Ready to enjoy some great new fantasy and science fiction releases? Well March has some exciting books for you to run out and buy! If science fiction is your thing, Elizabeth Bear’s Ancestral Night follows a space salvager while Kameron Hurley’s The Light Brigade features a futuristic war. Meanwhile in the fantasy genre, Jenna Glass’s The Women’s War sees women able to control their fertility with magic, KA Doore’s The Perfect Assassin follows a novice assassin, and Crystal Smith’s Bloodleaf is a retelling of the Grimm fairytale ‘The Goose Girl’.
Read on to discover our picks and tell us in the comments below what you are excited to read!
Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess
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For readers of Station Eleven and Exit West, Famous Men Who Never Lived explores the effects of displacement on our identities, the communities that come together through circumstance, and the power of art to save us.
New Suns by Nisi Shawl
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New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories filled with shocking delights, powerful visions of the familiar made strange. Between this book’s covers burn tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their indefinable overlappings. These are authors aware of our many possible pasts and futures, authors freed of stereotypes and clichés, ready to dazzle you with their daring genius.
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
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From the Hugo Award-winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war. A worthy successor to classic stories like Downbelow Station, Starship Troopers, and The Forever War, The Light Brigade is award-winning author Kameron Hurley’s gritty time-bending take on the future of war.
Bloodleaf by Crystal Smith
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Perfect for fans of RED QUEEN and UPROOTED, Crystal Smith’s debut novel, BLOODLEAF, is an imaginative retelling of the Grimm Fairy tale “The Goose Girl” that takes a ghostly mystery and sets it inside an epic fantasy world.
The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
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From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition.
The Women’s War by Jenna Glass
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In a high fantasy feminist epic, a revolutionary spell gives women the ability to control their own fertility—with consequences that rock their patriarchal society to its core.
To Best The Boys by Mary Weber
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Perfect for fans of The Scorpio Races and Caraval, To Best the Boys is a new fantasy novel from the beloved and bestselling author of the Storm Siren trilogy, Mary Weber.
The Perfect Assassin by K.A. Doore
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A novice assassin is on the hunt for someone killing their own in K. A. Doore’s The Perfect Assassin, a breakout high fantasy beginning the Chronicles of Ghadid series.
Beware The Night by Jessika Fleck
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Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
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A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.
The Fever King by Victoria Lee
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In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia.
The Witch’s Kind by Louisa Morgan
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From the author of A Secret History of Witches comes an absorbing tale of love, sacrifice, family ties, and magic, set in the Pacific Northwest in the aftermath of World War II — perfect for fans of Practical Magic, The Witch’s Daughter, and A Discovery of Witches.
