SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
Titan Books, 18th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789097412 Altered Carbon and The Windup Girl meet “Apoca- lypse Now” when a young lieutenant in Hanoi’s criminal underworld is set against governments and corporations to save her city.
Brian Naslund Fury of a Demon Tor, 2nd September, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529016222 Epic conclusion to the Dragons of Terra tril- ogy. “It doesn’t get much cooler than this”—John Gwynne.
Courttia Newland Cosmogramma And Other Stories Canongate, 28th October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781786897091 Dark, incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternative future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures and the uncanny.
JT Nicholas Stolen Earth Titan Books, 21st September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789093155 Firefly meets Expanse in a future where humanity has destroyed the Earth through ecological disas- ter and warfare and a totalitarian state prevents any access to their home.
Xueting Christine Ni (ed) Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction Solaris, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781781088524 Great new collection of the best of modern Chinese science fiction, translated into English for the first time.
Lynette Noni The Gilded Cage Hodder & Stoughton, 7th October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529360417 Magical sequel to The Prison Healer from Austra- lia’s number one YA author.
Naomi Novik The Last Graduate Del Rey, 28th September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529100884 The Scholomance has always done its best to devour its students but now that El has reached her final year it’s suddenly developed a very particu- lar craving.
George Orwell The Classic George Orwell Collection Arcturus, 1st November, multiple item, £34.99, 9781838574420 Covetable five-volume box set brings together
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Ada Palmer Perhaps the Stars AdAstra, 7th September, hb, eb, £20, 9781786699602 In the final instalment of the Terra Ignota series, the long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end.
Christopher Paolini To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Tor, 16th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529046526 Masterful epic science fiction novel from New York Times bestseller.
KJ Parker A Practical Guide to Conquering the World Orbit, 25th November, pb, £8.99, 9780356514390 Razor sharp and intel- ligent fantasy from Parker set in the same world as the hugely popular Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City.
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Warhammer 40,000 Steve Parker, Ben Counter, Marc Collins, Justin D Hill, Nicholas Wolf et al 6: Deathwatch Black Library, 19th August, pb, £8.99, 9781789998252 Encounter all-action tales of alien-killing from a variety of authors in an anthology that showcases the Deathwatch at their very best.
Jackson Patricia Forging a Nightmare Angry Robot, 23rd November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857669223 Idealistic FBI agent tracks down a serial killer with an obsession for victims born with 12 fingers and toes and learns of his unearthly past in the process.
Susan Pennock Kingdom Matador, 28th October, pb, £9.99, 9781800464704 Margaret enters King- dom’s magical realm through a picture on the wall. She has just taken the first steps that will see her try and become King- dom’s saviour.
Benjamin Percy The Ninth Metal Hodder Paperbacks, 13th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473690080 A powerful new metal arrives on Earth after a meteor shower, triggering a massive new “gold rush” and turning life on its head. Explosive, breakout speculative thriller.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
Benjamin Percy The Unfamiliar Garden Hodder & Stoughton, 13th January, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781473690134 The next incredible book in The Comet Cycle series.
Marc Platt, Adjoa Andoh Doctor Who: Battlefield BBC Audio, 2nd Decem- ber, audiobook, £20, 9781529138542 Suspenseful novelisation of a classic adventure for the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
Katy Rose Pool Into the Dying Light Orbit, 23rd September, pb, £9.99, 9780356513560 The spectacular finale to Pool’s Age of Dark- ness trilogy, a YA fantasy blockbuster packed with magic, prophecy and adventure.
Jay Posey Every Star a Song HarperVoyager, 28th October, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008327170 Explosive sequel to Every Sky a Grave set far away in the future with a message about truth that hits home.
Menna van Praag
Night of Demons & Saints Bantam Press, 7th Octo- ber, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781787631687 A battle ends in a devas- tating loss and the scars they carry seem to have slowly pushed the sisters apart.
Terry Pratchett Hogfather Corgi, 14th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780552177306 The Discworld Christmas novel with a festive new cover and introduction by Tony Robinson.
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby The Ultimate Discworld Companion Gollancz, 11th November, hb, £20, 9781473223509 The absolute, compre- hensive guide, from Tiffany Aching to Jack Zweiblumen, to all things Discworld.
SERIES
Warhammer Chronicles Anthony Reynolds 9: Knights of Bretonnia Warhammer Chronicles, 30th September, pb, £15, 9781800260061 A land shrouded in myth and magic under siege from strange creatures of the forests and those fallen to the Dark Gods.
Kim Stanley Robinson The Ministry for the Future Orbit, 21st October, pb, £9.99, 9780356508863 From the visionary best- selling author comes a picture of climate change unlike any ever imagined.
Kim Stanley Robinson, Stanislaw Lem, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (tr) The Truth and Other Stories MIT Press, 14th September, hb, £32, 9780262046084 Twelve stories by science fiction master Lem, nine of them never before published in English.
Rena Rossner The Light of the Midnight Stars Orbit, 20th January, pb, £8.99, 9780356511498 Magical new standalone novel with an entranc- ing fairy tale feel from the author of the highly acclaimed The Sisters of the Winter Wood.
Marie Rutkoski The Hollow Heart Hodder & Stoughton, 9th September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529357516 Intrigue, romance and magic abound in the heartstopping conclusion to the Forgotten Gods duology.
Anthony Ryan The Pariah Orbit, 26th August, hb, £20, 9780356514550 Ryan returns with a block- buster epic fantasy series following the adven- tures of Alwyn Scribe, an outlaw who will become a champion and shape the fate of the world.
RA Salvatore Starlight Enclave Harper Voyager, 19th August, hb, £20, 9780063029774 New trilogy that will expand Salvatore’s world by introducing a new dark elven society while still including fantasy’s beloved characters from the Forgotten Realms.
RA Salvatore Relentless Harper Voyager, 5th August, pb, £9.99, 9780063085879 Displaced in time and unexpectedly reunited with his son Drizzt Do’Urden, Zaknafein has overcome the prejudices ingrained in him as a drow-warrior to help his son battle the ambitious Spider-Queen.
Brandon Sanderson Untitled Gollancz, 11th November, hb, £18.99, 9781473217935 Skyward 3 of 3.
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Te Stormlight Archive Brandon Sanderson Gollancz, 2nd September, hb, £16.99, 97814732333 Epic fantasy series contin- ues in these hardback editions. Words of Radiance 1 00 Words of Radiance 2 17
Oathbringer 1 20th January, 24
Oathbringer 2 31
Andrzej Sapkowski Warriors of God Gollancz, 26th August, hb, £18.99, 9781473226166 Second volume of the Hussite Trilogy depicts the adventures of Reyne- van and his friends in the years 1427-28 as war erupts across Europe.
Cavan Scott Star Wars: The Rising Storm Del Rey, 9th December, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529101911 The adventures of the Jedi of the High Republic era continue.
Mike Shackle A Fool’s Hope 2 Gollancz, 5th August, pb, £8.99, 9781473225251 Jia’s revolutionaries dig in their heels as they learn that wars aren’t won in a day.
Emily Skrutskie Oaths of Legacy Del Rey, 14th September, hb, £22.50, 9780593128923 A young prince will learn how much he’s willing to sacrifice as he tries to destroy the rebellion that threatens his throne in the exhilarating sequel to Bonds of Brass.
AJ Smith The Sword Falls Ad Astra, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786696946 Prince Oliver Dawn Claw, heir to the Kingdom of the Four Claws, is thrust into a world he doesn’t under- stand as he waits for his father to die.
Mary South You Will Never Be Forgotten Picador, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529041460 Brilliant, imaginative, original, satirical stories from an exciting young American writer. For fans of George Saunders and Ted Chiang.
Mark Stay
Babes in the Wood Simon & Schuster, 28th October, audiofile, £14.40, 9781398507180
pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471197994 The arrival of a trio of Kindertransport children in Woodville triggers a murder mystery which Faye Bright must solve. For fans of Lev Grossman and Terry Pratchett.
Andrea Stewart The Bone Shard Emperor Orbit, 11th November, hb, £16.99, 9780356514994 Unmissable sequel to The Bone Shard Daughter, one of the biggest fantasy debuts of 2020.
Simon Stålenhag The Labyrinth Simon & Schuster, 28th October, hb, eb, £25, 9781398509993 A world is covered by ruins and ash, the result of an otherworldly phenomenon that has ravaged the Earth’s atmosphere and forced the few survivors deep underground.
Ashley Stokes Gigantic Unsung Stories, 2nd September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912658145 Kevin Stubbs knows Sutton is stalked by a 9ft hominid. He sets out to prove that Bigfoot is living in London. But what if he got it all terribly wrong?
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Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Richard Strachan 6: Warcry Catacombs: Blood of the Everchosen Black Library, 5th August, pb, £8.99, 9781789998283 Delve beneath the war-torn Eightpoints and experience adventure, drama and excitement. 4: The End of Enlightenment 23rd December, 9781800260849 Explore notions of destiny and divinity through the lens of the Lumineth Realm-lords in a tale that pits the aelves against Nagash’s dread servants.
Charles Stross In His House Orbit, 13th January, hb, £18.99, 9780356516936 A new adventure begins in the bestselling world of the Laundry Files in a nightmarish vision of a Britain where magic has gone mainstream.
Charles Stross Invisible Sun Tor, 30th September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781447247593 Two parallel versions of America are trapped in a cold war and it’s heat- ing up fast. Extraordinary
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