One of the reasons I love Angry Robot is their enthusiasm for new authors. Paired with their commitment to mass market, they’ve allowed me to take a chance on dozens of new writers over the last few years, and all for the price of a few $7.99 paperbacks. That’s a rare and precious thing these days, and it’s worth supporting.

John DeNardo tipped me off to a trio of great-looking Angry Robot paperbacks arriving September 5. Here’s all the deets.

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The Uploaded by Ferrett Steinmetz (448 pages, cover by Joey HiFi)

Life sucks and then you die… a cyberpunk family drama from the ingenious author of Flex.

In the near future, the elderly have moved online and now live within the computer network. But that doesn’t stop them interfering in the lives of the living, whose sole real purpose now is to maintain the vast servers which support digital Heaven. For one orphan that just isn’t enough – he wants more for himself and his sister than a life slaving away for the dead. It turns out that he’s not the only one who wants to reset the world…

Ferrett Steinmetz is also the author of the ‘Mancer Series (Flex, The Flux, Fix). Read the first two chapters of The Uploaded at the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog.

Skyfarer by Joseph Brassey (352 pages, cover by Ignacio Lazcano)

An apprentice sorceress is dragged into a vicious quest across an endless sky in this Star Wars-inspired space fantasy

The Axiom Diamond is a mythical relic, with the power to show its bearer any truth they desire. Men have sought for it across many continents for centuries, but in vain. When trainee sorceress Aimee de Laurent’s first ever portal-casting goes awry, she and her mentor are thrown into the race to find the gem, on the skyship Elysium. Opposing them are the infamous magic-wielding knights of the Eternal Order and their ruthless commander, Lord Azrael, who will destroy everything in their path…

Skyfarer is the first volume of The Drifting Lands. Editor Michael R. Underwood had this to say about it on Facebook yesterday:

One week from today, Skyfarer (by Joseph Brassey), the first book I acquired & edited myself for Angry Robot Books, will be unleashed upon the world.

I am of course very biased, but this book is *amazingly* fun, and fans of Star Wars, Firefly, and Final Fantasy will be very likely to have a great time with the book. It’s got heroic sorcerers, badass evil knights, skyships, A+ sword fights (the author is a HEMA instructor), a family-of-choice airship crew, and all the fantasy adventure you could want in a compact package.

Read the first chapter of Skyfarer at the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog.

Immortal Architects by Paige Orwin (Interminables, Book Two; 480 pages, cover by Amazing15)

A thrilling futuristic thriller of ancient superheroes, sequel to Paige’s rich magical debut, The Interminables

Edmund Templeton, a time-manipulating sorcerer, and Istvan Czernin, the deathless spirit of WWI, are the most powerful agents of the magical cabal now ruling the US East Coast. Their struggle to establish a new order in the wake of magical catastrophe is under siege: cults flourish and armies clash on their borders. Perhaps worst of all the meteoric rise of a technological fortress-state threatens their efforts to keep the peace.

As if that weren’t enough, a desperate call has come in from the west. A superstorm capable of tearing rock from mountains is on its way, and it acting unlike any storm ever seen before. Who better to investigate than two old friends with the sudden need to prove themselves?

We covered the first volume, The Interminables, here. Read the first chapter of Immortal Architects (as usual!) at the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog.

All three books above will be available September 5, 2017. Each is priced at $7.99 in paperback, or $6.99 for the digital editions.

See all our previous coverage of the best upcoming SF and fantasy here.