8 New Science Fiction/Fantasy Releases from December to Add to Your TBR

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, Translated by Anton Hur

This postulation of genre-blending abbreviated stories contains everything a scholar could want, from fearfulness to fabulism to subject fabrication and more. It was an International Booker Prize shortlist nominee, and features terrifying and unusual stories that mimic worlds that could beryllium our own. The rubric story, “Cursed Bunny,” tells the communicative of a cursed lamp successful the signifier of a rabbit that has a sinister inheritance hidden underneath its cuddly exterior.

A Fire Endless by Rebecca Ross

This sequel to A River Enchanted picks up wherever the archetypal publication near off: Turbulence connected the Isle of Cadence is astatine an all-time precocious acknowledgment to Bane’s determination to regularisation everyone and everything, and Adaira is struggling successful the West to find her spot and assistance the resistance. Jack is stuck successful the East, mounting retired connected a unsafe mission, and Torin and Sidra are battling a enigma sickness spreading done crops and people. Everyone is warring to survive, and they request to articulation unneurotic to look Bane, lasting up for the land erstwhile and for all.

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Queen of Myth and Monsters by Scarlett St. Clair

This is the 2nd publication successful the Adrian x Isolde bid from bestselling writer Scarlett St. Clair, picking up wherever King of Battle and Blood left off. Isolde has been recently crowned and coronated queen and knows her 1 existent emotion and king is her companion vampire Adrian. But present Isolde is faced with playing authorities and settling feuds betwixt 2 kingdoms portion quality from Adrian’s past that could alteration everything boils to the surface.

The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

In this futuristic dystopian novel, clime alteration is not conscionable worrisome, but devastating. Rising oversea levels mean coastal lands are nary more, hurricanes are stronger than ever, and humans are powerless to halt it. Kirby and Frida and their 2 sons are trying to hole for the storm, but erstwhile the boys spell missing conscionable earlier the hurricane hits, Kirby has to acceptable retired to look for them. Frida, near alone, begins to spell into premature labor. The publication tells the communicative of this household successful the aftermath of the hurricane and however they determination on, and arsenic the children turn up and the household changes, the landscape, too, changes astir them.

The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi, Translated by Emily Balistrieri

The unnamed protagonist successful this story, connected the verge of dropping retired of assemblage and struggling with his idiosyncratic relationships, is presented with a unusual dilemma. After a accidental brushwood with his crush and not being capable to speech to her yet again, he’s presented with an alternate reality: a satellite successful which helium does speech to her, a satellite successful which helium is succeeding astatine school. The steadfast pitches this publication arsenic Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library, arsenic the quality is fixed 4 parallel universes successful which his decisions instrumentality him connected antithetic paths.

A Fractured Infinity by Nathan Tavares

Hayes is simply a filmmaker trying to implicit his documentary when, retired of nowhere, a physicist named Yusuf tracks him down and tells him he’s the cardinal to knowing a mysterious instrumentality called the Envisioner. Supposedly, the Envisioner tin foretell the future. Hayes is abruptly plummeted into a caller satellite arsenic he’s taken to a top-secret installation and shown his alternate aforesaid successful different universe, 1 successful which helium is joined to Yusuf. The further helium is capable to spot into the future, the much Hayes realizes they are headed for demolition — some for the satellite and for Yusuf, who he’s increasing person to by the time — and it’s up to him to prevention everyone.

Where It Rains successful Color by Denise Crittendon

Lileala is excited for her caller beingness of fame and stardom to commencement — she has conscionable been named the Rare Indigo of the satellite Swazembi, which means quality among beauties. But her idyllic aboriginal is chopped abbreviated erstwhile she develops a tegument corruption that causes scabs and scars alternatively of the glistening glow of the Rare Indigo. She has to spell looking for a cure connected her own, but what she finds whitethorn beryllium bigger than thing she had ever expected.

The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher

In 1922, Brigid is 1 of the astir almighty witches and healers successful her municipality of Evermore. When she is seduced by the caput of a Knightly coven and becomes pregnant, she vows to support her kid astatine each costs. When the kid is calved and falls ill, Brigid volition halt astatine thing to prevention her, adjacent if that means risking her ain life. In 2022, Evermore is not the spot it erstwhile was. There is chaotic magic everywhere, and the villagers are thing much than prey to beryllium hunted. When Brigid wakes up successful this caller Evermore, she has nary thought however she was transported to this caller place, but she knows it’s up to her to prevention it.