what’s new, 2026

July 2026

23rd • SF • J. D. Robb • Random in Death
23rd • history • Jennifer McNabb • Renaissance
21st • SF • Jen Williams • The Copper Promise
12th • SF • R. Z. Nicolet • The Cloak and Its Wizard
9th • SF • Ben Aaronovitch • The Masquerades of Spring
8th • publication • Defining Life: A Conversation, open access paper
7th • SF • Justina Robson • Natural History
2nd • evolution • Stuart Sutherland • A New History of Life

June 2026

21st • SF • Naomi Novik • Spinning Silver

May 2026

26th • SF • J. D. Robb • Payback in Death
24th • SF • Adam Mansbach • The Golem of Brooklyn
19th • literature • John Sutherland • Classics of British Literature
14th • mystery • Shelby Van Pelt • Remarkably Bright Creatures
10th • SF • Mur Lafferty • Chaos Terminal
5th • publication • Knowledge preservation in the era of big science and AI: strategies for sustainable scientific research, open access paper
3rd • complexity; ecology • Jake Fiennes • Land Healer

April 2026

24th • SF • Daniel O'Malley • Royal Gambit
19th • SF • Sarah Rees Brennan • Long Live Evil
8th • SF • Michael Mammay • The Misfit Soldier
6th • SF • Genevieve Cogman • The Dark Archive

March 2026

17th • SF • Adrian Tchaikovsky • The Doors of Eden
16th • physics • Don Lincoln • The Theory of Everything
6th • literature • Elizabeth Vandiver • The Odyssey of Homer

February 2026

28th • SF • Chris Sugden and Jen Sugden • High Vaultage
25th • SF • J. D. Robb • Encore in Death
22nd • SF film • Free Guy
22nd • literature • Elizabeth Vandiver • The Iliad of Homer
21st • SF film • The King's Daughter
20th • publication • TORCphysics: a physical model of DNA-topology-controlled gene expression, open access paper
19th • astronomy • Simon Newcomb • Astronomy for Everybody
19th • SF • Alastair Reynolds • The Prefect
16th • DNA • Sam Kean • Unlocking the Hidden History of DNA
14th • cognition • Daniel C. Dennett • From Bacteria to Bach and Back
2nd • SF • Robert Jackson Bennett • The Tainted Cup

January 2026

31st • Dracula • Sara Cleto, Brittany Warman • The Real History of Dracula
31st • publication • Evaluating ESNs against Lagged Input Regression Computation, abstract
31st • publication • Benchmarking the ORCA PT-1 Boson Sampler in Simulation, abstract
28th • engineering • Stephen Ressler • Understanding the Marvels of Medieval Technology
25th • SF • John Varley • Irontown Blues
20th • music • Robert Greenberg • Bach and the High Baroque
13th • SF • Benedict Jacka • Marked
10th • Python • Micha Gorelick, Ian Ozsvald • High Performance Python
6th • SF • K. B. Spangler • Digital Divide
2nd • quantum mechanics • Sean M. Carroll • The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics

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