Summer has arrived. It's time to head to the park for a picnic, lounge about on the beach, go camping, or whatever else you do to while away the days when the weather's warm and the days are long. And you know what goes well with all of those activities? Reading, obviously!
As we do most every month, we're rounding up a bunch of the most notable book releases in the science fiction and fantasy genres to make it easier for you to find your next favorite read. So pull up your Goodreads or Storygraph, and let's run through what's coming to bookstores in the month of June.
CRYSTAL WAR by Joshua Palmatier (Crystal Cities #3) — June 1
Crystal War is the third and final volume in the Crystal Cities trilogy from Joshua Palmatier, the author of series like The Throne of Amenkor and the Ley trilogy as well as the mastermind behind Zombies Need Brains, a small press dedicated to publishing sci-fi and fantasy short fiction anthologies. Palmatier's latest trilogy revolves around a failed mathematician and a mage struggling to command her magic who form an unlikely pairing that allows them to unlock the secrets of the crystalline forces inhabiting their world. Rebellion ensues as those secrets lead to even deeper revelations about the powers controlling the Crystal City of Iandolo, all leading up to the finale in Crystal War.
Devon Alamort, Lane Illea, and Dalton Trent have escaped the city of Iandolo, hoping to find refuge in Brovetto…with the Iandolan army on their heels. When they arrive, they find the city controlled by Prefect Raias Burdock, who attempts to arrest the entire group of refugees at the gate. But after being captured and imprisoned in Iandolo—with Lane sent to be executed and Devon tortured for the knowledge he possesses about how the magic within the Crystal Cities works—the two are willing to die rather than be retaken. Realizing that Lane could destroy him, even with his own Iandolan mages on hand, Burdock agrees to a stalemate, allowing Lane and the refugees into the city unmolested…but taking her parents, Dalton, and others as hostage.
Devon knows what the Iandolans are capable of when it comes to the treatment of their prisoners, and Lane has no intention of leaving her mother in Burdock’s hands for long. Both of them know it’s only a matter of time before Councilor Havvelan, Proctor Favian, and Prefect Arctus lead the Iandolan army down the wayfare to attack Brovetto. After the riots incited in Iandolo, those from Iridesque plan to wipe the rebellious city and all of its people out, no matter the cost. Lane, Devon, and the citizens of Luminesque have only a short time to prepare. But Brovetto is a shell, a mining city depleted of its resources by the voracious Council. Only three of its levels have running water, one entire section is a burned-out husk, and almost none of its lucent works. Lane and Devon face an impossible task:
Defend a city already half deserted with a handful of untrained mages and ordinary citizens as an army.
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A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST by M. H. Ayinde (Invoker Trilogy #1) — June 3
A Song of Legends Lost is the debut epic fantasy novel from M. H. Ayinde and the first volume in the Invoker Trilogy. It's pitched as a tale of "revenge and rebellion" where a "reckless king implements an ill-fated plan to end a thousand-year war." That alone sounds intriguing, but A Song of Legends Lost also includes science fantasy elements and ancestral magic, which is wondrous and perilous by turns. The story primarily follows Temi, a commoner whose magical ability to invoke spirits leads to unexpected dangers, spiraling outward into a story of epic proportions. This one is on my personal TBR for the month and I've heard nothing but good things from those I know who've read it.
The people of Nine Lands know their history. The kingdom once belonged to the Scathed people, until their greyblood servants rose up and slaughtered them. King Ahiki and his warlords laid claim to the realm by defeating the rebels and driving them out to the Feverlands.
Now, thousands of years later, attacks by the greybloods are rebuffed by the invoker clans, warriors of noble blood who summon their ancestors to fight with them in battle. But the war has gone on too long. A general draft is called to take the battle to the Feverlands and defeat the greybloods once and for all. A plan that seems doomed to fail.
When Temi, a commoner, accidentally invokes a powerful spirit, she believes it could be the key to ending the centuries-long war. But not everything that can be invoked is an ancestor, and some of the spirits that can be drawn from the ancestral realm are more dangerous than anyone can imagine.
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THE TWO LIES OF FAVEN SYTHE by Megan E. O'Keefe — June 3
If you enjoy space operas, Megan E. O'Keefe is an author who should be on your radar. She has two series out so far, The Protectorate and The Devoured Worlds. Both are finished, because O'Keefe writes at lightning speed. I've read some of The Devoured Worlds and thoroughly enjoyed it, so anytime she releases a new book, I know it's reason to sit up and pay attention. And now you do too!
The Two Lies of Faven Sythe is a standalone space pirate book which sees a fearsome pirate named Bitter Amandine contracted by a "crystborn" named Faven Sythe to track down the remains of a legendary lost ship in a space graveyard called the Clutch. "Crystborn" are humans fused with crystalline godlike energy who can chart paths through the stars. As with any good pirate story, there are ulterior motives and secrets aplenty which are sure to come out in explosive fashion as the pair get nearer their goal.
The Black Celeste is a ghost story. A once-legendary spaceship collecting dust in a cosmic graveyard known as the Clutch. Only famed pirate Bitter Amandine knows better, and she’ll do anything to never go near it again. No matter the cost.
Faven Sythe is crystborn, a member of the near-human species tasked with charting starpaths from station to station. She’s trained to be a navigator her entire life. But when her mentor disappears, leaving behind a mysterious starpath terminating in the Clutch, she is determined to find the truth. And only Amandine has the answers.
What they will find is a conspiracy bigger than either of them. Their quest for the truth will uncover secrets Amandine has long fought to keep buried – secrets about how she survived her last encounter in the Clutch, and what’s really hidden out there amongst the stars...
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GALAXY GRIFTER by A. Zaykova (Blackjack Interstellar #1) — June 3
Sticking with the theme of intergalactic scoundrels, our next book is Galaxy Grifter, the first volume in A. Zaykova's Blackjack Interstellar series. It's a "snarky, high-stakes space opera" about a con artist named Levi whose beloved ship is claimed as collateral on a debt he owes. This brings him into contact with a coder who can help him pull off the heist he needs to get it back, except she's also in debt and has her own ideas about how to use their score. It sounds like a pretty fun time!
Levi is an interstellar con artist: all charm, no conscience. His only real love is his spaceship, Caerus—his symbol of status and freedom—which he is forced to surrender as loan collateral to the most dangerous gang in his current quadrant. Desperate to get his ship back by any means necessary, Levi swindles a valuable antimatter-tech blueprint from an alien diplomat, which he plans to sell for millions of credits to the highest bidder.
To decode the document, Levi hires Vera, a programmer whose inherited debt keeps her trapped on an asteroid in the galactic backwaters. Certain that Levi is merely using her, she plans to steal the blueprint for her creditors and finally gain her freedom.
Their alliance is plagued by fiery sexual tension, betrayals, and an impossible choice when they learn that an alien government intends to use the stolen technology to plan humanity’s genocide and that they will stop at nothing to retrieve their plans.
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BLACK SALT QUEEN by Samantha Bansil (Letters from Maynara #1) — June 3
Another debut novel coming out in June is Black Salt Queen, a sweeping fantasy novel from Filipino-American author Samantha Bansil. The first book in the Letters from Maynara duology, it's being compared to the works of authors like Andrea Stewart and Tasha Suri, which is good news if you've been itching for similar stories.
Black Salt Queen is the story of a queen of an island nation whose rule is fading and whose succession is uncertain. It's replete with elemental magic, political and familial drama, and mythological undertones.
Hara Duja Gatdula, queen of the island nation of Maynara, holds the divine power to move the earth. But her strength is failing and the line of succession gives her little comfort. Her heir, Laya, is a danger—a petty and passionate princess who wields the enormous power of the skies with fickle indifference. Circling the throne is Imeria Kulaw—the matriarch of a traitorous rival family who wields recklessly enhanced powers of her own—with designs to secure a high-ranking position for her son and claim the crown for her family. Each woman has a secret weakness—a lover, a heartbreak, a lie. But each is willing to pay the steepest price to bring down her rivals once and for all.
Filled with passion, romance, betrayal, and divine magic, Black Salt Queen journeys to a gorgeous precolonial island nation where women—and secrets—reign.
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SHROUD by Adrian Tchaikovsky — June 3
Adrian Tchaikovsky is one of the most notable authors in the science fiction space right now, best known for his Shadows of the Apt series, his Children of Time series, and a bunch of other novels. He's won a number of awards including the Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award, and continues to crank out books with remarkable consistency. One of his latest is Shroud, a standalone sci-fi novel where humans have discovered an eerie and inhospitable black moon which cannot support life but is rich in resources. And since it can't support human life, of course people are going to get stranded there.
This month marks the U.S. release date of Shroud; it's already been out the in the UK for a few months, but now you can get it no matter which side of the pond you live on.
They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . .
New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists – and a commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon that is pitch black, but alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is anathema to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud.
Under no circumstances should a human end up on Shroud’s inhospitable surface. Except a catastrophic accident sees Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne doing just that. Forced to stage an emergency landing, in a small, barely adequate vehicle, they are unable to contact their ship and are running out of time. What follows is a gruelling journey across land, sea and air. During this time, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud’s dominant species. It also begins to understand them . . .
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BEE SPEAKER by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Dogs of War #3 — June 3/June 12
Surprise, it's another book from Adrian Tchaikovsky! What, didn't you just hear me call him remarkably consistent? This is what I mean!
Bee Speaker is the third book in Tchaikovsky's Dogs of War series. It takes place in a future where society has bioengineered human-animal hybrid beings to fight its wars. The Bioform main character of the first book, Rex, has both human and canine DNA. By the end of the second book, the people of Mars had pulled away from Earth and found stability thanks to the help of Bees. But that tentative peace on Mars was never going to last, especially when the ruins of Earth remain close enough to tempt the Martians to help their neighbors.
Bee Speaker has two release dates listed: the hardcover came out on June 3, and the ebook is slated for June 12. So plan accordingly, depending on your reading preference!
The end of the world has been and gone.
There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Only scores of storms, droughts, and selfish regional conflicts. Humanity was not granted a heroic end. Instead, it bled to death from a thousand cuts.
But where Earth fell apart, Mars pulled together. Engineered men and beasts, aided by Bees – an outlawed distributed intelligence – survived through co-operation, because there was simply no alternative.
Fast forward to today. A signal – 'For the sake of what once was. We beg you. Help.' – reaches Mars.
How could they refuse? A consortium of Martian work crews gather the resources for a mission: a triumphal return to the blue-green world of their ancestors. And now here they are – three hundred million kilometres from home.
And it has all already gone horribly wrong.
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THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott (The Witch Roads #1) — June 10
Next up we have another novel from a seasoned vet of genre fiction: Kate Elliott, the author of such series as Black Wolves, Court of Fives, Unconquerable Sun, and dozens of other books. You can always bet on a Kate Elliott book being a very solid read, and this month, she'll be launching a new duology with The Witch Roads. In this epic fantasy, social status is strictly stratified. The story follows a lowborn courier, Elen, who is caught up in the political machinations of a bigheaded prince who of course ignores Elen's very good advice and gets seemingly changed in magical ways by a haunted spire which no reasonable person would have entered.
One bit of exciting bonus information about The Witch Roads: the second book, The Nameless Land, is already written and slated to come out on November 4 of this year. So if you enjoy this one, you won't have to wait long to see what happens next!
When an arrogant prince (and his equally arrogant entourage) gets stuck in Orledder Halt as part of brutal political intrigue, competent and sunny deputy courier Elen—once a child slave meant to shield noblemen from the poisonous Pall—is assigned to guide him through the hills to reach his destination.
When she warns him not to enter the haunted Spires, the prince doesn’t heed her advice, and the man who emerges from the towers isn’t the same man who entered.
The journey that follows is fraught with danger. Can a group taught to ignore and despise the lower classes survive with a mere deputy courier as their guide?
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BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL by V.E. Schwab — June 10
Another huge release hitting shelves in June is Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, the latest book from V.E. Schwab. Schwab is best known for her magical realism books like A Darker Shade of Magic, Vicious, and recent genre-defying standalone fantasy book The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. This new book sounds like it's in a similar vein to Addie LaRue, telling a tale of several women across time that digs into themes of immortality and hunger.
This is a story about hunger.
1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.
This is a story about love.
1827. London.
A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.
This is a story about rage.
2019. Boston.
College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge.
This is a story about life—how it ends, and how it starts.
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FLIGHT OF THE FALLEN by Hana Lee (Magebike Courier #2) — June 10
Next on our list we have Flight of the Fallen, the second novel in Hana Lee's Magebike Courier duology. Magebike Courier kicked off last year with Road to Ruin, introducing readers to a Mad Max-inspired sci-fantasy world where daring couriers ride magically enhanced motorcycles between disparate cities, keeping society functioning amidst the wasteland. It also had a strong polyamorous element, as courier Jin was caught between a prince and his betrothed princess, with a mess of complicated emotions about their shared future.
By the time the dust had settled, Jin had helped them to find a happy ending and secure a future for the city of Kerina Sol. But Jin suffered a heavy price to see it done, which will spiral outward into the explosive next chapter of the series.
Jin-Lu should be happy. Princess Yi-Nereen of Kerina Rut and Prince Kadrin of Kerina Sol have reunited after twelve long years, having survived a near-apocalypse. They are safe and in love—thanks to Jin—and they want her to join them for their upcoming nuptials in Kerina Sol.
But their happy ending came at the cost of Jin’s.
Jin lost everything in the fallout of saving the world. Now she’s Talentless, scrabbling to eke out a living in the lowest echelons of society. All she wants is to be left alone with her shameful secret, but the storms that sweep the wastes have other plans.
When refugees from a fallen city flood into Kerina Sol, the delicate balance between Talented and Talentless shatters. With tensions rising and civil war looming, Yi-Nereen, Kadrin, and Jin must join forces again to save their own people and the refugees.
Now their salvation lies beyond the wastes, in the mythical home of the gods: the First City.
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SIX WILD CROWNS by Holly Race (Queens of Elben #1) — June 10
From the desolate wastes, we had next to fantasy with historical undertones. Six Wild Crowns is the new epic fantasy novel from Holly Race and the first book in her Queens of Elben series. It's a reimagining of the story of the wives of Henry VIII, except there are more dragons, more magic, and plenty of sapphic yearning and courtly intrigue. It flips the story of Henry's wives on its head in some interesting ways, turning rival queens into unlikely allies who have to unravel the lost truths behind their island's magic.
As tradition has it, the king of Elben must marry six queens and magically bind each of them to one of the island's palaces or the kingdom will fall.
Clever, ambitious Boleyn is determined to be her beloved Henry's favorite queen. She relishes the games at court and the political rivalries with his other wives. Seymour is the opposite - originally sent to Boleyn's court as a reluctant spy and assassin, she ends up catching Henry's eye and is forced into a loveless marriage with the king.
But when the two queens become the unlikeliest of things - friends and allies - the balance of power begins to shift. Together, they uncover a dark and deadly truth at the heart of the island's magic. Boleyn and Seymour's only hope of survival rests on uniting all six of the rival queens - but Henry will never let that happen.
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THE FOLDED SKY by Elizabeth Bear (White Space #3) — June 17
June is truly is bounty for readers. Another heavyweight genre fiction author releasing a new book this month is Hugo Award-winner Elizabeth Bear, who's publishing the next installment in her White Space science fiction series. The Folded Sky is about Sunya Song, an information specialist and historian who has to travel across the Milky Way in order to commune with a moon-sized AI which "holds the key to humanity's survival amidst cosmic challenges and unforeseen threats." It sounds like an absolutely epic sci-fi story, and with Bear's track record, you can pretty much count on it being a solid read that will be extremely hard to put down.
Information doesn’t want to be free. Information wants to vanish without a trace.
Sunya Song’s job is to stop that from happening.
She’s an archinformist: a specialist historian whose job usually involves sitting at a console at her university job near the Galactic Core, sorting ancient documents and restoring corrupted files.
But now, the research opportunity of a lifetime has sent her—along with her teenage children and alien wife—halfway across the galaxy to preserve the data and aid in the retrieval of the archaeological find of the century: an ancient alien artificial intelligence called Baomind. As vast as a stellar system, the Baomind orbits a dying red giant, and the star’s time has nearly ended.
The isolated research station and its small fleet of ships come under attack by fanatic Freeport pirates who believe that artificial intelligence is an abomination that must be destroyed, putting the lives of Sunya and her family at risk.
Tens of thousands of lightyears from home, isolated from all help, Sunya is the only one who can save them all.
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WEARING THE LION by John Wiswell — June 17
This is a fun one. Someone You Can Build A Nest In author John Wiswell is back this month with his new book, the standalone fantasy Wearing the Lion. It's a fresh take on Greek myth that features a himbo Hercules who wants nothing more than to please the goddess Hera. The only problem is "Aunti Hera" hates him and accidentally kills his children. This sets Hercules on the path for revenge as he searches for the god responsible. Except he really doesn't seem to be made for revenge, and instead ends up completing each of his famed trials in heartwarming fashion. It's hard to put a new spin on a story as well-trod as this, but Wiswell seems to have cracked it in a really fun way.
Sometimes a goddess's worst enemy is her biggest fan.
Heracles, hero of Greece, dedicates all his feats to the goddess Hera. If only he knew that his very face is an insult to her...as he is yet another child that Hera’s dipshit husband, Zeus, had out of wedlock.
“Auntie Hera” loathes every minute of Heracles’ devotion, until she snaps and causes an unspeakably tragic accident: the death of Heracles' children. Plunged into grief and desperate for revenge, Heracles is determined to find the god that did this.
Wracked with guilt and desperate to save face, Hera distracts Heracles with monster-slaying quests, only to find that he is too traumatized to enact more violence. Instead, Heracles cares for the Nemean lion, bonds with the Lernaean hydra, and heeds the Ceryneian hind.
Each challenge adds a new monster to Heracles' newfound family. A family that just might lay siege to Mount Olympos.
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IF WISHES WERE RETAIL by Auston Habershaw — June 17
This is another fun one, which makes it an ideal summer read, really. If Wishes Were Retail is a lighthearted romp which follows a teenage girl who desperately wants to leave her small town and discovers that a wish-granting genie just happens to be hiring helpers for his kiosk at the local mall. Habershaw has described this book as an "80s-style screwball comedy" influenced by comedy movies of the time. Will this new partnership between young Alex and the Jinn lead her to her dreams, or will so many hijinks ensue that she forgets what she wanted in the first place?
Alex Delmore needs a miracle. She wants out of her dead-end suburban town, but her parents are broke and NYU seems like a distant dream.
Good thing there’s a genie in town—and he’s hiring at the Wellspring Mall.
It’d help if the Jinn-formerly-of-the-Ring-of-Khorad knew even one thing about 21st-century America. It’d help if he weren't at least as stubborn as Alex. It’d really help if her brother didn’t sell her out to her conspiracy theory-loving, gnome-hating dad.
When Alex and the genie set up their wishing kiosk, they face seemingly-endless setbacks. The mall is failing and management will not stop interfering on behalf of their big-box tenants.
But when the wishing biz might start working, the biggest problem of all remains: People are really terrible at wishing.
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ENGINES OF WAR by R.S. Ford (The Age of Uprising #3) — June 17
Back to the realm of epic fantasy, R.S. Ford is capping off his Age of Uprising trilogy this month with Engines of War. The series began in 2022 with Engines of Empire, introducing readers to the industrial nation of Torwyn, its powerful but cutthroat Guilds, and the Hawkspur family. Much has changed since the Hawkspur heirs forged through their own personal struggles in disparate lands, with matriarch Rosomon Hawkspur maneuvering events to secure her family's place for the next generation. Here at last, the family is united and ready to face the Ministry and the Archlegate who holds the capital of Torwyn.
Though the Guilds have scored a decisive victory against the Ministry, Sanctan Egelrath still holds Torwyn’s capital in his iron grip. Each day the Guild army marches closer, ready to unleash its fury. But the Archlegate has no intention of losing, and even if the Guilds take the Anvil, Sanctan intends to call upon greater powers to secure his final victory.
Beset on all sides, Rosomon Hawkspur is presented with a dark bargain to secure victory – one that carries a heavy price. Faced with the prospect of defeat, she must ask herself: is winning the war worth such sacrifice?
With her children ready to fight alongside her, there is at least some light to dispel the shadow of war. But each of them is much changed, and the path to victory may be more treacherous than any of the Hawkspurs can possibly imagine…
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HEART OF THE WYRDWOOD by RJ Barker (The Forsaken Trilogy #3) — June 24
Another series getting a final volume this month is The Forsaken by RJ Barker with the release of Heart of the Wyrdwood. Barker is the author behind The Wounded Kingdom and The Bone Ships, but his wild imagination has never been on fuller display than with his latest work. The Forsaken is a trilogy of ancient magical forests, gods and monsters. The final book in the trilogy begins in an hour of darkness, as the Forester and former warrior Cahan is captured, leaving his allies adrift as the world edges ever closer to destruction.
Cahan Du Nahare is lost, taken by a dark god whose tendrils reach throughout the world, intent on its destruction. Those who followed Cahan are spread across the land, desperate and lost now fate has turned against them. The Reborn warriors are toys for the enemy, the warrior Dassit, forestal Ania and monk Ont are drawn to the dangerous north but do not know why. Udinny is forced into the company of a woman who desires nothing more than her death and the Rai, Sorha, leads a dwindling band on a mission even she believes is doomed to failure. Only the trion Venn remains hopeful, slowly growing in power and trusting in the path of their god.
But maybe all is not lost. The great Wyrdwoods of Crua may be ancient and slow to act, but something in them is waking.
Wyrdwood is coming.
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THE LAST VIGILANT by Mark A. Latham (Kingdom of Oak and Steel #1 — June 24
We end the month with the start of a new series: Kingdom of Oak and Steel by Mark A. Latham. Latham has written a number of books, including several adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the Victorian sci-fi novel Apollonian Casefiles, and more. But his latest book is the beginning of a new saga, and if you're into epic fantasy, it may pique your interest.
The Last Vigilant is set an a world where "magic is forgotten, monsters lurk in dark woods, and honorable soldiers are few." It follows a wizard whose skills have long since faded and an impulsive soldier who are forced together to solve a deadly mystery which threatens to upend their kingdom. It sounds like a perfect fit for fans of authors like John Gwynne, James Islington, or Ryan Cahill. Plus, the cover art is gorgeous.
Shunned by the soldiers he commands, haunted by past tragedies, Sargent Holt Hawley is a broken man. But the child of a powerful ally has gone missing, and war between once peaceful nations is on the horizon. So, he and his squad have been sent to find a myth: a Vigilant. They are a rumored last survivor of an ancient and powerful order capable of performing acts of magic and finding the lost. But the Vigilants disappeared decades ago. No one truly expects Hawley to succeed.
When he is forced to abandon his men, he stumbles upon a woman who claims to be the Last Vigilant. Enelda Drake is wizened and out of practice, and she seems a far cry from the heroes of legend. But they will need her powers, and each other, to survive. For nothing in the town of Scarfell is as it seems. Corrupt soldiers and calculating politicians thwart their efforts at every turn.
And there are dark whispers on the wind threatening the arrival of an ancient and powerful enemy. The Last Vigilant is not the only myth returning from the dead.
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So concludes our round-up of new fantasy and science fiction books coming this June. What will you be adding to your TBR?
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