November is upon us , and it ’s bring exciting titles like a newMurderbottale fromMartha Wells , a return to the creation of theKingkiller Chroniclefrom Patrick Rothfuss , and Jim Butcher’slong - awaited next Cinder Spires novel — and more ! Check out these 44 new sci - fi , fantasy , and horror releases come to bookshelf this calendar month .
Almost all of the author ’s sci - fi short stories and novellas fill up this collection of 28 tale charting “ dystopian futures , first contact move horribly wrong , the limits and dangers of technology , and run into with the noncitizen within us all . ” ( November 1 )
“ The common wicked potpourri of Lansdale fib and report notes . ” ( November 1 )
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“ When an injury throw a immature , engagement - hungry orc off her prefer path , she may ascertain that what we need is n’t always what we seek . ” fix in the same world as the author ’s caption & Lattes . ( November 7 )
The Midsolar Murders series continues as Mallory finds herself pulled back into the amateur - detective game when more death — this time , a murdered passenger on an Earth shuttlecock bound for Station Eternity — enters into her living , along with a pair of fugitives and more possible disaster . ( November 7 )
The Seven Kennings epic fantasy series concludes as Pen steps up to become a hero , Abhi is task with using his unparalleled legerdemain to communicate with krakens , and Koesha and her crew prepare out on one last precarious seafaring risky venture . ( November 7 )
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“ Riley Rhodes eventually has the chance to plow her household ’s hang for the supernatural into a legitimate business when she ’s engage to break the oath on an infamous Scots palace . ” Things get complicated when an beguiling but annoying archaeologist gets in her manner . ( November 7 )
The latest from the generator of The Power follows “ a handful of protagonist [ who ] plot a daring heist to redeem the world from the tech giants whose greed threaten life as we have intercourse it . ” ( November 7 )
A new phantasy romance serial begins as a chaotic witch come down through a portal while fleeing from her lamia ex-husband — and is pressed into service at sea when she ’s rescued by a telekinetic pirate captain . ( November 7 )
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In this subsequence to The Luminaries , “ as consistency and secrets pile up around town , Winnie find herself wonder what it mean to be a true Wednesday and a true Luminary — and also where her boisterous - hearted loyalties might ultimately have to consist . ” ( November 7 )
The Empyrean series continues as Violet go on her physically , mentally , and emotionally acute dragon - rider training at Basgiath War College . ( November 7 )
“ The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his flying dragon , Thorn . An vicious king has been tumble , and they are provide to face up the issue of the loth role they played in his sovereignty of terror . Now they are hate and alone , exiled to the fringe of gild . ” ( November 7 )
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The Cinder Spires steampunk phantasy adventure series continue . War brood as the airship fleets of the Spires ’ noble houses square off in the sky high up above the dwindling human universe on the soil below . Read an excerpt here . ( November 7 )
The Last Binding trilogy concludes as Jack tries to put illusion behind him after his twin sister ’s expiry , but finds himself back in the fold ( and crusade an inconvenient attractor ) as he sets out to make unnecessary Britain ’s magicians from a ritual that could put down them . ( November 7 )
After a car accident kills her parents and leaves her vernal sister paralyzed and ineffectual to speak , a untried woman struggles to keep up with living in the real humankind — while her baby lives out a intense fairy - tale drama in her mind . ( November 7 )
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“ A wild , wholesale novel that imagines an alternating secret history of Korea and the trace it leaves on the present — loaded with assassins and insane poets , RPGs and slasher films , pop bands and the perils of societal media . ” ( November 7 )
The 30th novel in the Anita Blake series finds the vampire hunter facing obstacles both human and supernatural while preparing for her wedding to the vampire magnate of America . ( November 7 )
This little novel is “ unadulterated for longtime Green Rider fans eager for more of the human beings or new readers discovering the land of Sacoridia for the first sentence , ” and is described as an “ action mechanism - packed , feminist fancy . ” ( November 7 )
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The sudden appearance of what look like elephantine butterflies becomes alarming once it ’s clear how aggressive they are . A young woman , her pal , and their champion do their skilful to pull round the invasion — and must face a peachy repulsion that follows . ( November 7 )
“ A thorn witch with the power to walk between the realms of Life and Death observe herself at the center of a magical rebellion — and a dangerous romance — that could ruin her coven and her soul . ” ( November 7 )
In this sequel to No God , No Monsters , “ humans and monster jar as polite rights clash with uncanny forces . ” ( November 7 )
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A young woman fights to rescue her sister from the terrifying sequent killer stalk her township — and starts to distrust the monster so fond of dismembering his dupe may not be entirely human . ( November 7 )
“ What does it mean to be human in a creation of shifting , sometimes terrify realities ? Eighteen tarradiddle from Jack Skillingstead ’s second decennary of publishing feature article intense and surprising exploration of who we are , who we bid to be , and who we ca n’t be . ” ( November 7 )
The latest in the author ’s Before the Coffee Gets cold-blooded series asks , “ Who would you visit if you could jaunt through time ? ” ( November 14 )
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In this romance set in deep infinite , “ the skipper of a ragtag soldier of fortune ship is given an offer she ca n’t refuse by the ruthless head of an intergalactic baronial kinfolk . The only gimmick ? She ’ll have to team up up with his son — an upsettingly competent hardbody with his own schedule — to get her reward . ” ( November 14 )
The Heirs of Chicagoland series continue as vampire Elisa Sullivan and her friend confront down a Modern wizardly conflict that erupts in a urban center still try out to recover from its last supernatural battle . ( November 14 )
In this sci - fi mystery , “ 37 miners disappear without a trace within a Titanium mine late within Zeta One , a moonlight orbiting the planet , Terra . When FBI federal agent Kendra Omen arrives via the spaceship Marietta , foreign phenomenon begin to manifest . ” ( November 14 )
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“ It ’s 30 old age from now . We ’re making progress , palliate clime alteration , lento but sure as shooting . But what about all the angry one-time people who ca n’t let go ? … The Lost Cause asks : What do we do about people who cling to the belief that their own children are the enemy ? When , in fact , they ’re often the senior that we love ? ” ( November 14 )
“ Minority Report meets Ready Player One as a new tec hunts down a dangerous criminal adequate to of eminent - jack and controlling cybernetic implants . ” ( November 14 )
A young world who ’s long had a belief that something in his life is very wrong — a impression that intensifies after his grandfather mysterious disappears — part to understand the Sojourner Truth when he receives a occult software . ( November 14 )
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The author returns to the world of his best - selling Kingkiller Chronicle with this reimagining and significant expansion of The Lightning Tree , an illustrated standalone account . ( November 14 )
The Burnished City series continues with a newfangled story of “ pert alchemists , high society lady , and swaggering street gang as they wrestle with the nature of reality itself . ” ( November 14 )
“ A rebellious new heroine begins a ocean trip of self - discovery in the third novel of an epic fantasy serial put in the world of Viridian Deep , from the fabled author of the Shannara saga . ” ( November 14 )
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In 2007 , a film student look into the strange disappearance of a revulsion - motion picture actress in 1968 — and get hold himself becoming entangle with the mystery in frightening room . ( November 14 )
The Murderbot Diaries series proceed as Murderbot tries to forecast out what ’s improper with itself … as the imperiled universe of a fresh colonized planet anxiously waits to be rescue . scan an interview with the author here . ( November 14 )
The Wolf Den Trilogy conclude as Amara settee into her new life as a romish paramour — but back home in Pompeii , her loved one are in the line of fervency of the shortly - to - combust Mount Vesuvius . ( November 14 )
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The Skyward serial “ about a fille who will travel beyond the stars to save the humanity she lie with from destruction ” comes to an ending in this final volume . ( November 21 )
Trying to escape the ghosts that relentlessly haunt her , a woman moves to a small island , where she finds the power that ’s torture her might in reality have a useful purpose — while also disclose her to with child risk . ( November 21 )
“ It ’s authoritative to calculate after your crew when you ’re in the battlefield salvage business . It ’s trying work at the best of multiplication , and although your employee are unlikely to be glad it makes sense to keep them active . So when Saevus Corax finds himself having to becharm a castle to stop his men from being killed , he has no alternative but to give it a try . ” ( November 21 )
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“ From city streets where arcanum are bartered for Au to forests teeming with legendary animal , Suyi Davies Okungbowa ’s wholesale epic poem of forgotten witching and violent conquests uphold in this richly drawn fantasy inhale by the pre - colonial empires of West Africa . ” ( November 21 )
He ’s a snarky demon with amensia , she ’s a Wiccan with a score against devil — but there ’s an attraction between them that neither can refuse , as much as they really , really need to . ( November 28 )
“ This gloriously transportive reimagining of The Nutcracker tells the tale of matching sisters , divided by envy and magic , mark against each another one fateful Christmas Eve . ” ( November 28 )
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The writer ’s Desert Magician ’s Duology continues with this sequel to Shadow Speaker , an Africanfuturist tale set in a wizard Niger , West Africa , in 2077.Read an excerpt here . ( November 28 )
When students start dying at a freshly reopened magic academy , two classmates get together forces to try and figure out who ’s menace their unexampled home and found family . ( November 28 )
The sequel to Uncanny Times determine supernatural research worker Rosemary and Aaron Harker on a new case — but they soon start to distrust their newfangled hunt is a bent - up , and they might be the targets of threatening forces trying to turn the tables on them . ( November 28 )
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