SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
“Black Mirror” and “Ready Player One”.
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Black Library Masterworks Sandy Mitchell 4: For the Emperor Black Library, 8th July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781800260146 Commissar Ciaphas Cain, hero of the Imperium and renowned across the sector for his bravery, is sent to maintain order on an outpost world.
Premee Mohamed A Broken Darkness Solaris, 2nd March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781781088753 Nick Prasad is piecing his life together since the Anomaly and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society.
Jamie Mollart Kings of a Dead World Sandstone Press, 10th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781913207458 The Earth’s resources are dwindling. The solution is The Sleep: periods of hibernation imposed on those who remain. Everywhere, dissatisfaction is growing.
Karen Marie Moning Kingdom of Shadow and Light Delacorte Press, 23rd February, hb, £22.50, 9780399593697 MacKayla Lane faces the ultimate threat when war breaks out between the kingdoms of shadow and light as the bestselling Fever series races to an explosive revelation.
Christopher Moore Shakespeare for Squirrels William Morrow, 10th June, pb, £9.99, 9780062434043 Uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring Pocket along with his sidekicks.
Maya Motayne Oculta Hodder & Stoughton, 6th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781473676039 Exhilarating sequel to Nocturna about a face- changing thief and a risk-taking prince who must reunite when a deadly enemy threatens their kingdom’s chance of establishing a global peace.
Jaime Lee Moyer Divine Heretic Jo Fletcher Books, 22nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787479258 The voices whispering to Jeanne d’Arc that she is
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fated to put a king upon his throne claim to be sainted angels. Jeanne knows they’re lying.
Pete Mullineaux Jules and Rom Matador, 28th April, pb, £9.99, 9781800462519 Science-fiction version of Romeo & Juliet with androids playing half the characters. A play within a novel that is both sci-fi and detective murder story.
Alex Myers The Story of Silence HarperCollins, 3rd March, pb, £8.99, 9780008352721 A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. A rich, multilayered new story for today’s world.
Brian Naslund Sorcery of a Queen Tor, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529016192 Book two in the adventurous Dragons of Terra trilogy.
Chloe Neill Shadowed Steel Gollancz, 6th May, pb, £9.99, 9781473230606 In the third instalment in the USA Today bestselling Heirs of Chicagoland series, the vampires in Elisa Sullivan’s world are out for blood.
Natasha Ngan Girls of Fate and Fury Hodder & Stoughton, 23rd February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529342642 Mesmerising conclusion to bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire series.
JT Nicholas Stolen Earth Titan Books, 4th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789093155 “Firefly” meets The Expanse in a future where humanity has destroyed the Earth through ecological disaster and warfare and a totalitarian state prevents access to their home.
Garth Nix A Confusion of Princes Gollancz, 4th March, pb, £8.99, 9781473231306 Superhuman, immortal prince in a galactic empire. There has to be a catch.
Garth Nix, Madeleine Roux, Kami Garcia, LL McKinney, Catherynne M Valente, Christie Golden World of Warcraft: Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth Titan Books, 14th April, hb, £26.99, 9781789097306
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
Monsters, mystery and magic abound in this illustrated collection of original fairy tales from the World of Warcraft universe, as told by an all-star cast.
Xueting Christine Ni (ed), Nian Yu (ed), Zhao HaiHong (ed), Regina Kanyu Wang et al Sinopticon: New Chinese Science Fiction Solaris, 18th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781781088524 Brave new collection of the best of modern Chinese science fiction translated into English for the first time.
Lynette Noni The Prison Healer Hodder & Stoughton, 1st April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529360387 Noni weaves a masterful and action-packed narrative that takes readers on a rollercoaster of twists, turns and thrills.
Jeff Noon Within Without Angry Robot, 11th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857668981 From true weird fiction visionary Jeff Noon comes the fourth book in his Philip K Dick Award- nominated sci fi mystery series Nyquist.
Naomi Novik A Deadly Education Del Rey, 6th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529100877 Enter a school of magic unlike any before. No teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic and the odds of survival are never equal.
JP Oakes City of Iron and Dust Titan Books, 6th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789097108 In this fast-paced dark fantasy début, the Fae seek to rebel against their Goblin oppressors over one long bloody night.
Weston Ochse Aliens: Infiltrator Titan Books, 20th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789093988 Official prequel to the new Alien game from Cold Iron Studios. A Weyland- Yutani scientist arrives at Pala Station and finds researchers courting disaster of the Xenomorph kind.
Megan E O’Keefe Steal the Sky Angry Robot, 23rd March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857668820 Detan Honding, a wanted conman of noble birth and ignoble tongue, and his companion Tibs, set their sights on their biggest
heist yet—the airship of exiled Commodore Thratia.
Benjamin Percy The Ninth Metal Hodder & Stoughton, 10th June, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781473690073 New novel by a bestselling author.
Temi Oh, Sandra M Grayson, Tia Ross Black Sci-fi Short Stories: Gothic Fantasy Flame Tree, 13th April, hb, £20, 9781839644801 New stories from modern black writers alongside storytellers of an older generation who evoked the living dystopia of slavery: Martin Delany, Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins and WEB Dubois.
Nuzo Onoh A Dance for the Dead Hashtag Blak, 29th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913835088 Diké, heir to the kingdom and leader of the warrior cult Ogwumii, is now an outcast and on a mission to find the traitors who orchestrated his downfall.
Ada Palmer Perhaps the Stars Ad Astra, 10th June, 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.
Shelley Parker-Chan She Who Became the Sun Tor, 22nd July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529043389 Zhu journeys from peasant girl to rebel commander in this powerful coming-of-age tale of war and empire.
Natalie C Parker (ed), Zoraida Córdova (ed) Vampires Never Get Old Titan Books, 6th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789096958 Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction’s leading voices.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Conquests Thomas Parrott 7: Masters of Shadow Games Workshop, 15th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789991659 For fans of huge and epic battles waged in the far future.
Brian Pinkerton The Nirvana Effect Flame Tree Press, 20th April, pb, eb, £9.95, 9781787584860 hb, £20, 9781787584877 As technology spreads across the country with willing participants easily forgoing freedoms for false pleasures, Aaron and Clarissa discover a plot to enforce full compliance.
Sarah Pinsker A Song for a New Day Ad Astra, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800243859 Life in a world permanently locked down in the aftermath of a pandemic. Winner of the 2019 Nebula for Best Novel.
Sarah Pinsker We Are Satellites Ad Astra, 13th May, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800243880 When Val and Julie’s teenage son comes home asking for a Pilot, a new brain implant to help with school, they reluctantly agree.
Sarah Pinsker Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea Ad Astra, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800243941 This Philip K Dick Award- winning short story collection turns readers into travellers to the past and the future and explorers of the weirder points of the present.
Menna van Praag
Night of Demons & Saints Bantam Press, 20th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781787631687 It was a battle that ended in a devastating loss and the scars they carry seem to have pushed the sisters apart.
Tim Pratt The Alien Stars and Other Novellas Angry Robot, 20th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857668479 First collection of novellas set in the world of Pratt’s Axiom space opera series. comprises The Alien Stars, The Augmented Stars, and The Artificial Stars.
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Warhammer 40,000 Robert Rath The Infinite and the Divine Black Library, 22nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789998320 Before the being called
the emperor revealed himself, before the rise of the aeldari, before the necrontyr traded their flesh for immortal metal, the world was born in violence.
Ava Reid The Wolf and the Woodsman Del Rey, 11th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529100730 In her forest-veiled pagan village, Evike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods.
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Warhammer 40,000: Fabius Bile
Josh Reynolds 3: Manflayer Games Workshop, 18th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789992670 The Fabius Bile triology comes to a close in this action-packed novel.
AG Riddle The Lost Colony Ad Astra, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800241534 Against impossible odds, the last survivors of the human race have created a new home on a planet far from Earth but are set to face their greatest challenge yet.
Adam Roberts Purgatory Mount Gollancz, 4th February, hb, £16.99, 9781473230941 First new SF novel from leading author in over three years combines space opera with fast- paced near-future thriller.
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Luna Novella ME Rodman 6: Clockwork Sister Luna Press, 24th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781913387617 Aeon is a Simulacra, a creation of flesh, clockwork and magic designed to protect humans from the deadly attacks of curse-workers.
Ian Ross For the Good of All: Die Glocke
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