March comes in like a lion with Ancestral Night, a new space opera from Elizabeth Bear, but it doesn’t leave meekly, padding out off the page with Fluffy’s Revolution by Ted Myers and a tale of uplifted animal revolution. We also have to wait until the end of the month for the much-anticipated eighth Expanse novel, Tiamat’s Wrath by the Arisian fusion known as James S.A. Corey. And there’s more, a lot more, in between.
It’s not like I don’t have a pile of SF already, but Every month I root through the publisher’s catalogs, review sites, and my Amazon Advanced Search to find noteworthy new science fiction, so I might as well share my research with you. It’s interesting to note which sites agree with each other on noteworthy books.
My reconnoitering is pretty much a fantasy free zone, though I’ve been known to make exceptions. It’s not that I don’t like fantasy, but SF is where I come from and the country I’m still trying to discover. So, what does this month hold? A lot.
You’ll find links to the list sites I’ve cited at the end. Key: Az (Amazon), B&N (Barnes & Noble), io9 (io9/Gizmodo), NM (NerdMuch), TV (The TV) – If there’s something I like the looks of and it’s not listed you’ll see EL (Ernest Lilley) |
Novels
- Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear (March 5) (B&N, io9, NM, TV)
- Creation Machine (Spin Trilogy) by Andrew Bannister (March 5, Tor) (Az)
- Famous Men Who Never Lived, by K. Chess (March 5, Tin House Books—Hardcover) (B&N, TV)
- Infinite Detail, by Tim Maughan (March 5, FSG Originals) (B&N, NM, TV)
- Mahimata, by Rati Mehrotra (March 5, HarperCollins Publishers)(B&N)
- Today I Am Carey, by Martin L. Shoemaker (March 5, Baen—Paperback) (B&N)
- The Dazzle of Day, by Molly Gloss (March 12, Saga Press—Hardcover) (B&N)
- The Bayern Agenda by Dan Moren (March 5, Serial Box) (TV)
- The Vela by Becky Chambers, S.L. Huang, Yoon Ha Lee, and Rivers Solomon (March 5, Angry Robot) (TV)
- Invisible Ecologies by Rachel Armstrong (io9)/li>
- If, Then by Kate Hope Day, March 12 (io9)
- The Tesla Legacy by K.K. Perez, March 12 (io9)
- The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson, March 12 (Az, B&N, io9, TV)
- Ruin’s Wake by Patrick Edwards, March 12 (io9)
- Starport (Graphic Novel) by George R. R. Martin, Raya Golden (Illustrator), (March 12, 2019, Bantam) (EL)
- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley, March 19 (Az, io9, NM)
- Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald, March 19 (io9)
- The Municipalists by Seth Fried, March 19 (Az, io9)
- Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds, March 19 (B&N, io9, NM)
- Titanshade by Dan Stout, March 19 (io9, B&N)
- Zero Bomb by M.T. Hill, March 19 (io9, NM)
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, March 26 (B&N, io9)
- The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell, March 26 (io9)
- Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey, March 26 (B&N, io9, NM)
- Sky Without Stars (System Divine #1) by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell (March 26, Simon Pulse) (NM)
- Winter World (The Long Winter Book 1) by A.G. Riddle (March 26, Legion Books) (Az)
- Fluffy’s Revolution by Ted Myers, March 28 (io9)
Collections
- New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl (io9, TV)
- Radicalized by Cory Doctorow, March 19 (io9)
Links to Complete Lists
- Amazon: Best Books of the Month: Science Fiction & Fantasy
- io9/Gizmodo: 39 Amazing New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Check Out in March
- Barnes & Noble: The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of March 2019
- NerdMuch?: BEST NEW SCI-FI & FANTASY BOOKS: MARCH 2019
- The The Verge: 11 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out this March