There’s lots more books we couldn’t fit in. Set on a planet ravaged by an illness which affects people’s perception of time, Honey Watson’s LESSONS IN BIRDWATCHING (out now, Angry Robot) sees a visiting student (who is downright evil) getting caught in the middle of a bloody civil war. Expect gore, torture, cannibalism and group sex – y’know, all the good stuff. On an equally cheerful note, Uruguayan author Fernanda Trías’s dystopian tale PINK SLIME (10 August, Scribe) is set in a coastal town where a toxic algae has clogged the river, disrupting the food chain, and where a deadly “red wind” can strip your skin. Emily Habeck’s debut SHARK HEART: A LOVE STORY (out now, Jo Fletcher Books) has an eyebrow-raising premise: it follows two newlyweds, one of whom discovers that he has less than a year before he mutates into a great white shark. How are they going to afford the fish, eh? The latest Firefly spin-off novel, Una McCormack’s COUP DE GRÂCE (out now, Titan) sees the crew of Serenity becoming embroiled in a conflict between the residents of a starving frontier town and a local gang. BBC Books’ contribution to Doom’s Day, the cross-media Doctor Who event about a timetravelling assassin, is EXTRACTION POINT (10 August), by YA author MG Harris. We’re promised that two different Doctors will get involved. Finally, STAR TREK: THE ART OF NEVILLE PAGE (out now, Titan) shows off creature designs for the Kelvin Timeline movies, Discovery and Picard.