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Rae Ryan
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Diverse Science Fiction and Fantasy Coming out March 2025

March has some exciting new releases in science fiction and fantasy from diverse authors, including a few literary horror novels. All the links will take you to Bookshop.org which now sells e-books! In an effort to avoid buying from Amazon, I encourage everyone to buy from Bookshop.org instead.

The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica - March 4, 2025

Cover of the Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica is displayed on an iPad leaning against a black planter
This literary horror novel by the author of Tender is the Flesh will have you questioning what is real and what's a mirage.

In a world drowned by rising seas, one woman seeks salvation in a convent's sacred walls. But beneath the rituals of the Sacred Sisterhood lies a darker truth—and her only chance at freedom may be the stranger who makes her question everything she's forgotten.















Oathbound by Tracy Deonn (Third in the Cycle) - March 4, 2025

Oathbound by Tracy Deonn is displayed on an iPad leaning against a black planter
Oathbound is book three in the well-loved Legendborn series, and we've been promised a television adaptation of this modern twist on the King Arthur legend brought to life with Southern Black Girl Magic.

They say you can't outrun fate. But Bree Matthews did something more dangerous—she made a deal with it. Now she's the Shadow King's protégé, and the very powers she needs to protect her loved ones might be what destroys them all.















The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar - March 4, 2025

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar is displayed on an iPad leaning against a black planter

Readers know and love Amal El-Mohtar for This is How You Lose the Time War. Her latest work takes on the land of the Faerie and the bond between sisters.

The Hawthorn sisters tend their enchanted willows with songs of gratitude. But when Esther's heart leads her to Faerie, she'll learn that some magic demands a higher price than blood.
















The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones - March 18, 2025

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones is displayed on an iPad leaning against a black planter

Stephen Graham Jones was my entry point into horror, and fairly recently. Admittedly, I had to do the audiobook version of listening the goriest parts of his slashers between my fingers, which is skipping forward by thirty seconds only to land in the middle of a killer tearing the jaws off unsuspecting swimmers in My Heart is a Chainsaw. You've been warned and probably traumatized.

In 1912, a Lutheran priest wrote down Good Stab's confession. But some stories refuse to stay buried—especially when they're written in blood and sealed with 217 frozen Blackfeet corpses.
















Installment Immortality - An InCryptid Novel by Seanan McGuire - March 11, 2025

Installment Immortality - An InCryptid Novel by Seanan McGuire is displayed on an iPad leaning against a black planter

Seanan McGuire has a masterful economy of words and description. I've not read this intrepid series, but I have read a few of her novellas in the Wayward Children Series, and I love them.

Mary Dunlavy has spent four generations keeping the Price children safe. Now Earth itself wants her to protect America's ghosts—but some hauntings are more dangerous than others, and even phantom nannies can get exorcised.
















The Sea Eternal by Emery Robin (Book 2)- March 11, 2025

The Sea Eternal by Emery Robin (Book 2) is displayed on an iPad leaning against a black planter

I have absolutely no idea what's going on here, but it made me look up the first book in the series, The Stars Undying, and it looks right up my space opera ally. I'll be picking up the first one after I finish the three audiobooks I have going simultaneously.

Between avenging her commander's death and surrendering to an oracle queen's touch, Captain Anita never anticipated discovering a secret that could shatter galaxies. Some loyalties can't survive among the stars.
















Children of Useyi by Moses Ose Utomi (Book 2)- March, 25, 2025

Children of Useyi by Moses Ose Utomi (Book 2) is displayed on an iPad leaning against a black planter

This West African-inspired book for teens and young adults features fat characters and found family that this genre desperately needs.

On an island where fighting is the only way to survive, Dirt thought winning was everything. Then a stranger washes ashore with monsters at his heels, and she discovers some battles can't be won in the ring.
















The Scorpion and the Night Blossom by Amélie Wen Zhao - March 4 2025

The Scorpion and the Night Blossom by Amélie Wen Zhao is displayed on an iPad leaning against a black planter

I can't even with this special edition hard back and sprayed edges of this book. Hailed as the perfect book for fans of Throne of Glass, this is the first book in a duology.

With demons devouring her world and her mother's soul fading fast, Àn'yīng has one chance: survive the immortal trials and win the elixir of eternal life. The only problem? The enigmatic competitor who's keeping her alive might be playing a far more dangerous game.













Happy reading!

/rae/