*They are the "news magazine of the science fiction field." I subscribe.
*I should read all these first novels out of sheer duty to the genre, but since I'm not gonna do that, maybe you will. Gotta have some first novelists around. Otherwise everybody dies and you sit around wondering why nobody writes and reads epic poetry any more.
FIRST NOVELS
The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
The Guns Above, Robyn Bennis (Tor)
Tropic of Kansas, Christopher Brown (Harper Voyager US)
The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US)
An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors, Curtis Craddock (Tor)
Dreadnought, April Daniels (Diversion)
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, Julie C. Dao (Philomel)
Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
The Prey of Gods, Nicky Drayden (Harper Voyager US)
Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
Wintersong, S. Jae-Jones (Dunne; Titan UK)
An Excess Male, Maggie Shen King (Harper Voyager)
Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren (Tor)
All Our Wrong Todays, Elan Mastai (Dutton; Penguin UK)
The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
The Tiger’s Daughter, K Arsenault Rivera (Tor)
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House; Bloomsbury)
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
Lotus Blue, Cat Sparks (Talos)
Barbary Station, R.E. Stearns (Saga)
Amatka, Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)
COLLECTIONS
