SFF180 🚀 Anticipated Science Fiction 2025

[@Katiesb]

I am so excited for The Unmapping!

[@UnicornHunterbooks]

I look forward to these videos every year. You’re so good at telling us exactly the info we need to get interested in each book. I actually have e-arcs of Death of the Author and Notes from a Regicide that I’m planning to get to while traveling this week. Also, dang, John Scalzi is busy.

[@SFF180]

Thanks very much! Yes, he definitely is.

[@susiebolt4021]

These are good picks. I've decided that my goal for 2025 is to read more books than I add to my TBR. My TBR is already so long that I need to figure out how to become immortal to get through it all.

[@Moco_Cork1]

"Where The Axe Is Buried" sounds so good.

[@adils14]

I always look forward to this video and your video on upcoming fantasy reads for the year. Your perspective is always appreciated and I love hearing about upcoming projects here that I wouldn't hear about elsewhere. Especially because many booktubers cover the same projects that fit more into the latest trends (romantasy, cozy fantasy etc.), that are fine, but not always what some readers are looking for.

[@cactcab]

Awesome list. I look forward to these videos at the end of every year!

[@KaylasBestie]

Thomas? Awesome, and im giving you a standing ovation .... I don't know how many times I had to pause to add said books to my TBR. I'm so looking forward to the other videos. You are appreciated. Take care!

[@SFF180]

Thank you, that feels very good to hear!

[@avsambart]

I didn't realise you were back and active again! I'm so happy! I hard agree there is a lot of literary sci-fi recently (looking at your goodreads choice awards) and it makes me sad.

[@SFF180]

I certainly don’t have a problem with literary sci-fi, being the child of a generation who was constantly having to defend sci-fi from preconceptions that the entire genre was innately juvenile and unserious as literature. At the same time though, it would be nice to see the actual SF shelves in bookstores once again filled with as much science fiction as I remember seeing in those days.

[@secretsauceofstorycraft]

Hey hey!!! I always look forward to these videos :) i havent found many new books I’m interested in so pumped to see what you found. I do agree with you about changes i’ve seen in publishing lately

[@joshramirez7]

Another great list, Thomas! The Tchaikovsky book sounds excellent...might have to try and import it early, if the tariffs don't ruin that...🤪

[@SFF180]

Yeah, maybe getting that pre-order in would be a good idea. 😅

[@mohammedarmanulhaq]

I was eagerly waiting for this video!🔥 Will be adding books mentioned in my TBR list!

[@SFF180]

That's the spirit!

[@JulieTheReader]

The Martian Contingency and Death of the Author were my most anticipated 2025 releases, but this has added at least 10 to my list.

[@booksvsmovies]

Thank you for the list. You have some of the most comprehensive sci-fi coverage on youtube!

[@SFF180]

Wow, thank you!

[@charliereadsalot]

Thank you for all your effort on these videos about anticipated releases. I look forward to them all year and I can't wait to watch the other two upcoming videos on Horror and Fantasy! I'm really excited for Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor. As an English Lit student, when I saw the Roland Barthes reference in the title, I immediately had to preorder it.

[@kellswitch]

I went into a B&N for the first time in a while, and wow what a change. A large chunk of the store had been turned into a toy/game section. And they actually separated out the fantasy from the science fiction, and the science fiction section was tiny in comparison. It was depressing. And most of the fantasy book were hardcover, while the scifi was a blend of hard and soft cover.

[@SFF180]

Yeah, it’s a sad trend.

[@ReadingRunning]

Look forward to these videos all year! Thanks Thomas

[@SFF180]

Thanks so much!

[@rafm3068]

This is one of the best channels for Sci-fi recommendations !! I placed a few books on my list thanks to this video!! Happy Holidays!! "Project Hanuman", sounds very interesting!!

[@the_eerie_faerie_tales]

15:34 bookmark.. gotta pause for now and come back in a bit when I can continue writing down all the ones I want to read 😄

[@SFF180]

That’s what I like to see!

[@kilimanjarocruz660]

Really excited for Doctorow, Tchaikowsky, Kowal and Scalzi books. But I also added a few unknown to me books/authors to my TBR, thanks!

[@leticiatoraci9855]

I'm looking forward to Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

[@advaitc2554]

Thanks!

[@SFF180]

Thanks so much for the generosity!

[@TheFran2555]

Amazing list , thank you so much, adding so much to my already giant tbr

[@ChaptersWeLove]

25 in 2025 😊 All the water in the world just reminded me of New York 2140 by Kim Stanley - I’m so looking forward to reading When the Moon Hits your eye!

[@laststorm7726]

love your videos. Always awaiting your uploads.

[@SFF180]

Thanks very much!

[@advaitc2554]

I just want to raise my hand as a big fan of all things cozy sci fi and fantasy. And thanks for all your great videos. Keep em coming. 😊❤

[@SFF180]

I definitely will, and hey, at least there’s something out there for just about everyone.

[@JoshsBookishVoyage]

Amazing kist as always. Thanks and i look forward to seeing rhe rest. These are some of my favorite things each year.

[@SFF180]

Thanks Josh, I really do appreciate it.

[@Chris-Huntley]

Hope fantasy and horror are just as big if not more.

[@bookswithabel]

Thank you for this great list!

[@SFF180]

My pleasure!

[@sorenkrane]

I clicked SO fast! Thank you for your good work 🎉 Brilliant list 🌟

[@SFF180]

You are most welcome!

[@AccipiterF1]

Orbital was barely science fictional, not that I disagree with your point. Thanks for the video. Definitely some interesting ones in here.

[@cj1986x]

Demon Queen by Martha Wells, the sequel to Witch King, is due out Oct 10th. This is one I'm looking forward the most. After that, I'm really looking forward to Okorafor's new one.

[@SFF180]

Martha’s book goes under fantasy.

[@the_eerie_faerie_tales]

I agree with your shirt 😂

[@devlyn873]

Excellent list!

[@SFF180]

Thanks Dev!

[@aMatoslegustaleer]

At last ❤

[@toddchapman3032]

Love these announcements videos! The background music makes it hard to process what you are saying.

[@SFF180]

Will keep that in mind. I try to keep it very low.

[@TeruoKasei]

Speaking of indie published books, did anyone else here read Torche Tombante: Kamiumi? If you want hard hard sci-fi, give it a look.

[@Fabulist]

Out of curiosity, if you want “stakes” why read cozy fiction at all? No (or low) stakes is literally the point of that type of story.

[@SFF180]

Yes I’m aware.

[@dougtricarico8344]

So why read anything in that vein? Life’s too short to read stuff you don’t like. I hate the “woke up without a memory” trope so I don’t read books which feature that. Seems like a form a masochism..

[@SFF180]

Where did you get the idea I’m seeking out material I don’t like?

[@TheShadoth]

"We're a quarter of the way through the 21st century..." No Thomas No SF is a hard sell at the editor level these years. Indie has kind of taken over that space. I do remember rolling my eyes at older folks complaining that the genre had changed and no one was publishing "real" science fiction any more. I guess I'm the older people now...

[@trevorcooper3268]

… and they don’t stop coming.