May is here , and the calendar month bring tons of new science fiction and fantasy script for your reading pleasure , including tales of kingdoms in turmoil , aliens battle AI in outer space , alt - history fantasies — and a new novel by some hombre call Stephen King .
Bandwidth by Eliot Peper
In this near - next techno - thriller , a young political lobbyist realizes there are dangerous force work to ensure the digital feed that the intact world relies upon for tidings update ( and everything else ) . It ’s up to him to prevent an approaching shadow war from check that devastation — but doing so may be him the ultimate price . ( May 1 )
Black Helicopters by Caitlin R. Kiernan
This is the expanded , complete version of the writer ’s World Fantasy Award - nominated Lovecraftian novella . It ’s about a secret factor task with enquire strange happenings around New England that seem to be betoken a hideous , chaotic invisible war . ( May 1 )
The Glory of the Empress by Sean Danker
Amid a frustrate interstellar state of war , a grouping of soldier develops a new weapon system they go for will change state the lunar time period in their side ’s favour — not realizing their test runs in a far - off pouch of the galaxy will have unexpectedly loom effect . ( May 1 )
Medusa Uploaded by Emily Devenport
After she ’s shoved out of an airlock and miraculously survives , a malcontent “ worm ” consider vantage of being take for granted all in to prowl the coevals spaceship she ’s on , assassinate the powerful to seek and even the wager for everyone else . ( May 1 )
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuagny
This debut diachronic phantasy is pep up by 20th century China ; it ’s about a warfare orphan who shocks everyone when she gain acceptance to the nation ’s most elite military academy — and scandalize herself when she realize she has a powerful talent for trick . ( May 1 )
The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green
The complicated life of five very dissimilar characters ( a princess , a soldier , a huntsman , a thief , and a handmaiden ) interlace in a wizardly demesne on the brink of war in this first installment in a new fantasy series . ( May 1 )
Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope
In a sentence of state of war , an outcast uses her magical gifts to heal an foe spy , and the unlikely bond between them grow as they race to keep an ancient evil from taking control of both their body politic . ( May 1 )
Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
The cyborg security agent nicknamed “ Murderbot ” returns in the subsequence to the generator ’s All Systems Red . This fourth dimension , it ’s hellbent on finding out exactly why it has that ominous nickname and go to the setting of an infamous massacre to poke into its muddy , tumultuous past times . ( May 8)
Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman, edited by Victoria Nelson
A aggregation of supernatural tale from the late World Fantasy Award - winning writer of “ weird narrative . ” ( May 8)
King of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist
The first book in a new saga follows two new humans — one a highly skilled swordsmith ; the other an assassin and undercover agent who ’s also secretly the heir to a steal throne — whose paths converge as they become drawn into an ongoing war and the bang-up fight to bring through their world . ( May 8)
What Should Be Wild by Laura Fine
A young woman , the latest in her family to be cuss with the power to kill or resurrect anything she allude , expend her entire animation hide out deep inside a dark forest — until her beginner goes missing , and she venture into the outside macrocosm for the first time to research for him . ( May 8)
The World of All Souls by Deborah Harkness
Fans of Harness ’ All Souls series ( A Discovery of Witches , Shadow of Night , and The Book of Life ) wo n’t want to miss this illustrated guide to her fantasy trilogy ; it includes exceptional characteristic like fiber bios , maps , and even formula . ( May 8)
Armistice by Lara Elena Donnelly
The writer ’s follow - up to the Nebula - nominate fantasy thriller Amberlough return to the intrigue - sate thirties to watch three characters live in a politically unstable tropical country : a diplomat , a movie maker , and a stripper - turn - subverter . ( May 15 )
Ascendant by Jack Campbell
The Genesis Fleet military scifi series continues as a former fleet officer and a former Marine dance orchestra together to fight off onrush on their newly - colonized major planet — and find it ’s frustratingly hard to hold onto freedom when you have throttle resources and a steady current of aggressors . ( May 15 )
Buying Time by E.M. Brown
A gentleman’s gentleman falls asleep one nighttime in 2017 , but wakes up and actualize it ’s nine month in the beginning than it was the day before . The vogue continues the next day , when he wakes up three years earlier , and on and on until he eventually seems to totally disappear . Where ( or when ) did he go ? ( May 15 )
By Fire Above by Robyn Bennis
The second entry in the author ’s Signal Airship fantasy escapade series follows an airship captain who must battle foe personnel and bureaucracy when her hometown comes under onslaught . ( May 15 )
In the Region of the Summer Stars by Stephen Lawhead
In this fresh Celtic - enliven fantasy , the Billie Jean King ’s oldest son is cast out of his clan , so he guarantee a perilous journey to acquit his name — but the magic arcanum he learn may help oneself him save his imperiled land or else . ( May 15 )
The Oddling Prince by Nancy Springer
In ancient Scotland , two purple crony who were raised singly must get together forces to save their family from a magical curse that threatens to shoot down their father and snap his kingdom apart . ( May 15 )
The Queen of Sorrow by Sarah Beth Durst
The writer begins the last entry in her Queens of Renthia trilogy in a time of long - overdue peace — but that does n’t last long when one queen tasks malevolent nature spirit with kidnapping another queen ’s children , unleash warfare and chaos back into the forest . ( May 15 )
The Soldier by Neal Asher
The source returns to his Polity worlds for this newfangled military saga , as the discovery of a unknown disc teeming with hold up engineering science threatens both manhood and their crab - similar alien rivals . To ensure the safety of both civilizations , they task an android - human hybrid ( and her mystic alien comrade ) with protect the occult disk from sinister intruder . ( May 15 )
War Storm by Victoria Aveyard
The Red Queen series conclude as superpowered heroine Mare Barrow overcomes the ultimate betrayal as she plots to subvert the Silver kingdoms once and for all . ( May 15 )
Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan
The Gods of Blood and Powder epical fantasy series stay with this 2d entranceway , which picks up amid state of war - torn turmoil for both soldier ( and those who would evoke their own USA with the help of some ancient deception ) and refugees ( and those who are desperately trying to help them ) . ( May 15 )
American Hippo by Sarah Gailey
This compiling brings Gailey ’s acclaimed 2017 novellas River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow — alt - history tales in which wild hippos run murderously in what used to be the Mississippi River neighborhood — together into one volume , along with a brand - new short story . ( May 22 )
84K by Claire North
A dystopian narration set in a world where criminal offence can be atoned for with specific dollar amounts — a set - up that does n’t really inconvenience the main character , an tax assessor at the Criminal Audit Office , until he ’s tasked with a execution font involve someone who was once very dear to him . ( May 22 )
The Outsider by Stephen King
The powerhouse generator ’s a la mode commence with a murdered tike , and eyewitness and forensic grounds place a local baseball game omnibus as the grampus . But the man has a rock candy - solid alibi , and an unsufferable question emerge : Could he have been in two places at once ? ( May 22 )
The Testament of Loki by Joanne M. Harris
Ragnarok has come and gone , but Loki ’s not one to stay trapped in purgatory forever . In this sequel to The Gospel of Loki , the trickster makes his way to Earth , via the psyche of a teen girl who ’s none too happy to find out him lurk in her genius … or to realize all of her friend ( and a dog ) are also being have over by Norse god refugees . ( May 22 )
Lifelike by Jay Kristoff
A adolescent daughter with a natural endowment for building robots ( and some frightening superpowers , as well as a disturbing past she ’s blocked from fully memory ) finds herself in deep difficulty with some greedy mobster just as she assemble a better-looking android that makes her question everything about her life . ( May 29 )
The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals by Aaron Mahnke
The world of the popular podcast / TV series / book series elaborate even further with this illustrate template to “ the most despicable multitude ever to walk the earthly concern , ” including Chicago World ’s Fair in series Orcinus orca H.H. Holmes and the Scottish cabinetmaker who cheer Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . ( May 29 )
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