Top new sci-fi books out this week: 7 Apr - 13 Apr 2024
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April 13, 2024
This week featuring new releases by Lionel Shriver, Sarah Langan, Daisy Wood, S.A. Barnes, J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert, Chuck Black, Rena Fish, John Jackson Miller, Eryn Hawk, Edward Ashton, Nicole Maser and many more.
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Mania by Lionel Shriver
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the New York Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars. In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence...fiction · dystopia · politics · literary-fiction · audiobook · sci-fi · humor · contemporary · satire · alternate-history -
A Better World by Sarah Langan
The author of Good Neighbors , “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia” (NPR), returns with a provocative and disconcerting novel about a woman questioning her new home in an exclusive company town after a night out goes terribly wrong.Welcome to Plymouth Valley...mystery · fiction · horror · dystopia · sci-fi · suspense · audiobook · contemporary · literary-fiction · psychological -
The Royal Librarian by Daisy Wood
A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations…Windsor, 1940: War rages, and as bombs rain down across Britain, nowhere is safe: not even a royal palace.Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside...historical-fiction · fiction · historical · ww2 · royalty · magic · war · 20th-century · romance · alternate-history -
Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes
An exploration crew must try to stay alive on an eerie and abandoned planet in Ghost Station, a heart-pounding space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, the acclaimed author of Dead Silence.As an exploration crew begins to establish residency on an abandoned planet, they must unravel the mystery behind the previous colonizer’s hasty departure...horror · sci-fi · fiction · space · fantasy · urban-fantasy · paranormal · suspense · exploration · colonization -
Point of Impact by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert
Awash with conflict and a building war, the known stars align against Van and his wing of the Guild in a fight for the ultimate control.But Van and his crew suspect there’s more to the Equal Grasp than just a band of thieves, and they begin their campaign at Bopul Station, a lonely outpost where corruption rules and Peacemakers are feared...space-opera · sci-fi · space-fleet · soldiers · military · space · violent-conflict · fiction · book · adult -
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Reclamation by Chuck Black, Rena Fish, Elena Karoumpali
The Merchant returns to establish his empire, but will the ruling powers of the galaxy destroy him first?Brae Starlore despairs after her hope in the return of the Merchant dies with her father. The despot Raylean Prefect and the Master Keeper of the Protector seek to kill her and anyone associated with Navi Daeson Starlore’s insurrection at the Magnifical games... -
The Living Force by John Jackson Miller
In the year before The Phantom Menace, Yoda, Mace Windu, and the entire Jedi Council confront a galaxy on the brink of change.The Jedi have always traveled the stars, defending peace and justice across the galaxy. But, the galaxy is changing, and along with it, the Jedi Order...space-opera · fiction · sci-fi · space · audiobook · military · action-adventure · male-mc · violent-conflict · book -
You're Not My King! by Eryn Hawk
Reuben CarterThrowing myself in front of my estranged sister didn’t win me any brownie points...romance · mlm · sci-fi · aliens · fantasy · lgbtq · monsters · paranormal · fated-mates · forced-proximity -
Mal Goes to War by Edward Ashton
The humans are fighting again. Go figure.As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills...sci-fi · fiction · humor · cyberpunk · audiobook · ai · dystopia · futuristic · war · action-adventure -
Hearing Red by Nicole Maser
New Recommended for ages 18+In a world overrun by an unprecedented outbreak, two young women find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle for survival.Saff, a determined new doctor in the first year of her internship, had clawed her way out of a tumultuous past, only to be dragged back into it when the zombie outbreak hits...romance · wlw · dystopia · zombies · lgbtq · fantasy · sci-fi · lesbian-mc · enemies-to-lovers · fiction -
Morphotrophic by Greg Egan
In a world where the cells that make up our bodies are not committed to any one organism, Marla is confronted by the fickleness of her cytes, and resolves to understand them with help from Ada, a centuries-old Flourisher. Swappers like Ruth embrace fluidity, and meet with others to exchange cytes, seeking the perfect mix... -
The Last Phi Hunter by Salinee Goldenberg
Ambitious Phi Hunter and perpetual lone wolf, Ex, finds his road to glory interrupted when a heavily pregnant runaway enlists his help to escape through the ghost-infected forest…Ex, the youngest member of the Phi Hunters Order, has spent his life slaying the ghosts and demons of Suyoram Kingdom...romance · fantasy · myths · fiction · high-fantasy · action-adventure · sci-fi · dragons · audiobook · dark -
Infection: The Beginning by Dylan S Lintz
The Beginning is an action horror adventure, the story is from the first person perspective of Protagonist Samuel Morgan in a journal format. As the character is writing down the events of the world around him. Sam is a Police Patrol Officer in the city of Greenrest, Georgia...