There’s plenty more books that we couldn’t fit in. Centred on a Heaven’s Gate-esque ’80s cult who believe that their final ceremony will open a portal to another dimension, Beth Lewis’s psychological thriller CHILDREN OF THE SUN (25 May, Hodder) has, so we’re promised, “an epic climax” – so hopefully you won’t get to the end without any interdimensional weirdness actually occurring… Alice Thompson’s CHIMERA (out now, Salt) follows a scientist/dream investigator sent to a distant moon to look for organisms that will help assuage global warming, and “explores our relationship with AI and the role of emotion in forming consciousness”. Ageing indie kids take note: Alice was previously the keyboard player in The Woodentops! In Aubrey Wood’s oddcouple cyberpunk BANG BANG BODHISATTVA (out now, Solaris), a fast-talking trans hacker-for-hire teams up with a Luddite PI after being framed for two murders. Turning to continuing series, there’s a follow-up to The Final Strife, Saara El-Arifi’s epic fantasy set in an African and Arabian-inspired world: THE BATTLE DRUM (25 May, HarperVoyager). Charlie Jane Anders’s Unstoppable trilogy concludes with PROMISES STRONGER THAN DARKNESS (out now, Titan). And there’s a new adventure for Gunnie Rose, Charlaine Harris’s hired gun in an alternate America: THE SERPENT IN HEAVEN (out now, Piatkus). Finally, DICE MAN (23 May, Rebellion) collects the short-lived 2000 AD comic from the mid–’80s gamebook boom, whose strips allowed you to play as characters like Judge Dredd and Sláine.