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Sky’s the limit for blank verse in Calypso while Dark Shepherd throws the book at religion
A staple of the genre is given a new twist in Vangie’s Ghosts, while High Vaultage takes readers on a journey into an alternative Victorian-era capital
Imaginations run riot, with forays into the Arctic, distant dystopias, killer clones and Regency London
James Lovegrove selects his must-read titles
Widow Twankey explores gender issues, some overlooked English absurdism from the master fantasist and retro superheroes live to fight another day
Satire, if not quite gay abandon, abounds — and Shakespeare’s legacy lives on
Plus a military take on ‘The Martian’ and wonderful weirdness in Lapland
James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads
Space operas, Tarantino-style sorcerers — and the return of cult classic ‘Blake’s 7’
A gender-flipped Handmaid’s Tale, murderous moths and driverless cars with a mind of their own
Robert E Howard’s Conan comes back in rousing fashion, courtesy of SM Stirling, while Aliette de Bodard summons the spirit of HG Wells
James Lovegrove picks the year’s stand-out titles
From tongue-in-cheek terror to supernatural stalkers and mythical monsters, there are plenty of scares this Halloween
The comic-book master’s first short-story collection displays his seemingly limitless imagination
The master of horror embellishes a familiar mystical realm with profanity and gore
From an ode to scholarship to time-travelling twins, plus parasites and a whodunnit set in the future
From a Gothic, Dickensian fantasy to a comedic Scottish dystopia, plus Marvel Comics and a reimagining of an HG Wells classic
Alongside dystopian visions from writers today comes a clutch of classics from master of prescience John Wyndham
From rampaging kaiju to sinister spaceships, plus a future world with a Brexit Britain message
This collection of curiosities explores how the region has been romanticised — for both good and bad
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