ancient immorality begin to attest there as well ? fortuitously for the rest of the world , a scrappy chemical group centered in Portland — include a journalist , a drudge , a former gospeler , and a 12 - year - honest-to-goodness with high - technical school ocular prosthetics — will pool their acquisition to sample and campaign it . ( Aug. 1 )
The Gates of Tagmeth by P.C. Hodgell
In this high illusion subsequence to The Sea of Time , a noblewoman with chaos and wipeout in her rip must battle a being that has cross multiple universes to make for lasting dark — or else see her people wiped out forever . ( Aug. 1 )
Halls of Law by V.M. Escalada
This first book in a novel fantasy series introduce a world balanced between its military force and its lawmaker , the latter of whom are all magically gifted . But the balance is alarmingly tenuous , as one young psychic find out when a crushing invasion occur and the royal phratry is wiped out . ( Aug. 1 )
Hex-Rated by Jason Ridler
Another first book in a series — but this one ’s styled like a seventies pulp novel and is about a Los Angeles detective named Brimstone whose previous instance is overflowing with supernatural elements . ( Aug. 1 )
A Man of Shadows by Jeff Noon
A down - on - his - luck secret heart is hired to find a teenaged fugitive who may have a strange connexion to a serial killer who ’s lurch the streets . This would be a very dark and noirish tale , except it takes property in a metropolis where night never fall . ( Aug. 1 )
Monster Hunter Siege by Larry Correia
Correia ’s democratic horror - fantasy series rolls on with a massive tale about “ the unmarried biggest operation in Monster Hunter International ’s history . ” The tag line of work is literally “ go cock-a-hoop or go home , ” so you know some demon heads are gon na roll . ( Aug. 1 )
Reaping the Aurora by Joshua Palmatier
The author enwrap up his trilogy set in the now - destroyed metropolis of Erenthrall , where attempts to stabilize the realm ’s magical pastureland lines and reinstate guild are sabotage by unrest among the few but rough subsister . ( Aug. 1 )
Terminal Alliance by Jim C. Hines
The Hugo achiever launches a humourous new series about the scrappy humans who ’ve survived the Book of Revelation on Earth to become janitors in space — proof that there ’s one line that will always need doing , even if everything else cease . ( Aug. 1 )
Update : The publication date for Terminal Alliance is now November 7 .
Urban Enemies edited by Joseph Nassise
Seventeen urban fantasy story told from a dastardly villain ’s pointedness of opinion , play to you by authors Jim Butcher ( The Dresden Files ) , Seanan McGuire ( October Daye ) , Kevin Hearne ( The Iron Druid Chronicles ) , Jonathan Maberry ( Joe Ledger ) , and others . ( Aug. 1 )
American Ghost by Paul Guernsey
The shade of a gage - dealing biker is determined to solve his own slaying , then get revenge on whoever dunnit . But he ’ll require two improbable allies who are still lurching around this deathly roll — an unemployed ghost hunter and a writer - turned - pig farmer — to help him carry out his pursuance for justice . ( Aug. 8)
Binary/System by Eric Brown
A scientist crash - body politic on a uncongenial foreign planet and must queer the icy landscape to reach a possible escape pointedness — a treacherous journey she undertakes with the helper of “ a friendly chimpanzee - like alien and a jumbo spider crab . ” So , things could be uncollectible . ( Aug. 8)
Blackthorne by Stina Leicht
In the continuation to Cold Iron , twins Nel and Suvi sample to keep the multitude of their fall realm safe from demonic personnel — a life - or - death task that ’s made more difficult with each go past day , as the magic that protects them has started to lose its potency . ( Aug. 8)
The Mystery Knight: A Graphic Novel by George R.R. Martin, adapted by Ben Avery and illustrated by Mark S. Miller
Sure , you already know and love this Dunk and Egg tale ( set several decades before the consequence of Game of Thrones)—but is n’t that a heavy reasons to pick up this new version and enjoy it all over again as a vivid novel ? ( Aug. 8)
Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moira Fowley-Doyle
When a group of Irish teens happens upon a book of magic spells , they recollect they ’ve reveal an light way to reclaim all of the thing pretermit from their sprightliness , from lose objects to retiring human relationship . alas , it all turns out not to be that simple — or harmless . ( Aug. 8)
Call of Fire by Beth Cato
The continuation to Breath of Earth is set in an alternate - universe edition of San Francisco just after the devastating 1906 earthquake . untried geomancer Ingrid must live with the knowledge that her likewise gifted father is the reason San Francisco is now flattened — and also do her best to escape the bureaucrat who want to use her powers for evil . Good thing she has a mysterious hero advert Theodore Roosevelt on her side . ( Aug. 15 )
The Dinosaur Princess by Victor Milán
As you may see correctly there on the blanket , George R.R. Martin himself yell this fantasy serial “ a cross between Jurassic Park and Game of Thrones . ” There ’s more plot of land than that , of track — affect a warrior who was resurrected by magical beings , but would really favour not to be indebted to them always — but the principal haulage is , quite obviously , the fact that knights in this Earth ride freaking dinosaur into conflict . ( Aug. 15 )
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy
A woman searching for answers about her best ally ’s suicide claver a town that seems to be a paradise satiate with free - living syndicalist . That is , until the three - antlered , blood - red , demonically - driven deer show up and set out wreck the scene . ( Aug. 15 )
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
With this novel that arrive with the decisive tagline “ THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS … FOR THE LAST meter , ” Jemisin wraps up her post - apocalyptic , Hugo - win Broken Earth trilogy . ( Aug. 15 )
The Massacre of Mankind: The Sequel to War of the Worlds by Stephen Baxter
This clear sequel break up up 14 years after the Martian invasion , a sentence when the armies of Earth are convinced that they ’ll be able to repel any future attack . But the Martians have changed their tactics , and human race — admit Wells ’ ( previously unnamed ) supporter , Walter Jenkins , and his sis - in - natural law , a war reporter — confront a greatly heightened threat when the aliens make a return visit . ( Aug. 22 )
The New Voices of Fantasy edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman
rear stars of fantasy fiction ( Sofia Samatar , Maria Dahvana Headley , Max Gladstone , Alyssa Wong , and many more ) contribute to this 19 - story genre aggregation , which is co - emended and curated by Peter S. Beagle ( The Last Unicorn ) . ( Aug. 22 )
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
A man who falls in beloved with Death ( he call her Suzie ) goes through 10,000 reincarnations , work various pieces of the cosmic puzzler as he shoot for for the ultimate award : an eternity spent with his sweetheart . It ’s a love story , sure , but it ’s also “ the report of everything that makes animation profound , beautiful , idiotic , and heartbreaking . ” ( Aug. 22 )
An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors by Curtis Craddock
In this debut fantasy novel , a princess concur to we d a stranger for strategic political reason — if she can exist the trip-up to the altar , considering a wizard has assassinate the last two women who tried to tie the guy . fortuitously , she ’s improbably impudent , and she has a skilled musketeer watching her back as she tries to untangle the machination that imperil not just her life , but the constancy of the world . ( Aug. 29 )
The Plague Diaries by Ronlyn Domingue
In this conclusion to the author ’s Keeper of Tales trilogy , heroine Secret Riven has her telepathic powers in check and has taken a line in a mystical library . But her life as an archivist soon takes a turn when she reveal a ms that may contain one of her crime syndicate ’s deepest arcanum — which , if unbarred , could have the powerfulness to modify the humanity . ( Aug. 29 )
Raising Fire by James Bennett
As the protagonist of Bennett ’s Chasing Embers has study the unvoiced way , messing around with evil spirits can spell trouble in the New world . But as this subsequence demonstrate , sometimes you ca n’t just closet suspension on your rotten sprightliness to get good and inebriated . Sometimes , you have to muster up the energy to be the hero once again — especially when some jerk set forth unleash ancient magic all over the place . ( Aug. 29 )
The Crow’s Dinner by Jonathan Carroll
The veteran writer of contemporary phantasy ( The Land of Laughs , A Child Across the Sky , Outside the Dog Museum ) expel his first collecting of essays , drawn from body of work originally published on Medium . ( Aug. 31 )
Golden Age and Other Stories by Naomi Novik
Though the author wind up her substitute - history - with - dragons Temeraire serial publication last year , she ’s back in that world for this set of story — a collection which also pay tribute to her truehearted readers , pairing each floor with a piece of music of sports fan art . ( Aug. 31 )
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