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The Most Anticipated Sci-Fi & Fantasy
If you need a break from the real world, this year's upcoming science fiction and fantasy novels guarantee a great escape. We've got heroes from other solar systems, alternate timelines, paranormal institutes, and mythical realms.
How did we create this list of off-world and otherworldly releases? We took an early look at the biggest titles coming out through the rest of the year and focused on what Goodreads members can't wait to read. Then we measured that anticipation by checking out how many times each title has been added to Want to Read shelves.
Below you'll find books from fresh new voices, including Alix E. Harrow, A.J. Hackwith, and Kassandra Montag, as well as books from beloved favorites like Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, and Erin Morgenstern. Add what catches your eye to your to-read list!
How did we create this list of off-world and otherworldly releases? We took an early look at the biggest titles coming out through the rest of the year and focused on what Goodreads members can't wait to read. Then we measured that anticipation by checking out how many times each title has been added to Want to Read shelves.
Below you'll find books from fresh new voices, including Alix E. Harrow, A.J. Hackwith, and Kassandra Montag, as well as books from beloved favorites like Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, and Erin Morgenstern. Add what catches your eye to your to-read list!
SCIENCE FICTION
Thirty-four years after the publication of her dystopian classic, The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood returns to Gilead to continue the story of Offred. The sequel is narrated by three female characters and will not be connected to the recent adaptation.
Release date: September 10
Release date: September 10
In this new novel from the award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem, Earth is showered in deadly levels of radiation. In a year, everyone above the age of 13 will die. Will our legacy live on in the last generation? Or is this the start of a darker era?
Release date: October 22
Release date: October 22
Inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song "The Deep" by actor Daveed Diggs' rap group, this novella follows the underwater-dwelling descendants of an African slave woman. Only Yetu, a historian, remembers their traumatic past.
Release date: November 5
Release date: November 5
This standalone novella from the acclaimed author of the Wayfarers series tells the story of explorer Ariadne O'Neill, who's sent to survey other habitable planets light-years away. As time passes more quickly on Earth, her crew risks being forgotten.
Release date: September 3
Release date: September 3
Merging science fiction and epic fantasy, this new series follows Gideon—a swordswoman ready to embrace a necromancy-free life. She's packed all the essentials for a daring escape, including her dirty magazines. But her childhood nemesis has other plans.
Release date: September 10
Release date: September 10
In a little more than a century, our world is submerged in an expanse of open water. Only a few mountaintop colonies remain. Here Myra and her daughter, Pearl, will voyage to the remaining outposts of civilization in search of Myra's other daughter, Row.
Release date: September 3
Release date: September 3
The year is 2022, and Tess is determined to create a better future—literally. Using time travel, she meets a young woman named Beth in 1992. Soon a war breaks out between their two timelines, reshaping both history and humanity.
Release date: September 24
Release date: September 24
Captain Eva Innocente lives an unassuming life delivering cargo across the galaxy. Then she encounters the Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that kidnaps her sister, Mari. To pay her ransom, Eva must complete a series of absurdly dangerous missions.
Release date: September 17
Release date: September 17
FANTASY
The wait is over! From the author of the 2011 bestseller The Night Circus comes a new fantasy about graduate student Zachary's discovery of a book full of adventures, secrets, and something truly strange: a story from Zachary's own childhood.
Release date: November 5
Release date: November 5
The bestselling author of the Grishaverse novels writes her first adult fantasy series about a woman who's traded her life of dead ends for an education at Yale. The only catch is that she'll have to monitor the university's most occult secret societies.
Release date: October 8
Release date: October 8
The story that began with a magically gifted student named Davian in The Shadow of What Was Lost comes to a close. Here Davian fights the remaining Venerate as he grapples with the path before him. Can he live with the choices he's made?
Release date: December 10
Release date: December 10
The coauthor of The Illuminae Files pens the epic conclusion to his adult fantasy series, The Nevernight Chronicle. Fans will follow famed assassin Mia Corvere one last time as she undertakes a perilous journey across the Itreyan Republic.
Release date: September 3
Release date: September 3
In the final book of the Lightbringer series, the kingdom of Chromeria is threatened by treason and siege. Kip Guile, stripped of position and power, must try to rally his companions for one final stand against the White King's armies.
Release date: October 22
Release date: October 22
The final battle approaches. The end to McClellan's sweeping trilogy of magic and gunpowder follows a sellsword, a spy, and a general as they gather unlikely allies to turn the tides of war. Their only obstacles? Dissension, violence, and betrayal.
Release date: December 3
Release date: December 3
This new series from the bestselling author of The First Law trilogy introduces an ensemble cast that hungers for glory, power, and freedom in a world where the forces of magic clash with the rise of machines.
Release date: September 17
Release date: September 17
Bayr is haunted by his mother's curse: that there will be no more daughters born in Saylock. Two decades later, a girl named Alba is born. Now Bayr sees his chance at redemption in this new novel from the author of The Bird and Sword Chronicles.
Release date: August 20
Release date: August 20
January Scaller is just one of the many curiosities kept in the sprawling mansion of her benefactor, the wealthy Mr. Locke. Then one day she discovers a door—the kind of door that leads to Valhalla, Atlantis, and other impossible places.
Release date: September 10
Release date: September 10
Elendhaven was a place left to rot, but not all things die so easily. A monster stalks its streets, seeking vengeance on those who wronged the the city. With each kill, the monster grows colder and more cunning. Its next victim? The world.
Release date: September 24
Release date: September 24
Claire has an unusual job. As the head librarian of the Unwritten Wing, she oversees a neutral space in hell where all unfinished stories reside. When a hero escapes one of the books, she enlists the help of a former muse and a nervous demon.
Release date: October 1
Release date: October 1
Which books are you most excited to get your hands on? Tell us why in the comments!
Check out complete coverage of Sci-Fi & Fantasy Week:
Meet the Rising Stars of Science Fiction & Fantasy
The New Frontier of Science Fiction
The 24 Most Popular Sci-Fi & Fantasy Novels of 2019 (So Far)
Check out complete coverage of Sci-Fi & Fantasy Week:
Meet the Rising Stars of Science Fiction & Fantasy
The New Frontier of Science Fiction
The 24 Most Popular Sci-Fi & Fantasy Novels of 2019 (So Far)
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I read an ARC of The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (review coming soon) and it was an awesome feminist time travel story. Would recommend!
I'm most excited for The Deep, Gideon the Ninth, The Starless Sea, and Ninth House.
The Burning White and The Testaments are top of my Want to Read list at the moment - along with Wolf's Call by Anthony Ryan which presumably did not make the list as its release date was June 2019.
So where's the new Philip Pullman?! I'm so eager to rsee ad about adult Lyra and to enjoy more of Pullman's best of his many fine universes.
The library of the unwritten and dark dawn I am most excited about, eeeh!
Ten Thousand doors Of January and The Library Of The Unwritten already just have me sold. Also The Testaments and The Deep sound so interesting.
