The best new science fiction books of August 2025, featuring Stephen King and Adrian Tchaikovsky

One of my most anticipated books of the year was released this month: a collection of news taking place in the post-apocalyptic devastation of Stephen King Stand. I love a good final story, and King did it so well in this amount of door of a book, published for the first time in 1978. How did the writers he invited to develop his “world” rate? Depressed by these visions of the future, I then plan to seek with New scientist The Annalee Newitz’s Cozier Take columnist, Automatic noodleswhich comes with jewelry robots and a kitchen. Thrillers (Artificial wisdom) to more literary sockets (Rod),, Star Wars At the latest of the prolific Adrian Tchaikovsky, let’s go reading it!

As Stephen King (Call me Annie Wilkes), I cannot overestimate my excitement about this anthology in which writers, including brilliantly terrifying tananariva, as well as a crowd of other big names, have been allowed to play in the world of King’s Stand. It takes place following a super-flow, which killed most of the population of the earth and presents great powers of good and evil. Stand is a seminal post-apocalyptic novel and I can’t wait to see how these writers imagine what is happening next. What a treat.

We love Adrian Tchaikovsky to New scientist (His novel Extraterrestrial clay I was a great success with our reading club) and I look forward to the latter in its terrible World Series, which imagines how Runaway technology turns to its masters. Here, Amri is struggling to survive in the “dynamity landscape of a broken and poisoned world” when a “God” named Guy Vesten falls from heaven.

This thriller takes place in 2050, because the world faces a climate disaster and needs a world leader to face “the apocalypse to come”. The two candidates are the former American president Lockwood and Solomon, the world’s first artificial political intelligence. Journalist Marcus Tully investigates when the creator of Solomon is murdered and rumors emerge from a global conspiracy. It’s an intriguing idea, and I’m really looking forward to seeing this one.

This comfortable news is from our Annalee Newitz columnist, and it looks like the thing to encourage us all. It takes place in the near future and follows the adventures of a pile of robots that installed a restaurant in San Francisco, while the humans of this city are recovering from a terrible war. Annalee wrote on this subject in a column here, to give you a flavor, and it is high on my list in August loaded.

Lucid By oraine Johnson

In a quasi-future version of Birmingham, the dreams of adolescent Joseph Jacobs draw it in a world where the boundaries between reality and illusion are blurred. The publisher compares this to Creation And The player ready.

This surreal novel takes place in the Capmeadow business park, where the employee Tom Crowley lost his daughter during a “work day of your daughter”. While it turns out that it was never there, Tom research in the “labyrinth of impossible corridors and multidimensional spaces” which is capmeadow.

Rod By Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall is a literary writer and this book seems to have elements of the fantastic on this subject, but I think that there is also enough of the novel of the concept of science fiction here to make one for fans of science fiction. It is the story of a fierce wind, Helm, which has castigated the Eden valley since dawn of time, and the chronicles of those who fought it – of a Neolithic tribe who tried to place it with a Victorian engineer who tried to capture him. Now, scientist Dr Selima Sutar, who measures him from his observation cabin, thinks that the end is near.

The last Star Wars’s novel is a new tale on the gang bad batch, in which they are on a mission to rebuild a refuge on an island devastated by a sea wave on Pabu, a small planet far from the claws of the Empire.

This graphic novel is described as a “nuclear fusion” of science fiction and fantasy. He sees a knight flee through the radioactive ruins of a land, pursued by a demon, his only weapon the same power that destroyed the world. Is it magical-or is it technology? The editor says it is a mixture of Tintin,, Blade runner And The dark tower – It’s a powerful mix, if you ask me!

Silly by Amil, translated by Archana Madhavan

This collection of stories from the South Korean author moves between science fiction and fantasy, including a vision of a near future where women are an endangered minority and two friends try to escape an establishment for those who can still give birth. I also like the sound of the tale taking place in the Grand Park Alps in South Korea, where residents of the exclusive installation live among the giant air purifiers – while these less wealthy live in the shade.

What an interesting idea: the publishers of this anthology asked 10 Iranian authors what Iran could look like in 2053, a century after the coup that overthrew the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh. The future imagined are varied, of Tehran which flows into a “large” pit “attracting tourists to that in which inter-dimensional voids reveal parallel universes.

This is the continuation of the space opera Ocean’S GodoriAnd even if it seems exciting – a space pilot, falsely accused of having murdered his family, Crash landed on the moon – I advise reading the first book before venturing into the second.

This is the conclusion of the trilogy of the Enlades of Johnstone, and takes place 18 months after peaceful extraterrestrials, the Enladons, escaped the claws of the American army.