Fall 2023: Get Cozy and Add These Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books To Your TBR
There’s something magical about autumn. Maybe it’s that the leaves change colour, the air smells crisp, or it’s the fact that everything is pumpkin-flavoured! No matter your reason for loving fall, there’s always room for a good book to creep up on your list. It’s the perfect time for authors to release their work for avid readers to dive into immediately.
This is the time when authors release their novels, and it’s almost like Christmas for so many readers. Some sequels will be released, and new authors try to break ground during this time. If you already have a list for autumn, it’s about to get a bit longer!
Here at MBC, we love sci-fi and fantasy novels, so we always keep our eyes peeled on what’s in store during the year. We are excited about the newest releases so we can discuss the latest books with our amazing community!
NEW FANTASY NOVELS FOR THE FALL
Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical powers, and connected by a single city: London. Until the magic grew too fast, and forced the worlds to seal the doors between them in a desperate gamble to protect their own. The few magicians who could still open the doors grew more rare as time passed and now, only three Antari are known in recent memory — Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard of Grey London, and Holland Vosijk of White London.
Expected Publication: September 26th, 2023.
Maude’s Interview with V.E. Schwab can be found here.
In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill.
Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword-Catcher — the body-double double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, and trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are close as brothers, but Kel knows he has one destiny: to die for Conor. No other future is possible.
Expected Publication: October 10th, 2023.
Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland — and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house — and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling - go rot.
Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home.
Expected Publication: October 3rd, 2023.
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College — Violet included. But Threshing is only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.
Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s gruelling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is - unless she betrays the man she loves.
Expected Publication: November 7th, 2023.
You can find Part 1 of our Fourth Wing Book Chat here.
Viv’s career with the notorious mercenary company Rackham’s Rvanes isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she’s packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk — so far from the action that she worries she’ll never be able to return to it.
What’s a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?
Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn’t possibly imagine.
Expected Publication: November 7th, 2023.
NEW SCI-FI NOVELS FOR THE FALL
Inheriting your mysterious uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine. Sure, there are things you’d expect. The undersea volcano lairs. The minions. The plots to take over the world. The international networks of rivals who want you dead. Much harder to get used to…are the sentient, language-using, computer-savvy cats. And the fact that in the overall organization, they’re management…
Release Date: September 19th, 2023.
Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rulers aren’t helping anyone but themselves. Lina, a daughter of failed revolutionaries, has no desire to escape Shantiport. She loves her city and would do anything to save its people. This is, in fact, the plan for her life, made before she was ever born.
Her brother, Bador, is a small monkey bot with a big attitude and bigger ambitions. He wants a chance to leave this dead-end planet and explore the universe on his own terms. But that would mean abandoning the family he loves - even if they do take him for granted.
Expected Publication: October 3rd, 2023.
The Future — as the richest people on the planet have discovered - is where the money is.
The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction while safeguarding their own survival with secret lavish bunkers.
The Future is private weather, technological prophecy and highly deniable weapons.
The Future is a handful of friends — the daughter of a cult leader, a non-binary hacker, an ousted Silicon Valley visionary, the concerned wife of a dangerous CEO, and an internet-famous survivalist — hatching a daring plan. It could be the greatest heist ever. Or the cataclysmic end of civilization.
Expected Publication: November 7th, 2023.
Everyone’s favourite lethal SecUnit is back.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonize planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.
But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself and fast!
Expected Publication: November 14th, 2023.
Book Chat Part 1: Murderbot Diaries
Book Chat Part 2: Murderboth Diaries
Murderbot Q+A with Martha Wells HERE
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