December is comparatively light on Modern book releases , but you still wo n’t require to lack out on what the calendar month has to volunteer . There ’s a newfangled Expanse book , a new launching in George R.R. Martin ’s Wild Cards serial , a thoughtful new aggregation from the great Ursula K. Le Guin , and so much more !
Canto Bight: Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi by various authors
Before the outlet of he Last Jedi , learn more about one of its new key preferences : Canto Bight . Four interlink tarradiddle ( by Saladin Ahmed , Mira Grant , Rae Carson , and John Jackson Miller ) explore the biography of mellow - curler , desperate gambler , and other schemer living and work in the gambling casino metropolis . ( December 5 )
Fleet Insurgent: The Under Jurisdiction Series by Susan R. Matthews
Fans of Matthews ’ Under Jurisdiction novels will want to tally out this collection ; it ’s full of novellas , novelettes , scant story , vignettes , and supplementary material tie to and drawn from her epic science fiction series . Some of the entries are long out of print , while others are brand - new . ( December 5 )
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
In this subsequence to Arden ’s bestselling debut , The Bear and the Nightingale , preternaturally talented heroine Vasilisa is forced from her rural village after being accused of witchcraft . So she disguise herself as a male child and hinge on off to Moscow , where her continuing escapade before long involve Russia ’s imperial family . ( December 5 )
God’s Last Breath by Sam Sykes
The author wrap up his Bring Down Heaven trilogy as humans and other mortals gear up for one last conflict between each other — though it may not make a departure who pull ahead , since ancient daemon are also prepare for their own rise to magnate . ( December 5 )
Hymn by Ken Scholes
The 5th and final book in the scifi / fantasy Psalms of Isaak series continues the saga of the post - apocalyptic Named Lands , where battles rage among enemies and family member alike . ( December 5 )
Mississippi Roll: A Wild Cards Novel, edited by George R.R. Martin
No malarkey of Winter will blow for us this twelvemonth , but fans of GRRM ’s scifi / superhero mosaic novel can at least enjoy this latest volume . It ’s set on and around the Mississippi River and features contributions by Stephen Leigh , David D. Levine , John Jos . Miller , Kevin Andrew Murphy , Cherie Priest , and Carrie Vaughn . ( December 5 )
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
Drawn from the legendary source ’s blog , this book is described as “ a collection of idea — always adroit , often astringent — on aging , opinion , the state of literature , and the state of the nation . ” It might not be fiction , but it sound like essential reading . ( December 5 )
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse) by James S.A. Corey
The splendid space opera house series rejoinder with its 7th novel , which will make for perfect vacation - time of year reading if you ’re all caught up on the books but are wait anxiously for season three of the kick - rear TV adaption . Not a quite a little of innovative plot information for this one , but that ’s to be bear . ( December 5 )
Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories From the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, edited by Ellen Datlow
This all - unexampled collection of 18 tales — root on by the weird and trippier aspects of Lewis Carroll ’s Alice in Wonderland — features poems and stories from Seanan McGuire , Catherynne M. Valente , Genevieve Valentine , Priya Sharma , Stephen Graham Jones , and more . ( December 12 )
The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer
The third book in Palmer ’s Terra Ignota series follows the effect of Too Like the Lightning and Seven Surrenders , boost the tale of the wandering yardbird Mycroft , the spiritual counselor Carlyle , and young Baxter , whose secret power is that he can fetch objects to life . ( December 19 )
The Man From the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman
British Intelligence agentive role and psychic detective Richard Jeperson chases down Nazi zombies , poltergeist , and other supernatural foes in this collection of 10 short stories , boast appearances from characters in Newman ’s Anno Dracula world . ( December 26 )
Survival by Ben Bova
The third book in the Star Quest serial publication is , as its title of respect indicate , a narration of survival of the fittest . Human scouts discover an advanced civilisation of sentient machines who ’ve survived the galaxy ’s devastating “ last wave , ” but they have no interest in helping anyone else — or rent their new human captive riposte home to tell anyone they exist . ( December 26 )
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