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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
Part thriller, part social commentary, part pitch-black comedy, this Iraqi reimagining of Frankenstein impresses
This quartet of tales gives four sidekicks the chance to step out of the title character’s shadow
A secret unit investigates crimes through time travel in this unusual police procedural
People infected by spores develop a hive-mind mentality in this pacy SF thriller
A lunar colony is the setting for this follow-up to the 2014 bestseller ‘The Martian’
The strange becomes familiar in this evocative collection of SF tales
An intenet-like technology goes down for good in this commentary on our connectivity-obsessed times
An anthology of short stories flesh out cameos from the movie
In a dystopian Britain where nothing is secret, a detective investigates a troubling death
