We ’re well into summer now , but there ’s still plenty of meter to impart a book or eight to your reading tilt . And you ’ll want to , after checking out all the amazing - sounding science fabrication and illusion titles come in July — including several short narration aggregation and the auctorial debut of histrion Wesley Snipes .
Angel Catbird Volume 3: The Catbird Roars by Margaret Atwood (author), Johnnie Christmas (illustrator), and Tamra Bonvillain (illustrator)
Acclaimed source Atwood ( The Handmaid ’s Tale ) wraps up her first graphic novel trilogy by bringing her superhero saga to a nigh — but not before a monumental battle ensues between the world ’s rats and half - cats . ( July 4 )
In Evil Times by Melinda Snodgrass
The author stick with The High Ground with the go on risky venture of newly - graduated Orden de la Estrella policeman Tracy and Mercedes , who are place on far - cast out battleships but confront similar struggles keeping the peace between human beings and alien . ( July 4 )
An Oath of Dogs by Wendy N. Wagner
A woman starts a newfangled Book of Job just before her boss is murdered , and she ca n’t shake the notion her newfangled fellowship is behind the crime . Making matter even more unsettling , this all takes place on a unusual major planet where a long - ago disaster has morphed into a corporate cover - up that ’s just waiting to be discover . ( July 4 )
The Reluctant Queen by Sarah Beth Durst
The benevolent Queen of Renthia is dying and she must find a desirable successor before it ’s too previous . regrettably , the as if by magic - inclined unseasoned female parent who seems the best candidate is not interested in the occupation — until she realizes what ’s truly at stake . ( July 4 )
Sungrazer by Jay Posey
In Posey ’s sequel to Outriders , Earth and Mars are lock in in a tense Cold War , with terrifying weapons poised for deployment on both sides . An elect squad digest by to track down any that go missing — but their latest search missionary work , which aligns them with a Martian intelligence officer who might not be exactly trustworthy , is their most dangerous yet . ( July 4 )
The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller
In this entry novel , a young gentleman discovers that when he does n’t eat , he develops mysterious king , like mind - meter reading — and , hunger be damned , he ’s determined to use those tycoon to find out what happen to his missing sister . ( July 11 )
Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine
The author continue her Great Library series by bring together the characters from Ink and Bone and Paper and Fire , who must agitate to save the Great Library of Alexandria — a brawny and savage place whose great enemy is itself . ( July 11 )
At the Table of Wolves by Kay Kenyon
This is bill as “ Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy run into 10 - Men , ” which definitely voice challenging . It ’s set in 1936 and is about a super - powered cleaning woman who go cloak-and-dagger in Nazi Germany to protect England from invasion . ( July 11 )
Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn
In a dystopian hereafter where parentage ascendance is mandatory and have children is a perquisite that must be earned , a rookie investigator is tasked with puzzle to the bottom of a mysterious death — which she suspect is actually a slaying bind to a far - reaching conspiracy . ( July 11 )
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine edited by Ellen Datlow
Short horror stories from Adam L. G. Nevill , Livia Llewellyn , Peter Straub , Gemma Files , Brian Hodge , and more . ( July 11 )
Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories by Naomi Kritzer
name for Kritzer ’s Hugo - pull ahead story “ Cat Pictures Please , ” this collection meet scifi and fantasy tales from the acclaimed author , including two antecedently - unpublished stories . ( July 11 )
The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross
Stross ’ eighth in his Laundry Files follows Bob Howard , an operative in a top - hush-hush British government agency that protect the world from supernatural and foreign terrors . Well , make that formerly top secret — and with sudden publicity comes a whole new rash of revulsion for Bob and his colleagues , as well as England as a whole . Read the whole first chapter here . ( July 11 )
Dichronauts by Greg Egan
In a human race where a perpetually - change over habitable zona means cities must be constantly re - mapped , a surveyor ( whose best booster is the sponger - like creature that lives in his brain and helps him pilot ) makes an alarming breakthrough at the edge of civilization . ( July 11 )
The Fifth Ward: First Watch by Dale Lucas
This is a classical sidekick - copper tale about reluctant partners throw together to investigate a missing person . Classic , except one ’s a human and one ’s a dwarf , and their suspect and sources launch the magical gamut from shady mages to drug - push orcs . ( July 11 )
The Rift by Nina Allan
A woman goes missing as a teen and returns 20 years after , exact she ’s spend the intervene time on another planet . Her sister is thrilled with her sudden coming back — but is understandably unsure about whether or not she should believe those tales of intergalactic travel . ( July 11 )
Telling the Map: Stories by Christopher Rowe
Ten narrative from the wondering fable author , let in a brand - Modern novella that serves as a prequel to his Hugo- and Nebula - name report “ The Voluntary State . ” ( July 11 )
Tomorrow’s Kin by Nancy Kress
This first volume in a hard skill fable trilogy base on Kress ’ Nebula - winning Yesterday ’s Kin guess that mysterious aliens have taken up residence in New York City — ahead of a looming disaster that Earth ’s scientists must scramble to prevent . ( July 11 )
Waste of Space by Gina Damico
opine The Real World — in outer space . At least , that ’s what the on - tv camera talent believe , but instead , the nestling are really on an elaborate soundstage . The deception makes for a rating hit , but things get weird when the mould is further play a joke on into believing they ’ve suddenly miss all communication with Earth . ( July 11 )
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 34th Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
The pop annual collection returns with short scifi stories by Ken Liu , Alastair Reynolds , Ian McDonald , io9 atomic number 27 - father Charlie Jane Anders , and many more . ( July 11 )
Afterlife by Marcus Sakey
In this dystopian romance , a duet of FBI factor investigating a Chicago terrorist attack fall in love — a circumstance complicated by the fact that one is stagnant and one is still alive . ( July 11 )
Arabella and the Battle of Venus by David D. Levine
Hugo - winning generator Levine brings back his adventuresome interstellar heroine for another steampunky dangerous undertaking . This time , she has to sneak her way to Venus to deliver her snatch fiancé — and stop a mad general from create a deadly weapon that could take over the extragalactic nebula . ( July 18 )
Armistice by Harry Turtledove
The author enclose up his alternative history trilogy with this tale ready in a decimated America , circa 1952 — smack - dab in the middle of a Cold War that ’s potentially even more devastating than World War II . ( July 18 )
Graveyard Shift by Michael F. Haspil
suppose Miami Vice — if the cops were a mummy and a lamia , and the sleazy crimes were all supernatural . Of uttermost urgency : who ’s distributing all that poison artificial blood and making the city ’s civilised vamps go unbalanced ? ( July 18 )
Minecraft: The Island by Max Brooks
The source of World War Z is now the author of the first prescribed Minecraft novel , draw as being a survival narration in the vein of Robinson Crusoe . ( July 18 )
The Five Daughters of the Moon by Leena Likitalo
engineering science meets minacious illusion ( in the descriptor of a automobile fuel by human souls ) in this historical fantasy cheer by the lives of the untested Romanov sis concisely before the Russian revolution . ( July 25 )
Killing Is My Business by Adam Christopher
Raymond Electromatic — a Los Angeles PI - turned - gun who also just happens to be a automaton — choose on another cause of death case in Christopher ’s on-going noir series . ( July 25 )
The Punch Escrow by Tal M. Klein
In the year 2147 , teleportation is as easy as taking the bus . Unless , as one intermediate schmuck discovers one fatal twenty-four hours , you ’re unexpectedly duplicate while getting from point A to point B — and must suddenly go on the rill with a target on your back . ( July 25 )
Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
Dr. Greta Helsing , doctor to the undead , lean to her strange patients ( specter , mommy , etc . ) while expose a execution mystery that threatens both London ’s support and undead population . ( July 25 )
Talon of God by Wesley Snipes and Ray Norman
Yes . Blade is now an generator . ( July 25 )
The Best of Subterranean edited by William Schafer
This anthology brings together the best scifi and phantasy stories from the cartridge ’s total 2005 - 2014 rill . The authors in this sizeable collection include George R.R. Martin , Ted Chiang , Joe Hill , Catherynne M. Valente , Karen Joy Fowler , and many more . ( July 31 )
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