May is typically a Brobdingnagian month for book loss , and this year ’s no elision — we’ve got a tower pile ofsci - fi , fantasy , and repugnance releasesto plowshare , with imperial Johnny Reb , deep - place weirdness , clip - travelers , supernatural adventures , game - show terrors , and so much more .
A man and his household move far from Earth so he can take a remunerative investigatory job and start ante up back his mountains of debt . But when the novel gig uncovers corruption , he and his family soon find themselves in life-threatening danger idle - year from home . ( May 3 )
The Outlaw Saints duology begins with this YA urban illusion following a Brooklyn stripling whose wizardly powers wake when he ’s drawn into a slaying mystery tied to his lost island homeland . ( May 3 )
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The Burnt Empire Saga conclude as the reincarnate Krushni and her Demonlord father engagement for ultimate control of the burn Throne . ( May 3 )
The author makes her adult debut with this modern phantasy ; it pursue a barman who ’s trying to put her past career — working as a skilled stealer on behalf of magicians who want to rob other magicians — behind her , but it ’s proving more dangerously hard than she realized . ( May 3 )
This tailspin on the classic fairy tale focuses on Wendy Darling ’s granddaughter , Holly , and her hunting for Peter Pan — in this telling , he ’s a dangerous villain — when her comatose girl is kidnapped . ( May 3 )
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This tale inspired by Greek mythology offer a unexampled twirl on the story of Elektra and her kin ’s curse , fleshing out the stories of Agamemnon ’s married woman , Clytemnestra ; his daughter , Elektra ; and the prophetic Trojan princess , Cassandra . ( May 3 )
The follow - up to Shards of Earth finds the Architects back to their planet - consuming ways , and this time they ’re not discourage by any protective artifacts . The Human Colonies must decide whether to stand together or fight individually to pull through their worlds , with one champion revisit his dark past in search of a manner to defeat the enemy . ( May 3 )
In this dystopian novella , the first in a serial , a cleaning woman fight for her people and their cooperative way of liveliness in post - revelatory America . ( May 3 )
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Soon after the Mexican War of Independence , a grieve young cleaning woman seek security agrees to marry a ample , well-favored suitor — only to discover the dark forces lurking at his country estate of the realm mean tranquility is the last affair she ’ll find there . ( May 3 )
In this supernatural thriller , a nurse begins to surmise there ’s something hazardously faulty with the five - year - onetime boy in her care . ( May 3 )
The companion Word to Middlegame finds Melanie , the kick the bucket queen of summer , and Harry , the king of winter , forging a grave raw path they hope will enable them to be together . ( May 3 )
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The Gargoyle Queen phantasy serial continue as princess , undercover agent , and potent conjuror Gemma tries her salutary to mold an confederation between kingdom to aid protect them from their share enemy . ( May 3 )
After the “ Mass Dragoning of 1955”—in which thousands of wife and mothers dead transform into fire - ventilation tartar — a young girl live amid the fallout mourns the loss of her aunt ( who ’s now a dragon ) while dealing with her overprotective female parent ( who ’s still human ) . ( May 3 )
Fourteen year after she and her brother had a crushing ( and in all likelihood alien ) play during a night hike , a cleaning woman endeavor to heal her kin after another tragedy strike . But the reverberations of her freaky experience might think healing may never happen ; they also suggest her trial by ordeal ’s not over yet . ( May 10 )
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A jaded tec squad up with a high - school journalist to hunt down for a stolen rare playscript — only to uncover some seriously supernatural goings - on at an isolated , elect New England boarding school . ( May 10 )
While visiting her aunt in Prague , a gifted teenage violinist struggling to determine her future plan discovers a forgotten Jewish necropolis . Before long , she ’s fallen for one of its ghostly dweller — but has also attracted the interest of a far more sinister admirer . ( May 10 )
Just after the beginning of the Clone Wars , Obi - Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are tasked with enquire a pernicious tone-beginning on the Trade Federation worldly concern of Cato Neimoidia — and navigating their evolving relationship from Master and Padawan to pal in arm on the frontline of the state of war . Read an excerpthere . ( May 10 )
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A new sullen fantasy series begin , focusing on Kagen Vale — formerly captain of the castle guard , but forced to become a wanderer in exile when the royal family is murder on his watch . Revenge becomes his driving power as he roams a newly magical kingdom searching for friend . ( May 10 )
In this alt - history chronicle set in a 1975 where Earth has managed to fight off foreign invaders , a young man must make a quick decision about his future when he ’s draw up for slaying . His pick ? connect the Earth Orbital Forces , where strange adventures soon travel along . ( May 10 )
The Malice Duology keep as a vicious , vengeful Alyce searches for a way to awaken Princess Aurora . But if she follow , will Aurora still have a go at it her back , or will she see her as a demon ? ( May 10 )
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In Pre - Code Hollywood , Luli Wei pursues her dream vocation — until she realizes the studios secretly prey on aspiring actor , using ancient conjuring trick and ritual sacrifice to power their productions . Will she still gamble everything to become a star ? ( May 10 )
Romance meets clip traveling in this story collection , featuring donation from Alix E. Harrow , Zen Cho , Seanan McGuire , Sarah Gailey , Jeffrey Ford , Nina Allan , Elizabeth Hand , and more . ( May 10 )
Two ships , a merchant ship and a research vessel that hails from 152 eld in the future , have a strange encounter while pass along through a deep - outer space unusual person . Read an excerpthere . ( May 10 )
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In this historic fantasy , an escaped slave and an exiled merchant are take for an character assassination job that — if successful — could change the balance of power across the world . ( May 17 )
A witchy fashion designer must unite forces with a longtime phratry enemy — someone she loathes but is also oddly attracted to — for figure out who ’s using grave magic to counteract the upcoming Beltane fete . ( May 17 )
Described as “ A Clockwork Orange and RuPaul ’s Drag Race meet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , ” this fable delves into the bitter rivalries among the most glamorous residents of a fashionable utopia . ( May 17 )
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The Tarot Sequence urban phantasy series continues with this third book , which see Rune Saint John dealing with the challenges that occur with ruling — including confronting a unusual magical menace to the local immortality clinic . ( May 17 )
The source and anthropologist ’s Rewilding Reports “ command line interface - fi ” series returns to the Ice Age of the future , where archaic human mintage struggle to outlive what seems like certain extinction , and a holy world hopes to resurrect a divine leader who ’s been slumber in stasis for a thousand age . ( May 17 )
In this revulsion novel , a cleaning lady reunites with her moneyed full cousin , a loss leader in the richness industry , 20 years after escaping the cult they were stir in — and their rekindled bond soon twist serious . ( May 17 )
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Molly ’s story ends with this final submission in the author ’s horror trilogy about a char able to create deadly copies of herself — remnants who eventually formed a makeshift family . Now , there ’s military interest in the very rum blood Molly left behind . ( May 17 )
The author returns to the magical , satirical version of 1940s San Francisco last seen in Noir to revisit its misfit characters . Their adventures this time around include hunting a murderer and taste to prevent an ancient statue from unleashing a vengeful monster . ( May 17 )
This fantasy tale inspired by One Thousand and One Nights follows “ the Midniht Merchant , ” who ’s famed for treat in illegal conjuration with the aid of her djinny escort . When she appeal the unwanted care of the grand Turk , she ’s forced to hunt down an ancient token that could modify realism . ( May 17 )
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When a 40 - year - one-time fair sex wake up up one sunrise and realizes it ’s her 16th birthday all over again , she must adjudicate if she ’ll make changes in the past to alter a future tense she ’s by and large well-chosen with . ( May 17 )
Meet royal twins Rose and Wren — one raise to predominate , the other spirited away at birth and train by crone to avenge her parents ’ murder and take back the peak . As the queen - to - be ’s marriage loom , a category reunion becomes inevitable . ( May 17 )
In this subsequence to Glow , the dangerous , brain - altering nanotech drug has now spread around the world . Recovering addict Rex must make up one’s mind whether he has it in him to mistreat up and try and save the world — but at what cost ? ( May 24 )
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A man wakes up in a strange place with no memory of who he is — or even what his own face looks like . He ’ll have to puzzle together as much as he can if he want to encounter his fashion home again . ( May 24 )
In this eldritch westerly , a “ Black Badge ” charged with hound down demons and other monsters ( otherwise he ’ll be sent to infernal region ) uncovers way more than he expected while purse a supernaturally enhance bank building robber . ( May 24 )
In 1768 , Marie Antoinette and her sister Charlotte are separated by arrange royal marriages — but forever united by the spell book they found as children , and stay on to use to form their life for better and worse . ( May 24 )
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Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard struggle to convalesce from the loss of his daughter by helping two troubled untested men in his community — something that only brings more wickedness into his aliveness , at least until his daughter ’s shade shows up to bestow some assistance . ( May 24 )
A young competitor in a obscure - and - seek game staged at an abandon entertainment park draw on every resource she can to survive — and bring home the bacon the lucrative , life - change loot . interpret an excerpthere . ( May 24 )
describe as “ Cujo meets A Quiet Place , ” this tale follows a couple strand on an Oregon beach after a meteor shower loose an apocalyptic event . ( May 31 )
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The Hades Saga bear on as Hades refuses to aid Hera bring down Zeus — and is punished by being sent on a serial publication of devil hunts and artifact quests . Meanwhile , Persephone is left to question whether being Queen of the Underworld is really what she want . ( May 31 )
As children , four best friends became witches as part of Her Majesty ’s Royal Coven , shew by Queen Elizabeth I. As adult , one of the women is now drawing card of HMRC , but the others have float away from the grouping . They ’ll need to reunite , however , when the HMRC finds itself in serious trouble . ( May 31 )
Through a serial of incredible events , a pious but curious young woman is whisk off from her small - Ithiel Town sprightliness and suddenly task with deciding the fate of humanity . ( May 31 )
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Environmental activists in 2028 pull back from launch a full - shell revolution , only to see the instinctive world stand a rapid decline in the next 20 years . In 2051 , they ’re forced to take a stand against an authoritarian government that could n’t care less about the Earth or its most vulnerable people . ( May 31 )
The subsequence to The Gilded Ones finds Deka and her army confront a new , powerfully dark force — a dangerous mission that will prove even more thought-provoking now that her powers are changing . ( May 31 )
A teenaged psychic in 1920s Chicago use her powers to avenge women who ’ve been prey on by men who seem to be above the law . When she rather inconveniently falls for a morgue worker , will her underground life-time be exposed ? ( May 31 )
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Over 100 interviews with Star Trek worker , theatre director , writers , and more from the franchise ’s various eras highlight this book , touted as “ an approachable and entertaining class through Star Trek chronicle , from its groundbreaking origins amid the turbulent 1960s , to its influence on diversifying the space program , to its contemporary story - making turns with LGBTQ+ representation . ” ( May 31 )
distaff and nonbinary authors contribute to this collection of sci - fi stories focusing on the phylogenesis of relationships , partnerships , and love in worlds complicated by future tech : clones , artificial intelligence , body augmentation , and beyond . ( May 31 )
The long - unravel Xanth serial continues with a unexampled risky venture about charming royal twins who embark on a quest with their pardner to free a mathematical group of princesses from their freeze - in - prison term prison . ( May 31 )
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A twelvemonth after a fire arrogate the life of a young woman , her supporter reunite at her absolutely rebuilt lake sign of the zodiac to honor her memory . But was her death really an accident ? Is her orca still scupper around ? And … could that be her ghost that ’s haunting them ? ( May 31 )
In this novelette , the American Southeast was once rein by an AI that transform the total landscape painting into a bio - mechanical war zone . In the aftermath , the AI ’s most dangerous shroud weapons are still stimulate hassle . ( May 31 )
hoi polloi across various clip periods — a bison hunter in 1973 Kansas , a pregnant adolescent in 1975 , an engineer in climate - alteration - ravage New Orleans in 2027 , a fille dwell on Mars in 2073 — play into this family epic about “ ancestry , legacy , motherhood , the hurt we inherit , and the power of connection in the case of our satellite ’s imminent collapse . ” ( May 31 )
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