New Releases and Forthcoming Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

[See Caveat] This list will be maintained alphabetical by author. I will periodically remove books after they are no longer new (my cutoff date for this particular list is April and more recent) and move them here. I will add new titles as I find out about them.

Unless otherwise noted, all listings are for print hardbacks.

Most recent Locus magazine consulted: April 2025

Last update: 4/1/2025

*NEW in this revision 4/1/2025
+MODIFIED during month of April 2025

Aaronovitch, Ben
Stone and Sky
(bk 10 in the Rivers of London series. Sequel to Masquerades of Spring. Peter Grant goes to Scotland.)
Urban fantasy. Police Procedural.
Astra Publishing House / DAW
Jul.2025

*Afsharirad, David, editor & Finn, Mark, editor
Swords & Larceny
(Themed anthology. "Tales of Thieves and Warriors, written by Fan Favorites!....With stories by Christopher Ruocchio, Wen Spencer, A. Lee Martinez, Edward M. Erdelac, Jim Zub, John C. Hocking, James Enge, Tim Akers, Mark Finn, Bill Willingham, Adrian Simmons, Tracy S. Morris, and Stephen Aryan." [Amazon blurb].Trade paperback.)
Fantasy.
Baen
Sep.2025

Bishop, Anne
Turns of Fate
(bk 1 of the Isle of Wyrd series.)
Dark Fantasy.
Penguin Random House / Berkley Books / Ace
Nov.2025

Blackgoose, Moniquill
To Ride a Rising Storm
(bk 2 of Nampeshiweisit. Sequel to Shape a Dragon's Breath.)
Alternate history fantasy.
Penguin Random House / Random House / Ballantine Books / Del Rey Books
Oct.2025

Bova, Ben & Johnson, Les
Pluto
(bk 3 of the Outer Planets trilogy AND bk 28 of The Grand Tour series. Sequel to Neptune).
Hard sf. Space opera.
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tor Books
Nov.2025

Briggs, Patricia
Blind Date with a Werewolf
(In the world of Mercy Thompson. Asil is gifted five blind dates. Novel in the form of short stories. Two all-new stories as well as three previously published stories. [Amazon blurb]. )
Urban Fantasy
Penguin Random House / Berkley Books / Ace
Oct.2025

Britain, Kristen
Falling in a Sea of Stars
(bk 10 in the Green Rider series. Sequel to Spirit of the Wood.)
Fantasy
Astra Publishing House / DAW
Sep.2025

Card, Orson Scott
Reawakening
(bk 2 in the Side Step Trilogy. Sequel to Wakers. Young adult.)
Hard sf.
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Nov.2025

Cherryh, C.J. & Fancher, Jane
Alliance Ascendant
(bk 3 of The Hinder Stars. Sequel to Alliance Unbound.)
Hard sf. Space opera.
Astra House / DAW
Nov.2025

Chiles, Patrick
Long Way Home
(bk 2 of Interstellar Medic. Sequel to the Long Run.)
Hard sf. Medical Space Opera
Baen
Jul.2025

Clark, P. Djeli
Abeni and the Kingdom of Gold
(bk 2 of Abeni's Song. Sequel to Abeni's Song. Middle grade.)
Fantasy.
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Starscape
Apr.2025

Czerneda, Julie E.
A Shift of Time
(bk 4 of the Night's Edge series. Sequel to Change of Place.)
Fantasy.
Astra Publishing House / DAW
Jul.2025

Durst, Sarah Beth
Enchanted Greenhouse
(Set in the same world as Spellshop. Prequel, as this is the story of a character mentioned in Spellshop.)
Romantasy.
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Bramble
Jul.2025

Elliott, Kate
Witch Roads
(bk 1 of the Witch Roads Duology. Totally new world.)
Fantasy
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tor Books
Jun.2025

Elliott, Kate
The Nameless Land
(bk 2 of The Witch Roads Duology. Sequel to Witch Roads.)
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tor Books
Nov.2025

+Forthright
Folk-Spelled
(bk 1 of Immortal Holmes. A steampunk mystery. An alternate history. Cozy suspense with a paranormal twist. Trade pbk.)
Steampunk mystery urban fantasy. Alternate history. Cozy suspense.
Twinkle Press
Mar. 28, 2025

Hearne, Kevin
Oberon's Bathtime Stories
(bk 5 of Oberon's Meaty Mysteries. Sequel to Canines and Cocktails. "Join Oberon and his Boston terrier buddy, Starbuck, in the tub as they hear about Corrie Ten Boom, Junko Tabei, Francisco de Miranda, Johannes Kepler, and many other figures from history spanning centuries." (Amazon blurb) [So, no murder mystery this time.] Trade pbk.)
Urban fantasy Alternate history
Horned Lark Press
Apr.2025

Hines, Jim C.
Kitemaster
("...spellbinding adventure of loss, resilience, and transformation." (Amazon blurb) Kitemaster was originally a short fiction piece. It has been expanded into a 390 page novel.)
Fantasy.
Arc Manor / Caezik SF & Fantasy
Apr.2025

Hines, Jim C.
Slayers of Old
("Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls....humorous contemporary standalone fantasy" [Amazon blurb])
Fantasy
Astra Publishing House / DAW
Oct.2025

Kingfisher, T.
Hemlock and Silver
(Snow White retelling. Next book in a series of fairy tales re-imagined.)
Fantasy.
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tor Books
Aug.2025

*Kowal, Mary Robinette and Miller, Sam J.
Red Star Hustle / Apprehension
(Saga Doubles: a short novel plus a long novella. "Two expertly crafted crime stories set in a far-future science fiction universe" [Amazon blurb])
Simon & Schuster / Saga Press
Oct.2025)

+Kressel, Matthew
Space Trucker Jess
("Space Trucker Jess is Space Opera in the grand style, with starships, alien gods, and a heroine in way over her head...." [Amazon blurb] Author Matthew Kressel is a three-time Nebula Award finalist. [bk cover])
Hard sf. Space opera. YA
Fairwood Press
Jul.2025

Lackey, Mercedes and Dixon, Larry
Deliverance of Dragons
(bk 3 of the Dragon Prophecy Trilogy. Sequel to Blade of Empire. "The epic conclusion to the first War of the Endarkened." (Amazon)
Fantasy
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tor Books
May 2025

Lackey, Mercedes, editor
Smoke and Mirrors
(Latest annual Valdemar shared world anthology.)
Fantasy
Astra House / DAW
Nov.2025

Lafferty, Mur
Infinite Archive
(bk 3 of Midsolar Murders. Sequel to Chaos Terminal. Trade pbk.)
Hard sf. Space Opera. Detective mystery.
Penguin Random House / Berkley Books / Ace.
Jul.2025

Latner, Alexis Glynn
Revenant
(bk 4 in the Starways series. Sequel to Adversary. Nia Courant finds that her uncle really needs an interstellar lawyer.)
Hard sf. Space opera.
Avendis Press
"Early" 2025

Lee, Sharon and Miller, Steve
Diviner's Bow
(bk 27 in the Liaden Universe. Direct sequel to Ribbon Dance. [Padi yos'Galan book])
Hard sf. Space opera.
Baen
Apr.2025

Lee, Yoon Ha
Starstrike
(bk 2 in the Moonstorm series. Sequel to Moonstorm. YA space opera trilogy.)
Hard sf. Space opera.
Penguin Random House / Random House Children's Books / Delacorte Press
Aug.2025

McGuire, Seanan
Silver and Lead
(bk 19 of the October Daye series. Sequel to The Innocent Sleep.)
Urban Fantasy.
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tor Books
Sep.2025

McGuire, Seanan
Velveteen vs. The Consequences of Her Actions
(Short fiction collection.)
Subterranean Press
Dec.2025

Mack, David
Ring of Fire
(bk 5 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series. Sequel to Toward the Night.)
Hard sf. Space opera.
Simon & Schuster / Pocket Books / Star Trek
Aug.2025

Modesitt, L.E., Jr.
Legalist
(bk 4 in the Grand Illusion series. Sequel to Contrarian. SET EARLIER in same world. Ancestor of Ysella.)
Fantasy
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tor Books
Oct.2025

Modesitt, L.E., Jr.
Sub-Majer's Challenge
(bk 25 of Saga of Recluce. Sequel to Overcaptain. Bk 3 for Alyiakal.)
Military Fantasy.
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tor Books
Aug.2025

Murphy, Pat
Adventures of Mary Darling
("Who is Mary Darling? In this smartly subversive Victorian mash-up starring legendary literary characters" (Amazon.com) [Mary is the mother of the kids who vanish when they go off to visit Peter Pan. Mary's uncle turns out to be none other than Dr. John Watson so Sherlock Holmes joins the case to solve this triple kidnapping.]
Fantasy.
Tachyon Publications
May.2025

Novik, Naomi
Summer War
(Novella. New world. New characters.)
Penguin Random House / Random House / Ballantine Books / Del Rey Books
Sep.2025

Okorafor, Nnedi
One-Way Witch
(bk 2 of She Who Knows. Sequel to Firespitter. Novella.)
Fantasy
Astra Publishing House / DAW
Apr.2025

Older, Malka
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses
(bk 3 of The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti. Sequel to The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
Cozy space opera detective mystery.
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tor Books
Jun.2025

Oyebanji, Adam
Esperance
("A tense standalone sci-fi thriller, this electrifying procedural throws you into an action-packed race to solve a series of impossible murders."
Sci-fi thriller
Astra Publishing House / DAW
May 2025

Sagara, Michelle
Heir of Light: A Novel
(bk 2 of The Academia Chronicles. [Set in the world of the Chronicles of Elantra.] Sequel to Shards of Glass.)
Fantasy.
HarperCollins / Harlequin Enterprises / MIRA
May 2025

Scalzi, John
Shattering Peace
(bk 7 in Old Man's War. Sequel to The End of All Things. "But now, there is a new force that threatens the hard-maintained peace: The Consu, the most advanced intelligent species humans have ever met, are on the cusp of a species-defining civil war." (Amazon blurb) As was the case in book 6, diplomats must save the day, not soldiers.)
Hard sf. Space opera.
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tor Books
Sep.2025

Stirling, S.M.
Lords of Creation
(bk 3 of Lords of Creation. Sequel to In the Courts of the Crimson Kings.)
Hard sf. Alternate history
Arc Manor / Caezik SF & Fantasy
Jun.2025

Stirling, S.M.
Winds of Fate
(bk 2 of Make the Darkness Light. Sequel to To Turn the Tide.)
Alternate history. Time Travel.
Baen
Jul.2025

Swallow, James
Toward the Night
(bk 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds tie-in series. Sequel to Asylum. Note: Gallery Books uses the Pocket Books editorial team.)
Hard sf. Space Opera.
Simon & Schuster / Gallery Books
Apr.2025

Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Shroud
("On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival." [Amazon blurb])
Hard sf. Space opera.
Hachette Livre / Hachette Book Group / Orbit
Jun.2025

Turtledove, Harry
Powerless
Alternate history.
Arc Manor / Caezik SF & Fantasy
Jul.2025

Vo, Nghi
A Mouthful of Dust
(bk 6 in the Singing Hills Cycle. A novella featuring "Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant" (Amazon)[You can read the novellas in any order. Each stands independently save they have the same two primary characters and are set in the same world.])
Fantasy.
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tordotcom
Oct.2025

Wells, Martha
Queen Demon
(bk 2 of the Rising World. Sequel to Witch King.)
Fantasy
Macmillan / Tor Publishing / Tor Books
Oct.2025

Zahn, Timothy
Icarus Coda
(bk 7 of the Icarus Saga. Sequel to Icarus Needle.)
Hard sf. Space Opera. Murder mystery.
Baen
Apr.2025

"The Big Five" Publishers: [in the U.S.]
Big Five (ranked by annual revenue): [as of 2021]

1) Penguin Random House ($3.3 billion. Notable imprints: Knopf Doubleday, Crown Publishing, and Viking Press). CORPORATE OWNER: German media titan Bertelsmann.

2) HarperCollins ($1.5 billion. Notable imprints: Avon Romance, Harlequin Enterprises, Harper, & William Morrow). CORPORATE OWNER: News Corp [originally founded by Rupert Murdoch].

3) Macmillan Publishers ($1.4 billion. NOTE: British company. Notable imprints: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Picador, St Martin s Press, & Thomas Dunne Books.) CORPORATE OWNER: private German company Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

4) Simon & Schuster ($830 million. Notable imprints: Howard Books, Scribner, & Touchstone.) CORPORATE OWNER: Paramount Global [which is wholly owned by National Amusements]

5) Hachette (Hachette Livre's revenue $2.7 billion. NOTE: French company. Notable imprints: Grand Central Publishing, Little, Brown & Company, Headline, & Mulholland Books.) CORPORATE OWNER French company Lagardere Group.

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