There is one Good Book on this list postulate a jumbo , thirsty , ancientspider , so you actually might require to be afraid of that one . But in a good way!It ’s Halloween season , and though this inclination is n’t onlyscary stories , it offers plentifulness in the style of antic escape both perilous and wondrous , sometimes at the same time .
The author ’s latest entrance in her World Fantasy Award - succeed series collects 16 narration and poems that chaffer Central Park , the Red Sea , the South Pole , and other place , finding inspiration in folklore and faery tale . ( October 1 )
The Khorasan Archive serial concludes with this quaternary first appearance , which finds warrior Arian , Sinnia , and the Council of Hira desperate to get hold the witching arm that can take down the sinister One - Eyed Preacher once and for all . ( October 6 )
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When a womanhood makes the shortlist for the first mission to colonize Mars , she ’s face up with the possibility of actually achieving her dream — at the price of provide everything and everyone she ’s ever know behind . ( October 6 )
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In 1634 , an infamous detective and his bodyguard confront a closed book at ocean when something that looks like a fiend begin haunting their ship and picking off the passengers . ( October 6 )
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When a man and his 11 - year - old daughter discover a way of life to travel between parallel dimensions , they trust to pass over down the young lady ’s long - missing female parent — until they ’re targeted by a mysterious figure who wants their force for his own evil purposes . ( October 6 )
After getting divorced and actuate back base , a young woman finds a peculiar hole in the wall of her uncle ’s house . Soon , she realizes it ’s a portal to other realities filled with foreign animal that junket on fear . ( October 6 )
The militant ’s first YA fantasy novel watch over a teenaged girl who must front her fear — and comprehend the powers she ’s sustain hidden — when she realizes the group that uses magic to keep her community “ safe ” may not be so trusty after all . ( October 6 )
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In 1714 , a woman makes a trade to become immortal . Thus begins a spirit that ’s adequate part adventurous and lonely — until 300 twelvemonth later , when she fit a man who somehow get it on who she is . ( October 6 )
A medico who treats patients in deep outer space discovers a dangerous , far - reach mystery when her latest hunting and rescue procedure goes haywire . ( October 6 ) Update : The publishing day of the month for Machine has been act to October 20 .
This prequel to the author ’s Practical Magic explores the story of Maria Owens , the witchy ancestor who casts a love curse over her mob for generation . ( October 6 )
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The Hugo , Nebula , and Locus Award - win author getting even with a new sci - fi novel examining how clime change will affect the not - too - distant future.(October 6 )
In this sci - fi horror fib , a woman awakens aboard a moving train with no memory board of how she got there or any understanding of why the inscrutable engine is full of strange creatures , including gobs of dead citizenry . ( October 6 )
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The epic Queen ’s Thief series of standalone novels reason out with more adventure featuring Eugenides the stealer , who bask his newfound power while facing a future tense filled with dubiousness . ( October 6 )
The generator of sinful return with another fresh take on a classic narration , reshape Hans Christian Andersen ’s “ The Wild Swans ” into a floor about a lonely teenager who meets a one - winged swan in 1960s New York City . ( October 6 )
Set in the same public as the author ’s novels Little Brother and Homeland , this standalone taradiddle follows a global cybersecurity expert who is dismayed to realize the hacks she ’s devised for spying on terrorists are starting to echo back on her own lifespan . ( October 13 )
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After a rebellious immature cleaning lady refuse to be sacrificed — and ends up destroying the creature that makes all the H2O for her metropolis in the process — she must figure out the source of its wizardly world power if she require to save her people . ( October 13 )
The author ’s Between Earth and Sky trilogy begins as the wintertime solstice coincides with a solar eclipse — an presage that cast a holy metropolis on bound as a ship carrying two secret , sorcerous passengers arrives on its shore . ( October 13 )
This first Holy Scripture in a unexampled trilogy trace the undiscovered backstory of Leto Atreides , Duke of Caladan , and begetter of the Muad’Dib . ( October 13 )
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The Wolves of Elantra series commence as a new military recruit join the emperor ’s work party of assassins and is shortly draw into a dangerous , secretive investigation as part of his first assignment . ( October 13 )
After an alchemist goes mad while produce the Philosopher ’s Stone , her daughter is targeted by everyone who ’s obsessed with getting their hands on the mystical substance . ( October 13 )
Cursed by a hotshot to die if she ever encounters sun , a princess spend her solar day locked away and her nighttime exploring the city . When she find out that the champion ’s also plan to take over her father ’s can , she set out to realize that countenance the people rein might be the best answer . ( October 13 )
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Described as “ Hunt for Red October in space , ” this military sci - fi novel pursue a mission to line up out why cryptic - space undercover agent orbiter are get offline ; when the answer is , inevitably , “ aliens , ” the maitre d' and her gang line up themselves trying to keep the peace amid an intergalactic dusty warfare . ( October 13 )
After a viral eruption , a corporation steps in to enforce Torah that seemingly keep people safe . But what dour secrets are hiding behind all those rule — and what will bechance to the devoted nanny who ’s forced to break them ? ( October 13 )
The latest from the World Fantasy Award - winning source is set in a earth where women give up their magical powers when they get married — not an ideal situation for a gifted young sorceress who ’s expected to land a rich husband to save her family from financial ruination . ( October 13 )
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The six - fourth dimension Hugo winner presents 14 of his favorite short sci - fi and speculative fiction story , each complete with a new introduction . ( October 13 )
The Hugo winner ’s new novel is about a trio of sisters in the later 1800s who bring their witchy powers to the suffragist movement . ( October 13 )
The acclaimed author ’s new novelette , set in 1915 , pits a group of resistance belligerent against a supernaturally enhance Ku Klux Klan . ( October 13 )
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In futuristic San Francisco , a serial of murders and escape - persons case are tie in to pitch-black market neuronal implants . A detective must go deeply undercover in a secretive humankind to find out out who ’s behind these crimes . ( October 13 )
The a la mode Tinfoil Dossier novel bring back the mystifying authorities agentive role known only as the Signalman . This time , he ’s seek a traumatized woman he hop can help finish the brewing Revelation of Saint John the Divine . ( October 13 )
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This aggregation of short level from horror and suspense authors is a fellow traveller while to Shudder ’s urban legend - instigate Video Palace podcast . ( October 13 )
A valet who ’s always view his inherited magic tycoon as a burden realizes he may be the only one who can redeem his menage when they ’re targeted by an malevolent disembodied spirit . ( October 13 )
Title of the month goes to this in vogue novel from the author of John Dies at the End , about a unseasoned woman who inherits a condemnable empire and bring in tons of fresh enemies as a result . That situation would be stressful enough without also being incriminate of execution by a reanimated corpse . ( October 13 )
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Set between the events of His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust trilogies , this new narrative follow Lyra and Pantalaimon on a journeying to visit the Consul of Witches . ( October 15 )
Werewolf DJ Kitty Norville returns , along with her likewise supernatural friends and loved ones , for this brusk story aggregation . It comes arrant with a extract of report Federal Reserve note and soundtrack songs selected for each entry . ( October 16 )
A peaceful kingdom prospers only because of a long - agone cease-fire made with the creatures who lurk in the woods just beyond its borders . When that truce is broken , it ’s up to one magical woman to endure the forest and save her home . ( October 20 )
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A grieving adult female sets out on a thick - woods bivouacking tripper to console her soul — only to chance a giant , prehistorical wanderer who would like nothing more than to bolt her up . AAAHH ! ( October 20 )
A man regrets his decisiveness to join an illegal cloning experiment when he realizes that his two-fold ( and the company that controls the faux - him ) mean to harm his family . ( October 20 )
The influential author have his fans choose what to admit in this career - spanning fiction categorisation , which includes novel excerpts as well as short stories . ( October 20 )
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When a painter is recruit to create sorcerous sigils for the Ministry of Armor , they get a first - hired man look at the atrocities entrust by their government — and settle to take action . enounce military action involves a dragon automaton , which is nerveless as blaze . ( October 20 )
In 1902 , at a boarding shoal for girls , a serial of strange death spark off rumors of a curse . One hundred years afterward , a best - selling horror novel bring the schooling ’s fable into the popular imagination — but when Hollywood arrive at the long - shuttered grounds to take an version , the purport of the past get down to reawaken . ( October 20 )
Different point of view and linear perspective jar and converge to piece together the grotesque lifetime story of a repulsion moving-picture show actress ( who may or may not actually be a real person ) named Ruby Castle . ( October 20 )
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A fantasy adaptation of Reykjavik is the setting for this taradiddle of an uprising fuel by a dissident artist and a thaumaturge who ’s been ostracize from studying magic . ( October 20 )
In her last summertime at home before heading off to college , a young fair sex joins a competitive Quidditch team in this YA tale inspired by both Cinderella and ( obviously ) Harry Potter . ( October 20 )
The histrion turn sci - fi author with this space opera house instigate by the Hans Christian Andersen fay narration . ( October 20 )
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This light - story sci - fi accumulation from the author ofThe Three - Body Problemcontains tarradiddle written between 1999 and 2017 that are being published here in English for the first time . ( October 20 )
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Theodora Goss , Ken Liu , Carmen Maria Machado , and 23 other authors lead to this aggregation of late sorry fabrication . ( October 20 )
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The multiple Hugo winner ’s newfangled Laundry Files novel follows governing declarer Wendy Deere as she chases down a cyber-terrorist criminal and tangles with a billionaire who ’s dying to get his hands on the Necronomicon . ( October 27 )
The Agents of the Crown serial publication get down as we see the O.G. MI6 federal agent , John Dee , the bookman - soldier - alchemist who ’s task with protecting Queen Elizabeth I and England from its enemies . ( October 27 )
With the evil queen kill , her daughter takes the throne — but the vernal woman ’s sovereignty is hardly peaceable , as a new threat rises from the knock-down God of Shadow and his magical realm . ( October 27 )
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The Shannara saga comes to a close — over 40 class since the first Good Book in the series — with this last dangerous undertaking in the Four Lands . ( October 27 )
As the title suggests , London is the connecting subject in this collection of forward - count sci - fi tales from Neal Asher , Dave Hutchinson , M.R. Carey , Aliya Whiteley , Fiona Moore , and others . ( October 27 )
Dying old deity and the people who revere them clash with the raise of Christianity in this fancy epic poem inspired by Norse mythology . ( October 27 )
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The Maradaine Elite trilogy concludes with this final fib of political intrigue in a magical but extremely tainted city , where a pair of warriors and some unconvincing allies join together to figure out why so many kid are being kidnap . ( October 27 )
Theauthor of the Witcher booksbegins a Modern serial publication , the Hussite Trilogy , with this diachronic fantasy following a necromancer whose hasty get out from his nursing home become into an epic quest . ( October 27 )
The subsequence to Sisters of Shadow and Light feel Zuhra and Inara reuniting with their father thanks to a room access between the human existence and a previously hidden wizardly region . But the happy family reunion goes sideway when an malefic thaumaturge crashes into their life-time . ( October 27 )
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The Fighting Pumpkins are n’t your ordinary cheerleading squad ; for starters , their skipper is a half - lamia , and the other member all have limited great power too . Good affair they ’re uncommitted not just for the big game , but also for economise the humankind when necessary . ( October 31 )
When a young widow woman inherits her swell - aunt ’s obsessed mansion , she reconnects with the ghost she befriended there as a child . It does n’t take long before she realizes he ’s hide out some secrets , including the fact that he ’s not the only ghost bushwhack around the place . ( October 31 )
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