The Massive Cover Gallery of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Books Out in May 2016
Here’s the latest of our monthly book roundups: the science fiction, fantasy and horror books for books releasing in May 2016!
See any that pique your interest?
- The Thief’s Daughter (The Kingfountain Series) by Jeff Wheeler (47North)
- Golden Age (The Shifting Tides) by James Maxwell (47North)
- Cold Dream Dawning (Pale Queen Series Book 2) by A. R. Kahler (47North)
- Extinction Biome: Invasion by Addison Gunn (Abaddon)
- Operation Sea Mink (Extinction Biome Book 4) by Addison Gunn (Abaddon Books)
- Night Shift (A Novel of Midnight, Texas) by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
- The Lost Stars: Shattered Spear by Jack Campbell (Ace)
- Vicky Peterwald: Rebel (A Vicky Peterwald Novel) by Mike Shepherd (Ace)
- Dragonsong (Harper Hall of Pern) by Anne McCaffrey (Aladdin)
- Dragonsinger (Harper Hall of Pern) by Anne McCaffrey (Aladdin)
- Dragondrums (Harper Hall of Pern) by Anne McCaffrey (Aladdin)
- Pandora Jones: Deception by Barry Jonsberg (Allen & Unwin)
- The Forgotten Room by Lincoln Child (Anchor)
- The Silent Army: Seven Forges Book IV by James A Moore (Angry Robot)
- Outriders by Jay Posey (Angry Robot)
- Warrior Witch: Malediction Trilogy Book Three by Danielle L. Jensen (Angry Robot)
- Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston (Aqueduct Press)
- Star Force: Lost Destiny (Wayward Trilogy Book 1) by Aer-ki Jyr (Archon Lore)
- The Angel Wore Fangs: A Deadly Angels Book by Sandra Hill (Avon)
- Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song by Various (BBC Books)
- Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks (BBC Books)
- Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion by Malcolm Hulke (BBC Books)
- Doctor Who and the Zarbi by Bill Strutton (BBC Books)
- Doctor Who and the Web of Fear by Terrance Dicks (BBC Books)
- Doctor Who: Battlefield by Marc Platt (BBC Books)
- Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos by Philip Martin (BBC Books)
- Doctor Who: The Visitation by Eric Saward (BBC Books)
- Doctor Who: The Good, the Bad and the Alien (Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Adventures) by Colin Brake (BBC Children’s Books)
- Doctor Who: The Water Thief (Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Adventures) by Jacqueline Rayner (BBC Children’s Books)
- Doctor Who: Horror of the Space Snakes (Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Adventures) by Gary Russell (BBC Children’s Books)
- Ring of Fire IV (The Ring of Fire) by (Baen)
- Shadow’s Blade (Case Files of Justis Fearsson) by David B. Coe (Baen)
- The City of Mirrors: A Novel (Book Three of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin (Ballantine Books)
- The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye (Balzer + Bray)
- The Hunt (Cage) by Megan Shepherd (Balzer + Bray)
- Blake’s 7 – The Liberator Chronicles: Volume 12 by Andy Lane (Big Finish Productions Ltd)
- Doctor Who Main Range 211 and You Will Obey Me by (Big Finish Productions Ltd)
- The Novel Adaptations: Nightshade (Doctor Who the Novel Adaptations) by (Big Finish Productions Ltd)
- The Fourth Doctor Adventures – 5.4 the Legacy of Death (Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures) by Jonathan Morris (Big Finish Productions Ltd)
- The Mummy’s Mask: Pyramid of the Sky Pharoah (Pathfinder Legends) by Mark Wright (Big Finish Productions Ltd)
- Terrahawks: Volume 2 by Jamie Anderson (Big Finish Productions Ltd)
- A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses) by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury USA Childrens)
- Hunted by Magic: a New Adult Fantasy Novel (The Baine Chronicles Book 3) by Jasmine Walt (Blue Bolt Publishing)
- Paladins of the Storm Lord by Barbara Ann Wright (Bold Strokes Books)
- Triad Blood by Nathan Burgoine (Bold Strokes Books)
- The Iron Phoenix (The Storm’s Quarry Series) by Rebecca Harwell (Bold Strokes Books)
- The Mark of Cain by Lindsey Barraclough (Candlewick)
- The Disappearance of Ember Crow: The Tribe, Book Two by Ambelin Kwaymullina (Candlewick)
- Phase Shift (Chaos Station) by Kelly Jensen (Carina Press)
- The Fairest Poison by Lauren Skidmore (Cedar Fort, Inc.)
- Fritz Leiber Masters of Science Fiction by Fritz Leiber (Centipede Press)
- James Patrick Kelly Masters of Science Fiction by James Patrick Kelly (Centipede Press)
- Children of the Black Sabbath by Anne Hebert (Centipede Press)
- Shadows in Summerland by Adrian Van Young (ChiZine Publications)
- Jack of Shadows (Rediscovered Classics) by Roger Zelazny (Chicago Review Press)
- Pay Up and Die: A Dark Psychological Thriller (The Debt Collector Series Book 1) by Chuck Buda (Chuck Buda)
- The Neverland Wars by Audrey Greathouse (Clean Teen Publishing)
- Inner Demons: Monsters Among Us, Book Two (The Monsters Among us) by Amanda Strong (Clean Teen Publishing)
- # I’m Zombie: A Zombie Mosaic Novel by Tony Newton (Cosmic Egg Books)
- I, Human by John Nelson (Cosmic Egg Books)
- Pillars of Dragonfire by Daniel Arenson (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
- The Summer Dragon: First Book of the Evertide by Todd Lockwood (DAW)
- Camp Alien: Alien Novels, Book 13 by Gini Koch (DAW)
- Devil’s Blood (The Books of Pandemonium) by Andrew Prentice (David Fickling Books)
- Bloodline (Star Wars) by Claudia Gray (Del Rey)
- The Sorcerer’s Daughter: The Defenders of Shannara by Terry Brooks (Del Rey)
- The Trials of Apollo Book One The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion)
- Holding Smoke by Elle Cosimano (Disney-Hyperion)
- Continuum: Time Rep by Peter Ward (Diversion Books)
- Scarlet Rain: The Escaped – Book Two (The Escaped Series) by Kristin Cast (Diversion Publishing)
- The Curiosity Killers by K W Taylor (Dog Star Books)
- The Pier Falls: And Other Stories by Mark Haddon (Doubleday)
- Smoke: A Novel by Dan Vyleta (Doubleday)
- The Alchemists’ Council by Cynthea Masson (ECW Press)
- Superhero Universe: Tesseracts Nineteen by P E Bolivar (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
- Europa Journal by Jack Castle (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
- QUISTA: Book One: Danay by Aviva Bel’Harold (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing / EDGE-Lite)
- Making the Rounds by Allan Weiss (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, EDGE-Lite)
- The Devil Will Come by Justin Gustainis (EDGE-Lite)
- True Born by L.E. Sterling (Entangled: Teen)
- Gaslight & Grimm: Steampunk Faerie Tales by Danielle Ackley-McPhail and Diana Bastine (Editors) (Espec Books)
- The Dragon King (Chronicles of Calibran Book 1) by Anthony Russo (Exdea Ltd)
- Letters To Kevin by Stephen Dixon (Fantagraphics)
- The Inquisition: Summoner: Book Two (The Summoner Trilogy) by Taran Matharu (Feiwel & Friends)
- The Giant Smugglers by Matt Solomon (Feiwel & Friends)
- Circle of Jinn (Becoming Jinn) by Lori Goldstein (Feiwel & Friends)
- The Last Star: The Final Book of The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)
- Writers of the Future 32 by David Farland (Editor) (Galaxy Press)
- The Map of Bones (The Fire Sermon) by Francesca Haig (Gallery Books)
- The Tree of Souls by Katrina Archer (Ganache Media)
- The Stealers’ War by Stephen Hunt (Gollancz)
- Rig by Jon Wallace (Gollancz)
- The NightShade Forensic Files: Fracture Five (Book 2) by A.J. Scudiere (Griffyn Ink)
- The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude (HMH Books for Young Readers)
- The Darkest Torment (Lords of the Underworld) by Gena Showalter (HQN Books)
- Obsidian Mirror: 04: The Speed of Darkness by Catherine Fisher (Hachette Children’s)
- The Island of Dr. Morose Ultimate Sketch Cover by Mike Gagnon (Hammer Books)
- The God Wave: A Novel (The God Wave Trilogy) by Patrick Hemstreet (Harper Voyager)
- The Pitchfork of Destiny: Book Two of the Charming Tales by Jack Heckel (Harper Voyager Impulse)
- The World Weavers: A Desert Rising Novel by Kelley Grant (Harper Voyager Impulse)
- Shadow of the Void: Book Two of the Sundered World Trilogy by Nathan Garrison (Harper Voyager Impulse)
- The Devouring God by James Kendley (Harper Voyager Impulse)
- Woodwalker by Emily B. Martin (Harper Voyager Impulse)
- Elixir: A Changeling P.I. Novel by Ruth Vincent (Harper Voyager Impulse)
- The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight (HarperCollins)
- I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Zero Hour (Lorien Legacies: The Lost Files) by Pittacus Lore (HarperCollins)
- Exile (Mercy, Book 2) by Rebecca Lim (HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks)
- The Crown (The Selection) by Kiera Cass (HarperTeen)
- Ruined by Amy Tintera (HarperTeen)
- Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes (HarperTeen)
- The Countdown (The Taking) by Kimberly Derting (HarperTeen)
- The Blood Between Us by Zac Brewer (HarperTeen)
- Spark by Holly Schindler (HarperTeen)
- Dream On: The Silver Trilogy by Kerstin Gier (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR))
- Nil on Fire (Nil Series) by Lynne Matson (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR))
- The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Regeneration ((R)evolution) by Stephanie Saulter (Jo Fletcher Books)
- Willowgrove (Hemlock Trilogy) by Kathleen Peacock (Katherine Tegen Books)
- Ghost Road Blues (A Pine Deep Novel) by Jonathan Maberry (Kensington)
- The Pages of the Mind (The Uncharted Realms) by Jeffe Kennedy (Kensington)
- All Good Children by Dayna Ingram (Lethe Press)
- Good Red Herring by Susan Maxwell (Little Island Books)
- Tusks: A Just Cause Universe novel (The Just Cause Universe Book 9) by Ian Thomas Healy (Local Hero Press, LLC)
- Haunted Destiny by Heather Graham (MIRA)
- Realms of Darkover (Darkover anthology Book 16) by Deborah J. Ross (Editor) (Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust)
- X-Men: Days of Future Past Prose Novel by Alex Irvine (Marvel)
- An Asimov Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy) by Donald E Palumbo (McFarland & Company)
- Who Travels with the Doctor?: Essays on the Companions of Doctor Who by (McFarland & Company)
- The Physics and Astronomy of Science Fiction: Understanding Interstellar Travel, Teleportation, Time Travel, Alien Life and Other Genre Fixtures by Steven D Bloom (McFarland & Company)
- The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz (Melville House)
- In the Shadow of the Dragon King by J. Keller Ford (Month9Books, LLC)
- The Paladins (The Artisans) by Julie Reece (Month9Books, LLC)
- Traitor (The Dragonrider Chronicles) by Nicole Conway (Month9Books, LLC)
- Argos by Phillip W. Simpson (Month9Books, LLC)
- Rise (Order of the Krigers) by Jennifer Anne Davis (Month9Books, LLC)
- The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious Press)
- Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay (NAL)
- The Glory of the Empire: A Novel, a History (New York Review Books Classics) by Jean D’Ormesson (NYRB Classics)
- War Factory: Transformation Book Two by Neal Asher (Night Shade Books)
- The Iron Dragon’s Daughter by Michael Swanwick (Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
- Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick (Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
- Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick (Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
- In the Drift by Michael Swanwick (Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
- Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick (Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
- Tales of Old Earth: Stories by Michael Swanwick (Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
- The Stranger by Caroline B. Cooney (Open Road Media Teen & Tween)
- Twins by Caroline B. Cooney (Open Road Media Teen & Tween)
- A Blade of Black Steel (Crimson Empire) by Alex Marshall (Orbit)
- The Tower of Swallows (The Witcher) by Andrzej Sapkowski (Orbit)
- The Summon Stone (The Gate of Good and Evil) by Ian Irvine (Orbit)
- Heart Of The Mirage: Book One of The Mirage Makers by Glenda Larke (Orbit)
- The Shadow Of Tyr: Book Two of the Mirage Makers by Glenda Larke (Orbit)
- The Corporation Wars: Dissidence by Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
- The Cthulhu Wars: The United States’ Battles Against the Mythos (Dark Osprey) by Kenneth Hite (Osprey Publishing)
- A Wolf at the Gate (Reach and Teach) by Mark Van Steenwyk (PM Press)
- Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? (Shadow Police) by Paul Cornell (Pan Books)
- A Shadow in the Deep (The Shepherd) by Anthony Pryor (Permuted Press)
- Apparitions: The Strange Guests at the Mallard Hotel by Briar Lee Mitchell (Permuted Press)
- The Prisoner of Hell Gate: A Novel by Dana I. Wolff (Picador)
- Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek by Manu Saadia (Pipertext)
- Needful Things by Stephen King (Pocket Books)
- Firestarter by Stephen King (Pocket Books)
- Force and Motion (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) by Jeffrey Lang (Pocket Books/Star Trek)
- Divine Descendant by Jenna Black (Pocket Star)
- Starfleet Logbook (Star Trek) by Jake Black (Price Stern Sloan)
- What Would Captain Kirk Do? (Star Trek) by Brandon T. Snider (Price Stern Sloan)
- Doctor Who Villains and Monsters Mad Libs by Price Stern Sloan (Price Stern Sloan)
- The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016 Edition by Rich Horton (Editor) (Prime Books)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 by Mercedes Lackey (Editor) (Pyr)
- My Best Friend’s Exorcism: A Novel by Grady Hendrix (Quirk Books)
- The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North (Redhook)
- Albina and the Dog-Men by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Restless Books)
- Admiral (An Evagardian Novel) by Sean Danker (Roc)
- To Kill a Kettle Witch (Novel of the Mist-Torn Witches) by Barb Hendee (Roc)
- Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Children’s Literature and Culture) by (Routledge)
- Descriptosaurus:- Fantasy by Alison Wilcox (Routledge)
- The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu by Paula Guran (Editor) (Running Press)
- Roses and Rot by Kat Howard (Saga Press)
- Dark Run (Keiko) by Mike Brooks (Saga Press)
- Night Show by Richard Laymon (Samhain Publishing, Ltd.)
- Everland by Wendy Spinale (Scholastic Press)
- The Sleeping Prince: A Sin Eater’s Daughter Novel by Melinda Salisbury (Scholastic Press)
- Zero K by Don DeLillo (Scribner)
- The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower) by Stephen King (Scribner)
- The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower) by Stephen King (Scribner)
- Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower) by Stephen King (Scribner)
- A Certain Scientific Accelerator Vol. 3 by Kazuma Kamachi (Seven Seas)
- Time Zero by Carolyn Cohagan (She Writes Press)
- Savage by Thomas E. Sniegoski (Simon Pulse)
- Saven Denial: The Saven Series #2.5 by Siobhan Davis (Siobhan Davis)
- Wandering Wild by Jessica Taylor (Sky Pony Press)
- Curse (Blur Trilogy) by Steven James (Skyscape)
- The Last Remnant (The Fourline Trilogy) by Pam Brondos (Skyscape)
- Shining Sea by Mimi Cross (Skyscape)
- Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters,Tribbles, And the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek by David Gerrold, Robert J. Sawyer (Editors) (Smart Pop)
- It Wasn’t Always Like This by Joy Preble (Soho Teen)
- Razorhurst by Justine Larbalestier (Soho Teen)
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten by Jonathan Strahan (Editor) (Solaris)
- The Wolf in the Attic by Paul Kearney (Solaris)
- Alpha Wolf Need Not Apply (Silver Town Wolf) by Terry Spear (Sourcebooks Casablanca)
- Invision: Chronicles of Nick by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- Resurgence: A Novel (The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy) by Kerry Wilkinson (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- The Dark Vampire: A True Vampire Novel (Last True Vampire series) by Kate Baxter (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)
- Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold (Subterranean)
- Freedom of the Mask by Robert McCammon (Subterranean Press)
- Double Down (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond (Switch Press)
- Central Station by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon Publications)
- Dreams of Distant Shores by Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon Publications)
- The Raft: A Novel by Fred Strydom (Talos)
- Throneworld (The Beast Arises) by Guy Haley (The Black Library)
- Echoes of the Long War (The Beast Arises) by David Guymer (The Black Library)
- The World Engine (Space Marine Battles) by Ben Counter (The Black Library)
- The Unburdened (The Horus Heresy) by David Annandale (The Black Library)
- The Last Phoenix (The Horus Heresy Omnibus) by Graham McNeill (The Black Library)
- Pyres of Armageddon (Yarrick) by David Annandale (The Black Library)
- Fractured State (Fractured State Series) by Steven Konkoly (Thomas & Mercer)
- Leviathan’s Blood: Book Two of the Children Trilogy by Ben Peek (Thomas Dunne Books)
- Warcraft: Durotan: The Official Movie Prequel by Christie Golden (Titan Books)
- Independence Day: Crucible (The Official Prequel) by Greg Keyes (Titan Books)
- Ghosts of Karnak: A Ghost Novel by George Mann (Titan Books)
- Beauty & the Beast by Nancy Holder (Titan Books)
- Virtues of War by Bennett R. Coles (Titan Books)
- The Iron Jackal: A Tale of the Ketty Jay by Chris Wooding (Titan Books)
- Warlock Holmes – A Study in Brimstone by G.S. Denning (Titan Books)
- The Condition of Muzak: The Cornelius Quartet 4 by Michael Moorcock (Titan Books)
- Dancer’s Lament: Path to Ascendancy Book 1 by Ian C. Esslemont (Tor Books)
- Company Town by Madeline Ashby (Tor Books)
- Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota) by Ada Palmer (Tor Books)
- The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley (Tor Books)
- All Fixed Up: A Novel (Ciel Halligan) by Linda Grimes (Tor Books)
- Red as Blood and White as Bone: A Tor.Com Original by Theodora Goss (Tor Books)
- The Pigeon Summer: A Tor.Com Original by Brit Mandelo (Tor Books)
- The Aftermath (Asteroid Wars) by Ben Bova (Tor Science Fiction)
- The Memory of Earth and The Call of Earth (Homecoming Saga) by Orson Scott Card (Tor Science Fiction)
- Exile for Dreamers: A Stranje House Novel by Kathleen Baldwin (Tor Teen)
- The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde (Tor.com)
- A Whisper of Southern Lights (The Assassins Series) by Tim Lebbon (Tor.com)
- Runtime by S. B. Divya (Tor.com)
- City of Hope and Ruin: A Fractured World Novel by Kit Campbell & Siri Paulson (Turtleduck Press)
- The Deaths of Henry King by Brian Evenson (Uncivilized Books)
- Blood Rubies by Michael McDowell (Valancourt Books)
- Seraph of the End, 2: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen by Takaya Kagami (Vertical)
- Wind/Pinball: Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 (Two Novels) (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami (Vintage)
- Children of the Corn (A Vintage Short) by Stephen King (Vintage)
- Tower of Babylon (A Vintage Short) by Ted Chiang (Vintage)
- The Voodoo Killings: A Kincaid Strange Novel by Kristi Charish (Vintage Canada)
- Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema by Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia (Editors) (Wayne State University Press)
- Mongrels: A Novel by Stephen Graham Jones (William Morrow)
- The Fireman: A Novel by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
- The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow)
- Aldnoah.Zero Season One, Vol. 3 by Olympus Knights (Yen Press)
Also released this month (covers unavailable at the time of post creation):
- From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review (A Lady Trent Story): A Tor.com Original by Marie Brennan (Tor Books)
- A Dead Djinn in Cairo: A Tor.Com Original by P. Djeli Clark (Tor Books)
- Orphan Pirates of the Spanish Main: A Tor.Com Original by Dennis Danvers (Tor Books)
(Note: As big as it is, this list is not comprehensive. Release information was sourced from Amazon, Locus magazine and elsewhere. Some are reprints. Release dates subject to change. So there.)