Some stories don’t simply change the setting—they change the rules. These Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books play with possibilities that can challenge familiar ideas about reality, technology, magic, time, or existence. Their different approaches give readers plenty of room to question what is possible within each story. Pick one when you want speculative fiction that refuses to stay predictable.
Rise of the Undead Empress (Volume 1)
by Lilith Marlowe
Release Date: June 12, 2026
Leukemia stole Lilith’s career, her beauty, and nearly her life. Then she awakens in the Eternal Lands as the one true Empress of the Undead. Armed with a soulbound scythe and an army of fragile skeletons, she must strengthen her territory, survive the Beast Tide, and conquer rival Lords—laying the foundation for an undead empire.
Gideon Irondell and the Magnet of Marjon
by Terence J. Murphy
Release Date: August 28, 2026
Fourteen-year-old Gideon Irondell comes from a people with no powers in a world ruled by those who have them. When signs emerge that he may be the legendary Quint—one able to wield all five abilities—Gideon and his three closest friends are drawn into a struggle involving the ruthless Kull Kalijan and the mysterious Magnet of Marjon. A fast-moving fantasy adventure about friendship, hidden power.
The Trial of Primacy (Path of Dragons Book 5)
by Nicholas Searcy
Release Date: September 1, 2026
Elijah Hart faces his toughest challenge yet in the epic fifth installment of this apocalypse adventure series from the author of Death: Genesis. The Trial of Primacy has finally arrived, pitting Earth’s mightiest champions against one another in a hostile environment filled with deadly surprises. Elijah is primed to compete, but he won’t face the Trial alone…
Artifacts
by John Walker and Grant Carson
Release Date: August 27, 2026
Able Monroe went out to the Nevada desert hunting space rocks. What his trowel strikes two meters down isn’t one of them. It isn’t anything he can name. And it’s far too big to dig up alone. Lucky for him, his two best friends came along for the ride. Able makes one mistake. He keeps digging.
Scion
by James Islington
Release Date: September 1, 2026
My job, when you think about it, isn’t so different from a lot of people’s. The more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the “killing people” part of it, I guess, but that’s a them problem: it’s been perfectly legal to take out lifers for ages. Besides, once ultrawealthy morons realised they had a way to live forever—limited resources be damned.
Navy Mage Thirteen
by Timothy Ellis
Release Date: September 5, 2026
The Navy Mage Program was an experiment that created the legend called Navy Mage One, and three Grand Mages. But the promise for more such squadrons was never fulfilled by the following eleven squadrons. Lewis Drake has what he wants, and his ultimate goal is near. Or so he thinks. Today is going to shake up his life. Today is going to change everything for him.
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