Happy New Year 2019

SFBook would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.

2019 looks to be an important year for science fiction. There are some promising stories on the horizon while we are hoping that the science fiction genre should continue to be accepted more broadly. We may even see some work from George R.R. Martin or Patrick Rothfuss, although I wouldn't count on it. There are a few big films coming out - not least with Star Wars Episode 9, Avengers End Game and Alita Battle Angel.

Blade Runner, The Running Man and Akira are all set in 2019 and although we haven't seen replicants or flying cars we do seem to be drifting towards the world of the Running Man - if it continues we will have to rename our "dystopian" sub-genre area as non-fiction.

2019 also marks 20 years of SFBook and you can expect to see some improvements (and celebrations) during the course of the year.

Just some of the Books we are looking forward to this year include (dates may be subject to change):

January

1st - The Fall of Io by Wesley Chu
8th - The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
10th - Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds
10th - The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft
15th - Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape by Gregory Benford
17th - The Wall by John Lanchester
17th - Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
22nd - Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty
24th - The Last by Hanna Jameson

February

5th - The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolaño
5th - Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond
7th - Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation edited by Ken Liu
7th - Our Child of the Stars by Stephen Cox
9th - Corax Lord of Shadows by Guy Haley
11th - Stormsong by C. L. Polk
12th - The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
12th - All Roads End Here by David Moody
12th - The Test by Sylvain Neuvel
14th - Alita: Battle Angel by Pat Cadigan
19th - The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
19th - The Afterward by E.K. Johnston
21st - No Way by Simon Morden
28th - The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
28th - More Walls Broken by Tim Powers
28th - Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

March

1st - A Soldier and a Liar by Caitlin Lochner
2nd - Star Wars: Queen’s Shadow by E.K. Johnston
5th - Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess
5th - The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara
5th - Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
7th - The Best of R.A. Lafferty by R.A Lafferty
7th - Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
7th - Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh
9th - Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
12th - The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
19th - The Perfect Assassin by K.A. Doore
19th - Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
19th - The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
19th - Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
19th - Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds
19th - The Magnificent Nine (Firefly) by James Lovegrove and Joss Whedon
21st - The True Queen by Zen Cho
21st - Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald
21st - From Divergent Suns by Sam Peters
28th - Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey

April

1st - Motherland by Lauren Beukes
1st - One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence
1st - The Passengers by John Marrs
2nd - The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
4th - The Crying Machine by Greg Chivers
4th - Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4th - A Memory called Empire by Arkady Martine
16th - Knight by Timothy Zahn
16th - Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
16th - A Time of Blood by John Gwynne
23rd - Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
25th - A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher
30th - The Waste Tide by Chen Quifan (Translated by Ken Liu)

May

7th - Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
7th - Empire of Grass by Tad Williams
7th - Octavia Gone by Jack McDevitt
7th - Lanny by Max Porter
7th - Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
14th - Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
14th - Last Tango in Cyberspace by Steven Kotler
14th - The Obsoletes by Simeon Mills
30th - Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky

June

4th - Darkness on the Edge of Town by Adam Christopher
6th - Limited Wish by Mark Lawrence
11th - Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
18th - Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
18th - The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
25th - The Iron Dragon’s Mother by Michael Swanwick
27th - The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

July

9th - Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
9th - Dark Age by Pierce Brown
16th - The Redemption of Time by Baoshu (Translated by Ken Liu)
16th - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
16th - Earth by Ben Bova
25th - The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
25th - Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn

August

14th - Robot Army by Simon Curtis
20th - The Cruel Stars by John Birmingham
22nd - Hierophant by Robert Jackson Bennett
24th - The Buried Dagger by James Swallow

September

3rd - Agency by William Gibson
5th - The City we Became by N.K Jemisin
10th - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
10th - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
12th - World Engines by Stephen Baxter
24th - The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

October

15th - Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand
24th - The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson
31st - Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
31st - Cerberus Unleashed: Blood & Fire by James Barclay
31st - The Lonely Guide to Rough Planets by (Former Ambassador) Floyd by Nate Crowley

November

5th - The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
26th - Invisible Sun by Charles Stross
28th - Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
28th - Reborn by Sarah Lotz

This list is by no means exhaustive. If there is any books not listed here you'd like to see included, we will be putting together a more comprehensive article soon, so get in touch and let us know.