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New For You - Sci Fi - August 2026

Fiction fuelled by advanced technology - you'll find great new reads in this list.

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  • A thrillingly original and devastatingly moving novel that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human.
    Book, 2026London : Fig Tree, 2026. — SCIENCE FICTION ALD
  • Georgiana Darcy travels through time once more in this wildly amusing and entertaining sequel to Amelia Blackwell's A Crime Through Time, the first in the cosy crime timeslip series.
    Book, 2026London : Macmillan, 2026. — MYSTERY BLA
  • Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscured. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new…
    eBook, 2026London : Serpent's Tail, 2026. — DIGITAL
  • Ever since, Laura has tried to bury the past. But exactly two decades after Freya vanished, Laura wakes in her childhood bedroom. She is back in the body of her seventeen-year-old self. And it's the day of the disappearance again.
    Book, 2026London : Headline, 2026. — THRILLER ADA
  • The eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
    eBook, 2026Gig Harbor : Dandy House, 2026. — DIGITAL
  • As a boy, Nico once accompanied his mother on a research trip. One night, upon hearing her sneak out of their rented cabin, he followed her to a clearing in the forest where he watched his mother climb a staircase and vanish. No one believed his…
    Book, 2026New York : Crooked Lane Books, 2026. — SCIENCE FICTION ROB
  • An epic and poignant story of sentient starships, galactic warfare, and the bonds a crew forms in the cold black of space.
    Book, 2026Crows Nest, New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, 2026. — SCIENCE FICTION NIX
  • Finding a human connection online has become impossible. Enter Liv: a dating app that matches people with dead bodies. Somehow, it has taken the world by storm. Millions of users are convinced that life with a corpse presents a better alternative to…
    Book, 2026New York : Run For It, 2026. — FICTION PIE
  • A graduate student discovers his girlfriend is a spy for an interdimensional agency and is pulled into a multiverse adventure featuring snarky starships and an evil cult.
    Book, 2026London : Angry Robot, 2026. — SCIENCE FICTION PRA
  • In a future ravaged by toxic fog and barren land, a woman struggles to survive with her son. As he nears deployment to a distant world where humanity wages a desperate colonial war, she meets a young man from a hidden sanctuary who may hold the key…
    Book, 2026Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2026. — SCIENCE FICTION TAK