Top new sci-fi books out this week: 28 Dec - 3 Jan 2026
Last updated:
January 3, 2026
This week featuring new releases by Victoria Aveyard, Adam Silvera, Sherry Thomas, Claire Kent, Katie Mettner, Scott Base and many more.
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Tempest by Victoria Aveyard
After an auction, Priyanka Krishnan at Harper Voyager has signed North American rights to bestselling YA author Victoria Aveyard’s adult fantasy debut, Tempest...romance · fantasy · outlaws · fiction · young-adult · anthologies · horror · historical · female-mc · dystopia -
No One Knows Who Dies at the End by Adam Silvera
Upcoming 4th installment of the Death-Cast Universe, this title was originally slated for the 3rd installment, but that was split into 2 books, and the title used for the second half. Official description has yet to be released... -
Prima by Sherry Thomas
A handsome prince comes across a beautiful woman on the open sea. She is lying on a primitive-looking raft, almost entirely naked... -
Ashes by Claire Kent
She needs to escape her stepmother, and the only prince available is him.Ever since my father died and my sister left, I've been trapped in a life of drudgery with a stepfamily as wicked as the storybooks say. Life after the apocalypse offers few choices, and I only have three. I can stay and be miserable. I can die in the wilderness. Or I can marry him... -
Deadly Security Breach by Katie Mettner
A deadly global threatLocks two women in a race against time When Iris Knowles is recruited to restore a hacked computer system, she’s afraid the traumatic brain injury that compromised her vision will keep her from completing the job she was trained to do. But the cybersecurity expert’s first sight of scientist Rebecca Roth instantly quells her fears, and sparks fly between the two of them... -
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Bad Space Volume 1 – Deluxe Edition by Scott Base
What if space wasn’t the final frontier, but a dead end?In Bad Space, Scott Base reinvents science fiction as a darkly comic reflection of our collapsing world. Forget heroic journeys and galaxy-saving crews — here, the robots are burnt out, the humans disillusioned, and the void offers more irony than answers. This isn’t sci-fi for escapists — it’s sci-fi for the end of the road...