The Black Book of Gyffe by Rupert Owen (2020)

Gyffe, the Fribbling Squit's Black Book makes its appearance just as the defeated Owain Glyndŵr finally gives up the ghost on the Welsh uprising against the English. It's a time when Church and State question the scientific value of the so-called occultists and alchemists. It’s a time when magic and mysticism finds itself asunder. In response, the Order of Magi have summoned an emergency gathering of representatives, within the Tree of Oracles, to troubleshoot the current climate of technological partisanship. Heroic Gyffe, must summon all his magical acuity to combat the treachery and persecution to follow … ‘Wait a moment,’ says Grimoire, ‘do I detect some puffery in your prose?’ ‘Just thought I'd give the blurb a little oomph, that's all,’ Gyffe says, ‘can I keep the heroic bit?’ ‘Only to yourself,’ Grimoire says taking the quill, 'now, where were we? Ah yes ... the bit about the squit ...’ Modest Gyffe must … rely on the sagacity and magical adeptness of his kind master Grimoire to combat the treachery and persecution to follow. Grimoire, the mage, plans to be at the gathering, and he’ll take with him his dear, but at times exasperating, friend Ma Gwrach. Together, they’ll muddle their way through the time-fiddling magical planes of Annwyn. Meanwhile, Gyffe and a scrunch of lesser magic folk must hold the fort and keep the theurgic insurgent of renegade magi at bay. Gyffe’s Black Book is brimming with unfamiliar familiars, bad tempered mythic monsters, proper time travel, technomancy, historical hijinks and the occasional practice of misspelling conjurations. ‘That’ll do,’ says Grimoire resting the quill, ‘if they want to find out more, they can read the, at times sketchy, portrayal of what really happened.’

Glorious Day by Skye Kilaen (2020)

**The bodyguard is a traitor. The princess is her one true love. And the revolution is almost here.** Elsenna Hazen left spaceport security and ended up a royal bodyguard. She should have known better than to fall in love with a princess. It’s been two years since one ill-advised kiss in the garden pulled them apart. With uprisings in the streets, the nervous princess transfers Elsenna back into her service. Her Highness has no idea Elsenna is leaking data to the revolutionaries bent on overthrowing the princess’s oppressive father. Now Elsenna wakes up each day wondering what will happen first: her own execution, or that of the woman she could never stop loving. When rebel attacks escalate and the king plans retaliation, Elsenna discovers that the fights for her love and her life are one and the same.

Vakuum by Phillip P. Peterson (2020)

Die Physikerin Susan Boyle überwacht im antarktischen Winter ein Neutrino-Teleskop. Sie empfängt ein starkes Signal aus der Richtung eines nahen Sternhaufens, kann aber nichts Außergewöhnliches erkennen. Bis nach und nach immer mehr Sterne am Himmel verschwinden. Der Astronaut Colin Curtis bereitet sich im Mondorbit auf die Landung vor. Doch dann entdeckt eine Astronomin seiner Crew ein außerirdisches Raumschiff, das sich mit großer Geschwindigkeit unserem Sonnensystem nähert. Es schickt eine verschlüsselte Funkbotschaft an die Menschheit – und verschwindet wieder. Allmählich wird klar: Aus den Tiefen des Raums kommt etwas auf uns zu. Etwas so Gewaltiges, dass es die Erde in ihren Grundfesten erschüttern wird.

Never Too Late for Heroes by A.L. Brooks (2020)

Agent Geena Fox is counting down the days to her retirement. On one bittersweet day six years ago, her team of superheroes defeated Jewel, the world’s most evil villainꟷbut Geena’s secret lover died in the process. Now her boss has assigned her a rookie partner, Leigh Walker, and that’s the last thing Geena needs. She sends the woman off on a wild goose chase searching for a long-lost missing person to get her out of her sight. However, what Leigh finds will turn Agent Fox’s world upside down. Meanwhile, over in a retirement home in Missouri, four old women sharing the surname Power are arousing suspicion with their strange behavior. Their nosy nurse is convinced they are not what they seem. Geena and Leigh meet with the mysterious Powers, and realize the women might hold the key to stopping Jewel, once and for all. This cracking adventure with a side of romance is for lovers of tough, jaded, lesbian cops, superheroes and villains, and feisty retirees who don’t take retirement lying down.

Hedra by Jesse Lonergan (2020)

A wordless space fantasy beginning with the end of the world.

Trails by Gail Brown (2021)

A devastating cascade of earthquakes strike New Mexico's forgotten fault lines. Quakes spread across the continent. Fumeroles emerge in unknown hotspots. The Earth shakes and begins the process of opening the Rio Sea, where once, in prehistory, a great ocean thrived. Oceans heave as the Ring of Fire bursts with increased activity. Continental plates shift, rip apart, and bounce against each other. Oceans heave as the Ring of Fire bursts with increased activity. Disaster builds on disaster. Continental plates shift, rip apart, and bounce into each other. Everyone thought Arizona and New Mexico would be forever safe from earthquakes, volcanoes, and shifting water tables. Only, they aren't. As the continental plates shift, so do the lives of Amber and Alex as they struggle to find firm ground in the altered landscape. Aftershocks spread through the land, changing communities, forcing most to flee for their lives. The world as Amber and Alex knew crumbles around them. Family and friends missing. Communication relays fail. There is no power, or phone service, with remaining fuel reserved for military missions. Society as they knew it, teeters on the brink of collapse. Established communities melt apart, as walls between human population groups soar. Men, women, and cultures clash as if they had never learned to live together in peace. Together, survivors must build a future in a tangled environment of fear, hunger, cold, and desolation.

Multispecies Cities by Priya Sarukkai Chabria (2021)

Cities are alive, shared by humans and animals, insects and plants, landforms and machines. What might city ecosystems look like in the future if we strive for multispecies justice in our urban settings? In these more-than-human stories, twenty-four authors investigate humanity’s relationship with the rest of the natural world, placing characters in situations where humans have to look beyond their own needs and interests. A quirky eco-businessman sees broader applications for a high school science fair project. A bad date in Hawai‘i takes an unexpected turn when the couple stumbles upon some confused sea turtle hatchlings. A genetically-enhanced supersoldier struggles to find new purpose in a peaceful Tokyo. A community service punishment in Singapore leads to unexpected friendships across age and species. A boy and a mammoth trek across Asia in search of kin. A Tamil child learns the language of the stars. Set primarily in the Asia-Pacific, these stories engage with the serious issues of justice, inclusion, and sustainability that affect the region, while offering optimistic visions of tomorrow's urban spaces.

אחרון מסוגו by Gili Roman (2021)

Kontakt mit Übermorgen by Welko Miloew (2021)

Auf der Erde landet ein fremdes Raumschiff, bleibt aber völlig inaktiv und reagiert auf keinerlei Kontaktversuche – bis es schließlich zwei Astronauten einlässt, die eigentlich zum Mars fliegen sollten. Auf einem verrufenen Planeten gehen Besucher von überallher geheimnisvollen Vergnügungen nach. Auf einem anderen Planeten mussten gestrandete Raumfahrer, um zu überleben, eine komplette Ökologie erschaffen – aus dem einzigen Material, das sie hatten. Eine abgelegene sibirische Stadt mit zwanzigtausend Einwohnern, wo Flugpassagiere unplanmäßig übernachten müssen, wirkt tagsüber wie ausgestorben. Ein vorbeifliegendes Raumschiff beschert der Menschheit eine bemerkenswerte Hinterlassenschaft. Um dem Tod ein Schnippchen zu schlagen, gibt es in der Zukunft verschiedene technische Möglichkeiten. Auch weniger empfehlenswerte. Eine feministische Utopie gerät an ihre Grenzen. In einer alternativen Realität dringt ein spanischer Kundschafter ins Reich der Azteken vor. In einer wüsten Zukunft haben sich Russen und Amerikaner mit verschiedenen Aliens arrangiert, nur die Bulgaren sind leer ausgegangen. Kontakt mit Übermorgen bietet mit Erzählungen von 19 Autorinnen und Autoren einen Querschnitt durch die neuere bulgarische Science-Fiction-Literatur und ein Pendant zu der 2018 erschienenen Phantastik-Anthologie Sternmetall.

Dreamer and the Dream by Roger A. Sneed (2021)

"Analyzes the interplay of Black religious thought with science fiction to illuminate Afrofuturism as an important channel for Black religion and spirituality, drawing from Octavia Butler's Parable books, Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturistic saga, Star Trek's Captain Benjamin Sisko, Marvel's Black Panther, and Sun Ra and the Nation of Islam"--

נשמת חיה by Liat Rotner (2021)

鋼の錬金術師 6 新たな始まり by Makoto Inoue (2021)

Somewhere between magic, art and science exists a world of alchemy. And into this world travel Edward and Alphonse Elric—two brothers in search of the Philosopher's Stone, the ultimate alchemical treasure! Winry, childhood friend of the Elric brothers, is ecstatic to advance her training as an automail mechanic in Rush Valley. Her passion and skills are tested when she crosses paths with a boy who lost a leg and can’t get back on his feet. Meanwhile, Edward and Alphonse Elric just can’t seem to stay out of trouble, even when they’re trying to get noticed for doing good deeds!

Sandman by Neil Gaiman (2021)

Holocaust and the Stars by Agnieszka Gajewska (2021)

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2021)

Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'. Some escaped, but millions more died. So to protect its colonies, humanity shaped the minds of Idris and others into weapons and sent them into battle. But the Architects disappeared, and heroes like Idris were forgotten. However, he's glad of it. This particular living weapon would rather retire to a shabby salvage vessel then be anyone's ammunition. Then this small ship makes a huge discovery.

In Frankenstein's Wake by Alison Bedford (2021)

"Just over two hundred years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature. For a long period, Mary Shelley languished in the shadow of her luminary husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, but was rescued from obscurity by the feminist scholars of the 1970s and 1980s. This book offers a new perspective on Shelley and on science fiction, arguing that Shelley both established a new discursive space for moral thinking and laid the groundwork for the genre of science fiction. Adopting a contextual biographical approach to understand the factors that enabled Shelley to create Frankenstein, and undertaking a close reading of the 1818 and 1831 editions of the text, gives readers insight into how this famous story synthesizes many of the concerns about new science that were prevalent in Shelley's time. Using Michel Foucault's concept of discourse, this work argues that Shelley should be credited with not only the foundation of a genre but recognized as a figure who created a new cultural space for readers to explore their fears and negotiate the moral landscape of new science." --

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki (2021)

"Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese underground, these stories borrow themes and subjects familiar to readers of Philip K. Dick and fuses them with a conflicted, tortured, and intense imagination"-- Provided by publisher.

Viaggio nei mondi impossibili by Stefania Fabri (2021)

Astreya by Christophe Oyra (2021)

**Il y a fort longtemps, un astre s'unit à la Terre, et de leur Union naquit la Connaissance.** Deux à trois générations se sont écoulées depuis qu'un cataclysme a frappé la planète. Il fut accompagné d'une amnésie collective, totale, si bien que tous les progrès furent perdus, jusqu'au souvenir même de la catastrophe.\ Un jeune homme, né bien après ces événements, ne s'est jamais senti à sa place parmi les siens. Il quitte alors sa communauté natale, en quête de compréhension et de connaissance. *Mêlant habilement feel-good, romance et ésotérisme dans une œuvre qui semble au préalable se limiter à un récit initiatique dans un monde post-apocalyptique, Christophe Oyra nous invite dans ce premier roman à suivre un jeune homme dans sa quête de savoir et à découvrir à travers ses yeux un monde bien plus riche qu'il n'y paraît.*

Dead or Alive by Derek Landy (2021)

"Billions of lives will be wiped away in a final, desperate search for the Child of the Faceless Ones -- she who is destined to bring about the return of humankind's ancient overlords. To prevent this, Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain have one last - terrible - option: the assassination of Damocles Creed. With protests stirring in the magical city of Roarhaven, with riots and revolutions on the horizon, Valkyrie must decide who she wants to be: the hero who risks everything for a noble ideal, or the killer who sacrifices her own soul for the fate of humanity."--Amazon.