A new year has begun, and you know what that means: new books! 2024 was an epic year in fantasy and science fiction, with tons of titles releasing from giants of the genre, debut authors, and everyone in between. 2025 promises to be another great year for genre fiction, and just like last year, we're covering it month-to-month to keep you up to speed on all the most exciting books hitting shelves.

January is a great month for books; there's a sweepingly ambitious literary sci-fi from one of the genre's current greats, a team-up between the daughter of Bruce Lee and the author of The Green Bone Saga, cozy fantasy, LitRPG, vampires, the latest sequel to Fourth Wing, and even a re-release of a modern sci-fi classic to make it more widely available. There's also some intriguing horror coming out this month, and since horror is kind of like the weird spooky cousin to sci-fi/fantasy,...