AFTER A MAGICAL APOCALYPSE, Detroit teems with spells and spirits, and a rogue mage finds a million-dollar ritual. Smart, witty fantasy. B PLUS

MINIMUM WAGE MAGIC (DFZ BOOK 1)
Aaron/Bach
2018

A QUIET LIFE TURNS complicated in Yasmina Reza’s latest novel, as staid sixty-somethings become accomplices as well as friends. B PLUS

BABYLON (HARDCOVER)
Seven Stories Press
2018

AN ANCIENT MYSTERY ON MARS must be solved before a settlement gets taken over by corporate raiders. Smart, vividly drawn space adventure! B PLUS

THE MUSIC OF MARS
Year of the Book
2018

MURDER AT COMIC-CON: an artist has to solve the mystery before cops pin the crime on him. Sharp, richly detailed whodunnit. B PLUS

THE CON ARTIST (PAPERBACK)
Quirk Books
2018

VIVID, GRIM FABLE of a generation of mutated children and their uneasy exile. Thoughtful and terrifying. B PLUS

ONE OF US (HARDCOVER)
Orbit
2018

SHARP CORPORATE THRILLER with a clever plot and a fierce, intriguingly flawed heroine. B PLUS

THE ASSISTANT: A JESSICA WARNE SPY NOVEL (EMERALD CITY SPIES BOOK 1)
Adventurous Ink
2018

SEARINGLY FRANK MEMOIR of illnesses acute and chronic, addictions to love and drugs, and the dislocations of being Iranian in America. B PLUS

SICK (PAPERBACK)
Harper Perennial
2018

GORGEOUS VOUDOU STEAMPUNK set in an alternate New Orleans: spirits and airships and deep secrets abound. A MINUS

THE BLACK GOD’S DRUMS
Tor.com
2018

A BORING SUBURB WITH A SECRET: three misfits try to figure out the quirks in their seamless existence. B PLUS

THE MALTINGS
Nathan T. Kaminski
2018

A DEVASTATED EARTH, BATTLING pandemic and nuclear fallout, sees interstellar travelers return. Last in a trilogy. B PLUS

TERRAN TOMORROW
Tor Books
2018