SFF Hot from Printers: New Releases discussion

Let's nominate for the last month of the winter of 2025/2026! We will continue reading SFFH works published in 2025, which may be suitable for reading and even nomination for the SFF Awards.

The usual rules apply: nominate up to 2 books for the month per member, one novel and one shorter piece, usually a novella, but a novelette and a short story are possible as well, published in 2025. The already published titles are preferred, because most libraries have a delay between when a book is out and when they get is (plus the queues)

Big: Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds
Little: What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher (this is book 3 of a series, but you don't need to have read book 2; the group read book 1 back in 2023)

Novel: Slow Gods by Claire North
Novella: The Apologists by Tade Thompson in Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 230, November 2025

Trying again since it came close last month, and I have a copy. :)
Novel: The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott

And since I've been reading this series lately (#2.5):
Novella: Lives of Bitter Rain by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Long: Queen Demon by Martha Wells

Short: Extremity by Nicholas Binge