Over a three-year period in the late Eighties, Octavia Butler wrote one of the most interesting and thoughtful sci-fi trilogies around. Lilith’s Brood, which consists of Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988) and Imago (1989) is a fascinating look at interspecies cooperation and co-habitation, as well as a study of humanity, our weaknesses and potential downfalls.
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Author: Neil Sharpson Publisher: Rebellion Released: Out Now When the first state-sponsored artificial intelligence comes online, the great economic powerhouses of the world are suddenly thrown into a brand new kind of space race. Quickly, empires with this new technology find themselves eclipsing those without it, with their sentient AIs leading them to develop their
Publisher: Titan Comics Released: Out now Writer: Mike Johnson Artist: Andres Guinaldo Set ten years after Harrison Ford’s Deckard Shaw first appeared on screen drenched in the torrential acid rain of 2019 Los Angeles, Blade Runner 2029 Vol. 1: Reunion lays claim to being the first canonical new story within the original Ridley Scott Blade
Author: Grady Hendrix Publisher: Titan Books Released: Out now The final girl (a trope coined by Carol J. Clover in Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film to denote the last one standing in a slasher movie) has been subverted, satirised and undergone multiple makeovers over the many years since they first
Recently shifting its focus predominantly to horror, award-winning independent publisher Black Spot Books’ upcoming list includes projects from debut authors to Bram Stoker Award-Winners as well as well-known names in the film/TV community. The first project of 2022 is Cassondra Windwalker’s Hold My Place (out on 25 January 2022), a thrilling and emotional tale of obsession
We have to wait until next spring to get our hands on T.Kingfisher’s dark fantasy Nettle And Bone but until then, feast your eyes on its gorgeous cover and scroll below for a sneak peek at the novel… Nettle And Bone follows Marra – the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter – who, after years of seeing
The race is on to save the planet this July when epic sci-fi action adventure Occupation Rainfall is released but you won’t have to wait until then to check out the movie’s alien fights as we have an exclusive clip to show you, featuring the one and only Temuera Morrison (The Mandalorian). Watch the clip
To celebrate the publication of Witchshadow, the latest in the Witchlands series by Susan Dennard, our friends at Tor and Black Crow are giving away TWO sets of the series so far! Here’s what you can look forward to in Witchshadow… War has come to the Witchlands . . . and nothing will be the
Caroline Hardaker’s Composite Creatures is set in a future where pollution has destroyed animal and plant life, and drastically shortened the lifespan of humans. Norah and Arthur (who have saved up enough money to become part of the new privatised NHS) are welcoming a genetically furry bundle of joy named Nut into their home. But
We absolutely loved Rian Hughes’ typographic sci-fi thriller XX here at SciFiNow (read our review here!) and now Hughes is back with The Black Locomotive, a technological mystery set in London, and we’re delighted to reveal its industrial, brutalist-looking cover (above)! Here is the synopsis for The Black Locomotive… London is built from concrete, steel and the
Last year we revealed the cover to Tim Pratt’s sci-fi fantasy, Doors Of Sleep and now we unveil the cover for its hotly-anticipated sequel, The Prison Of Sleep! Here’s what you can expect for Zax Delatree’s next adventure… Every time Zaxony Delatree falls asleep he wakes up on a new world. His life has turned
Back in the Dark Ages of the late twentieth century, queer stories in SFF were thin on the ground. We passed around well-worn copies of Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint or Nicola Griffith’s Slow River, and huddled around the TV on Tuesday nights to watch Willow and Tara fall in love on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (it
Ry Herman’s Bleeding Hearts is out this week and to celebrate we’re giving away three copies of the supernatural sequel! Bleeding Hearts is the sequel to Herman’s 2020, Love Bites, a supernatural love story between vampire Angela and girlfriend Chloë. In the sequel, Chloë and Angela only have two months left to find a cure
Due to be released next January, Tom Beckerlegge’s The Carnival of Ash is a lyrical literary fantasy about a city of poets and librarians and we are exclusively revealing the cover! The Carnival of Ash is Becklerlegge’s first book for adults: “The Carnival of Ash is a ten-year labour of love, frustration and outright stubbornness
If you haven’t already heard, NFT marketplace Terra Virtua has just launched the world’s first NFT-only graphic novel – Bloodlines from Nick Percival (Judge Dredd and Slaine). The series follows the journey of four characters as they fight to survive in a disorientating and bleak world, which sees human emotions take on physical forms such as fierce
Barrie Condon’s The Tethered God follows Khafre, a mighty Egyptian God-King, who died four and a half thousand years ago. When he died he expected an eternity in paradise but instead, he found himself in modern-day Cairo, trapped inside the lowliest of creatures, a police dog who earns its living by sniffing out bombs. Yet,
Author: Stark Holborn Publisher: Titan Books Released: Out now Ten Low follows the eponymous character as she atones for a series of undisclosed sins, earned from her time as a soldier of the ‘Free Limits’ when they resisted the unstoppable empire of ‘The Accord’. Finding herself on the losing side of a bloody rebellion, The
After the success of 2015’s The Martian (directed by Ridley Scott no less) it’s little wonder that the world is hyped to read the next novel from The Martian’s author, Andy Weir. Luckily, the wait is now over and Weir’s latest novel, Project Hail Mary is out this month (and already optioned for a movie
Author: Andy Weir Publisher: Del Ray Released: Out now When an amateur astronomer discovers that the sun is getting dimmer, forecasting the next ice age and the end of all life on Earth, the world’s scientists are put to work to understand why in Andy Weir’s latest sci-fi, Project Hail Mary. It soon becomes clear
Blackheart Knights is set in a city where knights are the celebrities of the day, riding on motorbikes instead of horses and competing in televised fights for fame and money. Imagine Camelot but in Gotham. This is a city where a young, magic-touched bastard astonishes everyone by becoming king – albeit with extreme reluctance – and
Roll up, roll up for an exclusive event! We’re partnering up with our friends over at Gollancz to celebrate the upcoming release of This Fragile Earth by hosting a free virtual evening with author Susannah Wise in conversation with Love and Other Thought Experiments author Sophie Ward on 24 June. Not only that but signed
NFT marketplace Terra Virtua has launched the world’s first NFT-only graphic novel – Bloodlines from award-winning British artist Nick Percival (Judge Dredd and Slaine). The work will be released in conjunction with a new graphic novel reader app to allow collectors to immerse themselves in the novel’s post-apocalyptic world, and engage with exclusive content. Check
James Kennedy’s Dare To Know is mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller set in a world where the exact moment of your death can be predicted – for a price. Our narrator is the most talented salesman and death predictor at the prestigious company Dare to Know. Though he’s mastered the art of death, the rest
Set in a dystopian future where the world is no longer governed and those who prosper are callous and violent, Anna follows the story of a woman who has been captured and is owned by a man named Will. She calls herself Anna, though that is not her real name but a persona she has invented
Always wondered about the historical originals of your favourite mythical creature? You’re not the only one! Genre hero Guillermo del Toro recently said that The Folio Society’s latest release Mythical Beasts “is not only a beautifully designed book but a magnificent idea-igniter for storytellers interested in fantastic lore. Erudite and mesmerizing”. Written by leading experts
Science fiction, speculative fiction, in fact all the sub-genres herein, is a fantastic place to really express emotions, social commentary, thoughts, idealisms, violence, human rights (and lack of) and so on… But writing with these in mind there’s a sense of trepidation and hesitancy. Whether this is a thread of the community in which we
I’ve always been obsessed with werewolves as the most human of all monsters – not undead like vampires or zombies, and not always transformed into something different, werewolves are like me – a person with an illness outside of their control that manifests periodically. Not all of my favourite werewolves make this connection explicit, but
To celebrate the upcoming release of Laure Eve’s Blackheart Knights we are giving away a copy of the fantasy novel to three lucky winners! But first, here is the intriguing synopsis for the book… Power always wins. Imagine Camelot but in Gotham: a city where knights are the celebrities of the day, riding on motorbikes
The upcoming graphic novel, Smart Girl, is set in the near future, when tech giant Gorgona holds a monopoly on computer-human interfaces known as Schemata. These androids have become ubiquitous with everyday life across the world. Yuki, un-affectionately called ‘scrappy’ by her owner, is a Smart Girl – an android servant used for everything from
Since we first revealed the cover for Blackheart Knights and heard it described to us as “imagine Camelot but in Gotham: a city where knights are the celebrities, riding on motorbikes, not horses, and competing in televised fights for fame and money” we knew were immediately in! In fact, we’re so excited about the fantasy novel
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