Nine New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reads to Take You to Other Worlds
Whether you're looking for a story that take you off the planet, into an alternate or future version of Earth, or speculative fiction that begins in a familiar reality and ends up somewhere far, far different, these titles run the exciting gamut of science-fiction and fantasy. They're also all hot off the presses—published within the last month or two,.
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
After he dies, a curious and powerful being gives Wallace one week to cross over to the land of the dead, and Wallace, who finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life, sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
The Other Me by Sarah Zachrich Jeng
When she accidentally opens a door to an alternate reality where she never pursued her dreams, free-spirited artist Kelly, now married to a man she barely knows, tries to put the pieces together, shifting reality even more, which could cost her everything.
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it. As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, setting off a chain of seemingly unrelated events, people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase and protests erupt globally—until the world finds out what has frightened the monsters out of the dark.
Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer
Stealing supplies to help those in need after a devastating plague whose cure is only available to the wealthy, Tessa hatches a dangerous plan to tear down the divide between those with power and those without.
The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel
Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Things couldn't get much worse. Then his childhood best friend—Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz—is murdered at home plate. Determined to find the killer, Kobo plunges into the dark corners and glittering cloud condos of a world ravaged by climate change and repeat pandemics,and where genetic editing and advanced drugs mean you can have any body you want—as long as you can afford it. But even among the philosophical Neanderthals, zootech weapons, and genetically modified CEOs, there's a curveball he never could have called.
Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brissett
The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering. Interlocking stories featuring a young woman with inhuman powers, genetically modified twin brothers and the abduction of a young girl converge across the three habitable areas of planet Eleusis after alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity.
The Offset by Calder Szewczak
It is your eighteenth birthday and one of your parents must die. You are the one who decides. Who do you pick?
The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw
Getting back together for one last mission—saving a missing and much-changed comrade and solve the mystery of their last disastrous mission—a diverse team of broken, diminished former criminals must battle their own traumas to survive a universe sapient ageships who want them dead.
Holdout by Jeffery Kluger
Walli Beckwith is a model astronaut. So, when she refuses to leave her post at the international space station following an accident that forces her fellow astronauts to evacuate, her American and Russian colleagues are mystified. For Walli, the matter at hand feels all too clear and too terrifying to be worried about ruining her career. She is stuck in a race against time to save a part of the world it seems has been forgotten, and also the life of the person she loves the most. She will go to any means necessary, using the only method she has, to accomplish what she knows is right.
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Summaries provided via NYPL’s catalog, which draws from multiple sources. Click through to each book’s title for more.