#pubday

📚 Double pub day. Pull up. Two books dropping today and both of them belong in your hands.

✨ Year of the Mer by @ellethevillain

Yemi is a princess in exile. Her throne was stolen. Her family is gone. And the only one left who can help her get it all back is Ursla — the sea witch. This is a dark, bloody reimagining of The Little Mermaid that doesn't flinch. It goes deep into family legacy, war, grief, and what vengeance costs you. Rebecca Roanhorse called it the sapphic epic fantasy she needed. We're just saying.

✨ Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination by @audio.futurism

Before streaming. Before television. There was radio. And Black speculative writers were already building worlds in sound. carrington traces that overlooked history from the 1940s through today, including radio adaptations of Octavia Butler's Kindred and Toni Morrison's Beloved. This is the scholarship that fills in what the archive left out.

📚✨ Pub Day Tuesday. Pull up.

Today we're celebrating not one, but two titles dropping into the world — and your Sistah Scifi Siblings came ready.

📖 Legendborn Collector's Edition by @tracydeonn The #1 New York Times bestselling Legendborn Cycle — now in a faux leather, foil-flourished, sprayed-edge collector's edition that belongs on every Black fantasy reader's shelf. If you haven't read it yet, this is your sign. If you have, you already know.

📖 The Curse of Hester Gardens by @tamikadthompson A haunted house novel that refuses to stay in its lane. Gun violence. Grief. A public housing project stalked by something otherworldly. This debut is the book Jason Reynolds and Tananarive Due would write together, and we mean that with full respect.

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Two visionary writers. Two genre-expanding books. One major day for speculative fiction.

🌊 River of Bones and Other Stories by @rebeccaroanhorse Award-winning, razor-sharp, and unapologetically bold. This collection spans Indigenous futurism, space stations, horror, and a brand-new Sixth World novella set in the world of Trail of Lightning. Roanhorse continues to interrogate power, survival, and the American story on her own terms.

🌫️ The Ephemera Collector by @stayseajackson It’s 2035. Wildfire smoke blankets Los Angeles. Inside the Huntington Library, an archivist fights failing health, AI surveillance, and a looming corporate takeover, all while preserving Black memory and mounting an exhibition honoring Octavia E. Butler. Urgent. Lyrical. Unsettlingly plausible.

If you care about where speculative fiction is headed, start here. Celebrate both. Read boldly. Support visionary storytellers.

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Welcome to the Underground. The Secret World of Maggie Grey by @authorgranger is officially out today, and it’s giving hidden HBCU beneath Atlanta, legacy vampire bloodlines, necromancy majors, and Civil Rights–era magic that refuses to stay buried.

Maggie Grey thought her grandmother’s stories were folklore. Vampiric priests. Midnight covens. Secret conjurers. Turns out? They were history.

Now Maggie’s at Drew Collins University, where claws and fangs are normal, necromancy is a declared major, and her lineage, the most feared vampire bloodline in the Underground, makes her powerful… and a target.

Add a campus murder, a werewolf with generational beef, and a talking cat with opinions? Say less. This is legacy. This is magic rooted in Black history. This is dark academia with teeth.

If you love hidden worlds, bloodline drama, and morally messy tension, today’s the day.

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She’s trained. She’s focused. And she has something terrible to kill.

The Daughter Who Remains, Book 3 of the She Who Knows trilogy by @nnediokorafor, is officially out today.

Set in the same universe as Who Fears Death, this breathtaking finale brings us back to Najeeba, older, sharper, and fully stepping into her power.

She’s no apprentice. She’s no student. She’s a trained sorcerer (don’t call her sorceress).

With Dedan the glass maker and MorningStar the camel at her side, Najeeba returns to where it all began. This isn’t about learning magic. It’s about having the audacity to use it, no matter the cost.

Africanfuturism. Family. Courage. Healing. Consequence.

If you’ve been on this trilogy from day one, you already know this ending won’t play small. If you haven’t started? Now’s the time to fix that.

🎉📚 Happy Pub Day! 📚🎉

The Hospital at the End of the World by @justinckey is officially here.

Set in a near future where a global AI system controls medicine, this gripping debut follows a young medical student who enrolls in the last human-led medical school, only to uncover chilling secrets tied to a powerful corporation, a mysterious illness, and his father’s unexplained death.

If you like your sci-fi sharp, political, and unsettling in the best way, this one’s for you.

📚✨ PUB DAY ALERT ✨📚

Two new releases just dropped, and they’re not here to play.

🔥 Humboldt Cut by @allison_mick “This isn't just a debut—it's a revelation. A sensory experience that will make you forget where you are, Humboldt Cut gets under the skin and stays there.” —Neena Viel, author of Listen to Your Sister

🌒 Sundown Girls by @shellystrattonbooks “Stratton’s supernatural thriller explores the darkness that lingers in sundown towns and the forgotten stories of their victims. While the mystery will draw readers in, Naomi’s transformation and acceptance of her past will tug at heartstrings.”—Booklist

New books. Big energy. Zero excuses.

👉 Grab your copies now at www.sistahscifi.com or check them out at your #locallibrary.

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The Starseekers by @nicolegloverwrites is officially out—and it’s doing the absolute most in the best way possible.

Think Indiana Jones meets Hidden Figures, but make it magic-fueled, murder-adjacent, and set during the 1960s space race. 🌓🔮

Meet Cynthia Rhodes: 🧠 brilliant arcane engineer at NASA 📺 host of a magical educational show 🕵🏾‍♀️ amateur sleuth (it runs in the family)

When a cursed museum curator, a suspicious lab “accident,” and a stolen artifact collide, Cynthia and arcane archeologist Theo Danner uncover a conspiracy that threatens the space program itself. Magic, sabotage, pirate treasure rumors, and deadly enchantments? Yeah. Stakes = astronomical.

This is historical fantasy done the classic way—tight mystery, smart worldbuilding, and Black brilliance at the center—while still pushing the genre forward.