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The Mellification and Inkweed. By Nat Buchbinder. June 2023.216p. Pink Narcissus, paper, $15 (9781939056191). Buchbinder's pair of novellas explores queer relationships under distinctly different conditions. In 'Inkweed,' Niko, a young [...]

* Translation State. By Ann Leckie. June 2023.432P. Orbit, $29 (9780316289719); e-book (9780316290241). Leckie's latest stand-alone is set in the same world as her Imperial Radch trilogy (Ancillary Justice, 2013) [...]

* Hit Parade of Tears. By Izumi Suzuki. Apr. 2023. 288p. Verso, paper, $15.95 (9781839768491); e-book (9781839760198). This follow-up to 2021's Terminal Boredom presents more of writer, actress, and essayist [...]

Twice Cursed: An Anthology. By Neil Gaiman and others. Ed. by Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane. Apr. 2023.368p. Titan, paper, $16.95 (9781803361215); e-book (9781803361222). This follow-up to O'Regan and Kane's [...]

Loki's Ring. By Stina Leicht. Mar. 2023. 512p. Saga, paper, $18.99 (9781982170639); e-book (9781982170653). Leicht's (Persephone Station, 2021) latest space opera follows a variety of characters as they deal with [...]

World Running Down. By Al Hess. Feb. 2023.400p. Angry Robot, paper, $17.99 (9781915202239); e-book (9781915202246). Set on a slowly decaying Earth, Hess' latest novel follows Valentine, a transmasc salvager who [...]

* Flint and Mirror. By John Crowley. Apr. 2022. 256p. Tor, $26.99 (9781250817525); e-book, $13.99 (9781250817532). The latest from the award-winning Crowley (And Go Like This, 2019) is a slim [...]

* The Nightingale's Tooth. By Sally McBride. Jan. 2023.310p. Brain Lag, paper, $22.99 (9781928011880); e-book (9781928011897). McBride's latest novel takes place in an alternate thirteenth century, where Christ was never [...]

* Tell Me I'm Worthless. By Alison Rumfitt. Jan. 2023.272P. Tor Nightfire, paper, $17.99 (9781250866233); e-book, $11.99 (9781250866240). Rumfitt's debut dives into the 'haunted house' of present-day fascist Britain. Two [...]

The Keeper's Six. By Kate Elliott. Jan. 2023.208p. Tor.com, $19.99 (9781250769077); e-book, $10.99 (9781250769060). The latest novel from the prolific Elliott (Servant Mage, 2022) creates a new fantasy setting where [...]

Oaths of Legacy. By Emily Skrutskie. Sept. 2021. 304p. Del Rey, $28 (9780593128923); e-book, $12.99 (9780593128930). Skrutskie's follow-up to Bonds of Brass (2020) continues the story of two young men [...]

A Heart Divided: The Definitive Edition. By Jin Yong. Tr. by Gigi Chang and Shelly Bryant. Aug. 2021. 608p. Illus. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $19.99 (9781250250131). The final volume of Yong's [...]

The World We Make. By N. K. Jemisin. Nov. 2022. 368p. Orbit, $30 (9780316509893); e-book, $9.99 (9780316509916). This follow-up to 2020's The City We Became picks up where that volume [...]

Lucky Girl: How I Became a Horror Writer: A Krampus Story. By M. Rickert. Sept. 2022. 112p. Tor.com, $15.99 (9781250817334); e-book, $4.99 (9781250817341). Rickert's slim novella is narrated by Ro, [...]

Fairy Tale. By Stephen King. Sept. 2022.6o8p. Scribner, $32.50 (9781668002179); e-book, $16.99 (9781668002186). King's latest novel follows Charlie, a teen boy who befriends local recluse Mr. Bowditch and his elderly [...]

The Chosen and the Beautiful. By Nghi Vo. June 2021. 272p. Tor.com, $26.99 (9781250784780); e-book, $13.99 (9781250784797). Vo's (The Empress of Salt and Fortune, 2020) first full-length novel retells The [...]

* Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas: A Chinese Classic. By Anonymous and Jiankun Sun. Tr. by Howard Goldblatt. Apr. 2021. 376p. Illus. Arcade, $29.99 (9781950691388); e-book, $19.99 (9781951627645). [...]

* In the Shadow of Lightning. By Brian McClellan. June 2022.576p. Tor, $28.99 (9781250755698); e-book, $14.99 (9781250755704). McClellan, author of the popular Powder Mage series, begins a new fantasy saga [...]

* Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology. Ed. by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason. July 2022. 368p. Morrow, paper, $16.99 (9780358658894). This anthology focuses on the figure of 'the Other' [...]

Buffalo Is the New Buffalo. By Chelsea Vowel. June 2022.272p. Arsenal Pulp, paper, $18.95 (9781551528793). Vowel's title riffs on the phrase 'Education is the new buffalo,' refusing the implicit acceptance [...]

Dark Factory. By Kathe Koja. May 2022.270p. Meerkat, paper, $17.95 (9781946154750). Koja's latest novel seems like a departure from her previous work (like The Cipher, 1991), but there remains the [...]

* Terminal Boredom. By Izumi Suzuki. Tr. by Polly Barton and others. Apr. 2021. 208p. Verso, $19.95 (9781788739887). This new collection is the first translated selection of work by sf [...]

* Defekt. By Nino Cipri. Apr. 2021.176p. Tor.com, $14.99 (9781250787491); e-book, $3.99 (9781250787507). This follow-up to 2020's Finna follows Derek, coworker of Ava and Jules and seemingly the perfect corporate [...]

Persephone Station. By Stina Leicht. Jan. 2021. 512p. Saga, $27 (9781534414587). This space western follows a group of mercenaries hired to defend the previously unreported indigenous inhabitants of the planet [...]

* The Memory Theater. By Karin Tidbeck. Feb. 2021. 240p. Pantheon, $25.95 (9781524748333); e-book, $12.99 (9781524748333). Tidbeck's latest builds off of stories from her 2012 collection Jagannath, specifically those relating [...]

* Deuces Down. Ed. by George R. R. Martin. Jan. 2021. 352p. Tor, $28.99 (9781250227201); e-book, $14.99 (9781250227225). This latest in Tor's reprints of the Wild Cards series (after Dealer's [...]

* A Snake Lies Waiting. By Jin Yong. Sept. 2020. 448p. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $17.99 (9781250250124); e-book, $9.99 (9781250220677). The third installment in this translation of Yong's wuxia classic (after [...]

Ship of Fates. By Caitlin Chung. Apr. 2020. 234p. Lanternfish, paper, $12 (9781941360316). Chung's slim first novel is presented as a series of stories told to an unnamed 'you' by [...]

The City of Dusk. By Tara Sim. Mar. 2022. 512p. Orbit, paper, $17.99 (9780316458894); e-book, $9.99 (9780316458887). Sim's first novel for adults is set in the city of Nexus, formerly [...]

Boys, Beasts, & Men. By Sam J. Miller. May 2022. 330p. Tachyon, paper, $17.95 (9781616963729). Miller's (The Blade Between, 2020) debut story collection gathers together a large selection of his [...]

* The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories. Ed. by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang. Mar. 2022. 400p. Tor.com, $26.99 (9781250768919); e-book, $13.99 (9781250768933). This anthology brings together a [...]

Dead Silence. By S. A. Barnes. Feb. 2022. 352P. Tor Nightfire, $26.99 (9781250819994); $13.99 (9781250778550). Barnes' first novel for adults takes place 128 years in the future, when mankind has [...]

* Manhunt. By Gretchen Felker Martin. Feb. 2022.304p. Tor Nightfire, paper, $17.99 (97812507946591; e-book, $11.99 (97812507946591. Felker-Martin's latest novel serves as a corrective to the various gender-based plague dystopias that [...]

Brothers of the Wind. By Tad Williams. Nov. 2021. 272p. DAW, $28 (9780756412685). This prequel to Williams' long-running Osten Ard series takes place a thousand years before the events of [...]

* The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021. Ed. by John Joseph Adams and Veronica Roth. Oct. 2021.432p. Mariner, paper, $16.99 (9780358469964). The latest volume of this annual anthology [...]

* The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie. By M. Rickert. Aug. 2021. 250p. Undertow, paper, $17.99 (9781988964324). Rickert's second novel (after The Memory Garden, 2014) begins with its end, with a giant [...]

The Last House on Needless Street. By Catriona Ward. Sept. 2021. 352p. Tor Nightfire, $27.99 (9781250812629); e-book, $14.99 (9781250812636). Ward's latest novel follows the strange inhabitants of the titular, boarded-up [...]

Docile. By K. M. Szpara. Mar. 2020. 480p. Tor, $27.99 (9781250216151); e-book (9781250216144). This debut novel imagines a world in which a system has developed to provide a 'solution' to [...]

The City We Became. By N. K. Jemisin. Mar. 2020.437p. Orbit, $28 (9780316509848). Jemisin's latest novel expands her short story 'The City Born Great' (from How Long 'Til Black Future [...]

The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman. Nov. 2019.432p. Tachyon, paper, $16.95 (9781616962913); e-book (9781616962920). This collection of stories from up-and-coming sf writers is [...]

* The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2019. Ed. by Carmen Maria Machado and John Joseph Adams. Oct. 2019.384p. HMH/Mariner, paper, $15.99 (9781328604378); e-book, $9.99 (9781328604064). The stories selected [...]

A Hero Born. By Jin Yong. Tr. by Anna Holmwood. Sept. 2019.416p. St. Martin's, $27.99 (9781250220608); e-book (9781250220615). This first volume of the official translation of Jin Yong's acclaimed saga [...]

* The Deep. By Rivers Solomon and others. Nov. 2019. 176p. Saga, $19.99 (9781534439863); e-book (9781534439887). Solomon's second book (after An Unkindness of Ghosts, 2017) is inspired by a song, [...]

Air Logic. By Laurie J. Marks. June 2019.400p. Small Beer, paper, $17 (9781618731609); e-book (9781618731616). The long-awaited final volume of Marks' Elemental Logic series (after Water Logic, 2007) returns to [...]

* Mythic Journeys: Retold Myths and Legends. Ed. by Paula Guran. May 2019. 456p. Night Shade, paper, $15.99 (9781597809580). Editor Guran has compiled a wide range of previously published stories [...]

When the Sparrow Falls. By Neil Sharpson. June 2021. 336p. Tor, $26.99 (9781250784216); e-book, $13.99 (9781250784223). Sharpson's debut novel takes place in the 2200s in the Caspian Republic, a totalitarian [...]

Rabbits. By Terry Miles. June 2021. 432p. Del Rey, $28 (9781984819659); e-book, $13.99 (9781984819666). This spin-off of the popular podcast follows K, who since childhood has been fascinated with a [...]

* The Unraveling. By Benjamin Rosenbaum. May 2021.416p. Erewhon, $25.95 (9781645660019). Rosenbaum's (The Ant King and Other Stories, 2008) debut novel is now available for the first time in English. [...]

* Black Water Sister. By Zen Cho. May 2021. 384p. Ace, paper, $17 (9780425283431). This latest novel from Cho (The True Queen, 2019) follows Jessamyn, a young, closeted lesbian who [...]

I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories. By Kim Bo-Young. Tr. by Sung Ryu and Sophie Bowman. Apr. 2021. 336p. Harper Voyager, $26.99 (97800629514651; e-book, $13.99 (9780062951489). One of the [...]