28 Oct 2021
New Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read | October 2021
Have you been searching for some exciting new sci-fi and fantasy reads? You’ll be able to explore fantastic new worlds with these amazing new releases from bestselling authors Kevin Partner, C.M. Carney, RG Long, Alix E. Harrow, Emmie Mears, and Marjorie B. Kellogg. Happy reading!
Extinction Pulse (Nightfall Book 1)
by Kevin Partner
Release Date: October 19, 2021
Detective Elijah Wade is on the trail of a serial killer when the skies above Los Angeles erupted into the most spectacular light show humanity has ever seen. Can astronomer Hannah Redman survive long enough to discover what’s caused the catastrophe and whether it will happen again? Each of these unique viewpoints has a part to play as the series unfolds…
Blighted (The Quintessence: Crucible Book 2)
by C.M. Carney
Release Date: September 25, 2021
Aryc Tal Venn was supposed to be the savior of the universe. But a fateful decision left him blighted, unable to cultivate the primal Aether into the life-empowering energy of the Quintessence. With nothing but hope, Aryc undertakes a desperate quest to reverse his blighting…
Blade of the Faithful (Origins of Gilia Book 1)
by RG Long
Release Date: October 26, 2021
Kyne is left for dead on an island reeling with pirate attacks and a mysterious sickness. Though his wounds may heal, his fate is unsure. Accompanied by a wild but confident healer, the pair set off to recover the one thing that may rid the land of plague. Will Kyne seek out his own good and leave the island behind, or will he aid those in desperate need?
A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables)
by Alix E. Harrow
Release Date: October 5, 2021
USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow’s A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham’s original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined.
Look to the Sun
by Emmie Mears
Release Date: October 28, 2021
Rose Abernethy and Beo Mataya are two strangers drawn together by one thing alone: Red Sunrise, a book no-one else seems to have read. A book only two types of people ever ask about— collectors…and the NPV. A book both Rose and Beo feel was written just for them. As winter falls in Sanmarian’s cobbled streets and the fifteen years of calm seethe into violent protests in the city square, Red Sunrise’s secrets pull Rose and Beo into the twisted mysteries of Sanmarian’s past and into the centre of a forgotten tragedy that inked itself into the city’s very blood.
Glimmer
by Marjorie B. Kellogg
Release Date: October 19, 2021
This new cli-fi epic chronicles a future NYC wracked by climate change and follows the individuals who must make the most of what remains to survive. Sheltering among them, a young girl named Glimmer struggles to regain a past lost to trauma. As her memory returns, she finds she must choose who and how to be, and who and what to believe in, even if it means giving up a love she has only recently found herself able to embrace.
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