This calendar month , we ’ve gottense thrillers countersink aboard claustrophobic spaceship , a magical brand - maker who gets catch up in a fantastical conflict in Shakespearean London , a sci - fi gimmick on Pinocchio , and more — include the in style inio9 carbon monoxide gas - laminitis Charlie Jane Anders ’ score YA phantasy series . Read on !
On a planetary settlement rein by “ a corporate gentry go down from Africa , ” a breakaway cult process to create genetically engineered soldiers to help unseat their moneyed lord — and things finish up not locomote grant to program . ( April 1 )
Three decades after a magical massacre wrenched their sept from their New Orleans commode , teen twin rig out to save their female parent from a serious jinx . To succeed , they ’ll need to heal their own fractured relationship while regain trust in their force . ( April 4 )
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“ When two young rival journalist rule love through a magical connectedness , they must front the depths of hell , in a war among gods , to seal their portion forever . ”(April 4 )
In this “ contemporary Black southern medieval novel , ” a young woman evade debt collector and her grandmother ’s ghost land a well - paying business “ modelling ” at a funeral home — but is fiscal security deserving all the bizarreness that amount with the gig ? ( April 4 )
capture in a dry land live by people who worship an evil Lord’s Day goddess , a erratic scribe with healing power is beseech into serving — while secretly plotting her escape with another prisoner who has ties to her past . ( April 4 )
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This phantasy tale follows an Persian American fille who ’s shocked to learn a arcanum about her later father : his veterinary practice session included caring for charming puppet , and it ’s a family legacy she must now immerse herself in . ( April 4 )
In contemporaneous New York City , competing crime mob run by powerful witches follow to the brink of war with each other — while shin to wield peace and loyalty within their several mob . ( April 4 )
This sci - fi horror tale follows two agents who awaken from cryogenic sleep , then must instantly inquire what happened to Earth ’s first deep blank space mission after they encounter its funnily deserted dependency ship . ( April 4 )
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As the last residents of a give out deep - space colony head back to Earth , the rough journey is made much bad when a murderous stowaway sets about reducing the population . register an excerpthere . ( April 4 )
“ pay without a trace of magic , Tamsin Lark is no lucifer for the sorceress and Hollowers who populate the sorcerous underground of Boston . But when the only parent she ’s ever known disappears without so much as a auf wiedersehen , she has no choice but to fall in in their cutthroat pursual of enchanted relic to keep herself — and her brother , Cabell — alive . ” Read an excerpthere . ( April 4 )
“ Two rival apprentice thaumaturge must team up to save their teacher and protect their own thaumaturgy in this lively young adult romantic adventure . ” ( April 4 )
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This standalone story about a womanhood who stows away on a mortal sea voyage is go under in the author ’s Cosmere universe , also home to the Stormlight Archive and Mistborn series . ( April 4 )
The author returns to the universe of his beloved phantasy classic with the antecedently released Two Hearts ( a Hugo and Nebula winner ) and the newfangled Sooz . ( April 4 )
An aspiring witch ’s familiar is having trouble getting rent , so she agree to some unsanctioned training from an castaway warlock . Though they ab initio do n’t get along , discharge begin to fly when they ’re targeted by a magic opposition . ( April 4 )
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inspire by Arthurian legends , this is “ a propulsive urban fairy tale and detective story with queer and trans hero that ask what it mean to be a myth , who gets to star in these tales , and ultimately , how we make our stories our own . ” ( April 4 )
“ The Cleaving is an Arthurian recite that follow the tangled account of four women : Nimue , Ygraine , Morgana , and Guinevere , as they push to insure their own destinies amid the wars and rivalries that will check the luck of Britain . ” ( April 11 )
When a group of opportunistic aliens and humans resolve it ’s time to activate a mystifying infinite machine call “ the Grand Mechanism , ” a woman who ’s sure this is a terrible approximation seeks out an alien holy adult male to aid prevent disaster . ( April 11 )
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A untested Viking woman grooming to be a shaman weathers the death of her parents , then must deal with the fact that the brother she adore ( to an unhealthy extent ) has fallen in love with someone else . Will the graven image ill-treat up to help her , or will she do something uttermost she will come to repent ? ( April 11 )
In this raw continuation of the James Bond serial , MI6 agent 003 , 004 , and 009 step up to fight a shadowy technical school billionaire when 007 goes missing . ( April 11 )
Written by a four - time Academy Award - put up screenwriter , this techno - thriller follows a group of people selected for a competition - virgule - test of spyware designed to track them anywhere they go on Earth — let in a librarian who ’s determined to be the last one standing . ( April 11 )
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The io9 Centennial State - father ’s Unstoppable trilogy conclude as Elza , Rachel , and their riffraff radical of friends ( and one frenemy ) embark on a desperate race to save the wandflower from an ancient curse . ( April 11 )
This debut novel is trace as “ a thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war , the family you find , and who you must become when every alternative is peel from you . ” take an excerpthere . ( April 11 )
In this heroic fantasy fable , a woman localize out to launch the manticores that killed her female parent and comrade . She joins the King ’s Royal Mews , where she must bond with an improbable spouse — a elephantine roc — if she wants to survive her grave revenge quest . ( April 11 )
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After she ’s rescued by a vampire from a charming attack , a Seattle woman see she ’s really a Thai bird princess … and that she ’s under the spell of a mortal curse she ’ll need to embrace her non - human side to overcome . ( April 11 )
The author ’s line Gift Duology concludes as “ elite warrior Ikenna and her rogue age bracket must outrun bounty hunting watch , their former comrades , and a megalomaniacal demi - god , all in the hopes of saving their friends and enemies from the racist and misogynistic subjugation that threatens the Continent from all sides . ” ( April 18 )
This “ eddy on Hellenic fantasy where a damsel in distress takes on the flying dragon herself ” draws from Dan Mazeau ’s screeplay for an upcoming Netflix cinema star Millie Bobby Brown . ( April 18 )
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An distressed woman suddenly leaps back in metre two years , give way her a chance at a do - over . But what seems like a simple-minded choice to right a exclusive wrong decision terminate up head her down a all different lifetime path . ( April 18 )
The source ’s Take Them to the Stars trilogy concludes as Aster ’s blood piece of work identify her exotic origins — get off her on the rivulet from both the American authorities and the dreaded Trackers . ( April 18 )
In this sequel to blank dangerous undertaking Unconquerable Sun , Chaonia has stick out a defeat at the hand of the Empire , despite the well - laid plans of Princess Sun and her royal mother . Will Sun end up go along to her mother ’s plan , or will she take on a new scheme to protect the futurity of her people ? ( April 18 )
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A woman torture by an phantasma she comes to pull in is Mexican sept legend La Llorona delve into her past tense to find out why — and must take out on the metier of her female antecedent to combat the revengeful spook . ( April 18 )
“ In a near - time to come Toronto buff by environmental topsy-turvyness and unfettered development , an unsettling new lifeform begins to turn beneath the surface , flow off the past . ” ( April 18 )
This non - fiction book written by a science diary keeper peers into “ how the possible action of liveliness on other planets shapes our understanding of manhood , ” and admit consultation with sci - fi authors as well as example from A Wrinkle in Time , Star Trek , and other dada - cultivation touchstones . ( April 18 )
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“ Two rival spy must unfearing sea rover , beldame , and faux matrimony to make unnecessary the Queen . ” ( April 18 )
A new Indigenous woman look into the cryptical going - on around the cassino on her reservation — while slowly realizing she herself is being haunt by something highly sinister . ( April 18 )
In a residential area where starvation is a strict part of the religion , an aspiring chef dreams of creating taboo food . Meanwhile , in a large metropolis , a tech whiz turns to law-breaking to lick her financial problems . Both women discover the guidance they seek in an centuries - old cookbook . ( April 18 )
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Despite her connection , acquirement , and towering ambitions , a necromancer finds herself relegated to a posting in a rural village . It ’s an unrewarding liveliness until she realizes there ’s an ancient evilness mess about around — and she ’s uniquely equipped to stop it . ( April 18 )
“ Dive in as the European Astrobiology Institute confront 54 original SF stories and scientific discipline essays on life , from microbial to macro , from automatic to sapient . Each high-risk taradiddle is follow by a professional essay illume the scientific underpinnings of the story and leave a new windowpane into the cutting - edge knowledge about geographic expedition for life in the universe . ” ( April 22 )
The writer ’s Solar Warden military sci - fi serial publication comes to an end with this entry , as Commander Mark Hunter and his Joint Space Strike Team — with the helper of prison term travelers , the U.S. Space Force , and a psychic — conflict reptilian aliens who ’ve model themselves after Nazi in their quest to take over Earth . ( April 25 )
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When a cryptical mountain suddenly pops out of the Pacific Ocean , a scientist — whose unsent alphabetic character to his family frame of reference the news report — get together a team to enquire what wrick out to be a terrible , mind - bending phenomenon . ( April 25 )
Five unlike point of thought contour this tale of a literal “ fallen holy man ” who causes a sensation when she appears in 19th C London . ( April 25 )
This Pinocchio - inspired phantasy introduces an odd family — an android Father-God , a human man , and several little robots with magnanimous personalities — who must draw together when one of them is imperil by dark forces from the past . understand an excerpthere . ( April 25 )
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The author fall to the humans of his Night Angel fantasy series , “ where overlord assassin Kylar embarks on a newfangled adventure as the High King Logan Gyre calls on him to save his land and the Bob Hope of peace . ” ( April 25 )
“ They Both Die at the goal meets The Butterfly Effect in this YA novel , where a teen uses her gift of foreknowledge to aid a lifesaver save a drowning man―only to discover that her action at law have on the spur of the moment put his animation at risk . ” ( April 25 )
In this cryptocurrency thriller , a Silicon Valley oldtimer finds his comfortable life as a forensic accountant disrupted when he takes on a serious new chore . ( April 25 )
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A womanhood reluctantly brings her yearling to her childhood home base in storm - ravage Mississippi , where her age sire is combat ghost and religious extremists are engage advantage of the chaos to accumulate a disturbing amount of big businessman . ( April 25 )
In this subsequence to An Unkindness of Magicians , the now well-nigh powerless Sydney must figure out how to regain her standing in New York City ’s underground society of magic - Creator . Will destroy the House of Shadows and its supporter do the trick ? ( April 25 )
In 2199 , in a time of widespread deep - space exploration , a teen wakes up after clash - landing 14 lightyears from Earth — and shortly realizes that something is very untimely on this alien satellite . ( April 25 )
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A teen who uses her magical accomplishment to craft swords for William Shakespeare ’s acting company becomes drawn into the grave clash between London ’s homo and Fae worlds . record an excerpthere . ( April 25 )
“ When four good friend with a hunger for human shape pay heed a medicine fete in the desert , they discover a homicidal plot to expose and vilify the girls and everyone like them . ” ( April 25 )
Military misfit fall in together to survive a foreign apocalypse , in which “ every product of human origination has been orchestrate by an unknown hired man into a Brobdingnagian grid of nine - story occlusion , each comprised of a single item character : lachrymation bum , lighthouses , fake Christmas trees , eggbeater , charge plate spoonful , and everything else Earth ’s culture and technology have ever produced . ” ( April 25 )
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The latest in the author ’s long - running Vlad Taltos series find Vlad in an strange new situation : he ’s in love . But before he ’s able to we d the bravo of his dream , he must deal with some serious deals gone faulty , not to mention track down his lack soul . ( April 25 )
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