For all the sci-fi lovers out there, here’s 2019’s Best Science Fiction new release books (released or to be released). This list has been compiled based on books I’ve read, reviews (on Amazon and Goodreads and blogs, etc.) from other readers, and recommendations from friends.
This list will be updated as the year continues! Happy reading!
Aftershocks (The Palladium Wars #1)
What It's About: W obejmującym sześć planet systemie Gaja przypominająca Ziemię Gretia dąży do stabilizacji w obliczu międzyplanetarnej wojny. Zawiązuje się niepewny sojusz służący ratowaniu gospodarki, zasobów oraz populacji.
Do gry wraca Aden Robertson. Poświęcił dwanaście lat przegranej sprawie, na rękach ma krew pół miliona ofiar, a teraz próbuje znaleźć sposób, by wieść dalsze życie...Publication Date: July 1, 2019
What It's About: W obejmującym sześć planet systemie Gaja przypominająca Ziemię Gretia dąży do stabilizacji w obliczu międzyplanetarnej wojny. Zawiązuje się niepewny sojusz służący ratowaniu gospodarki, zasobów oraz populacji.
Do gry wraca Aden Robertson. Poświęcił dwanaście lat przegranej sprawie, na rękach ma krew pół miliona ofiar, a teraz próbuje znaleźć sposób, by wieść dalsze życie...Publication Date: July 1, 2019
Recursion
What It's About: Memory makes reality.
That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.
That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes...Publication Date: June 11, 2019
What It's About: Memory makes reality.
That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.
That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes...Publication Date: June 11, 2019
Exhalation
What It's About: In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
What It's About: In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.
Including stories being published for the first time as well as some of his rare and classic uncollected work, Exhalation is Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic—revelatory.
Publication Date: May 7, 2019
Wanderers
What It's About: Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey...Publication Date: July 2, 2019
What It's About: Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey...Publication Date: July 2, 2019
The Hive (The Second Formic War #2)
What It's About: New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.
Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars--the alien invasions of Earth's Solar System that ultimately led to Ender Wiggin's total victory in Ender's Game...Publication Date: June 11, 2019
What It's About: New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.
Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars--the alien invasions of Earth's Solar System that ultimately led to Ender Wiggin's total victory in Ender's Game...Publication Date: June 11, 2019
The Light Brigade
What It's About: The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…different. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light...Publication Date: March 19, 2019
What It's About: The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…different. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light...Publication Date: March 19, 2019
This Is How You Lose the Time War
What It's About: Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter...Publication Date: July 16, 2019
What It's About: Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter...Publication Date: July 16, 2019
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
What It's About: My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football.
My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, but we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs.
Then the thief came...Publication Date: April 23, 2019
What It's About: My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football.
My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, but we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs.
Then the thief came...Publication Date: April 23, 2019
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1)
What It's About: Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court...Publication Date: March 26, 2019
What It's About: Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court...Publication Date: March 26, 2019
Atlas Alone (Planetfall #4)
What It's About: Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about vengeance, and a woman deciding if she can become a murderer to save the future of humanity.
Six months after she left Earth, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the nuclear strike that destroyed the world...Publication Date: April 16, 2019
What It's About: Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about vengeance, and a woman deciding if she can become a murderer to save the future of humanity.
Six months after she left Earth, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the nuclear strike that destroyed the world...Publication Date: April 16, 2019
Dark Age (Red Rising Saga #5)
What It's About: For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place?
Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core...Publication Date: July 30, 2019
What It's About: For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place?
Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core...Publication Date: July 30, 2019
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse #8)
What It's About: Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper.
In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable...Publication Date: March 26, 2019
What It's About: Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper.
In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable...Publication Date: March 26, 2019
Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2)
What It's About: The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth...Publication Date: May 14, 2019
What It's About: The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth...Publication Date: May 14, 2019
Winter World (The Long Winter #1)
What It's About: Longlisted for the 2019 Wilbur Smith Award for best published novel.
In the near future, a new ice age has begun.
Humanity stands on the brink of extinction.
Desperate for answers, scientists send probes into the solar system to take readings. Near Mars, a probe spots a mysterious object drifting toward the Sun...Publication Date: February 26, 2019
What It's About: Longlisted for the 2019 Wilbur Smith Award for best published novel.
In the near future, a new ice age has begun.
Humanity stands on the brink of extinction.
Desperate for answers, scientists send probes into the solar system to take readings. Near Mars, a probe spots a mysterious object drifting toward the Sun...Publication Date: February 26, 2019
Empress of Forever
What It's About: A feminist Guardians of the Galaxy—a smart, swashbuckling, wildly imaginative adventure of a rag-tag team of brilliant misfits, dangerous renegades, and enhanced outlaws in a war-torn future.
A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action...Publication Date: June 18, 2019
What It's About: A feminist Guardians of the Galaxy—a smart, swashbuckling, wildly imaginative adventure of a rag-tag team of brilliant misfits, dangerous renegades, and enhanced outlaws in a war-torn future.
A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action...Publication Date: June 18, 2019
The Outside
What It's About: Humanity's super-intelligent AI Gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brilliant space opera.
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard...Publication Date: June 11, 2019
What It's About: Humanity's super-intelligent AI Gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brilliant space opera.
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard...Publication Date: June 11, 2019
The Future of Another Timeline
What It's About: From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.
1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body...Publication Date: September 24, 2019
What It's About: From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.
1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body...Publication Date: September 24, 2019
Ancestral Night
What It's About: A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.
Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually...Publication Date: March 5, 2019
What It's About: A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.
Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually...Publication Date: March 5, 2019
This is so awesome. Thank you! I love SciFi but I have only read Recursion. I need to make some of these a priority!
ooo yeah, I really liked Recursion. I’d say if I had to pick one one other book on this list that was high on my list of to-reads, it’d probably be Exhalation — I’ve just heard so, so many good things about it.
Thank you so much for compiling this list. I’ve got a couple of those that I’m working on, but so nice to see a full list I can look back on when I’m ready for my next sci fi read.
thanks for checking it out! glad to be of service and happy reading! :)
For some reason theres a bunch of random code appearing in place of what I assume is supposed to be photos…maybe because I’m on mobile it’s showing up funny?
thanks for the heads up! are you reading this on the wordpress reader or via RSS? the shortcode sometimes doesn’t convert to normal text via RSS/wordpress reader unfortunately :(
I was using the wordpress app on mobile. I’ll just read it on my computer haha
Thanks for sharing this great list! I’m always wanting to read more sci-fi and a few were already on my list but many are new to me! I’m really curious about Wanderers now — it sounds so good 😍
yeah reading more sci-fi has been on my to-do list as well — I’ve heard good things about Wanderers but the big caveat on that one is that it’s reaaally long haha (800 pages!) but I agree the plot sounds really good!
Oh holy tome! I had no clue 😅 Always scary when they’re that big haha hopefully the plot develops at a decent rate to keep it interesting!
Great list! I need to check out so many of these, especially Exhalation. I have read The Outside and really enjoyed that one.
Will check these out. Thanks!