Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional speculative, sci-fi, fantasy & alternate history novels.

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The Night Guest

by Hildur Knútsdóttir

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Dec 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that's sure to keep you awake at night.

Absolution

Southern Reach, book 4

by Jeff VanderMeer

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.

Playground

A Novel

by Richard Powers

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.

Sky Full of Elephants

A Novel

by Cebo Campbell

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black?

The Dark We Know

by Wen-yi Lee

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From Gillian Flynn Books, a lyrical young adult horror by debut author Wen-yi Lee that's perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting, Stephen King's IT, and The Haunting of Hill House.

Masquerade

by O.O. Sangoyomi

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman's fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she'll go to secure her future.

One of Our Kind

A Novel

by Nicola Yoon

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Thrilling with insightful social commentary, One of Our Kind explores the ways in which freedom is complicated by the presumptions we make about ourselves and each other.

Pink Slime

by Fernanda Trias

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize.

A Sorceress Comes to Call

by T. Kingfisher

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call―a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's The Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic.

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

Stories

by Ruben Reyes

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.

Toward Eternity

A Novel

by Anton Hur

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it ...

The Compound

A Novel

by Aisling Rawle

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV.

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