SF&F Books To Look Forward To In 2021

Tor.com has published a list of 30 science fiction and fantasy books to look forward to in 2021. Despite the list being compiled by Tor.com's Christina Orlando, it contains books from other publishers. 

First, this list is only for the first half of the year. I had to cut myself off at some point, which was incredibly difficult. But I also know there are tons of books that haven’t been announced or don’t have publication dates yet, which just means we’ll get to do this all over again over the summer! (Of course, I’m keeping an eye on titles like Victoria Lee’s A Lesson in Vengeance (August 3), Freya Marske’s A Marvellous Light (November), She Who Became the Sun from Shelley Parker Chan (July 20), Summer Sons from Tor.com’s own Lee Mandelo (September), and Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim (July 6), and I’m not gonna suggest you should put those on your wishlist now, but I’m not NOT gonna suggest that).

Second, there are no sequels or next-in-series on this list. There are so many wonderful additions to established series coming out next year, including (but not limited to) the next Murderbot, Fugitive Telemetry from Martha Wells (March 27); Arkady Martine’s highly anticipated A Desolation Called Peace (March 2) which got pushed back from 2020, causing even more anticipation; the final addition to Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series, The Desolations Of Devil’s Acre (February 23); the last of Fonda Lee’s epic Green Bone Saga, Jade Legacy (September 21); and the next Dandelion Dynasty book, The Veiled Throne from Ken Liu (November 2). We’re also getting sequels from Zoradia Córdova (Illusionary, May 11), Bethany C Morrow (A Chorus Rises, June 1), Hafasah Faizal (We Free the Stars, January 19), Premee Mohamed (A Broken Darkness, March 2), Romina Garber (Cazadora, August 17), Isabel Ibañez (Written in Starlight, January 26), and Intisar Khanani (The Theft of Sunlight, March 23), Amanda Joy (A Queen of Gilded Horns, March 16), and Hannah Abigail Clarke (The Scratch Daughters, August 24)—to name a few.

Out of the 30 on the list, these are the ones that I am looking forward to. 

• A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel (February 2, Tordotcom Publishing)
• The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn Bowman (April 6, Simon & Schuster BYR)
• Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders (April 13, Tor Teen)
• A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (May 11, Tordotcom Publishing)
• Star Eater by Kerstin Hall (June 22, Tordotcom Publishing)
• The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison (June 22, Tor Books)