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Fiction & Fantasy
Doctor Who: The Planet of Dust & Other Stories BBC Audio, 1st April, audiobook, £24.99, 9781529129540 Jon Culshaw, John Leeson, Terry Molloy, Louise Jameson, Dan Starkey and Geoffrey Beevers read seven stories from the legendary Doctor Who Annual of the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
Dan Abnett Embedded Angry Robot, 27th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857669254 A journalist gets himself to the front line by being chipped into the brain of a combat soldier but faces an even greater battle to return home.
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Warhammer 40,000: Bequin Dan Abnett Black Library, 4th March, hb, eb, £18,
battle with their shadowy counterparts, the infamous Cognitae, to discover the encrypted identity of the enigmatic, all-powerful King in Yellow.
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Dirk Gently vol 1 Douglas Adams Pan, 29th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529034 1: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency 585 Adams’ “thumping good detective-ghost- horror-whodunnit-time travel-romantic-musical- comedy-epic” and cult classic. 2: The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul 592 Funnier than “Psych”, more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge and shorter than War and Peace. 3: The Salmon of Doubt 608
Inimitable last collection is the ultimate must-have title for Adams fans.
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Te Beautiful Renee Ahdieh 2: The Damned Hodder, 18th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529368376 3: The Righteous Hodder & Stoughton, 8th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529368383 New York Times bestselling author returns with the second and third instalments of her sumptuous and sultry fantasy series.
1: Pariah
9781800260351 Pariah, spy and Inquisitorial agent, Alizebeth Bequin is all these things and yet none of them—an enigma, even to herself.
Sami Ahmad Khan New Dimensions in Science Fiction 6: Star Warriors of the Modern Raj University of Wales Press, 15th June, hb, eb, £60, 9781786837622 Pathbreaking study of India’s science fiction which investigates how mythology, ideology and technology shape contemporary SF.
WM Akers Westside Saints Harper Voyager, 13th May, pb, £9.99, 9780062854056 Critically acclaimed author returns with a second book set in the mysterious Westside of New York City following Gilda Carr’s hunt for the truth.
2: Penitent
9781789998511 The dedicated agents of the Holy Inquisition
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Jane Alexander The Flicker Against the Light and Writing the Contemporary Uncanny Luna Press, 1st June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781913387594 Exploration of the uncanny through short
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stories and an essay. The stories are specific to the technologies of our age and simultaneously recognisable as instances of the uncanny.
John Appel Assassin’s Orbit Solaris, 20th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781781089156 “Battlestar Galactica” meets “Golden Girls” in which a private investigator, spy, security chief and starship captain investigate a mass murder on a space station.
Stephen Aryan The Coward Angry Robot, 8th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857668882 Who will take up the mantle and slay the evil in the Frozen North? Not Kell Kressia. He’s done his part. Or at least, that’s what the stories say.
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Transformation Neal Asher Tor, 1st April, pb, eb, £9.99, 97815098685 1: Dark Intelligence 13
2: War Factory 20
3: Infinity Engine 37
No-holds-barred adventures set in Asher’s popular Polity universe.
Neal Asher Jack Four Tor, 10th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529049978 New standalone novel about the Polity universe.
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British Library Science Fiction Classics Mike Ashley (ed) 17: Spaceworlds British Library, 25th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780712353090 With the library’s matchless collection of periodicals and magazines at his fingertips, Ashley presents a stellar selection of stories set in the darkness beyond our atmosphere. 18: Future Crimes 20th May, 9780712353342 Science fiction meets crime in anthology exploring one of genre’s most popular themes, pitching detectives against time paradoxes, alien intruders, and AI gone bad.
Victoria Aveyard Realm Breaker Orion, 4th May, hb, £16.99, 9781409193944 Alliances are broken, betrayal walks in the shadows and the fate of
the world hangs in the balance.
Francesca T Barbini (ed), Francesco Verso (ed) Nova Hellas: Stories From Future Greece Luna Press, 30th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913387372 A harsh, dystopian journey with protagonists who are resilient, cunning and resourceful. They don’t just survive, they thrive.
James Barclay Queen’s Assassin Gollancz, 22nd July, pb, £16.99, 9781473202467 The time of the elves is over. This is the age of dragons.
Rena Barron Reaper of Souls HarperCollins, 17th February, hb, £12.99, 9780008302283 Before, Arrah was shamed by having no magic at all. Now, with demons on the warpath, she is the only one in the world who has it.
Max Barry Providence Hodder, 4th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529352078 From the award-winning author of Lexicon comes a mind-bending science fiction masterpiece in the tradition of The Martian and “Arrival”.
Max Barry The 22 Murders of Madison May Hodder & Stoughton, 22nd July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529352092 Thrilling speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space.
Melissa Bashardoust Girl, Serpent, Thorn Hodder, 18th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529379099 Captivating and utterly original Persian-inspired fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch is perfect for fans of Natasha Ngan and Naomi Novik.
Stephen Baxter World Engines: Creator Gollancz, 27th May, pb, £9.99, 9781473223240 The combined crews of crashed spaceships from different realities must work together to save themselves, escape the planet and discover how the World Engineers have altered the Solar System.
Bradley Beaulieu When Jackals Storm the Walls Gollancz, 4th February, pb, £10.99, 9781473223646
Fifth in the epic sword- and-sandals fantasy series of mystery, prophecy and death within the ancient walled city of Sharakhai, home to the Twelve Kings.
Bradley Beaulieu A Desert Torn Asunder Gollancz, 22nd July, pb, £18.99, 9781473233461 An orphan girl grows up to avenge her murdered rebel mother and overthrow the ancient, corrupt and magical regime of Sharakai.
Chris Beckett Two Tribes Corvus, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786499332 Thought-provoking novel about how humans define themselves and each other and what that means for our future. From an Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author.
Robert Jackson Bennett Shorefall: The Founders Jo Fletcher Books, 1st April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781786487902 Thrilling sequel to Foundryside, which Brandon Sanderson, author of Oathbringer, called exciting and added: “Prepare for ancient mysteries, innovative magic, and heart- pounding heists.”
Ian Stuart Black, Peter Purves Doctor Who: The Savages BBC Audio, 4th Febru- ary, audiobook, £20, 9781787538078 Purves reads gripping classic novelisation of a TV adventure featuring the First Doctor and his companions Steven and Dodo.
TC Boyle Talk to Me Bloomsbury, 13th May, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781526630001 How far would you go to save someone you love? And what if that someone was not human? Joyfully freewheeling, funny and profound.
Kim Bo-young, Sophie Bowman, Sung Ryu I’m Waiting for You HarperCollins, 7th April, hb, £12.99, 9780008433796 In this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, one of South Korea’s most treasured writers explores love, hope, destruction and the very meaning of existence in two pairs of interconnected stories.
Paul Braddon The Actuality
Sandstone Press, 18th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781913207168 Evie, a bio-engineered human replica, lives with her ‘husband’ and his servant. When knowledge of her illegal existence is leaked, she is forced into the terrifying world outside.
James Bradley Ghost Species Hodder Studio, 16th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529358100 In an intimate portrayal of high-concept big ideas, can we engineer ourselves out of a problem of our own making?
Max Brooks Devolution Del Rey, 10th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529101423 As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre passed unnoticed, unexamined—until now.
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Warhammer 40,000 Brutal Kunnin Black Library, 24th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789998269 Ork action at it’s finest. Join us for the next epic.
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Mike Brooks 14: Alpharius: Head of the Hydra Black Library, 29th April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781789998450 Book 14 in the much loved series.
Terry Brooks Small Magic: Short Fiction, 1977-2020 Random House USA, 2nd March, hb, £19.99, 9780525619963 Escape to worlds full of adventure and magic in the first-ever Brooks short story collection, featuring both new and fan-favourite stories from all three of his major literary worlds.
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