2017 has been a huge year for science fiction and fantasy literature as a whole. The Verge has compiled some great reads from debut authors, and the best names in the business closing out trilogies.
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
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In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their...
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Barbary Station
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Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are...
Science fiction
The Stone in the Skull: The Lotus Kingdoms
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This first volume of a new Eternal Sky trilogy takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of...
Fantasy
Provenance
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Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C....
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Autonomous: A Novel
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When anything can be owned, how can we be free Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist...
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There’s a ton of science fiction, fantasy, and horror books coming out in October that The Verge has been digging into.
Barbary Station
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Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are...
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Siege Line
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Myke Cole continues to blow the military fantasy genre wide open with SIEGE LINE, an all-new epic...
Switchback: Nightshades Series
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The Bureau of Preternatural Investigations returns in Switchback, the sequel to Melissa F. Olson's...
Fantasy
The Beautiful Ones: A Novel
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"Truly one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. This sweeping tale of love lost and...
Fantasy
Above the Timberline
7.0
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From renowned artist Gregory Manchess comes a lavishly painted novel about the son of a famed polar...
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Alex Garland sends Natalie Portman into the unknown, the Cloverfield saga colonises outer space and Jason Statham does battle with a giant shark:
The Predator (2018)
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From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. The...
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
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It has been ten years since the Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless....
The New Mutants (2020)
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Five teenage mutants—Magik, Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Sunspot, and Mirage—come to grips with their...
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Mute (2017)
6.4
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Berlin. Forty years from today. A roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West in a...
Science fiction mystery
Mortal Engines (2018)
6.7
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Many years after the "Sixty Minute War," cities survive a now desolate Earth by moving around on...
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The Science-Fiction and Fantasy Quiz Book
Joseph A. McCullough and Miguel Coimbra
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In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, what is the name of Tom Bombadil's wife? Which...
Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy: How to Write Compelling and Imaginative Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fiction
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YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING AWESOME AND AMAZING FICTION FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION. This is an...
Night of the Living Podcast: Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Discussion
5.2
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Call the podcast voicemail line at 513-666-0916. Email the show at crew@notlp.com. One of the...
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017
John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu
8.0
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Overview The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 by John Joseph Adams “This volume...
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