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Swashbucklers
Dan Hanks has a thing for throwback adventure, and his second novel, Swashbucklers, published by Angry Robot in November 2021, leans into that instinct with full commitment. The setup is pure popcorn cinema: thirty-two years ago, a group of kids in the English town of Dark Peak fought off an invasion led by a pirate…
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Key Lime Sky
Al Hess’s Key Lime Sky opens with a premise that sounds like a punchline: an autistic, non-binary pie blogger witnesses a UFO explode over a tiny Wyoming town, and nobody else seems to care. Published in August 2024 by Angry Robot, this 304-page novel takes that setup and spins it into something far stranger, sweeter,…
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The Blood Dimmed Tide
Stephen Aryan’s The Blood Dimmed Tide, the second volume in The Nightingale and the Falcon trilogy, picks up several months after the events of The Judas Blossom. Published in July 2024 by Angry Robot Books, this 400-page historical fantasy drops readers back into the crumbling Mongol Empire of the thirteenth century, where the sons of…
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Myriad
Miriam Randle has a job that most people would consider science fiction. She works as a “travel agent” for LifeTime, a private law enforcement company that sends its agents back in time to prevent murders before they happen. For Miriam, the job is personal: when she was six years old, she watched her twin brother…
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The Redemption of Morgan Bright
An Asylum of Mirrors Chris Panatier’s The Redemption of Morgan Bright is the kind of novel that earns its horrors honestly. Published in 2024 by Angry Robot, it follows Morgan Bright, a woman who checks herself into Hollyhock Asylum under a false identity in order to uncover the truth behind her sister Hadleigh’s death. What…
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HellSans
The Font of All Authority Ever Dundas’s debut novel HellSans is a work of sustained invention. Published in 2022 by Solaris, it imagines a near-future United Kingdom in which a single typeface, HellSans, has been enshrined as the national standard, enforced by law in all public communications and spaces, and capable of inducing a state…
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Moonshine
Bootleg Magic in the City of Smoke Jasmine Gower’s debut novel Moonshine arrives with the confidence of a writer who knows exactly what kind of book she has written. Published in 2018 by Angry Robot and nominated for the Endeavour Award in 2019, it is a fantasy set in Soot City, a version of 1920s…
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Spidertouch
Alex Thomson’s Spidertouch, published by Angry Robot in December 2021, drops you into the besieged city of Val Kedic, a place ruled for centuries by the Keda, a mute alien race that communicates through an intricate system of touch called fingerspeak. At the center of the story is Razvan, a middle-aged translator who learned this…
