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A scavenger is salvaging a wrecked spacecraft when she becomes infected by a symbiotic parasite
With civil war breaking out, a human-alien hybrid may be the only hope of peace
A period-set Bath tale but not as Austen saw it with breathless action scenes and multicultural characters
A childless couple adopts and raises the sole survivor of an alien spaceship crash
A novel concerned with issues such as gene editing and body modification
A historian searches for a teenage boy who may hold the key to humankind’s future
A police officer investigates a fatal accident involving a roofer who has fallen off a building
A lesbian couple enrols in clinical trials of a new ‘ovum-to-ovum’ technology
An ex-corporate enforcer is employed as bodyguard to help conduct an ‘audit’ of the colonised Mars
Naive but intrepid Charlie Worthing takes a job as a novice Winter Consul and uncovers a conspiracy connected with a viral dream
A thought-provoking read, grounding its outlandish elements in solid realism and vivid characterisation
James Lovegrove selects his must-read titles
The author exploits the ripe satirical potential of her novel’s premise to decent effect
This debut is festooned with cunning punnery, sharp turns of phrase, and jokes about emojis and the internet
A spy is tasked to uncover the truth about a German secret weapon that could change the first world war
A comic sci-fi novel in which England has been stuck in 1952 for 66 years
James Lovegrove selects his mid-year reads
A novel that weaves a cocoon of supernatural horror around a historical tragedy
A dazzling novel that explores spectacular astrophysical phenomena
Burgeoning AI consciousness meets the re-evaluation of humanness that that entails
A geologist travels to Mars and discovers that her fellow residents are behaving oddly
A murder mystery involving a team of astronauts consisting of seven convicts and their supervisor who set off to colonise Mars
An ageing firefighter battles dragons in 22nd-century America
A horror-comedy imagines what might have become of the protagonists from ‘Scooby-Doo’
A wickedly funny, ultimately bleak picture of life under alien overlords
