SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
finale to Stross’ alterna- tive-history trilogy.
Calder Szewczak The Offset Angry Robot, 14th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857669186 It is your 18th birthday and one of your parents must die. You are the one who decides.
Sabaa Tahir A Sky Beyond the Storm HarperVoyager, 9th December, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008411695 Prepare for the jaw- dropping finale of Tahir’s popular An Ember in the Ashes fantasy series and discover who will survive the storm.
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Te Time Police Jodi Taylor Hard Time Headline, 14th October, pb, £8.99, 9781472273185 There are always idiots who want to change history. But three young Time Police recruits are hot on their tail. Mostly. An irresistible spin-off from the Chronicles of St Mary’s. Saving Time Headline, 14th October, hb, £18.99, 9781472281074 The unlikeliest of Time Police recruits return for round three in irresistible series.
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Shadows of the Apt Adrian Tchaikovsky Tor, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 97815290504 Last three in the sprawling fantasy saga of war and empire by a winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award. 8: The Air War 00
9: War Master’s Gate 24
10: Seal of the Worm 48
Matt Thomas Anthracite Unbound Digital, 5th August, pb, £10.99, 9781789651478 A tale of parallel universes, unrequited love and Welsh world domination.
Tade Thompson Far From the Light of Heaven Orbit, 28th October, pb, £8.99, 9780356514321 Arthur C Clarke Award winner makes a trium- phant return to science fiction with this unforget- table vision of humanity’s future among the stars.
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Angry Robot, 14th December, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857669605 Enslaved by mute dicta- tors, Razvan learns their touch-language and works as a translator to survive. But war looms and his quiet life is about to get noisy.
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Warhammer 40,000 Gav Thorpe 1: Indomitus Black Library, 5th August, pb, £8.99, 9781789999631 The first Warhammer 40,000 novel based on the new edition of the game, packed with amazing action, fantastic characters and tons of intrigue. 3: Last Chancers: The Omnibus Black Library, 20th January, pb, £15, 9781800260054 Fan-favourite characters are thrown into another mission where chances of survival are slim and only the strongest will prevail.
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Te Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra Gav Thorpe 3: The First Wall Black Library, 19th August, pb, £7.99, 9781800260245 It’s time for Rogal Dorn’s defences to get their real test—the attention of Perturabo and the Iron Warriors.
Lavie Tidhar Osama Ad Astra, 2nd September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800245129 A private detective pursues a mysterious quarry—Osama Bin Laden—in the 10th-anni- versary edition of the World Fantasy Award- winning metafictional novel.
Lavie Tidhar The Hood Head of Zeus, 7th October, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781838931315 Lavie presents the myth of Robin Hood and his merry men in a viscerally entertaining, ominously subversive and poetically profane remixing of the myths and legends that shaped our nation.
Lavie Tidhar (ed) The Best of World SF Vol 1 Ad Astra, 7th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838937652 Twenty-six short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.
Jean Tiffon The Little Book of Fairy Tales EPA, 13th September, hb, £10.95, 9782379641381
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Illustrated throughout with antique chromo prints and beautiful lithographs. From fairies and witches, magicians and ogres, to fantastic creatures and childhood heroes.
JRR Tolkien, Carl F Hostetter The Nature of Middle-earth HarperCollins, 2nd September, hb, eb, £75, 9780008440572 Elegant slipcased edition presents for collectors the first ever publication of Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth.
JRR Tolkien The Lord of the Rings HarperCollins, 14th October, hb, eb, £150, 9780008471293 Sumptuous slipcased edition of Tolkien’s clas- sic epic of adventure, fully illustrated in colour for the first time by the author.
presented with striking cover designs.
Davide Vezzoli, Ivan (illus), Charlotte J March (tr), Wolf Graham (ed) Alter & Execraris Black Wolf Edition & Publish- ing, 18th January, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781913964085 Superhero urban fantasy centred on characters with special powers called Alter.
KB Wagers Hold Fast Through the Fire Harper Voyager, 19th August, hb, £20, 9780062887818 After a plea deal trans- forms a 20-year ore- mining sentence into NeoG service, Spacer Chae Ho-ki earns a spot on the team.
Heather Walter Malice Del Rey, 13th January, pb, eb, £8,99, 9781529101294 Darkly magical queer reimagining of Sleeping Beauty in which a sorcer- ess whose dark gifts earn her the hatred of a realm finds an unexpected bond.
Ron Walters Deep Dive Angry Robot, 11th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857669261 A video game developer faces the fight of his life when he finds himself trapped in a virtual real- ity world where nothing is quite as it seems.
H L Truslove, Marco Luna Alba Open World Adventure Books, January, hb, pb, eb, £30, £15, 9781913921040, 9781913921033 A uniquely ambitious interactive storytelling experience for adults with 19 impactful endings. Explore an uncomfortably familiar post-war world, make meaningful deci- sions, face your humanity and survive.
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Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Various 1: Direchasm Black Library, 30th September, pb, £8.99, 9781789998030 Direchasm has opened and the war is fiercer than ever. All-action short stories.
Jules Verne The Classic Jules Verne Collection Arcturus, 1st October, multiple item, £34.99, 9781398803718 Essential five-volume box set brings together the classic works of Verne
Matthew Ward Legacy of Light Orbit, 19th August, hb, £25, 9780356513423; 27th January, pb, £9.99, 9780356513447 Spectacular conclusion to Ward’s acclaimed Legacy series, an unmissable tale of war and intrigue.
Andy Weir Project Hail Mary Del Rey, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529100631 The only surviving astro- naut on a spaceship must find a way to save the planet before it’s too late.
Salt, 1st September, pb, £12, 9781784632410 Welby paints a terrifying and captivating vision of our near future and takes us on a vertiginous odys- sey into the unknown.
HG Wells The Classic H G Wells Collection Arcturus, 1st October, multiple item, £34.99, 9781839409509 Handsome box set brings together the most cele- brated works of the sci-fi master, presented in five paperback volumes with striking contemporary cover designs.
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Warhammer: Age of Sigmar CL Werner 2: Cursed City Black Library, 20th January, pb, £8.99, 9781789999471 Delve into the dungeons beneath the city of Ulfen- karn and discover the story behind the board game in this tale of thrill- ing adventure.
Django Wexler Blood of the Chosen Ad Astra, 7th October, hb, eb, £20, 9781788543224 Standing on opposite sides of a looming civil war, two siblings discover that not even ties of blood will keep them from split- ting the world in two.
Aliya Whiteley Skyward Inn Solaris, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786184733 Thoughtful, literary novel about conflict, identity and community after Earth makes contact with the seemingly harmless planet Qita.
Aliya Whiteley From the Neck Up and Other Stories Titan Books, 14th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789094756 Incredible short fiction collection by an author nominated for the Clarke, John W Campbell, Shirley Jackson, James Tiptree Jr and Saboteur awards.
Tad Williams Brothers of the Wind Hodder & Stoughton, 4th November, hb, eb, £20, 9781473646681 Long-awaited prequel to The Dragonbone Chair.
Venetia Welby Dreamtime
Lorraine Wilson This is Our Undoing Luna Press, 3rd August, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781913387655 hb, £19.99, 9781913387730 In a near-future Europe, biologist Lina Stephen- son works in the Rila
mountains. When an old enemy dies Lina is trapped with her vulner- able sister alongside the dead man’s family.
Johnny Worthen Of Kings, Queens and Colonies Flame Tree Press, 9th November, pb, eb, £9.95, 9781787585973 hb, eb, £20, 9781787585980 After the Unsettling of old Earth, the new civilised worlds are on the brink of war. Brandon of Hyrax gets ready to subdue Enskari and unite the system under his rules.
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Warhammer Crime Chris Wraight 1: Sanction & Sin Warhammer Crime, 16th September, pb, £8.99, 9781800260320 Anthology of nine short stories featur- ing the inhabitants of Varangantua.
Mimi Yu Empress of Flames Gollancz, 19th August, pb, £12.99, 9781473223141 Sisters torn apart by war, shapeshifters fighting to regain their long-lost magic and an empire in need of a leader.
Timothy Zahn Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy 2 Del Rey, 18th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529101942 Thrawn and his allies race to save the Chiss Ascen- dancy from an unseen enemy.
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