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Miles Cameron switches from fantasy to space opera for ARTIFACT SPACE (out now, Gollancz), which centres on a vast merchant vessel. When on-the-run orphan Marca poses as a midshipman on the Greatship Athens, she gets caught up in a plot to destroy the ship. The protagonists of Catriona Silvey’s debut MEET ME IN ANOTHER LIFE (out now, HarperVoyager) keep meeting over and over – but in different lives. First time, sparks fly in a bar. Other times they’re teacher and student, or colleagues, or father and daughter. But why? A hero with OCD is the USP of YA tale RORY HOBBLE AND THE VOYAGE TO HALIGOGEN (out now, Unbound). When his mother is abducted by the shadowy Whiffetsnatcher, 11-year-old Rory goes in pursuit, encountering alien whales and a breakaway human civilisation on a Martian moon along the way. Brian Staveley’s epic fantasy THE EMPIRE’S RUIN (out now, Tor) opens the Ashes Of The Unhewn Throne trilogy. It’s set in a world where elite soldiers ride war hawks; with their numbers dwindling, soldier Gwenna must voyage to the nesting grounds. We loved Mike Brooks’s The Black Coast, awarding it ★★★★★ . Sequel THE SPLINTER KING (15 July, Orbit) features all manner of goodies: a palace coup, assassins, dragon riders and demonic forces. Finally, Helene Wecker’s THE HIDDEN PALACE (22 July, Harper) revisits Chava and Ahmad of The Golem And The Jinni – magical beings passing as human – and their lives from the early 1900s to the First World War.