{"id":15094598,"date":"2026-04-01T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-april-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:42:38","slug":"the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-april-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The best new science-fiction books of April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/31160440\/sei291594389.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>A collection of stories set in George R. R. Martin\u2019s Wild Cards universe and a novel from The Expanse author James S. A. Corey are among the science-fiction books we\u2019re looking forward to this month<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2521638-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-april-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/31160440\/sei291594389.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>A collection of stories set in George R. R. Martin\u2019s Wild Cards universe and a novel from The Expanse author James S. A. Corey are among the science-fiction books we\u2019re looking forward to this month<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15094600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15094598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389.jpg",1350,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389-620x413.jpg",620,413,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389-940x627.jpg",940,627,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389.jpg",1350,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389.jpg",1350,900,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389-1340x894.jpg",1340,894,true],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389.jpg",24,16,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389.jpg",48,32,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389.jpg",96,64,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389.jpg",150,100,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15094598-sei291594389.jpg",300,200,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/science\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Science<\/a>","tag_info":"Science","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15094598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15094599,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094598\/revisions\/15094599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15094600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15094598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15094598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15094598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}