Most Anticipated Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books Coming December 2022 According to Goodreads Members

It’s almost December and Goodreads has published the list of the most anticipated science fiction and fantasy novels to be released during the last month of the year. December is a pretty light month for posting, so that’s a relatively short list. Plus, voting for the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award is now open. You still have a few days to cast your votes and the winners will be announced on December 8th. What are you looking forward to reading this month?

• The Light Pirate

  • By Lily Brooks-Dalton

  • Published on December 6th

Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather and rising sea levels gradually ravage the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeast coast. Kirby Lowe, a power line worker; his pregnant wife, Frida; and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads into the high winds to look for them. Left alone, Frida goes into premature labor and gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, who she names after the catastrophic storm that ushers her into a society closer to collapse than ever.

As Florida continues to unravel, Wanda grows. Moving from childhood to adulthood, adapting not only to the changing landscape but also to the people who are left behind in a place abandoned by civilization, Wanda loses her family, gains community and ultimately seeks adventure, love and purpose in a place redone. from nature.

Told in four parts – power, water, light and time – The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes rapid, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It’s a meditation on the changes we’d rather not see, on the future we’d rather not welcome, and a reminder of the beauty and violence of an untameable nature.

• An endless fire

  • By Rebecca Ross

  • Published on December 6th

East and West. Humans and Spirits. Breccani and Tamerlaini. Cadence Island has always kept itself and its inhabitants in a tenuous balance. But now Bane, the spirit of the North Wind, has pushed everyone and everything in his path in an attempt to claim dominion over all.

In the West, Adaira struggles to adjust to the more brutal and harsh lifestyles among the Breccans. Struggling to find his place in the clan, he soon realizes it may be the last role he wants to fill. And as magic blossoms effortlessly for the Breccan in the west, the spirits continue to suffer under Bane’s harsh power, felt in every gust of wind.

In the East, Jack is adrift without Adaira until he sings to fire spirits as weak as embers, acquiring a dangerous mission he never expected. One that is meant to lead him westward. Similarly, Torin and Sidra are consumed by a new mystery as the disease spreads first among the crops and then to the people of Clan Tamerlaine. While Sidra desperately searches for a cure, Torin dares to make a deal with the spirits: a precarious madness at any time, but especially now as the days grow darker.

With the island falling further off balance, both humans and spirits will have to unite to face Bane, and Jack’s gift with the harp will be called upon once more. Yet no one can challenge the North Wind without paying a terrible price, and the sacrifice required this time may be more than Jack, Adaira, Torin and Sidra can bear to pay.

• The Lost Witch

  • By Paige Crutcher

  • Published on December 27th

1922. Brigid Heron is a powerful witch and healer in the seemingly lost, but charming town of Evermore on a forgotten island in Ireland. However, there is one thing she desires above all else: a child of hers all of her own. She is even willing to let herself be seduced by the mysterious Luc Knightly, head of the Knights coven, whose attraction is powerful and impossible to resist. When their child is born and falls ill, Brigid risks anything to save her daughter, even drawing on the forbidden magic of the Lough of Brionglóid. But when wild magic takes away her daughter, Brigid too is wiped out.

2022. Evermore is under siege. Knight’s witches used their chaos magic to widen the rift between the island and the Otherworld. The creatures of folklore prey on the villagers, consuming their own humanity.

Brigid awakens in this world with no memory of how she traveled to the future, but discovers that she helped unleash this curse on Evermore. To seal the lake and stop the Knight witches, she must team up with her magical descendants, Ophelia and Finola. But the knowledge she seeks lies within Luc Knightly himself: mysterious, handsome and powerful. To save Evermore, Brigid may have to lose everything once again.

• The citadel of forgotten myths

  • By Michael Moorcock

  • Published on December 6th

Elric is the estranged emperor of the Melnibonéan empire, grappling with his own nature as he desperately struggles to carry on with his dying empire coupled with a constant thirst for his soul-sucking sword, Stormbringer. Elric searches for the great Citadel of Forgotten Myths as he travels through the remnants of his empire with his tragic best friend Moonglum, while Elric searches for answers about the nature of the phroon from The Young Kingdoms. Set between the first and second books of the Elric saga, The Citadel of Forgotten Myths is perfect for longtime fans and newcomers to this epic fantasy series.

• In the West

  • By Mercedes Lackey

  • Published on December 6th

Baron Valdemar and his people have found temporary refuge, but he can’t hold them all, or for long. Trouble could follow at any moment, and there are too many people to back up for Crescent Lake. Those willing to take a further journey by barge to the West will follow him into a wasteland depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Wizard Wars. But the desert is not as empty as it seems. There are potential friends and rapacious enemies…

….and someone is watching them.