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8 Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels Released This Year

By May 19, 2021New Releases, News

Summer is a time when we want to escape our realities and relax and we have a list of new releases to help you do just that.

Science fiction and fantasy book sales have risen over the past year as more people have wanted to enter a new reality and get lost in another world. Luckily there are some fantastical novels out there to help readers do so, and many more coming this summer.

Below are ten titles we think readers will enjoy which are released just in time for your summer holidays.

Sorrowland – Rivers Solomon

Vern is heavily pregnant and fleeing from a strict religious compound to the shelter of the woods where she gives birth to twins, planning to raise them away from the outside world. Vern finds a frightening strength within herself in order to fight back against the community that clings stubbornly to her, and her body is wracked by inexplicable changes…

Vern must face her past and her future in order to understand this metamorphosis and to protect her new family, and in discovering the truth she will uncover secrets of her old life, and how America’s violent history caused it.

Sorrowland twists genres of Gothic fiction and reimagines whole nations as monsters, with a bold and unapologetic voice.

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The Hidden Palace – Helene Wecker

Chava, a golem–a woman made of clay–can hear what those around her are thinking and longing for and is compelled to help them. Ahmad, a jinni– a restless creature of fire–is imprisoned within the a human male body but was once free to exist as he pleased. The two share a common fear, one where they worry they will be exposed as monsters so they try to keep their true selves hidden from the world and live undisturbed in 1900s Manhattan.

The Hidden Palace follows Chava and Ahmad as they change people’s lives around them, but can they do so while also finding their own places in the human world, and stay true to each other?

Or will their true natures and opposing desires force them apart—and are there really other beings just like themselves?

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Bubble – Morris, Morgan, Cliff, Riess

Bubble is a hilarious gig-economy-inspired satirical graphic novel based on the hit serial podcast.

Corporate benevolence built and maintained the city of Fairhaven, and formed it into ‘the Brush’ – a bubble of safety in the midst of an alien wilderness ruled by Imps and rogue humans.

Brush-born and Bubble-raised human Morgan is perfectly capable of fighting off attacks from Imps while out on her morning jog before her chill day job. Any Imp she fights then gets taken home for her roommate and best friend, Annie, to transform into drugs. Trouble comes when one of those Imps almost murders a guy in her apartment, accidentally transforming him into a mutant. When Morgan’s company launches Huntr, an app for Imp extermination, she suddenly finds herself battling a whole parade of monsters and mutants for extra cash.

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The All-Consuming  World – Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw’s debut novel is an explosive and thought-provoking exploration of humans and machines, life and death.

The story follows Maya who died and then was resurrected into countless cyborg bodies, working for years in a dangerous career with the infamous Dirty Dozen- a crew of criminals in the galaxy. Decades after their gruesome and untimely demise, Maya and her gang of diminished outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of that disastrous mission and to rescue a missing ally, but they must do this while a highly evolved AI, with an agenda of their own, does whatever it takes to keep her from the truth.

Maya and her comrades attempt to uncover the AIs’ vast conspiracy all while battling their own traumas and a universe of foes who want them dead.

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My Heart Is A Chainsaw – Stephen Graham Jones

Teenager Jade Daniels loses herself in slasher films to escape the abuse from her parents and the rejection from the small town she lives in. Soon, however, someone goes on a murder spree of wealthy people living in a new community within her hometown of Proofrock, and she recognises murderous pattern immediately thanks to her knowledge of horror tropes.

The authorities in her town ignore her so she tries to discover who is behind the murders herself, and while delving into the evidence she discovers a darker history behind it all.

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No Gods, No Monsters – Cadwell Turnbull

Laina’s brother is shot and killed by Boston cops and at first it looks like a case of police brutality but soon it becomes clear it is far more than that… Creatures of myth and legend are real and now suddenly they want everyone to know.

Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened into silence, a mysterious society is discovered by a professor who was looking for a missing friend, and a very unique young boy seeks refuge with a pro-monster organisation steeped in secrets.

Meanwhile, people are disappearing, there is an increase in suicides and hate crimes, and pro and anti monster protests erupt all over the world.

And why is no one asking the most important question… Why now?

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Summer Sons – Lee Mandelo

Andrew and Eddie had a bond deeper than brothers and did everything together, that is until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt.

Six months later, mere days before Andrew was to join him, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide, leaving Andrew an awful inheritance: a roommate he doesn’t know, friends he never asked for, and a gruesome phantom that hungers for him.

Andrew begins to search for the truth of Eddie’s death, uncovering lies and secrets, and discovering a blood-soaked family history.

Eddie spends his days between the bitter backstabbing academic world and night time of hot young men, fast cars, and hard drugs. The walls Andrew built against the world begin to crumble, and behind them something awful lurks.

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She Who Became The Sun – Shelley Parker-Chan

In 1345 the starving peasants of the Central Plains of China live under Mongol rule where greatness is only found only in stories.

Eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is born with a fate of greatness, and no one understands how it will come to pass, while a fate of nothingness given to the clever and capable second daughter is only as expected.

A bandit attack the two orphans and the son Zhu Chongba tragically dies and the girl uses her brother’s identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. Urged on by her intense desire to survive, Zhu learns she has the fierce ability to do whatever it takes to survive and stay hidden from her fate.

After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu has the chance to claim her brother’s abandoned greatness as her own.

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