Out This Week! 26th January 2026
26th January – The Regicide Report – Charles Stross
An occult assassin, an elderly royal and a living god face off in The Regicide Report, the thrilling final novel in Charles Stross’ epic, Hugo Award-winning Laundry Files series.
When the Elder God recently installed as Prime Minister identifies the monarchy as a threat to his growing power, Bob Howard and Mo O’Brien – recently of the supernatural espionage service known as the Laundry Files – are reluctantly pressed into service.
Fighting vampirism, scheming American agents and their own better instincts, Bob and Mo will join their allies for the very last time. God save the Queen― because someone has to.
Book 14 of the Laundry Files.
26th January 2026 – The Merged – TM Yomide
Three versions of one man on the same adventure, helping the same person find the same thing, in three different timelines.
Agent John Doe lived by routine—until one case tore reality apart, shattering him into three lives.
A fragile man in the future. A soldier in World War I. A warrior on in a dark realm of gods. One fractured man must make the sacrifice, for in a void awaits a being older than gods. And realities will break or endure by their choice.
The Merged is a multi-timeline cosmic horror fantasy that explores shattered realities, threads fractured identities, and evokes existential dread, all while unmasking the illusion of choice. One man, three realities, one fate. This is where the end begins another war, the stepping stone into a cosmic tale of survival, identity, and redemption.
29th January 2026 – The Hope – Paul E. Hardisty
In a ravaged future ruled by the descendants of those who caused the climate collapse, a teenager with a remarkable gift must flee for her life – and fight to save the last hope for humanity. The searing, unforgettable conclusion to the internationally acclaimed The Forcing trilogy.
The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster – sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save what’s left of human knowledge, hiding the last surviving books in a secret library beneath the streets of Hobart.
But Boo has a secret of her own: an astonishing ability to memorise entire texts with perfect recall. When the library is discovered and destroyed, she’s forced to flee – armed with nothing but the stories she carries in her mind, and a growing understanding of her family’s true past. Hunted and alone, and with the help of some unlikely allies, she must fight to save her loved ones – and bring hope to a broken world.
Spanning three generations before, during and after the fall, The Hope is the shattering conclusion to Paul E. Hardisty’s critically acclaimed climate-emergency trilogy – a devastating, visionary thriller that dares to imagine the possibility of redemption in the face of near-total collapse. In a dying world, it asks the most urgent question of all: what if there’s still time?
31st January 2026 – The Dead Planet – Brandon Q. Morris
The mysterious builders leave a trail through the local cloud, which the Majestic Draght follows—all those involved expect to reap enormous benefits from tracking down the remains of this advanced civilization.
But do the aliens even want to be found? In any case, a promising target turns out to be a disappointment. Here of all places, Marchenko and his alien friends realize that they need the help of the builders more urgently than they would like.
The celestial body they have headed for remains shrouded in mystery – and ultimately seems to be exactly what it appeared to be at first glance: a planet that has nothing to offer but death.
The Marchenko logfiles describe the incredible but always realistic adventures of an unusual crew in the immediate vicinity of the solar system.
Book 4 in The Marchenko Logfiles
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