10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels by AAPI Authors to Pick Up
GoodReads knows how to get their readers to add books to their TBR pile. Each month, whatever the celebration, they have always compiled a strong list of books! This month, it is AAPI Heritage Month, and there are some interesting Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels that everyone should be on the lookout for.
The books listed below have all gotten high ratings on the platform and people have been raving about the novels. It’s always exciting when new concepts are released, and maybe some of the novels can be the start of a brand-new series for you!
For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the Earthlike planet of Meru is discovered, two unlikely companions venture forth to test the habitability of this unoccupied new world and the future of human-alloy relations.
It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks “The Phoenix” off course.
High above the jungle planet float the last refuges of humanity - plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. In these living cities, architects are revered above anyone else. Charismatic, powerful, mystical, Iravan is one. architect. But to his wife Ahilya, his abilities are a way for survival to be reliant on the privileged few. Their marriage is already thorny - then Iravan is accused of pushing his abilities to forbidden limits.
Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father’s painful silence and a single, overwhelming need to kill the monsters. that took her family. Ester’s path leads her to the King’s Royal Mews, where the giant rocs of legend are flown to hunt manticores by their brave and dedicated ruhkers. This partnership between woman and roc leads Ester not only on the empire’s most dangerous manticore hunt but on a journey of acceptance and perseverance.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory that tore Southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emperor. She isn’t the only one with these ambitions. Her neighbour in the south, the courtesan Madam Zhan, wants the throne for her husband - and she’s strong enough to wipe Zhu off the map.
Lin Sukai has won her first victory as Emperor, but the future of the Phoenix Empire hangs in the balance - and Lin is dangerously short of allies.
Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor’s soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away.
Princess Calla Tuoleimi lurks in hiding. Five years ago, a massacre killed her parents and left the palace of Er empty… and she was the one who did it. Before King Kasa’s forces in San can catch her, she plans to finish the job and bring down the monarchy. Her reclusive uncle always greets the victor of the games, so if she wins, she gets her opportunity at last to kill him.
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 even more. When Shanitport’s resident tech billionaire coerces Lina into retrieving a powerful artifact rumoured to be able to reshape reality, forces from before their time begin appearing around the siblings.
Hayden and Lichfield’s life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera log is erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together, which might one day reverse death itself. Hoping to lure the killer into the open, Hayden steals the research. In the process, he uncovers a recording his father made in the days before his death and a dying wish: Avenge me…
Have you added any of the books to your TBR pile yet? If you have, let us know which one you’re looking forward to the most! If you have any recommendations for Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels written by AAPI authors drop them in the comments below.
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