It’s March, which means that there’s a whole new slate of books ready to crowd our bookshelves — books about robots, revolutions, and vast space empires to tear into.

Earlier this year, I mentioned that I’m trying to expand my reading horizons in 2017. Left to my own devices, I tend to sink into science fiction and fantasy novels, but I’ve been trying to whittle down my pile of other books lately. One book I recently knocked off the list is The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World by Abigail Tucker, which is an utterly fascinating look at our shared history with cats. Cats have been with us for millennia. Unlike dogs, which we domesticated, they sort of just showed up to hang out. As the servant of two cats, I thought it was an enlightening read.

Still, there are a bunch of really cool-looking science fiction and fantasy novels coming out in March that I’m looking forward to digging into.

Star and Nene are orphans who are part of a caravan of traders in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by rogue semi-sentient machinery and other monsters. When their caravan sees a satellite crash to Earth, Star ends up on a journey that takes her far from home. Aided by Quarrel, an ancient super-soldier, she has to learn to trust her unlikely allies as a long-sleeping war machine awakens in the desert, and threatens all of humanity.

In Kalfar’s debut novel, a Czech orphan grows up to become his country’s first astronaut.