January 2020 is here , and it go far bringing net ton of new reading material to prompt you into alternating dimensions , to war - torn planets , into realms of strange deception , and so much more , with books by Seanan McGuire , Kameron Hurley , R.A. Salvatore , William Gibson , and over 30 others .
The Wells of Sorcery trilogy continue with this subsequence to Ship of Smoke and Steel , as armed combat magician Isoka schemes to slip a ghost ship in social club to make unnecessary her baby , Tori — who ’s just begin to embrace her own mystical powers . ( January 7 )
The fifth Wayward Children account book regain Jack — who ’s just had a rum light touch with destruction — drawn back to Eleanor West ’s School for Wayward Children , where she ’ll need the assistant of all her champion to name and overcome her foreign new condition . ( January 7 )
Detail of the cover for Daniel José Older’s Shadowshaper.Image: Arthur A. Levine Books
When a radical of adolescent start playing a mysterious picture game that ’s run by an AI with a God complex , the virtual world start to flood the literal creation with thrilling rewards — which is awesome , until the game also starts making disturbing demand and unleashing grave result . ( January 7 )
In this feminist Riffian on Shakespeare , a kingdom in convulsion sees two prospective rulers vie for the throne , distaff prince who were good friends as kids but have since regain themselves on opposite sides of the battlefield . ( January 7 )
A humble tyke missy unexpectedly becomes the ruler of a kingdom and finds life in the palace to be even more parlous than her former life on the streets . ( January 7 )
The latest from the six - clock time Hugo achiever roll up three of her novelette about a nobleman who solves magical mystery as he grows into his life-time as a student and magician . ( January 7 )
Newly translated into English , this German bestseller is a approximate - future sarcasm set in “ the good state on Earth , ” QualityLand , where algorithms settle every part of how every citizen lives his or her life — until one machine belligerent takes it upon himself to rebel . ( January 7 )
The 20th ( ! ) book in the Foreigner saga plunk up the story of Bren Cameron , task with maintain the nervous peace in an foreign state that ’s also home to human refugees . ( January 7 )
The accolade - pull ahead Shadowshaper Cypher YA serial reason as Sierra and her friend prepare for the supernatural conflict that ’s coming for them — but she ’ll have to confront a secret from her household ’s past before she can protect anyone in the nowadays . ( January 7 )
The second Rotherweird book return to the independent English township that ’s been hide out a mortal secret for centuries — and as the Winter Solstice approach , drab forces from the past have started to make their presence find once again . ( January 7 )
Six years after a global pandemic plunged the world into chaos , four booster ( including a former pa star , a onetime consequence planner , and a father and daughter ) who ’re already struggling with life in post - apocalyptic San Francisco must band together when word of another outbreak looms . ( January 14 )
The generator ’s epical Worldbreaker Saga reason as invaders from a parallel property take over an ancient tabernacle to try and figure out how to varnish off the tract to their world . This war can only have one achiever , but which side will rejoice ? ( January 14 )
This narration dub “ Chilling Adventures of Sabrina take on Stranger Things ” kicks off a newfangled natural process - horror series about a YouTube renown whose popular video recording about hunting witches may seem like fiction — but are in reality altogether real . ( January 14 )
The popular YA series continues with this 5th instalment in the series , follow main character Jacob Portman into his future … and the unknown . ( January 14 )
In this story shaped by climate change , a woman sets sail across the sea in 2019 ; two decades afterward , as a drouth harry Southern Europe , a father and girl find her gravy boat — along with its desert , but still significant , cargo . ( January 14 )
An impeach manslayer and mutineer flees from Liverpool to an alt - history version of the American frontier , where she satisfy a king who conceive he has a weapon that ’ll help him take over the world . ( January 14 )
The second Gunnie Rose book — set in an alt - history U.S. where magic is real but feared — examine gunslinger Lizbeth on a mission to deliver , then convalesce , a crate carry valuable cargo into her world ’s version of the Old South . ( January 14 )
After a atomic war , Earth ’s surviving universe dwell on a space ship in orbit , their bodies in stasis while their brain inhabit a shared virtual reality . But not everybody believes their life is just a simulation , which mean the passengers will never be able to wake up — unless one determined teenaged girl can sway everyone of the true statement . ( January 14 )
A lonely woman captaining an extended mission among the star permit a frightened , dumb boy to come aboard , and — with the help of an ancient spaceship designer — they depart to build the first menage that either of them can remember . But the boy has particular giving , and there are hoi polloi in his yesteryear that do n’t intend on letting him go . ( January 14 )
In this satirical novel , set up in a world that ’s been utterly design by its ruling mega - corp , “ human error ” is blamed when a automaton kill a person . Has the corporation die , or has it been hack ? And which scenario is really worse ? ( January 14 )
The influential source deliver with a sci - fi thriller about an “ app whisperer ” who signs on to beta test a new AI system that ’s more far powerful than anyone realizes . Meanwhile , on a different timeline 100 geezerhood in the future tense , post - apocalyptic researcher peer into the past times and influence the issue they see taking place there . ( January 21 )
The heroine of Orphan Monster Spy come back as a spy embed in Nazi in high spirits companionship — until her duty assignment guide her from Berlin to Central Africa , where a dark doctor is rumor to be dream up a biological weapon earmarked for mass murder . ( January 21 )
The Nicci Chronicles reason with a final war in the Old World , as a new menace rise from a massive US Army of savage pillager who attack from the sea . ( January 21 )
This subsequence to The Epic Crush of Genie Lo sees the frazzled pedantic - slash - Guardian of California confront a unexampled crisis emanating from an alternate reality . She ’ll demand the Jade Emperor to serve her save the macrocosm , but when he ’s nowhere to be found — again — she teams up with a gaggle of Chinese god instead to set things right . ( January 21 )
A new larger-than-life fantasy serial from a debut writer begins , as an exiled princess plots her rejoinder to the throne by watch the magic that is her destiny . She ’ll need some supporter from friend both mortal and supernatural to achieve her goal . ( January 21 )
This historical fiction ( with a side of magical realism ) debut follows three different women in three dissimilar time periods ( present - day Ohio , Haiti in 1791 , and New Orleans in 1857 ) as they grapple with racism and other issues across the century .
A young lady who can see the futurity must decide how to best habituate her talent when her brother is incarcerated . ( January 21 )
The Stars Uncharted series continues as the ragtag crew of the spaceship Another Road ( a refilling for The Road , after it explode ) stockpile weapons in grooming for their biggest score yet — if they can sidestep all the regime and corporate agents who are determined to get in their path . ( January 21 )
A woman must bind her mortal to a mysting in ordering to save her life story , but their lasting bond means he suddenly feels the pain of being deathly — and if he fades away , her soul will be lost incessantly . ( January 21 )
A princess take to the woods forth to avoid her dread arranged spousal relationship — only to discover her spaceship ’s carry a stowaway . Can she and her surprise travel comrade , a snarky thief , put aside their difference when they discover a cabal that threatens their satellite ? ( January 22 )
The life of a mild - mannered baker takes a strange turn when his childhood friend suddenly pop back into his life , only to go escape — like , actually miss — when he volunteers to be part of a magician ’s disappearing enactment . ( January 28 )
After her parent are murdered , a young woman becomes an assassinator for hire and slowly notice her position in a metropolis filled with mellow stakes , dark magic trick , and sinister foes . ( January 28 )
The latest illusion story from the writer of Artemis Fowl introduces Vern , “ a vodka - imbibing , Flashdance do it dragon ” who ’s spending his retirement years hiding out in the Louisiana bayou . life history is pretty lonesome — until he crosses paths with a 15 - year - quondam ne’er - do - well who ’s being chamfer by the corrupted local sheriff . ( January 28 )
Described as “ a send - up of Hollywood image and Asian stereotype , ” this surreal novel follows a human beings who moves through life seeing himself as “ Generic Asiatic serviceman ” but dream of being the ultimate “ Kung Fu Guy . ” ( January 28 )
This fantasy novella is about an exorcist who ’ll do anything and everything to get a demon out of person , and the man of skill with a self-control problem who needs his help . ( January 28 )
A state of war that could shift the whole world predominate as the author ’s larger-than-life phantasy Coven Trilogy concludes . ( January 28 )
The Makaum War series proceed as Master Sergeant Frank Sage struggles to keep the peace on his touch-and-go hobo camp satellite — but there ’s an assassinator aim politicians , and polite unrest threatens to spark off a bloody new difference . ( January 28 )
world has split into three dissimilar species , and a new space race is on to determine which group will make it to the stars first . One humans returns to his English hometown to attempt get away from it all in this “ near - future tale about sexual love , loss and loneliness in an incomprehensible world . ”
The honor - winning inquisitive fiction author ( Hammered , Undertow , the Eternal Sky trilogy ) presents this retrospective collection of 27 stories and novellas , including the Hugo - winning “ Tideland ” and “ Shoggoths in Bloom . ” ( January 31 )
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