January sees the release of new books from authors William Gibson, Joanna Kavenna, Charlie N. Holmberg, and Melissa Albert, along also debuts from authors Simon Jimenez and Francesca Flores!

Plus there’s some exciting retellings including a gender-swapped sci-fi YA retelling of Cinderella, a retelling of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, and a gender-swapped retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo.

Read on to discover our picks and tell us if you will be picking up any of these fantasy and sci-fi releases!

The God Game by Danny Tobey
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Charlie and his friends enter the G.O.D. Game, a video game run by underground hackers and controlled by a mysterious AI that believes it’s God. Through their phone-screens and high-tech glasses, the teens’ realities blur with a virtual world of runes, gods, mythical creatures, and more. But then the threatening messages start. Worship me. Obey me. Who else is playing this game, and how far will they go to win?

Rogue Princess by B.R. Myers
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A princess fleeing an arranged marriage teams up with a snarky commoner to foil a rebel plot in B. R. Myers’ Rogue Princess, a gender-swapped sci-fi YA retelling of Cinderella.

Agency by William Gibson
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Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda and Valynne E. Maetani
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This thrilling YA retelling of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai features a girl tasked with saving the world from eternal darkness. Perfect for fans of Six of Crows and Marie Lu.

Diamond City by Francesca Flores
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Fierce and ambitious, Aina Solís as sharp as her blade and as mysterious as the blood magic she protects. After the murder of her parents, Aina takes a job as an assassin to survive and finds a new family in those like her: the unwanted and forgotten.

Zed by Joanna Kavenna
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From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we do–before we do.

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
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A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in this captivating debut of connection across space and time.

Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim
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Packed with high-stakes adventure, romance, and dueling identities, this gender-swapped retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo is the first novel in an epic YA fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Sabaa Tahir, and Leigh Bardugo.

The Will and the Wilds by Charlie N. Holmberg
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A spellbinding story of truce and trickery from the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Paper Magician series.

The Night Country (The Hazel Wood #2) by Melissa Albert
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In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a bang.

The Heap by Sean Adams
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Blending the dark humor of Patrick deWitt and the jagged social and techno-satire of Black Mirror, an audacious, eerily prescient debut novel that chronicles the rise and fall of a massive high-rise housing complex, and the lives it affected before—and after—its demise.

Strange Exit by Parker Peevyhouse
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Strange Exit is Parker Peevyhouse’s next suspenseful, near-future, stand-alone thriller, perfect for fans of Kass Morgan’s The 100 and Patrick Ness’s More Than This.

Will you be picking up any of these fantasy and sci-fi releases? Tell us in the comments below!

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Parker Peevyhouse is also the author of The Echo Room and a critically acclaimed collection of novellas for young adults, Where Futures End, which was named best book for teens by the New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and Bank Street.

Strange Exit publishes on January 14th 2020 from Tor Teen, so be sure to add this one to your Goodreads and you can find pre-order links here! If you’re intrigued, continue on to read the synopsis and the first two chapters below!

Seventeen-year-old Lake spends her days searching a strange, post-apocalyptic landscape for people who have forgotten one very important thing: this isn’t reality. Everyone she meets is a passenger aboard a ship that’s been orbiting Earth since a nuclear event. The simulation that was supposed to prepare them all for life after the apocalypse has trapped their minds in a shared virtual reality and their bodies in stasis chambers.

No one can get off the ship until all of the passengers are out of the sim, and no one can get out of the sim unless they believe it’s a simulation. It’s up to Lake to help them remember.

When Lake reveals the truth to a fellow passenger, seventeen-year-old Taren, he joins her mission to find everyone, persuade them that they’ve forgotten reality, and wake them up. But time’s running out before the simulation completely deconstructs, and soon Taren’s deciding who’s worth saving and who must be sacrificed for the greater good. Now, Lake has no choice but to pit herself against Taren in a race to find the secret heart of the sim, where something waits that will either save them or destroy them all.

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