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hat Adrian Tchaikovsky is prolific, isn’t he? (see page 102) isn’t his only newie: there’s also (30 May, Solaris). This novella follows an astronaut lost in (out now, Titan). Rio Youers’s dark mystery centres on a busker who learns his girlfriend has the ability to selectively erase someone’s memories… Social media and encryption inspired Stewart Hotston’s (out now, Abaddon). This tech thriller follows a woman on the run in a world where an unhackable blockchain links everyone and everything. Neatly timed to coincide with the new film, (out now, Titan) is the latest prose version of a classic comics storyline. Guy Gavriel Kay’s (out now, Hodder & Stoughton) is a standalone prequel to . Set in an alternative Renaissance Italy, it follows a host of characters, including an assassin, a healer and two mercenary commanders. We rather dug , Mary Watson’s YA tale of warring magical tribes in a small Irish town, calling it “heartfelt and deeply spiritual”. In follow-up (30 May, Bloomsbury), a girl gets entangled in an ancient feud after delving into her dead sister’s secret life… Finally, Adam Christopher’s prequel novel (28 May, Century) reveals what happened when Chief Hopper went undercover among New York’s street gangs in ’77.
