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There is no big name to publish a new science fiction novel for May this year, but there are still some real gems with big hints from me. All versions of yours. I want to shove it into the hands of everyone I know. There are also two fascinating sci-fi thrillers this month by Adam Oevani and Burnaby Martin, but Catherine Chidsey’s creepy Guilt It was intrigued enough to make it my next read if not exiled by a story of war on an alien planet inspired by Boracheon’s true history. Red sword,it is…

Set in Australia in the late 21st century, the novel (published in Australia in 2022, but now more widely published) follows Taoi in a world where most people spend their lives in immersive virtual reality called Gaia. Every morning she climbs into the pods of her apartment, enters Gaia, where she works. In the real world, the relentless heat of the sun means there are no trees left and there are few animals. This is a scary vision of the future. If new technology allows people to upload themselves to Gaia forever, Tao-yi’s partner Navin wants to do it as his real body is failing. Taoi isn’t that sure. This is my favorite book so far. This is a vibrant, moving sci-fi slice that I can’t stop thinking about. Take care, the New Scientist Book Club: I think this might be one for us later this year!

I love speculative thrillers, and this one looks cracked about the wounds left behind by the Atlantic slave trade. It begins with an impossible death – a man 1600 km from the nearest sea, and his son, who appears to have been drowned in the sea. As detective Ethan Kroll investigates, he learns more about the mysterious Abi Eniola, who he claims to be an ordinary Nigerian woman, but his high-tech gadgets and extraordinary physical capabilities suggest that something else might be happening.

On the contested planet, women are forced to fight for prisoners of war, and “we are said by publishers” “a truly alien terrain to reveal scientific hatred and the truth about her identity and her slave companions.” Korean writer Bora Chong drew a real history to write this novel – that of the Korean soldiers who fought for the Qing Dynasty against Russia. That looks like a must see to me.

A fascinating science fiction horror from former president of the Association of Horror Writers John Parisano. Set in the lunar cemetery of space, Eden. In Eden, the universe’s entities are reclaiming the souls of those buried there. Lost Love, Ava, where Roland is one of those spirits, must fight back against it before it reaches Earth.

I want the shade of Ishigo River never let me go This novel is set in an alternative version of England in 1979. Here, the triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last residents of the New Forest home. This house is part of the government’s Sycamore scheme (whatever it sounds sinister), and every day they are watched by three mothers: mother’s morning, mother’s afternoon, mother’s night. “Their nightmares are recorded in dream books. Their lessons are taken from the book of knowledge, and their sins are reported in guilt,” says Chidsey’s publisher. When the government begins closing Sycamore’s homes, children realise that their lives may be very different from the version they were fed. I’m so desperate to discover what the mystery is that I’m ready to prepare this on my bedside table.Our Readers I’ll have to wait until September.

It is being marketed as speculative fiction. This means that, as far as I know, it’s not fantasy at all and it’s not sci-fi at all. Either way, it sounds really interesting. We continue as Lina and her father arrive at the sea. Arrived at the sea. It is a building with a “time-made” shape that “clashes between the past and the future” (this summary will give you plenty of time to feel). There they meet their neighbors from a 17th century Jewish scholar who excommunicated to poets of the Tang Dynasty due to his radical ideas. But why is Lina and her father there?

I almost always fall into the story of mothers having to protect their children in a dangerous future world. And I’m going to read this too. This particular dangerous world is where deadly heat makes people live by night, and a mysterious sound field arrives 20 years ago, creating constant ham. Scientist Hanna once worked in Soundfield and was trying to solve the mystery. Now she must keep her talented son Isaac safe.

Sci-fi columnist New ScientistEmily H. Wilson recently pondered the concept of “climate fiction” and what to do as part of “cli-fi.” This novel is definitely in that mix. It is set in a future where violent wildfires are furious. Iris thinks it could pose a threat when a young mother and daughter appear at a hotel in Iris (there are rare guests) in the German spa town of Badheim.

I like the pitch of this novel: “Boy Meets Girl Meets AI Sherapist.” Adrian decided to give it a try out Sike, a new AI psychotherapy app that tracks every movement and emotion of users and leads to “mental satisfaction.” He falls into venture capitalist Maquie, looking for the next big tech hit, but she refuses to use Sike.

Jeff lives a mundane life until his reality changes with “a pale woman”; Now he is a merc jizz, fighting alien insects on the frontline. This is explained by its publisher matrix Meet Joe Haldemann’s military science fiction novel Eternal Warthat’s certainly interesting. Plus, I’ve always loved alien insects.

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