It ’s a fresh twelvemonth , so it ’s time to add some raw books to your shelf , too . January brings a bumper crop of science fiction and fantasy , with a niggling bit of horror thrown in for adept mensuration . After all , who knows what lies ahead for 2017 ? We certainly do n’t , but we highly urge you have muckle of interpret textile to keep you company .
The Final Day: A Novel by William R. Forstchen
Forstchen bear on the fib begun in his best - sellers One Second After and One Year After , set in a post - apocalyptic universe in which a mysterious electromagnetic pulse rate has zapped out electrical energy and usher in chaos , as well as a shadowed Modern U.S. governance . ( Jan. 3 )
The Golden Gate by Robert Buettner
The author of the Orphan ’s Legacy serial return with a new thriller about a technical school diarist and an Iraq war veteran racing to solve the murder of a sequestered Silicon Valley billionaire . Did he take the closed book of unending life to his grave ? ( Jan. 3 )
The Heart of What Was Lost: A Novel of Osten Ard by Tad Williams
The influential generator — a favorite of George R.R. Martin and Patrick Rothfuss — retort to the continent of Osten Ard , the background for his epic Memory , Sorrow , and Thorn series , to explore what pass after the defeat of the Storm King . ( Jan. 3 )
The Last Sacrifice by James A. Moore
The prolific phantasy writer ’s latest is about a warrior who becomes a hunted man when he challenges the gods who have point his family as their next human ritual killing . ( Jan. 3 )
Recluce Tales: Stories From the World of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
The author ’s Recluce serial span 18 volumes — and now , this collection of 17 new light stories ( plus four reprints ) explore the magical realm ’s 1,000 - class account . ( Jan. 3 )
The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories by Terry Pratchett
A short - write up collection from the later , dear fantasy generator , including some very early entries written when he was just 17 years onetime . ( Jan. 3 )
The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel by Katherine Arden
Debut novel about a untried woman in rural Russia who starts to realize the fag - tale ogre she grew up reading about might in reality be literal . ( Jan. 10 )
The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman
The latest in Cogman ’s Invisible Library series visualize librarian undercover agent Irene and her dragon - prince apprentice Kai face off with her not bad scourge , a baddie who threaten Irene ’s life sentence as well as the continue cosmos of the mysterious library where she work . ( Jan. 10 )
Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World edited by David Brin and Stephen W. Potts
A collection of essays and stories by William Gibson , Neal Stephenson , and other scientific discipline fiction writers , all examining technologic foil in the era of net secrecy , the NSA , and other concerns . cobalt - blue-pencil by scholar Stephen W. Potts and Hugo winner David Brin ( The Uplift War , The Transparent Society ) . ( Jan. 10 )
The Cold Eye by Laura Anne Gilman
The sequel to the acclaimed Silver on the Road follow Isobel , the Devil ’s emissary , as she travel through a witching Wild West - like frontier known as “ the Territory , ” protecting its people against a mysterious violence that ’s act against them . ( Jan. 10 )
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
The ghost of a New York City woman who kick the bucket before her time agnise a force darker than last is targeting the metropolis ’s spirit universe — and it ’s up to her to give up it . ( Jan. 10 )
Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
Butler ’s authoritative 1979 novel , a time - travelling narration while simultaneously a bondage narrative , catch the graphic - novel treatment , adapted by Damian Duffy and illustrated by John Jennings . ( Jan. 10 )
Windwitch by Susan Dennard
In the subsequence to Truthwitch , the Witchlands are once again a hotbed of intrigue and adventure , with nobles becoming privy vigilante , enemies joining forces , and pirates wreaking havoc on the eminent sea . ( Jan. 10 )
Under a Watchful Eye by Adam Nevill
In this horror novel , a man starts having supernatural visions of a dark figure from a past times he ’s tried urgently to leave behind . ( Jan. 12 )
Empire Games by Charles Stross
The multiple Hugo - get ahead author begin a unexampled serial publication , gear up in the twelvemonth 2020 in a universe where clock time traveller are able to slide between parallel timeline . Across both dimension , there are house rifts , political intrigue and espionage , and the ever - present threat of nuclear warfare . ( Jan. 17 )
The Fortress at the End of Time by Joe M. McDermott
A guilty conscience - ridden new man mull over his position — and plat his redemption — while stationed at the very edge of the known Galax urceolata . ( Jan. 17 )
Galactic Empires edited by Neil Clarke
skill fiction writers contribute curt story that examine the societal , political , and economical question raised by the concept of Galactic Empires ( opine Star Wars ) in science fable . ( Jan. 17 )
Martians Abroad by Carrie Vaughn
A young woman from Mars dream of research the galaxy , but is alternatively sent to study on Earth — a place that prove far more perilous and exciting than she ever imagine . ( Jan. 17 )
Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories by Kim Newman
forgetful story that revolve around familiar lineament ( Jack the Ripper , Frankenstein ’s freak ) in new place — plus , a piece that prefaces repugnance student Newman ’s forthcoming vampire novel , Anno Dracula 1999 : Daikaiju . ( Jan. 24 )
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
The author blends queer account , fantasy , film noir , and pulp fable in this tale of six woman search a magical populace ’s Fair in San Francisco , circa 1940 . ( Jan. 24 )
The Skill of Our Hands by Steven Brust and Skyler White
The author follow their novel The Incrementalists with further tales of the ancient , do - gooding hugger-mugger high society . When one of their members is murder , it ’ll take an investigation of the man ’s preceding lives to calculate out how to reincarnate him again . ( Jan. 24 )
A Sterkarm Tryst by Susan Price
A 21st - C woman beam to 16th - hundred Scotland on behalf of her employer realise she ’d rather be living in the yesteryear than brokering flock for a sinister time - traveling megacorp . ( Jan. 24 )
Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
A unmediated sequel to the author ’s Hugo- and Nebula - winning space adventure . take an extract here . ( Jan. 31 )
The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
The former Doctor Who writer continues his supernatural detective series starring Peter Grant , a cop who ’s also a wizard tasked with solving London ’s most mysterious cases . ( Jan. 31 )
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
The prescribed description is so racy we ’re just gon na go with it : “ A place adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murder crew must come up their liquidator — before they pour down again . ” ( Jan. 31 )
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