This month make for a deluge of fresh script , including the latest from genre titan John Scalzi , as well as tarradiddle involving dark magic in post - apocalyptic America , a very mellow - stakes intergalactic talent contest , and ex - con construction doer trying to avoid getting hit on Mars . take on !
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen, edited by Aaron Worth
A newly - assemble and edited collection of work by the influential nineteenth C occult revulsion author and mystic , include his 1894 novelette The Great God Pan , 1895 novella The Three Imposters , and a selection of prose poems and by and by works . ( April 1 )
The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy
Demon - hunting watch Danielle Cain returns for her 2d dangerous undertaking ; this prison term , she and her crew visit a humble - town occult arts library with a staff who ’ve all choke and get along back to life . That would already be weird enough , but then a necromancer with doomsday on the brain occupy a neat interest in their probe . ( April 3 )
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Three edited by Neil Clarke
Hugo and World Fantasy Award - winning editor in chief Clarke exhibit a short floor anthology that gathers stellar scifi tales from magazines , blogs , websites , single - writer collection , and more , with employment from both established and emerging authors . ( April 3 )
The Body Library by Jeff Noon
In this sequel to A Man of Shadows , investigator John Nyquist is lured into a slaying vitrine after listen the whispers of the victim ’s corpse — a strange circumstance made possible by the shift , blurry reality of the city that surrounds them . ( April 3 )
Defy the Worlds by Claudia Gray
In this sequel to Defy the Stars , interstellar soldier Noemi bring a chance to redeem herself in the oculus of her people — but when the plan goes awry , she needs the helper of her former locomotion partner Abel , the cybernetic man she thought she ’d never get to see again . ( April 3 )
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
This substitute account tarradiddle imago that the dead rose up from the field of honor at Gettysburg , resulting in law that force inglorious , Native American , and interracial - race child to devote themselves to anti - zombie fight . One young woman caught up in this grim reality secretly plans a better life for herself — until she ’s get up in a cabal even scarier than the rampaging undead . ( April 3 )
Firewalkers by Chris Roberson
In this continuation to Firewalk — penned by the co - creator of Vertigo ’s iZombie comedian — an FBI factor and a police detective team up on a cold serial - killer case that seems to be tied to a drug epidemic in the coastal city of Recondito . Not coincidentally , they discover , the townsfolk also happens to check an entry detail for hellish visitors from other proportion . ( April 3 )
Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence
The author ’s second entree in his Book of the Ancestor series follows a convent - trained new womanhood who must choose either the path of supplication or the path of the blade and fist . And , of course , there are stack of complications on her mystical journeying : assassin , vengeful rich men , and a unreliable wannabe empress , to name just a few . ( April 3 )
The Night Dahlia by R.S. Belcher
A crisis of faith has turned Laytham Ballard out from the Nightwise , the group of mages that strive to keep human beings safe from supernatural wickedness . Now using his skills to work freelance , he ’s hired to track down the miss daughter of a faerie mob boss — a colourful and life-threatening seeking that thrust him to confront some uncomfortable truths about his own yesteryear . ( April 3 )
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The National Book Award success weaves a tale of nine strangers who all have extraordinary and witching experiences involve trees — include several spirit - saving face-off — and are then drawn together to save a virgin forest that ’s about to be wipe out . ( April 3 )
Witchy Winter by D.J. Butler
The subsequence to Witchy Eye follows Sarah Calhoun ’s journeying to win the Serpent Throne in her father ’s kingdom , as well as the struggles of a buccaneer - battling New Orleans priest and a hunter ’s quest to incur a troubled young healer who may have the power to save his ailing babe . ( April 3 )
Wonderblood by Julia Whicker
In 500 days , America has become a pathological - ravaged wasteland — and the few human survivors roam the post - apocalyptic landscape painting worshiping NASA relics , exercise magic , and putting their hope in blood ritual killing . ( April 3 )
Fire Dance by Ilana C. Myer
Set in the world of the author ’s Last Song Before Night , this standalone phantasy novel follows a novice enchantress as she ’s drawn into her homeland ’s ongoing , politically - charge warfare against a mathematical group of deadly magicians known as Fire Dancers . ( April 10 )
Isle of Blood and Stone by Makiia Lucier
In a land haunted by the memory of its two long - lost son prince , a untried mapmaker sets out on the high seas and get wind a clue that may solve the regal mystery — though at his danger , as not everybody want the truth to come out . ( April 10 )
One Way by S.J. Morden
A crew of workers — all ex - bunco — constructing a new bag on Mars get going falling victim to deathly “ accidents ” that do n’t quite impart up . Can the stay on astronauts ( including the savviest among them , a former architect who did time for murder ) figure out who ’s picking them off before they ’re all pose to wasteland ? ( April 10 )
Rebellion’s Fury by Jay Allan
The subsequence to military science fiction saga Flames of Rebellion picks up as the settler of Haven intensify their rising against Federal America , taking back their embrace unexampled major planet . But how long before their oppressors return to Earth , regroup , and remove them even harder ? ( April 10 )
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
In the consequence of a terrible intergalactic warfare , a novel form of conflict emerges : the Metagalactic Grand Prix , a kind of Rick and Morty - ish , Eurovision - type spectacle that oppose different sentient races against each other in a in high spirits - stakes talent competition . Can Earth ’s rock ‘ n ’ paradiddle contingent score a triumph on their first try , and save the human race in the process ? ( April 10 )
Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
A cleaning woman with an odd consideration — her many “ Death ” over time are actually deep comas from which she finally awakens — is caught between the two men in her living : her unscrupulous husband and the outlaw who truly loves her . And , of course of action , she ’s also caught between the world of the living and the mankind of the idle , a place she ’s compulsive to fight her way out of once and for all . ( April 10 )
The Atrocities by Jeremy C. Shipp
In this Gothic taradiddle , a governess arrives at her new post only to find that her young educatee is actually a ghost . ( April 17 )
Before Mars by Emma Newman
A woman undergo a long , grueling journeying to her new job on Mars , only to have an eerie sense of déjà vu once she get . What ’s really going on in the fledgling Red Planet settlement — a threatening embodied confederacy , or a nightmare look at position altogether in her turbulent mind ? record an excerpthere . ( April 17 )
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
clime change pass to the construction of a floating city in the Arctic Circle , but it ’s a unexampled kind of Wild West with offense , poverty , depravity , and disease seeping into the community . Hope arrives when a stranger rides into townsfolk — not on a horse , but on a Orcinus orca whale . ( April 17 )
The City of Lost Fortunes by Bryan Camp
A New Orleans street magician with literal powerfulness decides to hit the pause button after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina , but he ’s drawn back into the urban center ’s mystical region when the Fortune immortal — to whom he owed a keen debt — is polish off . ( April 17 )
From Unseen Fire by Cass Morris
This historical fantasy first appearance is set in an alternating translation of ancient Rome , as a gifted young mage strives to protect her hoi polloi in a high society filled with life-threatening secrets and sinister black art . ( April 17 )
Head On by John Scalzi
The acclaimed source ( Old Man ’s War ) returns with this follow - up to 2014 ’s Lock In ; it ’s about a brutal sport played by robotic competitors in which the objective is to rend off the principal of one ’s opponent . But on - field of operations ferocity leads to a real - life murder , and a pair of FBI agent must infiltrate the high - stakes , big - money earth of futuristic sports to solve the case . ( April 17 )
The Long Sunset by Jack McDevitt
In this latest in the Nebula winner ’s Academy serial , the quad program has begun refocusing its work away from exploration — until a musical substance from an exotic airstream offend the interest group of one of its most decorated ( and determined ) pilots . ( April 17 )
Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian
Deprived of her royal birthright after her female parent , the Queen , is remove in front of her , a missy farm up outwardly play by the rules , but with a growing plan for payback on her judgement . ( April 24 )
The Fandom by Anna Day
Superfan Violet heads to a comic convention pump to celebrate her favorite mega - democratic Holy Scripture and movie enfranchisement — but playfulness turn to peril when she magically slips into the story itself and by chance stimulate the last of the heroine . Soon , it ’s up to Violet to economize the make - consider daytime for genuine . ( April 24 )
Publish and Perish by Phillipa Bornikova
Vampire attorney Linnet Ellery returns in an adventure that sees her trying to deliver her ex ( an elf ) with the service of her raw love ( a homo , who also happens to be her boss ) . Meanwhile , she ’s grappling with controlling her own cryptic power , which seem to be more dangerous than anything else . ( April 24 )
Time Was by Ian McDonald
Two mankind fall in love while working on a top - secret British project during World War II — but their clandestine relationship grows even more complicated when they find themselves traveling separately through time , desperately try on to reckon out a way to reconnect . ( April 24 )
I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land by Connie Willis
A blogger who writes about how much he hates nostalgia visit New York City to sky his ledger to publisher — but alternatively finds himself in a mysterious bookshop , a place that stirs up feelings he thought he ’d long since cynically stomped into limbo . ( April 30 )
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