Plenty more books we couldn’t fit in. Emily Tesh’s space opera (out now, Orbit) centres on Kyr, one of the last human survivors – raised on (out now, HarperVoyager), but romance takes centre stage. Facilitated by a magical typewriter, it develops between Iris, a journalist who takes a job on the front line hoping to find her missing brother, and her rival at the paper. Set in an Old West with a fantasy twist, James Kinsley’s (27 April, Deixis Press) is a collection of interconnected short stories featuring characters like a widowed farmer, a small-town lawman, and an Orc wanderer whose people are being swept aside by human settlers of the frontier. Continuing series include Sylvain Neuvel’s space-race alt-history Take Them To The Stars, with closing chapter (27 April, Penguin); Anthony Ryan’s epic fantasy The Covenant Of Steel, with second entry (out now, Orbit); and Andrea Stewart’s The Drowning Empire trilogy, which concludes with (out now, Orbit). Finally, if you know a youngling who might dig Douglas Adams, check out the new gift edition of (out now, Macmillan) which features delightful new illustrations by Chris Riddell.
