The best new science fiction books of June 2025

June's new science fiction includes a space opera from Megan E. O'Keefe Do you like your world ravaged by unstoppable and deadly viruses or technologies? If so, then June is your month, because we have everything from a contagion that makes people lustful to a neural chip that lets us turn off sleep. We've also got an environmental apocalypse from Inga Simpson in The Thinning, and I'm definitely in the mood for a slice of feminist body horror from E.K. Sathue pitched as American Psycho meets The Substance. Elsewhere, we have Megan E. O'Keefe's new space opera, which sounds intriguing, and Taylor Jenkins Reid's look at the 1980s space shuttle programme, Atmosphere. Those dastardly scientists are at it again, this time developing a neural chip that allows you to turn off sleep.