A new Magic: The Gathering novel is coming next summer for the reading enjoyment of Magic fans.
The novel, Kamigawa: Moon over the Neon City, is being published by Penguin Random House and will release on July 6, 2027 in hardcover (preorder $31), eBook (preorder $14), and audiobook. The first edition hardcover will include a limited-edition Magic: The Gathering card from the world of Kamigawa with all-new artwork.
Kamigawa: Moon over the Neon City is written by Akemi Dawn Bowman -- the same author behind the audiobook Generation Misfits, which is a story about an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl who finds her true friends via the power of J-Pop music.
Here's Penguin Random House's description of the story:
Welcome to the neon streets of Kamigawa. Infiltrate the shadowy underworld of a glittering, cyberpunk city and uncover murder, betrayal, found family, and high-stakes magic, in this in this sweeping fantasy adventure.
Shion Moriyama was supposed to have a future. For years, she trained to become one of the legendary moth-riders of Eiganjo—until the brutal murder of her mentor ended her dreams. The Imperial samurai assured Shion they would uncover the identity of her mentor’s mysterious killer. But as the years pass, Shion realizes: If justice is to be had, she will have to find it herself.
Vowing to succeed where everyone else has failed, Shion goes undercover in Towashi’s underworld, hunting for the truth inside one of the city’s most notorious gangs—the Reckoners.
Working alongside the people she most suspects, her search leads her to Ka, a thief with dangerous secrets and ties to a shadowy mission far bigger than a single murder. Forced into an uneasy alliance, Shion joins Ka on a desperate quest to recover a mysterious piece of lost technology that blurs the line between spirit and machine.
But the deeper Shion digs into her mentor’s death, the more she uncovers a complex web of lies stretching from the streets of Towashi to the heights of the floating city above. With strained loyalties crumbling and vengeance threatening to consume her, Shion must decide what kind of legacy she wants to claim: one built on revenge, or one forged by mercy.
