Fantasy & SF Bargain Book Box

Fantasy & SF Bargain Book Box

A signed copy of Rebecca Zahabi’s Collarbound, with the sequel alongside it.

The rest spans the full width of the genre. Samantha Shannon returning to the world of The Priory of the Orange Tree. Alex Aster’s instant number one on both sides of the Atlantic. Miles Cameron doing hard military SF properly. Lucy Kissick terraforming Pluto in a novel shortlisted for the Clarke Award. Adam Roberts on social media as a hive mind, which is exactly as unsettling as it sounds.

Plus gothic sapphic historical fantasy, a romantic fantasy that topped the Sunday Times list, a genre-bending debut about dreams, and Karen Lord’s quiet, humane take on first contact.

Epic fantasy, hard science fiction, and several books that refuse to sit in either camp.

1. Collarbound (Signed) — Rebecca Zahabi | RRP: $49.99
   A signed copy of Zahabi’s acclaimed debut — a richly imagined fantasy about magic, slavery, and exile, following a refugee mage and the collar that marks him. Political fantasy with real moral seriousness and a distinctive voice.
2. The Hawkling — Rebecca Zahabi | ISBN: 9781473234420 | RRP: $49.99
   The continuation of the Tales of the Edge sequence, deepening the world and raising the stakes considerably. Zahabi writes magic as a system of power and control rather than spectacle — and it pays off.
3. Blade of Dream — Daniel Abraham | ISBN: 9780316421898 | RRP: $49.99
   The second book in the Kithamar Trilogy, retelling the same year in the same city from an entirely different vantage point. A genuinely ingenious structure from one of fantasy’s most intelligent writers — and half of James S A Corey.
4. Among the Burning Flowers — Samantha Shannon | ISBN: 9781526694218 | RRP: $42.99
   A way into the extraordinary world of The Priory of the Orange Tree and A Day of Fallen Night. Samantha Shannon builds vast, dragon-haunted, politically dense worlds that reward every hour spent in them.
5. As Many Souls as Stars — Natasha Siegel | ISBN: 9781526684592 | RRP: $32.99
   The breakout gothic historical sapphic fantasy of 2025. Atmospheric, romantic, and genuinely eerie — Natasha Siegel writes longing and dread with equal skill.
6. A Dance of Lies — Brittney Arena | ISBN: 9781526681393 | RRP: $32.99
   The number one Sunday Times bestselling romantic fantasy — courtly deception, dangerous attraction, and the kind of propulsive plotting that has made this corner of the genre so dominant.
7. Plutoshine — Lucy Kissick | ISBN: 9781473233140 | RRP: $45.00
   Shortlisted for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award. A planetary scientist writes hard SF about terraforming Pluto — the engineering, the politics, and a mystery at the heart of the mission. Rigorous and genuinely gripping.
8. This Fragile Earth — Susannah Wise | ISBN: 9781473232327 | RRP: $39.99
   A near-future London where the technology running everything suddenly stops, and a mother and son must walk out of the city. Quietly terrifying and very well observed.
9. The This — Adam Roberts | ISBN: 9781473230903 | RRP: $45.00
   A novel about a social media platform that merges its users into a single consciousness — and what that does to the people left outside it. Adam Roberts writes ambitious, formally playful, Hegel-inflected science fiction unlike anyone else.
10. The Shadow Casket — Chris Wooding | ISBN: 9781473214897 | RRP: $59.99
    The second volume of the Darkwater Legacy — epic fantasy on a grand scale, with occupation, rebellion, and a large cast handled with real control. Chris Wooding writes momentum exceptionally well.
11. The Blue, Beautiful World — Karen Lord | ISBN: 9781399618885 | RRP: $24.99
    Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024. An elegant and humane novel imagining first contact playing out not through government channels but through culture, music, and the quiet work of extraordinary individuals.
12. Deep Black — Miles Cameron | ISBN: 9781399615037 | RRP: $59.99
    Military science fiction from a writer who brings the same tactical credibility to starships that he brought to medieval warfare. Miles Cameron does competent people under pressure better than almost anyone.
13. The Dance of Shadows — Rogba Payne | ISBN: 9781399612623 | RRP: $34.99
    A striking epic fantasy debut drawing on West African mythology, following a young man bound to forces he doesn’t yet understand. Ambitious world-building and a real sense of consequence.
14. Lucid — Oraine Johnson | ISBN: 9781399610155 | RRP: $49.99
    A mind-bending, genre-bending debut built around dreams and the dangerous business of entering them. Inventive, fast, and unlike the fantasy around it on the shelf.
15. Starside — Alex Aster | ISBN: 9781037202414 | RRP: $34.99
    An instant number one New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. Alex Aster writes romantic fantasy with enormous commercial momentum behind it — lush, high-stakes, and completely absorbing.
16. The Rising — Jo Riccioni | ISBN: 9780645498578 | RRP: $34.99
    Australian fantasy from an award-winning writer, continuing a series built on sharp characterisation and a world with genuine political texture. Jo Riccioni writes with unusual literary care for the genre.
17. To Bleed a Crystal Bloom — Sarah A Parker | ISBN: 9780008786281 | RRP: $52.99
    A hugely popular romantic fantasy with a devoted readership, built on lush prose, dangerous devotion, and a heroine kept in a cage she doesn’t fully understand. Beautifully produced and utterly consuming.