Plenty more books we couldn’t fit in. Emily Tesh’s space opera SOME DESPERATE GLORY (out now, Orbit) centres on Kyr, one of the last human survivors – raised on a space station, and one of the best warriors of her generation. Assigned to the nursery to bear children, she decides instead to take revenge for Earth’s destruction into her own hands. There’s a war between the gods raging in Rebecca Ross’s DIVINE RIVALS (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 GREYSKIN (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 FOR THE FIRST TIME, AGAIN (27 April, Penguin); Anthony Ryan’s epic fantasy The Covenant Of Steel, with second entry THE MARTYR (out now, Orbit); and Andrea Stewart’s The Drowning Empire trilogy, which concludes with THE BONE SHARD WAR (out now, Orbit). Finally, if you know a youngling who might dig Douglas Adams, check out the new gift edition of THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE (out now, Macmillan) which features delightful new illustrations by Chris Riddell.
