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This is a historical release roundup: the 45 science-fiction, fantasy, and horror books below were listed for publication in April 2024. The dates and publisher labels reflect Cheryl Eddy’s April 1, 2024 Gizmodo roundup; they are not confirmation of current availability or of whether any release date later changed.
April 1
- The Lies Among Us — Sarah Beth Durst (Lake Union Publishing)
- The Monstrous Misses Mai — Van Hoang (47North)
- The Proper Thing and Other Stories — Seanan McGuire (Subterranean Press)
- The Unlikely Affair of the Crawling Razor — Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean Press)
April 2
- The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories — edited by Saraciea J. Fennell and Desiree S. Evans (Flatiron Books)
- Court of Wanderers — Rin Chupeco (S&S/Saga Press)
- Disquiet Gods — Christopher Ruocchio (Baen)
- The Jinn Daughter — Rania Hanna (Hoopoe)
- Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction — Ann Leckie (Orbit)
- Play of Shadows — Sebastien De Castell (Mobius)
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In — John Wiswell (DAW)
- A View From the Stars — Liu Cixin (Tor Books)
April 9
- The Assassins of Consequence — Marshall Ryan Maresca (Artemisia Publications)
- A Better World — Sarah Langan (Atria Books)
- The Book That Broke the World — Mark Lawrence (Ace)
- The Familiar — Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books)
- The Forge of the High Mage — Ian C. Esslemont (Bantam Press)
- The Garden — Clare Beams (Doubleday)
- The Gathering — C.J. Tudor (Ballantine Books)
- Ghost Station — S.A. Barnes (Tor Nightfire): science-fiction horror about a crew trying to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet.
- Mal Goes to War — Edward Ashton (St. Martin’s Press)
- A Promise of Peridot — Kate Golden (Berkley)
- A Sweet Sting of Salt — Rose Sutherland (Dell)
- Wicked Problems — Max Gladstone (Tordotcom)
April 16
- Bloodguard — Cecy Robson (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
- Immortal Pleasures — V. Castro (Del Rey)
- Indian Burial Ground — Nick Medina (Berkley)
- Pinquickle’s Folly — R.A. Salvatore (S&S/Saga Press)
- The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain — Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
- The Star and the Strange Moon — Constance Sayers (Redhook)
- To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods — Molly X. Chang (Del Rey)
- Weird Black Girls: Stories — Elwin Cotman (Scribner)
April 23
- Dragon Rider — Taran Matharu (Harper Voyager)
- Extinction — Douglas Preston (Forge Books)
- First Light — Liz Kerin (Tor Nightfire)
- A Letter to the Luminous Deep — Sylvie Cathrall (Orbit)
- Necrobane — Daniel M. Ford (Tor Books)
- Ocean’s Godori — Elaine U. Cho (Zando – Hillman Grad Books)
- Saint-Seducing Gold — Brittany N. Williams (Amulet Books)
- The Sky Was Ours — Joe Fassler (Penguin Books)
- A Whisper in the Walls — Scott Reintgen (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
- The Wings Upon Her Back — Samantha Mills (Tachyon Publications)
April 30
- A Change of Place — Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
- In Universes — Emet North (Harper)
- Oracle — Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor Nightfire)
How to use this list
The release schedule is grouped by the six dates in the original roundup, making it easy to scan what was listed for a particular week. The selection spans novels, short-fiction collections, a horror anthology, and a novella, alongside speculative stories ranging from space adventures and magical mysteries to vampires, shapeshifters, pirates, and cursed films. The source identifies series context for some entries, so the list should not be read as 45 standalone books.
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Artemis | $9.95 | Buy on Amazon |
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Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century | $11.03 | Buy on Amazon |
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Recursion: A Novel | $8.98 | Buy on Amazon |
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Project Hail Mary: A Novel | $13.88 | Buy on Amazon |
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Dark Matter: A Novel | $11.65 | Buy on Amazon |
For present-day purchasing, check a bookseller or publisher listing for the edition, publication details, and stock; this 2024 roundup does not establish current inventory or later date changes.
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