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Cheryl Eddy’s February 28, 2025, Gizmodo/io9 roundup lists 64 science-fiction, fantasy, and horror books released across four Tuesdays in March 2025. The selection ranges from space adventures and epic fantasy to cozy mysteries, gothic stories, and horror. Here is the full list, organized by the roundup’s release dates, with concise descriptions of each book’s premise.
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Dark Matter: A Novel | $11.65 | Buy on Amazon |
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Brave New World | $12.99 | Buy on Amazon |
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The Object: A Hard Sci-Fi Novel | $17.00 | Buy on Amazon |
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Recursion: A Novel | $8.98 | Buy on Amazon |
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Massif: A Novel – A Brilliant Stand-Alone Space Opera of Sentient Starships and Galactic Warfare | $29.53 | Buy on Amazon |
March 4, 2025: 18 books
- Advent by Seth Ring — A science-fiction series opener about alien contact and military action.
- Burn to Shine by Jonathan Maberry — The fourth military science-fiction novel in the series, with Rogue Team International and Joe Ledger confronting bioterrorism.
- Cold Iron Task by James J. Butcher — A new Unorthodox Chronicles installment puts magical-affairs auditor Grimsby on the wrong side of the law.
- Critical Role: Vox Machina—Stories Untold by various authors — An anthology told from ten characters’ perspectives, with a foreword by Liam O’Brien.
- Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky — The Tyrant Philosophers continues amid a succession conflict and supernatural forces.
- Emberclaw by L.R. Lam — The final book in a fantasy duology brings dragons back.
- Evocation by S.T. Gibson — The first Summoner’s Circle book follows a Boston attorney and medium with an occultist family history.
- Once Was Willem by M.R. Carey — A dark medieval fantasy shaped by folklore, macabre magic, and found family.
- Play, With Knives by Jeanette Horn — Surreal events unsettle a touring theater troupe aboard a train.
- The Radiant King by David Dalglish — The opening volume of the Astral Kingdoms epic fantasy trilogy.
- The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare — The sequel to Sword Catcher returns to Castellane, where political tensions and threats mount.
- The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar — Two sisters and their town stand at the edge of Faerie.
- Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things by Breanne Randall — A witch and a rival coven leader join forces to save their town.
- Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics by Margaret Stohl with Jeanine Schaefer and Judith Stephens — Nonfiction about women’s contributions to Marvel Comics.
- Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne — A Tomes & Tea installment follows pirate partners as they approach their wedding.
- Two Truths and a Lie by Cory O’Brien — A debut noir and cyberpunk novel set in a drowned Los Angeles.
- The Undoing of Violet Claybourne by Emily Critchley — A gothic mystery centered on the Claybourne sisters and Thornleigh Hall.
- The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica — Literary horror set within a violent religious order amid social collapse.
- Wizard of Most Wicked Ways by Charlie N. Holmberg — The fourth Whimbrel House novel deals with dead enemies and personal conflict.
March 11, 2025: 20 books
- The Anatomy of Magic by J.C. Cervantes — A young woman and her magical family anchor this fantasy.
- The Antidote by Karen Russell — In Dust Bowl-era Nebraska, a Prairie Witch, a farmer, an apprentice, a scarecrow, and a time-traveling camera intersect around stored memories.
- Blood Beneath the Snow by Alexandra Kennington — The first book of a romantasy duology follows a princess competing for the crown.
- Chaos by Constance Fay — The third Uncharted Hearts book pairs a space mercenary with a super soldier in a romance.
- Fan Service by Rosie Danan — A paranormal romantic comedy about a fan of a werewolf-detective show and its star.
- Galaphile: The First Druids of Shannara by Terry Brooks — A Shannara origin story about the druid order.
- The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman — In the fourth Dungeon Crawler Carl adventure, the action reaches the dungeon’s fifth floor.
- Go Luck Yourself by Sara Raasch — A holiday romantic comedy brings together the princes of Christmas and St. Patrick’s Day.
- Heat of the Everflame by Penn Cole — The Kindred’s Curse Saga continues as the Descended and Guardians face conflict.
- Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Rebecca Podos — Queer romantic fantasy mixes family drama with garden magic.
- Idolfire by Grace Curtis — A sapphic fantasy road trip inspired by the fall of Rome.
- The Innkeeper’s Song by Peter S. Beagle — A fantasy quest to save a powerful wizard.
- Installment Immortality by Seanan McGuire — The InCryptid series continues with Mary Dunlavy’s afterlife.
- Love and Other Paradoxes by Catriona Silvey — A romantic comedy involving a Cambridge poet and a time traveler.
- Luminous by Silvia Park — This debut, set in a unified Korea, follows two human siblings and their robot sibling during a murder investigation.
- Rose/House by Arkady Martine — A science-fiction thriller turns on a reported death in a sealed smart home that may be haunted.
- Rose of Jericho by Alex Grecian — Supernatural horror about a witch in nineteenth-century New England.
- The Sea Eternal by Emery Robin — The sequel to The Stars Undying brings empires, history, and romance together.
- The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison — The conclusion of the Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor.
- The Winter Goddess by Megan Barnard — An Irish-mythology reimagining follows a goddess who lives and dies as a mortal.
- The Witch Who Trades With Death by C.M. Alongi — A young witch escapes captivity and tries to build a life beyond her past.
March 18, 2025: 12 books
- The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn — A woman flees a marriage and discovers a dangerous family legacy in this fantasy thriller.
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones — Historical horror about a vampire haunting the Blackfeet reservation in pursuit of justice.
- The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth — A paranormal investigator finds evidence that her sister’s death was not what it appeared to be.
- The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley — A queer love story reimagines the Greek god Dionysus.
- The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal — In the Lady Astronaut series, Earth’s survivors prepare for Mars and encounter traces of a prior expedition.
- Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite — A cozy mystery aboard a generation ship combines body-swapping with murder.
- The Prince Without Sorrow by Maithree Wijesekara — This fantasy series debut, inspired by the Mauryan Empire, features hunted witches and political intrigue.
- Splinter Effect by Andrew Ludington — A time-traveling archaeologist seeks a menorah hidden in ancient Rome.
- The Third Rule of Time Travel by Philip Fracassi — A time machine built to observe one’s past becomes entangled with changes in the present.
- Transmentation | Transience: Or, an Accession to the People’s Council for Nine Thousand Worlds by Darkly Lam — Interdimensional societies are drawn into conflict after a training mission goes awry.
- Twice as Dead by Harry Turtledove — A hard-boiled Los Angeles mystery featuring supernatural creatures and a talking cat.
- White Line Fever by K.C. Jones — Horror set on a road called the Devil’s Driveway, with friendship and trauma at its center.
March 25, 2025: 14 books
- Dissolution by Nick Binge — A woman explores her husband’s memories to uncover a threat to reality in this techno-thriller.
- Elphie by Gregory Maguire — A story of Elphaba’s youth, before she becomes the Wicked Witch of the West.
- Exquisite Ruin by AdriAnne May — A dark romantic reimagining of the Minotaur myth.
- Gothictown by Emily Carpenter — A family moves to an apparently idyllic Georgia town where a darker reality emerges.
- Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose — A secret on an old VHS tape sets this horror mystery in motion.
- The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by E.M. Anderson — A queer cozy fantasy about an immortal ghost hunter and found family.
- Nowhere by Allison Gunn — A debut about disappearances in a small fundamentalist town and a family under pressure.
- The Serpent Called Mercy by Roanne Lau — Malaysian Chinese-inspired epic fantasy centered on an illegal monster-fighting arena.
- Slaying the Vampire Conquerer by Carissa Broadbent — A standalone novel set in the world of the Crowns of Nyaxia series.
- Space Brooms! by A.G. Rodriguez — A space custodian is drawn into a science-fiction smuggling adventure.
- Tideborn by Eliza Chan — The sequel to Fathomfolk brings a dragon queen, sea witch, and titan together in an underwater city.
- When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi — A science-fiction story built around the premise that the Moon turns into cheese.
The roundup includes 18 titles on March 4, 20 on March 11, 12 on March 18, and 14 on March 25: 64 books in all. Its descriptions identify a mix of standalone stories, debuts, and continuations, including books in the Tyrant Philosophers, Tomes & Tea, Shannara, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Lady Astronaut, and InCryptid series.
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