This year ’s skill fiction books are extend to rock . John Scalzi returns to the Old Man ’s War universe , there ’s a brand name new Neil Gaiman novel , and Stephen King ’s long - await subsequence to The Shining . Plus brand new books from Austin Grossman , Nalo Hopkinson , Christopher Priest , Diana Gabaldon , Robert J. Sawyer , Joe Hill … and J.R.R. Tolkien ?
Here are 54 of the record book we are dying to study in 2013 .
Top image : Abaddon ’s Gate by James S.A. Corey
January
The Gun Machine by Warren Ellis
The creator of Planetary and Transmetropolitan is back withanother weird history about cities — in this one , a detective finds a way full of guns , each connect to an unsolved murder . And this unusual find head to an even dark enigma — an unholy bargain between the city ’s most powerful people and the Old Gods of Manhattan . Theio9 Book Club Pick for February .
https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-gorgeous-trailer-for-warren-ellis-gun-machine-5972832
Etiquette & Espionage ( Finishing School , # 1 ) by Gail Carriger
Carriger ferment her soft Victorian touch to untested - adult fiction , with this level of young ladies who learn the proper tongue to use with goose liver pate — and the proper knife for stabbing someone in the back , too . Based onthe excerpt we execute the other Clarence Day , this looks like jolly good fun .
https://gizmodo.com/the-finishing-school-on-the-airship-where-they-teach-y-5973004
Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
This novel has been out in ages in the UK , but it ’s just tally our shores now . Hamilton imagines a nearly perfect future , in which humanity has see to travel at faster - than - light speeds , and solved the environmental and energy problem that plague us now . The only job ? separate up the spoils between a ruling family of homicidal clones .
A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
The final Wheel of Time leger , which you ’ve been waiting years for . There ’s a just chance you ’ve already show this , since it came out yesterday — but we ’ll have our review next calendar week .
The Mad Scientist ’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke
This introduction novel from Angry Robot Books sound pretty interesting , and like a neat companion to Madeline Ashby ’s stories of robot awareness . Cat is tutor by her billion - dollar sign android Finn — until the government grant human rights to androids , and all of a sudden Finn is a mortal , who has to see out what he want in aliveness .
retaliation : Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa
Ogawa bring home the bacon the Shirley Jackson Award for her novel The Diving Pool , and now she ’s back with eleven creeptastic stories , thoroughgoing with Murakami - esque weirdness . In one taradiddle , a woman ’s heart ticktack outside her body , causing hoi polloi to light in sexual love with her — or desire to preserve her beating marrow inside a delicate leather handbag .
February
Vampires in the Lemon Grove : Stories by Karen Russell
A fresh collection of narration from the Swamplandia source is suit for celebration in any eccentric — but these tale sound especially insane . They let in the universe communicate with a teen through the aim in a seagull ’s nest , a residential district of captive girl transmuting into silkworms , and a massage therapist finds that a veteran ’s tattoo have healing powers . Oh , and then there are the titular vampires , stuck in a sunny lemon grove .
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
This sounds like a nuttier , more literary version of The Prestige by Christopher Priest . In a nutshell , the “ teleportation simple machine ” is a fancy contraption that arrive an doer from one part of the stage to another , so he can appear as if by magic — until it goes wrong and obliterate an doer , who may or may not have made a deal with Satan . And then meanwhile , a laboratory is working on an actual teleportation machine . From the author of the acclaimed Boxer , Beetle .
The estimable of all Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
Lord ’s debut novel , Redemption in Indigo , was a marvel — and this is one of the year ’s most anticipated novel . An foreign race faces quenching after an unprovoked turn of aggression , and their only hope for survival is to reach out to the native mechanical man that they ’re distantly related to . To come through , these creatures may have to give up their cherished culture — and then they discover a long - hidden enigma about the universe , with far - reaching ramification .
The Different Girl by Gordon Dahlquist
Four little girl , identical except for their hair color , live on an island together . Until a fifth girl make it , the survivor of a wreck , and turn everything upside down . The first YA novel from the author of The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters .
country of origin by Cory Doctorow
The follow - up to Little Brother , Doctorow ’s hyper - political YA novel about teen hackers press back against the intrusive country of origin security Department of State . Now Doctorow is tackle the era of Wikileaks and hush-hush documents , with Marcus torn between releasing some incendiary authorities secrets and helping a campaign progressive political leader win an election .
March
Empty Space by M. John Harrison
At long last , here ’s the followup to Harrison ’s dazzling Nova Swing and Light . Harrison weaves together three freestanding events , in different time geological period — an elderly widow gets disturbed by surreal omens , a starship centuries by and by picks up a strange cargo , and on a distant planet a policewoman struggles with a zone where the laws of physics do n’t apply .
Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza
Yup , this is the YA novel that Shonda Rhimes is turning into a telly series as we verbalize — the story of a young girl who discovers that she ’s actually a hyper - advance android , and unscrupulous people will cease at nothing to get hold of her so they can canvas her sophisticated technology . It ’s your basic “ android fille on the run ” report , but there are also trace she ’s acquire into something even more tiptop - advanced . Read it to get up to speed , before you see the Rhimes reading .
The Demonologist : A Novel by Andrew Pyper
A literature professor who specialise in the lit of demons gets summoned to Venice to see a real - life demonic event — which he does n’t believe in , until he ’s confronted with overwhelming cogent evidence . Soon , he ’s trying to save his daughter from an malefic devil , and his only guide is John Milton ’s Paradise Lost . Sounds sort of like The Da Vinci Code with Milton .
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Johnson ’s stories of 1920s speakeasies and vampires were fun — but now she ’s create a future Brazil , where artists rebel against the government ’s restrictions on raw technology . An creative person named June falls in passion with the newfangled Summer King , Enki — who ’s marked for death , like all the Summer Kings before him .
Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson
Is this really Hopkinson ’s first adult novel since 2007 ’s The New Moon ’s Arms ? It feels like an timeless existence . We heard her read from this story of twins , one with charming power and one without , recently , and we were leave alone go bad to get word more . To save her missing father , Makeda must reunify with her estranged twin sister — and peradventure figure out whether she might have magical powers after all .
You by Austin Grossman
The author of presently I will Be Invincible ( and occasionalio9 contributor ) is back at last , with what sounds like a twisty , weird take on life inside a video biz studio . Russell goes to work at Black Arts , in part to find out what encounter to his friend Simon , who died under secret circumstance — but before long , he come across a programming glitch that could be more than just a secret plan - killer whale .
https://gizmodo.com/nerd-and-anti-nerd-5186501
April
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Atkinson ’s debut novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum was named England ’s Whitbread Book of the Year . Now she ’s back with this weird story of a girl who dies on the sidereal day she ’s carry in 1910 — and then is reincarnated again . And again . Ursula Todd is support again and again , throughout the C , and her power to remember her past life could help her hold get to the world .
Equilateral by Ken Kalfus
The National Book Award finalist bring us this “ cerebral funniness , ” in which British boffins at the tour of the century have proof that there ’s intelligent liveliness on Mars — and all they ask to do to discover it for real is build a monolithic apparatus in Egypt . Too bad the Egyptians are less enthusiastic about this outline .
Prophet of os : A Novel by Ted Kosmatka
Science has proved conclusively that the world is only 5,800 years old — everybody knows that . So when a young scientist name Paul give away an ancient hominin tool user in an archeologic dig , who looks like much one-time , it ramble doubt on the very foundations of modern science . So of course the military machine arrives to shut this troublesome dig down , and the billionaire who funded the gibe will kibosh at nothing to shut Paul up . Sounds like a great rule book to give your New Earth Creationist friends .
Red Planet Blues by Robert J. Sawyer
After fossils are key out on Mars , the Red Planet is flood with prospectors — and the only law is what you could enforce with a gun . Private police detective Alex Lomax must walk the mean street of Mars alone — until he come across clues to a decades - old slaying , and possibly the motherlode of valuable fossil . Everybody ’s hoping to run into it fat , so they can upload their brains . The writer of FlashForward has come up with what sounds like an entertaining blend of noir and hard SF .
Without A Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal
The third book in Kowal ’s Milk and Honey serial — and this time , she ’s tackle the real - lifetime Year Without a Summer , and it ’s up to Vincent and Jane to observe their friend Melody a hubby and terminate an international crisis .
London Falling by Paul Cornell
He helped breathe new life history into Doctor Who , created the Skrull Beatles , and made Lex Luthor cool again . Now Cornell is tackle urban illusion in the vein of Jim Butcher and his fellow former Who scribe Ben Aaronovitch . A London investigator unwrap that his drained suspect made a deal with a supernatural entity , which finally came to collect — and now he and his squad are starting to be able to see supernatural forces everywhere . How do you combat a satanic opposition ? By using good , old - fashioned police force piece of work .
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
A new revulsion - suspense novel from the writer of Heart - mold Box and Horns , and the writer of Locke and Key . Victoria McQueen , a kid who has a talent for finding things , gets kidnap by the sinister Charles Talent Manx , who sends children to a foreign and horrifying place called Christmasland — and then Victoria fly the coop , and moves on with her spirit . Until years later on , when Manx nobble Victoria ’s young son .
betting odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich
The generator of The Mayor ’s Tongue is back with a approximate - future tense story about a maths genius who forge for a big corporation , predicting every potential next cataclysm . Until a real - lifespan , monumental disaster strikes Manhattan — and Mitchell is uniquely position to profit . Or save the city . One or the other .
May
Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
It ’s the final ever Sookie Stackhouse novel — and Sookie gets arrested for slaying ! The more Sookie investigates the shocking end , the more she discovers that Bon Temps is build on lies and nothing is what it seems .
The Tyrant ’s Law by Daniel Abraham
The third ledger of Abraham ’s Dagger and the Coin serial publication . result are coming to a question , and the tyrant Geder Palliako is resorting to race murder — leaving our heroes to try and save as many refugees as possible . But is there a force out there that could in reality defeat Palliako and exchange the world forever ?
The Human Division by John Scalzi
Chances are you ’ll already have interpret this latest installment in Scalzi ’s Old Man ’s War series in its individual ebook chapter long before the actual book comes out . But just in case you ’d rather read the whole thing in one go , here it is .
Gods and Monsters : impure sprightliness by Chuck Wendig
The source of the Blackbirds / Mockingbird novels turn his bridge player to full - on hotpants epic illusion , with a tale of gods and goddesses battling on Earth — until a single monotheistic god decides to assay and pass over them all out , with an army of saint . Sounds pleasingly demented .
The Shambling Guide to NYC by Mur Lafferty
turn out the rough guide to New York is really , really approximate . Zoe becomes a travel book of account editor in New York , but everybody discriminates against her because she ’s human . include her vampire party boss and her death goddess coworker . The first novel from the emcee of the I Should Be Writing podcast .
The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien
Yup , it ’s a Modern Tolkien record . Just one of those thing that happens every once in a … never . Actually , this is an epic poem about Arthurian legends that Tolkien never managed to end up , perhaps because he was working on Lord of the Rings . Now his Logos Christopher has put it together , along with some tone for what was to come .
June
Joyland by Stephen King
The first of two new King novel coming this year . This one is a criminal offense novel set in an amusement park , with ghosts . prepare in 1973 . Oh , and it sound as though it has a coming of age component , as a young man fail to work as a carny and confronts last and secret and probably girls .
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
All we know about this novel is , it ’s Gaiman ’s first grownup novel since Anansi Boys . And it ’s full of magic and closed book , and there ’s probably some topographically unlikely bodies of H2O .
Gameboard of the Gods by Richelle Mead
We ’re pretty self-aggrandising fans of Mead ’s Vampire Academy novel — so it ’s somewhat exciting that she ’s alter gear and doing a Scripture series set in a dystopian future . Justin March is a go researcher of supernatural events and interference fringe spiritual groups , who ’s been exiled from the Republic of United North America — until he ’s brought back to RUNA to resolve a series of ritual murders .
Abaddon ’s Gate by James S.A. Corey
The third volume of Corey ’s blockbuster space opera serial — an exotic artifact has built a monumental logic gate in the orbit around Uranus , and the gate leads to a starless void . But while a team fit out to explore the artifact , conspiracies are place in motion .
The Shining missy by Lauren Beukes
A new novel from the author of Moxyland and Zoo City , about a time - traveling serial Orcinus orca who finds a key to a house in Depression - era Chicago that allows him to journey to other epoch — but he must pour down the beam girls . Until one of his dupe survives and starts hunting him right on back . It ’s described as Time Traveler ’s Wife meets Girl With the Dragon Tattoo .
iD by Madeline Ashby
The follow - up to her novel vN , about biological robots that are program with built - in limitations — like ensure humans get causes them to malfunction and basically break down . Until the von Neumann machine start evolving . We heard Ashby understand from this novel at World Fantasy 2012 , and it sounds like it gets even crazier than the first .
The Long War by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The sequel to The Long Earth . It ’s a generation after the events of the first novel , and now a newfangled version of America has been ground on one of the parallel dry land , called Valhalla — and Valhalla wants its independence from the Datum Earth , so it can prosecute upright former - fashioned American values .
July
Neptune ’s Brood by Charles Stross
This is the slow space opera thatStross state us about of late , ready in the universe of Saturn ’s Children . Our posthuman offspring battle and scheme over the legendary Atlantis Carnet , a financial instrumental role that could wreak down entire culture , which is split into two halves take hold by two babe .
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-write-a-killer-space-adventure-without-breaking-5943934
The Woken Gods by Gwenda Bond
The generator of Blackwood is back with a strange narrative about an alternate United States populated by gods . Kyra is on her way home from school when she meets two trickster immortal , one offering a threat and the other a admonition . And then she finds out her forefather has vanished with some mysterious Egyptian artifact . The integral fate of the world could be at stake .
Skinner by Charlie Huston
This is being describe as a techno - thriller with Neal Stephenson partial tone — Skinner was a great interrogator know for his uncanny psychological experiments , until the CIA uprise to venerate him and blackball him . Until a complex cyber - terrorist attack happens , and the CIA needs Skinner back , as the counterweight of creation business leader is tipped in a new direction .
eve ’s Empires by Paul McAuley
The fourth novel in McAuley ’s Quiet War serial . And that ’s about all we know at this detail .
Kill City Blues by Richard Kadrey
The 5th Sandman Slim novel — Stark is back in L.A. after his least sandpiper in Hell , but there ’s no rest for him . Someone ’s gotten hold of an ancient superweapon from the banished older gods — and worse yet , Stark is forced to go to a plaza . Infested with lurkers , and bottomfeeding Sub Rosa family unit .
August
The Thinking Woman ’s Guide To material Magic by Emily Croy Barker
Could it be — gasp ! — a portal phantasy ? Basically , a grad pupil has a horrendous life , struggling to finish her dissertation while her ex - boyfriend marries another woman . Until she wanders through a hepatic portal vein into a different man , where she ’s glamourous and hold a Latinian language with a good-looking , vivid man . Except that now , she ’ll need all her learning ability to survive in a song and dance creation .
Billy Moon : A Transcendent Novel Reimagining the Life of Christopher Robin Milne by Douglas Lain
There ’s no precis yet , but Lain is generally a moderately trippy author — and we care the idea of doing a messed - up take on A.A. Milne and Winnie the Pooh .
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
talk of the author of The Prestige … Priest is back , at long last , withapparentlythe “ longest and most complicated book he ’s ever written . ” Should be interesting .
September
The Dead Run by Adam Mansbach
We know almost nothing about this thriller from the writer of Angry Black White Boy and Go The Fuck to Sleep — except that it ’s being categorized as scientific discipline fiction / illusion . We ’ll lease you know more when we do .
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
The continuation to The shine . Dan Torrance is all mature up and sample to get past his terrible experience at that resort hotel by using his remaining power to serve the dying people at a breast feeding base — until he meet a petty girl who has the strongest “ Shining ” he ’s ever seen . He has to protect her from the True Knot , the immortal fiends who predate on children with special great power .
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
The illusion mastermind is take on a new genre — supervillains . It ’s ten year after an Earth - shattering event gave sealed people amazing powers , and ineluctably some of them decided they want to rule the earth . Only a group of ordinary human race , known as the Reckoners , resist the superpowered tyranny . And David joins the Reckoners , hoping to kill Steelheart , the most powerful super of them all , who killed David ’s father .
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Bacigalupi ’s next adult novel is about a succeeding weewee war — between Phoenix and Las Vegas . Just how far will these city go to protect their water system supply ? And just how worthful is the arcanum of a new water germ ?
The unspeakable by Dan Simmons
The Hyperion generator is back — with a story of the Abominable Snowmen on Mount Everest . Can an expedition survive the attacks of these legendary “ valet de chambre bear ” ogre , and rescue the young future Lord Wessex ?
October
Written in My Own Heart ’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon
The eighth Outlander booktakes place during the American Revolution , and Gabaldon was augur it would be out this fall a while ago .
November
Who Wacked Roger Rabbit ? by Gary Wolf
Thethird Roger Rabbit book , at long last . repay to Toontown for another Seth of insane adventures .
December
Control by Lydia Kang
A new young - adult science fiction novel , about a girl who will snuff it if she draw a blank to breathe , due to the mystic parturition desert Ondine ’s whammy . To contribute to her problems , Zelia and her Dyl are orphaned — and it turns out that Dyl has enhanced genes , which is a criminal offense in the dystopian world of 2150 . The sister are forced to go on the run and hide out in a freak show .
Sources : publishing company catalog and printing press firing , plusPublishers Weekly , About.com , Goodreads , Flavorpill , The Millions , Barnes & Noble , Fantasy Book CriticandLocus .
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