Most Anticipated Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books Coming March 2023 According to Goodreads Members

Goodreads recently shared its list of sci-fi and fantasy books Goodreads members are most excited about for the month. What are you most excited to read this next month?

• The Foxglove King

  • By: Hannah F. Whitten

  • Published on March 7th

When Lore was thirteen, she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire. And for the next ten years, he’s lived by one rule: don’t let them find you. Easier said than done when her deadly magic binds her to the city.

Mortem, magic born of death, is an illicit and expensive commodity in Dellaire, and Lore’s work in poison management keeps it in food, shelter, and relative safety. But when a race goes awry and the power of Lore is revealed, she is captured by the Presque Mort, a group of warrior monks authorized to use Mortem to work for the Holy King. Lore fully expects a pyre, but King August has a different plan. Whole villages on the outskirts of the country died overnight, seemingly randomly. Lore can use her magic to find out what’s going on and who is responsible in the king’s court, or die.

Lore is thrust into the glittering court of the Holy King, where no one can be trusted and even less trusted. Protected by Gabriel, a duke turned monk, and who keeps clashing with Bastian, August’s evil-doer heir, Lore grapples with politics, religion and a forbidden romance as she tries to navigate a debauched and opulent society .

But the life she left behind in the catacombs is catching up with her. And even as Lore makes her way through the saints’ court above, they may get closer than she thinks.

• The God of the end

  • By: Jacqueline Holland

  • Published on March 7th

Collette LeSange is a reclusive artist who runs an elite fine art school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: She has endured centuries of turmoil and anguish in the wake of her grandfather’s decision to make her as immortal as he. Now, in 1984, Collette finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled family, the return of a persecutory presence from her past, and her mysteriously growing hunger.

• The lies of the Ajungo

  • By: Moses Ose Utomi

  • Published on March 21st

They say there’s no water in the City of Lies. They say there are no heroes in the city of lies. They say there are no friends beyond the City of Lies. But would you believe what they say in the city of lies?

In the City of Lies, they cut out your tongue when you turn thirteen, to appease the terrifying Ajungo Empire and make sure it keeps sending water. Tutu will be thirteen in three days, but his dry mother won’t last that long. So Tutu goes to his oba and makes a deal: she supplies his mother with water, and in return he will travel to the desert and bring back water for the city. Thus begins Tutu’s quest for the safety of his mother, his city, and himself.

• The imitation of known hits

  • By: Malka Ann Older

  • Published on March 7th

At a remote, gas-shrouded outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. Enigmatic investigator Mossa tracks him to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university and Mossa’s ex-girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems.

Pleiti has dedicated his research and career to helping the greatest effort toward a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti’s assistance in his latest investigation, the two embark on a tortuous path where the future of life on Earth and, possibly, their future together, is at stake.

• Antimatter blues

  • By: Edward Ashton

  • Published on March 14th

Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bats are chirping and, to his surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive, the latter part thanks almost entirely to Commander Marshall’s belief that the colony’s creepy neighbors are holding a antimatter. bomb, and that Mickey is the only one stopping them from using it. Mickey is just another settler now. Instead of cleaning out the reactor core, these days he spends his time cleaning out the warrens. It’s not a bad life.

It won’t last.

It may be sunny now, but winter is coming. The antimatter that powers the colony is running out, and Marshall wants his bomb back. If Mickey agrees to retrieve it, he will give up the one thing that kept his head off the block. If he refuses, he could doom the entire colony. Meanwhile, the creepers have their own worries and won’t hand over the bomb without getting something in return. Once again, Mickey finds the fate of two species in his hands. If something goes wrong this time, though, he won’t be back.

• The faithless

  • By: CL Clark

  • Published on March 7th

The rebels have won and the empire is retreating from Qazal. But unraveling the tangled web that binds the two nations won’t be easy, and Touraine and Luca will face their greatest challenge yet.

Luke needs to oust his uncle from the throne of Balladairan once and for all and take his rightful place as queen. But she won’t let go of power so easily. When she requests a “Trial of Competence” and Luke’s allies start disappearing from her side, she will have to find a way to prove her strength. And does she know someone she can help…

Touraine has found a home in the new free country of Qazal. But he soon realizes that leading a country and leading a revolution are two very different tasks. And more importantly, if Luca’s uncle doesn’t ratify the treaty, the Qazalis could go full circle.

Together, the two women will have to overcome their enemies, their history and their heartbreak to find a way to secure the power of Luca and the freedom of Touraine.

• Loki’s ring

  • By: Stina Leicht

  • Published on March 28th

Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The Tempest, is used to leading her crew on simple rescue and rescue missions. But when she receives a frantic distress call from Ri, the artificial intelligence she’s trained from the very beginning, making her like a daughter to Gita, she knows she’s about to face something much more dangerous.

Ri is trapped deep within the Ring of Loki, an artificial solar system of alien origin, and says that everyone in the vicinity has been infected and killed by a mysterious contagion. Gita and her team investigate, only to discover horrors around every corner, and soon find themselves stranded, leaving them vulnerable to infection and attack.

Forced to call in an old friend to help them get out of this mess, Gita must succeed or risk losing everyone she’s ever loved.

• Flow

  • By: Jinwoo Chong

  • Published on March 21st

In FLUX, a brilliant debut in the vein of William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Lin Ma’s Severance, Jinwoo Chong introduces us to three characters—Bo, Brandon, and Blue—who are tortured by these questions as their lives spiral out of control.

* After 8-year-old Bo loses her mother in a tragic accident, her white father, trying to keep their lives together, gradually begins to withdraw from the family.

* Brandon, 28, loses his job at an old magazine publisher and is offered a new position. Confused to find himself in an apartment he doesn’t recognize and an office he sometimes doesn’t remember leaving, he comes to suspect that something far more sinister is going on behind the walls.

* 48-year-old Blue participates in a televised exposé of Flux, a failed bioelectrical tech startup whose fraudulent activity ultimately claimed the lives of three people and nearly killed him. Blue, who can only speak with the help of cybernetic implants, goes after her old manager while keeping her estranged family at arm’s length.

Intertwined with the saga of a once iconic 80s crime show, Raider, whose star has fallen after decades of covert abuse, the lives of Bo, Brandon and Blue intersect with each other, to the point that it becomes clear that their lives are more interconnected and interdependent than the reader could ever have imagined.

Can we really change the past or the future? What truth do we owe our families? What truth do we owe ourselves?

• Feed them silence

  • By: Lee Mandelo

  • Published on March 14th

What does it mean to “be in the wild” with a non-human animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s case, being out in the wild with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate his animal subject’s perception through his mind, Sean intends to pursue both his scientific curiosity and his secret and lifelong desire to experience the intimacy and freedom of the wolf. To see the world through the eyes of animals; smell the dense forest of olfactory messages; even taste the blood and entrails of a fresh kill. And most importantly, feel that you belong in the pack.

Sean’s tireless pursuit gives her the chance to make that dream come true, but pursuing it comes at a terrible cost. His obsession with work endangers his frayed relationship with his wife. Her research methods threaten his mind and her body. And the attention of her VC backers could destroy her subject, the beautiful wild wolf whose mental world she is invading.

• The strange

  • By: Nathan Ballingrud

  • Published on March 21st

Since Anabelle’s mother left for Earth to care for her sick mother, her days in New Galveston have been spent at school and her nights at her father’s diner with Watson, the family kitchen engine and the dishwasher as only companion. When the Silence came and communications and shipping from Earth to its colonies on Mars broke down, life seemed frozen in an ominous stasis until the night Silas Mundt and his band attacked.