These are some times we ’re experience in . While it ’s important to keep cognisant and inform when it comes to current events , sometimes a literary escape can be excellent therapy . Enter our massive inclination of October sci - fi and fancy releases — which admit some seasonally - appropriate horror titles , too .
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by N.K. Jemisin and John Joseph Adams
A collection of outstanding science fable and fantasy works publish in 2017 , chosen from magazine publisher , journals , and websites . History - making multiple Hugo achiever N.K. Jemisinserves as this year ’s guest editor . ( Oct. 2 )
Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat by Anne Rice
In this late installing of the Vampire Chronicles , Prince Lestat regales his fellow lamia with the narrative of his ascension to tycoon and the formation of the Blood Communion . Read an excerpt andcheck out some of the Good Book ’s alone illustrations here . ( Oct. 2 )
Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker
Bram Stoker ’s slap-up - grandnephew co - authors this Dracula prequel that ’s breathe in by the legendary author ’s own creative note about the origins of his most famous character . ( Oct. 2 )
Dragon’s Code: Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern by Gigi McCaffrey
Dragonriders of Pernseries Godhead Anne McCaffrey — the first fair sex to ever win Nebula award , as well as the first charwoman to win a Hugo for fiction — passed away in 2011 , but the nonnatural region she create lives on in this new tale written by her girl , Gigi , to mark the serial ’ 50th anniversary . ( Oct. 2 )
Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
When California ’s long - stomach drought suddenly becomes an “ actually , there ’s no piddle impart at all ” place , a adolescent girl left alone with her brother must cypher out a way to survive what ’s chop-chop becoming a parched , dire battle zone . ( Oct. 2 )
An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris
The source whose work revolutionize True rakehell and Midnight , Texas returns with this serial publication of westerly - color magical thrillers . The first book introduces us to a raw character , gunslinger Lizbeth Rose . ( Oct. 2 )
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Hot off her late Best Novella Hugo win for All Systems Red , the author returns with a missionary station - ending adventure for the asocial AI that calls itself Murderbot . Read anexcerpt here . ( Oct. 2 )
Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep
A new larger-than-life fantasy serial begins as a young noblewoman with some well - conceal wizardly office barely escapes the massacre of her family , then goes into hiding and becomes a prizefighter while she plots her retaliation ( see : the playscript ’s title of respect ) . ( Oct. 2 )
A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs
The good - sellingMiss Peregrine ’s Peculiar Childrenseries return , this clock time with a unexampled story arc that takes piazza in America — specifically , Florida — where the weirdly wonderful character do their best to blend in until a unexampled mystery shake up their earth . ( Oct. 2 )
Priest of Bones by Peter McLean
In this grimdark fantasy tale , a great war has just end — but worry is still brewing for an United States Army non-Christian priest who returns home to a metropolis that ’s teeming with corruption and bedlam . ( Oct. 2 )
Search Image by Julie E. Czerneda
A shapeshifting alien named Esen and her human acquaintance Paul must ring together to cross down his missing menage — as well as keep an extinction - grade event that might wipe out Esen ’s sort for good . ( Oct. 2 )
Street Freaks by Terry Brooks
The author of the Shannara fantasy series ventures in a different direction for this sci - fi thriller , about a kid who ’s squeeze to go on the run in futuristic , golem - filled Los Angeles . Read the exciting first chapter right here . ( Oct. 2 )
True Indie: Life and Death in Filmmaking by Don Coscarelli
The film producer behind genre favorites like Phantasm , Beastmaster , Bubba Ho - Tep , and John Dies at the End penned this memoir , a look back at his colored career that ’s aimed at both fans and aim indie filmmakers likewise . Read aninterview with Don Coscarelli about True Indie here . ( Oct. 2 )
The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai
In this cyberpunk thriller , a community of exiled women climb up against the men who ’ve banished them — while also campaign to save their loved one from the occult influenza epidemic that ’s slowing taking over the world . ( Oct. 2 )
Beyond the Sixth Extinction: A Post-Apocalyptic Pop-Up by Shawn Sheehy, illustrated by Jordi Solano
Not your typical bolt down - up book , this intricately elaborated hardcover imagines the fantastical creatures that will prosper as part of planet Earth ’s drastically altered and evolved ecosystem in the year 4847 . ( Oct. 9 )
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Bright Ruin by Vic James
The dystopian trilogy that also includes Gilded Cage and Tarnished City brings its saga of a Britain controlled by magical rulers to a close with one final , monolithic rebellion of vernacular folk music against their tyrannical masters . ( Oct. 9 )
Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
The basketball great turned writer and thespian ( he ’ll beon the next time of year of iZombie , in fact ! ) returns with another book about the Holmes comrade . This new adventure , set in 1872 , fix the intrepid couple on an challenging whodunit involve London ’s opium swop . Keep an eye on io9 for an excerption hail afterwards this week ! ( Oct. 9 )
Power Failure by Ben Bova
The author ’s latest near - next political thriller starring Dr. Jake Ross sees the Washington , DC science advisor need a huge gamble on a novel conformation of power involve solar planet transmission system . ( Oct. 9 )
The Rift Coda by Amy S. Foster
The Rift Uprising trilogy concludes as genetically - advanced supersoldier Ryn , task with protecting Earth from rival versions spread across multiverses , rise up to expose a conspiracy that ’s tainted everything she once believed in . ( Oct. 9 )
Strange Ink by Gary Kemble
In this repulsion novel , a journalist wakes up hungover after a Nox of unspeakable incubus sporting a tattoo he does n’t think back getting . That ’s not so strange in and of itself , but when the same affair starts happening over and over again , he actualise some very menacing power are sending him a disturbing message . ( Oct. 9 )
The World of Lore: Dreadful Places by Aaron Mahnke
fan of the Lore podcast ( now an Amazon Prime show , too ) wo n’t want to miss this latest volume in the creator ’s serial , a collection of exemplify versions of both rare and well - known stories about “ lurid landmark and doomed destination . ” ( Oct. 9 )
The Bartered Brides by Mercedes Lackey
The 13th entry in the author ’s Elemental Masters series — imagining a magical version of Victorian England , and reimagining the case of Sherlock Holmes — finds John and Mary Watson mourn the loss of Sherlock while keeping an optic out for Moriarty ’s allies , and taking on a new puzzle involving a blizzard of murdered brides . ( Oct. 16 )
The Black Khan: Book Two of the Khorasan Archives by Ausma Zehanat Khan
The author ’s follow - up to The Bloodprint picks up with the magically powerful , all - female resistance group Companions of Hira as they continue their fighting against the Talisman , the tyrannous ruling patriarchate . ( Oct. 16 )
The Book of Magic: A Collection of Stories edited by Gardner Dozois
Seventeen phantasy author contribute to this celebration of witches , hotshot , and sorcerers — with 16 new entries from Garth Nix , Elizabeth Bear , Scott Lynch , and others , plusGeorge R.R. Martin’spreviously - published novella “ A Night at the Tarn House . ” ( Oct. 16 )
The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
The acclaimed source ’s follow - up to his late Hugo finalist The Collapsing Empire returns to the interstellar empire know as the Interdependency and finds it in a time of great turmoil . The travel system that links the star systems has started to vanish — causing a humanitarian crisis as well as a conflict for power among the galaxy ’s leaders . ( Oct. 16 )
I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist
The latest from the author of Let the Right One In follows four families on a camping trip who awake one morning to find the world whole , eerily transform . ( Oct. 16 )
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
A proper Puritan fair sex in witchery - obsessed colonial New England gets lost in the Wood as she running from an iniquity she ’s certain is out there … until she starts to understand on the dot what form of eery forces she ’s dealing with . ( Oct. 16 )
Melmoth by Sarah Perry
The generator ’s follow - up to The Essex Serpent explore the strange tale of an English translator working in Prague who discovers evidence that dark poove - tale figure “ Melmoth the Witness ” might really be more real than caption . ( Oct. 16 )
Resistant by Rachael Sparks
After a drug - resistant bacterium kill millions , one woman whose rakehell may hold a lifesaving cure must go on the run to hide from the unsavoury parties who ’d rather exploit her for profit rather than hasten humankind ’s salvation . ( Oct. 16 )
Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles: An Alphabettery by Becket
A longtime Anne Rice scholar ( the source herself penned the creation ; there are also illustrations by Mark Edward Geyer ) catalogs all of the interwoven character histories , kinsperson genealogies , storylines , vampire traditional knowledge , and other details of the 15 - volume Vampire Chronicles series . ( Oct. 23 )
A Cathedral of Myth and Bone: Stories by Kat Howard
Two fresh report highlight this accumulation of obscure illusion tales from the source of Roses and Rot . ( Oct. 23 )
The Dream Gatherer by Kristen Britain
The author cross out the 20th anniversary of her debut novel , The Green Rider , with a new novella and two short account set in that book ’s magical macrocosm . ( Oct. 23 )
The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School by Kim Newman
In this horror novel from the author of Anno Dracula , a girl with superpowers heads to London for an academic competition — where the gifted and usually - imperturbable student and sleuthhound must present a terrifying spirit known as “ the Broken Doll . ” ( Oct. 23 )
Little by Edward Carey
invigorate by the sensational and macabre story of Madame Tussaud , the woman who constitute London ’s man - celebrated wax museum , this novel traces her rise from Paris orphan to celebrity artist who barely survived the French Revolution . ( Oct. 23 )
Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
Best - known for his Mars trilogy , Robinson ’s newfangled novel is set 30 yr in the futurity and imagines that the colony that ’s been establish on the synodic month is a hotbed of hazard , power struggles , and crime — including slaying . ( Oct. 23 )
Roar of Sky by Beth Cato
The line of Earth phantasy trilogy ends as geomancer Ingrid gathers her strength for one last magical fight against the sinister woman who has become haunt with taking over the domain and ripping it aside . ( Oct. 23 )
Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan
The generator of cyberpunk Greco-Roman Altered Carbon ( the basis forthe Netflix show ) sets his latest sci - fi noir novel on Mars , a satellite that ’s become overproduction with law-breaking and corruption . Professional killer Hakan Veil is more than quick to go to sleep home to Earth — but he ’ll need to puzzle his way out of an extremely serious mystery story first . ( Oct. 23 )
Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural by Peter Bebergal
This non - fiction Word of God looks at how artists , scientist , inventors , and creatively singular type have , over the decades , attempted to communicate with the dead using various forms of engineering : feel photography , wireless undulation , voice recording , and more . ( Oct. 23 )
Deep Silence by Jonathan Maberry
Department of Military Science taskforce loss leader Joe Ledger returns for a 12th thriller , this time facing down terrorists who have the ability to cause earthquake and volcanic eruptions , as well as a far-flung fury that makes multitude devote furiousness against themselves and others . ( Oct. 30 )
Elevation by Stephen King
King returns to Castle Rock , Maine — the setting forseveral of his best - know works , as well asthe late Hulu series — to tell the story of a humanity with an eerie , mysterious illness who ends up help oneself the town overcome its ugliest , longest - hold preconception . ( Oct. 30 )
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin, illustrated by Charles Vess
Celebrate the 50th day of remembrance of A Wizard of Earthsea with this arresting motorcoach that collects theentire Earthsea saga ; it includes over 50 illustrations ( hand - selected by Le Guin ) that aid fetch the late author ’s dear work to life even more . ( Oct. 30 )
The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta
A young peeress with secret and very specific powers — she can turn her foes into mirrors and medicine boxes — must travel using a disguise that completely transform her into a boy to confront her nation ’s malign ruler . ( Oct. 30 )
Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse by Jane Yolen
This novel written in verse follows the report of a untested womanhood who becomes empowered to change her life after she match a fairy tale witch . ( Oct. 30 )
The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross
A unexampled history arc begin in the Hugo - winning Laundry Files series , centering on a woman who heads up Britain ’s Committee on Sanguinary Affairs . There , she work under a jerky Prime Minister , who also pass off to be a Lovecraftian elderberry bush god , and team up with American agent to weed out the lamia who ’ve infiltrate Washington . ( Oct. 30 )
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