The best new science fiction books since September 2025 by authors, including Cixin Liu and John Scalzi

This month there are some science fiction heavy hits with new novels, from Cixin Liu and Stephen Baxter to John Scalzi. I am clicking to check Ian Mcewan’s endeavor to a flooded version of 2119-throp from drowning the world SaltcropS The late Mason Coyl tale for disaster in a new Martian colony, ExileIt also tempts me, as is more time to travel than the excellent Nicholas Binge.

This month we take a more classic route at the Book Club of New Scientists, checking the very delightful novel of Ursula K. Le Guin since 1974. DisplacedS Fir Read with us And see how it compares to the best of today’s science fiction. But back to September 2025 …

The literary writer turns to science fiction – not for the first time (who read 2010 Solar energy?). In his new novel, we have been moving since 2014, when a large poem is read aloud and then lost, never to be heard again until 2119, when the low -located areas of the United Kingdom were submerged. Scientist Tom Metcalfe looks back to the archives from the beginning of 21^Holy Century, marveling at the opportunities that life is offered then. Then he finds an idea that can lead to the “big lost poem” …

Here’s a treat for fans of The problem with three bodies – The collected short stories of Cixin Liu, which touch the first contact, machine intelligents and cosmological horror. There are 32 in total and promise us that everything from solar systems that are absorbed to planets that turn into spacecraft.

The character is the “heavenly birthplace” of millions of planets and humanity arrived there thousands of years ago, spreading to these worlds. When an unknown enemy sees the wealth of the hearth and wants to take it for himself, Commander Ula Bryen must come up with a plan to unite his various elements and fight. Will he learn and why did humanity come here first?

In an almost future version of Earth, coastal cities were flooded by seas filled with mutant fish. We follow Sailor Skipper, the youngest of three sisters who make their living, leaping plastic from the ocean and resold it. When she receives a encrypted request for help from her biggest sister Nora, who is looking for a cure for the failing cultures in the world, she and her other sister Carmen went through the sea – and a dying world – to find it. Kitasei is the author of The deep sky and Grail StardustAnd that sounds great.

At that time, the traveling police procedure, Detective Julia Torgimsen (good name!) Of retirement, was brought out of retirement to investigate the murder of a billionaire she worked with while undercover. But she finds two bodies – both are billionaire Bruno Donaldson … We loving Binge’s last science fiction thriller Dissolution here at ScientistSo I look forward to this one.

This is the seventh novel in scals Old man–S war Series. There is peace in the interstellar space in the interstellar space, but now the most advanced extraterrestrial species that humanity has ever encountered is on the verge of war – and the Earth is dragging into the conflict. Gretchen Trujillo, a medium -level bureaucrat, receives a secret mission that can change the future for humans and aliens.

Exile by Mason Koyil

I am very taken from the cover and assumption of this new novel by the author of William (which I liked), who unfortunately died earlier this year. It was placed in 2030, when a human crew arrives to prepare the first colony of Mars just to find the new base half -destroyed. The three robots, sent forward four years earlier to set it, must be questioned – but one of them is missing …

At a remote research station in the Kinsey Desert and her team find a strange copy in the sand. When Kinsey breaks quarantine and puts him inside, it soon becomes clear that the thing is looking for a new host.

It sounds like it steps on the line between horror, science fiction and fantasy – and this is a line that I like to see. Situated against the backdrop of environmental anxiety, he follows archaeobotist Nell as she excavates two bolgs bodies found in a fan of Sometheet as her body begins to show her “her own wildlife”.