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July is here, and its brought with it an almost overwhelming array of new sci-fi, horror, and fantasy books. Whether youre in the mood for magic, monsters, or mysteriesor some combination of all threeio9's monthly list of new releases has you covered. <\/p>\n
Amazon has a ton of different Kindle options, so its a great time to check those out if youre looking to get an e-reader or upgrade yours. <\/p>\n
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London exorcist Felix Castor takes on a baffling new case, searching for a missing ogilarch whose mansion is home to malevolent forces both living and dead. To crack it, he assembles a team that includes a zombie, a cop, a warrior, and a reformed succubus. (July 1) <\/p>\n
Odd-job specialists Indrajit (a poet) and Fix (an ex-monk) return for more adventures chasing crooks, solving crimes, finding lost objects and people, and dodging their rivals in a city full of turmoil and magic. (July 4) <\/p>\n
Admiral John Black Jack Geary returns for a deep-space adventure involving a mysterious alien species, a different alien species with technological superiority, dangerous human factions, and shadowy forces rising within the Alliance hes long been loyal to. (July 4) <\/p>\n
The Liaden Universe series continues as the light keepers and their allies band together to rebuild the station that once held the malevolent Tinsori Lightand keep it from falling into the wrong hands while theyre at it. (July 4) <\/p>\n
After their young son dies, a couple tries different coping mechanisms to deal with their grief: the husband digs holes to keep his mind off the tragedy, while the wife turns to the occult. (July 4) <\/p>\n
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In this fantasy romance, a troubled teen grows up next door to a family of shape-shifters; years later, in the wake of a terrible tragedy, he feels a spark with the son closest his age. (July 4) <\/p>\n
A young woman whos sent to hell after she dies sees an opportunity for escapebut then must decide if she wants to return to Earth, or stay and try to fix what she realizes is a system of divine injustice. (July 5) <\/p>\n
Fifteen zombie-themed tales from across the Bram Stoker Award-winning authors career, including a never-before-published new story. (July 6) <\/p>\n
A 15-story horror and suspense collection from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World. (July 11) <\/p>\n
This coming-of-age tale set in rural Pennsylvania is billed as The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies, by way of Midnight Mass. (July 11) <\/p>\n
A traveling sideshow in Victorian London achieves great fame thanks to its performers real magical powers, including the ability to grant wishes and create fire. Complications arise with blackmail and a forbidden attraction. (July 11) <\/p>\n
This tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one companys monomaniacal endeavor to build the worlds first space elevator comes from one of South Koreas most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown.(July 11) <\/p>\n
The ninth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.(July 11) <\/p>\n
A royal spy tasked with keeping dark magic out of the queens realm must team up with her worst rival once she begins to understand the surprising strength of her own powers. (July 11) <\/p>\n
This fantasy tale is described as a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Franciscos Chinatown.(July 11) <\/p>\n
The Water City future-noir trilogy continues with a new mysterythis time taking our detective turned bounty hunter from his underwater home to the moon on the trail of a dangerous conspiracy. Read an excerpt here. (July 11) <\/p>\n
This epic fantasy kicks off a new seriesthe Nightingale and the Falconthat reimagines the Mongol Empires invasion of Persia, following the lives and treacherous journeys of four key figures in the heart of war.(July 11) <\/p>\n
Sisters who both have one son clash with each other and their community when one of them refuses to test her son for a gene that predicts violence. (July 11) <\/p>\n
In a city full of doors that are actually portals, a young man escaping a violent upbringing finds his new home is packed full of divine destiniesincluding his own. (July 11) <\/p>\n
In this YA space opera, a reincarnated god and a grumpy pilot go on a mission to save a beloved space DJ and stop an intergalactic war. (July 11) <\/p>\n
In this debut sci-fi tale, a young tea expert is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officialsa role that may empower her to win back her nations independence.(July 11) <\/p>\n
Firefly meets The Breakfast Club in this tale set in a galaxy with a dying sun, and the unlikely group of misfits who just might figure out how to rescue it. (July 11) <\/p>\n
A thief travels from her home moon to rob the richest attendees at a royal ball, but the mission gets complicated when the emperor is murderedand shes on the list of suspects. (July 11) <\/p>\n
The black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer whos running a biomedical startup selling nothing less than immortality, only to uncover the horrifying truth at the heart of her sublime promises. (July 11) <\/p>\n
Cinderellas familiar story gets a retelling here, as the former maid schemes to become a princess with the help of her stepsisters and a limited supply of magic. What will happen when her powers begin to fadeand she starts to fall for the wrong prince? (July 11) <\/p>\n
The Covenant of Steel trilogy ends as outlaw turned knight Alwyn begins to question the royal mistress hes long servedand a final battle for the fate of the kingdom looms. (July 11) <\/p>\n
This all-new anthology in the long-running seriesset in a universe where an alien virus mutates some and grants superpowers to othersfeatures stories by Kevin Andrew Murphy, Christopher Rowe, Marko Kloos, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Bradley Denton, Walton Simons, Peter Newman, Gwenda Bond, and David Anthony Durham. (July 11) <\/p>\n
A mysterious severed hand upends the lives of a washed-up singer and her son as they run from shadowy government agents and the random victims affected by the hands ability to incite anyone to extreme violence. (July 15) <\/p>\n
After he dies and comes back, a security expert at a secret research facility sets out to help two deserving people who are still among the livingif he can avoid angering a street gang and an assassin capable of making a man die twice. (July 18) <\/p>\n
The fourth installment in the Chronicles of the Avatar series follows Avatar Yangchen as she charts the course of her legacy, finally making peace with her choices and facing Avatarhood with the courage it demands. (July 18) <\/p>\n
This collection gathers the first three books in the Hugo- and Nebula-winning Wayward Children series: Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, and Beneath the Sugar Sky. (July 18) <\/p>\n
The Lightspeed first contact trilogy continues as humanity pushes forward in exploring new systems, and discovers the Fermi may not be the only alien intelligence in their midst. (July 18) <\/p>\n
In an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories endure, an heir to a merchant family falls in love with a mysterious stranger. His search to find her may alter not just his life, but the lives of all the city-dwellers. (July 18) <\/p>\n
Tingles first traditionally published novel is a horror tale set at a gay conversion summer camp. (July 18) <\/p>\n
John Tucker Must Die meets Shrek in a revenge tale where princesses save themselves.(July 18) <\/p>\n
The video game designerco-creator of Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein 3-D writes about his life and groundbreaking career in this new memoir. (July 18) <\/p>\n
The Graven Trilogy ends with this concluding chapter in the space opera, which sees Caiden reunited with his long-lost sister and finally at peace with his worst enemy. But theyll need to face one last towering threat to the multiverse before they can rest easy. (July 18) <\/p>\n
In this Egyptian-inspired fantasy debut, a fugitive queen strikes a bargain with her greatest enemy and becomes embroiled in a complex game that could resurrect her scorched kingdom or leave it in ashes forever. (July 18) <\/p>\n
In this prequel to the authors sci-fi fantasy Coldfire trilogy, we follow colonists who arrive on a new planet thats nowhere near as welcoming as theyd expected. (July 18) <\/p>\n
This feminist alt-history tale, a sequel to Widowland, is set in 1955 and imagines a dystopian London where the Nazis won World War IIand the woman hiding a huge secret whos tasked with convincing Queen Wallis Simpson to fight for whats right. (July 18) <\/p>\n
In an America thats nearly all underwateran apocalypse brought about by climate changea teen and her adoptive father seek a community of survivors. But their journey wont be easy since the country is not only flooded, its populated by cannibalistic murderers. (July 18) <\/p>\n
In this tale set in the film industry of 90s Mexico City, a sound editor and her best friend become drawn into the world of a cult horror director, who claims the unfinished film that ended his career is cursed with Nazi black magic. (July 18) <\/p>\n
The romance of Poppy and Casteel continues as the newly powerful Poppy falls into stasisleaving Casteel to try and bring her back from the brink as a war between gods begins to brew. (July 18) <\/p>\n
Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark young adult fantasy about a disgraced ghost-fighting warrior who must journey into a haunted wasteland to rescue a kidnapped prince. (July 25) <\/p>\n
The Godstone fantasy series continues as healer Fenra becomes caught up in a power struggle between the Red and White Court magic practitionersand starts to suspect their conflict has darker forces urging it forward. (July 25) <\/p>\n
An AI that works as an investigative reporter uncovers a story so juicy its subject resorts to memory wipes to keep it from getting out. (July 25) <\/p>\n
The authors Hades Saga concludes as Persephone and the God of the Dead excitedly prepare for their wedding, despite attempts at interference from Theseus in the mortal world as well as various Gods of Olympus. (July 25) <\/p>\n
A new trilogy begins in the fantasy realm of Valdemar, where a gryphon hero sets out to explore an unexpectedly dangerous mystery with an old friend. (July 25) <\/p>\n
This tale illuminates the lives of women involved in the Trojan War, including Prince Hectors warrior wife, Andromache; gifted horsewoman and spy Rhea; and legendary beauty Helen, who finally shares her side of the story. (July 25) <\/p>\n
In this Gothic fantasy, a teen flees her familys estate after realizing shes cursed to see ghosts. But the refuge she finds, and the romance that accompanies it, soon begin to turn dark and frightening. (July 25) <\/p>\n
The best-selling YA authors adult debut is an Antony and Cleopatra-inspired tale set amid a magical and deadly royal games tournament. Read an excerpt here. (July 25) <\/p>\n
The Taking of Jake Livingston meets Cemetery Boys in this YA ghost story about a Puerto Rican teens battle with a malevolent spirit targeting his apartment building and the all-too-real horrors of gentrification. (July 25) <\/p>\n
The Red Rising series continues as Darrowthe legendary leader also known as the Reaperdecides its finally time to reunite with his family on Mars, though the journey to his home planet wont be an easy one. (July 25) <\/p>\n
In this ecological fable, a young woman must venture on a quest to find out why her land, the Real, has suddenly become enveloped in a noxious brown fog (July 25) <\/p>\n
A new mother ventures into parallel worlds to find her missing child in this mind-bending novel that turns the joys and anxieties of parenthood into an epic quest.(July 25) <\/p>\n
Psychic powers clash and different sets of twins must forge their own paths in this seventh entry in the authors Psy-Changeling Trinity. (July 25) <\/p>\n
A homicide detective suspects an AI created by a top-secret Pentagon project might be tied into her new murder case in this thriller described as Silence of the Lambs meets Ex Machina. (July 25) <\/p>\n
Two women embark on a unforgettable quest that draws them into a world of dark gods and ancient magic in this sweeping fantasy debut inspired by the history and folklore of colonial South America. (July 25) <\/p>\n
A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to discover the stakes arent just high, theyre deadly, in this searing thriller thats Ace of Spades meets Squid Game with a sprinkling of The Bachelor. (July 25) <\/p>\n
This follow-up to Among Thieves returns to the world of the heist crew, who must put aside their differences and reunite to try and separate a dangerous criminal from an even more dangerous magical artifact. (July 25) <\/p>\n
This novel inspired by Viking history and myths follows two womenone desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to become queen of Norwaywho meet as children and form a magical bond that remains strong throughout their lives. (July 25) <\/p>\n
After leaving her violent husband, a woman makes a new life tending an apple orchard in a town with magical rootsand must find the strength to overcome the persistent shadows of her dark past. (July 25) <\/p>\n
The author expands her acclaimed Green Bone Saga with four prequel short stories that delve into the personal histories of the Kaul and Ayt families. (July 31) <\/p>\n
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