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Fall 2024 Grownup Preview: SF, Fantasy & Horror

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Absolution

Jeff VanderMeer. MCD, Oct. 22 ($29, ISBN 978-0-374-61659-5)

Nebula Award winner VanderMeer makes a shock return to the world of his bestselling Southern Attain trilogy 10 years after its preliminary publication with a prequel that dives into the origins of Space X.

All of the Hearts You Eat

Hailey Piper. Titan, Oct. 15 ($17.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-80336-764-4)

After discovering the physique of a murdered teenager, the trans heroine of Bram Stoker Award winner Piper’s newest gothic horror novel is haunted by the lady’s ghost.

The Metropolis in Glass

Nghi Vo. Tordotcom, Oct. 1 ($19.99, ISBN 978-1-250-34827-2)

An angel and a demon battle for the soul of a metropolis—and enter right into a doomed love affair—
on this fantasy from Hugo Award winner Vo.

The Nice When: A Lengthy London Novel

Alan Moore. Bloomsbury, Oct. 1 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-63557-884-3)

Moore opens a brand new collection by which a younger bookseller in late Nineteen Forties London discovers an alternate actuality occupied by supernatural beings. 300,000-copy introduced first printing.

The Mercy of Gods

James S.A. Corey. Orbit, Aug. 6 ($30, ISBN 978-0-316-52557-2)

The duo behind the blockbuster Expanse collection launches a brand new house opera collection about hapless human scientists who get caught up in an inter-alien conflict.

A Monsoon Rising

Thea Guanzon. Harper Voyager, Dec. 10 ($32, ISBN 978-0-06-327730-4)

The political marriage between sworn enemies Alaric and Talasyn heats up amid magical mayhem in Guanzon’s sequel to The Hurricane Wars.

She Who Is aware of: Firespitter

Nnedi Okorafor. DAW, Aug. 20 ($23, ISBN 978-0-7564-1895-3)

A spin-off of the World Fantasy Award–profitable Who Fears Demise, this science fantasy from African futurist Okorafor follows the coming-of-age of a teen lady in a patriarchal society.

Someplace Past the Sea

TJ Klune. Tor, Sept. 10 ($28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-88120-5)

Klune revisits the world of The Home within the Cerulean Sea, this time permitting Arthur Parnassus,
the proprietor of an orphanage for magical kids, his flip within the highlight as he and his lover, Linus Baker, battle for justice for the supernatural group.

This Cursed Home

Del Sandeen. Berkley, Oct. 8 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-63952-8)

In Sandeen’s Sixties New Orleans–set debut, a dark-skinned Black lady who can see spirits accepts a job for a light-skinned Black household below a horrible curse.

Vilest Issues

Chloe Gong. Saga, Sept. 10 ($28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-0026-7)

Following the occasions of Gong’s bestselling Immortal Longings, former allies Calla Tuoleimi and Anton Makusa are at odds. When a menace arises towards their kingdom, will they be capable of let go of their anger and work collectively as soon as extra?

SF, Fantasy & Horror longlist

Ace

The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong (Nov. 5, $19 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-593-81591-5). Leong debuts with a comfy fantasy a few psychic with restricted skills who groups up with a crew of misfits—together with a baker, a thief, and a magical cat—to discover a lacking youngster.

Amistad

The Fallen Fruit by Shawntelle Madison (Sept. 3, $28, ISBN 978-0-06-329059-4). A Black historical past professor in Sixties America falls sufferer to a household curse that sends her again in time. To interrupt it, she should navigate a number of eras—from the 1750s to the Nineteen Twenties—and search recommendation from her ancestors.

Offended Robotic

Shoestring Principle by Mariana Costa (Oct. 8, $18.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-915998-19-4). The previous Grand Mage of a decimated kingdom time travels to cease the mad king, his husband, from ever taking the throne on this cozy queer romantasy.

Ballantine

The Full Moon Espresso Store by Mai Mochizuki, trans. by Jesse Kirkwood (Aug. 20, $23, ISBN 978-0-593-72682-2), introduces an otherworldly café run by speaking cats who learn the fortunes of their hapless human clients.

Blackstone

At Darkish, I Turn into Loathsome by Eric LaRocca (Jan. 28, $26.99, ISBN 979-8-212-17902-7). Grieving widower Ashley develops a magical ritual to assist suicidal strangers on the web and kinds a poisonous bond with a weird new shopper.

Bloomsbury

The Darkish Mirror by Samantha Shannon (Jan. 14, $31.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-396-5). In bestseller Shannon’s fifth Bone Season fantasy, collection heroine Paige Mahoney awakens with amnesia removed from residence and should discover her manner again to Paris. 150,000-copy introduced first printing.

Bramble

Swordcrossed by Freya Marske (Oct. 8, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-34162-4) pairs a struggling wool service provider who must marry wealthy—a ritual that, on this cozy fantasy world, entails proving one’s ability as a swordsman—with the con artist he hires to show him fence.

CAEZIK

The Yr’s Greatest African Speculative Fiction 2023, edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Eziaghighalaby (Nov. 12, $19.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-64710-145-9), continues the World Fantasy Award–profitable collection, showcasing quick works of sci-fi and fantasy from African authors.

CamCat

The Registration Rewritten by Madison Lawson (Oct. 1, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-7443-1174-7) returns to the dystopian world of The Registration, the place the corrupt authorities’s new chief, collection heroine Lynell, kinds an unlikely alliance with the chief of the revolt.

Canelo U.s.

The Crows by C.M. Rosens (Oct. 8, $12.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-6672-0728-5). After escaping a violent ex, Londoner Carrie Rickard finds refuge in renovating distant Fairwood Home—till she learns of an unsolved homicide that passed off there.

Counterpoint

The Lavatory Spouse by Kay Chronister (Oct. 1, $28, ISBN 978-1-64009-662-2). The Haddesley siblings are sure to their household’s Appalachian cranberry bathroom by a supernatural covenant. When their promise to the land is damaged, they scramble to uphold their household’s legacy.

Crooked Lane

Bitter Is the Coronary heart by Mina Hardy (Sept. 17, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-63910-863-3) follows Tamar Glass, who, whereas offering palliative look after her abusive mom, relives painful, suppressed recollections and experiences supernatural phenomena.

Daw

Full Velocity to a Crash Touchdown by Beth Revis (Aug. 6, $23, ISBN 978-0-7564-1946-2) launches an area opera trilogy with a cat-and-mouse romance between salvager Ada Lamarr, who’s after an enormous payday, and authorities agent Rian White, who’s scorching on her tail.

Del Rey

Woman Macbeth by Ava Reid (Aug. 6, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-593-72256-5) fills within the backstory of the Shakespearean antiheroine, displaying how she navigates her husband’s court docket with assist from her secret powers.

ECW

Countess by Suzan Palumbo (Sept. 10, $21.95, ISBN 978-1-77041-757-1). Virika Sameroo, lieutenant on an interstellar cargo vessel, is wrongly arrested for homicide and vows revenge towards the empire to which she as soon as pledged her loyalty, on this sci-fi spin on The Depend of Monte Cristo.

Erewhon

North Is the Evening by Emily Rath (Jan. 21, $30, ISBN 978-1-64566-165-8) pulls from Finnish folklore to launch a fantasy duology a few lady who units out to avoid wasting her finest pal from the underworld.

Flatiron

Bringer of Mud by J.M. Miro (Sept. 17, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-83383-9). The second fantasy within the Abilities trilogy takes readers to 1883 Sicily, the place the sprawling, superpowered forged faces a brand new menace.

Gallery

Memorials by Richard Chizmar (Oct. 22, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-0919-2). Within the newest horror novel from frequent Stephen King collaborator Chizmar, school college students documenting freeway memorials on a highway journey by means of Appalachia start to suppose the deaths could also be linked.

Grand Central

Woke up by A.E. Osworth (Jan. 21, $29, ISBN 978-1-5387-5769-7). When a robust synthetic intelligence threatens to take over the world, it’s as much as a gaggle of newly highly effective trans witches—every with a special magical specialty—to avoid wasting the day.

The Lantern of Misplaced Recollections by Sanaka Hiiragi (Sept. 17, $28, ISBN 978-1-5387-5743-7). A photograph studio serves because the gateway to the afterlife, permitting a motley assortment of not too long ago deceased characters to view their favourite recollections earlier than shifting on.

Graydon Home

The Midnight Membership by Margot Harrison (Sept. 24, $28, ISBN 978-1-5258-0988-0). At a campus reunion of an estranged group of faculty associates, a mysterious potion allows drinkers to relive the previous, revealing the alumnis’ darkish secrets and techniques. 50,000-copy introduced first printing.

Hanover Sq.

Earlier than We Neglect Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Nov. 12, $21.99, ISBN 978-1-335-91528-3) continues the light time journey saga that started with Earlier than the Espresso Will get Chilly, this time following 4 individuals who search to let go of the previous. 150,000-copy introduced first printing.

Harper Voyager

The Nightward by R.S.A. Garcia (Oct. 15, $19.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-06-334575-1) attracts from Caribbean folklore to launch a genre-bending duology a few male bodyguard tasked with defending the magical nine-year-old princess of a matriarchal society.

Head of Zeus

Keep within the Gentle by A.M. Shine (Oct. 15, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-80454-793-9). Within the sequel to The Watchers, collection heroine Mina’s makes an attempt to warn the authorities concerning the supernatural menace land her in a psychiatric hospital, the place she should discover a approach to defend herself and all of humanity. 50,000-copy introduced first printing.

Hell’s Hundred

Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville (Aug. 6, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-64129-541-3) places an FBI agent who makes a speciality of catfishing sexual predators on a collision course with the mother-daughter serial killer duo systematically murdering his suspects.

MCD

Mannequin Dwelling by Rivers Solomon (Oct. 1, $28, ISBN 978-0-374-60713-5). Lambda Award winner Solomon takes on the haunted home trope as Black grownup siblings are known as again to their disconcerting household residence in an in any other case
all-white neighborhood by the deaths of their dad and mom.

MIT

Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Way forward for Artwork, edited by Indrapramit Das (Oct. 8, $22.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-262-54908-0). An all-star lineup of authors—together with Cassandra Khaw and Bruce Sterling—think about how know-how will affect the manufacturing of artwork within the close to and much future.

Mobius

Deep Black by Miles Cameron (Sept. 10, $28, ISBN 978-1-3996-1503-7) follows Artifact House with the story of a cargo spaceship used to commerce with a weird extraterrestrial species that comes below assault from an unknown enemy.

Morrow

We Got here to Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror by Vincent Tirado (Sept. 3, $28, ISBN 978-0-06-338318-0). Sol Reyes and Alice Track’s marriage falters when the ladies transfer right into a gated group filled with aggressively pleasant neighbors. Whereas Alice embraces their new residence, Sol suspects one thing darkish lurks beneath its floor.

Mulholland

Dearest by Jacquie Walters (Sept. 17, $29, ISBN 978-0-316-58029-8). After an overburdened new mom accepts parenting assist from her personal emotionally distant mother, whom she hasn’t spoken to in years, a collection of uncanny occurrences make her query their relationship and her personal sanity. 50,000-copy introduced first printing.

New Instructions

On the Calculation of Quantity by Solvej Balle, trans. by Barbara J. Haveland (Nov. 19, $15.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-8112-3725-3). A lady trapped in a time loop navigates loneliness, alienation, and her more and more strained relationship along with her husband within the first of Balle’s seven-volume work of science fiction.

Nightfire

The Evening Visitor by Hildur KnĂştsdĂłttir, trans. by Mary Robinette Kowal (Sept. 3, $19.99, ISBN 978-1-250-32204-3). A sleepwalker searches for solutions about her unusual nocturnal conduct on this ReykjavĂ­k-set modern horror novel. 100,000-copy introduced first printing.

Orbit

The Gods Beneath by Andrea Stewart (Sept. 3, $30, ISBN 978-0-316-56489-2). The primary e book in a brand new trilogy introduces Hakara, a human lady decided to trace down her vanished sister in a world the place magic is derived from gem stones, and harsh gods vie for energy.

Parliament Home

Wildblood by A.J. Vrana (Oct. 29, $9.99 e-book, ISBN 978-1-956136-77-7). Fairy story monster Kai is contracted to search out a treasure for a neighborhood crime boss whereas his companion, paranormal investigator Miya, goes searching for a lacking teenager. May their separate searches be linked?

Primero Sueno

The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo (Oct. 8, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-3321-0) traces the witchy legacy of 1 Mexican American household throughout three centuries.

Putnam

Outdated Soul by Susan Barker (Jan. 28, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-71829-2). When grieving strangers Jake and Mariko meet at an airport, they uncover that each their family members died after encounters with an odd and alluring lady. Making an attempt to trace her down results in a centuries’ outdated thriller. 75,000-copy introduced first printing.

Quirk

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman (Jan. 7, $24.99, ISBN 978-1-68369-395-6). Viewers of far-right cable information exhibits develop into possessed by violent demons that unfold their affect through tv broadcast in McLeod’s newest social horror novel. 100,000-copy introduced first printing.

Redhook

The Black Starvation by Nicholas Pullen (Oct. 8, $18.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-316-57305-4). Introduced because the final testomony of John Sackville, Pullen’s debut horror novel recounts a doomed queer love affair that spans years and continents.

Purple Tower

Bloodguard by Cecy Robson (Oct. 8, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-64937-405-9) pairs battle-hardened gladiator Leith with elven princess Maeve in an enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance.

Rosarium

The Day and Evening Books of Mardou Fox by Nisi Scarf (Sept. 10, $14.95 commerce paper, ISBN 979-8-9866146-6-3). World Fantasy Award winner Scarf imagines the diary of a Black beat poet who travels between Fifties America and a portal fantasy world referred to as “over the fence.”

Saga

The Final Dragon of
the East
by Katrina Kwan (Oct. 8, $17.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-6680-5123-8). A person with the power to see the purple threads of destiny that join soulmates is tasked by the emperor with monitoring down an historic dragon—and within the course of, discovers the place his personal thread leads.

Severn Home

The Seventh Spell by Davis Bunn (Aug. 6, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-4483-1329-7). On Earth’s first Martian colony, people have entry
to highly effective alien magic, however when a harmful, anti-Earth regime takes over, the Purple Planet’s wizards come below assault.

St. Martin’s

A Track to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang (Oct. 1, $32, ISBN 978-1-250-28946-9). A lady famed for her magnificence is recruited to undermine a rival kingdom by seducing its immortal ruler, setting her on a harmful path of courtly intrigue and espionage.

Tachyon

Jamaica Ginger and Different Concoctions by Nalo Hopkinson (Oct. 29, $16.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-61696-426-9) collects new speculative shorts from the World Fantasy Award–
profitable creator, starting from fantasy to far-future
science fiction and drawing from her Caribbean heritage.

Titan

Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram (Oct. 1, $18.99, ISBN 978-1-80336-962-4). A person units out to drown himself in Montreal’s Saint Lawrence River, however his plan is foiled when he finds himself trapped in a labyrinthine subway station with no obvious exit.

Tor

Blood of the Outdated Kings by Sung-Il Kim, trans. by Anton Hur (Oct. 8, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-250-89533-2), launches an epic fantasy collection about an unlikely revolt—helmed by a widow, a chained dragon, and a sorcerer-in-training—in a necromantic empire.

Tordotcom

Psychopomp and Circumstance by Eden Royce (Jan. 21, $20.99, ISBN 978-1-250-33096-3). A sheltered Black lady within the Reconstruction period American South has weird hallucinations whereas arranging her estranged aunt’s funeral on this Southern gothic from an Ignyte Award winner. 75,000-copy introduced first printing.

Union Sq.

Pay the Piper by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus (Sept. 3, $18.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-4549-5089-9). Kraus completes an unfinished horror novel from the late Romero a few mysterious youngster abductor lurking within the swamps of Alligator Level, La.

WordFire

Persephone by Kevin J. Anderson and Jeffrey Morris (Aug. 20, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-68057-622-1). Human colonists arrive on their new planet to search out that the know-how put in place to allow their habitation has been sabotaged. Collectively they need to uncover who—or what—is working towards them.

Phrase Horde

Drill by Scott R. Jones (Aug. 6, $19.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-956252-09-5). The most recent work of bizarre fiction from Jones pits a mail service with magical powers towards the divine.

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A model of this text appeared within the 06/17/2024 problem of Publishers Weekly below the headline: SF, Fantasy & Horror