Best Books of 2023: Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Welcome readers, to the second of our Best Books of 2023 lists: Science Fiction & Fantasy! Absolutely an excuse for me to run up to booksellers — street-interview style — and demand to know their favorite world-building, magic-systems, and political messes (in SPACE!).

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See the source list and commentary at www.powells.com

A Day of Fallen Night

Samantha Shannon, 2023

Bookshops & Bonedust

Travis Baldree, 2023

Witch King

Martha Wells, 2023

To Shape a Dragon's Breath

The First Book of Nampeshiweisit

Moniquill Blackgoose, 2023

System Collapse

Martha Wells, 2023

Hell Bent

Leigh Bardugo, 2023

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

A new fantasy series set a thousand years before The City of Brass

Shannon Chakraborty, 2023

Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros, 2023

Cassiel's Servant

Jacqueline Carey, 2023

After the Forest

Kell Woods, 2023

Lords of Uncreation

Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2023

Starter Villain

John Scalzi, 2023

Some Desperate Glory

Emily Tesh, 2023

Translation State

Ann Leckie, 2023

Tress of the Emerald Sea

A Cosmere Novel

Brandon Sanderson, 2023

Counterweight

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher, 2023

Mammoths at the Gates

A Power Unbound

Freya Marske, 2023