A Deluge of SFF New Releases

In the future when humans have a colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing and a Holmesian investigator named Mossa traces him to Valdegeld, where the colony’s university makes its home. There she finds her former girlfriend Pleiti, a scholar of pre-collapse Earth’s ecosystems, who has made her life’s work a possible return to humanity’s homeworld. A simple missing person’s case soon becomes an investigation with implications on the future of life on Earth.

In 1834, Collette’s grandfather bestowed upon her the highly questionable gift of eternal life. Nearly 150 years later, she’s a lonely artist who must guard her secrets closely even as she runs an elite fine arts program for children. But her routine is upended by the arrival of a new student who comes from a troubled home, who heralds the return of a stalker from her past — and a mysteriously growing hunger for blood within herself.

When her 11-year-old son Santiago dies, Magos cuts a piece from his lung in accordance with a folktale and nurtures the piece of flesh until it grows into a carnivorous, sentient little creature that she hides in the walls over her family estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to look and act like the old Santiago, but his innate and monstrous impulses cannot be entirely curbed by his family’s care.