There Are So Many New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Releasing in August

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Need thing to work successful this past afloat period of summer? io9’s monthly list of new sci-fi, fantasy, and fearfulness books has got you covered—and past some, with dozens of caller titles exploring deep-space adventures, supernatural vengeance, magical beasts, epic quests, sinister bargains, mythological re-imaginings, forbidden romances, and truthful overmuch more.

August 6

Aiko’s Dive by Chase Gamwell

A teenage orphan who’s ever been a misfit realizes wherefore erstwhile she finds retired she’s 1 of lone 2 humans near successful the galaxy. Read an excerpt connected the author’s web leafage here. (August 6)

Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville

The communicative of a parent and girl connected the tally portion hiding a unspeakable concealed becomes intertwined with that of an FBI cause hunting a serial slayer with a grisly trademark: draining victims’ bodies of each their blood. (August 6)

Corridor to Nightmare by Dave Duncan

This posthumous merchandise by the precocious Canadian sci-fi and phantasy writer follows a teacher whose plans for a quiescent status are interrupted by a alien who takes her done a portal to a magical and convulsive world. (August 6)

The Coven by Harper L. Woods

The authoritative statement says it all: “a sexy, deliciously imaginative phantasy romance wherever The Magicians meets Ninth House with vampires.” (August 6)

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

In an past city, the colorfully named “Eveen the Eviscerator” obeys the strict vows sworn by those who travel the Matron of Assassins—until an unexpected brushwood brings up a past she thought she’d forgotten. (August 6)

Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis

A novella trilogy begins with this “high-octane sexy abstraction heist” astir a looter who’s rescued by a salvage crew—and past sparks with the authorities cause successful charge. (August 6)

Gilgamesh by Emily H. Wilson

The author’s Sumerians trilogy retelling the Epic of Gilgamesh continues successful its 2nd volume, which sees Gilgamesh struggling to prevention his city. (August 6)

Hell Divers XII: Heroes by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

The 12th and last Hell Divers caller sees the heroes tasked with 1 past mission—and “beloved characters volition face their fates successful a hopeless bid to resurrect the world.” (August 6)

House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

“A radical of young men question vengeance aft 1 of their mothers is murdered successful a Puerto Rican slum; Stand By Me with a haunted, obsidian-dark heart.” (August 6)

Hum by Helen Phillips

“In a metropolis addled by clime alteration and populated by intelligent robots called ‘hums,’ May loses her occupation to artificial intelligence. In a hopeless bid to resoluteness her family’s indebtedness and unafraid their aboriginal for different fewer months, she becomes a guinea pig successful an experimentation that alters her look truthful it cannot beryllium recognized by surveillance.” (August 6)

A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons

“A transgression connected the tally aft a failed heist indispensable face acheronian household secrets and demons from her past made flesh.” (August 6)

The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey

The authors of the Expanse books—Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck—kick disconnected a caller series, Captive’s War, with “a spectacular caller abstraction opera that sees humanity warring for its endurance successful a warfare arsenic aged arsenic the beingness itself.” (August 6)

The Rule of Three by Sam Ripley

“The Whisper Man meets the paranoia of The Blair Witch Project successful this terrifying suspense thriller astir an municipality fable coming true.” (August 6)

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

“A acheronian reimagining of the Brothers Grimm’s ‘The Goose Girl,’ rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic.” (August 6)

Storm Furies by Wen Spencer

The Tinker Series continues with different municipality fantasy; this time, Tinker and her allies are battling the oni penetration of Pittsburgh connected Elfhome—an lawsuit unfolding according to prophecy, but with immoderate wiggle country astir the nonstop details. (August 6)

Sunforge by Sascha Stronach

In the 2nd installment successful the “queer, Maori-inspired Endsong trilogy,” a metropolis successful chaos forms the backdrop arsenic “a magic-wielding pirate unit uncovers an age-old combat betwixt the gods that threatens their world.” (August 6)

There Is a Rio Grande successful Heaven: Stories by Ruben Reyes Jr.

“An electrifying debut communicative postulation astir Central American individuality that spans past, present, and aboriginal worlds to uncover what happens erstwhile your beingness is nary longer your own.” (August 6)

The Thirteenth Husband by Greer Macallister

This fictionalized biography of 19th-century heiress Aimée Crocker imagines that she’s visited by a mysterious Woman successful White earlier each of the galore tragedies that occured successful her glamorous life. (August 6)

The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson

“In this earthy and lyrical people fearfulness novel, a writer sent to a tiny municipality begins to unravel a acheronian concealed that the women of the municipality person been keeping for generations.” (August 6)

Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend by MJ Wassmer

“White Lotus meets Kevin Wilson successful this whip-smart societal satire astir a antheral who finds himself trapped connected an land edifice aft the prima explodes, and abruptly indispensable take whether to prevention himself from the chaos, oregon assistance the chap guests marque it disconnected the land alive.” (August 6)

August 13

The Dark We Know by Wen-Yi Lee

A young pistillate flees her repressive tiny municipality aft 2 adjacent friends die—but erstwhile she returns for her abusive father’s funeral, she learns her friends’ deaths were caused by a supernatural unit that’s got her successful its sights next. (August 13)

The Dollmakers by Lynn Buchanan

This phantasy debut with fearfulness elements takes spot successful “a satellite centered astir destructive, all-consuming monsters; the magical dolls designed to combat this force; and the artisans tasked with creating demon-slaying dolls.” (August 13)

The Doors of Midnight by R.R. Virdi

“Myths begin, and a storyteller’s communicative deepens, successful the indispensable sequel to R.R. Virdi’s breakout Silk Road-inspired epic phantasy debut, The First Binding.” (August 13)

Everything We Never Knew by Julianne Hough and Ellen Goodlett

A realtor abruptly develops the quality to foretell and forestall tragedies successful the future—but earlier she tin assistance much people, including her ain husband, she’ll request to face a acheronian concealed successful her past. (August 13)

Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby

In this “gleefully decadent near-future whodunit,” “a radical of employees and their CEO, celebrating the merchantability of their singular emotion-mapping-AI-algorithm, clang onto a not-quite-deserted tropical island.” (August 13)

Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLuca

In a tiny Florida formation municipality famed for its shade population, a coffee-shop proprietor with a spectral roommate sparks with a pistillate who’s conscionable bought a haunted cottage. (August 13)

Hera by Jennifer Saint

“A propulsive, empowering retelling of Hera, reclaiming her arsenic a feminist hero.” (August 13)

Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

“A reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s astir celebrated villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a powerfulness that transforms the communicative men person written for her.” (August 13)

Loka by S.B. Divya

“Finding a spot to beryllium becomes a girl’s ambitious quest successful a thrilling epic astir space, humanity, and self-discovery.” (August 13)

Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright

“A villainous, bloodthirsty heroine finds herself plunged into the unsafe satellite of power, authorities and execution successful the tribunal of the vampire king successful this acheronian romanticist phantasy debut.” (August 13)

New Adventures successful Space Opera edited by Jonathan Straham

“Fifteen dramatic, recently classical interstellar adventures from immoderate of the astir highly acclaimed and fashionable speculative-fiction authors,” including Ann Leckie, Becky Chambers, Alastair Reynolds, T. Kingfisher, Charlie Jane Anders, Yoon Ha Lee, Arkady Martine, and more. (August 13)

Oath of Fire by K. Arsenault Rivera

“This lush and gripping sapphic retelling of the Psyche and Eros fable combines Greek mythology with a fae tribunal feel.” (August 13)

The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean

“Set successful a magical zoo teeming with mythical beasts from dragons and unicorns to kelpies and krakens, The Phoenix Keeper is a fierce joyousness of a cozy phantasy caller with a soul-restoring queer romance astatine its heart.” (August 13)

Time’s Agent by Brenda Peynado

“A multiverse communicative of love, loss, clip travel, and final-stage capitalism.” (August 13)

Traveling Light: Tales of the Magical Gates presented by Worldbuilding for Masochists

“In this anthology, 12 authors research the adventures, intrigues, and discoveries, ample and small, planetary and personal, that hap due to the fact that of the interconnections of these unthinkable magical Gates.” Contributors see Marie Brennan, Victor Manibo, Kate Elliott, Marshall Ryan Maresca, and more. (August 13)

A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire by Sarah Hawley

He’s a werewolf trying not to interest astir turning 40; she’s a vampire succubus descended from an elite medieval bloodline who’s trapped successful a crystal by a witch’s curse. An improbable couple, to beryllium sure—but a pairing truthful brainsick it conscionable mightiness work? (August 13)

August 20

Asunder by Kerstin Hall

A pistillate is granted the quality to talk to the dormant aft making a woody with a terrifying eldritch monster—but her lucrative acquisition becomes a curse erstwhile she’s drawn into a perilous enigma alongside a dying stranger. (August 20)

Bad Witches by H.B. Akumiah

“In H. B. Akumiah’s lively and charming debut, 3 young women observe the unbelievable: they’re witches, and their new-found magic whitethorn beryllium the cardinal to redeeming the world.” (August 20)

Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

“The magical land of Chynchin is facing conquerors from overseas and thing sinister from wrong successful this entrancing phantasy from the Grand Master Award–winning writer Nalo Hopkinson.” (August 20)

A Darkness Returns by Raymond E. Feist

A caller epic phantasy bid begins arsenic a dynasty’s past scion works to grow his magic aft traveling crossed abstraction and clip to Sorcerer’s Isle—with the extremity of redeeming his war-torn homeworld. (August 20)

The Dragon successful Winter by Jonathan Maberry

The Kagen the Damned Trilogy concludes arsenic Kagen and the Bloody Bastards gully upon past magic to instrumentality connected the violently fierce Witch-king. (August 20)

The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki, translated by Jesse Kirkwood

“Translated from the Japanese bestseller, a charming and magical caller that reminds america it’s ne'er excessively precocious to travel our stars.” (August 20)

Rise and Divine by Lana Harper

The Witches of Thistle Grove bid continues; successful this entry, “to prevention some her municipality and the pistillate who loves her against each odds, a witch haunted by nonaccomplishment indispensable reckon with her turbulent past.” (August 20)

Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

“To prevention his family’s failing ceremonial home—and his ain accidental astatine a queer emotion story—a reluctant clairvoyant indispensable clasp the acquisition helium agelong ignored successful this poignant and tender debut.” (August 20)

She Who Knows: Firespitter by Nnedi Okorafor

“Part subject fiction, portion fantasy, and wholly infused with West African civilization and spirituality, this novella offers an intimate glimpse into the beingness of a teen whose coming of property volition herald a caller property for her world.” Read an excerpt here. (August 20)

2040: A Silicon Valley Satire by Pedro Domingos

Set against the backdrop of a statesmanlike predetermination a fewer decades successful the future—in which 1 of the candidates is an AI named PresiBot—this satirical communicative skewers the tech satellite and its relation successful deepening America’s governmental divide. (August 20)

Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

This Agatha Christie-inspired phantasy follows a execution enigma acceptable aboard a vessel filled with magical passengers—as good arsenic 1 misfit, who realizes helium has nary prime but lick the transgression successful the sanction of self-preservation. (August 20)

We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft

“Locked successful a toxic pistillate friendship, 2 vampires careen toward catastrophe successful this acheronian and dazzling page-turner, acceptable amidst London’s glittering disco scene.” (August 20)

The Wind That Sweeps the Stars by Greg Keyes

“A taut precocious phantasy arsenic an assassin indispensable destruct an empire from within, eliminating wizards, their demons, and adjacent the emperor. For the lives—for the precise souls—of her people, she indispensable win wrong a azygous day, oregon her homeland volition beryllium destroyed.” (August 20)

Wisteria by Adalyn Grace

The Belladonna trilogy concludes arsenic Blythe Hawthorne begins to soften her stance against the antheral she’s bound to—despite the information that their beingness unneurotic is astir arsenic acold from a fairytale arsenic you tin get. (August 20)

The Year’s Best Fantasy, Volume 3 edited by Paula Guran

“Seventeen fantastical stories weave a fantastic web of magic, revelation, and of course, adventure,” written by P. Djèlí Clark, Ken Liu, Catherynne M. Valente, Nghi Vo, and others. (August 20)

August 27

Between Dragons and Their Wrath by Devin Madson

A caller phantasy bid begins successful this communicative “full of dragons, alchemical magic, and forbidden romance that unfolds arsenic 3 radical successful a shattered empire go entangled successful a looming revolution.” (August 27)

Confounding Oaths by Alexis Hall

“A nobleman indispensable enactment with a dashing worker to prevention his sister from a mystical bargain gone awry successful this swoon-worthy romance.” (August 27)

The Crimson Crown by Heather Walter

“Snow White’s acheronian queen tells her broadside of the communicative successful the archetypal publication of a queer, witchy duology that reimagines the classical fairy tale.” (August 27)

Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud

“A acheronian and dreamy communicative of horror, corruption, and individuality spun into the stickiest of webs,” from the writer of North American Lake Monsters. (August 27)

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

With bonus worldly added to this people edition, this communicative follows a Coast Guard vet (and his ex-girlfriend’s cat) trying to past an alien penetration that sees Earth’s fewer survivors being forced into a crippled amusement that feels a batch similar a video crippled acceptable successful a phantasy dungeon. (August 27)

The Enchanted Lies of Céleste Artois by Ryan Graudin

In aboriginal 20th period Paris, “a spot of enchanted salons, luck tellers who tin alteration your stars, and doorways that tin instrumentality you to the astir unexpected places,” a con creator makes a woody with the devil—and mightiness extremity up having to prevention the satellite arsenic a effect of her bargain. (August 27)

The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard

This magical-realism communicative follows an Edinburgh feline passim his 9 adventurous lives. (August 27)

Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

This big epic phantasy follows a dying pistillate who slips into the satellite of her favourite phantasy novels, wherever she’ll request to navigate an array of monstrous fictional characters—including herself, recently formed arsenic a villain successful the story. (August 27)

The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich

“Dr. Mina Murray returns to the windswept shores of Wales to assistance her puerility person combat the mysterious unwellness that plagues her. When the lines betwixt world and delusion statesman to blur, Mina indispensable look disconnected against a monstrous legacy—or beryllium consumed herself.” (August 27)

Sunderworld, Vol 1: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by Ransom Riggs

The writer of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children bid returns to research a caller realm, this clip pursuing a Los Angeles teen who starts to recognize unusual elements plucked from a 1990s phantasy TV amusement are starting to infiltrate the existent world. (August 27)

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