Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
This month’s list comes to you from smoky orange skies and toxic lettuce, so what better time to distract ourselves with haunted seaside villages, mysterious salt pillars, and demon hunters? Robert Jackson Bennett’s fantasy detectives are on a new case,
This month, readers can dive into a variety of captivating sci-fi and fantasy novels. Laura E. Weymouth's "The Castle & the Cloister" introduces young mother Fia, a postulant of Honoria's sun goddess Raea, who embarks on a challenging mission to protect her infant child and the stability of her realm. Meanwhile, Kim Bo-Young's haunting novella "A Plagued Sea" explores the effects of a Lovecraftian tale on a secluded village, as bodyguard Mu-young struggles to balance her duty to protect the island with the terrifying apparitions that plague its inhabitants.
In Suyi Davies Okungbowa's final installment "Season of the Serpent" from the Nameless Republic trilogy, characters Danso, Lilong, and Esheme navigate the shifting political landscape as the continent of Oon faces the brink of a Third Great War, with relationships holding the power to reshape the world. Robert Jackson Bennett's "A Trade of Blood," the third installment of his ongoing fantasy-mystery series, promises to continue the genre's tradition of epic storytelling without the constraints of a trilogy.
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