It ’s a frigid incubus outside . Nothing but snowblindness and navigational hazards for miles in all direction . So it ’s a perfect fourth dimension to escape into a book . fortuitously , we ’ve got 20 amazingscience fable and fantasy book of account coming out in February — here ’s yourrequired meter reading tilt for the month !
Topimage : The Waking Engine cover art by Stephan Martiniere .
TheWaking Engine by David Edison ( Tor Books )
The concept behind this new soundskind of insane — when you die , you do n’t go to an hereafter , you ’re justreborn on another planet , as yourself . And then another , and another . Andeventually , you end up in the City Unspoken , where gods and mortals alike cango through the portal to True Death . But one very confused New Yorker kick the bucket andfinds himself in the City , where the portal vein is fail , and the City is beingoverrun with pissed - off god who just want to become flat . show excerptshereandhere .
Three Souls : A Novel by Janie Chang(William Morrow Paperbacks )
And here ’s another novel with a differentspin on the hereafter — Leiyin is a new woman who die in China in 1935 , andshe find herself still trapped on Earth , and force to live over her lifeaccompanied by her “ three souls ” — her stern yin , her romantic yangand her wise , shining hun — whichguide her towards understanding . She witnesses how she exist through aturbulent time in Formosan story and hurt people through her selfishness . Andshe has to figure out how to make it veracious , or risk becoming a half-baked wraith . This isgettingraves on Goodreads .
unknown body : A Novel by MarcelTheroux ( Farrar , Straus and Giroux )
A man turns upinsisting that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen , a conduct expert on Samuel Johnson — except that Nicky Slopen die months ago . How can he be live after his death , and what does this have to do with a mysterious subprogram practiced by theSoviet Union ? I ’m halfway through reading this one decently now , and enjoy itso far . Read an excerpthere .
White Space : Book One of The DarkPassages by Ilsa J. Bick ( EgmontUSA )
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This sounds a like a metafictionalweirdgasm . Emma Lindsay is a 17 class former girl whose parents are numb , so shelives with her guardian , a crazy artist who ’s become a vegetable after astroke . She has unearthly daydreams about other life story , and her head is full ofmetal — but other than that , her life is okay until she writes “ WhiteSpace , ” a narrative about kid trapped in a creepy planetary house , which turns out tobe exactly the same as an unfinished novel by a mysterious writer who diedyears ago . And then Emma gets trapped inside the novel that she and the deadwriter both wrote , and she has to figure out how to write an finish thatdoesn’t involve her death .
TheHappier Dead by Ivo Stourton ( Solaris )
The Martian : A Novel by Andy Weir ( Crown )
A endurance thriller about one of thefirst people to take the air on Mars , who ’s stranded in the middle of nowhere withoutenough supplies or gear to survive long enough to get rescue . Mark Watneyought to just give up and die — but or else , he habituate every troy ounce of ingenuity tofigure out ways to survive in the facial expression of impossible odds . Everybody , includingChris Hadfield , has praise the MacGyver timber and proficient truth of thisnovel .
The Book of Heaven : A Novel by Patricia Storace ( Pantheon )
An acclaimed poet retell the Biblefrom the period of horizon of Eve , whose interpretation of the Garden of Eden floor isvery dissimilar from what you ’ve read before . And then Storace ’s “ Book ofHeaven ” is divided into four incision , each dealing with a woman from theBible whose taradiddle was fake , include Abraham ’s married woman Sarah and theQueen of Sheba . This attack at a “ feminist cosmogony ” includes newconstellations and a altogether different version of the narration you ’ve alreadyread .
Banished ( Blackheart Legacy 1 ) by Liz de Jager ( Tor Books )
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Kit is develop to fight foe fae andcast spells and live up to her role as a fellow member of the Blackhart family unit , whenshe ’s forced to rescue a fuel-air explosive prince mention Thorn while her class is away . Nowshe has to protect Prince Thorn at all costs , while the war between differentgroups of fuel-air explosive gets more and more dangerous . Until finally Kit is face to facewith Elder Gods and the apocalypse loom . More novel about faerie shouldculminate in a meeting with Elder Gods .
Three Princes by Ramona Wheeler ( Tor Books )
Want an alternate history that ’s notjust “ the Nazis won World War II ” yet again ? Check this out . In thisnovel , it ’s 1877 and the Egyptian Empire never fall — in fact , Egypt rules theworld . Otto Van Bismarck is a terrorist plotting against the rule of thePharoah Djoser - George , and it ’s up to a prince from Albion and a Professor - Princeto foil his system . They must travel across the Atlantic to the rival Incanempire and reveal an international confederacy . Readan excerption !
The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M. Harris ( Gollancz )
Once you ’ve finished read the Biblefrom Eve ’s breaker point of view , how about reading Norse myths from Loki ’s POV ? Thisis Loki ’s account , from his beginnings in the underworld of Chaos to his betrayalof the Supreme Being and the nightfall of Asgard . This novel from the source of Chocolat ( which was made into a moviewith Johnny Depp ) is , byall bill , beautifully drop a line and has a funny twirl on the Asgardiangods as famous person .
Blades of the Old Empire : Book I of the Majat Code by Anna Kashina(Angry Robot )
A warrior woman finds herself stuck ina conflict between duty and honor , which is always a fun time . After years ofserving Prince Kythar as his bodyguard , Kara and the Prince must return to herGuild to negotiate the Prince ’s continued protection . regrettably , when theyget there , they get out the Majat Guild , which work for the highest bidder , has already made a mint to hand the Prince over to his foe , the Kaddim . Sodoes Kara obey her headmaster or save the man she ’s been protect for years ? ( Noguesses . )
Archetype by M. D. Waters ( Dutton Adult )
Emma wake up in a hospital with nomemories — but as luck would have it , her have intercourse husband is there to recount her everything sheneeds to know . Except that she keeps woolgather of a different life-time , and then aman turn up whom she seems to know . And she soon finds that she ’s living in afuture where woman are a rare commodity , and people will do anything — evenerase your memories — to get hold of them . Earlyreviewsare very verypromising .
Dreamwalker by C.S. Friedman ( DAW Hardcover )
Apparently this YA illusion is a strangeversion of the “ changelingmyth ” — Jesse ’s father short tells her when she ’s a teenager thatshe ’s not his child , and then she discovers she ’s a “ deoxyribonucleic acid orphan , ” whoshares no genetic stuff with either of her parents . And there are otherslike her out there . Then she wakes up to notice her house on fervidness , and herbrother miss . Checkout an excerpt here .
Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci ( Roaring Brook )
The super - prolific YAauthor and comedian Jehovah is back , with her first unbent - up science fictionnovel . Tula ’s traveling with her house to a new planet , when the colony’sleader beats her almost to death , and she ’s left maroon on a space station . She winds up befriend an alien and learning how to survive on the station , but when three humans show up she commence trump up an escape plan . Read an selection here !
The Flight of the Silvers by Daniel Price ( Blue Rider Press )
The world ends , and only six peoplesurvive — to travel to another reality , where they suddenly have major power . And on this alternate Earth , everything has been transformed by the discoveryof a superscience that lets you manipulate time and matter and stuff . Itsounds as though this novel confuse sick young estimation at you at a pretty intenseclip , but everybody I ’ve talked to who ’s read it say it works amazinglywell .
Influx by Daniel Suarez ( Dutton Adult )
This novel has already been optioned asa movie by Fox . And ithas a passably coolconcept : the reason why we have smartphones and neat computers , but notsuper - medical specialty or place stations or other mad advances that we wait , isbecause a few people are accumulate all the super - skill . As one scientistdiscovers when he makes a major breakthrough and then wakes up in a dungeon ina secret retreat . Oops . This novelhas been describedas thethinking mortal ’s legal action movie , on paper .
The Wells destruction by Seth Fishman ( PutnamJuvenile )
There ’s a deep computer virus that age its dupe to death ina matter of hours , and somehow this is connect to Mia ’s secret past as“the lady friend who fell down a well . ” Mia start to enquire about herfather ’s secret work as Director of Fenton Electronics , which is doing strangeexperiments in its main office , the Cave . Weposted art from this book by Kate Beatona while back .
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Star Trek : The Original Series : No clip Like the yesteryear by Greg Cox(Pocket Books / Star Trek )
Who did n’t want to see Captain Kirkteam up with Seven of Nine ? And if so , what ’s wrong with you ? Cox , a steady Star Trek writer ( and io9 commenter)tells what occur when a lone Borg from the future finds herself stranded inthe past tense — and the only person who can assist her is a legendary Starfleetcaptain who understands just how defective things can get when clock time travelers messwith the timeline .
One More Thing : Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak ( Knopf )
The writer / histrion fromThe Office has a book of ultra - weirdstories — like a man who dies and endure to Heaven and then tries to flake onhis hope to jaw his grandmother there . Readan excerpt in The New Yorkerandanother one on NPR .
disintegration : A Novel ( Southern Reach Trilogy ) by Jeff VanderMeer ( FSGOriginals )
And finally — the author of Finch and City of Saints and Madmen is back with a Modern revulsion - phantasy trilogy , all three record of which are coming out this twelvemonth . A team of scientists go to themysterious Area X to look into a strange entity that publish doomsdayprophecies on the walls of its subterranean den , using a fungus as ink . TheL.A. Timesjustpublished a rave revue of the first Good Book , which take in part : “ disintegration , in which the civilise andanalytical similarly meets up with the inhuman , is a vindicated victory forVandermeer , who after numerous works of writing style fabrication has abruptly transcendedgenre with a compelling , elegant and experiential story of far broader prayer . ”
beginning : SF Signal , Locus , Amazon.com , Publishers ’ catalogue .
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