Butterfly Effects
core novel 2026 InCryptid
Record
| First published | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.26 (810 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250375131 |
Synopsis
Sarah Zellaby, a Johrlac psychic known among her kind as a cuckoo, faces trial on her species' home world over her earlier transformation into a queen, a change that erased the memory of the man she loved from his own mind. Johrlac authorities arrive to hold Sarah accountable for that transformation, and with her fate on trial among her birth species, her family and allies must find a way across dimensional borders into a hostile telepathic world in order to reach her before judgment is carried out, setting the Price family and their cryptid allies against a society few of them understand or can safely navigate.
Where it sits
- Universe: InCryptid
- Series: InCryptid core; position 15 of 15 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Seanan McGuire
Notes
- From the series record (InCryptid): Multi-generation cryptozoologist family (the Prices/Hayleighs) vs. the Covenant of St. George; DAW. A 16th novel is anticipated by some third-party listings but is not announced on the author's own bibliography page, and is not registered (Article 2). McGuire has also published 50+ further InCryptid short stories/novellas (anthologies, bonus content, Patreon); deliberately deferred as Expanded Canon out of scope, per the same scale-driven deferral this project already applied to Oz's Famous Forty continuation books.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series InCryptid: position 15 of 15: previous Installment Immortality (2025)
Sources
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