Top new sci-fi books out this week: 9 Oct - 15 Oct 2022
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October 15, 2022
This week featuring new releases by Jodi Taylor, Dianne Duvall, Taran Hunt, Apollos Thorne, Stacy Jones, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jo Riccioni, Corin Cain, William Alexander, Viola Grace and many more.
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About Time by Jodi Taylor
After their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero in but a single bound.Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy historical artefacts blows up in all their faces. An officer is attacked within TPHQ. A prisoner is murdered...action-adventure · adult · alternate-history · book · fiction · historical · historical-fiction · humor · industrial-era · steampunk -
![The Akseli by Dianne Duvall]()
The Akseli by Dianne Duvall
Simone has hunted and slain psychotic vampires night after night for hundreds of years and desperately needs a change. When the leader of the Immortal Guardians offers her an opportunity to guard ten mortal women who are venturing to another planet, she dives right in and finds traveling into space and meeting amazing alien races just as exciting as she'd hoped… until an enemy attacks...action-adventure · adult · aliens · alpha-mc · audiobook · book · contemporary · female-mc · fiction · first-contact -
![The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt]()
The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt
The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun, fast paced, seat-of-your-pants read full of treasure hunts, traps, deadly enemies, betrayal, secrets, mysterious aliens, adventure and action as the story races to the find the secret to immortality.Far off the edge of human existence, beside a dying star lies a nameless ship abandoned and hidden, lost for a millennium... -
![Vanguard by Apollos Thorne]()
Vanguard by Apollos Thorne
After surviving the trials of Freedom, Lucius enters the next stage of the military's super soldier creation scheme. Medieval weaponry and gritty fantasy combat are a thing of the past. He must bring what he's learned to the modern battlefield.Fighting futuristic tech isn't his only challenge...action-adventure · book · contemporary · cyberpunk · fiction · genetic-engineering · litrpg · magic · virtual-reality · young-adult -
![Fallen by Stacy Jones]()
Fallen by Stacy Jones
Xerik has been stranded on this primitive alien planet for five rotations—long enough to lose hope of ever returning home and to accept that his life will be a solitary one.And then a scream splits the air.He hadn't planned for his morning to include prying an off-world female from the jaws of a volek. Neither did he plan for her to awaken instincts one of his caste isn't supposed to have...action-adventure · adult · aliens · ancient-civilization · book · crime · dragons · fiction · first-contact · futuristic -
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![The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal]()
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man.Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity...adult · alternate-history · book · exploration · female-author · fiction · hard-sci-fi · historical · historical-fiction · murder -
![The Branded by Jo Riccioni]()
The Branded by Jo Riccioni
Isfalk is divided into two classes: the Branded, who are vulnerable to disease, and the Pure, who are bigger, stronger and immune. Orphaned twins Nara and Osha are sequestered in the citadel, where their unbranded skin entitles them to a life of privilege, as precious breeding stock... -
fated-mates · aliens · monsters · captivity · sci-fi · insta-love · romance · paranormal · fiction · book
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![Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions by William Alexander]()
Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions by William Alexander
In a mind-bending MITeen anthology, ten top YA authors use emerging technologies to explore startling new realities. What does the future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world could be through the lens of technologies emerging today... -
![Golden Darkness by Viola Grace]()
Golden Darkness by Viola Grace
Janessa’s bond was sold to a mining consortium. If she can make it five years, she’s free. A blood-drinking Hmrain stops her plans.Janessa’s bond was sold to a mining company. She had no idea if she would be administration or grunt work. She could do either, but her learning issues meant that she was more likely to end up working to death... -
![Potential Energy by Kim Fielding]()
Potential Energy by Kim Fielding
When interstellar smuggler Haz Taylor loses his ship, his money, and his tattered reputation, drinking himself to death on a backwater planet seems like his only option. Then the Coalition offers him a contract to return a stolen religious artifact. Sounds simple enough, but politics can be deadly—and the artifact’s not enthusiastic about being returned...action-adventure · adult · book · fiction · friendship · lgbtq · male-mc · mlm · romantic-love · space -
![Volunteer 4711 by Olympia Black]()
Volunteer 4711 by Olympia Black
I was forced to volunteer.Transported to an alien world.Stolen by an alien pirate.I must integrate to gain my freedom...sci-fi · aliens · space · dark · dystopia · invasion · romance · first-contact · fiction · violent-conflict -
![Bound by the Alien King by Sara Ivy Hill]()
Bound by the Alien King by Sara Ivy Hill
She escaped into her enemy’s arms…When a broken female washes up in his territory, the Nightborn king has no choice. He must return her to the human colony or risk breaking the peace treaty between their species. The problem? She refuses to leave...vampires · paranormal · multi-pov · steamy · aliens · enemies-to-lovers · fiction · book · adult · sci-fi -
![Grave Things Like Love by Sara Bennett Wealer]()
Grave Things Like Love by Sara Bennett Wealer
A contemporary YA romance with a paranormal what happens when in between trying to decide which boy is the right boy, a girl finds out the funeral home her family owns might be haunted?Elaine's home is a bit . . . different. It's a funeral home that has been in her family since the 1800s—and it's why everyone calls her Funeral Girl...romance · young-adult · paranormal · ghosts · fiction · mental-illness · friendship · family · coming-of-age · supernatural -
lesbian-mc · sci-fi · aliens · lgbtq · high-fantasy · romantic-love · age-gap · fiction · wlw · book
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![Savior of the Domini by Talia Rhea]()
Savior of the Domini by Talia Rhea
PEONY'S ENTIRE LIFE CHANGED AFTER A LATE NIGHT WALKDrugged and abducted, she wakes up in a small, metal room being brought food by a giant lizard-dinosaur alien. She's not alone either. She's trapped with four other women she's never met and, caged in the corner, a different alien that looks like he's been beaten quite badly...action-adventure · adult · aliens · alpha-mc · book · dark · fated-mates · fiction · insta-love · kidnapping -
![Behold: Humanity!: Assault on Fortress Sol by Ralts Bloodthorne]()
Behold: Humanity!: Assault on Fortress Sol by Ralts Bloodthorne
The Cygnus-Orion Galactic Arm Spur is engulfed in warfare. A four way brawl with its roots a hundred million years prior, with the Lanaktallan Unified Council on one side, a strange invader from a dying universe on another, the Precursor Autonomous War Machines, strengthened by alliances, coming back into the fight, and, of course, the Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems... -
![Halloween Encounter by Sibley Stamps]()
Halloween Encounter by Sibley Stamps
A Close Encounter Of The Sexy Kind...Newly single and stressed about her future after college, Nora is in no mood to party. When she steps out of the shower to find only a skimpy costume in her dorm room, though, she does join the campus-wide Halloween bash—to find her pranking roommate and wring her neck... -
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![Sea Creatures Prefer Redheads by Brianne Gillen]()
Sea Creatures Prefer Redheads by Brianne Gillen
She creates fantastic monsters for a living. But her imagination is a lot closer to reality than she ever dreamed possible…In the golden age of movie-making, monster flicks are all the rage, and Opal Prince loves her job as a specialty makeup artist at Neptune Pictures—if only her boss would stop taking credit for her work...romance · paranormal · monsters · historical · fantasy · womens-fiction · kind-mc · sci-fi · multi-pov · celebrity -
![Earth's Touch by Ivy Jack]()
Earth's Touch by Ivy Jack
For centuries, I wandered the earth, helping whomever I could with my earth magic in hopes my good deeds would heal the pain from losing my one true mate, but no matter how hard I tried, nothing mended my wounded heart.I'm about to give up when my old friend, the King of Loreen, asks me to protect his daughter from the growing darkness outside their Kingdom's walls.I can't refuse...romance · reverse-harem · fantasy · magic · royalty · shapeshifters · paranormal · slow-burn · high-fantasy · sci-fi
